Chapter 384 Immortality Potion
What should people think about when they meet for the first time?
Wang Longqi didn't know.
He only knew that when he saw that beautiful face looking down from the window, many familiar scenes flashed before his eyes.
Wooden stick, window frame, beauty, mountain, stream, sun, turtle, hat, spinach, lettuce, water spinach, lettuce, ...
Those many distracting thoughts could not conceal the most primitive urge.
In an instant, he felt that there was a high probability that he would not survive.
Before he could finish his words, he heard a loud shout: "Hey!"
Pop.
A sharp and clean knife strike landed heavily on his neck. This strike was like a bolt from the blue, like thunder. It was not important whether it was fast, accurate or steady, but it was ruthless.
After being hit, Wang Longqi didn't even groan. He twisted his body and fell to the ground.
Plop.
Only then did a slender shadow appear behind him, wearing a green Taoist robe, with a dark face and an evil smile at the corners of his lips.
That happy expression seemed to be saying something like "I've been annoyed with you for a long time" or "It really feels so good."
"Huh." Lao Du raised his hand knife, blew a breath, and then retracted it into his sleeve. There was no sign on his face that he had just done anything violent.
Li Chu's reaction to this was also calm and indifferent.
“…”
But people upstairs and downstairs were stunned.
In the attic, Wenxiang and the little maid opened their eyes wide, showing great surprise at the scene before them.
Just found the contact person...
I just looked him in the eye, and before we could even have a complete eye contact, he was knocked unconscious?
Why? But they still had something to hide, and they didn't dare to show it too much, and quickly closed the window, which fully conformed to the psychology of ordinary people who witnessed the murder scene.
Not only them, but also the Yaowang Town disciples who were leading the way were stunned...
The disciple looked at Lao Du's unrestrained appearance, then looked at Wang Longqi on the ground, and then looked at Lao Du again, with a look of surprise and doubt on his face.
Old Du naturally carried the Seventh Young Master on his shoulders and shrugged, saying, "He won't live long."
The disciple from Yaowang Town's eyes moved, and he said weakly, "Is it... that I was almost killed by you?"
"..." Lao Du was silent for a moment, then replied, "No, I'm saving him."
"oh."
The disciple from Yaowang Town nodded quickly, and it was unknown whether he believed it or not. He turned around and walked quickly forward.
Lao Du saw his misunderstanding and continued to try to explain: "Some people will die when they see a beautiful woman, you know that, right?"
"Oh."
“…”
After leading the strange guys to the infirmary, the disciple left in a hurry, as if he was afraid that if he walked a little slower, the vicious knife would fall on his neck.
Since the patient was not of the level of the one in Prince Han's Mansion, it was not worth Lang Yuguan's personal visit. He sat in the medical room, sorting out some papers recording pharmacology.
Seeing the unconscious Wang Longqi being carried in, he raised his eyes slightly and asked, "Unconscious? What happened?"
"I hit him." Lao Du said proudly.
"?"
Lang Yuguan put down what he was doing and looked puzzled.
"It's like this..." Old Du put Wang Longqi down and started to talk, "This young man has been planted with 32 kinds of the world's most bizarre poisons in his body. Now that they are mixed together, once the poison explodes, he will die instantly. The doctor at Xuanhu Villa said that only Changchun Sou could cure this bizarre poison, so he gave him Bingling Powder to prolong his life for seven days and sent him here."
"Xuanhu Villa can't solve it?" Lang Yuguan's eyes changed.
He felt Wang Longqi's pulse again, looked at his eyeballs and tongue coating, and finally used a long silver needle to prick a drop of his blood.
The drop of blood was already black.
He dripped blood on a thin piece of jade. There was a crackling sound, and the jade was instantly corroded. The blood then fell onto the table and made another hole.
"Wow..." Lang Yuguan exclaimed softly, "The blood is full of poison... or rather, there is almost no blood left in the poison."
"Yes." Old Du nodded.
"His condition is very complicated. I'm afraid we'll have to do a major examination to figure out what kind of poison is in his body. Even after we know the type of poison, we still don't know if we can detoxify it..." Lang Yuguan said solemnly.
"Can the old doctor Changchun personally detoxify my friend?" Li Chu suddenly asked.
"This..." Lang Yuguan said: "My master is not very convenient at the moment, if he is free..."
"Something unexpected happened to Old Man Changchun, right?" Li Chu said.
Lang Yuguan frowned and said, "Please don't make random guesses. My master is like a dragon that is hard to find. He often goes out to travel and collect herbs. It is common for him to be away for three to five days."
