Poison Genius Consort - Chapter 420

Chapter 420: I’ll give you a piece of my loyal heart1 Original and most updated translations are from volare. If read elsewhere, this chapter has been stolen. Please stop supporting theft.

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Gu Beiyue said that they needed to come back from Pill Fiend Valley with the Heart of Cinnabar within five days. Otherwise, Baili Mingxiang would definitely die. Han Yunxi said they’d ransack the place if they had to, to find it, and to leave immediately.

And thus, Long Feiye took Han Yunxi to the valley straight from the Imperial Physician Courtyard. Along the way, they exhausted two separate horses and his day’s worth of internal energy to make it to Pill Fiend Valley at night two days later. It took about two and a half days in total to get here using the fastest possible speed, so that would be their maximum speed on the way back, too. In other words, if they wanted to make the five-day deadline, they could only spend four hours at most in the valley.

Han Yunxi had only come to Pill Fiend Valley twice, both for the sake of asking for medicine. Most recently, she’d asked for ingredients to treat pestilence and the old steward had seen her in Gu Qi Sha’s place. The valley was the same as ever, with a courtyard filled with people begging for cures. Unfortunately, the gates were closed to them all. Han Yunxi looked over the assembled crowd—especially the elderly and the children—and couldn’t help but curse Gu Qi Sha as a bastard. He’s absolute scum by medical standards! The worst!

Even the unscrupulous merchants who drove up pill prices on purpose to earn a profit were kinder than Gu Qi Sha. At least one could buy the pills they needed from their hands. But Gu Qi Sha’s ingredients and pills all depended on the man’s own mood. If he wasn’t willing to give them up, even money wouldn’t move him!

His medical talents are wasted on a man like him!

When they reached the gates and announced their names, the old steward came to open the door personally.

“Your Highness Duke of Qin, a few days ago Chu…”

Before the old steward could finish, Long Feiye cut him off. “Cut the chitchat, we’ve come for an emergency. Your lordship wants something called a ‘Heart of Cinnabar,’ so name your price.”

“The Heart of Cinnabar, ah…” the old steward feigned a difficult expression.

“Stop pretending, Pill Fiend Valley definitely has one!” Han Yunxi said coldly. If Gu Beiyue said so, the information couldn’t be wrong.

The old steward smiled abashedly. “It’s true, the Heart of Cinnabar is here. But how did esteemed wangfei come to know of that?”

“Stop with the blathering. I want this pill for sure, so hurry and hand it over.” Han Yunxi knew she was being over aggressive, but for the sake of saving a life, she’d go all out!