The game starts with escaping from the famine and flipping the table

Chapter 857 9th Transformation Blood Poison Ginseng

Human feelings are like thin paper, and the world is like a new chess game.

Lin Yifeng finally shamelessly followed the old man who was collecting herbs into the mountains.

The old man who collects herbs lives in seclusion in the mountains. He goes out once a month to sell herbs and buy some rice and flour.

Today happened to be the time when the old herbalist was selling herbs and buying rice, and he had a drug that could make wild boars unconscious instantly.

The old lady who was collecting herbs happened to pass by here. Seeing that Lin Yifeng was in danger, she used the knockout drug without hesitation and caught all the wild boars in one fell swoop.

All I can say is that it was all a coincidence, and Lin Yifeng was destined not to die.

In this way, Lin Yifeng lived in the mountains with the old man who collected herbs for three whole years.

For the past three years, Lin Yifeng felt like he was trapped in the mountains and had never stepped out of the forest.

It’s not that Lin Yifeng was unwilling to leave the mountain. It was because of his inconvenient legs and feet in the first six months that he couldn’t leave the mountain safely by himself.

Although Lin Yifeng was unable to go out alone in the past six months, he kept the small bamboo house where they lived clean and tidy.

In fact, the old man who collected herbs had opened up a large medicinal field, about four or five acres, and planted some rare medicinal herbs. Unfortunately, Lin Yifeng didn't know much about medicinal herbs, so he couldn't help at all.

However, Lin Yifeng was a person who could not sit still, and was even more unwilling to eat for free. So he took the initiative to cultivate two acres of vegetable fields and planted a lot of vegetables to ensure that he and the old lady who collected herbs would always have vegetables to eat. Otherwise, it would be very greasy to always eat meat and wild vegetables.

The old man who collected herbs watched coldly. He never told Lin Yifeng his name from beginning to end, and only asked Lin Yifeng to call him "Medicine Old Man".

After following Yao Lao for half a year, Lin Yifeng finally gained the old man's recognition.

After dinner that day, Yao Lao kept looking at Lin Yifeng, his eyes flickering with complex emotions that Lin Yifeng couldn't understand at all.

Lin Yifeng was so nervous that he didn't know what to do with his hands and feet. After thinking for a long time, he took a cup of honeysuckle tea and handed it to Yao Lao respectfully. He mustered up the courage to look at Yao Lao and ask: "Yao... Yao Lao, what... am I...doing...not...well?"

Yao Lao lowered his eyes, hiding all his emotions. He took a sip of herbal tea and then spoke slowly, "Do you want to treat your leg?"

"What?" Lin Yifeng exclaimed, suspecting that there was something wrong with his ears and he had heard it wrong.

Yao Lao looked up at Lin Yifeng impatiently, and a powerful pressure poured out, scaring Lin Yifeng so much that he woke up. He looked at Yao Lao with surprise and desire, but did not dare to ask another question.

Yao Lao was very frugal with his words and asked directly: "Your leg can be healed, but it needs to be re-broken."

What?

Re-interrupt?

Recalling the pain of his broken leg, Lin Yifeng shuddered involuntarily. However, thinking of the cold treatment and torture he had suffered from his family after his leg became lame, Lin Yifeng strengthened his faith.

Lin Yifeng clenched his fists tightly and met Yao Lao's gaze resolutely: "I will cure it!"

"Well, it's not hopeless!" Yao Lao nodded with satisfaction, then he said this coldly and went back to his room to rest leisurely.

Lin Yifeng stood there as if struck by lightning, his whole body cold. Yao Lao's words just now kept echoing in his mind: "If you refuse, I will throw you out like garbage!"

At this moment, Lin Yifeng deeply realized that once a person loses his usefulness, he is truly at the end of his rope.

Fortunately, although the old man Yao is indifferent, he has superb medical skills.

Yao Lao quickly and swiftly broke Lin Yifeng's lame leg, and then reset the bone. The whole process was as smooth as flowing water, which showed that this was not the first time Yao Lao had treated someone's leg in this way.

In the next six months, Yao Lao would prepare various medicinal foods every day and carefully take care of Lin Yifeng's health.

Lin Yifeng's legs finally returned to normal.

Not only that, Lin Yifeng was pleasantly surprised to find that his body had become exceptionally healthy, and even his strength had increased a lot.

Lin Yifeng had no doubt that he could kill a wild boar with one punch.

It's not an exaggeration, but he has secretly tested it and found that he can break a tree as thick as a bowl with one punch.

At this moment, Lin Yifeng was full of gratitude towards Yao Lao. He swore that he would repay Yao Lao.

Yao Lao saw all of Lin Yifeng's expressions, and his eyes were filled with mystery.

At this time, the old man revealed his identity to Lin Yifeng—a hermit alchemist.

"I helped you heal your leg because I saw that you had a miserable life and you had an indomitable will." Yao Lao still spoke slowly, but Lin Yifeng could hear that he was very grateful.

