The treatment lasted nearly six hours.
Lu Changfeng sat cross-legged beside the Azure Luan, the Shennong Ruler suspended in midair. Its emerald-green light poured down without pause. His face grew paler and paler, and the sweat on his forehead kept returning no matter how often it was wiped away.
Luo Qingge knelt beside him, holding a silk handkerchief and wiping away his sweat again and again.
Her gaze moved back and forth between Lu Changfeng and the Azure Luan-as the Azure Luan's breathing gradually steadied and the azure flames around its body grew stronger, joy filled her heart; yet the sight of Lu Changfeng's increasingly pale face twisted that same heart into a knot.
The Bashé's venom might not have matched the azure flames in sheer ferocity, but it had lingered in the Azure Luan's marrow for months. Deeply rooted, it had long since become entangled with its bloodline.
Had Lu Changfeng not possessed Fifth Realm cultivation and a sacred treasure of the Way of Medicine like the Shennong Ruler, anyone else could only have watched helplessly as the Azure Luan succumbed to the poison.
Even so, it took him nearly six hours to draw out every last trace of the stubborn toxins.
Outside the Secret Realm, the sky was darkening.
The shaft of daylight refracted through the bronze mirror gradually dimmed.
In the peach orchard, the Jade Flat Peaches gave off a faint glow, like tiny lanterns, bathing the Secret Realm in dreamlike light.
At last-
With the final trace of poison removed, Lu Changfeng let out a long breath and was about to withdraw his hand.
Suddenly, lines of text flashed across his retina:
``` [Noble Physician's Canon activated.]
[Target: Azure Luan. Identity: divine beast, one of the Five Spirits and one of the Five Phoenixes. Overall value: