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Chapter 487 Weird

The existence of this High Priest Ishan is indeed suspicious.

This is similar to how it's impossible for only the imperial physicians in the palace to know medicine in the entire Jin Kingdom. Even outside the palace, there are many people with superb medical skills. Some are slightly inferior to the physicians in the Imperial Pharmacy, some are not of good enough birth to be qualified to serve in the palace, and some are like the hermit Qiyun or Yan Daoxin, who are free spirits and unwilling to be bound by worldly affairs.

Therefore, no matter how strange or unusual a problem may be, as long as one casts a wide net to seek medical treatment, even an ordinary, well-off family with enough money will eventually find a cure. At most, it's just a matter of whether the treatment is faster or slower, and whether the effect is better or worse.

Moreover, it was Brahma who suddenly fell ill, and there was no one more honorable than him in this Brahma realm. Even if he refused to pay, let alone seek medical treatment with a large sum of money, many doctors and sorcerers would probably want to try it just for the sake of this honor. If successful, it would be a great achievement, and even if Brahma did not value him, it would still be a prestigious name. In the future, there would be no shortage of people coming to him with money.

However, when it came to King Brahma, so many people were brought into the palace to treat him, but there was no improvement. Everyone was at a loss. Finally, someone remembered that his sect no longer existed and his fellow disciples had all scattered. It was a rather destitute situation for Ishan.

This down-on-his-luck witch doctor not only cured the disease with his first treatment, but also displayed so many abilities that impressed the Brahma King that he was highly regarded and eventually became the High Priest.

This is really strange.

If Ishan was an ambitious person who wanted to rise above others and bring glory to his sect, then why did he remain silent at the beginning and only be "coincidentally" recommended when Brahma's illness reached a dead end?

If it were true that he had no desire to show his face in public, and it was just a coincidence that someone thought of him and recommended him to King Brahma, and that he also had the ability to cure that acute illness, then he should have just like the hermit of Qiyun Mountain when he saved Lu Qing, brushing off his sleeves and not wanting to have any connection with the powerful and wealthy.

However, this Ishan just happened to display some extraordinary talent at the most opportune moment.

In Zhu Yu's opinion, this high priest might indeed be quite capable, but his past actions were quite different from those of a transcendent master. He was merely using the demeanor of a transcendent master to lure Brahma, this big fish, to bite the hook, and he was even afraid that the bite wouldn't be strong enough, which shows how much effort he had put into it.

In this way, the so-called highly nourishing elixirs and the strange layout of the Prince's mansion can all be explained.

This high priest, Ishan, was naturally ambitious, and his ambitions were probably not just about standing out and bringing glory to his sect.

Zhu Yu felt a little uneasy. She moved closer to Yan Daoxin, who was preparing the medicine, avoiding the gazes of the eunuchs, and gave him a wink, glancing at the two female corpses beside them.

Of the group of people, only Yan Daoxin is qualified to speak.

Yan Daoxin immediately understood, cleared his throat, and said to Zhu Yu in a serious but impatient tone, "You rascal, you really have no sense at all! I'm preparing medicine here, and you can't help at all, so what are you doing standing around here!"
"Go over there and examine the bodies of those two women for your senior master. Make sure you remember every detail of their appearance! If you miss even a single thing, I'll have your master spank you!"

"Oh..." Zhu Yu responded reluctantly, got up, and went back to the two female corpses. The eunuchs beside him, seeing that Yan Daoxin was already confidently preparing medicine and instructing his young apprentice, were also intimidated by the powerful aura he was displaying. They remained silent and did not try to stop him.

In fact, they all knew very well that these women, despite their seemingly casual conversation, were nothing more than "tonic" brought back from various places in the eyes of the servants in the palace. Their backgrounds and looks were irrelevant, let alone the favor of the King.

These women die every few days, and to them, they are like the "dregs" of the medicine that the king has used.

If the king's life can be truly saved, whether the divine doctor can keep his head or not will depend on the king's will, not to mention his junior apprentice.

So no matter what, asking him to examine those two "dregs" doesn't seem like a big deal.

This time, Zhu Yu was much more open and aboveboard than before. Although she still couldn't operate according to her usual autopsy habits, at least she didn't have to sneak around and could get down to business as she pleased.

She squatted down beside one of the women's corpses and reached out to check the temperature of her neck. The woman had been dead for less than half an hour, so the temperature was only slightly lower than that of a normal, lively person; it was cool, not yet a cold, lifeless corpse.

But when her fingers touched the woman's skin, she had a very strange feeling—the woman's body seemed very stiff.

Zhu Yu traced the neck and then touched the female corpse's shoulder. The shoulder was also extremely stiff and felt hard to the touch. If it weren't for the incorrect temperature and the wrong time of death, she would have thought the body had become completely stiff.

Further down, the arms and legs were the same; every muscle was tense and spasming.

Just then, the eunuch who had gone to bring the women back returned with two trembling girls. The other eunuchs rushed over to stop them, fearing that the women might cause trouble if they saw the Brahma King, who looked almost as if he were dead, after stepping over the gauze curtain.

With no one around, Zhu Yu quickly took the opportunity to lift the silk quilt and examine the bodies of the two women.

By the time the eunuchs had turned away the two women they had brought and returned, Zhu Yu had already finished examining the two female corpses and returned to Lu Qing's side.

"How is it?" While the eunuchs were being busy running around by Yan Daoxin, Lu Qing turned his head slightly toward Zhu Yu and asked in a low voice.

“Those two women…were probably already dead during the process,” Zhu Yu said succinctly. “Although we don’t know what kind of poison it is, we can be sure that its properties are truly insidious.”