Chapter 230: From Righteous to Evil

Ran Zhongshi didn't explain and waved his hand.

"Come over and see."

The two disappeared, and the discussion in the government office suddenly grew louder.

"Ghost Mother Sect members, not an hour apart, where did he catch them?"

"Don't know, did I hear wrong? Two Galloping Horse Upper Stage? How did he do it?"

"I saw a poisonous sore on one corpse."

"He has ability, no wonder the limelight is so big; disperse, disperse, the boss is in a bad mood today, don't go touch the bad luck."

"Brother Shao this time is stealing a chicken but losing the rice; I guess he's mad crazy; speaking of which, where is Brother Shao?"

"Don't know, he was soaked in the rain for a long time, and then he disappeared..."

Liang Qu followed Ran Zhongshi through a corridor, turned, and entered a quiet room.

The room was airtight, not even a window was opened, covered in dim yellow light; the four walls were all bookshelves, and what was placed on them most wasn't books, but fresh mugwort, emitting a thick fragrance, the rest were parts of calamus and peach wood branches.

The two small officials who had just carried away the corpses were grinding juice in a mortar, making the fragrance of the mugwort even more heavy.

Ran Zhongshi stood behind the two and asked: "Do you remember the small meeting we held on the pleasure boat at the end of May, where Xiang Fang Su and a few others said they wanted to explore an island?"

"Remember, any harvest?"

"Hmm, rare big goods; on the island, there was a total of one Wolf Smoke martial artist, three Galloping Horse martial artists, and over ten ordinary martial artists, all captured.

After cleaning the battlefield, Ke Wenbin found several blood-drenched mugwort plants that were very withered, with yellow leaf edges, like fire-devouring seedlings; do you know fire-devouring seedlings?"

"Know, improper fertilization; my neighbor has a child who likes to pee in the weed pile behind the house, and the surrounding leaves of the weeds are all yellow."

Reading in the academy requires special study of seasonal solar terms, just to be familiar with basic planting knowledge, which belongs to common sense.

The fire-devouring seedlings Ran Zhongshi mentioned are burning seedlings; manure fertilizer is not fully decomposed, or too much fertilizer, improper fertilization can all appear.

Essentially, it is a change in osmotic pressure, causing the plant to lose water, the leaves turn yellow and red, as if burned by fire.

"Hmm, martial artists have vigorous blood energy, and after death, they can benefit a party of heaven and earth, in accordance with the principle of endless life.

At the beginning of the Great Shun's founding, Dragon-Elephant Wu Sheng once had a battle with Yuanji Wu Sheng; afterwards, the rats that tasted the blood could be as big as calves, causing disaster to the place.

In the end, human blood is different from fertilizer; as long as it's not soaked in it, it won't easily wither by absorbing it bit by bit, and even if it's 'weak and unable to supplement,' it shouldn't react so quickly, not an hour apart."

Liang Qu's eyes flashed.

"The blood of Ghost Mother Sect people is problematic?"

Ran Zhongshi snapped his fingers: "That's right, we experimented later and found that the stronger the Ghost Mother Sect person, the easier their blood is to react with mugwort.

Below Four Gates martial artists, the reaction is the lightest; mixed with blood, left to stand for three hours, the mugwort juice will turn slightly yellow, accompanied by a slight stench.

Galloping Horse only takes half an hour, and Wolf Smoke is the most intense; almost within a quarter of an hour, there will be obvious discoloration.

Except for mugwort, we have also been looking for whether other plants have similar phenomena; so far, we have found that calamus and peach wood also have a certain reaction to the blood of Ghost Mother Sect members.

And mixing the juice of mugwort and calamus in a three-to-one ratio can shorten the entire manifestation time by half! The disadvantage is that the juice of both must be fresh enough, and the time since picking cannot exceed half a day."

Liang Qu found it incredible after listening.

What is this, an exclusive reagent for the Ghost Mother Sect?

"These plants actually have a common characteristic in the folk; May has not passed long, Brother Liang should be clear."

"Exorcise evil?"

"Right!"

Mugwort and calamus don't need to be said.

May 5th noon, Celestial Master rides the mugwort tiger; calamus sword cuts a hundred evils, ghosts and demons enter the tiger's mouth.

Peach wood is about the same; peach tastes pungent and smells evil, so it can suppress evil spirits, hence the saying that a hundred-year peach wood sword cuts ghosts and demons.

Taoist priests still like to use peach wood to make magic tools to this day, picking wood from the age of three, making long swords of equal height, using secret methods to stimulate blood energy to nourish, and by the time they reach adulthood, they are as hard as hundred-refined steel, covered in red patterns.

