Chapter 71
A group of people went tremblingly, but when they arrived, things went very smoothly.

Only two days later, Shangguan Yuan left Jifeng Mountain with a group of key members of the Liu family army.

Only 15 people returned to Beijing together, and there were more than [-] people who joined the Huwei Camp. Liu Jiajun was unable to accompany him because he was returning to his hometown to visit relatives.

Before leaving, Lu Fang came to see them off and brought Qianru and Shangguanyuan a surprise.

Wearing a bamboo hat, An Tai appeared in front of them with a smile on his face, and gave them a pair of handmade bamboo flutes as a wedding gift.

Qianru had mixed feelings, joy and worry, fearing that An Tai would not be able to bear knowing about Liu Shi, An Qianwen, and An Qianya.

But paper can't contain fire after all, he will know everything once he returns to the capital.

Rather than watching him being suddenly teased and ridiculed at being at a loss, it is better to apologize first and let him have a psychological preparation early.

Fortunately, after Antai found out, his reaction was quite calm.

In the evening, everyone camped on the side of the road to rest.

Suddenly, a rare mirage appeared in the sky.

There are snow-capped mountains, grasslands, and forests in the picture, which are magnificent. There is a white-haired thing bent over by the edge of the forest, and it does not know what it is doing.

Although they could only see a vague figure from the back, everyone excitedly determined that it must be the legendary White Ape.

After a while, another white fluffy thing ran over carrying the prey.

He looks like a human being, but his whole body is snow-white, and his face is completely covered by long hair.

Everyone felt that this must be a savage isolated from the world.

Only Liu Ang didn't think so, he said it wasn't a savage, he was poisoned.

Suddenly, the situation changed and the mirage disappeared.

Everyone still had something to say, so they leaned over to ask Liu Ang for advice.

"Old general, could it be that you have been to the place in the mirage?"

"Of course." Liu Ang stroked his snow-like silver whiskers and recalled bit by bit.

At that time, he was about eighteen or nineteen years old. During an expedition to Beidi, he went deep alone, lost his way, and met several orcs.

Just like in a mirage, the whole body is snow-white, covered with long white hair.

The nails are like beasts, sharp and long.

Beastman is not a beast, but because of contact with a lot of poisonous stones, the body has undergone a mutation. It looks like a beast, but still lives like a human.

"Grandpa, you made this up, right? There is such an interesting story, why didn't you tell me earlier?"

"That's right, Dad, I haven't heard you say that either."

"This is absolutely true. The reason why I didn't say it is because there is something hidden."

The story was only half told, and Liu Ang stopped talking. How could everyone be reconciled, saying that he was bragging.

"The old man never brags, but he is a little ashamed to mention it"

At that time, Tulu, the general who led the army, thought it was a rare beast, so he ordered people to hunt it down, skin it and eat it. The methods were very cruel.

As a result, the soldiers who ate the flesh and blood of the orcs began to grow white hair within a few days, and the hair all over their bodies gradually turned white.

During the lost half a month, more than 300 soldiers turned into beasts, including General Tulu.

The whole army panicked and killed each other, and they were defeated without a fight.

Only Liu Ang and dozens of soldiers remained.

After they got out of trouble, they reported the matter and were ridiculed by the whole army. General Qiu Xia fined them with eighty army sticks and hung them outside the barracks in the sun.

They were not pardoned until a wandering warlock Nanshan Weng passed by, heard about this incident, and pleaded with Qiu Xia.

Chou Xia thought that there were rare goods to live in, so he allocated five hundred soldiers and horses to Liu Ang, and asked him to go find the orcs with Nanshan Weng.

They found a tribe near the snow mountain, where they found the orcs.

Although they couldn't understand the language, the orcs gestured with their hands and told them that a meteorite fell from the sky and hit the snow mountain, causing an avalanche, and many transparent red stones appeared.

After the women and children in the village were exposed to it, their bodies gradually became abnormal. After drinking the water soaked in red stones, their bodies would turn into beasts.

They hid all the red stones they found in the cave, and forbid anyone to touch them, so that no one will turn into beasts again.

Nanshan Weng is a sorcerer who studies longevity and has been collecting meteorites from outside the sky.

