Da Zaojun

Chapter 18 Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder

Song Wuji thought about it and started making up a story for himself: "During the Chinese New Year, we put up a Kitchen God sticker at home. I seemed to see the Kitchen God smiling at me, and then he gave me a ray of light."

"But there's a huge demonic chaos behind, I can't take care of it..."

Song Wuji said: "During that time, I was so hungry that I ate dirt and chewed wood, but I could not eat anything..."

The old doctor listened, looking as if he knew it, and then asked, "Then what ability do you have? Is it just the ability to eat?"

Song Wuji deliberately showed embarrassment and said, "My ability is related to cooking. Isn't it quite useless?"

The old doctor listened and shook his head. "How can it be useless? It's a good skill. As the saying goes, before an army moves, food and fodder must go first. Eating is a very important matter."

"No wonder Aunt Liu from the Medical Department said you were doing odd jobs in the kitchen. But never mind, stay and help out in our Medical Department now."

Song Wuji didn't expect that he could be fooled so easily. He originally wanted to explain and talk about it further.

At this time, a younger doctor asked, "Have you performed the awakening ceremony? We, the medical practitioners, have received a talisman from the City God, along with our years of medical experience and a medical instrument to use as a ritual implement. How about you?"

Song Wuji said, "My ritual involves processing three kinds each of shrimp, hair, feathers, scales, and insects. Aunt Liu helped me process fish and chickens, so I have 13 kinds left."

"Another way is to give sugar to the Kitchen Gods of ten households. This will light up the stoves. The power of stove fire is that it can be used to make fire and cook delicious food."

Song Wuji spoke nine truths and one lie, using the power of the Medical Bureau to complete his own rituals and quickly accumulate strength.

"Doesn't preparing medicinal materials also fall into this category?" A middle-aged doctor looked at Song Wuji as if he were looking at a perfect laborer.

"I think it's better to refine the elixir. Ordinary fire can never remove the toxicity of these demonic ingredients, which is why there are all kinds of side effects. This stove fire can make the food smell delicious, which means that the essence of the ingredients has been refined."

The old doctor immediately said, "Young man, why don't you help out at the Medical Department? We'll help you gather what you need for the ceremony."

Song Wuji nodded, then said: "However, I am burdened with hatred, and I still hope to go to the front line and fight against the demons and ghosts."

"Don't worry," the old doctor said, "We're about to attack the demon. You don't know, there's already a tiger demon outside the city threatening us. Before he attacks, we must leave the city and defeat the demon."

"Even we have to follow the army, let alone you."

Song Wuji was immediately arranged to learn how to process the materials.

For example, the green snail shell just mentioned, which is called "snail shell" in medicine, requires fresh green snails to be used, washed clean, and fried with rice wine.

It was just that Song Wuji was studying here, but it was different for other people who were trying medicine. They took the medicine powder, the medicine powder for improving eyesight, and after taking it, they felt like snails. Their sweat began to secrete mucus, which had an unusual fishy smell.

So he couldn't stand the fishy smell and vomited acid water, but he kept vomiting.

The one who took the Qingshen powder had his body hairs start to stand up, and tiny feathers began to emerge. He felt extremely itchy, and he kept scratching, screaming, "It's so itchy!"

As a result, his mouth was immediately gagged and the jailer tied his hands to prevent him from scratching.

Those who took the rejuvenation powder talked to the air... If Song Wuji could not see the names of ghosts, he would have thought he was talking to a ghost.

"Why do the pills from the City God Medical Bureau all look like they are from unorthodox methods..." Song Wuji thought of Breaking Bad.

At this time, the middle-aged doctor who had just talked about preparing medicinal herbs brought some things and said, "My last name is Wu, you can just call me Doctor Wu. The Medical Department is currently researching the Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder. This Strengthening Spirit Powder can strengthen the spirit and increase spirituality."

"We need to use fresh venom from the Five Poisons, plus ghost crystals. Five Poison Toads are locusts, snakes are scale insects, geckos are locusts, and scorpions and centipedes are insects."

"I'll teach you how to extract the venom without harming yourself... After extracting the venom, the Five Venoms are usually severely damaged and need to be nurtured, but they can also be killed and processed."

Song Wuji saw that he had a copper piece in his hand and was first grabbing toads. Each toad was as big as a palm, with ugly bumps on its back. When Doctor Wu caught them, they struggled for a while and were then pinched so that they could not move. With a scrape of the copper piece, white toad venom was taken out and poured into a small bowl.

"Of course, you can also take toad skin. There are two types of toad skin: one is obtained by the toad's natural molting, and the other is freshly peeled."

"Toads eat mosquitoes and insects, and their bodies accumulate toxic gases that flow into their internal organs and bloodstream, so try not to get blood in your eyes."

"We need to keep the internal organs as well. We have a Miao doctor in our Medical Department who can make poisons that can harm demons. We need toad entrails as an initiator."

"Cleanly processed toad meat is non-toxic and can even be used to detoxify. It is delicious and can nourish the body and moisturize the skin."

"Isn't it amazing? Toads themselves are poisonous, but toad meat, after removing the five internal organs and blood, can detoxify. Toads themselves are extremely ugly, but toad meat is nourishing and beautifying... In fact, if the five poisons are removed and cooked with chicken, it becomes an extremely nourishing medicinal soup. If you are into this, you must make me a dish of this medicinal dish."

Song Wuji also felt disgusted and afraid of toads and centipedes. In his previous life, he would have jumped up and down just by seeing them, let alone touching them. Now, in order to gain strength, he could only suppress his nausea and deal with them together.

After dealing with the five poisons, Song Wuji looked at the progress and found that there was indeed more progress.

"Try this."

Song Wuji was processing green snails and taking out their shells. Snails belong to the "scaly armor" category and are also one of the ingredients required for the ceremony.

Then I saw Doctor Miao, who was good at using poison as Doctor Wu had mentioned, handing over a small bottle of medicine powder.

"This is?"

"I just got some advice from Doctor Li on the Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder, and I added a little cinnabar. If you're okay with it, it means you have a high drug resistance and are more suitable for taking these medicines than them. This is also a kind of value."

"As the saying goes, medicine is three parts poison. Ingredients taken from ghosts have ghost poison. Although we haven't found any materials taken from demons yet, they must also have demon poison. The various medicinal herbs we used to have were also poisonous and needed to be processed to remove the poison, which was nothing more than steaming, frying, drying, and boiling..."

"But these may not be applicable to demonic materials. However, I have found a way to fight poison with poison. I can utilize the characteristics of different materials to cancel out their side effects..."

"This Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder..."

Before he finished speaking, Song Wuji swallowed it in one gulp. Then he felt a stomach cramp and quickly used his supernatural power to digest the food.

Status: Poisoned
But then, the scene of the tiger minions eating people appeared in Song Wuji's mind, which was exactly the same as the original demonic energy he had refined before. It turned out that this ghost crystal was the original demonic energy dropped by the minions.

Song Wuji had experienced the first-person illusion of a tiger demon eating people twice, but now a psychedelic feeling came over him, alleviating his fear of death. He could even vaguely see that the tiger became colorful, and its shape sometimes looked like ramen and sometimes like a cube.

[Experiencing the illusion of a tiger pouncing, concentrating on understanding the tiger's free-hand attack, the illusion becomes distorted... and the understanding fails]
[Refine the Five Poisons Strengthening Spirit Powder and slightly increase the power of the Three Treasures]
When Song Wuji regained consciousness, he took a look and found that his divine attribute had increased by 0.2, which was actually more than refining the original demonic energy alone. Just one increase destroyed the balance of the three treasures.

(End of this chapter)