Peng Ying had Lu Ming pegged, knowing that men like him valued 'benevolence and righteousness' above all else. He would absolutely not stand by and watch his beloved subordinate die.
She continued, "Don't you dare think of finding a doctor to cure him. To tell you the truth, my Seven-Colored Centipede is no ordinary centipede. I spent nearly three years meticulously cultivating it, and its poison is extremely potent. In this world, besides me, absolutely no one else possesses the antidote. So, Lu Ming, if you don't want to see your subordinate die, then obediently submit to me."
Jiang Mengxin and Jiang Lan couldn't stand it anymore.
Jiang Mengxin cursed, "I've never seen such a shameless woman! Who forces a man to sleep with them? Can you be any more indecent?"
Peng Ying didn't care at all.
She said, "This is just how I am. Do whatever you want."
So cool.
Lu Ming shook his head, utterly helpless.
He said to Peng Ying, "I don't like you, and I won't register a marriage with you. Moreover, I already have a fiancée. Also, remember this always – there are always people better than you, and there's always a higher mountain. Your Seven-Colored Centipede is indeed powerful, but that doesn't mean no one else can cure its poison."
His tone shifted.
Lu Ming looked at Peng Ying coldly and said, "If I'm not mistaken, your centipede was raised through gu cultivation, wasn't it?"
Peng Ying froze instantly, having been guessed!
It was indeed raised through gu cultivation.
Gu cultivation, simply put, involves raising poisonous creatures like centipedes, scorpions, venomous snakes, toads, spiders, and bats together, letting them fight each other. The one that survives is the most poisonous and has the strongest attack power.
Surviving in such harsh conditions also causes changes in the poisonous creatures.
Take this centipede, for instance. It must have devoured the corpses of countless poisonous creatures, causing it to evolve into seven colors, clearly indicating its extreme toxicity.
This kind of gu cultivation sounds simple but is extremely difficult to control in practice, something beyond the reach of ordinary people.
One had to admit, Peng Ying did have some skills.
This was also why few men dared to get close to her. Who knew how many poisonous creatures this woman harbored on her person.
Peng Ying said, "So what if you know it was raised through gu cultivation? Can you cure it?"
Heh heh.
Miao Jiang gu arts were a trivial matter for Lu Ming.
He himself was a master of gu.
"Watch this."
Lu Ming didn't rush to treat Meng Zhaohui. Instead, he had someone clear out a resting room, lower the temperature to the absolute minimum, making it like an ice cellar, and then had Meng Zhaohui taken inside.
The extremely low temperature would alleviate his pain.
This simple action alone was something extraordinary people couldn't conceive of, and Peng Ying's expectations of Lu Ming grew.
Then.
Lu Ming began to showcase his signature move.
He had someone prepare some leeches and placed them on Meng Zhaohui's back to suck his blood.
But it wasn't simple blood-sucking.
Lu Ming used silver needles to force out all the centipede poison from Meng Zhaohui's body, pushing it to his back, where these leeches would then consume it.
Before long, the originally small leeches became very plump, each one engorged with blood.
However, because they were sucking poisonous blood, the leeches turned a deep purple. A few of them couldn't withstand the toxicity and actually died from it!
This showed how potent the Seven-Colored Centipede's poison was.
This maneuver astounded everyone. It was at this moment that Jiang Mengxin and Jiang Lan recalled that when Lu Ming first arrived at the Jiang family, he had demonstrated similar abilities.
He seemed quite proficient in Miao Jiang gu affairs.
But was that all?
Peng Ying chuckled and said, "Lu Ming, your methods are indeed quite skillful. If it were ordinary poison, you would have cured it. But my Seven-Colored Centipede's poison is not that easy to neutralize. You can at most draw out 90% of the poison, but 10% still remains in your subordinate's body. As long as a single trace of poison exists, he won't survive."
Peng Ying looked at Lu Ming triumphantly, believing that Lu Ming's abilities had reached their limit.
But she never imagined that Lu Ming's capabilities far exceeded her imagination, and he possessed even more formidable skills.
"There's just one last step. Watch closely."
Lu Ming picked up paper and pen and, with a few strokes, wrote out a prescription on the spot.
This prescription was concocted by him based on the poison of the Seven-Colored Centipede at its most potent.
One had to know that the effectiveness of a prescription depended on extensive clinical trials. How could one just write and use it immediately?
Peng Ying frowned and said, "Lu Ming, you're gambling with your subordinate's life. If your prescription has no effect, he will surely die."
Gambling?
Nonexistent.
The Dragon Warlord was no gambler.
Lu Ming didn't offer further explanation. He handed the prescription directly to a security guard and instructed him to get the medicine from the nearest pharmacy.
Before long, the medicine was brought back.
Lu Ming brewed it on the spot.
After some effort, the medicine was ready. He held the bowl and fed Meng Zhaohui the medicine spoonful by spoonful, making him drink the entire bowl.
"Done."
Lu Ming stepped back three to four meters with the bowl and said to everyone, "Everyone stay far away from him, lest you get sprayed."
What?
Everyone hadn't fully understood what he meant, but soon they would know why Lu Ming had said that.
They saw Meng Zhaohui suddenly surge with qi and blood, and vomit a large mouthful of black blood.
The last remaining toxins in his body, under the effect of this bowl of medicine, were all forced out and expelled completely.
"Mission accomplished." Lu Ming looked back at Peng Ying and said, "Now all the toxins in Meng Zhaohui's body are neutralized. You, what else do you have to say?"
Stunned.
Utterly stunned!
Since the Seven-Colored Centipede's poison was perfected, it had never been cured by an outsider, comparable to the Life and Death Talisman of the Moon Emissary.
Unexpectedly, today it was so easily broken by Lu Ming.
In fact, the Seven-Colored Centipede's poison was much simpler than the Life and Death Talisman. After all, when Lu Ming cracked the Life and Death Talisman, he had put in a lot of effort and even worked with his disciple.
Given Lu Ming's profound understanding of Miao Jiang gu arts, Peng Ying's attempt to trouble him in this area was truly overestimating her own capabilities.
The Seven-Colored Centipede had lost its efficacy.
Peng Ying had lost her only means of threatening Lu Ming.
She couldn't force a smile, staring blankly at Lu Ming, full of disappointment. But then, she burst into laughter in public, laughing wildly!
Peng Ying said, "Marvelous, truly marvelous! Lu Ming, I initially thought you were only accomplished in both martial and literary arts, but I didn't expect you to be so proficient in medicine as well. You are truly outstanding. Only a man as excellent as you is worthy of being obtained by me. The more you impress me, the more I like you! Hahahahaha."
Hearing this, Lu Ming placed one hand on his forehead, utterly speechless.
The mind of the woman before him was fundamentally different from that of ordinary people, and therefore, she could not be communicated with through normal logic.
Alas, a headache.