Chapter 851 : Peerless Genius Doctor (7)
"Humph! The pot for the herbal concoction we gave Miss Qu is just there at the side and anyone who knows a thing or two about Medicine and is familiar with the smell of herbs would not have much difficulty knowing about what we gave her. Moreover, there are so many people here and words are bound to be leaked when Miss Qu's injuries and the concoction she is given is no secret. Anyone who wants to know about it would just have to ask around a little and speak to the inn's waiters and servants to get a full picture." Imperial Physician Li said with a sneering laugh. No matter which way he looked at it, he did not feel that anyone in this world would be able accurately determine a person's injuries and even tell what kind of medicine and herbs the patient had been given within such an impossibly short period of time.
Jun Wu Xie wasn't aggravated by all of this in the least and against Imperial Physician Li's skepticism, she merely turned her body indifferently, to look towards Qu Ling Yue who was lying on the bed.
Suddenly, she bent down at the waist and her hand gently reached out near the area around Qu Ling Yue's neck.
Jiang Ying Long who was standing on the side cried out in shock, and shouted loudly: "What are you doing to Qu Ling Yue?"
However, Jun Wu Xie turned a deaf ear to his shout and her snow white hand swept over Qu Ling Yue's neck at an extremely high speed. A dull glint flashed behind her fingertips whereby a silver needle pricked into Qu Ling Yue's ear. At the same moment the needle pierced into the flesh, it was withdrawn in a lightning quick movement by Jun Wu Xie.
She had executed her needle at an extremely high speed and no one within the room had noticed her actions.
Jiang Ying Long had already shot himself towards Jun Wu Xie and had grabbed Jun Wu Xie by the hand.
"Even if you are someone whom His Highness, the Crown Prince brought in, but with the current condition that Qu Ling Yue is in, she is not someone you should be touching. If anything happens to her, will you be able to answer for it?" Jiang Ying Long said through narrowed eyes, filled with a burning rage within.
Jun Wu Xie raised her eyes slightly and her cold eyes met Jiang Ying Long's raging ones.
Lei Chen was secretly afraid for Jun Wu Xie in his heart. From the aggressive and challenging tone that Imperial Physician Li had been taking against him, he knew for sure that the man sitting high up back in the Imperial Palace would have already relayed his orders to not allow him, Lei Chen, to get involved in this matter, and that was why Imperial Physician Li had dared to act with such impudence.
"Oh? Then I would really like to ask this teacher of the War Banner Academy. For you to be so against me for trying to conduct treatment on Miss Qu, and not even willing for me to check further into her condition, aren't you afraid that you might be missing on an opportunity to really save her? If anything were to really happen to Miss Qu, I would think that the people from the Thousand Beast City will not be letting you get off easy as well." Jun Wu Xie said expressionlessly, her face a sea of utter calm, except for the cold chilly gaze that she was staring at Jiang Ying Long with.
Jiang Ying Long's face froze.
Imperial Physician Li opened his mouth to speak at that moment. "What wrong did teacher Jiang commit by being concerned with the welfare of his academy's disciples? Isn't a young girl like you exaggerating things a little too much to make us buy into your story? If you really possess the capability to cure Miss Qu of her injuries, wouldn't that make all the most revered doctors and Imperial Physicians here a big joke? Our lifetime of experience in Medicine would pale in comparison to a young little one like you?"
Jun Wu Xie replied unhesitantly: "Since all you gentlemen are seniors with exemplary skills and knowledge in Medicine, then if any action that a mere junior like me carries out is inappropriate, would any of you highly respected gentlemen not be able to tell? I have coincidentally here an elixir, and was thinking that it is perfectly suited for Miss Qu in her current condition. If all of you here do not trust me, you can very well take the elixir and inspect it carefully. If you find anything inappropriate in it, I am willing to be subjected to any punishment you gentlemen deem fit." Jun Wu Xie nonchalantly pulled out a white porcelain bottle from within her clothes, and tossed it into the hand of Jiang Ying Long.
