Beast-controlling fairy clan.

Chapter 16: Detoxification
Immortal cultivators are also human beings, and humans can get sick.
Similarly, monsters can also get sick.

However, cultivators and monsters generally do not get sick easily. If they do get sick, it will not be the colds and flu that mortals suffer from.

These are generally diseases exclusive to cultivators caused by improper practice and invasion of external poisons.

The eight [Black-Scaled Horses] of the Mu family suddenly fell to the ground, foaming at the mouth. This was obviously a typical symptom of poisoning or illness.

Zhou Chun entered the animal pen and checked the pupils, tongues and even horse feces of several [Black Scale Colts]. He recalled the various beast taming books he had read in his mind and immediately thought of several corresponding symptoms.

However, he did not rush to draw conclusions, but said to the people of the Mu family who were looking at him anxiously: "Zhou probably has some guesses, but whether they are correct or not, I need to inquire about some situations before I can draw a conclusion."

"But before that, you can give them the medicine in this bottle. It can temporarily relieve their symptoms and avoid casualties."

After saying that, he reached out and patted his storage bag, took out a medicine bottle and handed it to Mu Ziying.

But Mu Ziying held the medicine bottle but did not move immediately. Instead, she looked at Mu Yunshan.

"Do as Daoist Zhou said."

Mu Yunshan pondered for a moment, then nodded, signaling Mu Ziying to feed the medicine to the Black Scale Horse.

After swallowing the pills given by Zhou Chun, the [Ink Scale Horses] indeed began to twitch less, and the blood foam from the corners of their mouths also flowed out much more slowly.

Seeing this scene, several Mu family cultivators showed surprise, and their eyes looked differently when they looked at the medicine bottle in Mu Ziying's hand.

However, they knew in their hearts that this secret elixir must be the Zhou family's unique secret medicine, and they did not expect Zhou Chun to give them the prescription, so they did not mention it.

Mu Yunshan stretched out his hand and took Zhou Chun to a slightly farther place, then looked at him seriously and said, "Daoyou Zhou, if you have anything to ask, just ask."

"Zhou wants to know what food these [Black Scale Colts] have been fed in the past two days? Where have these [Black Scale Colts] been in the outside world in the past three days?"

Zhou Chun was not polite and immediately raised two questions.

Upon hearing this, Mu Yunshan immediately replied, "Fellow Daoist, please wait a moment. I will go and check it out."

Then he went to communicate with several Mu family monks who were responsible for taking care of the [Ink Scaled Horse].

After a while, he brought Mu Ziying and a middle-aged cultivator from the Mu family.

"I dare not deceive you, Fellow Daoist Zhou. Some time ago, a cultivator from the family discovered a hidden snake den in a forest on the south bank of Biyun Lake. He killed several first-level demon snakes and countless ordinary snakes. The [Ink Scale Colts] have been eating snake meat and some sweetleaf grass that they love to eat these past two days."

"In the past three days, [Ink Scale Horse] has not left the mountain gate, and has only run a few laps inside the mountain gate as usual."

Mu Ziying and the middle-aged cultivator from the Mu family answered Zhou Chun's questions one by one.

Upon hearing this, Zhou Chun immediately looked at Mu Ziying and asked, "Have you ever fed snake meat to the [Black Scale Colt] before?"

"We have fed it, because the [Ink Scale Colt] doesn't have many dietary restrictions. We have fed it many kinds of meat from birds, beasts, insects and fish, and nothing has happened before!"

This time it was the middle-aged man from the Mu family who answered. When he said this, he looked at Zhou Chun with a look of doubt and asked, "Fellow Daoist Zhou, do you suspect that there is something wrong with the snake meat?"

After saying that, he couldn't help but shook his head and said, "But the snake meat is very delicious. Many cultivators and mortals in our Mu family have eaten it, and I haven't heard of anyone getting poisoned or sick!"

"Yes, Brother Zhou, you ate it too!"

Mu Ziying also added.

Unexpectedly, after listening to their words, Zhou Chun nodded and said, "It's probably really the problem with the snake meat!"

Without waiting for the two to refute, he explained: "The snake meat we eat is cleaned and cooked, so there is basically no possibility of poisoning from eating the meat."

"But the [Ink Scale Colt] likes to eat raw meat with blood. When you feed it, you probably just throw the snake carcasses to it."

"Even though the [Ink Scale Horse]'s physical fitness means that even if they are bitten by an ordinary venomous snake, they will not be seriously poisoned, but if they are bitten by some extremely venomous demon snakes and their offspring, they will still be seriously poisoned!"

"So these [Ink Scale Horses] are poisoned and sick, probably because they ate the corpses of demon snakes and their descendants. The snake venom entered their mouths, causing them to have such a serious poisoning reaction."

What he said was well-reasoned and clear, leaving all the Mu family cultivators speechless and unable to refute.

