Chapter 53 Chapter 53 The Demon Clan’s most precious treasure, capable of chasing souls and locking spirits. …
Spring May 22
Nanzhou, Qingfeng Valley.
Qingfeng Valley is located in a place where it is spring all year round. The climate here is pleasant, flowers are in full bloom, and butterflies are lingering.
A crystal clear mountain spring flows around the entire Qingfeng Valley. Inside the valley are large medicinal fields. Several Qingfeng Valley disciples can be vaguely seen taking good care of the herbs.
Behind the medicinal field, there are several houses. The residential area is divided into two parts. Most of it is where the disciples of Qingfeng Valley live, study, and make medicine, and the other small part is reserved for patients who come to seek medical treatment.
Gu Jingyun brought several Tianlang Guards and rushed to Qingfeng Valley overnight, where he met Qingfeng Valley's senior sister Jiang Yingtong.
Jiang Yingtong was wearing a snow-white long dress and her eyes were gentle.
"Young Master."
"Senior Sister Jiang."
Gu Jingyun greeted her.
Jiang Yingtong was originally the fiancée of Yu Hanyi, his senior brother who had betrayed his sect. The two had been engaged, but before they got married, Yu Hanyi's betrayal to the demon clan was exposed, and the marriage naturally fell through.
In the past, because of the engagement, Jiang Yingtong would often interact with the Sword Sect in Qingfeng Valley and was familiar with everyone in the Sword Sect.
Gu Jingyun called her "Senior Sister Jiang", partly out of habit and partly out of respect - the engagement was no longer in place, but Jiang Yingtong's care and concern for them as fellow apprentices was never false and had not changed.
Jiang Yingtong has a gentle personality and a soft voice, but she never acts carelessly and her speech is always like that of a senior sister of Qingfeng Valley.
"Young Master, please unload your horse in front of the valley. Our disciples will come to take care of you. People who are not sick or in pain are not allowed to enter Qingfeng Valley. Young Master is an exception. As for your subordinates——"
"They will camp outside the valley and will not enter without permission." Gu Jingyun said.
Jiang Yingtong: "That's great."
The rules of Qingfeng Valley have always been like this, and everyone understands it. Gu Jingyun tilted his face and raised his chin slightly, and the Tianlang Guards retreated and disappeared into the mountains and forests.
Gu Jingyun handed the horse to the disciple of Qingfeng Valley who came to pick him up.
"Young Master, please follow me." Jiang Yingtong said.
Gu Jingyun nodded slightly: "Thank you, Senior Sister."
The two walked into Qingfeng Valley, and Jiang Yingtong took people to the more private reception attic.
"Master, Young Master Gu is here." Jiang Yingtong shouted.
A thin man opened the curtain and walked out.
He was also wearing a white shirt, his hair was neatly tied up, his sleeves were rolled up high, and he was clean and tidy from head to toe.
He just frowned tightly and looked unhappy.
"Jingyun greets the Valley Master." Gu Jingyun held the sword and bowed.
"Yeah." The Valley Master nodded casually, being very perfunctory about this useless courtesy.
The master of Qingfeng Valley is named Bo Qin, a miraculous doctor of the time. He was commissioned by the Sword Sect and Ziyun Palace to save the Sword Sect's leader and his wife.
Unfortunately, despite all their efforts, they could only save the lives of the two of them.
For a hundred years, Bo Qin has been studying the method of detoxification, and Gu Jingyun has always responded to his requests.
Even if it is a rare medicinal herb worth a fortune, as long as Qingfeng Valley wants it and it can help detoxify, the Tianlang Guard will provide it within three days at the latest.
Now, Bo Qin finally sent news that there has been progress in detoxification.
After Gu Jingyun left Ziyun Palace, he rushed here without stopping.
As calm as he is, he is also a little upset.
"Valley Master, what's the progress of the detoxification pill? Is it successful?"
Bo Qin shook his head slightly: "Difficult."
Gu Jingyun's heart sank, but his face remained calm. "Then the Valley Master invited me here, is there something important to discuss?"
"That's right, come with me." Bo Qin said, "Yingtong, bring the medicine and books."
"Yes." Jiang Yingtong turned and left.
Gu Jingyun followed Bo Qin, lifted the curtain that blocked the view, and walked into the inner room.