He took a few red stones from the cave on the grounds of treating the orcs, mixed them with medicinal materials and poisons, and tempered them. After more than a month, he turned the red stones into black-colored precious jade.

The orc put Moyu in his mouth every night and fell asleep. After half a month, the white hair around his body began to fall off, and he gradually returned to the shape of an ordinary person.

People in the tribe regarded Nanshan Weng as a god, and kowtowed and worshiped him.

At the same time, Weng Nanshan also discovered that the skin of the cured people, no matter how old or young, was as smooth as that of a baby, and even the original stubborn diseases were cured together.

Weng Nanshan thought he had found the secret to longevity.

So, he tested the stone with himself, and found that the tempered stone could not completely remove the toxin, and it would recur after a while.

Liu Ang led his troops back, but Qiu Xia was completely wiped out.

One more thing is worse than one less thing, so he didn't report this matter, nor did he mention it to anyone.

"No wonder we haven't heard the story?"

Pang Yu held back a weird smile, which made everyone laugh.

Liu Ang straightened his face immediately, and said seriously: "This is by no means a fabrication. Forty years ago, the old man met Nanshan Weng again. However, he has changed his name and surname. He called himself Medicine King and lived in seclusion in Xiyue Mountain."

"It turns out that what the old general invented was the story of Nan Zhongyu, the former medicine king. No wonder it is so legendary, haha!"

Liu Ang repeatedly emphasized that there was indeed such a thing, but no one believed it, so he got angry and turned his back to ignore them.

The crowd gathered around Antai and asked him to talk about Nan Zhongyu.

"Nan Zhongyu is a strange person. It is said that he lived for more than 100 years, and he was still in his 40s and 20s when he closed his eyes. More than [-] years ago, I was the magistrate of Dao County near Xiyue Mountain. I heard an interesting rumor."

It is rumored that an imperial physician surnamed Wen in the previous dynasty was infected with a strange poison when he was treating people. His hair turned gray overnight, even his eyebrows turned white, his body was rapidly aging, and he was helpless.

Nan Zhongyu couldn't find a way to detoxify for a while, so he stuffed the medicine stone that had been refined for decades in the elixir furnace into the mouth of Imperial Physician Wen, letting him suppress the poison.

At the same time, he drank the blood of Dr. Wen, tested the poison himself, and studied poisonous theory behind closed doors.

Unexpectedly, the antidote was not made, but instead made me stare.

Is this dead?

Everyone was a little disappointed.

"Don't worry, how could the medicine king die so easily?" An Tai stroked his beard with a smile, and said slowly, "However, his disciples thought he was dead."

At that time, Nan Zhongyu's face was haggard, like a rotten tree, without breathing or pulse, and even her body was cold.

His disciples buried him as a matter of course.

Physician Wen thought that he had killed Nan Zhongyu, so on a second thought, he hanged himself.

Half a year later, a child ran down the mountain and dug open Nan Zhongyu's grave despite everyone's obstruction.

A corpse that had been buried for half a year, not only did not rot, but became very fresh, with a ruddy complexion, smooth skin and tender flesh, as if alive.

The man didn't know what kind of pill was stuffed into Nan Zhongyu's mouth.

His hands, feet, and eyeballs moved unexpectedly, and then he opened his eyes, speaking as before.

"I have found a detoxification method for my teacher, where is Imperial Physician Wen?"

Everyone present was shocked and frightened, no one dared to speak, only the child digging the grave sighed: "Master, he committed suicide half a year ago with guilt."

After hearing this, Nan Zhongyu looked up to the sky and sighed: "I was supposed to save people, but I became a harmer. I have no face to live in this world."

After finishing speaking, he died suddenly.

"You are simply a ghost story!" Liu Ang laughed when he heard it, and turned to correct him, "This is all a nonsense made up by Nan Zhongyu's disciples in order to cover up that he killed his master and competed for the secret book."

However, Shangguan Yuan somewhat believed that the scene of Nan Zhongyu's resurrection described by An Tai was very similar to what he saw when he dug up An Xingdao's daughter's grave.

He was even thinking that maybe that woman was just one pill away from the story, and she would come back from the dead.

(End of this chapter)

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