Finally, it was Mu Yunshan who asked, "If they are really poisoned by snake venom, does Brother Zhou have a way to detoxify them?"

"Of course there are ways, but the [Ink Scaled Horse] is only a first-level demon beast. I'm afraid you guys are reluctant to use those extremely time-consuming methods."

Zhou Chun glanced at Mu Yunshan, and then continued: "So let's arrange for someone to accompany me to the vicinity of the snake cave. Generally speaking, some herbs that can cure snake venom can be found near the nest of poisonous snakes." "Then I'll trouble you, Brother Zhou. I'll report the situation to the clan leader now."

After Mu Yunshan finished speaking, he bowed to Zhou Chun and hurriedly left the zoo.

Half an hour later, Zhou Chun, accompanied by five Mu family monks, left Biyun Mountain and headed to the snake cave on the south bank of Biyun Lake.

On the south bank of Biyun Mountain, there is a bamboo forest that stretches for more than ten miles. The snake cave was discovered deep in the bamboo forest.

When Zhou Chun, led by the monk of the Mu family, arrived near the entrance of the snake cave, he could still see many poisonous snakes.

"Brother Zhou, please look, the snake cave is inside this underground cave. At that time, there was even a first-class superior snake king inside. It took us a lot of effort to kill it!"

In a cleared space in the bamboo forest, a cultivator from the Mu family pointed to a dark cave entrance on the ground and explained the situation in a low voice.

He was the one who personally participated in the battle to clear the snake cave a few days ago.

However, Zhou Chun knew that the people of the Mu family did not tell the truth.

Generally, after a demon snake becomes a demon, it will not gather other ordinary snakes and insects to form a snake nest.

If this happens, it means that there is some treasure in the snake's nest that is extremely useful for the growth of snakes, which has attracted a large number of snakes to gather. Even the demon snake cannot monopolize it and can only share it with the other snakes.

However, there is no need to state this kind of thing explicitly. After all, no matter what treasures the Mu family cultivators obtained from the snake cave, that was their opportunity.

Therefore, after staring at the dark cave entrance for a few times, he shook his head slightly and said, "There's no need to go into the cave. There must be no grass growing inside. There won't be any herbs to be found. I'll just look for them nearby!"

Then he walked around in the nearby bamboo forest.

Wherever Zhou Chun passed, snakes retreated as if they had met their natural enemy.

This is because he had smeared the Zhou family's secret snake repellent cream on his trouser legs. The smell of the cream is irritating to most snakes, making them feel uncomfortable and want to stay away from the source of the smell.

Several Mu family monks who followed behind him were also quite surprised by this.

Things like medicinal powders for driving away animals and snakes are not uncommon in the world of immortal cultivation. Basically, they can be found in every grocery store in the market, and they are very cheap.

However, they had never seen anything as effective as the snake repellent ointment used by Zhou Chun.

For a moment, I was wondering whether I should go to Zhou Chun to ask for some or buy some later in case of emergency.

After Zhou Chun and his men walked in the bamboo forest for a while, they did find some herbs that could cure ordinary snake venom, but he was not sure whether they would be effective against the venom of the demon snake, so he could only continue searching.

After spending another half an hour in the bamboo forest covered with weeds and vines, Zhou Chun's eyes suddenly lit up and he made a major discovery.

"See those little purple flowers on that vine?"

"That's called Small-leaved Purple Snake Flower. It's a herb that has a very strong detoxifying effect on snake venom. But in order for this medicine to be effective, it must first be stimulated by dripping with snake saliva."

Zhou Chun pointed at a small purple flower clinging to a bamboo leaf and began giving a lesson to Mu Ziying and others behind him.

Then when Mu Ziying and others wanted to go forward to pick flowers, he stopped them again.

"Don't move. This small-leafed purple snake flower is very delicate. If you pick the flower directly, it will be useless when you take it back. You have to dig it out with the roots and send it back with the mud."

Hearing his words, several people from the Mu family hurriedly took out their tools, carefully dug out the vine along the root, and quickly returned to Biyun Mountain.

After returning to the zoo, they followed Zhou Chun's instructions and used snake saliva to drip and stimulate the purple flowers, causing them to close. They then picked the flowers and fed them to the [Ink Scale Colts] one by one.

The result was just as Zhou Chun said, the medicine worked and the disease was cured. After only one hour, the [Black Scale Horse] that had been lying on the ground was able to stand up.

This matter quickly spread throughout the Mu family. Even several Mu family cultivators in the Foundation Establishment stage were very relieved after hearing the whole story.

Because according to what Zhou Chun said, if the cause of the disease was not found in time and the detoxification was not successful within one day, those [Ink Scale Horses] would die suddenly, if not all of them.

And if Zhou Chun had not happened to be at the Mu family, the Mu family would definitely not have been able to accomplish this in just one day.

For this reason, the patriarch of the Mu family specially asked Mu Yunshan to bring a treasure to Zhou Chun as a reward.

(End of this chapter)