Sui Xin obviously took the few seconds of my thinking as meaning, and stood up with a hint of sadness: "You guys chat, it's time for me to leave."
I raised my head and said, "Stay! Where can you go now?"
Suixin turned around and said, "We are still enemies."
"Before we walked out of this forest, we were friends." The reason why I saved Sui Xin was not because I really regarded her as a friend, but because I felt that keeping Sui Xin alive could contain Hei Lao and the two of them would check and balance each other. , beneficial and harmless to me.
However, after Suixin rescued me twice, I owed the other person a favor, and I couldn't drive him away at this time.
I smiled casually and sat back down. I didn't know what the other person's smile meant, but I could see that her face looked much better than before.
I was silent for a while and then said: "The only information I have obtained is the legend that the Medicine Buddha was hidden in the Seven Kings Cave. My initial plan was to lure the detective who ambushed us secretly and use myself to Take advantage of the opportunity, let Doudonizi poison them halfway, consume the magic hand, and snatch the golden snake from their hands. I didn't expect that all my plans would be disrupted here."
I looked up at Suixin: "Are you the people who have been tracking us all this time?"
"No." Suixin shook his head and said, "The news I got is that the two sects Mingxin and Wuming have obtained seven maps. I also got the news that you hold the Golden Snake Map. My mission is to catch up with you and snatch it. Golden snake picture.”
Suixin said: "I went directly from the capital to the Northeast, and I didn't fight you in the middle."
You can believe it if you like. I have dealt with Xuexin once. She is not good at planning, and she has no habit of trying to figure out the opponent's thoughts. She is better at hand-to-hand combat with the enemy. The opponent who always counts ahead of me should not be Sui Xin.
I nodded slightly before looking at Douduzi: "What do you think?"
Douduzi said: "You are right in suspecting that the ninth Medicine King Statue is here. At least, the Five Sacred Grasses in the mountains can prove that the top officials of Yaowang Valley have lived here for a long time, and even cultivated Part of the Five Sacred Grasses. The ninth Medicine King statue is probably in the mountain."
I interrupted Dou Donzi: "What is the Five Sacred Grasses?"
Douluozi explained: "The Five Holy Grasses are legendary poisons, also called Five Cordyceps. The appearance of the Five Holy Grasses is very similar to the Five Poisons, and they can even actively bite people like poisonous insects. But the Five Holy Grasses all have rhizomes. It will run around and actively hunt for prey like the five poisons, and can only wait for the prey to come to its door."
"Back then, Yaowang Valley was able to restrain the Five Poison Sect, relying on the Five Sacred Grasses. Among the secrets of Yaowang Valley, there was also a saying that 'the Five Sages overcome the Five Poisons'. However, after the destruction of the Five Poison Sect, the Five Sacred Grasses also disappeared. I didn’t even expect to see the Five Sacred Grasses in Xing’an Mountains.”
Suixin couldn't help but ask: "Is the Northeast suitable for growing Five Sacred Grasses?"
Douduzi shook his head slightly and said: "Theoretically, it shouldn't work. I suspect that the seniors of Yaowang Valley had improved the Five Sacred Grasses."
Chinese herbal medicine cannot be grown just by finding a piece of land. If you move southern medicinal herbs to the Northeast for cultivation, even if they are forced to be cultivated in greenhouses, the efficacy will not be comparable to those of herbs growing naturally in the South.
Since the Five Sacred Grasses are the secret of Yaowang Valley, its roots should be in the illusion of Yaowang Valley. It is indeed not a wise move to move it to the northeast. Moreover, Yaowang Valley has never moved its sect. What is the purpose of planting the Five Sacred Grasses in the mountains
I said in a deep voice: "What about the Five Corpse Gods? What happened to them?"
Douduzi said: "When I was in the Yaowang Valley, I worked as a handyman for a period of time with the elders of the Sutra Pavilion. Although I had not come into contact with the profound medical books in the Sutra Pavilion, I had read a lot of Yaowang Valley secret files. Several cooperations between Yaowang Valley and the Five Poison Sect have been recorded, one of which was to annihilate the Five Corpse Gods.”
Douluozi said: "According to the secret files, without the participation of Yaowang Valley, the Five Poison Sect would not be able to fight against the Five Corpse Gods, because the Five Corpse Gods are not afraid of poison."
Ye Xun and I looked at each other before saying, "What do you mean?"
Douduzi explained: "According to the secret file, the Five Corpse Gods are equivalent to the living dead, and their own functions have been completely destroyed. No matter how strong the Gu insects of the Five Poison Sect are, they can't bite the dead, right?"
Douduzi was afraid that I wouldn’t understand, so he explained: “According to modern medicine, snake toxins can be roughly divided into blood circulation toxins, neurotoxins and mixed toxins. To put it bluntly, the Five Corpse Gods are dead people who can walk. Blood and nerves It’s all gone. What can you do if you throw it in a pile of snakes? The most it will hurt is a couple of times!”
"But the masters of the Five Poison Sect can't stand the corpse poison! The Five Corpse Gods have mastered corpse poison to such an extent that even the elders of the Five Poison Sect will definitely die if they are exposed to the corpse poison. Can they not be afraid of the Five Corpse Gods?"
