Xiao Xue closed her eyes and promptly fainted.
Seeing her face turn pale, Medusa's heart couldn't help but skip a beat.
However, because Xiao Xue was already a Dou Ling, her physical constitution was quite good, and she usually focused on her Cultivate.
For Dou Qi practitioners, let alone fainting for no reason, even a common cold or fever was rarely seen.
Therefore, Medusa hadn't taken it too much to heart.
Realizing now that Xiao Xue had actually collapsed right in front of her, Medusa quickly stepped forward to catch her, while secretly feeling annoyed with herself.
—She had been too impatient.
Xiao Xue was such a proud person; to suddenly find herself imprisoned and having lost her greatest reliance...
While the snake-person she had recruited, who should have obeyed her, relied on her own strength to defy her superior.
Especially since this strength was something Xiao Xue had helped her attain.
Putting herself in those shoes, Medusa felt she would also be fuming with rage.
Medusa settled Xiao Xue in the Bedchamber, then walked to the door and ordered those outside, "Call Elder Jing Gu over."
Hearing this, the Medusa Snake Guard outside was startled.
Elder Jing Gu was one of the few physicians in the Snake-People Clan and the most skilled among them.
For Queen Medusa to suddenly call for Elder Jing Gu—had something happened?
However, she didn't dare to ask; she had no right to know such things.
"Yes, Queen!"
After bowing, the snake guard went to find Elder Jing Gu as quickly as possible.
Before long, a female snake-person who looked middle-aged followed the snake guard into the Temple.
Although this snake-person looked like a middle-aged woman, her actual age was likely several hundred years old.
Heaven is fair; the Demonic Beast lineage has a long lifespan, but Cultivate is much harder for them compared to humans.
It was perfectly normal for a Demonic Beast to be stuck at a certain Rank for decades.
If an elderly human Dou Huang is around one or two hundred years old, then an elderly Rank 6 Demonic Beast being several hundred years old is normal.
Medusa had cultivated step by step to the Peak Dou Huang Realm and had been stuck at that Peak for decades.
Even with her good talent, she was already over three hundred years old, yet she didn't look old at all.
To a snake-person, this age was equivalent to a human in their twenties or thirties.
—A wife three years older brings gold bricks; a wife three hundred years older brings the whole world.
This was also why the Transformation Pill held such a fatal attraction for Demonic Beasts—
If they used a Transformation Pill to take human form, their lifespan would not decrease.
But their cultivation speed would be directly increased to the same level as an ordinary human.
At the same time, this was why the Elders of the Snake-People Clan smiled bitterly upon hearing that Xiao Xue was not yet twenty.
After all, to the long-lived snake-people... being under twenty was not much bigger than an egg.
Therefore, Medusa was both feasible and reliable.
After Elder Jing Gu bowed to Medusa, she was led into the Bedchamber.
With one glance, she saw Xiao Xue lying on the large bed in the center of the Bedchamber.
To be honest, this scene was quite shocking to Jing Gu.
The Temple of Queen Medusa was off-limits to most snake-people, let alone the Bedchamber within.
And yet, this human Alchemist was actually lying on the bed in the Bedchamber.
If this news got out, the entire Snake-People Clan would be shaken.
However, she could also see that Xiao Xue seemed to have encountered a problem.
"Queen, what happened to the Alchemist?"
Medusa lied without blinking, "She suffered a backlash during cultivation."
"Elder Jing Gu, take a look and see if you have any idea how to treat her?"
Jing Gu: "..."
Are you trying to fool a snake?!
Suffering a backlash during cultivation—how could you use such a lame excuse?
A backlash during cultivation would inevitably cause chaotic Dou Qi or even a drop in cultivation level.
But in Jing Gu's perception, Xiao Xue's aura was very peaceful, and as for Dou Qi... there wasn't a trace of it.
This is clearly a Seal!
And isn't this your Snake Seal Technique?!
Furthermore, even if it were a backlash, why on earth is she in your Bedchamber, hey?!
However, Jing Gu's professionalism was high: "Very well, Queen."
Then, she reached out to pull back the blanket.
As a result, a streak of seven-colored energy flew right past her hand.
Jing Gu was so frightened she immediately knelt on the floor. "Please forgive me, Queen!"
What? What did I do wrong? I don't know?
Anyway, admitting fault first was the right move.
Medusa withdrew her instinctively extended hand and sighed, rubbing her forehead. "It's nothing, stand up."
"Yes... Queen."
Jing Gu stood up tremblingly; she had lived for so many years and had some skill in reading people.
The Queen's treatment of this human Alchemist... was very unusual!
At a time like this, only a fool would provoke Medusa.
Jing Gu performed a casual examination through the blanket, and then her expression changed drastically.
Having lived so long, she was quite knowledgeable and could piece together what was going on from the slightest clues.
Good grief, she thought to herself, good grief!
According to the rules of the Snake-People Clan, those of the Medusa bloodline cannot engage in intimacy before taking human form.
Queen Medusa had indeed taken human form now, but she had to undergo the ritual at the clan's Altar before she could do such a thing.
As it turned out, their Queen was so impatient that she had just taken human form and already... this Alchemist?!
Seeing Jing Gu's sudden change in expression, Medusa couldn't help but ask anxiously, "How is she? Is it serious?"
"Ahem," Jing Gu realized her expression had slipped and quickly reacted.
"This Alchemist is physically fine; she just received too much intense stimulation earlier."
"I will prescribe two doses of medicine for her, and she will be fine after resting for a few days."
Jing Gu hinted wildly, "Queen, it's best not to let her receive the same kind of stimulation again for the next few days."
Jing Gu knew that once snake-people's interest was piqued, it could last for ten days or even half a month.
The Queen was 'tasting meat' for the first time in so many years; she might not be able to restrain herself.
If this human Alchemist died here, it would be trouble.
An Alchemist capable of refining a sixth-grade pill was enough to threaten the entire Snake-People Empire.
Moreover, could such a young Sixth-Rank Alchemist possibly have no background?
The fact that Xiao Xue had a "Peak Eighth-grade Alchemist teacher" was not known to the other snake-people.
But anyone with eyes could see that with such talent, her background was definitely not weak.
Wasn't the Queen pushing the Snake-People Clan into a fire pit by doing this?!
Jing Gu suddenly felt that the future of the Snake-People Clan was bleak.
Once she left the Temple, she had to find the Four Great Elders immediately and tell them about this, letting them decide!
Hearing Jing Gu's suggestion, Medusa nodded in agreement. "Then I'll trouble Elder Jing Gu."
She also knew that some things shouldn't be rushed.
A change in mindset is a gradual process; rushing it would only backfire.
Medusa and Jing Gu had a perfect conversation on two completely different wavelengths, both thinking the other understood their meaning.
After leaving two prescriptions, Jing Gu fled the Bedchamber.
Then, before she could find the Elders, an Elder approached her first.
"Jing Gu, come here for a moment."
Jing Gu: "???"
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