A four-year-old medical prodigy descended to the mortal realm, and the entire capital sought her tre

"The source of the pathogen?" Zhou Ruo thought for a moment, then asked, "The source of the pathogen you're referring to, is it spores?"

Qin Xuan thought he was hallucinating, and only then did he look at Zhou Ruo properly, "What...what did you just say?"

Zhou Ruo: "Spores!"

Qin Xuan: "Impossible! How could you possibly know it was spores?"

Zhou Ruo: "Not only do I know about spores, I also helped them all go home!"

Hearing this, Qin Xuan couldn't help but laugh, "What kind of time is this, and there's still a child spouting nonsense here!"

Seeing Qin Xuan's disbelieving look, Zhao Jinzhong stepped forward to tell him.

"Dr. Qin, the sweet potatoes buried in the ground have been disposed of, and those haystacks... are no longer needed."

Zhao Jinzhong's calm tone struck Qin Xuan like a thunderclap.

He believed his scheme was absolutely impossible to detect, yet now it was laid bare and exposed to the light of day.

Qin Xuan stood there, stunned, unable to speak, as if a fishbone was stuck in his throat.

Doctor Yu stepped out from among the soldiers and spoke in a low voice to his old friend, with whom he had fought side by side for decades:

"Old Qin, Miss wasn't lying. She's already driven away the spores, and the soldiers have all recovered."

"He's cured?" Qin Xuan stared wide-eyed at Doctor Yu in disbelief.

"Yes, not only have the soldiers who were allergic to spores recovered, but the wounded soldiers with cold and heat syndromes have also recovered."

What you're seeing is all an illusion we've created. Old Qin, I really didn't expect you...

Doctor Yu shook his head and sighed, unwilling to say anything more.

Qin Xuan's legs went weak and he collapsed to the ground. Last night, he was still talking to the Taoist priest about the wonderful life that the king and marquis had promised them.

But how did things turn out this way?

The Taoist priest saw that his formation had failed, and now Qin Xuan's epidemic plan had also failed.

Then he had no choice but to reveal his deadly weapon – the "Poisonous Gu Technique".

Since all his previous plans had failed, he decided to perish together with Zhao Yucheng, thus eliminating a major threat to the king.

"Hahaha!" The Taoist priest, covered in excrement, stood there laughing wildly. "General Zhao, this isn't over yet!"

"What other excuses does the Taoist priest have in store?" Zhao Yucheng was ready to play along.

"General, you don't know, do you? You've already been infected with my Toad Talisman Gu!" the Taoist said confidently.

"So what?" Zhou Ruo stood aside, wanting to see what other tricks this terrible Taoist priest could pull.

"Ha! How about that? My Toad Talisman Gu can kill General Zhao instantly!"

"You audacious Taoist priest!" The soldiers couldn't stand it any longer and stepped forward to rebuke him, "How dare you speak so disrespectfully to our great general!"

"That's right! The one who can kill our general hasn't been born yet!"

The Taoist priest wasn't annoyed. He secretly mocked the people in front of him: "In a moment, you won't be laughing anymore, you'll have to kneel down and beg me!"

Zhao Yucheng: "We have no grudge against each other, why would you use such witchcraft to harm me and my soldiers?"

Did Wang Changlin use such methods to kill him in order to seize military power?

"We have no grudge against each other, so shouldn't you have died?" the Taoist priest said, uttering words that puzzled everyone.

But only he knew that his three generations had relied on the prince to get to where they were today.

Anyone that the Marquis wants to get rid of, he will do whatever it takes to help the Marquis achieve that goal!

Zhao Yucheng knew that Zhou Ruo had removed the Gu poison from his body, and he felt at ease.

"Fine, I'd like to see how you intend to kill me!"

Upon hearing the general's words, all the soldiers began to look at the Taoist priest warily.

If a Taoist priest does anything harmful, they will immediately smash him to pieces on the spot.

The Taoist priest looked smug and took out another talisman from his pocket.

Bite your index finger and use your blood to draw a few lines on the talisman paper, then light it out of thin air.

Zhou Ruo patiently watched the Taoist priest perform his ritual. She had never seen such a talisman before; it was likely created by the Taoist priest himself.

A moment later, Zhao Yucheng coughed twice, and two streams of blood flowed from his nasal cavity.

"Father?!" Zhao Jinzhong ran over to help Zhao Yucheng.

"General!" The soldiers were startled by Zhao Yucheng's reaction.

