Chapter 2461

Li Guangbi looked at Zhu Yanyi and said, "I am Li Guangbi. I sent you a challenge letter."

"Oh, you mean this one?" Zhu Yanyi pointed casually at the wet challenge letter on the stone table. "How do you want to compete?"

"We can compete in treating patients," Li Guangbi said.

Zhu Yanyi shook her head. "That is too troublesome. As a medical cultivator, I hope there are no patients in the world. How about this? We treat each other."

"Treat each other?" Li Guangbi looked at Zhu Yanyi, confused.

Zhu Yanyi gave a charming smile and took out a medicine bottle. "This is a special poison I made. I will poison you, and you must detoxify. If you succeed, you win. If you fail, you lose."

"Why can't I poison you, and you detoxify?" Li Guangbi objected, feeling it was unfair.

Zhu Yanyi raised an eyebrow slightly. "Because you issued the challenge, the method must be mine."

She paused for a moment. "Of course, when the day comes that I issue the challenge, we will naturally use your method. But alas, today you have no say in the method."

Zhu Yanyi looked at Li Guangbi with disdain. "As a male demon, be straightforward. Do you want to compete or not? If yes, eat the poison. If no, get lost. Stop being so indecisive. What kind of person are you?"

Zhu Yanyi’s words left Li Guangbi speechless.

Li Guangbi could argue that something was unacceptable, but someone had to listen. Clearly, Zhu Yanyi had no intention of listening. She directly asked if she wanted to compete. If yes, eat the poison and try to detoxify. Success meant victory; failure meant defeat. If no, then forget it. Go back where you came from and stop talking about challenges.

Thus, Li Guangbi was in a dilemma.

Li Guangbi deeply understood that she likely had no way out this time. She could only act according to Zhu Yanyi’s wishes.

"Fine, I will detoxify." He said this and immediately swallowed the poison in one gulp, then began to think about how to detoxify.

Zhu Yanyi ignored Li Guangbi completely. After she swallowed the poison, she took out some fruits, shared them with Yan Aohan and Ouyang Tianyun, and they started eating together.

Li Guangbi and Miao Hai moved to the side. Although Li Guangbi was the one who took the medicine, Miao Hai was also a medical cultivator, so they studied the poison together.

Miao Hai observed Li Guangbi’s condition, while Li Guangbi described his current feelings: "I feel a bit weak, and it’s hard to breathe. It doesn’t hurt, but my whole body has an indescribable sensation, as if my skin is about to crack."

"Your skin has already started to dry out," Miao Hai told Li Guangbi, reporting what he observed.

Li Guangbi looked at his hand. Indeed, cracks had appeared on his originally smooth skin, like tree bark after being blown by winter wind. First, it lost moisture, then the skin cracked.

How could this be? A look of disbelief flashed in Li Guangbi’s eyes.

Miao Hai hurriedly said, "Try taking your own detoxification pill first. You can’t let your skin crack open."

Li Guangbi was a Li Tree demon. His skin was like tree bark. Once it peeled off, it would be difficult to restore.

Li Guangbi currently looked quite handsome. If his skin completely peeled off, he would likely lose his handsome appearance and might become the ugliest demon in the demon realm’s history.

Li Guangbi’s hands trembled as he took out a bottle, poured out his self-made detoxification pill, and put it in his mouth. He watched the effect. It seemed his skin was recovering, but within five seconds, the skin started cracking again.

"How is this possible?" Li Guangbi looked at his detoxification pill in disbelief. "This pill contains special detoxifying agents and plenty of spiritual marrow. How could it be ineffective?"

Seeing this, Zhu Yanyi spoke calmly, "My poison cannot be solved by spiritual marrow. Spiritual marrow does have some effect, and demon cultivators naturally have some resistance to poison. Do you think I gave you this poison carelessly? You underestimate me too much."

Knowing what kind of demon she was, Zhu Yanyi would never recklessly throw a bottle of poison at her. It clearly meant the poison had unexpected effects.

And indeed, the effect appeared: Li Guangbi simply could not detoxify.

"How about it? Do you want me to detoxify you?" Zhu Yanyi asked slowly. "But let me tell you first. If you ask me to detoxify you now, I can restore you to your original appearance. But after one hour, my detoxification can only restore you to seventy percent of your original appearance. And so on, decreasing each hour. After about three hours, there is no need to detoxify. Even if you do, it will be useless because your appearance cannot be restored."

Zhu Yanyi never casually hurt or killed people, even when dealing with demons. So she left room for her. As for what Li Guangbi would choose in the end, it depended on her. Zhu Yanyi had told the truth.

Li Guangbi looked at Zhu Yanyi. She wanted to refuse her antidote, but after hearing her words, she had no confidence she could restore her appearance. However, one thing relieved her: she would not die. So she did not want to admit defeat. "I don’t believe I can’t detoxify this."

"Do as you please. Then take your time trying," Zhu Yanyi said. She ignored Li Guangbi completely and only ate snacks with Yan Aohan and the others.

Yan Aohan handed a bowl of papaya and silver ear fungus to Zhu Yanyi. "Today is papaya and silver ear fungus." Since Zhu Yanyi became pregnant, Yan Aohan made a nutritious snack for her every day whenever they were together.

Zhu Yanyi took it, opened it, and smelled it. "This silver ear fungus is good."

"I found it in the mountains yesterday. There were several large ones. I picked them all and am drying them. If you want to eat it, tell me, and I will make it for you," Yan Aohan said with a gentle expression.

"Okay," Zhu Yanyi smiled and agreed, then began to slowly eat the papaya and silver ear fungus.

After finishing the snack, Zhu Yanyi sat aside reading a book. Ouyang Tianyun and Yan Aohan started playing chess. They ignored Li Guangbi nearby.

Li Guangbi and Miao Hai continued to study, but Li Guangbi found that no matter what method he used, he could not slow down the cracking of his skin.

"Brother Li, admit defeat," Miao Hai said, realizing they would likely lose this time. If they continued, Li Guangbi would really be disfigured.

Li Guangbi did not want to admit defeat, but he knew that if he did not, just looking at the cracked skin on the back of his hand showed his current situation was truly terrifying.