"It can't be, right? Who would harm us miners? At most, we will just take a few extra taels of silver. That is also money for our hard work. "Many of the miners were stupefied and seemed to believe Ancestor Acheron's words.
Bai Xiaotian no longer looked at Ancestor Acheron with contempt. He immediately lifted the front of his robe and prostrated on the ground. "Saving a life is more meritorious than building a seven-storied pagoda. Since Little Duke can diagnose their illness, you must have a way to treat it. I plead for Little Duke to help us!"
When everyone saw Divine Physician Bai kneeling down, they also knelt down and pleaded.
Xiao Ying tugged on Ancestor Acheron's sleeve and asked him to think of a solution.
"Sigh, I wasn't willing to save all of you when you spoke rudely. Since I am already here, let me give it a try."
Ancestor Acheron put on airs and walked over with his head held high. He walked to the ground and sat cross-legged on Bai Xiaotian's previous position. He then said, "One of you, stretch out your hand."
A sturdy miner quickly walked over and placed his hand on the small pillow on the table.
Ye Kong had never seen any corpse poison before and he looked at Ancestor Acheron with interest. He wanted to see how Ancestor Acheron was going to treat it.
However, something unexpected happened. When Ancestor Acheron placed his hand on the miner's pulse for a few seconds, Ancestor Acheron's expression changed as though he was bitten by a venomous snake. He quickly withdrew his hand.
His expression immediately frightened everyone. Xiao Ying's beautiful face turned pale, and she immediately wanted to pounce on him.
"Don't panic!" Ye Kong quickly stopped her.
Ancestor Acheron had a grave expression as he sat cross-legged for about five minutes. He then opened his eyes and pointed his right index and middle finger at the empty space like a sword.
"Come out!" The scene that the miners were bewildered appeared. They saw a strand of black gas that was as thin as a strand of hair emerging from Ancestor Acheron's finger.
The strand of black gas seemed to be alive as it fell to the ground and struggled non-stop.
"Fireball!" Patriarch Acheron cast another Fireball Spell to burn the black silk completely. Only then did he heave a sigh of relief. "What an overbearing Corpse Poison!"
Seeing this corpse poison with their own eyes, the miners were speechless. When they thought about how they also had this terrifying black Qi in their bodies, their faces turned pale.
When Bai Xiaotian saw Old Ancestor Yellow Spring's fireball, he seemed to understand something and knelt down again. "Celestial Master, please forgive me for being blind. Please save them, Celestial Master!"
Patriarch Acheron snorted. "Save them? Now you have to save yourself! This corpse poison is transmitted through physical contact. When you checked their pulse just now, they were already infected with the corpse poison! "
When Bai Xiaotian heard that he was infected as well, his face immediately turned pale as he knelt down and begged along with the other miners.
However, Patriarch Acheron shook his head and said, "This corpse poison isn't that easy to cure. It's a very strange secret technique, so we have to find the person who released the poison to cure it."
Ye Kong didn't understand and asked, "Who released the poison? These miners are just earning some hard-earned money. Why would they release such a vicious corpse poison to harm them?"
Patriarch Acheron smiled. "You don't understand. Some evil cultivators like to do things with corpses and use them to refine zombies. I heard that there are iron corpses, bronze corpses, gold corpses, silver corpses, and some of them are stronger than Core Formation cultivators … However, I only heard that the longer the corpses are preserved, the stronger the refinement. I don't understand why this person would use fresh people."
Then, Patriarch Acheron asked about the specific situation of the miners.
It turned out that more than ten years ago, Clear Canal Village was a nameless village that no one cared about. However, a fine iron mine was discovered in the nearby mountains. Fine iron could be used to refine military weapons. If it was purified, it could be used to refine magic artifacts for cultivators. Therefore, miners from all over came here.
Because of this mine, a huge gathering area for miners was built in the mountains. The miners called themselves the Mining Village.
However, the Mining Village was deep in the mountains and there was no water source. It was inconvenient to enter and exit the village. Therefore, Clear Canal Village became lively. Every day, water trucks would transport water from Clear Canal Village to the Mining Village. At night, the miners would come out of the mountains to Clear Canal Village to have fun.
However, a few days ago, a plague suddenly broke out in the Mining Village. At first, no one cared, but more and more people died. There was a goddess doctor in the Mining Village, so everyone went to find her. However, the goddess doctor couldn't do anything. She could only keep them alive for a while, but they still died in the end.
The strangest thing was that the dead young and strong miners' corpses disappeared after they died.
Hearing this, Ye Kong was basically sure that someone must have done it. Otherwise, who would steal the corpses of these miners?
Ye Kong wanted to go into the mountains to investigate, but Patriarch Acheron stopped him. "This corpse poison is very overbearing. If I had the spiritual power of the past, I wouldn't have to worry. But now, even I don't have a good solution. I think the person who poisoned it must have extraordinary spiritual power. I'm afraid that you will also be infected."
When Ye Kong heard Patriarch Acheron's words, he didn't believe it. He decided to try how overbearing this corpse poison was.
Therefore, Ye Kong called a miner and reached out to take his pulse.
In fact, the way a cultivator and a doctor took a pulse was different. A doctor only looked at the patient's pulse, while a cultivator really transferred the spiritual power in his body.
However, to Ye Kong's surprise, after taking the pulse, he immediately felt a wisp of black Qi break through his spiritual power barrier and enter his body. It moved along the meridians of his limbs, and its destination was actually the human Zifu. Presumably, this was how the corpse poison controlled the brain and behavior of people.
Ye Kong immediately mobilized the spiritual power in his body to force the corpse poison out of his body. But at this moment, the spiritual power cyclone in his Sea of Qi suddenly rotated violently. This startled Ye Kong, because this kind of rotation was the natural movement of the Sea of Qi. Ye Kong didn't know what reaction the corpse poison would have when it entered the Sea of Qi.
He hurriedly stopped the absorption of the corpse poison in his Sea of Qi. It could be seen that the strange thing was that the Sea of Qi did not listen to its master's orders. Ye Kong was helpless and could only let the wisp of corpse poison be absorbed by the strong spiritual power cyclone.
However, an unimaginable situation happened again. When the wisp of black corpse poison approached the Sea of Qi, it was completely killed by the layer of dense Qi surrounding the Sea of Qi.
This layer of dense Qi was formed by the sky phenomenon he absorbed when he reached the Foundation Establishment stage. Until now, Ye Kong didn't know what this thing was used for. He didn't expect it to have such a strong effect on the corpse poison.
Ye Kong quickly withdrew his hand and explained the situation to Ancestor Acheron.
Ancestor Acheron nodded and said, "That dense Qi may be the legendary Immortal Qi. In the past, there were people who wanted to absorb Immortal Qi for their own use, but they all failed. In the end, the Immortal Qi also slowly disappeared. The Immortal Qi in your body must have been absorbed by the spiritual power cyclone and couldn't escape. That's why it has been surrounding your Sea of Qi for a long time. It should only be good for you and not harmful. How can the power of the corpse poison compare to the Immortal Qi? It is normal for it to be instantly killed. It seems that you are really the best candidate to kill the corpse poison. "
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