Records of Mysterious Things in the Southern Dynasties

Chapter 116 Diagnosis (800 votes plus more)
Bao Ren and the other two flew twenty miles in one breath before landing beside a small mountain lake.

Looking at the haggard monk in the reflection, he smiled bitterly and said, "In this world, being a Taoist priest is a sin."

As he spoke, Bao Ren reached out and touched his body, and his blue monk's robes were replaced with blue Taoist robes with black edges. He touched his bald head again, and hair began to grow out slowly.

Ren Yuan couldn't help but feel envious, thinking that if he could do this, Liu Zhongjun wouldn't be bald. Thinking of Liu Zhongjun, he couldn't help but feel a pain in his heart.

Bao Ren put his hair up, put on his Taoist hat, and took the whisk in his hand. He looked at his reflection and found himself transformed into a Taoist with an immortal look. Then he smiled and said, "This one still suits me."

"Please understand..." Chen Baxian whispered in Ren Yuan's ear, "If you want to see your sweetheart, you must dress up."

Ren Yuan nodded and waited patiently with him.

After Bao Ren had finished packing, the two men took him back to their hiding place.

However, the scene of Bao Ren and Su Xiaoxiao's reunion was not what Ren Yuan and the others had imagined. Although they were very excited, there was no love between men and women at all. It didn't seem like a reunion of lovers, but more like a reunion of old friends...

"Thank you for helping me again, Fangqing." Bao Ren clasped his fists and said with a smile, "I can never repay Fangqing's kindness."

"I dare not take credit for this time." Su Xiaoxiao smiled and said, "It's all thanks to the two brothers."

"Of course, I will never forget your life-saving grace." Bao Ren nodded, turned to Chen Baxian and said with a smile: "My dear Ah Ba, we haven't seen each other for five years, right? Why did you think of Qian Tang to look for me?"

"Haha. The reason I came here this time is that I missed you, Taoist priest, and came to see you. The second reason is that I brought two friends to ask you for help." Chen Baxian pointed at Ren Yuan and A Yao and briefly told Bao Ren what happened.

"I was wondering why this Taoist friend wasn't angry. It turns out that he was poisoned by corpse poison." Bao Ren looked at A Yao and said, "Young lady, sit cross-legged, put aside all distracting thoughts, and don't resist. I'll take a look at your condition first."

"Yeah." A Yao nodded, and followed the instructions to meditate and empty her mind.

Bao Ren then let his spirit leave his body and used his spiritual sense to investigate the condition inside A Yao's body.

Everyone held their breath, fearing that it might interfere with his diagnosis.

After a long time, Bao Ren's spirit returned to his body. He slowly opened his eyes, shook his head repeatedly, and remained silent for a long time.

"Master, please tell us quickly, what's going on with the elder sister?" Chen Baxian urged hurriedly.

"Yes, Taoist priest, my sister and I have already made plans for the worst, you can talk about it." Ren Yuan also said in a deep voice.

A Yao naturally would not object.

"Please allow me to organize my words. I have just recovered my memory and my mind is still not clear." Bao Ren smiled bitterly and said, "Miss Yao's condition is not the worst. It can even be said to be very lucky, but it is the most complicated and difficult to treat case I have ever seen."

"What do you mean?" everyone asked hurriedly.

"Let me put it this way," Bao Ren said slowly, "First, she was poisoned by the corpse king, that is, she was infected by the corpse king's blood. The corpse king is the king of zombies, and his blood is extremely overbearing. If a mortal touches a drop of it, he will immediately turn into a black zombie. In theory, there is no cure."

"Fellow Daoist, you should have the body of an elf, and you have practiced the magical powers of my Taoism, so you did not turn into a corpse immediately. But you are still unable to resist the poison of the Corpse King. Instead, you will eventually turn into a more terrifying zombie." Then Taoist Master Bao continued.

"But sister Ayao didn't turn into a zombie." Su Xiaoxiao is now a spirit, and she is sure that Ayao is completely different from the zombies she has seen. Although she can't be said to be a living person, it should be okay to say that she is a human.

