Chapter 165

The river demons waiting in line to see the doctor were very filial and hurriedly gave up their spots to let their Godfather cut in line.

Xiao Yu opened her eyes and saw that only Black Jin Gang had come; she felt both a sense of relief and unavoidable disappointment in her heart.

"My son, don't say anything yet; let Mother take your pulse first," she greeted.

Black Jin Gang swam over and said, "Mother, I'm not sick; there's no need to take my pulse."

"Whether you're sick or not, Grandmother will know once she tries. We also felt as strong as oxen before, but we didn't expect the hidden poison to have already snuck into our internal organs," said a fish demon lying on the ground, clutching its chest and moaning.

"Godfather, you must never be like Cai Yan!"

The first patient, a clam spirit, even earnestly popularized the story of "Divine Physician Yu meets Cai" for Black Jin Gang.

Black Jin Gang was left stunned by what they said.

Dazed, he sat opposite Xiao Yu and extended his hand.

A moment later, Black Jin Gang spat out a mouthful of blood and shrieked, "Oh, heavens~~ I actually really have hidden pathogenic qi!"

Even the Sea-Patrolling Yaksha was fooled. Of course, this was partly because this group of river demons were all created through enlightenment, their brains hadn't fully evolved, and they were relatively simple and easy to trick.

But more importantly, it was the miraculous nature of the medical arts and Xiao Yu's Kunpeng Transformation.

In the human world, even knowledgeable human immortals marveled at Divine Physician Min's medical arts.

If Divine Physician Min used medical arts to fool people, he would surely be just as accurate as she was now.

Placed in the demon world, especially in a remote place like Wind Roar Bay, medical arts could almost cause a dimensional strike in terms of cognition.

In the eyes of this group of river demons, Grandmother Yu had truly only touched their wrists a few times.

There was no demon power fluctuation, and they didn't sense any immortal martial internal power.

As a result, their "pathogenic qi" erupted from within their bodies; those who spat blood spat blood, those who vomited vomited, and the severe pain in their internal organs was no hallucination.

If it wasn't that they were sick, then who was?

And Xiao Yu's Kunpeng Transformation, even without her noticing, exerted an invisible bloodline suppression on the group of river demons.

They looked like they had become stupid, but in reality, it was just very easy for her to make the river demons believe her.

"My son, don't be afraid. Mother is here; I guarantee you'll be safe and sound," Xiao Yu said with a smile.

Having now accumulated a massive amount of experience with the Qi of Yin, Yang, and the Five Elements, she truly had the confidence to say these words.

This group of river demons had thick skin and sturdy flesh; the amount of pathogenic qi testing a single river demon could withstand was equivalent to a hundred strong humans.

With dozens of river demons here, it was equivalent to Xiao Yu experimenting with her medical arts on thousands of humans.

How could her experience not explode, her techniques not improve, and her confidence not increase!

"Mother, it better be safe and sound. After all, your son still has to provide for your old age and bury you; there can't be any mishaps!" Black Jin Gang wailed.

The smile on Xiao Yu's face froze.

Then, she quietly stimulated the "pathogenic qi" to trigger the "Yang Fire of the Five Elements," making his heart beat wildly like a horse whipped by a lash.

Black Jin Gang's black face flushed red, and even his nostrils and eyes began to bleed.

"Mother, your son is about to die~~~"

Feeling the blood qi in his heart almost exploding and the completely out-of-control demon power in his body, he truly felt he was about to die, was scared to tears, and tears even sprayed out.

"Don't rush, don't be afraid; this is the inevitable reaction to clearing out the hidden poison," Xiao Yu comforted.

The first patient, the clam spirit, acted like an experienced veteran and persuaded him with practiced ease: "Godfather, don't worry. Hidden poison is alive; it was originally hiding carefully, secretly devouring our vitality.

Now that Grandmother has discovered it, it knows it can't escape, so it is launching a desperate struggle."

It had said similar things to many demon brothers many times; it was too practiced and too confident.

Sure enough, as Xiao Yu secretly adjusted the balance between "Life Qi" and "Death Qi," Black Jin Gang's wildly beating heart gradually calmed down, and he also calmed down a little.

"What 'hidden poison'? Why would there be hidden poison in our internal organs?" he asked blankly.

