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Chapter 131 Strange Poison
"When I was traveling with my master, I once saw a very evil witch medicine called Fengshen.

The wind ginseng originally looked like an extremely shriveled and thin ginseng, with many fibrous roots. At first glance, it looked ordinary and unremarkable growing in the soil. Even after growing for a few years, it still looked the same.

When Yan Daoxin talked about this thing, a strange expression appeared on his face, as if he had seen some terrifying evil thing that made him shudder. "However, if someone irrigates it with human blood, it will grow rapidly and become larger, with its tubers becoming larger and its original roots becoming thicker and longer. In the end, when it is dug out, it will look like a baby.

Not only does this thing look like a baby dug out of the earth, but when you cut it open, blood-red juice oozes out, and the smell is bitter with a hint of fishy, ​​as if it's been marinated in blood for a long time."

Zhu Yu had never heard of such a weird thing before. She couldn't help but shudder when she heard it.

"What is the medicinal effect of this thing?" Lu Qing asked.

"If you squeeze the juice out of the wind ginseng and feed it to a human, they'll become like the walking corpse, insensitive to pain. Their brains will seem to have stopped working, and they'll be completely dazed and confused, unable to understand what people around them are saying, not even recognizing their closest relatives," Yan Daoxin said. "The locals use this to punish disobedient slaves who repeatedly try to escape, or prisoners who escape from prison, believing this will put an end to future trouble."

I wish you something thoughtful.

"Later, when I went to Jie Country to look for a rare medicinal herb, I accidentally learned about a medicinal herb from the people there. Because it looked like a round black jade stone, the locals named it Wu Yu Kou.

This black jade button is very shiny and beautiful, with a very hard surface and a hard shell. It grows specifically in arid places and in the cracks of rocks. It is not common.

If you remove the hard shell, roast the inside, and grind it into powder, it will become the elixir that was once highly regarded by the Jie Kingdom."

"What is a spirit-conquering drug?" Zhu Yu had never heard of this term before. Even though he was worried now, he still couldn't help but feel curious.

"People who take the Black Jade Button will seem to be assisted by God, becoming extremely powerful, with endless energy, and not feeling any fatigue." Yan Daoxin's expression became more and more solemn, completely different from his previous frivolous look. "But that's just an illusion. In fact, people who take the Black Jade Button must not over-consume.

Otherwise, a person who looks healthy and energetic may actually be exhausted inside without realizing it. Eventually, due to exhaustion, he suddenly collapses and dies of exhaustion.

In the early days when the Jie Kingdom was conquering various places, some people in the army strongly promoted this kind of psychic drug, encouraging the Jie soldiers to take it and then go into battle to kill the enemy.

At the beginning, it did work wonders. The Jie soldiers rushed into the formation as if they were in an empty space, and chopped down the Jin soldiers who were fighting against them like melons and vegetables, causing heavy casualties in the Jin army.

The result seemed to be a victory, but unexpectedly, there was no time to celebrate. Those Jie warriors who were extremely brave in front of the battle suddenly fell down and died!
In the end, the Jie Kingdom killed 10,000 enemies and lost 8,000 of its own. It seemed that it had won the battle, but it was also seriously damaged by the magic drug.

When the Jie King learned about this, he was furious and ordered that no one in the Jie Kingdom should use the black jade button. He also designated the aphrodisiac as an evil drug.

When I went there, the black jade button had already been banned. I had only heard of it and seen drawings of it in the books of local witch doctors, but I had never seen what it really looked like.

I don’t know how the black jade button can suddenly make people so energetic and tireless…”

Yan Daoxin seemed to recall the scene of Zhu Yu performing the autopsy. His stomach trembled involuntarily and he swallowed hard, "Today I saw that his gallbladder and spleen were ridiculously large, and there was much more blood in his body than an ordinary person. I can probably guess what happened." After saying this, the three of them fell silent.

The black jade button can make people feel fatigue-free and unleash extraordinary strength.

Wind ginseng turns people into zombies, becoming stupid and foolish, unable to recognize people they used to know and unable to understand what people around them are saying.

Lai Jiao causes hallucinations, and everything normal becomes bizarre and strange. People around them turn into ghosts and monsters. In the final stage of the poison, people will feel the pain of being burned by fire, and their limbs will be covered with dense blisters.

All these combined together are exactly what Captain Pang looked like after being possessed by evil spirits.

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, what's the plan?" Yan Daoxin exclaimed in disgust. "These three things are all sinister, any one of them is enough to take a person's life. And yet someone put them together and concocted such a sinister potion that is condemned by heaven!"

"You're wrong." Lu Qing's lips curled up slightly, a sneer tinged with sarcasm on his face. "Among these three things, one is dispensable. Its inclusion here isn't superfluous, but it does feel a bit unnecessary."

"It's Lai Jiao," Zhu Yu replied, "Without it, the poisoned person would still turn into a walking corpse, unaware of their relatives. They would also be incredibly strong and incapable of feeling fatigue or pain.

Even the black jade button has its effect, and even the final cause of death is similar.

The horn itself cannot kill a person in a short period of time. After discovering the abnormality, there is still a great possibility of being rescued.

It plays a crucial role in this poison because it originates from the Shuo Kingdom."

Lu Qing glanced at Zhu Yu and nodded.

Yan Daoxin was a little surprised. He looked at Zhu Yu, then at Lu Qing: "Is she the person who can understand what you mean the fastest I have ever seen?"

Lu Qing ignored his irrelevant question, the smile on his lips grew wider, but his eyes grew colder: "This is getting more and more interesting.

Two months ago, the old commander of Lizhou died suddenly. Before that, a minor official in the imperial guard camp here died inexplicably, but it did not cause such a big fuss as Captain Pang did today.

Although four people have died mysteriously in the two months since Situ Jing was transferred here, this is a first for him."

As he spoke, he looked at Zhu Yu.

Zhu Yu understood: "You mean, after the emperor gave you the daughter of King Shuo in marriage, someone remixed the original poisoning recipe, just to implicate the Shuo Kingdom, which originally had nothing to do with this matter?"

(End of this chapter)