How can I get past this road?
Mo Jun Wu raised an eyebrow in surprise and immediately looked up at the top of the pavilion, and indeed, a huge boulder was suspended from the roof. Mo Jun Wu followed the rope and mechanism that held the stone, but then he shook his head helplessly and had to give up on entering through the stone gate - he could have used the mechanism to get in, but who knew how much noise it would make? Without being sure, he could only explore other places first.
At this moment, Mr. Mu went downstairs and was about to disappear into the bookshelf's cobwebs when the gate creaked open and an old man with a bent back walked in slowly, holding two books in his hand.
The old man who came in was Tang Xiu, he was responsible for sorting and repairing the tens of thousands of books here.
When I heard the noise, I naturally wouldn't make any sudden movements, but instead carefully observed Tang Xiu's actions from behind the bookshelf, watching how he put away and took out books.
He thought Tang Xiu would leave after putting down the book, but instead, he took out a new book and began to read it in front of a nearby candle holder.
Admiring you, I took a moment to think, and quietly approached Tang Xiu, raising my hand to heavily knock on the back of his neck.
Tang Xiuyun fainted into Mu Junwu's arms, and after gently laying him down on a chair to the side, he immediately searched for books related to poison on the bookshelves in the pavilion.
I flipped through a military book, and I missed you, so I turned around and changed to another bookshelf.
I flipped through a volume of array diagrams, Mu Jun scanned them briefly and directly changed to another bookshelf to browse.
Like this, Mu Junwu quickly searched through several bookshelves and walked to a bookshelf in the outermost corner of the entire web.
The bookshelf looks very old at first glance, with a thin layer of dust and only a few scattered books, giving off a desolate and bleak feeling that makes people reluctant to approach.
However, Mu Junwu noticed that the carvings on the bookshelf were rare and exquisite patterns, and he curiously walked forward.
Gluttony was originally a greedy beast, and the appearance of this pattern is not only a warning but also a fear of divine power and royal power.
In a place where books are everywhere, it is naturally the most special compared to other ordinary bookshelves.
I cautiously approached you, flipped through a few books on it, and found that they were all descriptions of herbal medicine, without any hint of secrecy.
In disappointment, he felt unwilling to give up and squatted down to examine the bottom of the bookshelf. To his surprise, he found two volumes of bamboo slips in a corner.
I carefully pulled out a volume to take a look, but as soon as I opened it, the strings had already rotted or were originally loose, and it suddenly scattered with a rustling sound!
You quickly covered it with your hands and eyes, just in time to prevent the bamboo slips from falling off completely, but some of them still scattered on the ground.
No way, Mu Junwu could only carefully place the bamboo slips he was holding in the empty space on the bookshelf, and then picked up the scattered bamboo slips on the ground to start restoring. The contents of the bamboo slips were chaotic, and it was not easy to restore them. Fortunately, Mu Junwu had a keen eye and a clever mind, and after roughly scanning the bamboo slips in his hand, he vaguely got a clue and started to restore and piece together.
He was reading while arranging the bamboo slips, but he suddenly stopped because the content on the few bamboo slips in his hand was a bit special.
"Poison King Transformation?" Mu Junwu felt a faint sense of unease, and looked at the other bamboo slip in his hand: "Everywhere poisonous corpses, not an inch of land to live".
What is this record of?
I thought for a moment, then quickly scanned the remaining bamboo slips and pieced together the content of the uncollected bamboo fragments.
This bamboo slip, having been passed down for far too many years, has suffered some losses. I, Your Excellency, pieced it together for a moment, and realized that a part of it had already been lost in transmission. However, the remaining parts recorded enough content to make this worldly-wise and erudite person secretly marvel.
The content recorded on this bamboo slip is that the Tangmen once had a master who appeared with the terrible situation of "Poison King Change", causing a scene of poisonous corpses all over the ground, and no land to live in, which made the entire Tangmen sect have to move away from their old site and start anew.
However, as for what the Poison King Transformation actually is and how it occurs, not a single word was mentioned, only repeatedly emphasizing phrases like "good fortune and disaster are intertwined, prosperity and decline are adjacent" and "the will of heaven is obscure, life and death are a vast calamity".
Although I didn't find the answer on this volume, just looking at such a vague record also feels like there's some meaning to it.
At this moment, he carefully retrieved the bamboo slips, rolled them up, but unexpectedly saw a line of fine, seemingly needle-pointed small characters on the innermost bamboo slip.
"Having obtained the law of conquering poison, one can conquer all poisons and control the king of poisons."
There was no head, nor tail, a very abrupt fourteen words, which made Mu Junwu feel strange. He immediately moved the candle to the front of the bamboo slips and carefully examined them, wanting to find similar scratches, but there were no more scratches on the other bamboo slips.
Searching everywhere but unable to find it, I sighed and carefully put away the bamboo slips, only to reluctantly pick up another volume.
Although I don't know what the method of detoxification is, since it's recorded, it must exist, and if it can detoxify all poisons, then it can also save me...
Longing for you, my heart is secretly lamenting. At this moment, a sudden gust of wind enters my ear from behind. Subconsciously, he dodges to one side, and a flying dart whizzes past his neck, coincidentally extinguishing the candle flame on the bookshelf.
He quickly turned around, but did not see the person who had made the move. Then he suddenly grabbed two books and threw them at the remaining two candles.
The candle flame went out, and the pavilion was pitch black. This commotion caught the attention of the guards outside the pavilion, who immediately rushed in, shouting loudly.
When the lights in the pavilion were lit again, except for two books scattered in front of the candles and Tang Xiu who was unconscious, there was no one else inside.
Even the flying dart that had previously extinguished the candle flame was gone.
"Master! Master!" The disciple on duty called out several times before Tang Xiu slowly came to.
"Huh? You, you're...?"
"Your Excellency, someone has broken into the pavilion!"
Tang Xiu was shocked by his words and immediately grabbed one of the disciples, taking down the token hanging from his waist and putting it in his hand.
"Hurry up and go to the Soul Snatching Room, hand this order over to Granny! Also, there's something about someone breaking into the bridal chamber, don't spread it around!"
"Yes."
When the disciple rushed out of the secret pavilion with the token towards the Soul Snatching Room, Mu Qun had already escaped back into the mechanism room. He quickly took off his clothes, hung up his towel and got into bed.
He lay there, keeping his breathing slow and steady, feigning sleep, while his two ears collected the sounds around him, trying to determine if he had been tracked.
Night, quiet.
The insects chirped and sang clearly, but there was no one following him.
However, Mu Junwu's heart was not calm, because he knew that his poisoning was absolutely not a coincidence!
This is a trap!
This is intentionally leading me to investigate, just in time for an assassination... It seems I've been targeted a long time ago!
