Return the Jade to Zhao

Chapter 161 Returning the Jade to Zhao

The disheveled old man closed his eyes and said, "If you can't find the reincarnated holy child, you know the consequences."

The witch king bowed, took the butcher's lower body and retreated out of the temple. After he walked out of the temple, he heard chewing sounds coming from the temple, as if something was eating the body of the witch king Jiacuo.

The corners of the Witch King's eyes twitched again, and he felt a sharp pain in his waist. He just roughly placed himself on the lower body of Witch King Jiacuo and forcibly used his magic power to connect the two together, but their flesh and blood did not grow together, and their bones, tendons, meridians, qi and blood, and essence were not connected.

He must use a secret potion to combine the two and turn Gyatso's body into his own.

Since he got the butcher's lower body, he thought that he could finally make further progress in his life. Unexpectedly, the butcher did not die, but came to him. As the Great Venerable's body was withered, he did not dare to fight the butcher to the death, so he had to give up the butcher's lower body.

Although the abilities of the Witch King Jiacuo are not weak, they are still not as good as the Witch Lord's previous physical body. It is unknown how long it will take for him to return to his previous level.

Wu Zun endured the pain and carried the butcher's lower body down the mountain. Qin Mu, the butcher and the blind man had already gone up the mountain and met him halfway up the mountain.

Wu Zun put down the butcher's lower body and bowed: "Heavenly Khan."

The butcher looked at his lower body, then at Wu Zun's waist, and shook his head, saying, "Why do you have to do this? You have been nurturing my body for more than two hundred years. My body is still alive, and I have to thank you for that."

The corners of Wu Zun's eyes twitched twice again.

Qin Mu took out the golden lower body and said, "Wu Zun, I will return your body to you. It is useless for me to keep it."

The muscles on Wu Zun's face trembled, and he said in a hoarse voice: "I don't need it anymore."

"It can also be used to refine treasures."

Qin Mu said kindly: "I see that your body has not been reconnected yet. I am also quite knowledgeable in medicine. If Wu Zun trusts me, I can help you reconnect."

"You want to take advantage of this opportunity to harm me?"

Wu Zun snorted coldly, turned around and left with his lower body.

Qin Mu shook his head and sighed, "A doctor is like a parent. I plan to use his body to practice, and then help Grandpa Tu connect his body..."

The butcher smiled and said, "I trust your medical skills. Of course, it would be better if we could go back and find a pharmacist and have him treat us personally, but it would take too long to get back to Daxu."

He suddenly shouted loudly: "Old man, are you still alive?" The voice was loud and clear, echoing throughout the mountain.

An old and sharp voice came from the Golden Palace of Loulan: "Don't worry, Tiandao is not dead yet, how can I die?"

"This old ghost is still alive."

The butcher sneered: "Sooner or later, you will die! Let's go!"

Qin Mu picked up the butcher's lower body, and the three of them went down the mountain together.

The blind man looked back up the mountain and said thoughtfully, "The man inside is very strong."

The butcher breathed a sigh of relief and said with a smile, "I don't have a lower body, so I'm probably no match for him. That's why I asked you to come with me to deal with him. This old guy has been reincarnated seventeen times and lived for eighteen lifetimes. I'm afraid he's already lived for ten thousand years, but he's still alive. I've fought him several times, and he's very powerful."

Qin Mu lost his voice and said, "Live for eighteen lifetimes? Live for ten thousand years? How is this possible?"

"How is it impossible? You must have seen gods and demons that have lived for more than ten thousand years in the Great Ruins, right? In fact, there are still some terrifying things in this world, but you are still young and cannot come into contact with such beings."

The butcher said, "Although that old guy is not a god or demon, he is not far off. He knows a lot of past events and secrets. If he were not an enemy, I would not go against him."

The blind man nodded and said, "There are indeed some scary things. For example, my eyes..."

He shook his head and said nothing more.

Qin Mu's heart was slightly shocked. The blind man's eyes were dug out, but he never said who did it. What secret was behind it?

They left the Loulan Golden Palace, reunited with Ling Yuxiu, and headed for the barbarian city on the grassland. Qin Mu bought some medicinal herbs in the city, took out a large cauldron from his cloth bag, and said, "Grandpa Tu, I will boil your lower body first to refine the blood and voodoo of Wu Zun."

He placed a large vat of water in the cauldron and put the herbs into the water one by one. After it boiled and the aroma of the herbs filled the air, he then put the butcher's lower body into the water.

Hu Ling'er asked nervously, "Will it be cooked?"

The blind man smiled and said, "When you smell the aroma of meat, it will be cooked."

The butcher said angrily, "My body is indestructible even if struck by a god, so how can it be boiled by a pot of boiling water?"

After boiling for a while, Qin Mu looked at the color of the potion, opened a medicine cup, opened the cup, pinched out a few dried red and black toads, only the size of fingernails, and then scattered them into the cauldron.

The toad had been dried, but after entering the water, it absorbed enough water and came back to life. It ran around in the boiling water, absorbing the voodoo.

Not long after, several toads died of poisoning.

Qin Mu changed another cauldron of water and repeated the process nine times, finally clearing out the voodoo. The blood in the butcher's lower body turned red again, and the blood seemed to come alive, flowing automatically in his blood vessels.

Qin Mu boiled another pot of water, replaced it with dozens of other medicinal herbs, and then boiled the butcher's lower body to stimulate the activity of the blood and flesh, and kept cooking until late at night.

