Inside the medicine room.
Xu Linglong looked straight at A Nian, who appeared utterly certain.
There were no rare ingredients in this pill elixir, and a glance was enough to tell that its medicinal effects were poor.
Yet for some reason, once Chu Xingchen's name was attached to it, Xu Linglong found it somewhat impossible to ignore.
The ingredients were unremarkable, so what could have prompted this female physician to study it so intently was probably the alchemy technique.
Originally, Xu Linglong had not intended to drink anything like this. She had planned to use an illusion technique and simply pour it away.
But...
Now, she wanted to taste it.
To see what secrets Chu Xingchen had left here.
As a Heavenly Demon, she naturally had some resistance to medicines.
Nothing she ate could kill her anyway, so there was nothing to fear.
Xu Linglong brought the bowl to her lips, and the faintly foul odor wormed its way into her nose.
Without hesitation, she decisively opened her mouth and took a small sip.
As it went down her throat-bitterness, stench, and nausea spread through her in wave after wave.
Xu Linglong narrowed her eyes slightly and began analyzing the pill elixir she had swallowed.
The answer she arrived at was also-unremarkable medicinal effects, aside from being extraordinarily disgusting to drink.
If Chu Xingchen had won using this stuff, she could only infer that drinking it had tempered his mind. Beyond that, it was utterly useless.
If she truly had to comment on this pill elixir...
She could only say it was a little cleaner than swill. In every other respect, it fell far short of swill.
After all, there were few things left that could make her want to vomit.
Seeing that Xu Linglong had only taken a sip,