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Heather thought back to yesterday when she checked the town with the Azure Dragon and White Tiger, and saw quite a few dead animals on the street. It seemed that this so-called plague was indeed spread from animals to humans, but what kind of animals was it? How did the corpse poison spread to the human body, and how many towns and villages were affected?

"I remember that there's a cemetery nearby. We should go there and have a look!" Since it was a corpse poison, then it must be related to a dead body.

"Alright, I'll have to trouble old mister to lead the way." Yuwen Tuo had to find the source of the corpse poison.

The group of people followed behind him one after another, passing by the village to the back of the mountain, where they would see a large graveyard. Fortunately, it was broad daylight, and if it was night time, it was unknown how eerie it would be.

"This is where all the villagers in this town buried their corpses. This town was the first one to discover the pathological changes. I believe the source of the disease is here." Gui Gu Zi pointed at a grave in front of him.

Yuwen Tuo led the hundreds of soldiers behind him and walked forward, "Brothers, be careful. If you discover anything wrong, be sure to shout out loud. The three of you will be walking together. Don't get separated."

The soldiers all listened to General Yuwen's words and walked forward together. This place was a graveyard, and if the sun didn't shine on it normally, there would be a layer of misty white fog.

In front of each grave, there were offerings sent in the new year, and some burnt candles and paper money. Almost all of them were the dead relatives of this town. Yuwen Tuo led the soldiers in searching the cemetery, but none of the graves were suitable.

Hei Si, Gui Zi and Mu Yue stood to the side and looked around. They really didn't see anything wrong with the surroundings. Could it be that the source wasn't here?

If anything had happened here, the villagers who came to pay their respects would have found it too. Now, since they couldn't find any clues, perhaps the source of the clues wasn't in this cemetery, but in some other place?

"I don't think there's a need to search here. We should enlarge the scope of everyone." Mu Yue called out to Yuwen Tuo.

Yuwen Tuo stood on the spot and listened to her advice, letting the soldiers search further.

For the next few days, Yuwen Tuo ordered the soldiers to go out and search every day. In order to control those villagers to continue to be in a state of intoxication, Guiluo Zi also turned the medicinal herbs into incense and lit it in the temple. At the beginning, when they were conscious, they could let them drink the medicine, but when they were unconscious, they could only use this method to continue controlling them.

According to the ancient books, Hei Si had prepared many medicinal herbs and was concocting the antidote in the camp day and night.

The officials in the town all fled. If it weren't for the fact that Elder Mu Yue of the Everlasting Mountain's Sacred Moon Cult had the officials of the next county, there would have been no one controlling this place.

The capital of Lou Lan Country.

Dan Xiong delivered the latest urgent delivery to Helian Shan's hands. After reading Yuwen Tuo's report, Helian Lie did not expect that the townspeople in several towns would be poisoned by corpse poison.

The letter said that Dr. Keser was concocting antidotes, but that a few of them had been sent from the neighboring counties. There were hundreds of people who had been poisoned, and those who had not been persecuted had to drink a bowl, just in case.

"Old Prime Minister, Yuwen Tuo said in his letter that they are lacking these medicinal herbs. Can you recommend them to someone so that they can deliver the grass to the epidemic area?" Helian Shan already knew what was going on, but he still wanted to hear someone else's advice.

After Dan Xiong stroked his white beard, he slowly spoke out about one person: "Prince Su!"

The candidate that was recommended by Dan Xiong was exactly what he wanted!

"Alright, then we will have the Prime Minister prepare an order and have Prince Su deliver the medicine that the epidemic area needs." Helian Shan said while standing in front of the table in a domineering manner.

"This old official obeys the decree!"

The next morning, in Prince Su's mansion, Helian Qi received an imperial edict, ordering him to gather all the medicinal ingredients within three days, and immediately set off for the Everlasting Mountain.

Helian Qi's eyes were filled with dissatisfaction as he looked at this imperial edict. When had the King ever regarded him with such importance? What was going on today? To actually make him shoulder such a heavy responsibility, could it be that someone was instigating him?

Black Wood Zana. This was the first name that came to his mind. Could it be that she was the one who had spoken to the king and transferred him out of the capital so as to not ruin her plans?

It didn't matter if it was her or not, in any case, the king had already sent out his royal decree, so he had no choice but to go this time. He had to bring back and return to the Everlasting Mountain with him so many medicinal herbs, it would take at least ten days.

For a moment, Helian Qi couldn't figure out Zha Na's plan. In short, he would return ten days later. If she still didn't make a move, then don't blame him for being ruthless!