Li Chu said, "I have no ill intentions. I just want to save my friend. The young doctor at Xuanhu Villa is also our good friend. He said that Xuanhu Weng came to look for Changchun Sou to study pharmacology and has not returned for several months. So I came this time, in addition to helping my friend detoxify, I was also entrusted by Xuanhu Villa to find two old doctors for them."
As he spoke, Lao Du took out a simple wooden token from his backpack. Lang Yuguan finally cleared up the gloom in his eyes after seeing this. "Is it really the token of Xuanhu Villa?"
He looked up at Li Chu again and felt that he did not seem to have any aura, and was indeed somewhat extraordinary. But he looked too young and did not look like a master.
So he said, "I don't know why Xuanhu Villa invited a young man like you to come here. In fact, we have already mobilized several powerful masters to help find my master."
"Because..." Feeling his doubt, Li Chu remained calm and said slowly: "I am very good at fighting."
…
"What happened? How could the contact person in the mountain be knocked unconscious so violently..."
The Ninth Lady of Prince Han's Mansion and Miss Wenxiang were sitting in the room in the attic, full of doubts.
"Could it be that those two Taoists held him hostage?" the maid Fangfang guessed.
"In short... I have to be very careful. I can't reveal my identity easily. I have to find out their origins first, and then wait for an opportunity to act." Wen Xiang said.
After a pause, she continued, "Could there be some misunderstanding? If the old Taoist priest is a bad guy, then that's possible. But the young Taoist priest... doesn't look like a bad guy..."
"Madam, have you forgotten something..." Fangfang blinked and said, "We are rebels... Isn't it normal for good people to arrest us?"
"..." Wen Xiang was silent for a moment, then nodded: "What you said makes sense."
After thinking for a while, she stood up and said, "After all, I am the ninth lady of the Han Palace. As long as I don't reveal anything, I'm sure they won't dare to do anything to me. The matter in Yaowang Town is very likely to be of great importance, so we still have to go and test the waters."
"Okay." The little maid followed closely.
…
Leaving Lao Du and Wang Longqi outside, Lang Yuguan brought Li Chu to a clean room inside the medical ward. This should be the place where patients' private parts were usually examined, so it was perfect for telling secrets.
"Since you are invited by Xuanhu Villa, I should tell you the story. But please keep it a secret for Yaowang Town and don't let it leak out."
"Okay." Li Chu agreed softly.
After arranging his words, Lang Yuguan began to speak: "I wonder if the young Taoist priest has heard of Long Jue Ridge?"
Long Jue Ridge...
Li Chu thought about it and nodded.
Longjueling Mountain was very famous in the Heluo Dynasty.
Longjue Ridge is a huge mountain that spans the three prefectures of the north. It has crisscrossed peaks and vast dense forests. Legend has it that it is the burial place of a supreme dragon in ancient times.
Of course, there are countless famous mountains and rivers in the Heluo Dynasty. The reason why Longjue Ridge is famous among them is not only because it is big, but also because it is weird.
Since ancient times, Longjue Mountain has produced countless legends. As a result, even the people living nearby dare not go into the mountain to cut firewood and hunt. Such a large mountain range is almost uninhabited, which is rare in the land of Heluo.
"My master didn't accept many disciples in his lifetime, but after so many years of practicing medicine, he has taught about seven or eight people. In addition to the three of us who have formally become his disciples and are following the master, there are a few others who are outside and also call each other master and disciple."
"The cause of this incident was a fellow practitioner of mine who was practicing medicine in Longjue Ridge."
"This person's name is Chen Xingjin."
"He has been providing free medical consultations to the people in the countryside at the foot of the mountain for many years and has a good reputation. Because of his good reputation, even though he has not formally become his disciple, the master still considers him as a disciple. One day before the Lunar New Year, he suddenly came from Long Jue Mountain, claiming that he had encountered a strange disease that he had never seen before and came to ask the master for advice."
"When the master met him, he told a strange story."
Lang Yuguan said slowly.
"It turned out that one night, Chen Xingjin was about to go to bed at home when someone knocked on the door. He opened the door and saw four men in black clothes carrying a sedan chair, asking him to come and see a doctor."
"My senior brother always cares about the patients. He wondered what the emergency was. He didn't care about the strange expressionless faces of the people and quickly followed them."
"He was sitting in the sedan chair and felt it was quite strange. How come the sedan chair was moving along without any bumps? And it was floating in the air as if it was riding on clouds."
