Chapter 60: Refining the Gu King
Bai Tang, who was once again involved in the center of public opinion, was staring at the jade box in front of the table at the moment.
Last night, Wei Jiuli sent news about the injury.
The injured person was the eldest son of an ordinary family in the Imperial City, but last month he suddenly developed symptoms of willow disease.
There is still a younger son in the family who wants to take the imperial examination, and the family is afraid that his news will endanger the reputation of the younger son, so they locked the person first.
Later, when he heard about the seventh son of Rongguogong, the man's wife begged her in-laws to report to the yamen, hoping to ask Bai Tang to help detoxify and save her life.
But this pair of parents are focused on their youngest son who can take the imperial examination, and they will not let this news that will affect the younger son be released at all, and even beat their daughter-in-law, and want to use arsenic to poison the poisoned eldest son.
Unexpectedly, arsenic was poured in, but it stimulated the Gu worms to awaken in advance and use poison as medicine to protect the man's viscera.
The man was able to come to his senses and his body was able to move normally for the time being, so he pretended to be dead.
His parents were weak and did not dare to find out about his situation, but they quickly rolled him up with a mat and threw him to the firewood room, wanting to solve the dying daughter-in-law as well.
The man could not see his wife killed, so he could only struggle out, push away his parents, and run away with his wife behind his back.
Helplessly, he was weak, and the two fell and were caught after running not far away.
Her wife struggled to knock down her father-in-law and told her husband to go to the yamen immediately to report the case.
The man knew that no matter how much he struggled, the husband and wife would not be able to escape, so they could only grit their teeth and run away.
But he ran out of the market when he was overtaken.
The people in the market were frightened by his terrible flesh spots, and they all avoided him, not daring to intervene.
The man was grabbed and beaten by his parents, and in the confusion he was pushed hard by his father to a pillar and pierced through his chest by a flag.
Compared with Mu Shaochen, Yu Qian and other high-ranking disciples, this can only be said to be an ordinary tragedy in the market.
But this incident reminded Bai Tang of a problem that has been ignored.
Mu Shaochen will not be the last case, and the person who is selected to become the Gu Nest will not be limited to the children of the Gaomen, and even more, most of the target people may be these ordinary households.
Perhaps in the past, how many families and how many people were like this one, secretly killed and buried the poisoned.
After all, for them, willow disease is not only a scandal, but also contagious.
Just like some stories in the notes she once read, as long as someone in a backward village gets an infectious disease, the whole village will burn people to death regardless of the future trouble.
She also scanned and analyzed the person's blood at that time, and found that the person's blood type was not AB type, but the activity of toxins in his body was very high.
After she came back, she re-analyzed the blood of Mu Shaochen and several people, and later came up with the same result.
The blood of these people is cold, and if it is explained by metaphysics, it is the yin qi in the blood.
But no matter how weak the man's body is, it is also deeply yang and hot, and the two are in line with yin and yang, and it has become an environment where Gu worms can grow smoothly.
And among them, it is also divided into three, six, nine and so on.
The activity of the Gu worms in Mu Shaochen's body was currently the highest, and she found that the poison in his body vaguely had a feeling of dissolving with him.
But the poison in the wounded body's body was rapidly devouring his life force, and his body was like a standard Gu cultivation vessel.
Moreover, the cold sexual activity in the man's blood is not as good as that of Mu Shaochen, in short, the blood and body quality are not high, and it cannot provide an excellent environment for Gu worms, so the cultivated Gu worms will also be inferior.
She was curious, what was the person behind it cultivating so many Gu worms for?
It's like sowing seeds indiscriminately without a purpose, what are they going to do with so many Gu worms?
And she found that there was also a red peach blossom pattern on the tail vertebrae behind the man, which reminded her of the happy Buddha pattern behind the women in Junqing Pavilion, is there a relationship between the two?
But regardless of how these problems are solved, there is a bigger problem that needs to be solved at the moment.
This incident made her realize that there might be a lot of people in the Gu, and maybe there were still some people in the Gu who were hidden.
After Wei Jiuli sent someone to inquire about her, he had already released the news that all the people with signs of poisoning should be sent to the government to wait for detoxification.
But at present, the detoxification can only rely on the Guanyin Gu that has not yet become a Gu, but this Gu is a one-time Gu made for Mu Shaochen, and it can't save others at all.
But if you want to raise more Guanyin Gu, you need not only more materials, but also more time.
Those people will definitely not be able to wait, and if the poisoned people die in the government at that time, it may cause unrest, and maybe the people behind them will take the opportunity to do evil.
Bai Tang thought about it for a long time, and finally thought of only one way.
Refine this Guanyin Gu into a Gu King.
Her eyes lit up slightly, and she opened the jade box.
Inside the jade box, there was some light blue clear liquid, and in the liquid, a worm egg that had already formed floated and sank in it.
"Master." Yan Ru walked in with a tray.
There are several bottles and cans on the tray.
It was full of nine poisonous substances that had been urgently prepared not long ago.
Bai Tang swept over those things, then put everything into a vessel, and then temporarily operated the internal force to refine the things inside one by one.
Blood hook snake gall bladder, thousand-legged golden silk pede venom sac, Yin Shadow Flower, Jiuyang poison ivy, King Toad egg, eight-eyed spider venom sac, ten-leaf lock heart grass root, carrion red ant venom.
It was a bit difficult to collect all these nine poisons in one day, but fortunately, five of them were available in the Zongyang Medical Center.
Although the Zongyang Medical Center was not opened in the imperial city, there was one in the neighboring city.
Bai Tang ordered Poria to take people to set off that afternoon, and hurried over, and finally arrived this evening.
Of the other four, Wei Jiuli searched all the pharmacies in the city and found one, and there were two more in the palace, and the remaining one was said to have been obtained from a friend by him.
After a while, a strange fragrance filled the room.
Yan Ru's brows furrowed, and she seemed to be a little uncomfortable.
"Take the poison pill and go outside and wait." Bai Tang noticed it and said.
Although these nine poisons are not the most poisonous, the essence that is extracted is the ultimate poison.
She herself is invincible to poison, so she will naturally not be affected, but Yan Ru is different, this is her negligence.
Yan Ruben already felt a little tightness in her chest, knowing that this was a sign of slight poisoning, she hurriedly withdrew her head, secretly surprised in her heart.
I didn't expect these nine poisons to be so domineering when combined with the taste alone.
Their bodies were transformed by the master's medicinal bath in the early years, although it cannot be said that all poisons are invulnerable, but they also have a certain immunity and resistance to poison, but they didn't think that just smelling a little bit would have such a big reaction, if ordinary people are afraid that they have died of poison.
Thinking of this, she couldn't help but shudder, and her heart became more and more respectful of her master.
Inside, about half a tea time has passed, and the strange fragrance in the room is gone.
Bai Tang removed his palm, and saw that those things were no longer in the vessel, only a few drops of thick golden liquid stuck to the bottom, like fine amber.