Volume 4: The Rise of Wuji Dao Chapter 18: The Magical Method of Gu Poison, the Fragments of Concentrating the Mind
Hearing Su Yan's reminder, Min Xuelou immediately noticed a strange flying insect about to land on her left arm.
She immediately turned away and cut the flying insect in half with her sword.
"There are insects approaching from the air and the ground, be careful." Su Yan sent the message again.
In fact, Min Xuelou had already noticed that there were poisonous insects all around.
Flying in the sky, crawling on the ground, even Min Xuelou felt a little uncomfortable.
Immediately, the internal energy in her body circulated at a high speed, and her body movements and footwork were brought to the extreme. She turned into an afterimage, and in a breath she covered a distance of ten to twenty feet, and went straight to the side of the short cloaked person who was suspected to be the witch.
The strange thing is that although Min Xuelou was extremely fast in dodging the poisonous insect and flying over, it still took him at least two breaths of time.
But the witch just stood there without moving.
It was not until Min Xuelou was five steps away and stabbed her with a sword that she suddenly opened her cloak!
In an instant, an extremely ugly face, like a demon, appeared in front of Min Xuelou.
Even with Min Xuelou's knowledge and murderous nature, he was still a little scared.
But her sword pierced the witch's forehead without stopping.
At this moment, Min Xuelou noticed that the witch's turbid old eyes were full of astonishment, as if she was very surprised that she could be killed by a sword.
Min Xuelou felt strange.
"You just lifted your cloak without dodging. Isn't it normal for me to kill you with one sword?"
She didn't have time to investigate further because the cloaked woman whose arm she had cut off and the other four people immediately ran away when they saw that the witch was dead.
Obviously, these cloaked women had no intention of avenging the witch.
Based on the behavior of the cloaked woman whose arm was cut off earlier, Min Xuelou concluded that these people were accomplices of the witch, and therefore did not intend to let them go.
She used her skills again and chased after the nearest person.
These cloaked women could only control poisonous insects and were physically strong, but they did not know any martial arts, so they were all killed by Min Xuelou before they escaped from the Witch Temple.
With the precautions in place, the poisonous insects of these women had no effect on Min Xuelou at all.
Returning to the backyard, Min Xuelou discovered that most of the dozen girls had passed out due to being bitten by poisonous insects.
However, there was still a little girl of eight or nine years old who held the edge of the rocky mountain tightly with both hands. Her body was crawling with poisonous insects, her lips were black and blue, her eyes were closed, but she was still gritting her teeth and not falling down.
Min Xuelou sighed secretly and exerted a gentle palm force, which shook all the poisonous insects off the little girl's body.
Then she wanted to carry the little girl to a place where there were no poisonous insects, but found that she couldn't move her.
But the little girl held the stone too tightly.
Therefore, Min Xuelou could only pry open the little girl's fingers one by one before he could get her away.
Afterwards, Min Xuelou shook off the poisonous insects on the other girls one by one and carried them to an open space on the side.
In order to avoid attacks by poisonous insects, she lit a circle of bonfires around her, and then she breathed a sigh of relief.
"Master, how do we cure the poison of these girls?"
Su Yan transmitted his voice: "This witch may have a special antidote. You can look for it, but be careful of the poisonous insects hidden in her body."
"Um."
Min Xuelou nodded, and immediately used his sword to carefully open the witch's clothes.
It turned out that on such a hot day, the witch not only wore a cloak on the outside, but also three layers of clothes inside, with many pockets sewn on. A large number of bottles and jars were found when they were searched out.
Min Xuelou looked through them carefully and found that some were poisonous insects, some were unknown powders or liquids, and some were pills.
Fortunately, perhaps to prevent confusion, the witch engraved small words on each bottle and jar to provide instructions.
Even so, Min Xuelou searched for a long time before he found a bottle of pills called "Bai Ling Jiedu Pills".
She fed one child first, and seeing that the child's complexion improved immediately, she fed the Bailing Detoxification Pill to the other children one by one.
After doing all this, Min Xuelou couldn't help but sigh: "I didn't expect that this witch would have such a miraculous detoxification pill."
Su Yan transmitted his voice: "Her ability is to drive poisonous insects and use poison, so her ability to detoxify is naturally not bad. However, her most powerful means are not poisonous insects or poisons."