Jiang Ying Long caught it, highly flustered. His gaze was filled with conflict as he looked at Jun Wu Xie. He did not believe that Jun Wu Xie, at such a young tender age, would possess any extraordinary skills in Medicine, but what she had proffered was an elixir, and that was not dependant on any skills or knowledge of Medicine on her part.
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Chapter 852 : Peerless Genius Doctor (8)
Jiang Ying Long's brows furrowed up together. As one of the teachers in charge of the War Banner Academy for this year's Spirit Battle Tournament, he knew that if anything really happened to Qu Ling Yue during the competition, he would not be able to answer to the people from the Thousand Beast City. With the mentality of just giving it a try, Jiang Ying Long released Jun Wu Xie's arm and brought the bottle of elixirs to come stand before Imperial Physician Li.
"This concerns the life and death of Qu Ling Yue. As long as there is the slightest sliver of hope, I am not willing to give it up. I will have to ask that Imperial Physician Li help take a look at it, and see just what this elixir actually contains."
Imperial Physician Li glared at Jun Wu Xie briefly, his eyes filled with displeasure. He snatched up the bottle containing the elixirs and opened the cover, bringing the bottle to put under his nose as he sniffed at it.
A light and faint fragrance filled his nostrils, and just smelling the scent alone made one feel refreshed and alert.
Imperial Physician Li's eyes flashed and he handed the bottle to the group of physicians beside him, for them to inspect it carefully.
"How is it?" Jiang Ying Long asked.
Imperial Physician Li glanced at Jun Wu Xie and a cold laugh erupted out from him.
"I had thought what it could contain, and it is merely Heart Coagulating Elixir. There is indeed nothing wrong with the elixirs, but the Heart Coagulating Elixir is not something rare and it is merely used to nourish and gather one's Qi and increases one's concentration. Little girl, you dare to actually claim that an elixir like this is effective towards Miss Qu's injuries, isn't that just laughable? Elixirs like this, all of us here will have quite a bit of it with us, if elixirs like this can diffuse Miss Qu's injuries, why would they need all of us here for?"
As Imperial Physician Li finished his statement, several of the other physicians were in agreement with him. Although they did not find anything inappropriate with Jun Wu Xie's Heart Coagulating Elixir, but with such a common elixir, if used on Qu Ling Yue's current condition, would just be deemed utterly inadequate, a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood, and would not result in any improvements.
"I am merely asking, if Miss Qu is given this elixir, will it in any way aggravate her injuries?" Jun Wu Xie completely ignored Imperial Physician Li's sarcasm.
All the physicians were shaking their heads at the same time.
"The Heart Coagulating Elixir might not cause any harm to Miss Qu's injuries, but..... it wouldn't bring her much in the way of benefit as well. It might very well turn out just like those herbal concoctions she already had." An old man with a head of white hair said.
Jun Wu Xie nodded her head in satisfaction.
"Since it will not bring harm but with slight benefits, why don't we give it a try? Without even trying, how do we know it will be ineffective?"
"That....." The white haired physician paused and looked at Imperial Physician Li.
Imperial Physician Li took the Heart Coagulating Elixir back from the physicians and tossed it to Jun Wu Xie. "It is good that young people have a mind of their own. But when those ideas strayed too far from the truth, then they will only turn out to be fantasies. Although the Heart Coagulating Elixir might have that tiniest bit of benefit towards Miss Qu's injuries, but it will only be a matter of pouring a cup of water upon a burning cart of firewood."
"Whether it will be just a cup of water on a burning cart of firewood as you say, we will have to try it before we know for sure." Jun Wu Xie's eyes flashed with cold laughter as she turned, unwilling to waste her breath on Imperial Physician Li any longer, looking straight at Jiang Ying Long.
"Teacher Jiang, the words of all the physicians were clearly heard by you as well. Whether we will give it a try, will be your choice."
Jiang Ying Long was decidedly hesitant, and he thought about it a few times, but finally nodded his head in the end.
