Gu Baiyi was filled with fighting spirit. He temporarily put the matter of Yang Qi behind him. To him, defeating Xue Renyi was more important.

Xue Renyi, however, just smiled faintly and said, "I hope it will be an exciting competition."

It seemed he hadn’t said much, yet his words carried great weight. He didn’t appear to take Gu Baiyi seriously at all.

Everyone couldn’t help but admire him. This was true confidence. He didn’t need to say much, but his every gesture was suffused with a powerful self-assurance that a word like ’incredible’ could hardly do justice.

"Are you looking down on me? I’ll make you take back that disdain." Gu Baiyi was clearly displeased with Xue Renyi’s attitude.

"Then let’s start the competition. You choose the subject," Xue Renyi said, as calm as ever.

"Alright, bring them in!" Gu Baiyi immediately had seven patients brought out. These were all people who hoped to receive treatment from either him or Xue Renyi.

"There are seven patients here," Gu Baiyi said with a smile. "We’ll start treating them at the same time. Whoever treats them best and finishes first wins. How about it?"

"As you wish." Xue Renyi smiled, having apparently seen through Gu Baiyi’s intentions.

These seven patients had all been brought in by Gu Baiyi, so he naturally knew their conditions and which illness was easiest to treat. Xue Renyi, on the other hand, knew nothing. From the very beginning, he was already at a disadvantage. But even so, Xue Renyi did not object and agreed to Gu Baiyi’s idea.

So, the two of them began their treatments simultaneously.

While Gu Baiyi had already treated two people, Xue Renyi hadn’t even started.

Xue Huai grew anxious. "Father!"

The members of the Gu Family revealed cold smiles.

Yang Qi was disdainful of such things. "The Gu Family is truly shameless, using such dirty tricks against someone from their own Su Mansion."

"Mr. Yang, who do you think will win?" Chen Guo asked.

"Just look at Divine Doctor Xue’s calm expression," Yang Qi said with a smile. "He clearly has this in the bag. He’s just giving Gu Baiyi some face. Just watch. When Gu Baiyi starts on the third patient, he’ll definitely make his move."

Indeed, just as Yang Qi predicted, when Gu Baiyi began treating the third person, Xue Renyi finally moved. Silver needles flew out, striking four patients simultaneously.

"I’ve finished my treatment," Divine Doctor Xue said, looking at Gu Baiyi.

Gu Baiyi was so shocked he could have spat blood. "Impossible!"

I was so close to winning, and he just beat me with a single move?

"If you don’t believe it, let the judges decide. Don’t you trust the Medicine King’s judgment?" Xue Renyi said with complete confidence.

The judging panel conducted their examination and discovered that the four people treated by Divine Doctor Xue’s silver needles had all been completely cured. Although Gu Baiyi was unwilling to accept it, he dared not question the Medicine King’s judgment.

"Brilliant!"

"Absolutely brilliant!"

The crowd was incredibly excited. The judging panel announced Xue Renyi’s victory.

The crowd lost interest in the subsequent matches. In their minds, they had already ranked the competitors. Without a doubt, the top three were Xue Renyi, Gu Baiyi, and Yang Qi. Even with two rounds remaining, no one believed Yang Qi could defeat either of them. The Medical Skills of those two were just too formidable.

Yang Qi didn’t care about such commentary. With that, the seventh round ended and the eighth began.

The first duel of this round was between Yang Qi and Gu Baiyi, revitalizing the crowd’s spirits. Xue Renyi seemed unbeatable, but people felt there was still a chance to defeat Gu Baiyi. Moreover, the feud between Yang Qi and Gu Baiyi had started the night before. In the previous competition, they had been at each other’s throats. Because of the incident with Gu Chong, Gu Baiyi had vowed to make Yang Qi suffer.

Therefore, the match was already a hot topic before it even began. What would the outcome be? Did Yang Qi have any hope of winning against Gu Baiyi?

The two stood on the stage, facing each other.

Gu Baiyi looked at Yang Qi with a savage grin. "Yang Qi, I’ve thought of the perfect way for us to duel. I’m just not sure you’ll dare to agree. I’m guessing you won’t, because you could die. No, there’s a high probability you’ll die."

"Such boring taunts," Yang Qi said, shaking his head. "You’re nothing but a loser who was defeated by Xue Renyi. What gives you the right to be arrogant in front of me? I’m going to defeat him, while you were utterly powerless against him."

"You’re full of shit!" Gu Baiyi was furious.

Everyone could feel that Gu Baiyi’s killing intent was real. They just didn’t know how he planned to deal with Yang Qi. Logically, a competition like this shouldn’t involve any slaughter.

"I still think Yang Qi is being too foolish!"

"Provoking Gu Baiyi does him no favors!"

"Yes, Gu Baiyi once killed his opponent in a major competition."

Yang Qi paid no mind to the crowd’s discussion. He simply smiled and said, "State your terms. No matter how you want to compete, I’ll play along. I’m just afraid that in the end, your clever little scheme will be your own undoing."

"HAHAHAHA!" Gu Baiyi roared with laughter. "Ridiculous! Do you really think that I, Gu Baiyi, would lose to a dark horse like you? Dark horses exist only to be slaughtered."

"Judges," he said, turning to the judging panel, "I propose a duel of testing poisons on ourselves!"

WHAT! Hearing this, countless people in the audience shot to their feet.

"Gu Baiyi, have you lost your mind?" Elder Chen Guo shouted. "This is a competition, not a death match!"

"What is ’testing poisons on ourselves’?" Yang Qi asked.

"It’s simple," Gu Baiyi said with a vicious smile. "We each concoct a poison for the other to take. The one who can neutralize their poison wins. If we both neutralize the poison, the one who does it faster wins. Do you dare to compete?"

He smiled so viciously because, for this very competition, he had deliberately learned to concoct a deadly poison for which even he couldn’t find the Detoxification Method: White Heart Cranesbill. Crane Crown Red was already a lethal poison, but White Heart Cranesbill was the top grade of its kind. To this day, no Detoxification Method for it had ever been discovered. Therefore, if Yang Qi agreed, his defeat was guaranteed. Once this poison was used, no one could counteract it.

Of course, if Yang Qi refused the duel, Gu Baiyi would be out of options. However, he was convinced Yang Qi would accept, as it wasn’t in his nature to back down from a challenge.

As expected, Yang Qi agreed.

"Fine, let’s do it that way," Yang Qi said. "But the poisons must be concocted here and now!"

"No problem," Gu Baiyi said. "After they’re concocted, we will test their toxicity on simulation dummies. If one side concedes, the match ends. If not, we continue. Of course, I hope you don’t concede. That would be boring."

"I certainly won’t concede," Yang Qi replied with a smile. "But I advise you to surrender early. Otherwise, things could get very ugly for you."