The little fox Ling Yuxiu had fallen asleep, the green ox had also gone to sleep, the blind man was sitting on the ground leaning on a bamboo stick and dozing off, only Qin Mu and the butcher were still guarding the cauldron.

Qin Mu drew out the Shaobao Sword, handed it to the butcher, and said, "Grandpa Tu, I can't cut your body. You need to do it yourself and cut off the part of your upper body where the flesh membrane has grown."

"I don't need your sword. I'll use my knife."

The butcher pulled out his butcher knife, gritted his teeth and cut himself under the body to cut off the membrane of flesh formed on the wound. His cultivation was powerful, and he immediately used his vital energy to seal the wound to stop the bleeding.

Qin Mu fished his lower body out of the cauldron. The wounds on his lower body were still fresh, so there was no need to cut any more. Qin Mu took out a jade bottle and carefully smeared the ambergris on the cross-sections of his lower and upper body.

As soon as the ambergris was applied, granulation tissues began to grow rapidly, like little red worms wriggling.

He did not connect the two halves of the body together immediately. Instead, he turned his vital energy into threads and picked out the tendons and nerves one by one, connecting the tendons and nerves.

More and more energy threads flowed out from his palms, connecting the granulations, the flesh membranes, the intestines, and the spine. The butcher's body gradually closed up, but the skin around his waist had not yet grown out.

Qin Mu finally smeared ambergris on his wounds, and the skin grew back on its own, connecting the wound together.

He cheered up, lifted the butcher up, put him in the medicine cauldron, poured the last packet of herbs into the cauldron, lit a fire and slowly boiled them.

In the big cauldron, the butcher leaned his arms on the edge of the cauldron and suddenly said, "Mu'er, thank you for your hard work."

Qin Mu shook his head and said with a smile: "I have been studying medicine with Grandpa Pharmacist for many years. Grandpa Pharmacist taught me all my skills, so it can't be considered hard work."

"I hope you don't have a bad reputation like the pharmacist."

The water gradually boiled, and the butcher exhaled a breath of white mist comfortably, saying, "Oh, right, I saw you taking things out of that small cloth bag just now, and this tripod was also taken out of it. There's something strange about your cloth bag, let me take a look."

Qin Mu handed the bag over and said, "I picked up this bag from the treasure house of the Golden Palace of Loulan. Somehow, there was an acre of land inside the bag, so I used it to carry things."

The butcher opened the bag and took a look inside, his face looking strange: "Mu'er, you picked up quite a lot of things from the Golden Palace's treasure house."

Qin Mu's face turned slightly red.

"You can learn from the cripple, but don't get addicted."

The butcher sighed and said, "In fact, everyone in our village has their own problems. The cripple likes to steal things, the pharmacist poisons people at every turn, and is merciful. As for me, I was too arrogant in the past and drew my knife against the gods. The blind man is arrogant and lustful. The deaf man is too proud, and the dumb man has his own ideas and tells no one. Forget about the village chief, who pretends to be mysterious every day, and the mother-in-law is a troublemaker. I'm afraid you have learned all our shortcomings."

Qin Mu said solemnly: "Don't worry, Grandpa Tu, I have never been in trouble since I left the village. The ancestor is very satisfied with me!"

"That's good. You can cause trouble, but you have to be able to handle it."

The butcher shook the bag and said with a smile, "I've seen this kind of bag before. It's called a Taotie bag, and it's made from the skin of a Taotie. There should be pure-blooded Taotie in the ruins, but maybe we can defeat them if we all go together in the village. The skin used for your Taotie bag is not pure-blooded Taotie skin, but it's already of very high bloodline. The Taotie bags I've seen before were only a square foot in size and couldn't hold much. They should be made from the skin of an exotic animal that has Taotie blood in it."

"I see."

Qin Mu was surprised and asked quickly: "I have seen some houses that don't look big from the outside, but the space inside is very large. Why is that?"

"It's very simple. Use the bones of exotic animals that contain Taotie blood, grind them into powder, and mix them into the stone, or you can paint it. This way, the internal space will become larger."

The butcher said, "Taotie is a mythical beast, a type of dragon. This beast only eats and does not poop, so the space in its stomach is very vast. Its skin can be used to make Taotie bags, and its bones can be used to build houses, both of which are very useful. It's just that there are too few pure-blooded ones."

Qin Mu stayed beside him, and the two of them chatted. Before they knew it, Qin Mu fell asleep while sitting.

When he woke up, he saw that the fire under the cauldron had gone out. Just as he was about to add more fire, the butcher's voice came from the side, saying, "Mu'er, no need, I feel that I am fine now."

Qin Mu turned around quickly and saw that the butcher was already dressed neatly. He was wearing a new pair of trousers. These were the trousers that Qin Mu had made using the fabric he had bought when he bought the medicine.

The old man was wearing a loose robe and his messy beard was shaved clean, making him look clean-cut and majestic without even getting angry.

The butcher looked him up and down, nodding his head repeatedly: "You have grown up. We helped you before, but now you can help us. Very good, very good..."

The blind man's voice came from outside: "Pig butcher, if you keep talking you won't be able to get away. Your apprentice is catching up with us."

The butcher walked out and said, "There is a god's hand bone in your Taotie bag. I will keep it for you first. You can't take it now. The god is still alive. If you take it, it will only bring disaster to yourself."

Qin Mu was shocked: "The owner of the hand bone is still alive?"