"Since the Heart Coagulating Elixir can bring that minute bit of benefit to Qu Ling Yue in her current condition, regardless that all it achieves is just to nourish her Qi's blood, it will be a benefit nevertheless. But I will have to state my stand on this beforehand. Since Miss Jun has so stubbornly insisted that the Heart Coagulating Elixir can treat Qu Ling Yue's injuries, and due to His Highness, the Crown Prince's grace, I will allow Miss Jun to just give it one try. But if Qu Ling Yue does not show any improvements after taking the Heart Coagulating Elixir, I will have to request that His Highness and Miss Jun to not further interfere with Qu Ling Yue's treatment henceforth."
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Chapter 853 : Peerless Genius Doctor (9)
"Alright." Jun Wu Xie immediately agreed.
Imperial Physician Li suddenly spoke up and said in a contemptuous tone: "Teacher Jiang is really a patient man, that you would allow a little girl still wet behind the ears to carry on like this."
Jiang Ying Long could only smile weakly at Imperial Physician Li.
After having gotten Jiang Ying Long's consent, Jun Wu Xie did not dawdle on it and immediately poured out an elixir into her hand, while with her other hand, she made it look like she was holding up Qu Ling Yue's neck and fed the elixir into Qu Ling Yue's mouth. Impossible for it to be noticed by anyone, Jun Wu Xie had hidden a silver needle between her fingers and successively pierced it into the back of Qu Ling Yue's neck. Once the elixir was fed into the mouth, she retracted her silver needle quickly, at a speed so quick and fast that no one would be able to notice.
After feeding Qu Ling Yue the elixir, Jun Wu Xie retreated to one side, not intending to say another word, while the group of physicians led by Imperial Physician Li were pointing at her and whispering among themselves, seemingly trying to guess at Jun Wu Xie's intentions.
Jiang Ying Long walked nervously over to the side of Qu Ling Yue's bed and was carefully scrutinising Qu Ling Yue's complexion.
Lei Chen was also nervously throwing his gaze over to onto the bed.
Imperial Physician Li cast a cursory glance over and did not see that Qu Ling Yue was showing any signs of improvement but remained lying on the bed with her breaths still shallow and short. The corners of his mouth then curled up and his cold sneer became more intense.
"To think that there would be people who think that the Heart Coagulating Elixir is a treasure, how amusing....."
However, before Imperial Physician Li could finish his sentence, Jiang Ying Long suddenly gasped out aloud!
Lying upon the bed, Qu Ling Yue suddenly had her brows furrowed up and the fair skinned tiny hand lying at the side of the bed moved a little.
Jiang Ying Long stared in disbelief with his eyes opened wide. Ever since Qu Ling Yue fell into a coma, she had not shown the slightest reaction. This was the first time that he was seeing her show any sign of stirring!
"Ling Yue moved! Ling Yue moved!" Jiang Ying Long looked up at them in exhilarated joy, his eyes on the group of physicians in the room.
The group of physicians were flabbergasted at that sudden shout from Jiang Ying Long but they recovered quickly and immediately went to take a look at Qu Ling Yue.
Qu Ling Yue who was lying on the bed was showing some colour returning to her complexion at a speed visible to the eye. Her pale and deathly pallor from before had suddenly disappeared without a trace in an instant. Although she was still lying quietly upon the bed, her breaths had strengthened and stabilized, blood returned to her face once more, completely driving away the haggardness she was showing before!
Lei Chen noticed that change that came over Qu Ling Yue and he secretly glanced in Jun Wu Xie's direction, where he saw in Jun Wu Xie's eyes asking him to hold his horses for the moment.
"How is that possible! ?" Imperial Physician Li stared in utter disbelief at Qu Ling Lue who was gradually showing improvements to her condition. He rushed immediately to Qu Ling Yue's bedside and took her pulse. And the pulse that he felt from Qu Ling Yue's wrist made his face turn an instant pale white.
Qu Ling Yue's pulse which had been highly erratic and was in chaos had now returned to normal. And from the pulse that he felt, Qu Ling Yue had fully recovered from her the severe injuries she sustained and he could no longer detect a trace of it. The only symptom was one of a high loss of blood and other than that, she was relatively fine.
That pulse, in whichever way you look at it, was not anything like the same person who had seemed like she had been teetering on the verge of life and death!
Imperial Physician Li fell back step in devastation. He stared blankly at his own hand that had just felt the pulse, like his hand must have been completely mistaken in the diagnosis.
