"Fire poison?"
Ye Lingxi was first stunned by the woman's pale face, then her expression turned exceedingly grave.
In the end, she gritted her teeth and took a jade box from her robes. The box shimmered with an unusual radiance and looked extraordinarily beautiful as she slowly opened it.
At once, an exotic fragrance filled the entire cave. Inside lay a white medicinal pill, its surface wreathed in a layer of pill clouds.
"A Fire-Expelling Pill is specifically used to treat fire poison. I've never been willing to use it, but today, you're getting lucky."
Glancing at the unconscious woman before her, Ye Lingxi gritted her teeth, took out the pill, and fed it into the woman's mouth.
Ye Lin had already sensed an unfamiliar medicinal force rapidly spreading through the woman's body. Without further hesitation, he simply went with the flow and guided that force to spread throughout her entire body.
White steam gradually rose from the woman's body, billowing thickly. Ye Lingxi held her breath; this white vapor was the fire poison within the woman's body.
If this vapor entered the body through inhalation, it was very likely to cause fire poisoning.
Without the Fire-Expelling Pill, she would not fare well if she was poisoned by fire herself.
"Hah... what was that you fed her just now?"
At that moment, Ye Lin withdrew the hands that had been channeling immortal power and let out a deep breath. That brief moment had drained every last drop of immortal power from his body.
The woman's body was depleted to the extreme. Though her organs still gave off traces of life, they had no energy at all—not even the slightest bit of energy left to absorb.
That was why she had remained unconscious all this time. To preserve her life as