Jiangshan Fengwuzhi

Chapter 56 Pharmacist (I)

After a long period of darkness, the anesthetic wore off and Huang Hu felt severe pain in his body. He suddenly opened his eyes and saw a scene that horrified him.

Standing in front of him was a middle-aged man with a serious expression, dressed as a doctor, holding a small knife, and cutting him open.

The pain from the knife cutting through his skin, flesh and internal organs was considered light. Instead, his powerful self-healing ability brought him intense pain. Every tiny growth was splitting and pulling at his flesh and blood. It was itchy but he couldn't scratch it, and the pain almost broke his teeth.

The most terrifying thing was the look in the eyes of the man with the knife. There was no fear or guilt in them, only calmness and concentration. He did not look like a villain, but more like a skilled chef. Huang Hu felt that he was not a human being, but a piece of meat on the chopping board, a pig that was born to be eaten by humans.

I was sweating from the pain and my back was chilled from the shock.

The next moment, Huang Hu saw out of the corner of his eye that there was another person in the tree hole, tightly tied up by branches.

"Son!"

After hearing the concerned call, the middle-aged doctor turned his head and glanced at Gu Jingnian, saying, "Sure enough, if you serve him with blood, he will let you drive him."

Gu Jingnian was observing the tree hole.

He watched the bark slowly close up, and gradually he could no longer see outside. He didn't know what had happened to Pei Nian.

The twisted branches that were wrapped around him became calm and motionless like normal branches. When he struggled violently, they would come alive and clamp him tighter with great force.

This way of driving alien species is exactly what the great pharmacist is good at.

"Is that you? Not wearing a mask today?"

"You're all going to die anyway, there's no need to wear it."

“Is this a living tree?”

"There is a tribe of gods in Yihai, descendants of Ju Mang. Their people can live 180,000 years old. They plant trees with their spirits, and the trees become spiritual and can communicate with the Ju Mang people who planted the trees."

"Are you from Jumang?"

"No."

The Great Pharmacist shook his head and said, "I have answered enough questions. Now it is my turn to ask you, when you arrived at the swamp that day, was Viper Heart there or not?"

"Of course I am."

"So you and Huang Hu took it?"

"Didn't you take it?"

Since Gu Jingnian knew that the other party was in collusion with Wei Xie, the first thing he had to do was to make them suspicious of each other.

As long as Bite Si Kui Xin was still there, the Great Pharmacist could only suspect Wei Xie, and he would have a way to break their cooperation.

However, the great pharmacist's next words made his plan go awry.

"We all know that Master Ma has taken the Viper's Heart. You don't have to keep it a secret for him anymore."

"Him?" Gu Jingnian pretended to be surprised.

"You still want to pretend in front of me. What I know is far beyond your expectation. Master Ma is from my school. I know him better than you do. He is the only one who knows how to trigger the viper tide and set a trap for the big viper with rotten meat. He is also the only one who knows how to use the viper heart."

Gu Jingnian said, "Since I didn't see him take the snake heart with my own eyes, how can I know what your purpose is in deliberately tricking me to come here and telling me all this?"

"I'm waiting."

"What are you waiting for?"

The great pharmacist did not answer Gu Jingnian. Instead, he took a knife and cut open Huang Hu's heart. He watched it heal bit by bit, shook his head in dismay, and muttered, "It is indeed a medicine dregs."

"You bastard! I'm going to kill you!"

Huang Hu cursed loudly, but before he could finish his words, the branch had already spread over and reached into his body through the wound. The branches were stuck in the wound in his heart, preventing it from healing. Another branch reached into his mouth, making him unable to speak.

The great pharmacist undid the black shackles, and more branches wrapped up the yellow tiger and tied it to the inner wall of the tree hole.

The wound was healing but couldn't heal, causing Huang Hu constant and severe pain. He couldn't scream and could only whimper.

"See? He can suffer like this for a long time, until he dies."

The Great Pharmacist turned to Gu Jingnian and said, "You think yourselves are very powerful, but not only can I kill you, I also have many ways to torture you."

"It's a pity that you didn't go to Kaipingsi to torture and extort a confession."

The great pharmacist walked up to Gu Jingnian and cut his chest with a knife. Where the dagger cut, the branches stretched open the wound, allowing the great pharmacist to cut open his heart.

Then he felt the pain piercing his heart.

Every beat of the heart would prick the branch that was stuck there, and the flesh and blood wanted to grow, pulling, itching, and scratching on the rough bark, in a long, unstoppable and intense pain.

"I am indeed good at forcing confessions by torture." The great pharmacist stepped back a few steps, nodded with satisfaction, raised a hint of sneer at the corner of his mouth, and said: "Unfortunately, I don't need to force a confession, I know everything."

Gu Jingnian endured the pain and spoke with difficulty, "No, you want me to reveal the whereabouts of Master Ma."

"No need."

The great pharmacist put down the knife in his hand and began to clean the table.

He was very focused, as if this table was not prepared for Huang Hu, but was waiting for someone who was truly worthy of being dissected on this table.

After a long time, the blood on the table was wiped clean and it was as smooth as before. The great pharmacist finally stopped, wiped his hands, and looked at Gu Jingnian.

