Bai Ling had already seen white ice worms before, so he wasn't too surprised by the scene in front of him, but he still felt nauseous.
Seeing Haitang approaching the coffin, Bai Ling stretched out his hand to stop her from approaching.
"Elders, are these insects a secret technique for preserving corpses from decaying?" Bai Ling asked, pretending not to understand.
"No." The great elder shook his head. The shock in his eyes faded away, but there was still a blazing fire. "Young Valley Master, it's time to let you know some things. It's our fault that we didn't think of it before."
Bai Ling took some time to rest, waiting for the secret the great elder would tell him.
"All disciples return to the foot of the mountain. There is no need to check the mountain again today." The great elder ordered, asking the disciples to leave first.
"Haitang, you should go back too." Knowing the secret nature of the matter, Bai Ling asked Haitang to leave.
Although she was worried about Bai Ling's safety, Haitang also knew that it was impossible for her to stay, so she left with the disciples.
Several elders stood in front of the coffin, all of them with solemn expressions, and their anger had nowhere to vent.
"Yaowang Valley was established hundreds of years ago. The owner of the valley left a handbook. What was recorded in it was not medical insights, but a poison developed by the leader's brother. And the introduction to the poison was
, it comes from corpses that are frozen and incorruptible." The great elder sadly told what he knew.
The first master of Yaowang Valley had a twin brother.
The owner of the valley is more committed to medical techniques, while his younger brother likes to study poison techniques.
The two brothers were very close at the time, and they would learn from each other after they gained insights.
Moreover, medicine and poisoning are not separated from each other. When encountering the same problem, the two brothers will use their own skills to study it, and they will naturally learn from each other's methods.
Until one day, the younger brother excitedly told his elder brother that he had found several white ice worms in the ice, and they were extremely poisonous.
At that time, the owner of the valley didn't take it to heart. After all, there are all kinds of poisons in the world, but he was afraid that something might happen to his brother, so he studied it with him.
Later, after the poison was developed, a disciple accidentally ingested it, and his body began to change and he lost human consciousness.
Different from his brother's excitement, the owner of the valley thought of ways to develop an antidote.
However, before the antidote was made, it was discovered that the younger brother had secretly put the remaining poison on living people for experiments. The two brothers had a big quarrel over this.
In order to prevent innocent people from being harmed, the owner of the valley placed his younger brother under house arrest, but he did not want his younger brother to escape, and a poisonous person was also taken away.
No matter how hard the Valley Master searched, he could never find any trace of his brother. It was not until he died that he made the antidote.
But the poisonous person has been poisoned for too long, and has been eroded by the poison, turning him into a fool, his body functions are also damaged, and his life is not long.
The Valley Master was afraid that something like this would happen again, so he wrote the secret in a handbook and only passed it on to the next Valley Master. The elders would have to hold the office of elders for at least twenty years before they could know about it.
At that time, the owner of the valley had ordered people to destroy all the corpses and ice worms in the ice cave, and also expelled his younger brother from Yaowang Valley.
"I didn't expect that after hundreds of years, someone would still have this poisonous recipe. Whether it was that person's descendant or whether he got the recipe by chance, there is no way to know." The great elder looked at the first Gu with a responsible look.
The master's coffin said, "How to cultivate ice worms, the Valley Master did not mention it in his handbook. Presumably he was afraid that his descendants would do something wrong for various reasons."
"Since the previous Valley Master knew that the prerequisite for cultivating ice worms is a body that does not decay in the ice cave, why do they need to preserve the bodies of past Valley Masters?" Bai Ling asked doubtfully.
If Yaowang Valley didn't have this rule, perhaps there wouldn't be ice worms here.
"The former Grain Master tried poison in order to save his disciples' lives and died. The disciples were grateful for the Grain Master's kindness and insisted on keeping the body of the former Grain Master as a show of respect. Later, it became a rule to remind the successive Grain Masters,
The lives of the disciples of Yaowang Valley are more important than themselves." The great elder replied.
Bai Ling was speechless. This explanation was reasonable, but it left a huge hidden danger.
The disciples at that time may not have known about the hidden dangers of keeping the body, but the Shaogu Master at that time was aware of it, and in the end he actually agreed to keep his body, which was really weird.
"So, if you want to breed ice worms, you must meet two conditions. One is an extremely cold place, and the other is an incorruptible corpse." Bai Ling fell into deep thought.
In fact, such conditions are not unique to Yaowang Valley.
Even in the outside world, there are glaciers, and almost no one goes there.
If only these two conditions were required to raise ice worms, wouldn't there be many ice worms?
Several elders did not speak. Their understanding of ice insects was limited to what was mentioned in the handwritten notes. They could not give Bai Ling any advice, but they all felt that these two conditions were not enough.
Otherwise, why would that person and his descendants have to breed ice worms in Yaowang Valley?
Even though few people come into this ice cave, it is easier to be discovered here than in the ice valley outside.
Unable to figure out the key, Bai Ling didn't want to continue to suffer the cold here, so he asked: "Several elders, the most important thing right now is not to know the living conditions of ice worms. After all, no one has the intention to breed ice worms. And
The bodies of all the valley owners have been deemed damaged and have become nests of insects. How do you think this matter should be handled?"
Several elders looked troubled and found it difficult to make a decision for a while.
We have just checked all the corpses, and we can see that they have been tampered with.
Although the medicine used to preserve corpses in Yaowang Valley contains toxins, it is not enough to support ice worms.
After all, corpses have been stored for many years. Unlike living people, they can also detoxify. Burning them is undoubtedly the best way to avoid future troubles.
But these corpses are all Valley Masters from past generations. Any decision made by the elders must be carefully considered and requires the consent of the Valley Master and the disciples of the whole valley.
"No secret passages have been found in the ice cave. People entering and exiting here should come from the direction of Siguo Cliff. Since I don't know how to deal with it at the moment, I suggest that Siguo Cliff be sealed first to prevent anyone from entering."
Bai Ling suggested.
If he hadn't taken Mr. Shang's thoughts into consideration, Bai Ling would have wanted to set a fire right now and do something simple.
In fact, Bai Ling regretted it at this moment. When he found Aoxue that day, he should have burned all the bodies instead of leaving them here waiting to be discovered.
It's just that Bai Ling didn't expect that Aoxue would burn the underground palace, and planned to keep it as evidence, but now it has become the biggest source of danger.
"For the present plan, we can only leave it like this." The great elder agreed, and the other elders naturally had no objections.
"These ice worms..." The fourth elder glanced inside the coffin and said hesitantly: "Are they going to be dealt with?"
"The iceworm must be removed." Bai Ling stepped forward, took out a medicine bottle, and sprinkled the medicine powder on the wound.
This is Bai Ling's newly made medicinal powder. After being stained with the medicinal powder, the bugs were twisting wildly. The originally crystal clear bugs turned blood red, and finally turned into the same eyes as those with poisonous blood.
And the insects are constantly getting bigger.
"Be careful!" Bai Ling shouted in surprise, and immediately covered himself with a cloak and squatted on the ground to ensure that no skin was exposed.
Several elders immediately made the same move as Bai Ling. As soon as they protected themselves, they heard the sound of insects exploding. (To be continued)