In the Imperial Palace.
The imperial physicians were alarmed upon learning that the Sixth Princess had been attacked outside, resulting in an injury and disfigurement, and hurried to treat her.
A dozen or so top-grade imperial physicians renowned in the Yan Kingdom each examined the inch-long flesh-turning wound on Yan Xuefei's face and tried various elixirs to heal her, but to no avail; they simply couldn't make the wound heal!
"It's no use, it's no use. There's a strange Qi force contained in this wound, and even with our strength and third-grade elixirs, we can't drive it out..."
After trying on Yan Xuefei without success, the most authoritative imperial physician reached this conclusion, and the others echoed the same sentiment after their attempts failed as well.
"Indeed, there's no way to cure it. She might have to remain like this for a lifetime, unable to even form a scab..."
After the senior physician spoke, the other physicians shook their heads and sighed, indicating their helplessness.
After all, if that physician couldn't do anything, then it was understandable that they couldn't either.
"What? I have to be like this for a lifetime? I refuse!"
Upon hearing their words, Yan Xuefei erupted into a rage, her jet-black gemstone-like eyes filled with endless resentment and fear.
How could someone who cherished beauty as much as she did tolerate even the slightest flaw in her appearance?
And now, this group of quacks claimed not only that her looks couldn't be preserved but that it wasn't a simple scar disfigurement—it was a lifelong state of exposed flesh and blood, indescribable. What a terrifying and desperate matter that was!
"You bunch of incompetents, sitting around doing nothing all day, can't even treat this injury of mine! Go to hell!"
Yan Xuefei lashed out with sharp insults, then suddenly gripped her thorny leather whip and swung it fiercely towards the group of imperial physicians.
Since they couldn't cure her disfigurement, she would make them suffer her pain, making them unable to face anyone for the rest of their lives!
"Whoosh!!"
The sound of air cutting was fierce, and the whip's wind lashed the physicians' faces with a sharp sting.
The imperial physicians were dumbfounded, seeing Yan Xuefei striking out so aggressively, stupefied and not knowing to flee.
Some managed to react in time, but were so scared their legs trembled, unable to escape.
As physicians who spent their lives studying medical skills and the Alchemy Dao, they rarely worked hard on martial cultivation, unable to evade Yan Xuefei's furious strike.
As they felt despair in their hearts, thinking they might not survive this.
A man in cloth garments suddenly stepped forward, standing in front of the group of physicians, and swiftly grasped the whip with one hand.
"Snap!"
Immediately, the whip that could have ripped the physicians' skin was caught directly.
"Brother He, you..."
Yan Xuefei, seeing someone daring to block her venting, felt an immense anger, wanting to jerk back the whip and strike this person fiercely across the face!
But seeing clearly who had intervened, her face turned several shades paler, more bloodless, and she gazed at him with disbelief, muttering.
The one who intervened was named He Jingfeng!
His strength was at the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm.
Nevertheless, what made Yan Xuefei fearful and apprehensive was not his strength but his identity.
He was the first national scholar of the Yan Kingdom, Yan Chengyun's direct disciple, barely over sixty years old and already at the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm, not far from the Third Layer.
He was believed by the strong practitioners of the Yan Kingdom to surely surpass Yan Chengyun in the future, helping the Yan Kingdom flourish for centuries!
And he himself was now ranked tenth on the National Guard List!
Also a national scholar-level figure!
With his intervention to stop her capricious actions, no matter how fierce Yan Xuefei was, she had to transform into a gentle little cat!
"Don't take out your anger on others. I used my Divine Sense to examine your facial injury as well. It indeed contains a strange True Yuan within, imbued with endless vitality, yet it also has formidable destructiveness, which I can't dispel immediately!"
As He Jingfeng spoke, he gently crushed the whip made of Third Stage Spirit Beast Skin in his hand, letting it crumble into dust as if made of sand, dissipating into the wind!
"Can't dispel it immediately, which means there's a way to save me, right?"
Yan Xuefei didn't pay attention to He Jingfeng's other words, but she latched onto his last statement.
Her eyes lit up instantly, and she eagerly asked.
"Yes."
He Jingfeng replied coldly, with his hands behind his back, his face a picture of pride.
The assailant's strength was indeed significant, probably around the Second Layer of the Fanxu Realm, and with a strange nature of True Yuan, likely Wood Attributed True Essence; it was indeed challenging to expel from Yan Xuefei's face immediately.
However, once True Yuan left the assailant's Dantian, it couldn't remain indefinitely on Yan Xuefei's face. After some time, he was confident he would be able to expel it.
This he was very sure of.
"Have we found out who the assailant is?"
He Jingfeng then ignored the unruly princess and turned to ask a soldier.
He was a close friend of Crown Prince Yanhua. If it weren't for Yanhua hosting guests from other nations and unable to come, how would an injury of a mere princess warrant his attention?
Though Yan Xuefei was foolish and spoiled, she was ultimately the Crown Prince's sister. Someone had dared to injure her in the King's City!
No matter how prominent the opposing party was in foreign nations, as long as they weren't those from the elite sects or the royal families of the Dayan Dynasty, he would fear no one, ensuring the perpetrator paid with blood!
The soldier, hearing this, immediately broke out in a cold sweat, clearly under intense pressure from a national scholar's questioning.
He stammered, "It hasn't been discovered yet, but it likely is experts from another country. According to investigations, the person just headed to the Third Prince's Royal Mansion..."
"What, went to Third Brother's Royal Mansion?!"
Upon hearing this, Yan Xuefei screamed in shock and anger.
As Crown Prince Yanhua's sister, she naturally harbored immense animosity towards Yan Ran, who posed a great threat to her brother, although Yan Ran had been weak in recent years, she still regarded her Third Brother as a thorn in her side, wishing to get rid of him soon so her brother would be free of threats!
Now knowing that the one who disfigured her had gone to Yan Ran's Mansion, how could she not be furious?!
She even suspected whether it was Yan Ran who deliberately instructed Mu Jinyu to ruin her looks?!
"Huh?"
He Jingfeng's face darkened slightly upon hearing the soldier's words; he also had such suspicions.
At this moment, a group of soldiers escorted in a number of terrified commoners, reporting: "Report to State Scholar He, all the people injured by the Princess on the street have been captured!"
Hearing this, Yan Xuefei focused her gaze and saw that this group of people escorted back by the soldiers indeed appeared to be those she whipped on the street.
"Rip!"
After a soldier finished speaking, he abruptly tore off a man's cloth garment, revealing his rough back.
There was not a sign of scabs or scars on it, as if he had never been injured!
Seeing this, Yan Xuefei's eyes narrowed!
If she remembered correctly, this man's back had been whipped to shreds by her at that time!
Could it be they grabbed the wrong person? Gotten hold of the offender's brother or younger brother?
As if understanding Yan Xuefei's doubts, the soldiers proceeded to tear off the clothes of this terrified and anxious group of commoners, exposing their backs and chests!
"Rip!"
"Rip!"
To Yan Xuefei's shock, without exception, they all appeared as if they had never been injured.
If one or two were like this, it might be excusable, possibly the wrong people had been caught.
But for every single one to be so...
Then something unusual was afoot!
Yan Xuefei's eyes lit up, recalling that Mu Jinyu administered some kind of pill when saving them?!