On the table in the middle of the inner room, there was a little white mouse trapped in a cage, which was covered with a transparent glass cover.
Gu Jingyun stepped forward, but did not touch her rashly. Instead, he stared at her from a distance.
The little white mouse had strange black lines on its back and its four feet were black. It would lie down after walking a few steps in the cage, looking weak.
The curtain was opened again.
Jiang Yingtong walked in with a bottle of medicine and two thick books.
"Master, everything is here."
Bo Qin: "Feed it another one." Turning his head, he said: "Young Master, please take a closer look."
Gu Jingyun said nothing, just stared intently.
He watched Jiang Yingtong use her spiritual power to protect her body while carefully feeding medicine to the white rat in the cage.
Almost immediately after the medicine entered the rat's stomach, the black color on its four legs began to fade at a very fast speed.
Gu Jingyun did not show any joy, but his heart became heavier.
Sure enough, the moment the black color completely disappeared, the white mouse was no longer able to support its body and fell down instantly, looking lifeless.
There are still black lines on its back.
"...dead?" Gu Jingyun said in a hoarse voice.
"No." Jiang Yingtong replied, "It's just the same as death, similar to the living dead."
"Is it still possible to wake him up?"
"It's highly unlikely, but there have been cases of the living dead waking up."
“…”
Gu Jingyun turned to Bo Qin and frowned, "I don't accept this treatment result. Valley Master, if you need a pharmacopoeia or any other spiritual medicine, I can provide it. I will also reward you with ten thousand gold coins and precious spiritual medicine afterwards."
Bo Qin rolled his eyes: "Who wants your millions of gold and elixir?"
Gu Jingyun: "The reward is easy to negotiate."
Bo Qin swung his sleeves and said unhappily: "I have tried my best in a hundred years. It is better to be a living dead than to die directly. This is the only treatment method I can come up with! Unless——"
He looked hesitant.
Gu Jingyun: "Valley Master, why don't you just speak frankly."
Bo Qin gave a wink, and Jiang Yingtong took a few steps forward and quickly opened the book in his hand.
"In the magic book that the young master sent last time, after translation by the Sirius Guards, we found that the example described in one page seems to be exactly the case with this poison."
Gu Jingyun took it and flipped through it with his eyes lowered.
The words on the pages are written in magic language, which is obscure and difficult to understand.
At first, no one in the entire continent could understand the demon language and writing, but later on, they gradually understood a little bit.
Because of his parents' affairs, Gu Jingyun had done a lot of research on the demons, so he could naturally understand the demon language.
It was written on the page that this was a vicious magic of the demons. It combined poison and curse. Either the poison could be removed, but the person would be controlled by the curse, and their soul would leave their body, turning them into a living dead. Or the curse could be removed, and the person would wake up, but sooner or later they would die from the poison spreading throughout their body.
Gu Jingyun was filled with murderous intent, and he wished he could kill all the demons.
But he still forced himself to hold back his anger, and quickly read through the entire book, reading ten lines at a glance.
The book only contains introductions, but no solutions.
"Young Master, you don't have to look for it. That book doesn't have the solution." Jiang Yingtong flipped open another worn-out book in her hand, opened it to a certain page, and handed it to him to read: "Master and I have searched all the medical books in the world - including the demon books that Young Master brought - and were fortunate to find this a few days ago."
Gu Jingyun took a closer look.
There were ink stains on the open page of the tattered old book.
At the top is a picture of an herb.
It looks ordinary, just like a weed. If you want to find it, this herb without any characteristics is actually very difficult to find.
There is a line of magic words attached under the illustration of the herb.
——[The Demonic Clan’s most precious treasure, it can chase and lock souls. Use it to retrieve the souls of the living, and trace and repair the souls.]
The lower half of the paper was in a worse state. The ink from the previous page seeped onto this page, covering the name of the herb, making it impossible to see the full name.
I can only make out that the name of this herb is three characters, and one of them is: [Soul]
Gu Jingyun gritted his teeth and said calmly: "Can this herb save people?"
Bo Qin and Jiang Yingtong looked at each other.
"I have discussed this with my master and I think it's worth a try," said Jiang Yingtong.