"Did Master make any other discoveries?" Min Xuelou asked in surprise.
"Do you know why when you stabbed her with the sword before, she didn't dodge or evade, but just lifted her cloak to look at you?" Su Yan asked back.
Min Xuelou frowned slightly and said, "Disciple is also confused about his reaction."
Su Yan said: "That's because, the moment she looked at you, her thoughts gathered into one and pierced you like a needle.
It was just that my consciousness was spreading outside your body at that time, so I happened to block her sneaky attack, which allowed you to kill her with one sword."
"This..." Min Xuelou was stunned at first, then asked nervously: "Then are you okay, Grandmaster?"
"I'm fine. Although this witch can concentrate her thoughts to attack others, it is too weak compared to my spiritual consciousness. That's why I concluded that she only concentrated her thoughts, not her spiritual consciousness.
However, her method of concentrating and applying thoughts is very useful to me. You should quickly search this temple to see if you can find relevant secrets."
"yes!"
Min Xuelou was very concerned about Su Yan's matter. He responded and immediately started searching in the backyard with a torch.
Su Yan also fully extended his spiritual consciousness and followed the search.
In fact, he had long wondered whether there was a way to directly cultivate the spirit and thoughts, which was the legendary method of refining the soul.
However, he had traveled in this world for decades and had never seen this kind of martial arts or secret manuals, so he did not mention it to his disciples.
But I never thought that I would see it in the hands of an old woman in this remote county today.
It seems that he should be lucky today.
Min Xuelou first took some time to find the witch's bedroom, and then began to search it carefully.
In the end, it was Su Yan who relied on his spiritual sense to find two secret books in a half-human-high stone statue of an old woman.
When he took it out and looked at it, he saw that the handwriting was crude and sloppy, and he knew that this was most likely copied from somewhere by Wu Lao.
One of them is titled "The Wonderful Method of Curing Poison" and the other is titled "The Secret of Concentrating the Mind".
"The Wonderful Method of Gu Poison" is a bit thick, about thirty or forty pages.
But the "Art of Concentrating the Mind" is only a dozen pages long, and the characters are written in large fonts.
Su Yan directly skipped over "The Wonderful Method of Gu Poison" and quickly browsed through "The Art of Concentrating the Mind" and memorized it.
He discovered that the entire "Art of Concentrating the Mind" had less than a thousand words, and in some places the introduction was obviously inconsistent with the conclusion, as if there was some missing content.
Besides, the wording was quite obscure. Su Yan considered himself to have a high level of attainment in classical Chinese, but he still did not quite understand it at first glance.
Judging from the witch-like handwriting structure, she probably didn't know many words before. Su Yan didn't believe that she could comprehend the method of concentrating and applying thoughts from such obscure words.
After carefully studying the contents of "The Art of Concentrating the Mind", Su Yan indeed discovered that this secret book lacked the most important part - the visualization diagram.
Su Yan didn't know why the witch only copied the text content but failed to copy the visualization picture.
He just wanted to know how much use this "Concentration Technique" would be to him without the visualization diagram.
So he stopped communicating with Min Xuelou and started to study "The Art of Concentrating the Mind" carefully.
It was not until dawn that Su Yan finally understood the "Art of Concentrating the Mind", which consisted of less than a thousand words.
Just as he expected, "The Art of Concentrating the Mind" is indeed a method of refining the mind.
According to what he said, one only needs to visualize the "Tianmu Diagram" to make the mind more and more concentrated, until it can attract the two souls of heaven, earth and man to merge and transform into the divine soul.
The soul can sense the primordial spirit hidden in the dark, so it possesses some of the primordial spirit's methods.
One is the birth of spiritual consciousness.
Although spiritual consciousness cannot extend out of thin air and explore external objects like Su Yan's divine consciousness, it can look inward and explore the meridians and acupoints in the body.
Secondly, although spiritual consciousness cannot extend out of thin air, it can condense into a force and instantly attack the conscious soul of others within a close distance, which is also the earth soul.
The third is to combine "The Wonderful Method of Gu Poison" with secret techniques to refine poisonous insects and drive them away.
However, before the soul is transformed into the primordial spirit, this secret technique can only be used to drive poisonous insects at close range.
If you want to drive it over a long distance, you have to rely on other means.
