Catching Ice Tail Fish

Chu Youwei accepted the pill bottle Lu Feng handed her and carefully sensed the pill within.

Lin Xiaowan tacitly refrained from bringing up the previous topic again. Invisibly, there seemed to be a little less urgency between them, and a little more faith that the days ahead were long.

"The antidote should be fine."

Chu Youwei spoke with delight, saying honestly, "Just a wisp of its aura already makes me feel that its effects are far better than eating Ice Tail Fish."

Lu Feng asked with concern, "So the reason your body turned from peril to safety was the Ice Tail Fish? This fish also has detoxifying effects?"

Lu Feng still remembered that when he had left earlier, Chu Youwei had practically been hanging on by her last breath. Yet now, though her body remained weak, some color had faintly returned to her complexion.

That could also be seen from how she had run away earlier, lively and shy as a startled deer.

Chu Youwei's face suddenly reddened, as though she found it somewhat difficult to speak of.

Lin Xiaowan, meanwhile, puffed out her budding little chest and declared with immense pride, "Besides the Ice Tail Fish, I deserve credit too. I helped shoulder a huge portion of the poison, which was why Sister Weiwei managed to hold on and later found that good method of suppressing the poison with Ice Tail Fish."

Lu Feng froze. Thinking of what Lin Xiaowan had previously said about a Spirit Pact Shared Body, then sensing the faint aura of a shared lifeline within the two of them, he understood what she meant. She must have used the secret technique she had mentioned before he left, sacrificing her own life force to help bear the poison.

From now on, the two of them would