Chapter 1199: The Fall of the Dark (I)
Translator: WQL Editor: Aleem
“According to you, Cheng Clan used poisonous dicinal materials to make various dicinal pills and dicants; additionally, Cheng Clan sold their poisonous dicinal pills and dicants to the other provinces. Didn’t anyone discover such evident actions?” Zhang Tie asked while frowning.
“The poisonous dicinal materials of Cheng Clan’s dicinal materials was very special. It could never be matched by any poison that we’ve seen. Commoners could not discover the toxin in the dicinal pills at all...” Sun Jiagu revealed a bitter smile.
“Did Cheng Clan add sothing poisonous into their dicinal materials?”
“No, Cheng Clan didn’t add anything into their dicinal materials. Cheng Clan produced all the dicinal pills in accordance with the strict manufacturing process and technologies. They couldn’t add anything inside their dicinal materials!”
Zhang Tie beca confused as he asked, “So why were Cheng Clan’s dicinal materials poisonous?”
“They planted it!”
“You an those dicinal materials that Cheng Clan planted were born to be poisonous?” Zhang Tie asked out of amazent. Although he was not a pharmacist, Zhang Tie still felt Sun Jiagu’s words were unbelievable based on his understanding of the profession of pharmacist.
“Yes!”
“Had Cheng Clan added poison into the fertilizers or pesticides of those dicinal materials?”
“No. All the dicinal materials in the dicinal fields of Cheng Clan were as sa as those in other clans. Additionally, Cheng Clan had many herbalists. If Cheng Clan added poison in fertilizers and pesticides, those herbalists must have discovered it!”
“Have Cheng Clan used shoddy dicinal materials or purposefully used wrong ingredients and components or took advantage of the mutual resistance between the properties of drugs?”
“None of them. Cheng Clan never made mistakes in producing dicinal pills. They always used the right raw materials, proportions and formulas!”
Zhang Tie forced a smile, “I’m confused. If there’s no problem in dicinal materials or manufacturing processes. Additionally, they didn’t add poison on purpose. How could Cheng Clan’s herbal dicines beco poisonous then? Were they born to be poisonous?”
“Yes, Cheng Clan’s herbal dicines were indeed born to be poisonous!” Sun Jiagu said while gritting his teeth.
“What herbal dicines did Cheng Clan plant?”
“Cheng clan’s herbal dicines included honeysuckle, evergreen vine, weeping forsythia, Isatis root, fishy grass, ginseng, crown prince ginseng, Chinese date, Chinese wolfberry, walnut kernel, root of red-rooted salvia, mung, yellow bean, lily, sweet wormwood, Polygonum multiflorum, longan pulp, bark of eucommia, licorice, semi-sumr, Chinese bellflower, ginkgo, Chinese ephedra; the root of fangfeng, reed rhizo, earth-bone skin, bamboo leaf, chrysanthemum, patchouly, Morinda Officinalis, trifoliate orange and selfheal, etc.. Cheng Clan was the biggest druggist in Jizhou Province. Cheng Clan had a large area of herbal dicine mountains and planted hundreds of herbal dicines. Most of the herbal dicines that could be planted artificially could be found in Cheng Clan’s dicinal fields on a large scale!”
“You an the herbal dicines of Cheng Clan were born to be poisonous?”
“At the beginning, I didn’t believe it either; however, through repeated experints, I confird this fact!”
“How did you discover that Cheng Clan’s herbal dicines were poisonous?”
“Since I beca a herbal dicine apprentice at 16 years old, I had ford a habit, naly raising so white rats for a drug test. I inherited this habit from my enlightening master. Herbology originated from traditional Chinese dicines. It’s the elentary knowledge for pharmacists. All the pharmacists have to learn it, no matter what level he is. As there’re too many kinds of herbal dicines, so of them even carried toxicity; especially after being made into dicinal pills and dicants, if you couldn’t get hang of the proportions or choose the right variety, you might always have problems. Therefore, herbal dicine apprentices would always raise so small animals for a drug test. I’d been used to do that even after I got married. In the beginning, I used white rats for testing drugs; later on, I raised them as pets...”