Jiang Ying Long was still waiting for Imperial Physician Li to speak and when he saw Imperial Physician Li staring vacantly as he stood on the side, he asked the other physicians to help check Qu Ling Yue's pulse. The physicians tooks Qu Ling Yue's pulse one after another and their reactions after taking the pulse were highly similar to Imperial Physician Li's, each one of them staring wordlessly into empty space.
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Chapter 854 : Peerless Genius Doctor (10)
"Just how is Qu Ling Yue's condition now?" Jiang Ying Long opened his mouth to ask anxiously.
Imperial Physician Li's lips were pale and white, not intending to open his mouth in the slightest.
However, a physician standing on one side started to say with a puzzled frown on his face: "Miss Qu's injuries..... judging from her pulse, seems to have fully recovered, and it is only due to excessive blood loss that she is still unconscious....."
"What?" Jiang Ying Long's eyes widened, unable to believe what his ears were hearing.
"Qu Ling Yue is only suffering from excessive loss of blood? But..... but weren't all of you saying that she had sustained severe injuries?"
The physician's face was filled with utter incomprehension. "That..... is a fact though. When we came in here and took Miss Qu's pulse earlier, Miss Qu's pulse was highly erratic and was still in chaos. But when we took her pulse the second time, we found that her internal injuries had seemed to have recovered. With our decades of experience as physicians, such a strange occurrence of a patient's pulse is the first for me."
A person teetering precariously on the edge of life and death had suddenly turned to become no different from normal in the next instant. If this was told to any other person outside, it would surely not be easily believed.
Jiang Ying Long was stunned into silence a moment, before suddenly remembering Jun Wu Xie's actions. He immediately rushed to go right before Jun Wu Xie and said hurriedly: "Miss Jun, is it your Heart Coagulation Elixir?"
Jun Wu Xie nodded calmly.
"The Heart Coagulation Elixir is just a common elixir. How could it possibly disperse such severe injuries that Miss Qu had sustained?" The bunch of highly confused physicians immediately raised their doubts to make it known.
"But it is really strange, how is it right after Miss Qu is given the Heart Coagulation Elixir, her injuries immediately showed signs of improvements?"
The bunch of physicians immediately debated furiously on the exceptional circumstances and even after debating on it for a long while, they were still not able to arrive any closer to a conclusion. The situation was afterall really one they had never even heard of before, much less encountered it.
Imperial Physician Li secretly observed Jun Wu Xie and then turned to look at Lei Chen whose face was showing a gradually growing smile. He gritted his teeth in annoyance and suddenly said: "Whether is it due to the Heart Coagulation Elixir is still not known. Afterall, there are so many of us here who had toiled and worked on it for quite a long period and have fed Miss Qu a lot of different elixirs and herbal concoctions. Those earlier medicines given might have just taken effect and we cannot say the improvements to Miss Qu's condition is due to Miss Jun's actions."
The smile that had just surfaced on Lei Chen's face was suddenly suppressed by Imperial Physician Li's words.
Jun Wu Xie was however completely unconcerned and was not intending to bother herself with Imperial Physician Li at all. She turned to Jiang Ying Long and went on to say: "Miss Qu will still require a little more nursing and I should think that such an easy task will be well taken care of with so many physicians present. I shall be taking my leave then."
With that said, Jun Wu Xie immediately turned and left.
Jiang Ying Long had actually wanted Jun Wu Xie to stay a moment longer for him to ask a little more about the situation but Jun Wu Xie had been quick and curt with her departure, leaving him no opportunity to even open his mouth to ask.
Lei Chen followed right behind in exit. When the two of them stepped out through the inn's main doors and climbed up into the horse carriage that belonged to the Crown Prince's Residence, Lei Chen finally allowed the emotions he had been having a hard time holding in explode out. "Miss Jun. I had been blind and completely underestimated you. I really had not thought that Miss Jun's skills in Medicine was of such an exemplary level. If I have shown you any disrespect earlier, i will beg that Miss Jun does not hold it against it."