"She will come. She will come for you."

In an instant, Gu Jingnian understood who "she" he was talking about.

——The tassel shakes.

He finally knew what he was waiting for, waiting for Yingyao to fall into the trap.

The Great Pharmacist knew what he meant, smiled, and said, "You are not as smart as you think you are. You want to play everyone in your hands. To put it bluntly, you are just a medicine dregs, or a medicine guide."

Gu Jingnian closed his eyes, feeling the heart-wrenching pain while digesting the words of the great pharmacist. He had to admit that he was very depressed at this moment.

But he wasn't going to give up.

Although he is now in a miserable defeat, it is also the most proud moment for the Great Pharmacist. From the perspective of military strategy, he can take advantage of the enemy's arrogant mentality to seek an opportunity to win.

Although the Gu family did not teach him military tactics, he learned a lot from following Gu Caiwei since he was a child.

When thinking of the Gu family, he also remembered that on the day Ying Yao came to find him, he actually left a way out for himself.

"How do you know she will come?" Gu Jingnian asked.

"If you feed her with blood, she will serve you as her master and will come."

"Is this also the method you use to control those aliens?"

"That's about right. I have many tricks that you can't possibly know."

"If you kill me, she won't be under control, right?"

"So I didn't kill you, did I?"

"Actually, I don't know much about who she is. I just heard that she is a Womin." Gu Jingnian asked, "You want to find her, do you want the Viper Heart on her body, or her herself?"

The reason for asking this is that Gu Jingnian thought of the three men in black who followed Master Ma. Why did they just stare at him instead of arresting him? In other words, long before Master Ma took away the Viper Heart, they were trying to find Yingyao through Master Ma, which shows that Yingyao had some value.

"You finally understand."

This topic aroused the interest of the great pharmacist. Since Gu Jingnian, a dying man, had guessed it, he was willing to talk about it.

"Everyone is looking for the heart of a snake, but they don't know that the heart of a snake is not hard to come by."

"Is it not difficult to obtain a snake heart?" Gu Jingnian was surprised.

But after being surprised and thinking about it again, he discovered that for these people, the snake heart did not seem to be a rare thing.

Something that can be obtained by feeding the giant viper with the blood of tens of thousands of people.

Compared to some nearly extinct creatures that cannot be found anywhere in the world, the lives of ordinary people seem so worthless in the eyes of these high and mighty people.

That's right. Looking back, Wanchun Palace had made sufficient preparations to raise six-headed vipers, but why did Master Ma catch it off guard?

Gu Jingnian suddenly realized something.

A guess that he originally thought was just a wild guess came to his mind again.

"What's important is not the heart of the snake, but the process of growing it. It can...it can absorb the physique of aliens, it..."

"Not bad, very insightful." The great pharmacist nodded, "The leech is just a medicine furnace."

"Medicine furnace?"

"Whatever materials are fed into the furnace, once the temperature is reached, the medicine produced will have the corresponding effect. The growth of the snake heart is the process of the medicine furnace producing medicine."

Gu Jingnian suddenly realized and said, "The leech is a medicine furnace. You have already prepared it and have been waiting for good ingredients."

"What a pity, I have to feed you, the medicine dregs, into the furnace this time." The great pharmacist said disdainfully.

Gu Jingnian was stunned.

He had heard that he was a useless person, but his rare physique and powerful abilities made him looked down upon in the eyes of the other party.

Looking at the scar on the face of the great pharmacist in front of him, he asked, "Isn't the Viper Heart this time bad?"

"It's not bad, it's just..."

The great pharmacist was halfway through his words when he realized that he had said something wrong. He raised his eyes and glared at Gu Jingnian fiercely.

Gu Jingnian then knew that he was about to discover the other party's taboo.

If we talk about "this time", there may be "last time" or "next time". The viciousness this time is not bad, it may not be what they need.

Gu Jingnian asked: "Just you don't need it?"

The great pharmacist said calmly: "It's useless for you to ask these questions."

He was already on guard and didn't want to be told more.

Gu Jingnian thought to himself and decided to bring up some topics that would interest the other party.

"There is something that I find very strange. You said that different materials fed into the medicine furnace will have different medicinal effects. Why can Ying shake the Viper Heart and not heal herself like me?"

The Great Pharmacist sneered and said, "That's because Master Ma is not very skilled."

"He replaced Yingyao's heart with Kui's heart. Was there anything wrong with that?"

"When I catch her, you will know."

Gu Jingnian asked, "In other words, Master Ma's skills also came from your master? Has he ever seen you change the heart of a snake?"

"You ask too many questions."

The great pharmacist noticed Gu Jingnian's intention to ask tricks, and although he didn't care, he lost interest in the conversation and closed his eyes to rest.

Gu Jingnian continued, "This is such an obvious trap. Even if Yingyao wanted to come, Master Ma would not let her come."

"No, you underestimated the effect of blood feeding." The great pharmacist said: "They are already here."

Before Gu Jingnian could open his mouth, a branch had already poked into his mouth, blocking his throat.

In the tree hole, only the Great Pharmacist muttered to himself: "Since I want them to show up, I will let them see the hope of rescuing you."

(End of this chapter)