Cultivating Immortals in the Family: Rising from Beast Familiarity

Chapter 16
Immortal cultivators are also human beings who will get sick.
Similarly, monsters can also get sick.

However, immortal cultivators and monsters generally don't get sick easily, and if they get sick, it won't be common colds and other diseases like ordinary people.

Generally, it is the exclusive disease of immortal cultivators caused by improper cultivation and invasion of foreign poisons.

The eight [Black Scale Horses] of the Mu family suddenly fell to the ground, spitting blood at the mouth, which is obviously a typical symptom of poisoning or illness.

Zhou Chun entered the animal pen, checked the pupils, tongues, and even horse dung of a few [Black Scale Horses], recalled the various classics on beast control that he had read in his mind, and immediately thought of several corresponding ones. symptom.

However, he did not jump to a conclusion, but said to the members of the Mu family who were anxiously looking at him: "Zhou probably has some guesses, but whether it is right or not, we need to ask some questions before we can draw a conclusion."

"However, before that, you can give them the pill in this bottle first, which can temporarily relieve their symptoms and avoid casualties."

After speaking, he reached out to pat the storage bag, took out a medicine bottle and handed it to Mu Ziying.

But Mu Ziying held the medicine bottle, but didn't act immediately, but looked at Mu Yunshan.

"Follow what fellow Daoist Zhou said."

Mu Yunshan pondered for a while, then nodded, and signaled Mu Ziying to feed the [Black Scaled Horse] medicine.

After swallowing the elixir given by Zhou Chun in this way, the body twitching of those [Black Scaled Horses] was much smaller, and the blood froth overflowing from the corners of their mouths also slowed down a lot.

Seeing this scene, the monks of the Mu family showed surprise, and they looked at the medicine bottle in Mu Ziying's hand differently.

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

Mu Yunshan stretched out his hand and took Zhou Chun a little further away, then looked at him seriously and said, "Friend Zhou, if you have anything you want to ask, just ask."

"Zhou would like to know, what are these [Black Scale Horses] feeding in the past two days? Where have these [Black Scale Horses] been to the outside world in the past three days?"

Zhou Chun was not polite, and immediately asked two questions.

When Mu Yunshan heard the words, he immediately replied: "Fellow Daoist, wait a moment, and Mu will go to investigate right away."

Then I went to communicate with several monks of the Mu family who were in charge of taking care of [Black Scaled Horse].

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

"Don't dare to lie to Fellow Daoist Zhou. A few days ago, a family cultivator discovered a hidden snake cave in a forest on the south bank of Biyun Lake, and killed several first-order demon snakes and countless ordinary snakes from it. The snake meat that they eat every day, and some sweet leaf grass that they like to eat."

"In the past three days, [Black Scaled Horse] has not left the mountain gate, and only ran a few laps inside the mountain gate."

Mu Ziying and the middle-aged monk from the Mu family answered Zhou Chun's question in one sentence.

Zhou Chun heard the words, looked at Mu Ziying and asked, "Then did you feed [Black Scaled Horse] snake meat before?"

"Yes, because [Black Scale Horse] is not a taboo of meat and vegetables, and there are not many taboos. We have fed it many kinds of meat from birds, beasts, insects and fish, and nothing has happened to it 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 surprise and asked back: "You suspect that there is something wrong with the snake meat?"

After speaking, he couldn't help but shook his head and said: "But the snake meat is very delicious. Many monks and ordinary people in our Mu family have eaten it, and I haven't heard of anyone who has been poisoned and fell ill!"

"Yeah, fellow Daoist Zhou, you ate it too!"

Mu Ziying also added a sentence.

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

Before the two of them could refute, they explained: "The snake meat we eat is cleaned and roasted. Basically, there is no possibility of poisoning from eating meat."

"But [Black Scaled Horse] likes to eat raw meat with blood. When you feed it, most of you just throw those snake corpses to it to eat."

"Although with [Black Scaled Horse]'s physical quality, even if it is bitten by an ordinary poisonous snake, it will not do much, but if it is some poisonous snakes and their descendants, they will still be poisoned seriously!"