Even if these three can really exorcise evil, what is the reason for reacting with the blood of Ghost Mother Sect members?

Seeing Liang Qu's doubt, Ran Zhongshi continued.

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"Martial arts techniques pursue the original copy because most of the original copies contain the will of the writer, which can make people feel the mystery to the greatest extent.

When strength reaches a certain realm, human will can substantially remain on external objects. Ordinary people being stared at by a Hunting Tiger Great Martial Artist can lead to spiritual extinction and loss of vitality.

Just like a weak rabbit scared out of its wits by a fierce tiger, this is how the realm got its name, Hunting Tiger.

When it comes to Perfected Form Grandmaster, and even more so for the Dragon-Yao Wu Sheng, it is mysterious; even if the physical body is destroyed, it is still possible to leave will to survive, but the will without a physical body is extremely easily disturbed by external objects, without consciousness, gradually growing into strange things, which we call 'evil'."

And the Ghost Mother Sect believes in the Yin-Killing Water Old Mother; you grew up by the water, you should be very familiar with her."

Liang Qu nodded.

Yin-Killing Water Old Mother was not fabricated by the Great Qian after retreating to the marshy wilderness and establishing a sect, but a folk water god that had circulated for a long time.

The specific cause cannot be verified; there are too many similar gods, especially in the riverside areas, it's not strange to have two or three in one county.

And the original Yin-Killing Water Old Mother was indeed a righteous god; as for why she later became an evil god.

Because he had fought with the Ghost Mother Sect, Liang Qu had specifically studied many legends of the Yin-Killing Water Old Mother.

Getting to the bottom of it, this Yin-Killing Water Old Mother naturally carries a bit of evil nature and evil aura.

Such as "or can make people suddenly rich," naturally sought after and worshipped by villains, and people's impression of her began to turn bad.

When the believers were impacted by the "righteous gods" from other places, accompanied by partial "taking out of context" and "distinguishing scriptures," they could never turn over.

It's better to say that people are evil than to say the god is evil.

"We suspect that the god worshipped by the Ghost Mother Sect does exist, but it is definitely not a god, but something formed by the resentment of a great supernatural being after death combined with something else, with a minimum strength of a Dragon-Yao Wu Sheng before death.

For this reason, the entire Ghost Mother Sect has been affected by it, but how exactly it affects, and what benefits and harms there are, we haven't figured out yet."

So this is the birth of the so-called evil spirits.

Liang Qu was thoughtful, and turned to think of his Dragon-Tiger Golden Body.

When he used the Green Dragon Seven-Kill Spear to deflect the sword light, he urged the Dragon-Tiger Qi, and the whole process was very easy.

Logically, the other party shouldn't lack top-tier sword techniques...

It wouldn't be that the "Exorcising Evil and Subduing Demons" took effect, right?

"My lord, it's yellow!"

The two small officials held up the yellowed juice.

The mugwort and calamus juice, which was emerald green and fragrant before, completely turned into a pool of yellow liquid, like pus after a wound becomes inflamed, emitting a slight stench.

Ran Zhongshi held his nose and told them to pour it away quickly, turned to Liang Qu and said: "Look, verified correctly."

Liang Qu was happy.

"Thank you, Brother Ran!"

"Thank me for what? It's raining heavily outside; after today's swimming and fighting, go back and rest early; I will send someone to investigate the road again, you just wait to claim your merit."

Comfortable.

Solved the poisonous snake peeking in the dark, and got merit.

This time plus the last time designing the big anchor, two great merits in hand, feeling completely relaxed.

Walking out of the quiet room, the expressions of those coming and going were as usual.

Liang Qu knocked on the door, found Li Shoufu in the file room, and asked about the matter of helping him pay attention to whether there were files on Xiangyi County.

He hadn't forgotten what Old Clam said; Blood Stone County, now Xiangyi County, once had a mermaid tribe, and he had always wanted to borrow an external mission to go over and see, so he let Li Shoufu help him keep an eye on it.

If there were any remaining mermaid tears, even if it was just two or three, several thousand water marsh essences would be a blood profit.

Li Shoufu shook his head.

Liang Qu wasn't too disappointed; decades had passed, it didn't matter for a month or two.

The River Office controlled the entire Huaiyin Prefecture and would radiate to other counties sooner or later; there wouldn't be a shortage of missions.

"If there is any, remember to let me know."

Liang Qu put down two small ingots, and Li Shoufu put them into his sleeve calmly.

"Lord Liang, rest assured, as soon as there is news, I will go to the mansion to inform you, and will never let anyone else get there first."

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