Volume 3 The Valley of Wu Wei Chapter 81 Listening to it is clear
Hou Huaigu took over when he heard this, "Gu Li went to Jiangnan Province to buy so many people at once, in fact, he just wanted to save money. They took advantage of the fact that the king of Chu in Jiangnan Province had done evil and the people were struggling to make a living, and bought a lot of boys and girls at a very low price. Is it used, it is nothing more than two, one is to test medicines, and the other is to cultivate people like the Four Demons.
Not to mention the drug test, Senior Brother Feng said very clearly, this matter Gu Li has indeed done too much. As for cultivating people like the Four Demons, I also told you a little earlier, the Four Demons are specially cultivated to deter and control our poison masters and poison warriors. To clarify this problem, we have to start with Shennong Valley.
When it comes to Shennong Valley, there were originally only two types of people in the valley, that is, warriors and pharmacists. Later, in order to give full play to the strengths of Shennong Valley and assist the warriors to better complete various tasks, some pharmacists began to specialize in various poisons for different purposes. Slowly, everyone discovered that these poisons were extremely powerful, and these pharmacists who studied poisons part-time gradually became poisoners who studied poisons full-time, and there was slowly another type of people in Shennong Valley.
However, the poisoner was born as a pharmacist at the earliest, and like the pharmacist, he needs a lot of time to learn and study all kinds of medical knowledge, and he does not have much time to practice martial arts, and his physical fitness is poor, so he cannot better exert the power of poison in actual combat. So the craftsman who was responsible for developing the toxin spraying device was separated from the poison master to make up for the lack of physical strength of the poisoner.
But later they found out that even with the jet device, the poisoner himself would inevitably harm the body with poison, because they did not practice martial arts, their physical fitness was average, and their resistance to toxins was not strong, so there were poison warriors like us. It's just that if you want to be a poisonous warrior, you must first be in good health, have strong martial arts, and be able to adapt to the poison you use, otherwise you will be poisoned first if you don't poison others.
This process is extremely painful, and it is not something that ordinary people can survive, so the number of poison warriors has not been very large. Even so, after the poison warrior was cultivated, he became the main combat force. Shennong Valley has also greatly increased its strength and gained a lot of benefits. Therefore, the poison master and the poison warrior also want to take the opportunity to fight for more rights and improve their status in the valley.
But the valley lord of Shennong Valley at that time did not agree to their demands, and the contradictions accumulated in this way, and finally slowly evolved into a coup d'Γ©tat. The Poison Master and the Poison Warrior successfully assassinated the valley master of Shennong Valley at that time, but the Poison Master and the Poison Warrior had a shallow foundation and a small number of people, and they were finally defeated by the Warrior and the Medicine Warrior Alliance.
Shennong Valley originally wanted to completely eliminate the poison master and the poison warrior, but this would greatly damage Shennong Valley's vitality and even lose the qualification to confront the other two ancestors. So then they just killed the first evil and let the rest go. But in order to prevent similar things from happening again, Shennong Valley has taken a series of measures.
They first developed antidotes to various highly toxic poisons, which were relatively simple for Shennong Valley, which was good at medicine, and the progress was also smooth. At that time, they had only a dozen or so commonly used poisons, and the antidote for each poison was successfully developed. Although there are antidotes, because the antidote to each poison is different, more than a dozen poisons have to carry a large box of antidotes alone, and it is extremely inconvenient to fight with the poisoner or poison warrior. And this method also has a fatal flaw, people who have been poisoned know that at the beginning of poisoning and when detoxification, it will reduce or even completely lose its combat effectiveness. How can this be done in battle, how can the opponent wait for you to detoxify and fully recover before fighting you?"
Liu Jizu had a personal experience, and nodded when he heard the words.
