When Mu Hanyu was diagnosed and treated, after the injuries that put her on the verge of death were removed from her soul, it turned into a gray-black light trying to escape from her sea of ​​consciousness.

Fortunately, Meng Zhou had quick eyes and quick hands and caught him before he escaped from Mu Hanyu's sea of ​​consciousness.

It turned into a small, very ordinary-looking gray-black stone.

But of course Meng Zhou knew that this stone was anything but ordinary.

Not only can it freely enter and exit the sea of ​​​​consciousness, specifically targeting the soul, but it can also bring ancestors like Mu Hanyu to the point of death.

This aroused great interest in Meng Zhou.

When he first learned about this thing, he spent a lot of time studying it.

But nothing was gained.

It wasn't until he took the risk to explore inside with his spiritual consciousness that he made a great discovery.

Inside the stone, he felt some familiar atmosphere.

And recalling it carefully, he also knew where this sense of familiarity came from.

Previously, he diagnosed and treated patients as "Ge Ping". Because there were too many patients, he was impatient to treat them one by one slowly. In addition, at that time, the name of "Ge Ping", a genius pharmacist, had gradually gained popularity, so he could

Spread your arms and legs wider.

He used "Spring Rain", a new talent born after his enlightenment, to conduct collective diagnosis and treatment of hundreds of patients.

Not only do they control people, they also control animals.

Perhaps this is because this type of diagnosis and treatment is too intensive and is covered by the "Spring Rain".

Patients are under the constant washout of "spring rain". On the one hand, the evil spirits, disease qi, poisonous qi, etc. in their bodies are forcibly expelled from the body, and on the other hand, they cannot diffuse and volatilize outside the body.

Under such a special environment, the essence finally condensed and separated from the bodies of each patient, monk, and monster beast. Meng Zhou collected them and named them "Niu Bao".

Because there are enough monks and monsters who have been treated by him, he has accumulated a lot of these things.

This item has a strange origin. If it fell into the hands of an ordinary pill-forming person, it would be considered a special treasure. It could even be used as a weapon when necessary.

Unfortunately, Meng Zhou has never taken them out since he was put into the spirit gourd space.

As this experience gradually faded away and his cultivation improved step by step, Meng Zhou almost forgot their existence.

At this moment, when his consciousness penetrated into the depths of this gray-black, seemingly ordinary stone, he felt an aura similar to that of "Niu Bao", but more pure.

This certainly gave him a sense of déjà vu.

Then, after a quick search, he quickly found the source of this familiarity in his memory.

Without thinking, he immediately took out an "ox treasure" from the spirit gourd space and put it together with the gray and black stone.

Then, a magical scene happened.

They are like two magnets stuck together, tightly attached to everything.

After investigation, it was discovered that this suction force came from the gray and black stone.

"It's swallowing!" After observing for a while, Meng Zhou further came to this conclusion.

As the "niu treasure" next to it disappeared, the appearance of this gray-black stone did not change.

Still the same color, still the same size.

But if you probe into it with your spiritual consciousness, you will find that the aura that is similar to "Niu Bao" but is much purer has become more abundant.

After that, under Meng Zhou's continuous "feeding", the number of "niu treasures" decreased day by day, but the aura inside this gray-black stone increased.

Even though its ability to swallow "Niu Bao" is not too fast, up to now, most of its reserves have been integrated into the small gray and black stone in its hand, and the aura inside it is gathering more and more.

Looking at the object in his hand, Meng Zhou probed into it with his spiritual consciousness. He had a feeling that the aura accumulated in it had reached a critical point.

Meng Zhou took another "cow treasure" and placed the two items next to each other.

The next moment, Meng Zhou blinked in surprise.

This "cow treasure" in the palm of my hand, as it sticks closely to the gray and black stones, shrinks at a speed visible to the naked eye, as if a straw has been inserted into it.

It quickly disappeared.

The speed is more than ten times faster than the previous slow devouring!

At the same time, Meng Zhou noticed that the gray-black stone in his palm had slightly undetectable changes in its original dull and ordinary appearance.

It seems to have a little more luster.

Soon, more "niu treasures" were taken out by Meng Zhou, no longer even one or two.

Taking into account its rapid devouring ability, five or six "niu treasures" at a time wrapped the gray and black stones from all directions, including top, bottom, left, and right, and quickly shrank and became smaller.

