Song Dynasty female artist

Chapter 1017 Nine-Life Demon Cicada
"This is called the Beauty Pill, and it is a popular beauty product in Beijing in recent months."

"There is this thing, how come I don't know about it." Su Yixin sniffed it again, "But I only smell the scent of flour and honey, nothing else. Can it really improve your skin?"

Gu Qingjue crushed one and said, "This is the key."

Su Yixin: "..., how disgusting! Can this thing be used for beauty?"

Su Yixin suppressed her nausea and carefully examined the bugs in the beauty pills. As she looked at them, she felt that they looked familiar.

"Ziyuan, I think I've seen this bug somewhere."

Su Yixin closed her eyes and poked her temple with her fingers, thinking and thinking, and suddenly opened her eyes: "I remember, I saw this bug on the island where I trained, but I don't know what it was called."

"The one where the monsters are rampant?"

Su Yixin nodded: "Yes, I guess it should be a kind of magic insect."

Demon insect...

Then the matter becomes even more complicated.

“Do many people in Kyoto eat it?”

Gu Qingjue nodded: "I asked Sanqi to check. Since it started selling more than two months ago, more than a thousand boxes have been sold so far."

This is not a small number.

"This beauty pill was taken from the eldest princess. She fainted because of Concubine Miao's incident. The doctor felt her pulse and found that her lungs were damaged. That's when he found out about the beauty pill."

Su Yixin knew the seriousness of the matter, but she only had an impression of the insect and did not understand it.

Su Yixin said: "Well, I will take the beauty pills to Qingyu Sect. My uncle is proficient in this."

Gu Qingjue wanted to say something, but in the end he didn't.

Su Yixin reacted: "This matter may not be that simple. Would it be bad if I leave the capital at this time? I'd better send a message to my uncle to ask him first, and then make some plans."

"it is good."

After a while, Su Yixin said, "Master Uncle said he needs to see something to confirm it. He happens to be not far from Kyoto and will be here soon."

Yang Junyou is indeed very fast.

It took about half an hour to get there.

Yang Junyou broke through the peak of the fusion stage last year and entered the Mahayana stage.

"Uncle Master, you have worked hard."

Yang Junyou said, "You haven't done anything yet, how can you say it's hard work? Let me see the things."

Su Yixin took out a new beauty pill and gave it to Yang Junyou. She crushed it in front of him, revealing the living bug inside: "This is it."

Yang Junyou used his spiritual power to place the insect on his hand and observed it carefully, and then said: "This is indeed a kind of insect from the demon clan, called the Nine-Life Demon Cicada."

"Nine-life demon cicada?"

Su Yixin was shocked.

She didn't know the Nine-Life Demon Cicada, but she had actually heard her master talk about this thing in her previous life.

The Nine-Life Demon Cicada, as its name suggests, has nine lives and has the effect of maintaining beauty, but in fact it absorbs human essence to prolong its own life, and then releases a kind of breath into the human body, which will make people look young in a short period of time. However, over time, the essence will be sucked away by the Nine-Life Demon Cicada, and people will age rapidly.

I didn't expect this thing really existed.

The master said that this thing was only recorded in ancient books, with only a few brief mentions, without a detailed description of its appearance.

"I wonder if you have any impression, but when we were training on that island, there seemed to be traces of the Nine-Life Demon Cicada." Yang Junyou: "Of course I remember."

He pointed at the beauty pills and asked, "Is there anyone in Kyoto who uses this to make beauty pills?"

Gu Qingjue said, "Yes, and some time ago, many people in Kyoto City have eaten it, and some people even ate two whole boxes."

There are thirty pills in a box, and there is one in each pill, which means that there are a total of sixty Nine-Life Demon Cicadas sucking essence in the stomach. Just thinking about it makes one's scalp tingle.

Su Yixin asked Yang Junyou: "How is this thing different from Gu?"

"There is still a difference." Yang Junyou said, "The Gu worm needs to be refined, but this thing is a natural Gu worm, and it has a hidden function in the body. It cannot be detected by ordinary doctors just by feeling the pulse. It requires spiritual power to detect it."

Gu Qingjue understood.

This is also the reason why the doctor in the Princess's Mansion did not discover the Nine-Life Demon Cicada.

"Is there any way to lure the demon cicada out of the body safely?"

Yang Junyou said: "I haven't tried this either, but you can try it with the detoxification pills I made."

"Thank you very much, uncle."

Yang Junyou: "Why be so polite? I don't know if it will be of any use."

When Su Yixin heard that the eldest princess fainted due to excessive grief, she went to Han's mansion to visit her. In fact, she wanted the eldest princess to take detoxification pills to see if they had any effect on the Nine-Life Demon Cicada.

"Princess, I have something to say to you alone."

"You all go down first."

Even Xiao Liu and Yun Qiao, the two people the princess trusted the most, were guarding outside the door.

"Princess Shuyang, it's just you and me now, you can say whatever you want."

In fact, the eldest princess was guessing the purpose of Su Yixin's visit. She thought she came to tell her about Concubine Miao, but she didn't expect her to take out a beauty pill.

"Does this thing look familiar to you, Princess?"

"Isn't this the beauty pill I took? Is Princess Shuyang also taking it?"

Su Yixin shook her head and said, "Does the princess know that you fainted because of it?"

"Because of the beauty pills? I bought them from Hongzhuanglou. I've been taking them for more than a month and I don't feel anything wrong."

Su Yixin took a square handkerchief, pinched the beauty pills, placed them on the handkerchief and handed it to the princess. The princess took a closer look, screamed in fright and threw the thing away.

"What does Princess Shuyang mean?"

"I didn't mean to scare the princess, but the so-called beauty pills that the princess has been taking recently are exactly this thing. The insect inside is called the Nine-Life Magic Cicada, which absorbs the essence of the human body and releases its breath to achieve a temporary beauty effect. Once the essence of the human body is diluted, the person will immediately age and then die."

The eldest princess's scream did not attract the attention of the maid outside the door.

Because after they left the room, Su Yixin set up a barrier and no one knew what they said.

The princess had just woken up and almost fainted when she heard these words. How could she have eaten so many disgusting things in so many days?
Su Yixin analyzed the situation with the eldest princess.

"Princess, I'm not here to scare you, but to let you know that many people in Kyoto have taken beauty pills like you. Once they are completely devoured by the Nine-Life Demon Cicada, they will surely die."

With so many mistresses dying one after another, even if they were not court officials, Kyoto would be in chaos.

What’s more, those were living lives, hundreds of lives.

The princess nodded heavily: "I know, but I never thought it was something that could harm people. What is this devil cicada? How can we get it out of our bodies?"

After laying the groundwork, Su Yixin took out the detoxification pills.