Southern Yan Kingdom, Holy Spirit Valley.
Yinmu was basking in the sun on the bamboo roof, and Yintong was drying herbs in the yard.
"Knock knock..." There was a knock on the courtyard door. It was a girl with skin as white as jade, a face as rosy as peach, and a smile as bright as a peony blooming in the light. Her voice was like pearls falling on a jade plate. "Excuse me, is this Granny Wu's house?"
The silver bell rang softly, Yintong put down the herbs, and turned his wrist in his sleeve, "Yes."
"Great, I finally found it." Ji Zhu pushed open the small wooden door and came in. She raised her glass-thin hand to cover her lips and coughed twice. "Ahem, I... I've been looking for a long time. Can you ask Granny Wu to treat my daughter's illness?"
Yinmu on the roof opened his eyes, looking suspicious, "Did you find your way in?"
At the same time, outside the Holy Spirit Valley, the palace servants who came to invite the Holy Son and Holy Daughter were circling at the gate.
"Ahem..." Ji Zhu couldn't help coughing a few times and swallowed her sore throat. "I've been looking for a long time."
Yin Tong poured a glass of water and handed it to her. Ji Zhu took it and drank it. Her voice was neither hurried nor slow, like the spring breeze, giving people a soothing feeling:
"My daughter's name is Ji Zhu. She's from Tanzhou. She was born with an illness. My family has been searching for doctors and medicine for years, but to no avail. She's barely hanging on to life. A few days ago, I heard in the city that Grandma Wu, the Saint Hand of the Southern Kingdom, lived in the Holy Spirit Valley, so I bravely came here to find her..."
She asked cautiously, "What are the conditions for Granny Wu to treat people?"
The silver pupil stared at her quietly, without moving, and Ji Zhu said hurriedly: "Although I can't give you any gold, silver or jewelry, I have a magical medicine that you will definitely need."
She took out a black mushroom from the package. Its leaves were thick and black, but its rhizome was translucent white. It was also called the Hundred Ghosts Mushroom. It grew deep in the Aimeng Mountains and was extremely difficult to obtain.
"Hundred-year-old black ganoderma!" Yinmu jumped down from the roof, overjoyed. "Aimeng Mountain is mysterious and full of poisonous barriers. Once you enter, it's almost impossible to get out. How did you pick it?"
"My elders were looking for medicine for me, and I was lucky enough to get one." Ji Zhu said with a sad look, "Although I got this miraculous medicine, it can't cure my illness..."
After a moment of silence, her eyes suddenly lit up. She clasped her hands and looked at Yin Mu, pleading, "If you can get Granny Wu to take action once, I'm willing to give it to you no matter what the outcome."
"But..." Before the promise was uttered, Yin Tong, who had been silent for a long time, spoke:
"I can heal you without Grandma Wu's help." She curled her lips slightly but did not smile.
This girl is not simple. The maze outside the valley did not affect her, the monitoring Gu along the way did not issue a warning, and the body-control Gu in the glass of water just now could not control her. Her coming to cure an illness was fake, and her real purpose was to find out what she wanted.
"Really?" Yin Tong was about seventeen or eighteen, about her age, and didn't look like a highly skilled doctor. Ji Zhu looked skeptical, "Or... should we ask Granny Wu?"
His eyes, expression and movements all showed distrust towards Yintong.
Wuzhi is so precious and rare, how come it can only be exchanged for the help of a yellow-haired girl? It’s not worth it.
Yinmu curled his lips and crossed his arms.
"If you can't cure it, I won't accept your black hair." Yin Tong said, "I will also ask my mother-in-law to come out and treat you."
"That's fine." Ji Zhu was relieved. Seeing Yin Mu's unhappy expression, she hurriedly explained: "It's not that I don't trust your medical skills, it's just that my daughter has been ill for a long time and it's difficult to cure..."
Her voice gradually became softer, and her face was filled with sickly sadness again.
"It's okay. My medical skills were all taught by my mother-in-law. In this valley, besides her, I am the only one who can do it. You can rest assured." Yin Tong stood up, "Come in with me."
In the South, people raise Gu, and medical skills are also Gu skills. Yintong picked and chose among the bottles and jars on the shelves in the house and picked up one at random.
"Sister..." Yinmu opened his eyes wide and blinked, confused?
Those were insects that were prepared for breeding, not poisonous insects, and were even ordinary insects that Rong Chaoxi raised to eat.
Yintong frowned slightly, and Yinmu said nothing.
Yintong turned around and opened the lid. A fat and tender worm as thick as a thumb was wriggling inside.
"Ah..." Jizhu exclaimed, took a few steps back and looked away, "What is this? It's disgusting."
Yin Tong smiled slightly: "This is the poisonous insect that will cure your illness. Eat it."
"This...is a bug. How can a bug cure a disease?" Ji Zhu's face was full of resistance.
"You haven't even shown it to me yet?" She suspected that she had bad intentions.
"You have to eat it before I can show it to you."
The silver pupil stretched forward, and Ji Zhu leaned against the wall. A bug spitting silk fell from the beam and landed right in front of her. She instantly became cross-eyed and then let out a sharp explosion.
"Ahhhh... go away, go away..."
She closed her eyes and waved her hands, then ran out the door. She leaned against the medicine drying rack and retched non-stop. When she looked up, she saw that the herbs were covered with insects.
"Ah——!" She screamed and fainted.
Yinmu said faintly, "She seems to be seriously ill." He casually scattered a handful of leaves on the poisonous insects on the medicinal herbs.
"Crunch, crunch..." The poisonous insect was unaware of its own lethality and was eating happily.
Yin Tong said, "Move the person in. After all, he is our patient."
While she is unconscious, I will study why the maze and the poisonous insects cannot control her.
Ji Zhu is a spirit that was reborn from a thousand-year-old dead tree. She later took over the body of a clam pearl and became a demon. Her original body was killed by insects, and she is terrified.
Yinmu carried the person into the house and asked in confusion, "The road to the valley is full of insects. How did she get in if she was so scared? Did she destroy the surveillance Gu?"
At this moment, the ball on the table lit up, and it showed the scene at the valley entrance, with palace servants circling inside.
"Someone's coming from the palace. Go and bring him in."
Yinmu went out to meet someone, while Yintong found a poisonous insect and put it into Jizhu's ear. After a while, she tried to control it, but there was no response. She then tried a few other varieties, but still no response.
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