"Jiehui disease is not a disease, but a form of vital energy. People absorb the decaying vital energy floating in the air, which is why they develop Jiehui disease."
In the Xinglin Herb Shop, Su Yun told Chi Xiaoyao, who had just woken up, about his discovery and said, "Wutong is a human demon. She should be able to absorb the calamity and suppress this pandemic."
Chi Xiaoyao washed his face to make himself more energetic. He glanced at the old Taoist in the medicine jar. The old Taoist seemed to be asleep. Then he said, "The human demon Wutong was frightened and fled that night. His whereabouts are unknown. Relying on human demons to solve this kind of disaster after war is not a long-term solution. The long-term solution is to find a way to break the calamity."
Su Yun nodded in agreement. Their cooperation with the human demon Wutong was mainly to deal with the team leader. However, they did not expect that it was not the team leader who released Wutong, but Tong Qingyun and other seven great families who released Wutong in an attempt to cause chaos in the world.
Now that the seven great families have been razed to the ground and the disaster in Shuobei is over, the premise for cooperation with Wutong has disappeared.
Su Yun is not sure now whether Wutong and Jiao Shuao are still in Shuofang.
Moreover, the released dragon spirit is also a headache.
"No matter what, let's find Wutong first and solve the epidemic in Shuofang first."
Su Yun said: "Senior sister, please have someone notify the old boss. He has a wide network of contacts, so it shouldn't be difficult for him to find Wutong."
Chi Xiaoyao walked out of the herbal medicine shop and called a scholar from the Wenchang Academy Medical School, asking him to go to the Wenchang Academy to deliver a letter. The epidemic was severe these days, and the scholars from the Wenchang Academy Medical School had to go into battle in person to diagnose and treat patients.
Chi Xiaoyao returned to the secret room and saw a vertical eye growing between Su Yun's eyebrows, and he was checking the old Taoist's injuries.
"How is his injury?" Chi Xiaoyao stepped forward and asked.
"He's not asleep, he's passed out."
Su Yun frowned and whispered, "I don't understand his injuries... Senior Sister Xiaoyao, this Taoist really doesn't look like a human. Come to my spiritual world, and I will use the spiritual world to describe what I just saw, and you decide how to treat it."
His mind moved slightly, and his spiritual world blossomed. Chi Xiaoyao walked in his spiritual world, and saw that Su Yun's spiritual world was gradually changing, depicting the scene he saw with his heavenly eyes.
There was a cage in the old Taoist's head, and in the cage was suppressed a divine being with a dragon head, a leg growing under the dragon's head, and a sealed decree in the dragon's mouth.
There is a Five Elements Mountain in the Taoist's heart, suppressing a divine man, like a spirit monkey, suppressed under the Five Elements Mountain, with a scroll of imperial edict in his mouth.
There is a bridge inside the old Taoist's kidney, which leads directly to the brain. There is a palace in the brain with a plaque with the words "Niwan Palace" written on it. There is also a deity locked in the palace, who looks like a human being.
"It seems to be the Three Corpse Gods mentioned by Taoists."
Chi Xiaoyao whispered: "This old Taoist suppressed the three corpses. If he kills the three corpse gods, he will become a god."
The strange phenomena on the old Taoist priest did not stop there. In the various orifices of his body, there lived gods of all sizes, as many as a hundred of them. In his brain alone, there were nine old immortals!
In addition, there is the paradise that Su Yun had seen before. It is a world within a body. It is also incredible and difficult to describe in words.
Most of these gods, big and small, in the old Taoist's body were injured. They were breathless and lifeless, and some had even fallen down. There was only exhalation but no inhalation.
Only the suppressed gods are still alive and kicking, waiting for the opportunity to break free from the seal.
Chi Xiaoyao had never seen or heard of such a scene before!
"However, if we can't cure the old Taoist priest, then we can cure the immortal living in his orifices."
Chi Xiaoyao tried: "If we save these immortals, maybe the old Taoist can survive."
Su Yun said yes, and continued to use his divine eyes to carefully check the injuries of the gods in the Taoist's hundreds of orifices. He depicted them through the spiritual world and asked Chi Xiaoyao to diagnose and prescribe medicine.
By the afternoon, Chi Xiaoyao had prescribed the right medicine, which restored much of the old Taoist's divine complexion, and he slowly woke up from his coma.
Chi Xiaoyao was about to feed him, but the old Taoist shook his head and said, "I have been fasting since I was 20 years old. I have absorbed the energy of the universe from heaven and earth and no longer eat."