There was no need for Xiao Yu to speak; it was still the clam spirit "bringing its own dry rations," saying solemnly: "The abyss connects to the earth veins and the underworld, and the yin qi has almost gained sentience.

We are living demons, and there is Yang-strong qi within our bodies.

Living in the abyss year-round naturally attracts sentient yin qi into our bodies, and without us knowing, it erodes the Yang qi within the demon bodies.

Fortunately, your son was clever and asked Grandmother to help take my pulse and find the hidden poison in my lungs.

Now your son feels much more comfortable, feeling full of—cough, cough, cough—full of strength, cough, cough, cough~~~"

The expression on its face was very solemn and serious, very convincing, but it coughed until its ugly face was distorted and its body shrank into a ball...

"Godfather, look, I'm just coughing a little now."

Seeing the doubt on Black Jin Gang's face, the clam spirit was a little anxious, "Before, I almost coughed my lungs out. Compared to before, I feel like I've been reborn, cough, cough, cough~~~"

Black Jin Gang muttered, "Before I left, you were still fine and not coughing..."

"Cough, cough, cough, that was the hidden poison hiding in the body, not yet acting up," the clam spirit said.

Another snail demon stretched its head out of its shell and said weakly, "Godfather, when Cai Yan first met Bian Que, he was just as spirited and had no sign of illness, but Cai Yan died in the end."

Thinking of the story of Cai Yan that his adopted sons had been telling one after another just now, Black Jin Gang realized and sighed, "Fortunately, there is Godmother."

"Cough, cough, and fortunately there is your son, me." The clam spirit hurriedly claimed credit, "Grandmother originally intended to leave after finishing my treatment, but I insisted on sharing the blessings.

Grandmother was very hesitant, saying that everyone was sleeping and it wouldn't be good to disturb them.

Your son insisted that life was at stake and sleeping was a small matter.

If your son hadn't brought everyone out for a physical exam, the hidden poison in the water mansion would have continued to poison us!"

"That's right, that's right, thanks to Clam Brother; Brother is affectionate and righteous toward us!" The demons on the side nodded repeatedly, their eyes filled with gratitude as they looked at the clam spirit.

Black Jin Gang looked left and right; all eighty-eight adopted sons were there, not one missing!

"You have all left the Immortal Mansion, then what about my wife, your mother? Does she have hidden poison in her body?" he asked.

"Alas, don't mention the Godmothers again; they are the source of the disaster!" the clam spirit said solemnly.

The water snake spirit sighed, "The Godmothers were dead people; they naturally had yin qi in their bodies and resentment in their hearts. The qi of hidden poison and resentment attracted the earth-evil poison qi from the abyss, and the two combined to eventually generate sentient hidden poison, poisoning everyone in the mansion."

"Fortunately, there is Grandmother. Grandmother has eyes that can see hidden ghosts and dealt with that group of harmful Godmothers in a few swift moves," a loach demon said, looking at Xiao Yu with a face full of gratitude.

"My ghost wives were all dealt with? How were they dealt with?" Black Jin Gang was shocked.

Xiao Yu said indifferently, "Naturally, dust returns to dust, earth returns to earth; they went where they were supposed to go."

After all eighty-eight demon grandsons had finished their physical exams, she felt a sense of curiosity about the "Langhuan Immortal Mansion" in her heart.

Well, she had been curious since last night, but she was used to "destroying fathers" and was worried that she would be destroyed herself.

Now that she was sure there would be no ambush, she immediately had the thought of "searching for treasure in the Dragon Palace."

Of course, her explanation to the demon grandsons was incomparably righteous: In order to find the cause of the collective illness, Grandmother didn't even care about her old aching legs!

After speaking, she endured the pain of her "old aching legs" (her expression of pain was very rich) and dived into the abyss, arriving before a dark, dirty, and smelly cave.

She was dumbfounded.

She didn't expect the residence of a river-patrolling yaksha to compare to the Dragon Palace in "Journey to the West," so bright and full of treasures, but at least it should have rooms and be habitable!

This was simply a "demon's den"!

Even if there were a few fist-sized night-luminescent pearls placed deep in the den, the pearls' light was greenish and miserable, making the atmosphere look even more gloomy and eerie.

Plus the more than ten village girl vengeful spirits detained deep in the cave...

Even if she changed the "Immortal" in "Langhuan Immortal Mansion" at the entrance to "Earth," it wouldn't be out of place at all.