Hou Huaigu was a little surprised when he saw Liu Jizu nodding and looking at his expression as if he had experienced it, but he didn't ask, but continued to speak: "It wasn't until many years later that a genius came out of the valley and solved this problem. This person is not easy to play the cards, he did the opposite, mainly researching how to improve people's own resistance to toxins, and it took a lifetime to finally make the most expensive antidote sold in the valley now, 'Hundred Poison Solution', of course, it was not sold out at that time.
Although it claims to be able to cure all kinds of poisons, in fact, after eating it, it can only form resistance to the dozen or so poisons at that time. But at the beginning of the development, it was also a shocking move, because there were so many types of poison at that time. Moreover, the poisons that can be detoxified by 100 poisons include all those poisons that were easy to obtain, relatively large in quantity, and low in cost at that time. To this day, including the people of Wuwei Valley, these poisons are still mostly used when walking the rivers and lakes, so Baifu Jie is still the best and most expensive antidote sold.
On the day of the successful development of the 100 poison solution, the first actual 'poison killers' were born, but they were not called so at that time. Because the people who participated in the drug test at that time were all divided by martial artists, they were called medical warriors, and since then there has been another category of people in Shennong Valley.
The birth of the medical warrior and the hundred poison solution at the same time is of great significance to the Shennong Valley, and the valley has also specially developed the martial arts and antidote techniques to restrain the poisonous warriors and teach them to the medical warriors. With these warriors who don't know how to use poison, but are not afraid of severe poison, and can detoxify, the pharmacists and warriors are finally relieved, and in this way, Shennong Valley finally calmed down.
Later, Shennong Valley retired and sent disciples to build Wuwei Valley, and the descendants of these disciples imitated the model of Shennong Valley and solidified the division of labor according to the surnames and abilities of the first ancestors of Wuwei Valley, so as to form the current situation of Wuwei Valley.
But as time passed, the sect discovered that the medical warriors also had drawbacks, which stemmed from the constant emergence of new types of poisons. Some of these new poisons were slowly developed by the poison masters themselves, and some were discovered by other Jianghu sects or ordinary people and brought back to the sect by the poison warriors.
These medical warriors who had been cultivated by the Hundred Poison Cure found that they could not resist these new poisons, and such a new problem arose, and the pharmacists and martial artists began to fidget again. So the sect followed the idea of a medical warrior, hoping to cultivate people who are resistant to more poisons, and for this reason, Guli began a long research and development.
And the result is that people like the Four Demons, they are very similar to the early medical warriors, they don't know how to use poison, they are known to be invincible to all poisons, and they have also been taught martial arts skills to restrain poisonous warriors. But they are not the five surnames handed down by the first generation of Wuwei Gu disciples, so Gu Li did not call them medical warriors, but were named 'poison destroyers' by Gu Li.
You may have also noticed that the brains of the four demons are a little unbright, and that is the sequelae. In order to adapt to various poisons, the drug takers have endured countless pains and sufferings, and their bodies and minds have been devastated, and most of them cannot survive.
This is also the reason why there are no people with the five surnames who are poison-resistant, they feel noble, their lives are also valuable, and they will not do such things that damage their bodies and minds or even kill them. Therefore, the valley has found many children to do this through various means, and of course these children mainly buy them with money, because the valley is never short of money.
As long as these children can survive, their physical fitness and resistance are the best, and with a little training, the level of martial arts is extremely high. It's just that there is something wrong with the brain, no matter how old it is, it still speaks and acts like a child. I have been with them for a long time in the cell, I know them very well, they have a good heart, and I hope that my son will treat them well. β
Liu Jizu nodded, he also found that although these four people were a little stupid, they were not evil people by nature.
Hou Huaigu saw Liu Jizu nodding, and then he put his mind at ease, "There is another point, I want to tell Gongzi that the so-called 'Hundred Poisons Do Not Invade' is actually impossible, even if it is a poison suppressor like the Four Demons." Because this is simply impossible to completely do, there are too many types of poisons, and people are still discovering and developing new poisons, how can it be possible to achieve 'no invasion of all poisons'?
