The words of the Moon Goddess were straight forward. Even though Pei Ju and his two sons wanted to defend their clan from such a world, they were unable to think of words to defend the traitor of their clan. After all, this traitor was the one who had caused the current state of Pei Ju and also the reason why he was poisoned. Like the Moon Goddess had said, only someone who can approach the Clan Master and had a good relationship with him could make him eat the poison without the target knowing. The poison itself was ruthless enough. It had not only caused Pei Ju to fail his tribulation and almost got crippled. Even if he had lived, the poison in his body would turn him into something no different from a cripple with all his qi eaten by this poison.

Just thinking about this made Pei Ju not only shocked but also in disbelief. If the Goddess had said this much that means the ones who poisoned him would have done it before he had entered his seclusion to break through. But there are only two people who come to meet him that day. One is his wife, and the other is his younger brother. To simply put, no matter who it was, the fact that he was betrayed by his family is undeniable. Thinking how his wife would come to his bed and feed him a bowl of medicine saying that it was to help him get better and his young brother coming to visit him, day after day even when he is busy working as a temporary clan master made him unable to control his emotion and was finally angered enough to cough blood.

Cough!

"Father!!?" Pei Yun and Pei Xiu called as they supported their father.

Yue Xuexia commanded, "Lift him back to the bed!"

Seeing this, Yue Xuixia frowned because this is the first patient he had and this world and she had no intention of letting him suffer from overwhelming emotion. The two sons of Pei Ju listened to the Moon Goddess and supported their father back to the bed.

The Moon Goddess said, "One of you prepares the warm bath and gets the prescription ready. The other one supports your father and removes his upper clothing. I’m going to use acupuncture to block the poison from spreading. Go!"

"Yes!" The two brothers said.

Pei Xiu ran out of the room to get the warm bath and the need for immortal herbs ready while his elder brother, Pei Yun stayed in the room to support his father and the Moon Goddess who was treating his father. First, Pei Yun removed the upper clothing of his father revealing a bone and skin and pale complexion of Pei Ju. Now there are dark violet lines all over his body showing that his veins were infected with poison. Even Pei Yun didn’t expect to see this.

Yue Xuexia on the other hand is calm. She commented after seeing this sight, "Hm~ I guess you will need to find at least two people as the culprit. This much poison, if only one person is giving it to your father he would most likely notice. After all, the taste of this poison is not that bland. It must be added to something to block its scent and taste. Did your father like to drink black tea? The bitter kind?"

"...Yes..." Pei Yun said.

The Moon Goddess started using acupuncture on Pei Ju’s back and using his Golden Dragon acupuncture needles, she isolated the poison to his skin while protecting his internal organs, heart and his meridians.

Pei Xiu finally returned followed by a servant who was carrying the wooden tub and the herbs Yue Xuexia had requested.

"Miss Yuelei! Dage!"

" Undress him. Put your father into the warm water!" Yue Xuexia ordered.

Pei Yun did as he was told and put his father on the warm water. As for the herbs, the Moon Goddess used her natal fire, Ice flame, to refine the herbs to a certain point and throw them into the warm bath. Once the herbs were all in, the warm water started to boil and their father’s skin covered in dark violet veins had turned red.

Yue Xuexia said, "Get away from the tub!"

She said then under everyone’s eyes, Yue Xuexia used her qi and pulled out the needles. The next moment, the pores of Pei Ju’s skin started exerting black thing and the greenish concoction of herbs on the water had started to turn transparent upon contact. Pei Ju even vomited a few more black blood. It’s just that as if something miraculous had been happening, the concoction on the bath would become clearer as more poison was poured on it. It only stopped when Pei Ju’s poison had been completely expelled and neutralized that she had calmed down.

At some point, Pei Ju’s skin had returned to normal. He also started opening his eyes and felt refreshed at this point revealing Pei Ju’s firm and copper body in the air.

Pei Ju, on the other hand, was so occupied with happiness that he forgotten that he was naked.

"Hahaha! I feel refreshed!"

"F-Father, don’t be shameless!" Pei Xiu said as he grabbed a towel to cover his private parts. As for Pei Yun, he appeared beside the Moon Goddess covering her eyes.

"Don’t look." This man had only said a few words since they first met.

Only then did Pei Ju remember that the one who had treated him was a young lady and was even the Thunder King’s niece. His friend would pulverize him if he knew he ran naked before his niece. He grabbed a clean robe and changed his clothes. After this treatment from the Moon Goddess, Pei Ju no longer looks sickly except for the fact that his cultivation had problems and his body is now fully healed.

Pei Ju stood before the Goddess and clasped his hands together with his sons.

He said, "Thank you for saving this old man’s life."

"No problem. It’s the payment for what you have given me. But your meridians aren’t completely healed. You still need one more session to get to your former cultivation realm. It’s late now and I still need to cook lunch for my children. You should come to my place for the follow up treatment. Excuse me," said the Moon Goddess before disappearing on the spot. She had used teleportation to directly return to her small courtyard and started cooking lunch for her children.

Pei Ju and his two sons were shocked when the Moon Goddess disappeared into thin air. However, as people originally from the Core Haven he definitely knew that what Yue Xuexia had done is some kind of mastery with space elements.

"D-Did she just teleport!?" Pei Xiu exclaimed. "She can also do that! So amazing!"

"According to Lord Yuye, this niece of his had mastered the control of space elements. So teleportation is not impossible for her to do," Pei Ju said.

Pei Yun said, "Father, how are you feeling?"

"Except for the fact that my realm had regressed twice due to poison, everything else is fine and I am full of energy," said Pei Ju.

Pei Yun said, "Miss Yue said that the poison on you is double than what she had expected and said that at least two people had been poisoning you through drinking your favorite black tea." 𝑓𝓇𝘦ℯ𝘸𝘦𝑏𝓃𝑜𝘷ℯ𝑙.𝑐𝑜𝓂

THUD!

"Double poison! They truly cannot wait for me to die! Those bastards!" Pei Ju destroyed the tub in the room in anger, making a mess on the floor.

Pei Xiu asked, "Father, do you know who poisoned you?"

"Your mother and your uncle," answered Pei Ju with an ugly face.

Only Pei Xiu showed a shocked expression while the eldest seems to have guessed it when he heard the Moon Goddess’s words from before.

"I-Impossible!! How can Mother and Uncle poisoned father?! After all, it was them who told me to check the outskirts for the possibility of curing my father. Didn’t I find Miss Yuelei!?" Pei Xiu said as he couldn’t believe that his mother would do such a thing.

Pei Yun sighed and could only calmly explain things to his younger brother who was born spoiled by the clan and him. Because of this, he didn’t know much about scheming within a big clan like theirs.

"The Outskirts is where the dragon and snakes mingle. There are more fake here than real ones. Meeting her majesty was your greatest luck, if not for the fact that you have met you, won’t you have returned to the clan empty handed? Moreover, you know the importance of the Longevity pills. Do you think if not for a noble person like Miss Yue, you would find such a pill in this backwater place?" Pei Yun said.

With his face pale in realization, Pei Xiu said, "T-Then... did they send me here to... "

"On our way here, some assassins came to attack us. If not for the fact that you are in a hurry and used the space token father gave you to return to the clan, you would mostly be the one targeted by those assassins. Most of them were at least in Peak Mahayama Realm. Getting targeted by the five Peak Mahayama Realms, do you think you can escape?" Pei Yu said.

Pei Xiu said in disbelief, "B-But aren’t we family... How can they do such a thing?"