Bo Qin said: "We can remove the poison, but we cannot remove the curse of the demons. The curse causes the spirits of the sect master and his wife to leave their bodies, but this nameless herb can track their souls and pull their spirits back into their bodies."
Gu Jingyun asked: "Soul Gathering Pills, Soul Replenishing Pills... and many other pills and spiritual medicines for repairing the soul, none of them are useful?"
"It doesn't work." Bo Qin said, "You send me so many strange and wonderful elixirs every year, Yingtong and I have tried them all."
Gu Jingyun took out the photo beads, wrote down the half page, then picked up the book and put it in his arms.
"I will send out the Heavenly Wolf Guards to find it at all costs. Does the Valley Master have any other needs?"
"No more. Young Master, please remember that the containment effect of the Ten Thousand Years Mysterious Ice only lasts for three and a half years."
"If I can't find the herb, I'll go fight with the Snow Demon King again, and then bring back a piece to make an ice coffin." Gu Jingyun said.
Bo Qin shook his head: "It's like drinking poison to quench thirst. The first time it worked for more than a hundred years, but the second time I don't know if it can even last fifty years."
At least another fifty years.
Gu Jingyun had made up his mind and turned to leave.
Jiang Yingtong chased after him for a few steps and reminded him, "Young Master! That herb is marked as a treasure of the demon clan. Maybe the demon clan has the herb. But the demon clan is ferocious, so you must be careful."
Gu Jingyun said: "I know, don't worry, Senior Sister Jiang."
"The matter of Yu Hanyi..." Jiang Yingtong's eyes revealed a painful look, and she trembled and said, "If I had discovered his fault earlier, things wouldn't have been--"
"Senior sister, there is no need to mention the past."
Gu Jingyun turned his back to her and whispered, "Senior sister is not the only one who regrets. What's the point of regretting? The past cannot be brought back, so you should forget about him as soon as possible."
Jiang Yingtong said: "Who cares about the traitor who killed his relatives and friends? I just feel sorry."
Gu Jingyun shook his head: "Senior sister has taken the trouble to study the detoxification, which is already helping us."
What's more, the matter of herbal medicine is not without trace.
Jiang Yan and the demons come from the same world, so he might know the answer.
But this involved another secret, so to be on the safe side, there was no need to tell anyone else—not even his senior sister who was once going to be his sister-in-law.
Jiang Yingtong escorted Gu Jingyun all the way out of Qingfeng Valley. She saw him riding away on horseback, but he still stood at the entrance of the valley for a long time without moving.
After a long time, the junior sister came to her and said that a patient had suddenly developed a high fever and asked her to go and take a look.
Jiang Yingtong sighed and turned to return to the valley.
There was already strong wind on the valley ramp, and suddenly a gust of wind blew by. Jiang Yingtong's nose moved slightly, and she smelled a scent in the wind that did not belong to the herbal fragrance of Qingfeng Valley.
It made her feel extremely fishy and nauseous.
But that breath is very familiar...
"who?!"
Jiang Yingtong turned her head suddenly and looked towards the forest on the left in doubt.
The little sister didn't know what happened, and asked in panic: "Senior sister? What happened?"
"..." Jiang Yingtong looked at the forest calmly for a few times, then turned around and said, "Nothing, I was just startled by the whistling sound of the wind blowing through the forest. Didn't they say there's a patient with a high fever? Take me there quickly."
"yes!"
The junior sister trotted ahead to lead the way.
Jiang Yingtong walked quickly into the valley, and her pounding heart finally calmed down a little.
She calmed herself down, quickly prescribed medicine for the patient, gave instructions to her junior sister, and walked quickly back to the inner room to inform her master of the matter.
After hearing this, Bo Qin's face darkened. "...I have a sound transmission note that goes directly to the young master. I'll go and tell him to send the Heavenly Wolf Guards over."
After taking two steps, he turned back and asked, "Yingtong, is that him?"
Jiang Yingtong's face turned pale. "I don't know, but didn't the young master kill him himself? Before the body disappeared, it was examined by the Sword Sect Law Enforcement Hall, and it was indeed in a state of death."
"...The demons are treacherous and cruel. They have used other people's corpses before." Bo Qin said, "Don't leave the valley these days. Be careful."
Jiang Yingtong nodded in agreement, feeling uneasy.
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