Guan Lu's scream was like a red-hot iron poker, stabbing straight into Luo Jiangyan's ears.
She lunged forward and caught Guan Lu before she hit the ground. The moment she touched her, she felt scorching heat; even through her clothes, Guan Lu's terrifying temperature was unmistakable.
Guan Lu's eyes were tightly shut. Her complexion shifted eerily between flushed red and deathly pale, her teeth clenched as her whole body convulsed uncontrollably. Fine beads of sweat had barely surfaced on her skin before the crimson true qi constantly spilling from her body steamed them into white vapor.
Even more alarming to Luo Jiangyan were the faint, dark-red lines moving beneath the exposed skin of Guan Lu's neck and the backs of her hands, as if living things were slithering through her veins. Wherever they passed, her skin took on an unsettling crimson hue.
"Sis Lu! Sis Lu, wake up!" Luo Jiangyan tried to send her gentle true qi into Guan Lu's body to examine her. The instant it made contact, a bizarre force—vicious, searing, and intensely corrosive—surged back at her, rushing upstream along her true qi. The burn made her meridians ache, and she hurriedly severed the connection.
"Someone, get in here!" Luo Jiangyan shouted, her voice trembling slightly with urgency.
Light and shadow flickered across the courtyard as several figures darted inside: the guards stationed there, along with Black Armored Guards who had rushed over at the sound.
"Miss!" Seeing Guan Lu's condition, everyone's expression changed.
"Quick! Find the best alchemist and physician in the city... Send word to Taichu Peak at once and request reinforcements! Also, notify the Black Armored Guards and ask them to send experts skilled in medicine or exorcism and detoxification! And go to the Tianyin Pill Workshop immediately and bring Bai Ling here! Hurry!" Luo