Zhao Yucheng trembled twice and felt a wave of dizziness.

He looked up at the Taoist priest, who looked smug and smirked at him.

He looked at Zhou Ruo again, who looked completely bewildered.

But after a while, the Taoist priest stopped laughing, because he did not see Zhao Yucheng die suddenly.

"What? What's going on?" the Taoist priest asked, puzzled.

Anyone who is poisoned by his Toad Talisman Gu will immediately bleed from all seven orifices and die suddenly as soon as he burns the talisman.

However, quite some time had passed, and Zhao Yucheng only had a slight nosebleed.

Most importantly, Zhao Yucheng is still alive!

"Ruoruo? What's wrong with Father? Wasn't the poison removed?" Zhao Jinzhong asked anxiously.

Doctor Yu had already stepped forward to take Zhao Yucheng's pulse, but he couldn't detect the pulse signs of someone poisoned by Gu, so his efforts were in vain.

Zhou Ruo was also thinking about where she had gone wrong, but she couldn't find the answer.

"Impossible!" The Taoist priest shook his head in denial. After a while, Zhao Yucheng was still alive.

"Absolutely impossible! There's no way my Toad Talisman Gu can be removed!"

Zhou Ruo asked, puzzled, "Why?"

The Taoist priest looked blankly at him: "The Toad Talisman Gu is made by raising poisonous toads and controlling them with talismans and incantations."

"A person afflicted with the Toad Talisman Gu will absolutely not survive unless the Gu King himself agrees to their survival!"

Zhou Ruo: "Isn't the Gu King already dead?"

The Taoist priest was startled and quickly took out a small gourd from his waist, opened the lid, and poured a strangely shaped insect into his hand.

This is the toad-like Gu king he raised.

The toad-like Gu King remained motionless in his hand, causing the Taoist priest to tighten his grip again. He then recited two incantations.

Zhou Ruo was startled when she saw the Gu King; she could sense that the Gu King was not dead.

But when she removed the Gu poison from Zhao Yucheng yesterday, she had already cleaned up the Gu worms along with the Gu king.

According to her spiritual power, the Gu King should now only be a ball of energy.

But why is the toad-like Gu king in the Taoist priest's hand still alive?

Yes, the Toad King didn't die; it just fainted due to the influence of Zhou Ruoling's talisman power.

The Taoist priest's incantation awakened the Gu King, which moved slightly in the Taoist priest's palm.

"You idiot, instead of working, you're slacking off here! Get rid of him!" the Taoist priest shouted at the Gu King.

Upon hearing the incantation, the Gu King moved twice more. Zhao Yucheng frowned, clutched his chest, and suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood.

"father!"

"General!"

Little Zhou Ruo felt a little flustered. She used her spiritual power to sense the toad king and felt an inexplicable sense of familiarity with it.

The toad-like Gu King seemed to sense something, turning towards Zhou Ruo and shifting its position.

The next second, the Toad King leaped and landed on Zhou Ruo's hand.

"What?!" The Taoist was extremely surprised. He was not only astonished that the Toad King had broken free of his control.

What shocked him even more was that this toad-like Gu king actually showed a subservient attitude towards Zhou Ruo!

Zhou Ruo sensed the Gu King more closely and realized, "So you're a toad?"

This little insect was originally a young toad, but it was transformed into a strange shape by the Taoist priest.

It sensed the aura of the hundred-year-old Heavenly Toad within Zhou Ruo's body and naturally submitted to it.

Zhou Ruo reached out and pointed at the little insect, saying, "That's my father, you can't hurt him!"

The Toad King seemed to understand Zhou Ruo's words, and moved twice, causing Zhao Yucheng to spit out another mouthful of blood.

But this time it wasn't black blood, it was fresh blood.

After catching his breath, Zhao Yucheng felt his chest tighten and his head cleared up, and he slowly stood up.

"Hehe, you're a good kid just like me," Zhou Ruo said to the Toad King.

"Then you can stay with me, but don't you dare hurt anyone again!"

As Zhou Ruo spoke, she used her spiritual power to transform the Toad Gu King into something like the Ice Toad, and kept it inside her body.

The Taoist priest was perhaps poisoned by the Gu King he had been raising, which caused him to collapse to the ground and faint.

"Spiritual power restored to 50%, activate the power of the Spirit Pill!" The voice Zhou Ruo had been waiting for finally rang out.