Xiao Yu didn't go in at all, nor did she want to stay long.

She ordered a few demon grandsons to go inside, move the skeletons of the village girls hidden in the cave out, and send them to the shore to be burned to ashes in a fire.

The spirits of the village girls gained liberation, bowed to her, and drifted away on the spot.

She didn't know if they went to the underworld or fled to the nearby barren mountains and wild ridges.

In any case, they would no longer be harmed by Black Jin Gang.

"Mother! You are really too ignorant—"

Upon learning that all his wives were gone after one trip out, Black Jin Gang was both anxious and angry, and he shouted indignantly.

But facing the cold blade-like gaze of his Godmother, his belly full of anger immediately deflated by half, and he sighed, "There has only ever been a mother finding a wife for her son to carry on the family line; which mother specifically tears down her son's home?

You don't think about it, Mother; without a son, who will provide for your old age and bury you?

Without a wife, where will my son come from to provide for my old age and bury me?"

The surrounding demon grandsons immediately patted their bellies and guaranteed, "Godfather, don't worry, your sons will definitely provide for your old age and bury you."

Xiao Yu said indifferently, "Black creature, my son, humans are born of mothers, and demons are also born of mothers.

Humans must pay attention to the words of matchmakers and the commands of parents.

Now that you have a mother, of course, it must also be up to Mother here to help you find a wife.

There can be no illicit unions without matchmakers, and even less can you defy a mother's command."

Black Jin Gang heard this and immediately revealed a look of joy, "Mother, have you found a wife for me?"

Xiao Yu said, "You are a patrolling river yaksha, so you count as an official. In the human world, you are also at the level of a master or young master. Do you know how masters and young masters in the human world marry wives?"

Black Jin Gang shook his head, and a look of yearning appeared on his black face, which had not yet healed from its wounds. He muttered, "When an official master marries a wife, it must be very imposing, very lively, and very festive; the bride must be tender and delicate, just like my Mother—"

"Slap, slap, slap!" Xiao Yu drew her sword and angrily slapped him a few times.

The demon grandsons on the side also pointed at him and said, "Godfather, you are too unfilial. Mother is Mother, and a wife is a wife; how can you confuse the two?

In the future, when you marry a wife, you will also have to be filial to Grandmother; how can you compare her to Grandmother?"

Black Jin Gang knelt honestly, kowtowed a few times to his frost-faced Mother, and begged, "Mother, I am a muddled person; you can continue to slap me... but, the wounds on my face haven't healed yet. Today, when I saw the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng, he even asked about the wounds on my face.

If you want to slap, please slap my buttocks, and tell me in advance so I can take off my armor."

As he spoke, he untied the savage lion belt at his waist, intending to take off his skirt armor and pants on the spot and stick his big black buttocks up.

Xiao Yu waved her hand to stop his attempt to take off his pants and said, "You are an official master after all; slapping your buttocks is too unrefined. From now on, I will use my sword to slap the top of your head."

"That works too." Black Jin Gang touched his smooth head, which had had its fish fins cut off, nodded, and said with a look of anticipation, "Mother, please continue; what kind of wife have you chosen for me?"

Xiao Yu coughed a few times and said, "When an official master marries a wife, there are generally three steps. First, clear out the people in the house and keep yourself clean until the main wife enters the door.

Second, ask a matchmaker to screen for a young lady of equal social status, and let Mother decide on the final option.

Finally, there are the three matchmakers and six betrothal gifts, and the eight-bearer bridal sedan chair to bring the wife into the house.

Now I have helped you clear out the people in the house; next, you only need to keep yourself clean, cultivate your character, and quietly wait for Mother to notify you to become a groom."

"Oh, everything is arranged by Mother; I just have to wait to be a groom. How simple, how easy," Black Jin Gang said with a face full of joy.

"That's right, just wait honestly."

Xiao Yu smiled and nodded.

Let's see what kind of "beautiful" wife Mother finds for you!

"Cough, grandsons, it's getting late today; Grandmother needs to rest for a while. As for you, either go find food or continue lying here.

Now that the hidden poison has been removed, sleep for a few more days, build up your energy, and wait for Grandmother to give you a follow-up examination."

She pulled Black Jin Gang, who was still having heart pain, to a secluded spot and asked, "Have you seen the Yellow Sand Huangsha Xiaosheng? What did he say?"