Feng Huang bowed before her, "Master I promise to follow you till the end". He declared firmly.
"What kind of poison is in my body?" she asked wanting to know.
"It's a forbidden ancient poison that feeds on vitality and life force. It appears like a cold but in actuality it's not. Ordinary people cannot find out the poison and will just diagnose it as a cold sickness. If put on the fetus, the person can only live till seventeen and die but if put in an adult, the person can only live for two years. Even till death, nobody can know the cause of death. But another important point to know about this poison is that even though it's inactive as far as the person refrain from using his or her power, it still sucks the life force and vitality slowly until there's none left and the person become a frozen statue". Feng explain.
"Very good! They really planned it all well! So it means they injected the poison in my system when I was just an innocent fetus, how vicious! They just sat down enjoying the show and waiting for my death. It means I have just one year to live so their plan almost succeeded and by this time next year I would be dead?"Yanmei smiled sinisterly.
" Yes, but I guessed they were starting to become impatient so they planned to hasten it and pushed you inside that freezing water because once the cold entered your system, it would make the poison violent and kill the person immediately if not pulled out of the water immediately, and that's what happened to the unfortunate Yanmei who was left frozen in the water for a whole day, sadly, your parents must have known you were poisoned and blocked your cultivation so that the poison would be inactive and you would be able to live longer".
"But sadly they failed and died, that was why when you woke up you felt more weaker. The physician thought you were healed because the poison spread to another part and doesn't appear like cold again deceiving people". Feng Huang explained calmly.
"And unfortunately for me, I used my powers which made the poison more vicious and giving me only one week left before it engulfs my whole body". Yanmei added.
"Actually, the poison almost reached your heart but I was able to block it, giving us one week to be able to remove it". Feng Huang explained.
"How do I remove the poison from my body?" Yanmei asked calmly.
"We've to make an antidote and we can only find the herbs for it in the center of the beast mountain". Feng Huang said calmly. Yanmei staggered a little holding her head.
"Master are you okay?" Feng Huang asked as he supported her.
"I'm okay... I just felt weak". She said calmly as she removed his hands and sat down on her bed. She looked at Feng Huang who was staring at her dumbfounded with a little fear in his eyes.
"What's the matter?" she asked calmly having a bad premonition.
"Master please give me your hand, I need to check your pulse". Feng Huang said, his eyes filling with unknown fear. Yanmei calmly stretched her arms to him. He hurriedly took her pulse and was shocked. He stared at her face to confirm his suspicion again.
"What is it?" she asked again. Feng Huang calmly gave her a mirror. When she looked at the mirror, she was stunned, her hair was already white but now it changed it became so white that it felt so blinding just staring at it, in between her brows, there was a crystalike seven petal icy flower tattoo, her skin seems whiter and paler. "I.... What?" I calmed down and asked, "Is it a bad sign?"
Feng Huang hesitated before finally answering, "Yes". Taking a deep breath he explained, "The frozen crystal icy seven petal flower... It shows how many days you have left, so meaning you have just seven days. The change of hair and skin, shows signs of the poison getting stronger and spreading faster.... It's worse than I thought". He sighed. "Someone's coming". He said alert, disappear inside her body.
The door was gently pushed open and Zhou Minho (the great general, her grandfather) walked inside. On seeing the girl awake and calmly staring at him, he was overjoyed. He walked to her hurriedly and hugged her.
"Xiao mei'er, I'm so sorry..... Grandfather is so sorry for leaving mei'er alone all this years.. Mei'er must have felt so lonely and disappointed in grandfather.... Grandfather promises that this time, I won't leave you alone. I promise....please forgive grandfather". Zhou Minho hugged her tightly crying. He was really happy she was finally awake.
"Grandfather, Yanmei doesn't blame grandfather". She answered slightly feeling a pain in her heart. All this years, she's been yearning for this love but never got it till she died and came here. No one knows better than her how the original Yanmei felt. She had great respect and admired her grandfather so much, she yearned for his love but he was never there when she needed him and that's why she was easily deceived until she died. Her greatest wish was to be loved by her grandfather. Now she received the love but she's already gone. She feels nothing but pain.
Zhou Minho released her and looked at her sadly. He wanted to read her expression but her face was neutral, her eyes was filled with pain, sadness. He felt hurt seeing her like this. "Grandfather will get physician Lee to check on mei'er".
"Grandfather, how's Hwayang?" Yanmei asked.
"That servant is still unconscious but the poison have been removed from her body". He explained. Yanmei nodded in understanding. Just then physician Lee hurriedly announced his presence and entered the room.
"Lee Hu greets great general Zhou and young miss Zhou Yue Yanmei".
"Quick check mei'er". Zhou Minho ordered. Yanmei stretched out her hand for her pulse to be taken. On touching her, physician Lee was stunned, he started sweating profusely after taking her pulse.
"What's the matter?" Zhou minho asked eagerly.
"Great general...I'm afraid young miss Zhou illness has returned....and worst". Physician Lee said stammering. Zhou Minho staggered on hearing the news. He couldn't believe it.
He lifted the physician up angrily growling at him, "LEE HU! ARE YOU PLAYING WITH THIS GREAT GENERAL?"
"Great general..... I'm... Telling the truth... Cough cough". Physician Lee said anxiously trying to catch his breath as he felt his head spinning.
"FATHER! please let physician Lee go!" just then, Zhou honghui rushed inside the room.
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Meanwhile, in a mountain far away, a man with a black and gold robe with dragon embroidery, long red hair with gold at the tip, stood there calmly as he stared at a particular direction with an unreadable expression.
"We will see very soon".