Chi Xiaoyao had no choice but to give up.
The old Taoist gradually got better under the care of Chi Xiaoyao and Su Yun. One day, when Su Yun checked his injuries, he saw that there was a god with a human head and a snake body inside the old Taoist's body, refining five-colored stones and mending the sky, repairing the broken world of Paradise.
"Your injuries are basically healed."
After listening to Su Yun's description, Chi Xiaoyao breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile: "Master, your divine injury did not stump us."
The old Taoist was still very weak. He smiled and said, "It's probably because of the great master's miraculous healing skills."
Chi Xiaoyao benefited greatly from it.
Taoist Xianyun came to visit the old Taoist several times and saw that he looked much better. He asked Chi Xiaoyao how much the medicine cost. Chi Xiaoyao quoted the price. Taoist Xianyun hesitated and said, "I don't have money now. I will settle the bill next month when the Minister of Justice pays me. Mr. Su, the court has sent an order to appoint you as an official. You have already arrived at the Wenchang Academy."
Su Yun stood up and came to the Wenchang Academy, only to see that the envoys coming from the Eastern Capital this time were carrying large and small carriages, which were piled high with money and imperial edicts. It was obvious that they were going to reward many people.
As Zuo Pushe and Qiu Shuijing had expected, Emperor Ping praised him, the leader of Tongtian Pavilion, for his contribution in the turmoil in Shuobei and gave him an official title and rewards.
Qiu Shuijing should have arrived in Dongdu. I don't know what he said to Di Ping. In the imperial edict, Di Ping ordered Su Yun to inspect Shuobei, which fulfilled Su Yun's wish and he finally became an imperial envoy.
However, in the imperial edict, Emperor Ping ordered him to go to the Eastern Capital to meet the emperor, and it was obvious that he did not intend to let him inspect in Shuobei.
Su Yun received the imperial edict, accepted the reward money, and returned to the herbal medicine shop, only to see a fat doctor diagnosing a patient with a fatal disease, and Chi Xiaoyao was helping him at the side. It was Doctor Dong.
"Has the Saint's injury healed?" Su Yun asked as he glanced at the old Taoist who was sweeping the herbal medicine shop with a broom.
Doctor Dong had already put on his "clothes" and turned into a chubby man again. He said, "Saint Xue's injury is extremely difficult. It is the most serious injury I have ever encountered in my life. I have eliminated the root cause of his injury, but he needs to recuperate for a while if he wants to recover."
The old Taoist stopped sweeping, leaned on his broom, and said with a smile: "Doctor Dong has examined my injury. What do you think of my injury?"
Doctor Dong glanced at the old Taoist and said, "Senior's injury is less serious, but fortunately Xiaoyao and Pavilion Master treated him, otherwise even if I came back, I would be powerless to save him."
He flipped through the account book and said, "Senior owes me medical expenses for the herbal medicine shop. You can work in my shop these few days. I will redeem you when Senior Brother Xianyun earns money."
The old Taoist snorted and continued sweeping the floor.
Doctor Dong slapped a prescription on the table and said, "Senior, get the medicine."
The old Taoist hurriedly dropped his broom, went to the medicine cabinet, and skillfully prepared the medicine according to the prescription.
"This Taoist priest is an expert!" People who came to see the doctor praised him one after another.
Doctor Dong put down his pen and said to Su Yun, "There is one more thing. The Saint is leaving Shuofang. The emperor issued an edict, saying that the Saint has made amazing achievements, and the emperor ordered him to return to Dongdu. When I came, Saint Xue asked me to ask you if you want to go to Dongdu together? He plans to leave tomorrow."
Su Yun's heart trembled slightly.
The next day, early morning.
Su Yun arrived at the Sage Town early and asked for a meeting outside the Sage's residence, but saw that Xue Qingfu had already packed his luggage, prepared the ox cart, and was ready to set off.
Bai Yuelou was serving at the front, busying around. When he saw Su Yun coming, he waved his hand hurriedly.
Xue Qingfu saw this, turned his eyes, glanced at Su Yun, and hurriedly said with a smile: "Pavilion Master, are you planning to go with me to the Eastern Capital?"
Su Yun shook his head and said, "I have not yet decided whether to go to Dongdu. I am here just to see the Saint off."
Xue Qingfu waved his hand, letting his family and the convoy go first, while he and Su Yun walked towards the outside of the Saint Town.