"Now, your legs have recovered. From today on, follow me and learn how to collect herbs and do odd jobs!" After saying that, Yao Lao took out a book and handed it to Lin Yifeng: "This is the 'Compendium of Medicinal Plants'. You should memorize it carefully."

Lin Yifeng's face instantly turned red, as if blood was about to drip out. His lips were trembling, and if you didn't listen carefully, you couldn't hear what he was saying.

Fortunately, Yao Lao had excellent hearing and heard clearly that Lin Yifeng said "I can't read!"

Looking at Lin Yifeng who lowered his head and didn't dare to look at him, Yao Lao fell silent.

After a long while, Yao Lao finally sighed.

That’s fine!

Maybe this is God's will.

Yao Lao took back the book and said coldly: "Then you can help take care of the medicine field first. First, identify all the herbs in the field and understand their properties."

Lin Yifeng's eyes turned red, and he almost cried out of shame. Taking a deep breath, Lin Yifeng secretly vowed that he must take good care of the medicinal field and memorize the medicinal properties and effects of all the medicinal materials.

Another whole year passed, and Lin Yifeng finally went through untold hardships to recognize all the medicinal materials, including their names, medicinal properties, and effects. He also mastered some pharmacological knowledge of the monarch, ministers, assistants, and envoys, as well as simple prescriptions.

After passing Yao Lao's many tests, Lin Yifeng was finally accepted as Yao Lao's apprentice.

Yao Lao looked at Lin Yifeng with complicated eyes. This kid has a really good understanding. If it weren't for... I might really accept this apprentice, but unfortunately...

Yao Lao lowered his eyes, his heart calm.

I still need to teach you a thing or two about alchemy. But I don't have the skills... so I'll just make some liquid medicine.

So, in the following year, Yao Lao taught Lin Yifeng several simple medicinal liquid recipes and asked Lin Yifeng to refine them over and over again.

It must be said that Lin Yifeng was really talented. It only took Lin Yifeng three days to go from stumbling at the beginning to being able to skillfully refine the liquid medicine.

Then, in just one month, the medicinal liquid refined by Lin Yifeng was upgraded from low-grade to top-grade.

Yao Lao looked at the top-grade medicine in his hand with complicated eyes, and his heart was struggling with his conscience.

This talent is truly rare in a thousand years.

It must be said that Lin Yifeng is really persistent. In the past three years, he has not only gone from not knowing how to read to being able to memorize the Complete Works of Medicinal Plants and the Classic of Materia Medica...

Yao Lao remembered that when he took back the rolled-up copy of "Hundred Herbal Classic" and asked Lin Yifeng to recite it silently, the young man recited it word for word.

In order to practice, Lin Yifeng held the prey with broken legs in his arms and learned how to set the bones bit by bit.

Of course, it was not a good idea to connect them at the beginning. The legs of the prey were often either crooked or shortened and lame...

Perhaps it was because the severe pain of the bone-setting was too unforgettable, or perhaps it was because Lin Yifeng still remembered clearly that his broken leg bones had been warmed by the ointment prepared by the old pharmacist.

Anyway, Lin Yifeng relied on his super memory, tenacious perseverance, a little bit of experimentation, and a little bit of accumulation, and finally learned the technique of reconnecting broken bones.

Yao Lao, who had been watching coldly, was touched in his heart.

but……

The old man's skinny fingers were holding the poisoned silver needle, and his eyes were flickering, as sinister as a venomous snake spitting out its tongue.

After thinking for a long time, Yao Lao walked to the medicinal field and called Lin Yifeng to the edge of the field: "Let's go, I'll take you to pick herbs today."

"Oh!" Lin Yifeng obediently went back to put on his backpack, took his medicine hoe and dagger, and slung his bow and arrow, then followed Yao Lao into the mountains.

Only this time, what Yao Lao picked were all poisonous weeds.

Every time Lin Yifeng dug poisonous grass under the guidance of Yao Lao, he was always trembling with fear. After digging it out, he carefully wrapped it with leaves, for fear of accidentally touching it and getting poisoned.

The two walked all the way deep into the mountains, and Lin Yifeng wanted to persuade Yao Lao to go back several times. But looking at Yao Lao's stern face, Lin Yifeng didn't dare to speak, and could only follow behind nervously, walking into the deep mountains that they had never reached before.

On the cliff ahead, there was a plant that was a strange purple-black color all over, with dark blue runes flowing on the surface of its leaves. The vines were wrapped around it, and all the grass and trees within a three-foot radius were dead, emitting a soul-shaking stench of decay.

Lin Yifeng now knows that the brighter the poisonous weeds are, the more poisonous they are.

Just as Lin Yifeng was staring at the poisonous weed in a daze, a faint voice suddenly came to his ears.

"Remember," Yao Lao suddenly leaned close to his ear, and the breath he exhaled clearly had the scent of medicine, but it made Lin Yifeng feel cold all over. "The most poisonous thing in the world is not the heartbreak grass, but the human heart."

"Heartbreak grass?" Lin Yifeng murmured. Just by hearing the name, one could guess how poisonous this poisonous grass was.

