I am really sorry everyone (◡﹏◡✿)
It has been a while, unfortunately much longer than I ever intended! I owe you all an apology for vanishing without a word. My exchange in South Korea turned out to be busier than I had imagined, and before I knew it, so much time had passed (´▽｀ ；)
I now understand why some translators just disappear. You just feel guilty when you do not have anything to post, and that guilt makes it even harder to come back. Still, I have been reading all your comments, and I am incredibly grateful that you are reading my translations.
Here is finally a new chapter for His Majesty’s Hostage. A quick recap of where the story left off: Hong Xu is desperately seeking help from the ‘Holder of Panacea’ to save ZiLi, who is now a wandering soul with memory loss.
Hong Xu suddenly raised his red eyes and looked at the other in astonishment.
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ frowned and walked over to snatch the person away, saying impatiently, “I said give him to me! If it’s too late, even the immortals will not be able to save him!”
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“Why are you still standing there? Go outside and have someone prepare hot water! Add these herbs and boil them!”
The poor Hong Xu, who had always been dignified and inviolable, immediately walked out of the tent like a criticized waiter with a worried expression.
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ put the young man on the bed, took out a jade bottle from his bundle with belongings, and then poured out a green jade colored pill, “There exist only three Golden Spirit pills, I will give one of them to you!” With that, he pried open the young man’s mouth and stuffed in the pill that had the effect of calming the nerves and controlling the qi.
After waiting for the convulsing limbs of the young man to gradually settle, he undid the lapels and turned the other over to lie on the stomach on the bed. Then, he took an acupuncture needle, and slowly inserted it into the Gaomang acupuncture point 1 , which is three thumbs next to the fourth vertebra.
When Hong Xu led someone in with hot water, he saw that the person on the bed had become almost like a hedgehog.
“The hot water is ready!” Hong Xu announced, but his eyes were fixed on the side of the young man’s face, “How is it going?”
“Add these dragon fruits to the water!” The ‘Holder of Panacea’ did not reply to Hong Xu’s question but tossed the other a bag of items, after which he kept his head down while being busy with the work at hand.
Upon hearing this, Hong Xu quickly opened the bag and poured all the thumb-sized white fruits into the tub.
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ slowly removed the acupuncture needle from the young man’s back and soaked him in the medicinal herbs.
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“Gu liquid with Asparagus, although this kind of poison is not the rarest, it is more difficult to remove completely!” The ‘Holder of Panacea’ said as he rotated the acupuncture needle on the young man’s head, “Once the Gu liquid is discharged, it will flow along the human body’s meridians throughout the entire body. If the Gu are poisonous, then these liquids are poisons that can kill a person instantly. Judging from his situation, it seems that the person who placed the Gu did not want to take his life immediately, but wanted him to suffer and die, because this poison has another name, namely Heart Piercing Poison.”The three words ‘Heart Piercing Poison’ made Hong Xu’s figure visibly stiffen, and the strong remorse and self-reproach that welled up in the bottom of his heart instantly swept away his composure and calmness.
“Please save him, no matter how difficult it is, please you must cure him!” Hong Xu pleaded with pained eyes and a tired expression.
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ raised his eyebrows and looked at the man in front of him who had completely subverted the fierce and arrogant image he had at the time of their first meeting. “You don’t have to tell me this, I will do that regardless. If I set about to save a person, I will see it through to the end, or else it will tarnish my reputation! However, my medical skills alone are not enough. You must also find out the person who placed the Gu, and use the blood of the Gu Master to draw out the Gu from within his body!”
“......There is no need to look...... I am the one who placed the Gu!”
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ was stunned when he heard this, then sneered and said, “Is this what you call love?”
Hong Xu pursed his lips with a dark expression.
“Get out, don’t hinder me in my work!”
“You......” Hong Xu looked at him with great displeasure, as no one had ever dared to shout at him in such a tone.
“Are you just going to stay here foolishly? Then you come and save him, all right!”
“No, I will get out!”
“Wait.”
Hong Xu immediately stopped.
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ walked to the low table, and swiftly jotted down a list of items and handed it to him, saying, “You wanted to help, right? Then help me prepare these medicinal ingredients. The more the better, especially this Davallia Divaricata 2 at least twenty of them are needed. And you must come back within two hours.”
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Hong Xu grabbed the medicine list and walked out of the tent.“Lord……” Fourteen greeted and spoke.
“You stand guard here. If there are any orders from inside, attend to them immediately!” Having said this with a low voice, Hong Xu hurriedly walked to the Clan Elder’s tent.
“These medicinal ingredients can be obtained from the doctor in our clan……”
“In that case, I will take my leave!”
“Uh, going already? I am not done speaking! That Davallia Divaricata……”
“Tra― traveler, w― we don’t have it here, in― in stock!” The doctor, born with a stutter, gazed at the list of herbs in his hand and stuttered, pointing at the words Davallia Divaricata.
Hong Xu’s face darkened. He seized the doctor by the collar and roared, “Isn’t this a pharmacy? Since this is a pharmacy, why don’t you even have this medicine?”
“Tr― tra― traveler, you― you don’t understand, th― this― this Davallia Di― Divaricata is not easy to harvest. It grows on― on a cliff about two hundr― hundred or so zhang high……” The doctor stuttered even more under the intimidation.
“Then is there some here on the mountain peak or not?” Hong Xu’s entire patience had already been completely worn out by the doctor’s words. So, he pulled the doctor by the collar again and asked, fuming with rage.
“Ye― yes, there― there is. When I was picking herbs, I― I once saw it on the north side of the Qi― QiLing Peak……”
“Then what does it look like?” Hong Xu’s face had become as dark as the bottom of a pot.