Bai Yuelou followed far behind, cold sweat on his forehead, not knowing what to do.
"The saint has an extraordinary demeanor, rising from the countryside. The first time I entered the city, I was able to play on the same stage with the saint, Mr. Shuijing, Zuo Pushe and others, and benefited a lot."
The two of them came to the bridge. Su Yun stopped and looked at the town which was as peaceful as a water village. It was as if he was looking at a landscape painting with winding paths. There were only black and white colors, and no other colors to disturb his vision.
Su Yun said calmly, "Although the incident in Shuofang City has ended, the rebellion of the seven great families has subsided, and Shuobei has returned to peace, I still have some doubts in my heart."
Xue Qingfu said "oh" and stopped walking. He smiled and said, "Master, do you have any doubts? You may as well tell me. Maybe I can help you answer them."
Su Yun looked at the water with a deep gaze and said, "I am a country boy, so I may have offended you. Please forgive me, Saint. There are many cases in Shuofang, more than a dozen of them, but all of them originated from the Dragon Falling Case 150 years ago. 150 years ago, a dragon fell in Tianshiyuan. The dragon fought with the human demon and fell into the Dragon Falling Valley and was buried in the Dragon Burial Mausoleum."
Xue Qingfu said: "It snowed heavily at that time, causing a snowstorm that is rare in a century. Emperor Wu ordered Zi Gelong, a scholar of Tiandao Academy, to help the seven great families, all of which started out in this snowstorm. After that, the seven great families rose to prominence, and their grievances with the old families such as Li and Ye deepened. The Shuobei Green Forest also took advantage of the situation to rise. That snowstorm formed the current Shuofang situation."
Su Yun nodded.
That was the message he received.
"The Tiandao Academy team leader Xuege, Han Jun, Ying and others obtained the "Sixteen Chapters on True Dragons" from the Gewuzhi, but they encountered human demons and died in the Dragon Burial Mausoleum."
Su Yun continued, "The leader of the Tiandao Academy went through untold hardships to get out of the Burial Dragon Mausoleum, out of the Tianshiyuan, and came to Shuofang City, but was plotted against by the ancestors of the seven great families. What happened during this period? Did the leader die at the hands of these seven ancestors, or did he fake his death and escape? I still can't figure it out."
Xue Qingfu looked at him with a smile.
Su Yun continued, "Just now the Saint said that the snowstorm one hundred and fifty years ago formed the current situation of Shuofang, but the Saint forgot to mention a force, that is the Saint Town, Saint Residence. The Saint's family should have originated at that time, right?"
Xue Qingfu's smile widened, but he said nothing.
Su Yun fumbled in his sleeve for a while, took out a book, put it on the railing of the stone bridge, and said: "When I entered the Burial Dragon Mausoleum, it happened that the human demon was attached to Jiao Shuao, the most popular person in the village. The human demon Wutong instructed him to destroy the spirit prisoner cage. After they left, I got this book."
Xue Qingfu looked at the book with a smile on his face, and said, "The Pavilion Master found the secrets of one hundred and fifty years ago and learned about a past event, which led to the future investigation of Shuofang City."
Su Yun nodded and sighed, "I learned about that period of history in the book, it was thrilling. After arriving in Shuofang, I realized that I had uncovered that period of history step by step, which led to a series of bad consequences. Finally, not long ago, I overturned the chess game, let the seven great families rebel in advance, and wiped out the seven great families in one fell swoop."
Xue Qingfu smiled and said, "I have taken advantage of the Pavilion Master and taken all the credit for myself."
"Maybe not?"
Su Yun placed his hand on the ancient book and shook his head, saying, "I have always relied on this book to understand the history of 150 years ago, and I have no doubts about the records in the book. But..."
His eyes darkened: "What if this book is fake?"
Xue Qingfu was stunned.
"What if someone deliberately placed this book in Dragon Burial Mausoleum, waiting for others to find it? Perhaps Han Jun never wrote this book at all."
Su Yun turned around and faced Xue Qingfu, saying calmly, "Saint, what if this person deliberately instigated the seven great families to rebel, let Tong Qingyun know that there were human demon spirits in the Burial Dragon Mausoleum, and Tong Qingyun designed Jiao Shuao to release the human demon, and this person also entered the Burial Dragon Mausoleum and put down this book? Saint, what do you think?"
Xue Qingfu looked at him straight and suddenly burst into laughter.