"This is the magical part, and also her luck." Bao Ren smiled and twirled his beard, and asked the two of them, "When the corpse king's blood entered his body, there should have been something else, right?"

"Yes." Ren Yuan nodded and recalled: "I remember it very clearly. The black corpse king's blood, wrapped in a ball of golden light shining inside and purple air lingering outside, was injected into Senior Sister's body together."

"Yes, that's it." Bao Ren nodded and said, "Zombies are yin, and the blood of the corpse king is an even more yin thing. This thing is yang, an even more yang thing. Yin and yang are incompatible, but they suppress each other, forming a delicate balance in Daoist Fellow A Yao's body, which prevented her from turning into a zombie."

"What is this?" Ren Yuan asked, and everyone was very curious. "I can't say for sure." Bao Ren said, "I only found out that it should be a sword, or more precisely, a sword gall."

"Sword Courage?" Chen Baxian was surprised. "Didn't they say that the Sword Courage is only inside the Magic Sword? How can it exist alone?"

"The sword core of the magic sword can exist independently." Bao Ren replied in a deep voice.

"But this is both a Corpse King and a Divine Sword." He said incredulously, "With your cultivation level, how could you come across something of this caliber?"

"I dare not hide it from the Taoist priest." Ren Yuan told the whole story of the tomb of Donghunhou. Anyway, Gou Chensi already knew it, so there was no need to hide it anymore.

"I see." Bao Ren nodded in shock, "The things those people were trying so hard to get were definitely not ordinary. But they ended up in Daoist Fellow A Yao's body."

He couldn't help but sigh with emotion: "This is really what is meant by destiny. If it is not meant to be, don't force it..."

"Master, please stop sighing," Chen Baxian couldn't help but urged, "Help the elder sister get treatment quickly."

"If I could have been cured, wouldn't I have done it earlier?" Bao Ren rolled his eyes at him and said helplessly, "The current situation is that if I try to take out the sword, she will turn into a zombie in an instant, and there will be no possibility of recovery."

"Then forget about that damn sword, and treat her corpse poison first." Chen Baxian said, "You can't cure the corpse king poison, right?"

"Who said I can't cure it?" Bao Ren glared at him again, then smiled bitterly and said, "Well, I really can't cure it."

Then he raised his voice and said, "But I know very well that even if someone with great magical powers can remove the corpse king poison, her body will no longer be strong. Her meridians will be destroyed by this divine sword in an instant. Even if she doesn't explode and die, she will become a complete cripple."

"Then can we remove the sword and poison at the same time?" Chen Baxian asked again.

"Do you think I'm a god?" Bao Ren couldn't help but waved his sleeves, knocking Chen Baxian to the ground.

"If you can't do it, just say you can't do it. Why are you so anxious?" Chen Baxian got up from the ground unhappily.

"Forget it, Brother Chen, don't embarrass the Taoist priest." Ren Yuan looked at his senior sister and said, "As long as her condition doesn't get worse, this is fine."

"Yes." Senior sister nodded.

"It's not that simple." Bao Ren shook his head and said, "If we don't intervene, Daoist A Yao's bloodthirsty desire will become stronger and stronger, and it will eventually become..."

After a pause, he didn't have the heart to say it out loud, so he turned to ask A Yao: "Do you need blood every day? And the amount is getting bigger and bigger?"

"Yes." A Yao nodded.

"I'm afraid that animal blood can no longer satisfy you. Are you beginning to crave human blood?" Bao Ren asked quietly.

"..." A Yao hesitated for a moment and nodded with difficulty.

"Senior Sister..." Ren Yuan looked at A Yao in surprise.

"I can still bear it now, but I will definitely tell you when I can't bear it anymore." The senior sister lowered her head, her voice was as soft as a mosquito, and tears were welling up in her eyes.

"Actually, there is a way to solve it." Bao Ren changed the subject.

ps. I guess everyone will curse after seeing this, so there is one more update...

(End of this chapter)