Toxin source
Koujia Town was built according to the contours of the mountains here. The roads are winding and difficult to navigate. Only the locals living here can figure out the layout by looking at the houses built on one side of the forest.
The demon masters who guard this place are all located in Wenzhangmao outside the town, forming the first barrier to prevent demons from invading this place.
Inside the house, Kou Feng, who was in charge of maintaining order in Koujia Town, was looking at several records delivered to him. Each record corresponded to a deceased person. These people were unrelated, yet they all died of poisoning for no apparent reason. The source of the poison could not be found, but the poison was so potent and powerful that its origin could not be traced.
He looked to be in his mid-twenties. It had been a while since he had formed a spirit bond, and it wasn't until the year before last that he finally allowed his eel to transform into a demon. On the day of the transformation, he jokingly said that he was going to cook and eat it. But the next second, he heard a woman's voice that was more manly than any man's, and he got a beating. He became the first demon tamer to be beaten up by his own demon servant.
He shook his head, hurriedly pulling his wandering thoughts back. He was so worried that he felt like he had two heads in a row. Perhaps because he had his own demon servant, his appearance no longer changed. This was one of the benefits of becoming a demon tamer. He could live as long as the demon, which was the exact opposite of the short-lived demon slayer.
"Sigh..." He wearily pinched his brow, looking utterly hopeless. "Big Yellow..."
As soon as he finished speaking, Kou Feng felt a chill run down his spine. He immediately coughed and changed his tune, saying, "Brother Huang, why don't you make the trip yourself? Although the array buried in the town hasn't shown any unusual activity, I still have a feeling that there's something sinister going on here..."
A gust of wind swept away the familiar demonic aura, and Kou Feng breathed a sigh of relief. He had just stood up and stretched his limbs when a desperate cry suddenly came from outside.
Kou Fen'er, her face covered in blood and looking like a madwoman, smashed through the guards and rushed into the courtyard.
"Master! Save me, save me, save me—"
She hasn't given the little tabby a proper name yet.
"What happened?" Kou Feng's expression hardened as soon as he saw the tabby cat in Kou Fen'er's arms. "Come in and tell me slowly, what happened?"
The tabby cat was wounded in the abdomen, bleeding profusely and on the verge of death. Kou Feng handed the tabby cat over to the veterinarian in charge of treatment and took the disheveled Kou Fen'er into the house.
Kou Fen'er trembled all over and stammered as she recounted what had happened. At first, she wondered if the demon she had released was repaying kindness with enmity, but upon closer reflection, if the other party really had such ability, it would have run away long ago, and how could she have caught it?
"Master... Little Tabby, Little Tabby..." she sobbed uncontrollably, "I think I heard Little Tabby's voice, is it her? Is it her?"
She pointed to her head, choking back tears and unable to speak.
Kou Feng pondered for a moment and nodded. "Given your situation, it should have transformed into a demon long ago. Why hasn't it done so yet? Haven't you figured it out?"
"What?" Kou Fen'er was at a loss. "Then, why...it...I..."
Kou Feng sighed helplessly. Even after all that had happened, she still couldn't understand it, and she didn't know who had been blind back then.
"Because you don't trust her." Kou Feng left these words behind, sighed, and said, "Go back and rest first! You and your senior brother will find a way to heal her."
Although the tabby cat hasn't transformed into a demon, it is still a monster. What in Koujia Town could possibly injure it? If it is a rat, it is no ordinary rat.
So, the tabby cat sensed something was wrong and started attacking? And it was the penniless Kou Fen'er who dragged it back, causing it to get injured?
For some reason, Kou Feng became angrier the more he thought about it, and began to feel sorry for the tabby cat that was still protecting its owner at the last moment. How could it have found such a blind person as its owner?
The young man inside looked tense. He had finally managed to stop the cat's bleeding when he noticed that the blood in the basin, which had just been bright red, had turned black and was faintly emanating an ominous aura. He had only seen this on a few of the previous corpses.
"Poisoning?" Kou Feng quickly realized something, and a thought flashed through his mind: Brother Huang, could you please go check behind the Fanlai Inn in Womei Alley... uh... see if there are any suspicious rats...
Are you sick?
He seemed to hear Brother Huang gritting his teeth, but he pretended not to hear it, pulled himself out of his thoughts, and continued to ask, "How is she?"
Tongming wiped the sweat from his brow. He wasn't a demon tamer, but rather a member of the demon-refining lineage sent by Banshanju. The demon-refining elders all started as pharmacists, and it wasn't until they refined their own demon-refining furnace from the core bone that they officially entered the demon-refining profession.
He already possessed his own demon-refining furnace and became an alchemist, capable of refining ordinary herbs into miraculous elixirs. Detoxification was naturally a given, but...
"Speak freely, it's alright," Kou Feng reassured him, seeing his furrowed brows.
Tong Ming took a deep breath and confessed, "Uncle-Master Kou, I joined the sect late and can't identify the poison. I've tried many methods, but they can only delay its onset. I think that besides the Ancestor, only my unpredictable Uncle-Master He can save him, but..."
At this point, he hesitated again.
Even Kou Feng was somewhat troubled this time. He had been desperately suppressing the recent poisoning incidents in Koujia Town and secretly investigating the reason behind it. It was because Ren Xiangxiang, the daughter of She Liuying, one of the Six Immortals of Qiling Mountain, and He Wenwen, the personal disciple of the Demon Refining Ancestor Xu, were about to get married.
With such a joyous occasion approaching, Banshanju was bustling with activity. They had finally managed to assign someone to help him, so how could he possibly ask He Wenwen, who was about to become the groom, to come and help him detoxify? Besides, that person was an unruly and eccentric individual.
"If I find the source of the poison, can you concoct an antidote?" Kou Feng collected his thoughts and asked the most important question.
The young man frowned, unable to make a guarantee.
"..." Kou Feng was in a state of confusion. "Never mind, you keep an eye on her for now, and I'll think of something else."
Was it really a rat? What was with this rat that suddenly mutated at this critical juncture? Kou Feng had a vague guess in his mind. He turned around and went back to his study. He was hesitating whether to take out the gift he had prepared and go to Banjushan when a gust of wind suddenly came to his ear. He looked up and saw a sealed bamboo basket, half the height of a person, squeaking and squeaking as it came crashing down on him.
"Ah! Brother Huang!" Kou Feng jumped up and fell to the ground with a thud. The bamboo basket crashed down in front of him, filled with at least twenty large black rats.
"What are you yelling for? I didn't hit you. I caught all the mice in the place you mentioned."
"..." Kou Feng's lips twitched. He patted his butt and stood up. Only then did he look at the cold woman who was standing with her arms crossed, leaning against the door. Her hair was yellowish, and her light brown eyes were small and shrewd. She was not tall, only reaching Kou Feng's shoulder. Although she was looking up, she still had a kind of condescending aura.
"What's wrong? Are you unhappy?"
Hehe... I'm so happy.
Kou Feng gave her a forced smile and cupped his hands in greeting. Just as he picked up the creaking bamboo basket, the woman said again, "On the way back, I received news that Ren Xiangxiang has already entered the mountains."
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