The SSSSSSSS-level Mad Dragon is released from prison!

The emerald light deep within his consciousness gradually faded away.

Jiang Chen suddenly opened his eyes, his lungs heaving violently like a bellows.

The madness of being torn apart and devoured subsided temporarily, replaced by a weakness born of overexertion.

He sat up straight, bracing himself against the edge of the wooden bed, his joints cracking like popping beans.

Focus your gaze.

The woman who called herself Shen Suxin was facing away from him, fiddling with something in a black pottery jar, making a thumping sound.

The air was filled with a bitter, herbal scent that made one's tongue tingle.

Jiang Chen stared at the back of her neck, which was exposed outside the coarse cloth sleeve. Her skin was so white that it was almost transparent, and the bluish veins underneath could be vaguely seen.

"A body of poisonous herbs."

These four words were squeezed out of his dry throat, with a metallic, hoarse sound.

Shen Suxin, who was pounding medicine, froze in mid-air.

She turned around, and there wasn't much panic in her clear, forest-like eyes.

"You can tell."

Shen Suxin put down the stone pestle and picked up a square towel to wipe her hands.

Her tone was as flat as if she were talking about today's weather.

Jiang Chen got off the bed, his feet landing on the compacted muddy ground. He wobbled a couple of times before regaining his balance.

"This kind of constitution is both the best medicine cabinet in the world and the most potent poison."

He walked to the door and looked at the strange plants drying in the yard.

"You shouldn't have saved me. My blood might disrupt your balance."

Shen Suxin picked up the black pottery jar and walked to the water vat in the corner of the yard to start washing it.

"If I don't save you, you'll die."

She didn't turn around, her voice filled with stubbornness.

"Moreover, I also need to participate in drug trials."

Xiao Ruoye, who had been leaning against the door frame panting the whole time, finally got a chance to speak.

"Drug testing? What kind of drug?"

The way she looks at Shen Suxin now is like looking at a powder keg that could explode at any moment.

The scene of green blood saving people had a huge impact on her.

Shen Suxin placed the cleaned earthenware jar on the shelf.

"Recently, a strange disease has been rampant in several villages at the foot of the mountain."

She pointed to the area outside the valley shrouded in a gray mist.

"The villagers call it 'black aconite.' People who get it will turn blue all over within three days and eventually rot into a puddle of water."

Jiang Chen narrowed his eyes, his nostrils twitching slightly.

The wind is blowing from that direction.

It definitely has a smell.

It wasn't the smell of a corpse, nor the smell of herbs.

Instead, it has a specially refined flavor with a sulfurous and slightly fishy taste.

That's not an illness.

Jiang Chen took out the flattened cigarette pack from his pocket, pulled out a cigarette and put it in his mouth, a golden flame leaping from his fingertip.

Xiao Ruoye stared wide-eyed at the cluster of flames.

Has this man's internal energy recovered?

"What else could it be but an illness?"

Shen Suxin turned her head, and for the first time, her eyes showed a flicker of emotion.

"It's poison."

Jiang Chen exhaled a puff of green smoke, which swirled in front of his eyes.

"Someone is using living people to practice their skills, or rather, raising poisonous insects."

Xiao Ruoye's face instantly turned extremely ugly.

"What did you say?"

As a former criminal investigation team leader, this crime against humanity directly crossed her bottom line.

"Go and see for yourself."

Jiang Chen stepped out of the courtyard. Although his steps were still a little unsteady, the oppressive feeling etched into his bones had returned.

Shen Suxin paused for a moment, then picked up the huge bamboo medicine basket and followed.

"I'm going too, no matter what, I have to save them."

The three of them walked down the winding mountain road.

The closer you get to that place called Zhao Family Village, the stronger the fishy-sweet smell in the air becomes.

Even before entering the village, one could hear suppressed, inhuman wails.

Large patches of dried, blackened blood were splattered on the stone tablet at the village entrance.

Several emaciated stray dogs were gnawing on a corpse lying by the roadside.

Xiao Ruoye drew the empty pistol from her waist and made a standard tactical alert maneuver.

"Is this...is this hell on earth?"

Looking at the scene before her, she felt a wave of nausea wash over her.

The dirt roads in the village were littered with people lying haphazardly.

No, that can no longer be called a "person".

Their skin had an eerie dark blue hue, like moldy orange peel.

Everyone huddled together, their fingernails digging deep into the soil, as if only in this way could they alleviate the pain inside their bodies.

Their veins bulged, and what flowed inside them seemed not to be blood, but black ink.

"Help...help me..."

An elderly man who was closest to the person saw someone approaching and laboriously stretched out a withered, emaciated hand.

His eyes had turned completely cloudy yellow, and the tears streaming from the corners of his eyes were bluish.