It is also for this reason that each generation or generations of toxins can restrain different toxins. The cultivation methods are all carried out on the basis of the previous generation, and it can be said that the further back you go, the more types of toxins that are restrained, and the more difficult it becomes.
The Four Demons are the previous generation of Poison Breakers, this generation of Poison Breakers is by Fluttershy's side, and the boys in the cell are used to train the next generation of Poison Breakers.
As for the rumors in the rivers and lakes that the 'Four Poisonous Demons' have done evil, they are all deliberately spread by the sect, and now that we have left the sect, we are not afraid of outsiders' jokes. The reality is that the four of them are secretly controlled by Fluttershy's younger brother Jiang Chan, and then he smuggles them out to do evil. As for what you did, you may have heard of it, mainly because it was to use poison to control people in the rivers and lakes to do evil.
Now, as soon as you hear it, you will know who did the bad things! The people of Wuwei Valley all know that the Four Demons don't use poison at all, right! But under the instigation of Jiang Chan, they did more and more bad things, and their fame became bigger and bigger, so they had the nickname of the Four Demons. At the beginning of this matter, because of Jiang Chan, the sect didn't care at all. Later, when Jiang Chan's power grows and he wants to challenge Fluttershy's position as the suzerain, the sect sends a large number of men to deal with them.
But our poisonous martial artists are useless, and the medical martial artists are not opponents, and the sect is basically helpless. You now know the importance of the Poison Killer to the Valley of Wu Wei!
Eventually, Fluttershy gets someone from her ancestral door and uses a trick to get them back. Later, for the sake of face, the sect spread that it was the evil done by the 'Four Poisonous Demons'. But everyone in Wuwei Valley knows that it is the sect master's younger brother Jiang Chan who does evil, but if this matter spreads, it will indeed damage the face of the sect.
In addition, I would like to tell you a few more words, people outside can't tell the difference between our poison warriors and poison masters, they are all called poison masters, and they are also divided into ten levels to correspond to all levels of martial artists. Although this is easy to understand, this division is problematic because it only takes into account the individual factors of the poisoner, and does not fully consider the power of the poison-releasing device.
With a powerful device, even a poisoner or even an ordinary person who doesn't know martial arts can produce powerful lethality.
I knew that there was a very powerful poisoning device in the valley, and it was not for me to brag that one person could poison a city.
It's just that this kind of device is extremely difficult to make, and it was made by Gu Li who paid a huge price and asked the people of Zhige City to help, and the amount of poison required was very large, and it was not easy to extract, so the number was only three.
In addition, Gu Li was also afraid that this thing would kill too many people and cause public anger, so he didn't dare to use it easily, so he just regarded it as a treasure of the town. β
Everyone was taken aback when they heard this, but Liu Jizu thought of weapons of mass destruction in his previous life, and couldn't help but wonder in his heart, was there really such a device in ancient times?
Hou Huaigu deliberately said this to arouse everyone's attention to Wuwei Valley, and after seeing everyone's expressions, he knew that his goal had been achieved, so he continued: "As for the nonsense and absurdity of Fluttershy taking the blood of a virgin to stay young forever, how can it be true!"
Doctor Feng was afraid that Liu Jizu would not believe it, so he also interjected at this time and added: "Yes, don't believe it, son." Fluttershy is gentle and kind, we watched her grow up, how could we do such a cruel thing? If you don't believe it, you can ask the parents who sold their children to see if any of the children are missing? Even Senior Brother Hou and the Four Demons who angered the sect like this, she just imprisoned them, and gave them Fu Shou Dan every year!
From the words of the two, Liu Jizu guessed that the two of them must have something to do with this woman named Fluttershy, so he repeatedly excused her for saying good things. But Liu Jizu didn't fully believe what they said, he thought that people who could test drugs with children, and even cultivate people who were poison-resistant, would never be very kind.
He had long wanted to find an opportunity to learn more about Wuwei Valley, and now it was rare to have such two people who knew the roots of the sect, so he then asked, "Then where did this rumor come from? How can someone say that the sect master is forty years old, but he looks like he is twenty years old?"