Douduzi said with a bit of pride: "If the masters from Yaowang Valley hadn't come to the rescue back then, it wouldn't have been the Five Corpse Gods that were destroyed, but the Five Poison Sect."
When Ye Xun heard this, he suddenly said: "Wang Huan, do you think the five corpse gods are somewhat similar to the living dead on Penglai?"
As soon as Ye Xun's words came out, the expressions of several of us changed.
After a while, I asked: "Is there any other connection with the Myth Forbidden Zone?"
"Yes." Suixin nodded and said, "Myths can communicate with each other, and forbidden areas will naturally also communicate with each other. Sometimes, myth forbidden areas in the same context are actually the continuation of legends."
Sui Xin said sternly: "This is especially true about the restricted area of hidden veins. The legends about hidden veins are all human gods, or people who mysteriously disappeared in history. They are mysterious when they are alive, and even more so when they are dead. "
"Sometimes, they may leave a legend in one place, and then appear again and leave another legend in a place tens of thousands of miles apart. In this way, there is a person's legend hidden in the two restricted areas. Don't open it In all restricted areas, no one will know what secrets they have buried.”
Suixin said: "The ancestor of the Five Corpse Gods is most likely a wandering alchemist, or simply a descendant of the abbot or Yingzhou alchemist."
"Impossible!" I shook my head. "Thousands of years have passed since the Qin Dynasty to the Ming and Qing Dynasties. Why haven't the Five Corpse Gods shown up yet?"
Suixin patiently explained: "Legendary characters may not live forever, but the secret skills they left behind may span time and space and reappear somewhere hundreds or even thousands of years later. It's like... "
After thinking for a while, he made an analogy: "It's like in a martial arts novel, where the protagonist finds a secret book left by a martial arts master after falling off a cliff. They don't necessarily have to designate a successor, but they will pass on their secret skills. Pass it on in the way of 'leaving it for a fate'. There are too many such things in the world. If you want to hear it, I can give you a few examples at any time."
I nodded slightly and said: "You mean that the Five Corpse Gods are Alchemist's disciples from another generation? This is also possible..."
Suixin shook his head slightly and said: "This is just a guess. Until it is confirmed, we cannot connect the Five Corpse Gods with overseas Danshi."
"That's right." I looked at Douduzi and said, "What else did you find?"
Douduzi said solemnly: "I suspect that there may have been a big battle between Yaowang Valley and the Five Corpse Gods in the mountains. As a result, both sides suffered losses. They were both wiped out before they even had time to clear the ambush they left in the mountains."
I looked at the other party and said, "Are you saying that the poisonous poisons we encountered along the way were actually traps that the Five Corpse Gods and Yaowang Valley hadn't had time to clean up?"
"Yes!" Douduzi nodded, "People who play poison are the best at setting traps, which can make people poisoned and die without knowing it. The battles between the various factions of the poison sect are actually more about scheming and who is fighting. The traps are more clever, and they rarely fight with open fire."
What Douduzi said actually makes sense if you think about it carefully. Playing drugs is not an aboveboard thing, so how can people who play drugs be aboveboard? It should be their characteristics to use every possible means and calculate everywhere.
Douduzi said: "The more important point is that the traps set up by the masters of the Poison Sect are often interlocking, and they will appear again if the plan fails. But when I came here, all I saw were independent traps. Those things Even people who frequent the world may not be able to deceive them, let alone those who are masters of poison."
"That makes sense! Keep talking." I actually felt this too. The traps of the Five Corpse Gods are not coherent with each other, and are even randomly arranged here and there. This really doesn't look like something a master would do.
Douduzi said: "I have inferred the time when they were planted based on the Five Sacred Grasses. If I am not mistaken, when the Five Sacred Grasses were planted in Yaowang Valley, it was the era when the Five Corpse Gods were confronting the Five Poison Sect in Miao territory. .”
"At that time, the war between the two sides was about to break out. The Five Corpse Gods did not prepare for the war quickly, but sent their masters deep into the Northeast to provoke the Yaowang Valley. Isn't it tantamount to asking for death? This point makes me feel very confused, but I have never found any clues. Something of value.”
I took out a cigarette from my backpack and tapped the lighter twice with my hand: "Ye Xun, when you did it last night, did you kill that black old lady?"
Ye Xun shook his head and said: "That old guy was very slippery. He didn't even confront me until he saw that I was poisoned. I later took a puff of her poisonous cigarette and finally took off one of her arms. She ran away after she was injured. .”
I looked at Suixin: "How good is that old lady?"
Sui Xin thought for a while and said: "This time, the Detective Hand cooperated with the Miao Jiang Gu Master and hired a large number of poison masters. This black old woman probably belongs to the middle and upper reaches of the Gu Masters."
"No!" Douduzi and I shook our heads at the same time.
I think Old Lady Hei has an extraordinary origin because of her performance along the way. How does a Miaojiang Gu Master who lives in isolation know so many secrets of the world? She didn't mean to be as simple as it seemed.
Why did Douduzi say "wrong"