Infiltration

"Are you all right?"

As soon as the woman finished speaking, a hand reached out from the wall. He fumbled around outside for a while, creating a deep little hole barely large enough for one person to pass through. Ye Liang crawled out from within.

"Thank you so much." He climbed out of the hole and dusted the dirt and ash from his body.

"It's nothing. You aren't the first outsider to come to the ancient capital in search of an antidote. Out there, people are poisoned by those secretly released venomous fish almost every year, so we commoners have grown used to outsiders.

However, our clan seems to be holding some sort of special event these next few days. If you're in a hurry to find medicine, you should come back in a few days. If those patrolling guards catch you, those vicious brutes might eat you."

Ye Liang was taken aback.

On one hand, he had not expected this woman to help him. On the other, he had not expected the Naga Race to happen to be occupied with something. It seemed he had come at a bad time.

"Then there's no helping it. We have urgent matters to attend to and truly cannot delay. No matter how dangerous this place is, I must find the antidote.

Miss, please show us some kindness. Since you have already helped hide us, could you also tell us where the antidote is? Rest assured, although we are strangers, we will never withhold the proper reward."

The woman laughed upon hearing Ye Liang's words. "A reward? No need for that. As for the antidote you mentioned, it's in our clan's Pill King Palace. Use your head a little, and you'll be able to find it."

Ye Liang cupped his hands toward the