Jimo Xiubai gripped the door panels at the entrance with both hands, his eyes filled with worry and anxiety.
The door had not been locked shut, but he did not dare go inside. He even softened his breathing, afraid that he might cause an accident while Xue Fuyao was treating his brother.
Meanwhile, inside the room, Xue Fuyao looked at Jimo Yunqi, whose entire body had turned blue, and murmured, "You're lucky. If I'd arrived even a little later, not even the greatest immortals could have saved your life."
As she spoke, Xue Fuyao waved her hand, and a plump, silver Gu Worm appeared in her palm.
First, she used a dagger to cut an opening in Jimo Yunqi's wrist. Black blood flowed from the wound, showing that the poison had already invaded all his internal organs. He was merely dragging out his days now; death was only a matter of time.
Xue Fuyao placed the Gu Worm at the wound.
After catching the scent of the poisoned blood, the Gu Worm crawled over on its own and began sucking up the blood that flowed out. Then, slowly, it actually burrowed straight inside.
Through his skin, the Gu Worm could be seen moving slowly within him.
Given the severity of Jimo Yunqi's poisoning, one Gu Worm was clearly not enough, so she made cuts all over his body and let more Gu Worms inside to consume the poison.
More than a dozen Gu Worms consumed the poison at once. Jimo Yunqi's skin gradually returned from its initial blue tinge to its normal color, and his lips began returning to normal as well.
After roughly two hours passed like this, the poison inside Jimo Yunqi's body had finally been almost entirely cleared away.
The Gu Worms that had been consuming the