Under Yichen's questioning, Tao Shuyao hesitated again and again, and seemed to open his mouth reluctantly.

At the foot of Mt. Yokogi, there is a small village surrounded by mountains and almost cut off from the outside world.

There are less than 500 people living in this village, and they make a living from farming.

Due to the barren land and little production, they often go to the Hengdi Mountains to pick and eat some wild fruits to supplement the lack of food.

During the slack period, a group of able-bodied villagers would be organized to hunt wild animals in the nearby mountains as a source of meat.

These villagers rarely practice, most of them are at the level of war masters, and occasionally a war governor appears, and they can basically become the leader of the hunt.

However, they are fierce people, mainly with strong physique and hunting skills, hunting those ordinary beasts, as well as a small number of low-level magical beasts.

The villagers have lived in the village all their lives, living a poor and simple life.

It is said that in the early years, there were people who tried to set foot in the outside world, but all of them went and never returned, and no one succeeded.

The failed attempt made the villagers gradually give up the idea of communicating with the outside world, and rested at sunrise and sunset in a step-by-step manner, although they were not rich, but they were also stable.

However, an accident fifteen years ago shattered the peace of the small village.

After half a month of hard work, the villagers who went out hunting brought back a lot of animal meat, especially a few unknown small beasts.

The meat of the little beast is tender and delicious, and the teeth and cheeks are fragrant after eating, and those hunting warriors are full of praise for it, drinking wine and eating meat in a big bowl, and it is as lively as the New Year.

What I didn't expect was that before everyone had time to reminisce, many people fell ill inexplicably.

The villagers went to the mountains to find all kinds of medicinal herbs, and after a period of treatment, they finally got their lives back.

"My life was saved, but the trouble was just beginning. Tao Shuyao sighed softly, his mood was very heavy.

The sick seemed to have been cured, and were not only able to carry out normal farming work, but also physically energetic, and more courageous than ever when hunting.

However, some strange little bumps slowly grew on their bodies, which did not hurt or itch at first, and did not hinder their work.

After a long time, the small pimple grows to the size of a soybean grain, which is filled with poisonous water, crystal clear, and accompanied by unbearable itching.

Don't say scratch hard, just touch it lightly, the small pimple will break, and the poisonous water inside will flow out.

Where the poisonous water flows, new small bumps will grow in no more than two days, and even if the water is dried in time, it is difficult to stop the growth of new bumps.

As a result, in less than half a month, the body was covered with large and small pimples, densely packed.

Even if you can't resist scratching, it is difficult to avoid your own rubbing, and by this time, it is not just as simple as flowing poisonous water.

Many pimples are interconnected to each other, forming larger, poisonous pimples that lift the patient's skin layer by layer until it festers.

Although the body has already become tattered and the appetite has been lost after the itching and painful torture, the patient does not die in a short time.

What is even more frightening is that the family members who live with the patient are at risk of being infected at any time.

A great fear gripped the entire village, and everyone from the sick to the healthy was in constant fear.

With all the efforts of everyone, all the medicinal herbs in the area of Yokogi Mountain were collected, as long as they thought might be useful.

Constant attempts, constant failures, none of the patients succeeded in escaping the erosion of the poisonous sores, and slowly people began to die.

Until one day, an outsider who occasionally passed by Yokogi Mountain and set foot in a small village took out some medicinal powder with a peculiar smell and claimed to be able to cure the patient.

At first, no one believed it, and the wariness and resistance to outsiders made the villagers of the small village prefer to endure the torture of poisonous sores rather than receive treatment.

In a fit of rage, the outsiders took advantage of the villagers' unpreparedness to abduct a patient who was ulcerating and dying.

The angry villagers gathered all the young adults who had not yet contracted the poisonous sores and searched everywhere for the whereabouts of the patients, but found nothing.

Unexpectedly, three days later, the patient returned to the village on his own, with the poisonous sores long gone, and the festering skin was completely healed, as it had been before the poisonous sores.

The villagers were pleasantly surprised and listened to the reason, only to know that it was a medicinal powder carried by outsiders, which had a magical effect.

Not only did he cure the patient, but he also generously donated the medicine powder in order to relieve the whole village of poisonous sores.

No matter how severe it is, as long as the powder is gently sprinkled on the affected area, it does not need too much and does not need to go through special treatment.

Within one day, the water is collected and the scab is formed, the wound area is no longer expanded, the pain and itching gradually subside, and the appetite is greatly increased.

After two days, the scab falls off from the ulcer, new skin grows, and the patient heals.

A small vial of seemingly inconspicuous medicinal powder saved the lives of hundreds of people in an entire village.

"Isn't this kind of medicine a miracle medicine?" Tao Shuyao glared at Yichen fiercely, as if laughing at Yichen's ignorance.

