After learning that His Majesty Potato had gone to sleep as soon as he returned and still had not woken up, Jiang You had a rough idea of what was going on.
Potato's coma was most likely caused by the appearance of Red Eyes.
However, she could not figure out the condition of this body, nor did she dare try anything rash. If he ended up drained dry, the loss would be too great.
She had Old Cripple Granny summoned to administer acupuncture, but Old Cripple Granny's silver needles turned Potato into a hedgehog, and he did not even twitch an eyelid.
They tried pouring medicine into him. The medicine all went down, but he did not react at all.
After Old Cripple Granny had tried every method available, she pulled a centipede out of her medicine basket.
The centipede was dark red all over, at least a meter long, and as thick as an adult's wrist.
"Creditor, this is the Gu King I have cultivated for forty years. If I stuff it down his throat, it can crawl down his esophagus into his stomach and stimulate his five viscera. Fight poison with poison."
Jiang You said, "Then what are you waiting for? Hurry up and try it."
"However, no one has ever been able to withstand this Gu poison. Everyone who has tried this method has gone to see the Mountain God."
Jiang You: "..."
In other words, the idea of fighting poison with poison was merely Old Cripple Granny's theory. She had never succeeded with it.
Seeing that she was about to reach out and pry open Potato's mouth, Jiang You waved her away and told her to leave.
Red Eyes had helped her quite a lot, after all. She could not repay kindness with enmity.
Besides, she