Hou Huaigu snorted, "What's so strange about this, Fluttershy is the sect master, and it's normal for the sect masters to have a face-fixing technique, and the sect masters of the past dynasties have been stationing in the face, which has been passed down since the time of Shennong Valley." Do you know what the most expensive medicine sold in Wuwei Valley is?
You outsiders only know that Wuwei Gu makes money by seeing doctors and selling medicines, but how do you know that since Fluttershy became the suzerain, the money she has earned by selling these things to nourish her beauty over the years has long since caught up with the money she earned from selling medicines. Seeing that this business was so profitable, the sect planned to develop more varieties to sell, and the hundred virgins were mostly used to test these things in addition to testing medicines. β
Liu Jizu sighed, almost shocked his jaw, thinking that this Wuwei Valley is too good at making money, and has set foot in the two most profitable industries, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, no wonder Jiang Yao's residence is so luxurious.
Hou Huaigu was unimpressed by Liu Jizu's surprise and continued: "As for who spread that rumor, hmph! There will be no one else except her wretched husband, her handful son, her wayward daughter, and her brother who has been placed under house arrest. As for which one or several, or if they did it together, I don't know. We just took advantage of the opportunity and told the people who sold our daughters about the rumors. β
When Liu Jizu heard this, he thought that the internal contradictions in Wuwei Valley were more serious than those in the academy, but there were still some places that he didn't understand, "Since Wuwei Valley didn't harm their daughter to take blood, why don't you let the children come out to meet their parents?"
Hou Huaigu shook his head and smiled bitterly, "The fundamental reason is that he is used to arrogance, he doesn't treat those poor people as human beings, and Gu Li looks down on them at all, how can he meet their unreasonable demands? Besides, Gu Li bought these boys and girls, and the use is not honorable, and it also involves the secrets of the sect, how can these children be let out to meet their parents."
As soon as this mouth is opened, it will be okay, as long as you ask for a trouble, the sect will satisfy you, and the sect will not be annoyed to death. In that year, there were not many people who saw a doctor and died, and those who took medicine and died, even if they carried the dead to make trouble, the sect never cared about it, let alone the families of those children who were bought with money in the open.
As for your last question, it's a bit hard to answer. Because of the true strength of the sect, our disciples outside the valley can't fully understand it, so we can only talk about it.
The number of disciples inside the valley and disciples outside the valley of the sect should be half each, but I see that in terms of combat effectiveness and physical fitness, the disciples in the valley are far worse than the disciples outside the valley, which should be similar to the situation in the academy.
The disciples outside the valley can now ignore it, so Wuwei Valley should be the most dangerous and weak time now. Its perimeter was completely open, the Poison Gas Valley had been destroyed, many buildings and herb gardens had been burned, and dozens of people had been killed and wounded by the guards of the Outer Valley, but even that did not shake their roots.
What they have in the valley is money, and if they burn some houses and goods, they don't lose much, and the outer valley guards are not their core combat power.
The core combat power in the valley is actually in the Baicao Garden, which is called the Inner Valley Guard. These outside are actually living quarters, where the families of the five surnames live, although there are a lot of guards, but there are not many powerful ones, called the outer valley guards.
The inner valley guards in the Hundred Herb Garden are all carefully selected, and the treatment that can enter is very good.
The last thing Wuwei Valley lacks is money, so he uses this method to attract outstanding young people to join the Inner Valley Guard.
The inner valley guards are divided into four parts, the first part is stationed at the entrance from the Baicao Garden to the Natural Valley, the number is about 100 people, and we set fire to the yard in the Baicao Garden to stop them. In addition to being the entrance to the passage, it is also the warehouse of the Herb Garden. Most of the finished products from Baicao Garden and Nature Valley are stored there, and only those that are to be sold or taken are temporarily placed in the transit warehouse in Qu Pidong. This part of the guards are all poison warriors, responsible for the guards of the entrance and warehouse, most of them are usually stationed there, and a small number of people take turns to rest.