The crisis was resolved, and the magic medicine given by the outsiders was almost exhausted, and while the villagers were glad that they did not die, they also felt a deep sense of gratitude to the outsider who had long since left.

As time passed, the villagers slowly forgot about the poisonous sores that almost swallowed up the entire village more than a decade ago.

But just this year, the poisonous sores that had disappeared for a long time actually came to this small village again.

The villagers hurriedly took out the miracle medicine stored in the village office and treated the patients, hoping to quickly cure and prevent the spread.

It wasn't until I opened the cap of the bottle that I found that the stock of the miracle medicine was basically exhausted, and even if the bottle was broken and all the little powder attached to the bottle wall was used, it was not enough to truly cure the patient.

In addition to barely saving the patient's life and slowing down the spread of the poisonous sore, it cannot be completely cured.

In desperation, the patient who was abducted by outsiders fifteen years ago suddenly remembered one thing, that is, when he was cured, he had asked outsiders about the source of the miracle medicine.

The outsiders were also very generous to inform the main ingredients of the medicinal powder, as well as the growth environment and distribution of the medicinal herbs, and the best time to pick them......

"You were sent to find this elixir?"

Yichen really didn't have the heart to listen to Tao Shuyao's nagging, so he coldly interrupted him.

What Tao Shuyao said, whether it is exaggerated or not, is not important to Yichen.

The so-called poisonous sores can be cured by finding some herbs that can collect water, and even if there are no dead mushrooms, the villagers will not die.

"yes...... I didn't say how did you know?"

Tao Shuyao rolled his eyelids vigorously, making a shocked expression as much as he could.

Originally, I wanted to sell a pass and show off my ability in front of Yichen, but who knew that the story was not finished yet, but it was said by Yichen, Tao Shuyao was shocked and slightly depressed.

"I want to know when you got out of the first level and when you got into the second level. ”

Yichen clearly saw that Tao Shuyao was the first batch to enter the first level.

However, no matter when the wind was raging, or when the stone wall gate was bombarded, there was no Tao Shuyao.

Especially after Yichen used the enchantment to control the killing bee swarm, the exit of the first level was revealed.

All the practitioners who passed the first level entered the cave from Yichen's side, and Tao Shuyao was not among them.

With Tao Shuyao's two-meter-tall body and unique withered branch-like hands and feet, even if he deliberately hides, it is difficult to escape Yichen's eyes.

What's more, the entrance to the cave was not big in the first place, and Tao Shuyao's big hands and feet could not be so fast that no one would find out.

Also, many of the previous practitioners were guided by strange voices and ghosts, and fought each other, although the light in the trial passage was dim, Yichen was sure that Tao Shuyao was not among them.

In the first level, I saw him go in, but I didn't see him come out, and in the second level, I didn't see him enter the pass, but he appeared at the end of the road.

This Tao Shuyao, where is it sacred?

"Hey...... I didn't expect you to care about me all the time, why?"

Tao Shuyao seemed to be a little surprised, he helped Yichen out of the siege and avoided being punished by the rules of Xin Ge's murderous training ground, even if Yichen was grateful, there was no need to think about it all the time.

Thinking about the way Yichen circled around him just now, Tao Shuyao always felt that something was wrong, and now the second monk was even more confused.

Could it be that this kid has some intentions for himself......

"Hmph...... I care about you and think beautifully!"

Looking at Tao Shuyao's obscene expression, Yichen was angry, kicked his foot on the other party's thigh, and said fiercely:

"Answer my question!"

"Don't fight, I said. Tao Shuyao was trapped by Yichen with an enchantment, unable to avoid it, and the pain in his thigh made him quickly beg for mercy.

According to Tao Shuyao, after he entered the first level, he was also attacked by a strong wind, but he was lucky and was not involved and thrown.

Later, Yichen reminded the trialists to walk along the front of the two sides to avoid the strong wind, and Tao Shuyao blended in the middle of the many trialists, and walked carefully through the trial passage.

Like most of the trialists, he entered through the stone wall gate, but escaped the attack of the murder swarm.

"When I came out of the cave, you were still helping the trialists who had been stung by killer bees. ”

Tao Shuyao was afraid that Yichen would not believe it, so he continued: "You are high up and accept hundreds of trialists to bow down, but I quietly entered the second level in advance. ”

"Wait...... Why haven't you been attacked by a swarm of killer bees?"

Helping the testers who were stung by the killer bees, as well as the kneeling of the testers, since Tao Shuyao knew about it, it meant that he was indeed near Yichen, which added to Yichen's doubts.

"This ......" Tao Shuyao looked at it secretly, and saw that Yichen was waiting for it.

After hesitating again and again, Tao Shuyao used an extremely slight voice, as if talking to himself: "I can be invisible in the first level, and the killer bee can't see me at all." ”

"Stealth...... Do you know how to stealth?" Yi Chen was quite surprised by Tao Shuyao's answer.