Guanzhong Tomb Robbery Notes

Chapter 175: Detoxification, a gamble?

"Come here, both of you. Lie down side by side and lift your clothes up to expose your stomach."

We supported Wang Hu and the stone mill and came to Old Man Su.

The three of them lay in a row, with their clothes lifted up to expose their stomachs.

Taoist Master Zhang held the wine bottle and started muttering.

He seemed to be chanting a spell.

But the accent is weird.

It sounds like reciting, but it also feels like singing.

I couldn't understand what was being chanted at all.

After finishing his recitation, Taoist Master Zhang raised the wine bottle, took a big sip, turned around and spit it out towards the three of them.

"puff!"

The wine fell on their stomachs like mist.

Taoist Priest Zhang then took out three eggs and poked a needle into the big end of each egg.

"Open your mouth."

Wang Hu and the others quickly opened their mouths.

An egg was stuffed in everyone's mouth.

"Hold it in your mouth, don't bite it into pieces."

"Uh-huh."

All three of them tried hard to open their mouths and hold the eggs.

If you keep your mouth open for too long, saliva will flow out involuntarily from the corners of your mouth, and your cheeks will feel sore and swollen.

Old Man Su was the first to give up, and shook his head with tears in his eyes: "Woo, woo, that's enough."

Taoist Master Zhang walked over and pinched his cheek: "Just bear with it a little longer, it will be fine soon."

As soon as he finished speaking, Old Man Su's stomach made a rumbling sound.

Immediately afterwards, his chest suddenly swelled up and a foul, sour smell came out of his mouth.

Taoist Master Zhang smiled and nodded: "It's done."

"Spit out the eggs and cook them over fire."

Old Man Su quickly spat out the egg in his mouth and said in surprise, "I feel much better!"

“It’s truly amazing!”

Wang Hu and the stone mill next to them also emitted a sour and smelly smell.

The two also spit the eggs into their palms.

I helped light a fire and had them throw their eggs into it.

Soon all three eggs were cooked.

Taoist Priest Zhang used a branch to pull out the eggs.

Once cooled, peel the eggs.

As soon as you peel the eggshell a little, you can see dense holes on the white egg blue.

When we broke the egg white and revealed the yolk, we exclaimed in unison.

"Wow!"

“So many bugs!”

"Is this the Gu worm in our stomach?"

"That's scary! Has the poison been expelled? There shouldn't be any left in the stomach."

The egg yolk was full of dead poisonous insects.

There are so many that it is impossible to count them.

The more you look at it, the more your scalp tingles.

Wang Hu and the other three were even more frightened, worrying that there were still some poisonous insects in their stomachs that had not been completely expelled.

Taoist Master Zhang threw the peeled egg into the fire, and then smashed the other two eggs in the fire.

"One more time tonight and it will be completely healed."

"Luckily, the one you encountered was a common insect Gu. If it was a centipede, scorpion, or other five poisonous Gu, someone would definitely die if it lasted this long."

"Let's go back to the village first and make some tonic medicine for you to drink."

After helping Wang Hu and the other two up, we returned to Miaowan Village.

After entering the village, Cui Hao and the others realized something was wrong.

"Brother, why is the village so quiet? There's not a sound at all?"

"Yeah, I find it strange too. Even if all the villagers go to work, there will still be noise in the village."

"Could it be that last night..."

Their faces were solemn and their pace slowed down.

Everyone is worried that there are problems in the village.

I smiled and said, "The village chief and his men left overnight. I don't know what they did. Don't speculate."

Only when they saw that I looked relaxed did they feel relieved.

We went to Taoist Master Zhang's house to settle them down.

I took out all the gadgets I had found recently and put them on the table.

"Lao Zhang, can you see if these things can be used?"

The first thing to be taken out was the Bagua mirror.

I bought these Bagua mirrors from Boss Dong, but I don’t know if they are suitable for me.

Taoist Master Zhang shook his head as he watched.

"No, these are Bagua mirrors used by ordinary people. They are not even magical instruments. They are useless."

I then took out the mountain ghost coins and the white copper alchemy furnace.

As soon as the two things were placed on the table, Taoist Master Zhang exclaimed.

"Where did you get these two things?"

"They are all good things from the Taoist sect, especially this alchemy furnace... But why does this alchemy furnace have an evil aura?"

I don't know how he could tell that there was evil energy in the alchemy furnace.

But judging from the situation when the alchemy furnace was taken, it was indeed contaminated with evil spirits.

I then took out the Hundred Ghosts Pill and placed it on the table.

"This is the elixir in the alchemy furnace. I don't know what kind of elixir it is."

Although the mountain ghost said it was the Hundred Ghosts Pill, I didn't dare say it directly.

"Let me see...huh?!"

Taoist Master Zhang's pupils suddenly contracted and he couldn't close his mouth in surprise.

His fingers trembled slightly as he pinched the Hundred Ghosts Pill.

He held it in front of his eyes and looked at it carefully, then put it under his nose and smelled it.

"Is this taken out from the alchemy furnace?"

"Yes, this elixir was inside when I found the alchemy furnace."

"A sin!"

"Using such a good alchemy furnace to raise Gu?!"

"Who is betraying his master and ancestors?!"

Taoist Master Zhang became more and more angry as he spoke.

He was so angry that he lost control of the strength of his hands and crushed the Hundred Ghosts Pill with a snap.

The black shell shattered.

Densely packed white dots of insect eggs fell down.

I quickly covered my nose and mouth and stepped back several meters, fearing that the insect eggs would enter my body.

Taoist Master Zhang crushed the remaining insect eggs between his fingers.

The insect eggs were crushed into powder and scattered.

"Don't be afraid. These insect eggs are stillborn. They are dead when they are born."

"That's it."

I finally breathed a sigh of relief and sat back at the table.

Taoist Master Zhang opened the alchemy furnace, took a look, and closed the lid with some disappointment.

"The alchemy furnace is broken."

"There is also evil spirit in the mountain ghost coins."

"There must have been an evil spirit attached to it for quite some time, and it must have left recently."

After saying this, Taoist Master Zhang looked at me with his sharp eyes.

That gaze is penetrating.

It made me feel like he saw through me completely.

The lies I had made up were stuck in my throat and I dared not say them out loud.

"Tell me about it."

These three light words brought me an extremely huge sense of oppression.

grunt.

I swallowed hard.

He said with a stiff upper lip: "Don't be angry, old man, I told you, these are all taken out from the Tomb of the Living Dead."

Bang!

Taoist Master Zhang was so frightened that he almost fell off the stool.

"You, you...is this something from the Tomb of the Living Dead?"

"impossible!"

"The Tomb of the Living Dead is where the Chongyang Patriarch cultivated himself. How could there be anything contaminated by evil spirits here?"

Now that everything is out in the open, I won't hide it anymore.

Starting from what Grandpa Ai said, the Seven-Star Nail was in Yu Shanqing’s tomb, he recounted everything that happened in the search for the magic weapon.

After listening to this, Taoist Master Zhang sighed heavily.

"Ugh!"

"It's destiny."

"I guess you have a bigger secret that you haven't told me, but I won't ask too much."

"Let's think about what to do now."

I pondered, “The most obvious clue right now is the reservoir, but the reservoir could also be a giant trap.”

"Lao Zhang, do you want to go to the reservoir and gamble?"