Da Zaojun

Chapter 19 Blessings for All Industries
"how?"

Doctor Wu, Doctor Miao, and even the oldest doctor, Doctor Li, who was over 80 years old, surrounded Song Wuji.

"You seemed drunk just now."

"The face turned blue, red, and purple."

"My lips are all black."

"There's steam coming out of my head."

"How do you feel?"

Song Wuji was surrounded and felt that he couldn't even breathe in the small space. "Let me take a break first."

Doctor Li had the final say: "All of you disperse."

Then he kindly asked, "How do you feel?"

There was no need for Song Wuji to lie. He just told his true feelings, like being eaten by a tiger after eating poisonous mushrooms. He lived and died in a daze. It was like a dream and no longer seemed real.

The old doctor listened and said, "That's exactly the problem. The ghost crystal is the result of the fear and obsession that the ghost had when it was eaten by the tiger demon. Some of the prisoners who were eaten by the tiger demon were so frightened that they thought they had been eaten by the tiger and died."

"Some are still alive, but they have tiger fur growing on their bodies, their eyes have changed, and they have fierce teeth and sharp mouths. They have been poisoned by the demon. If they are not ghosts, they are servants of the demon."

"The hallucination caused by the five poisons can just neutralize this fear."

Song Wuji thought about how he had just used his magical power to take medicine, but he was still in a "poisoned" state, so he said: "Maybe the dosage of the Five Poisons is a bit too high, I feel more dazed."

"Another humble opinion: experiencing the illusion of being eaten by a tiger isn't necessarily a bad thing. It's like having a nightmare, just like when I saw that pig demon in our village open a meat market. If we don't yield to the aura of these monsters now, won't our legs be weak when we face them head-on?"

Doctor Miao nodded after hearing this and said: "You are right, it seems that the amount of the Five Poisons is a bit too much."

He felt Song Wuji's pulse and said, "He's much weaker than before."

Song Wuji felt a little guilty. This was purely due to the imbalance of the three treasures, and he had lost the state of "three talents at peace".

Doctor Li frowned and said, "Xiao Miao, you haven't even tasted it yourself, so why are you giving it to others to test?"

Doctor Miao scratched his head. "Isn't it all right? But Xiao Song's body is really resistant to drugs. No wonder he said he ate dirt and chewed wood and was fine."

Song Wuji also felt that he was fine, but it would be better to make them feel guilty: "It's okay, as long as it is an effort to defeat the demons, I am willing to be the first to try the medicine."

"Xiao Song, you are such a kind person!" Doctor Li said, "Although your body is different from that of an ordinary person, you still need to be careful and not overexert yourself."

After that, he turned to Doctor Wu and said, "Let Xiao Song continue to process the materials. How many kinds are needed? As for the ten households offering candies to the Kitchen God, they can also be prepared."

Doctor Wu asked Song Wuji, "How many more are you missing?"

Song Wuji has already dealt with the five poisons, snails, fish and chicken, and has collected eight kinds, with seven more missing.

After explaining, Doctor Wu said, "Mao Chong will process cattle, sheep, and dogs. I will take you to slaughter them later. The City God needs the eyes of these animals for the people of the Inspection Department to perform a ritual.

"We also take useful medicinal materials, such as cow horns, dog teeth, and goat beard ash..."

"Feathered creatures, besides chickens, we also have ducks and geese, which is enough." "As for insects, we're still short of an earthworm, also known as a ground dragon. It's not difficult to prepare. I'll teach you later."

"You already have all the scale insects, so you just need an insect. That's not difficult. I remember there were quite a few cockroaches in the kitchen. If you turn over the stones and bricks, you can also find some ground insects and melon bugs. These can all be made into medicinal herbs."

Then Doctor Wu asked someone to deliver all the necessary materials except cattle, sheep and dogs, which was quite convenient.

It was only around night time, after a meal, that Song Wuji led him to the training ground.

The cow eyes, sheep eyes and dog eyes required by the prosecutor are all freshly taken out.

At this time, the ceremony was still held together by the City God and the County Magistrate.

The county god issued 108 edicts, but there were also thresholds. Not many people met the thresholds, so the city was opened yesterday and some people were selected from the refugees to enter the city.

However, Song Wuji did not see the scholar Sun here. He wanted to remind them to be careful of this ghost and not let him enter the city, but he was afraid of being noticed by the City God.

The red name above the City God's head was the reason why Song Wuji was afraid of being noticed by him.

Doctor Wu took Song Wuji aside and talked to the county school instructor, Lu Han.

Lu Han immediately used the art of observing qi to look at Song Wuji, and saw white qi coming out of Song Wuji's head, white light coming out of his body, and a faint smell of fireworks surrounding him.

Recalling the knowledge he had been cramming these days, Lu Han said, "It seems that your Medical Department has found a treasure. I see that Xiao Song's aura is pure white, with a faint glow. This is the light of kindness, the symbol of a good person."

Song Wuji listened and nodded: "When I was outside the city, I slept against the city wall and vaguely heard someone say that I was a rare good person and that I ate a lot of tonic..."

Lu Han was curious: "What did they say?"

Song Wuji kept refining his experience to make it seem more authentic, so he repeated the two ghosts' original words: "They said there was a great king who told them to find good people and scholars to eat. They said that evil people had vicious hearts and that monsters would get stomachaches if they ate them. They also said that disaster victims tasted bitter, and they would only eat disaster victims when they had nothing else to eat..."

After hearing this, Lu Han was silent for a moment, and only sighed: "When prosperity comes, the people suffer, and when decline comes, the people suffer. Is it so miserable that even this demon doesn't like to eat it?"

Then he patted Song Wuji on the shoulder and said: "The matter of stove fire originated from Suiren, who is also considered a sage of the human race."

"Now, every trade in the city has its ancestors blessing them. Carpenters worship Lu Ban, opera singers worship Emperor Minghuang, prostitutes worship Guan Zhong, scholars worship Confucius and Mencius, and martial artists worship Taigong."

"It's just that most people don't know how to utilize this power. I also happened to do it by mistake and don't know how to replicate it so that ordinary people can also gain power through various occupations."

"If you figure it out later and don't keep it to yourself, it will be a great achievement."

Listening to Lu Han's words, Song Wuji felt emotional and realized that not only were demons reviving and gods and Buddhas appearing, but ordinary people also had ways to gain power. His own abilities might not be that special. In Lu Han's eyes, they were just part of the culinary industry among hundreds of industries.

This situation is somewhat similar to the various schools of thought during the Spring and Autumn Period and the Warring States Period, each contending with its own views.

Doctor Wu said, "Don't worry, Xiao Song. Instructor Lu is a good man. I just asked him to use the Qi-gazing technique to check you."

Song Wuji said: "That's nothing, but many people in the city have already obtained opportunities?"

"Not much, just some random tinkering. The City God County Earl gave Teacher Lu a set of methods for offering sacrifices to the sages of the county school, and taught County Lieutenant Chen a set of methods for offering sacrifices to the Feihou Temple. Thus, they inherited the way of civil and martial arts."

"Those who were well-informed also started to do it. Some worshipped Buddha, some worshipped Bodhisattva, and some worshipped the Jade Emperor, but the most worshipped the City God. Because the City God has twenty-four departments under his throne, and now only six departments have released 108 places. If all six departments are complete, more people will be needed to enter, so many people worship the City God."

(End of this chapter)