“The rhizomes are thick and solid, growing without restraint. The leaf stalks are densely covered with brown needle-shaped scales at the base, with slight serrations on the edges. The leaves are hairless, and the leaf stalk is ten to sixteen thumbs long, smooth upward. The leaf blade is triangular, with a length and width of twenty to twenty-six thumbs each, gradually tapering to a point at the apex with either four or five feather-like lobes. The feather-like lobes have long stems, with the largest pair at the base, and the middle ones gradually becoming smaller, with the end lobes usually combined into one pointy lobe of varied lengths.”
Pierced by Hong Xu’s fierce gaze, which seemed to wish he were stabbed a couple of thousand times, the doctor unleashed all his potential, speaking out the longest paragraph of his life.
“Why didn’t you say so in the first place?”
The doctor, who was still standing in a daze in the same place, suddenly showed an expression as if he had discovered a treasure, saying, “We― well― well, it seems li― like I― I― I don― don’t― don’t stutter anymore!”
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Hong Xu hurried back to the tent, handed the bag with the herbs to the ‘Holder of Panacea’, then borrowed a horse and a bamboo basket with hemp rope from the Clan Elder before rushing towards the QiLing Peak.QiLing Peak was called ‘Peak’, not because it was particularly high or dangerous. On the contrary, its ascent was gradual, with a height of only about two hundred zhang. The reason why it was called like this, stemmed entirely from the abrupt fault on its northern side, resembling a half broken Wowotou 3 , with a clean break at the top, revealing the inside filling of stones.
Hong Xu came to the bottom of the peak, looked up, and saw many plants growing on the ocher rock wall. Hong Xu rode his horse to the gentle slope in the south, and quickly climbed to the top of the peak using Qinggong. Looking down from there, he saw that the plants were spread across the middle of the overhanging cliff. Hong Xu tied one end of the hemp rope to a tree stump on the edge of the cliff, fastened the other end around his waist, and carrying the bamboo basket on his back, he slowly climbed down the overhanging cliff while holding the rope.
The uneven surface of the cliff wall was filled with loose gravel. Each step caused a cascade of ‘clattering’ sounds as the stones tumbled down. Hong Xu dared not put his weight on the tips of his feet, so he clung tightly to the rope, descending while moving the weight from one foot to another, while the sharp edges of the cliff abrasively making the rope ‘creak’.
After descending about a hundred meters, Hong Xu finally came upon the first plant. However, its appearance was quite different from the description given by the doctor. Hong Xu continued down with some disappointment, seeing another plant, but it was still not the one he needed. In this way, he continued without finding any trace of the Davallia Divaricata.
“……Why is there none?” Hong Xu exclaimed in frustration, as he could not help but doubt the doctor’s proficiency in Mongolian. “When We go back, We will destroy his pharmacy immediately, and his descendants are not allowed to practice medicine or become doctors for eighteen generations!”
Just as he was speaking, he suddenly caught sight of a plant on the right side of the overhanging cliff that somewhat matched the description. Hong Xu raised his sword eyebrows, carefully climbed over, and upon closer inspection, it really turned out to be the Davallia Divaricata! His heart skipped a beat as he very carefully plucked some and placed them in the bamboo basket on his back. Looking around, it turned out that this side of the overhanging cliff was the domain of the Davallia Divaricata. As he became joyful again, he quickly climbed over and picked half a basket full, as if they were treasures. Just as he was engrossed in this activity, a protruding stone under his foot loosened and fell, causing Hong Xu to plummet down along with it……
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The ‘Holder of Panacea’ sighed, straightened up, wiped the bits of sweat from his forehead, and looked at the young man who had already peacefully fallen asleep on the bed, saying, “I’ve never tried saving someone that needed a whole day before! By the way, why hasn’t your man returned yet? “Don’t tell me he fell off the cliff and died?”Just as he was talking, he suddenly heard the surprised voice of Fourteen outside the tent, “Lord, what happened to you?”
When the ‘Holder of Panacea’ turned around, he saw a man with a face full of scratches and an ashen expression walking in with unsteady gait while holding a bamboo basket.
“……I, I am late…… This is the Davallia Divaricata, but, it is probably not needed anymore, right?” His deep, dark eyes were showing a blank expression, and he spoke as if talking to himself, “Is he dead? I can tell, you want to say that he is dead, don’t you?”
Hong Xu suddenly dropped the bamboo basket in his hands, his eyes turning red, and he roared, “I clearly got the herbs, why did you still have to die? You are the first one to defy me like this, I will not let you off!”
The man walked to the bedside in rage, pulled up the young man from the bed, and fiercely embraced the other against his chest, “You cannot die, or else I will strangle you right now! Get up――”
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ was stunned, then shouted loudly, “Fourteen, your Lord seems to be having a manic episode. Why don’t you quickly pull him away? The person I painstakingly saved is about to be suffocated by him!”
“I am trying to pull him away, but I can’t!” Fourteen turned around, as he spoke with a somewhat helpless expression, not knowing whether to laugh or to cry.
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Hong Xu still firmly held onto the young man’s waist. “Wake up! You cannot die. If you die, I will kill everyone here!”“Lord, Lord, he is not dead. Stop suffocating him. If you hold him tighter, he will really be dead!”
“If you dare to die, I will throw you into the most ghastly mass grave――”
The ‘Holder of Panacea’ rolled his eyes, then picked up a wooden stick from the ground and hit Hong Xu on the back of the head.
*Thud* Hong Xu fell to the ground in response.
“Clean everything up, I am really exhausted!”
……
Hong Xu, I am speechless......
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