"Are there others?" Lu Qing paused for a moment before asking again.
"All those women had cloud-shaped patches on their bodies, seemingly related to the poison," Zhu Yu replied.
"Hmm, you mentioned it correctly," Yan Daoxin said, having just assigned those eunuchs tasks, now waiting for them to bring what he wanted. He could finally share his recent findings with them, "King Fan's not suffering from some strange illness; he's been poisoned to the point that it's deep in his marrow.
This poison is particularly peculiar. In each elixir pill, the amount added is not much. Initially, there won't be any anomalies. It takes years of gradual accumulation in the body for symptoms to manifest.