This time, Yao Lao did not let Lin Yifeng do it, but climbed up the rock wall himself and dug out the heartbreak grass.

Lin Yifeng saw Yao Lao take out a jade box from his arms and carefully put the heartbreak grass into the jade box.

So, this heartbreak grass is really poisonous.

Lin Yifeng saw it all clearly. Before digging up the heartbreak grass, the old medicine man actually put on ice silk gloves!

Lin Yifeng had only seen pictures of this pair of gloves in the "Book of Hundred Poisons", but this was the first time he saw their real appearance.

This ice silk comes from the ice silkworms from Kunlun Snow Mountain. It contains both cold and poisonous properties, as if it is a mysterious treasure bestowed by nature.

When the ice silkworm spins silk, it will incorporate its own cold and poisonous power into the silk thread without reservation, just like a perfect fusion of the coldness of ice and snow and the lethality of toxin.

These ice silk gloves are made of the finest quality ice silk, and the collection and processing process requires extreme care to ensure the purity and activity of the ice silk.

Not only that, some auxiliary materials are added during the production of ice silk gloves.

For example, soaking in the juice of magical herbs with anti-toxic effects makes the gloves anti-toxic;

For example, gemstone powder with defensive power was added to enhance the defensive performance of the gloves...

In this way, the ice silk gloves have anti-toxic and various other functions, becoming a rare treasure.

Lin Yifeng had some more guesses about Yao Lao's identity. How could Yao Lao, who had ice silk gloves and a bronze medicine cauldron, be just an ordinary doctor?

It was only after Lin Yifeng had refined a full thousand batches of potions in the medicine house that he discovered that the inside of the bronze medicine cauldron was actually engraved with ancient mysterious runes.

However, Lin Yifeng did not ask Yao Lao.

His life was saved by Yao Lao.

His leg was cured by Yao Lao.

His medical skills were taught by Yao Lao.

Therefore, he had no idea how to repay Yao Lao's kindness to him.

On the way back, Lin Yifeng didn't ask anything. He felt that everyone had secrets and everyone had the right to keep secrets.

So, if Yao Lao didn’t tell him, he wouldn’t ask.

But after returning to the medicine furnace, Yao Lao actually left Lin Yifeng behind.

The light shone through the bamboo window onto Yao Lao, who lowered his eyes and wiped the medicine cauldron slowly and leisurely.

Just when Lin Yifeng was wondering what Yao Lao would say, Yao Lao suddenly looked up at Lin Yifeng, his eyes were as sharp as a knife, "Do you know why I asked you to memorize the Hundred Poisons Manual?"

Without waiting for Lin Yifeng to answer, a few dead leaves suddenly moved without wind and formed an extremely hideous talisman pattern on the ground.

"What is supposed to come has finally come." Yao Lao calmed down, his eyes became calm again, and he swallowed back all the words he wanted to say.

Without waiting for Yao Lao to speak, Lin Yifeng looked out the window, staring at the winding mountain road in a daze.

The dusk gradually dyed the entire mountain range into blue-gray.

Suddenly, on the quiet mountain road, there was the sound of a bamboo stick knocking against bluestone.

Lin Yifeng looked towards the source of the sound in surprise. He saw an old man with white hair and beard, hunched back, carrying a small backpack and walking slowly from the direction of Yao Lao's medicinal field.

Yao Lao seemed to have seen nothing and continued to wipe the medicine cauldron in silence.

Until the newcomer entered the medicine furnace and stood two meters in front of Yao Lao. The white-haired hunchbacked old man suddenly stretched out his palm like a dead leaf and threw out a few blood-red ginseng whiskers: "Ahem! Junior brother, you can leave if you want, why did you forget to bring the Nine-transformation Blood Poison Ginseng?"

Lin Yifeng's eyelids twitched, and he couldn't help but feel a storm in his heart.

Nine-turn Blood Poison Ginseng, this is an extremely rare and highly toxic poison!

It is said that the Nine-Turn Blood Poison Ginseng usually grows in dark, damp, miasma-filled valleys or underground caves. These places have harsh environments that are difficult for ordinary people to set foot in, but the Nine-Turn Blood Poison Ginseng can grow tenaciously in such an environment.

Its plant is very short, usually no more than one foot tall. However, despite its small size, its rhizome is a frightening blood red, as if it were soaked in blood.

What is even more eye-catching is that there are nine black lines on the ginseng body. These lines are like nine winding little snakes, tightly wrapped around the ginseng body, so it is named "Nine-Turn Blood Poison Ginseng".

The leaves of the Nine-Turn Blood Poison Ginseng are dark green, forming a sharp contrast with its blood-red rhizome. The edges of the leaves are serrated and look quite sharp.

Not only that, the leaves also emit a faint smell of blood, which makes people feel scared when they smell it.

What people fear the most is the deadly poison contained in the Nine-turn Blood Poison Ginseng!

This toxin is extremely potent. Once ingested by mistake, it can kill a person in a very short time. It is no exaggeration to say that it can kill a person instantly.