"Out of curiosity, he lifted the curtain and found that the outside was blocked by a wooden board! He knocked, but no one responded. He was a little scared, so he lifted the curtain in front of the sedan chair and found another wooden board! The sedan chair was blocked by wooden boards from front to back, from left to right, so it became a coffin."
"He was so scared that he kept knocking on the board, but there was still no response. Just as he was knocking harder and harder, he heard a loud bang!"
"The sedan chair was lowered into the ground."
"The curtain of the sedan chair in front was lifted, and the expressionless man in black leaned over and said to him, 'We're here.'"
"But the front of the sedan chair curtain was clearly sealed with wooden boards, so how come there is no trace of it? My brother was puzzled, but he didn't dare to ask more questions, so he got off the sedan chair with gritted teeth."
"But I saw dense forests all around, with trees several feet high, and no end in sight. How could there be such a large forest near the village? It's clear that we have entered Longjue Ridge! But right in front of us, there is an extremely magnificent pavilion, with carved beams and painted buildings, magnificent and golden."
"How could there be such a building in Longjue Ridge?"
"He followed the people into the attic, and saw red-dressed maids and black-dressed servants walking around with expressionless faces. They led him to the attic, where he saw the patient."
"The patient was an old woman, with gray hair and a frail body. She must be at least eighty or ninety years old. But what was even more strange was that the patient was actually pregnant! Her belly was huge. My senior brother had profound medical skills and could tell at a glance that she was indeed pregnant, not fake."
"This is totally against common sense and should never happen, but it happened!"
Pregnant women in their eighties and nineties...
Just thinking about that scene, Li Chu felt it was very weird.
"The pregnant woman seemed to be unable to speak, and a servant beside her asked me if I had a prescription to cure her illness. After my senior brother took her pulse, he found that the pregnant woman seemed to have been poisoned by a very fierce and strange poison, the Seven Deadly Evils!"
"Seven Deadly Demons?" Li Chu was puzzled.
"Little Taoist priest, you may not know that this Seven Deadly Evils is a well-known poison in the world. It's just that most people have heard of it, and it's probably rare to see it in hundreds of years. Because this poison must grow in the human body, within 49 days, the person will be invaded by the evil spirit and die, and the poison will disappear with it. Unless the poison is passed on to the next person in some bizarre way within the 49 days of the previous poisoned person's life, then the poison can continue. In other words, this poison is almost certainly artificially cultivated, and the means are extremely unscrupulous."
"My senior brother discovered another thing while examining her pulse. Although the pregnant woman looked emaciated, she was not very old... maybe only in her teens. It seemed that some evil method had drained her lifespan. Add to that the strange poison, it was simply a tragedy. Although the scene was very strange, my senior brother still felt compassion for her and thought that no matter what, we should find a way to save her."
"But he didn't know how to cure the Seven Deadly Evils' strange poison, so he prescribed a medicine to help her stabilize her vitality and said that he would come back to ask my master how to cure the poison and then come back to treat her."
"The men in black were easy to talk to, so they sent my brother back. Before they left, they agreed to come back to pick him up seven days later to see him. Although they didn't make any threats, my brother felt that if he didn't go, he might encounter a disaster."
“He immediately came to my master for help.”
"My master's face changed drastically when he heard about this. I have rarely seen my master hesitate so much over something. He pondered for a long time before telling my senior brother the solution to the Seven Deadly Sky Evils. However, after he told me the method to detoxify, he also made some special suggestions."
"Just detoxify the patient, and never accept any payment from them!"
"My senior brother has been providing free consultations in Longjue Ridge for many years, and he is naturally not a money-grubber, so I agreed and left. But not long after he left, news of my senior brother's death came from home. The cause of his death was poisoning, and it was the strange poison Seven Deadly Sky Evil! Not only him, but his family members were also poisoned by this poison."
"My master clapped his hands and shouted when he heard the news. He must have accepted the reward!"
"At that time, Xuan Hu Weng happened to be visiting my Yaowang Town. When he heard about this, he was also very surprised. He and my master talked for a long time in the room, and the next day they rushed to Longjue Ridge together, and did not allow any of us brothers to follow. Moreover, he strictly ordered us not to mention this matter to anyone, and not to disclose their whereabouts! I have never seen my master so strict, he almost made us swear an oath."
"So, apart from Long Jueling, we don't know much about my master's disappearance. Apart from that, we later saw some strange words in his handwriting, such as..."
"The elixir of immortality."
The outline of the new volume has not been completely sorted out, and the updates have indeed been slow in the past few days, but we must set the right tone.
(End of this chapter)
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