"So these [Black Scale Horses] will suffer from poisoning, mostly because they ate the corpses of monster snakes and monster snake descendants, and the snake venom entered through their mouths, which made them have such a severe poisoning reaction."

What he said was well-founded and well-organized, leaving all the monks of the Mu family speechless and unable to refute.

In the end, it was Mu Yunshan who asked, "If you really got poisoned by snakes, can Fellow Daoist Zhou have a way to detoxify them?"

"Of course there are ways, but [Black Scale Horse] is only a Tier [-] monster, I'm afraid that you are not willing to use those costly methods."

Zhou Chun glanced at Mu Yunshan, and then continued: "So let's arrange someone to accompany Zhou to the vicinity of the snake cave. Generally speaking, you can find some herbs to detoxify snakes near the snake's lair."

"Then it's up to Fellow Daoist Zhou, and Mu will report the situation to the patriarch."

After Mu Yunshan finished speaking, he bowed his hands to Zhou Chun and left the animal garden in a hurry.

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

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

When Zhou Chun was led by the monks of the Mu family to the entrance of the snake cave, he could still see many poisonous snakes.

"Fellow Daoist Zhou, look, the snake cave is inside this underground cave. At that time, there was even a first-rank top-grade snake king in it. I had to spend a lot of effort to kill it!"

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

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

Zhou Chun knew that the members of the Mu family were not telling the truth.

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

And if this happens, it means that there are some treasures in the snake nest that are very useful for the growth of snakes, attracting a large number of snakes to gather, even monster snakes cannot monopolize them, they can only share them with the snake group.

However, there is no need to explain this kind of thing explicitly. After all, no matter what treasures the Mu family cultivators got from the snake cave, it was their chance.

Therefore, after staring at the dark cave entrance for a few moments, he shook his head slightly and said, "You don't need to go into the cave, there must be no grass growing inside, and you can't find any herbs, Mr. Zhou, let's look for it nearby! "

Then he walked around in the nearby bamboo forest.

Wherever Zhou Chun passed, the snakes retreated one after another, as if they had encountered a natural enemy.

This is because he smeared the Zhou family's secret snake repellent ointment on the trousers. Its smell is irritating to most snakes, making them uncomfortable and just want to stay away from the source of the smell.

Several Mu family monks followed behind him, and they were quite surprised by this.

Drug powders for repelling animals and snakes are not uncommon in the world of cultivating immortals. Basically, any grocery store in the square market sells them, and they are also very cheap.

But the effect can be as good as Zhou Chun's snake repellent ointment, they really haven't seen it before.

For a while, I wondered whether I should come to Zhou Chun to ask Zhou Chun afterwards or buy some in case of emergency.

After Zhou Chun led people to walk in the bamboo forest for a while, he did find some herbs that could detoxify common snakes, but he was not sure if it would be effective against the snake venom of demon snakes, so he could only continue to search.

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

"See the little purple flower on that vine?"

"That's called Violet Snake Flower. It's a herbal medicine that has a strong detoxification effect on snake venom. But for this medicine to take effect, it needs to be stimulated by drip irrigation with snake saliva."

Zhou Chun pointed at a small purple flower clinging to a bamboo leaf, and taught Mu Ziying and others behind him on the spot.

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

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

Hearing his words, the members of the Mu family hurriedly took out their tools, carefully dug them out along the roots of the vines, and hurried all the way back to Biyun Mountain.

After returning to the beast garden, according to Zhou Chun's instructions, the snake saliva was used to stimulate the drip irrigation, so that the purple flowers in full bloom closed one after another, and then picked them and fed them to the [Black Scaled Horses] one by one.

As a result, as Zhou Chun said, when the medicine cured the disease, only an hour passed, and the [Black Scaled Horse] who had fallen to the ground was able to stand up.

This incident was quickly spread in the Mu family, and even several Mu family foundation-building monks were very fortunate after hearing about the cause and effect.

Because according to what Zhou Chun said, if the cause of the disease is not found out in time and the poison is successfully detoxified within a day, even if not all of the [Black Scaled Horses] are dead, most of them will die suddenly.

And if Zhou Chun didn't happen to be in the Mu family, the Mu family would definitely not be able to do this in just one day.

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

(End of this chapter)