"Truth be told, Miss Jun's earlier air of nonchalance with your actions, had completely showed up that whole bunch of physicians there. As I was leaving, I had distinctly seen the look on Jiang Ying Long's face that told me he had wanted you to stay longer, and that ashen and livid expression on Imperial Physician Li's face had been satisfying to see."
"It's still not time to be too happy about it." Jun Wu Xie said as her gaze turned to look out the window.
"What do you mean?" Lei Chen was slightly taken aback.
But Jun Wu Xie was not in the mood to say anything further.
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Chapter 855 : Prison Visit (1)
When the horse carriage reached the Crown Prince's Residence, Jun Wu Xie left together with Qiao Chu who had remained behind to wait, refusing Lei Chen's invitation to have them stay for dinner.
Jun Wu Xie returned with Qiao Chu back to the Immortals' Loft where Fan Zhuo and the others had been waiting for a long time.
"How was it?" Fan Zhuo very naturally poured out a cup of warm water, and brought it before Jun Wu Xie.
"There is more in it than meets the eye in this matter." Jun Wu Xie said, accepting the proffered cup of water to moisten her throat.
"Have you noticed anything from it?" Fan Zhuo had complete confidence in Jun Wu Xie's medical skills as he himself had been a patient of hers.
Jun Wu Xie nodded, but did not show any intentions of further elaborating on it.
"I'll switch back with Brother Hua tonight and if there is any news on Qu Ling Yue's condition from here on, just go there and inform me about it." Jun Wu Xie paused a moment, and then said to Fei Yan: "The next time you go investigate into Qu Ling Yue, remember to check whether there is a bruise behind her ears."
Although Fei Yan did not fully understand what Jun Wu Xie meant, he nevertheless nodded his head without question.
That night, Jun Wu Xie went back to her prison cell to switch places with Brother Hua and not long after they had switched, a rather special visitor arrived at the prison.
"Jun Xie!" The youth's clear voice sounded exceptionally loud in the quiet prison so late in the night.
Jun Wu Xie looked up slowly from within her cell and saw the Fourth Prince, Lei Fan, dressed in a lavish brocade suit standing outside her cell.
In the end, he had come just as expected.
Jun Wu Xie laughed to herself within but nothing showed outwardly in the least.
"For what reason had Your Highness come here?" Jun Wu Xie asked, her tone expressionless, her clear cold eyes not a ripple in them.
"Jun Xie, you must have suffered being in here. I heard my Father mention about you and got to know that you had been imprisoned here. I then tried seeking all ways and means to come see you, knowing that you are not that kind of a person. You will never strike so viciously at a woman and I was thinking it must have been unintentional." Lei Fan said, standing outside the cell, looking worriedly at Jun Xie, his attractive eyes looking thick with worry.
Lei Fan bit on his lip, looking highly melancholy and aggrieved as he looked at Jun Xie.
"Before this, although you refused my invitation then, I have still really liked you as a person. You might not be willing to be my studying partner but I am however still very keen to have a friend just like you. When I found out that you had been thrown in prison, how could I stand back and do nothing about it?"
"Thank you Your Highness for your concern, I am fine." Jun Wu Xie was however completely unmoved.
"You don't have to put on a brave front like this." Lei Fan said with a sigh, looking around at the dank and dark prison and continued to say: "Having to remain in a place like this, how could you be good and fine? But because the person you injured this time is the Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City and the Thousand Beast City had always been a powerful force and most ordinary people do not dare to go against them an inch. Now that you have injured their Young Miss, the Thousand Beast City will definitely not let the matter rest so easily."
As he spoke, Lei Fan's face revealed a trace of anxiety.
Jun Wu Xie laughed coldly in her heart, her face not betraying an ounce of what she was thinking inside. She only stared stoically at Lei Fan's earnest face that was looking highly worried.
"Right or wrong, the truth shall prevail one day."
Lei Fan replied: "You say it so easily, but do you know that the Young Miss of the Thousand Beast City is currently still unconscious? Father has already summoned all the most famous doctors and Imperial Physicians from the Palace and sent them all there but she is still not showing a single sign of recovery. I had secretly gone to ask those Imperial Physicians and they said..... they said Qu Ling Yue might not hold out for any much longer."