In the Immortal Mansion's main hall, Zha Na was very happy when she heard that Helian Qi had been appointed to deliver the medicinal herbs. She was also very happy when she heard that Helian Qi had been appointed to deliver the medicinal herbs, and was very happy when she heard that Helian Qi had been sent to the Immortal Mansion. "Hmph …"

Within three days, Helian Qi had been ordered to collect herbs and everything was ready. He headed towards the epidemic area. Standing on the city wall, Zana watched his troop leave slowly. She couldn't help but feel pleased with herself.

Next, she would begin her plan!

The medicine concocted by Heather did indeed have some effects. Most of the villagers regained their consciousness, but their hands and feet would still not listen to their commands. However, their consciousness was very clear, no longer casually biting people, just to capture them!

Ghost Hollow and Heather looked at the symptoms of these villagers. It was obvious that they had not completely eradicated it yet. There must still be some hidden secrets that they had yet to discover. As a result, the medicines were not concentrated enough to cure them.

"Doctor Keser, we've found something!" Outside the tent, a soldier was shouting.

When Ghost Hollow and Heather heard the shout, they immediately stood up and rushed out of the tent to see what was going on.

"What happened?" Gui Gu Zi asked as he noticed that everything was normal outside.

The soldiers who were searching found a corpse in a col. Its body was badly rotted and there were signs of being bitten. General Yuwen has already rushed over. The Azure Dragon guard asked me to come back and take a look." "A simple summary to let them know, and they were immediately led by the hind legs.

Gui Cang and his group followed about a dozen soldiers for the time it takes an incense stick to burn before they arrived at this col. This place was very remote and normally only people who cut wood or harvested herbs would come in.

Yuwen Tuo and the Azure Dragon were the first to arrive. The soldiers led them and pointed at the pit in front of them. As they approached, they could vaguely see a rotting arm and could clearly smell the rotten stench of corpses.

"Someone, go and dig out the body." Yuwen Tuo commanded the soldiers behind him.

The soldiers were worried that this was the source of the plague. The stench was unbearable and they all put on their masks. They could still hold on for a while.

At this moment, Gui Cang Zi and Ke Er also arrived. Seeing the soldiers shoveling down, the main culprit who released the stench finally revealed his true appearance!

The soldiers looked at the body that they had dug up. It was badly mutilated, the palms of its arms long gone. Judging from the places where it was cut off, it seemed that there were traces of it being torn apart.

Heather walked forward and looked at the badly decomposed corpse. Her face was no longer visible. Her face was badly decomposed and her eyes were no longer there. All that was left were two empty eye holes, which made one's hair stand on end.

Fortunately, it was broad daylight and there were thirty to forty men here, so they weren't afraid of any evil spirits.

Heather held her breath, took out the silver needles that she brought with her, and slowly inserted them into the corpse. By the time she pulled them out, a part of the needles had already turned black, causing everyone present to be puzzled.

"This person died from poison." Gui Gu looked at everyone's shocked expressions and explained to them.

"Sir, according to your plan, could this be the source of the plague?" Yuwen Tuo looked at the rotten corpse and asked.

"As expected, it should be!" At least he thought so.

He walked back to Yuwen Tuo and the others' side, turned around and looked at the corpse, and said, "What brother Gui Gu said is that this corpse is the source of the plague."

Deeply afraid that they did not understand, he pointed to the broken arm and continued, "This corpse should have died less than two months ago, and this person died from poison. As for what poison, I have no way of answering. The person who buried him dug a shallow corpse hole. After spring arrived, it rained a few times, and the soil on top was washed away, revealing one of the corpse's arms. It was coincidentally discovered by the livestock that were searching for food in the cove, so the exposed arm was bitten and eaten! "

However, there were quite a few wild dogs. Perhaps it was because they had been bitten and eaten by wild dogs, which then led to the town, but the corpse was originally poisoned to death, and after the wild dog had eaten his flesh, it naturally wouldn't become safe and sound. After a person was bitten by a dog, they would get infected indirectly, which was why the plague would come later.

As long as he was scratched or bitten by those people, he would become like a bronze corpse. There were a lot of merchants passing by the town, and soon, the news spread to several towns nearby.

"Then what should we do with the body now?" When the truth was finally revealed, Yuwen Tuo finally let out a sigh of relief.

"Burn it!" Heather calmly said two words.

Yuwen Tuo nodded his head and ordered the surrounding soldiers, "You all heard what Doctor Keser said, right? Hurry up and find some firewood to burn this corpse to prevent a situation from occurring again!"

"Yes …" After Yuwen Tuo gave the order, the soldiers began working.

It was a good thing that there were a lot of dried up wood nearby. He picked up a large pile of them in a few seconds and burned the corpse here to avoid similar incidents happening again in the future.

The fire was still burning brightly as plumes of smoke rose into the air. Now that the source of the smoke had been resolved, they only needed to wait for the few herbs that they were lacking to detoxify the poison for the villagers.