In the process, its surface gloss also becomes more and more obvious.

At the end, when the last "cow treasure" in the spirit gourd space was swallowed by it, this stone, which was just a gray-black stone when it was first acquired, has transformed into a gem that has not changed in color but is more pleasing to the eye.

There is actually a milky halo on the surface that looks like wax.

When the gray-black stone turned into such a gem, Meng Zhou's heart was deeply touched again.

Another strong sense of déjà vu came over me.

"I seem to have seen it before." Meng Zhou thought in his heart.

He quickly retrieved his memory again, and soon, Meng Zhou once again locked onto the source of this familiar feeling.

In the hidden space of Tianqi Mountain, in the dark and quiet deep trench of Wumeng Sea, under the vast swamp of Kurosawa Plain, and on the mysterious altar hidden in these three places, through time travel, every other

After a certain period of time, the shadow of the Lihen Statue will descend and fish out a batch of "gems" from the incense burner. These gems come in various colors.

Most of them are colorful and dazzling, but some are relatively inconspicuous.

It is neither favored by the phantom of the Lihen Statue nor does it have an eye-catching appearance.

Among them, there is this "gray black gem".

Moreover, this "gem" is not always available, sometimes there is, sometimes not.

Among the three altar incense burners, the output of this type of "gem" is relatively small.

As these memories came to mind, Meng Zhou felt extremely shocked.

He never thought that Mu Hanyu's near-death injury could be related to this secret altar incense burner.

"The monks from the Lihen Sect hidden in the Hehuan Sect suddenly launched an attack and almost killed Mu Hanyu completely."

"Not only did he take advantage of surprise, but more importantly, he used special means."

"I have speculated before that what this altar collects should be ethereal power such as hatred, anger, and murderous intent."

"Their common characteristic is that they are all born from an autonomous mind and tend to be negative."

Meng Zhou looked at the gray-black "gem" in his hand again and thought of the connection between it and the "Niu Bao".

"If we go by previous speculations, could this kind of 'jewel' originate from the disease in the soul?"

"Is there disease at the spiritual level?" Meng Zhou couldn't help but think in his mind.

But soon, images appeared in his mind one after another.

Paranoia, pathology, mysophobia, decadence, obsessive-compulsive disorder, mental illness...

It seems that these can be classified into the category of "sickness in the heart".

If we really dig deeper, it seems that there are quite a few practitioners who are "sick in their hearts".

Moreover, what is special is that with the improvement of cultivation, the strength and soul of the practitioner may become stronger and stronger, but the "sickness in the heart" will not improve at all.

On the contrary, it will gradually amplify as the cultivation level increases.

In the consensus of the cultivation world, there is never anything wrong with this. The more powerful a person is, the weirder his character and the more evil his behavior. This has even penetrated into the cognition of all practitioners.

Thinking about it this way, it seems normal for this kind of gem to appear in an altar censer.

After pondering the origin of this "gem" for a while, Meng Zhou turned his attention to the matter itself.

"At the beginning, the monk from the Lihen Cult who was lurking in the Hehuan Sect launched an attack. He should have used such a 'gem'. Let's call it the 'Sickness Gem'."

"Although Mu Hanyu's soul was severely damaged by this, with her own cultivation and the timely help of her Taoist companion Yin Youyi, she did not completely fall.

Instead, the two sides started a ‘tug of war’.”

"Although Mu Hanyu's condition has not improved during this process, the strange power in this 'sickness gemstone' is gradually wearing away."

"In this way, even if I don't take action, as long as the two of them continue to maintain their current state, and as long as no accidents occur, Mu Hanyu will probably get better.

With the intact Yin Youyi's continuous output and supplementation, maybe after another ten or eight years, after the power in the 'Sick Qi Gem' is completely consumed, the 'tug of war' between the two of them should be over.

The situation is evenly matched, and gradually we are moving to the upper hand.”

"...Well, that's not necessarily the case. Without the backing of strong strength, and when his soul is a dangerous battlefield, Mu Hanyu can hold on for one or two years, but he may not be able to hold on for more than ten years.

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As long as her anger is gone, no matter how hard Yin Youyi tries, it will be of no avail."

With these thoughts flashing through his mind, Meng Zhou put away the "Sickness Qi Gem" in his hand.
To be continued...