An almost unbearable tension filled the Cave. Tang Wuchen gripped the Magic Treasure at his waist, watching the shifting light in Su Jiu's eyes as a thin sheen of sweat formed on his palms.
Su Jiu leaned against the Cave's stone wall without a word.
After an unknown stretch of time, a cool voice slowly broke the silence. "What pills did you just give her?"
Hearing that Su Jiu's tone had finally returned to normal, Tang Wuchen knew she had decided to spare them. A hint of a smile crept onto his face. "They won't harm her. One makes her sleep for a while. The other..."
At this point, Su Jiu caught a fleeting expression of unmistakable heartache over the expense on Tang Wuchen's face.
"The other was a Seventh Tier Memory-Erasing Pill. It lets her forget everything that happened within a quarter of an hour."
Su Jiu raised an eyebrow. It really was good stuff.
Su Jiu tipped her chin toward the still-unconscious Feng Piaoxu and asked, "How do we cure her illness?" She had other things to do and certainly would not waste all her time here.
Tang Wuchen looked at the sleeping Feng Piaoxu and sighed. "Actually, all it takes is a fourth-tier All-Healing Pill."
Su Jiu raised an eyebrow. "You don't have one?"
Seeing Su Jiu raise her eyebrow, Tang Wuchen shuddered reflexively, then composed his expression and smiled. "Even disciples of the Medicine Gate can't carry every kind of pill on them."
Of course, there was another shortcut, but neither of them dared mention it again. Hadn't the two fellow disciples nearly paid with their lives just now?
Su Jiu was immune to all poisons, so she naturally had no use for pills like the All-Healing Pill. Since she had no use for them, she