Shen Suxin rushed over and grabbed the old man's wrist.

"Don't move! This poison can spread!"

Xiao Ruoye instinctively shouted and tried to pull Shen Suxin away.

But Shen Suxin completely ignored it.

She frowned, her fingers resting on the old man's pulse.

"The fire poison has attacked the heart, and all the internal organs are rotting."

Shen Suxin's voice trembled slightly.

She took a porcelain bottle out of the medicine basket, poured out a brown pill, and put it into the old man's mouth.

The pills melt in your mouth.

The old man's complexion improved slightly, and the bluish aura subsided a bit, but it quickly retaliated with even greater ferocity.

"puff!"

The old man spat out a mouthful of black blood, convulsed a few times, and then remained still.

Shen Suxin stared blankly at her hands.

"It's hopeless... Ordinary medicine simply can't suppress it."

She looked up at the hundreds of villagers struggling on the brink of death, and her eyes gradually reddened.

Jiang Chen stood aside, watching this scene with a blank expression.

He walked to the body that had just died and used his toes to pry open the collar of the body.

There was a purple, spiderweb-like mark on the back of the corpse's neck.

"The methods of the Five Poisons Sect."

Jiang Chen sneered, a hint of killing intent flashing in his eyes.

"Planting poison in living people, waiting for the poison to mature and then harvesting them—these rats in the gutter are still so disgusting."

Xiao Ruoye felt a chill run down her spine.

"You mean, these hundreds of people are being planted here as 'crops'?"

"Otherwise what?"

Jiang Chen turned to look at the ancient well in the center of the village, which was covered by a millstone.

"The source of the poison is right there; someone has planted a mother Gu in the water."

Shen Suxin suddenly stood up.

She didn't say anything and walked straight to the ancient well.

"What do you want to do?"

Xiao Ruoye noticed that Shen Suxin's condition was not right.

This seemingly frail herb-gathering woman exuded a resolute aura at this moment.

Shen Suxin walked to the well and pushed the heavy millstone away with both hands.

The well water was deep and emitted a pungent, fishy stench.

She took a deep breath, rolled up her sleeves, and revealed her fair and jade-like arm.

"Since we can't save them one by one, let's save them all at once."

She placed her hands on the edge of the well and closed her eyes.

"All herbs give rise to life, and all poisons return to their source."

With a low shout from her.

A powerful, vibrant emerald-green light burst forth from her palm.

The light was not as restrained as when it saved Jiang Chen before; instead, it surged into the well like a flood bursting its banks.

"Glug glug..."

The well water began to boil violently.

Immediately afterwards, countless streams of green mist gushed out from the wellhead, spreading along the ground and instantly covering the entire village.

The villagers who were writhing and groaning on the ground trembled violently the moment they came into contact with the green mist.

The bluish tinge on their skin seemed to have met its nemesis, and began to fade rapidly.

"Cough cough cough!"

A chorus of coughs rose and fell.

The villagers turned to the side, spitting out mouthfuls of black, stagnant blood.

As they coughed up black blood, their previously cloudy eyes began to clear, and their breathing became steady.

Xiao Ruoye watched this scene in shock, almost dropping the gun in her hand.

"Is...is this a miracle?"

One person single-handedly reversed the deadlock of the entire village.

This method far exceeded her understanding of "medical skills".

Jiang Chen, however, was not as optimistic as Xiao Ruoye.

He stared at Shen Suxin's retreating figure, his brows furrowing deeper and deeper.

As the green mist spread, a strand of gray appeared in Shen Suxin's originally black hair.

Her once rosy lips turned as white as paper.

"She's risking her life for another."

Jiang Chen's voice was cold.

"For every bit of the essence of the Hundred Herbs Poison Body depleted, her lifespan decreases by one year."

In that short time, she had overdrawn at least twenty years of her lifespan.

"What?!"

Xiao Ruoye was shocked and was about to rush over.

"Don't go over there! Do you want to kill her?"

Jiang Chen grabbed Xiao Ruoye's arm.

"If we interrupt her now, the poison will backfire, and everyone in the village, including her, will instantly turn into pus."

Xiao Ruoye stood frozen in place, watching helplessly as Shen Suxin's body began to sway.

At this moment, the green mist in the village had become extremely dense.

All the villagers stopped wailing; though weak, they had clearly survived.

Shen Suxin slowly withdrew her hands.

She felt as if her spine had been removed, and her whole body went limp as she fell backward.

Just as she was about to fall to the ground.

From the dark, dense forest behind the village, several extremely faint whooshing sounds suddenly came.

There were no signs whatsoever.

Three points of cold light tore through the air, carrying a nauseating, fishy smell, heading straight for Shen Suxin's brow, throat, and heart.