The second part is the dewormer, who belongs to the surname of the poisoner, and is stationed in the natural valley, the number is unknown, but I guess there will be no more than twenty. They are not good at direct combat like poison masters, but they can repel insects, are they a little similar to the spirit masters who can repel beasts in the academy?"
Liu Jizu and Elder Long both nodded.
Hou Huaigu said with a smile: "The relationship between our two families is far more than that! I won't talk about it here, just talk about this insect repellent master, these people can use a variety of means to force a large number of poisonous insects out of their hiding places when needed, and they are full of aggression, all over the entire passage, which is unguardable. And when someone wants to pass through, they can drive these poisonous insects away from the passage and hide them.
In addition, in order to prevent the enemy from using various means to deal with these poisonous insects, they also divided the valley into three sections, specially designed, each for a different situation, some are not afraid of fire, some are not afraid of water, and some are not afraid of cold. Don't ask me how they did it, I haven't been in it either, anyway, it's the same elaborate design as the Invisible Valley.
The third part is stationed at the exit of the Natural Valley, and all of them are medical warriors, about one hundred and fifty people. It is also carefully selected, most of them are usually stationed there, and a small number of people are on rotation, and they are only responsible for the escort of that entrance.
The fourth part is the personal guard of the suzerain, which is divided into two categories.
One was the guards in charge of her residence, hand-picked by her, who were the best of the elite and were the best treated, and were led by the six elders she trusted. There are about 120 of them, and there are five disciples in them, including those who are poisoners. In addition to the guard work at her residence, the sect master will also bring some of them as guards when he goes out.
The other group is the closest to Fluttershy, who can share a room with her, and of course the most trusted people with Fluttershy, with about twenty of them.
Fluttershy longs for the lives of ordinary people, so they all take on the role of ordinary people. She plays the role of a young lady in a large family, and the people around her play the role of maids, slaves, housekeepers, nurses, and bodyguards.
No one else is allowed to enter her house without Fluttershy's permission, and they are not allowed to come within ten steps of the suzerain. This rule also includes her relatives and husband!"
Hou Huaigu saw that Liu Jizu opened his mouth to ask, but he first explained with a smile, "I know you want to ask, how were the children of the sect master born? The reason is very simple, because when she got married, she was not the sect master, and when she first started to be the sect master, she was not so strict. But since his brother abducted the Four Demons to do evil, and later sent someone to assassinate her, she has changed, and she no longer trusts these relatives of hers.
And many of the twenty people around her were personally cultivated by the sect master since childhood, and there were also people who had gained the absolute trust of the sect master. The four supreme combat forces of the sect are also among these twenty people, and one of them is also holding the 'Immortal Sword' of Zhige City.
I don't know who Fluttershy will send to chase us, but I've got a plan to go after you.
I have already sent six men to hurry to the narrow and dangerous area ahead, prepare some more trees, and when we pass, we will still light fires and close the road to slow down the pursuers, but I guess it will only be delayed until noon tomorrow at most.
Once the pursuers catch up with us from behind, it will be a fierce battle. When the time comes, it will still be with Gongzi and the Four Demons as the main combat power, and the rest of the poisonous warriors and medical warriors, as well as the Dragon Elder and others around Gongzi as the auxiliary, to repel their attacks, and then continue to flee, and prepare to wait for the next group of pursuers.
This road will never be peaceful, and I estimate that there will be at least three fierce battles between us and the people arranged by the sect.
There is also a possibility that the sect master will use the relationship to coordinate the officers and soldiers to intercept us, I am not afraid of this, I have arranged my people to explore every road in advance. As long as we find that the road is blocked by a large number of officers and soldiers, they will inform me in advance, and we can change the road and bypass it.
As for the officers and men with less than two hundred men, they are not our opponents at all. As long as the disciples outside the valley do not participate, there will be no problem for us to escape from Jiangbei Dao. β