“After promoting to a bottle-suspending pharmacist, I excelled at producing a low-level pill that could preserve one’s spiritual energy and benefit one’s blood circulation. It mainly targeted at commoners. Even old n, pregnant won and people in weakness could use it. Therefore, it has a great sales volu in Taixia Country. In the drugstore of Cheng Clan, I was responsible for supervising and guiding a dicine workshop to produce this pill. In the process of producing it, I discovered sothing wrong with their herbal dicines!”
Zhang Tie just listened to him quietly. At this mont, Sun Jiagu’s expression beca evidently sophisticated.
“The pill required very common dicinal materials, naly; walnut kernel and Chines date. The two dicinal materials could be found everywhere in the dicine workshop. People would send them there every day. I was responsible for checking and accepting them. As I raised so white rats at ho, before leaving the dicine workshop at the end of each day, I would grab a handful of walnut kernels or Chinese dates from the warehouse of the dicine workshop to feed my pets at ho. After working in the dicine workshop of Cheng Clan for half a year, the first batch of white rats that I raised at ho died one after another...”
“At the beginning, I didn’t pay attention to it. Because I’ve already raised those white rats for about 2 years. Generally, white rats could only survive 2 or 3 years. Therefore, when those white rats died, I didn’t think too much. After they died, I bought another batch of white rats and raised them with walnut kernels and Chinese date as usual!”
“However, after half a year later, the white rats died one after another too. At that ti, I still didn’t imagine that there was any problem with the dicines. I thought it might be the other reasons. Perhaps I didn’t look after them well or these white rats were weak and sicky. Therefore, I raised the 3rd batch of white rats...”
“Finally, the 3rd batch of white rats died half a year later too. This ti, it reminded that the walnut kernels and Chinese data that I brought back ho might have so problem. However, this event was of great significance. As I was just a supervisor of a small dicine workshop, of course, I dared not do the wild talk or tell this result to the others; I just paid special attention to the walnut kernels and Chinese date. After that, I bought the 4th batch of white rats. I divided them into two groups. One group of white rats only ate the walnuts and Chinese dates that I brought back from Cheng Clan; the other group of white rats only ate so grains and preserved fruits that I bought from other places. Half a year later, the result shocked once again. The group of white rats who were fed with preserved fruits and grains grew well; however, the other group of white rats who were fed with walnut kernels and Chinese dates died as usual!”
“I was startled. However, I dared not disseminate that news. After repeating the sa experint for two tis, I got the sa result. It finally confird that the dicines in the dicine workshop of Cheng Clan were poisonous. Later on, with my work as a cover, through careful observation, I investigated each link since the plantation of dicinal materials until they entered the dicine workshop, I found no problem in these links. The biggest problem lay in the seeds of the dicinal materials of Cheng Clan. These seeds were born to be poisonous. However, you couldn’t discover their toxicity. Because these dicinal materials were normal in looks and tastes. Even the most experienced pharmacists couldn’t discover any difference by tasting them. Only by taking these dicinal materials produced by Cheng Clan for a long ti could they confirm the hidden toxicity in them!”
“Later on, I stayed in Cheng Clan for a few more years and sought evidence step by step. Finally, I found that all the dicinal materials that were artificially planted in Cheng Clan were different than natural dicinal materials and those planted by the other clans. All the dicinal materials that were artificially planted in Cheng Clan carried hidden toxicity. After taking them for a long ti, humans would be severely poisoned. What was more terrifying was that the poisonous seeds of those dicinal materials in Cheng Clan were also sold to neighboring provinces in various comrcial ans besides being used for making various dicants and dicinal pills. As a result, many herbalists who survived on planting dicinal materials in the other provinces would plant those poisonous seeds and constantly spread them to other provinces across Taixia Country; besides, those poisonous dicinal materials would be made into various dicinal pills and dicants which would further poison the other people in the world...”
“What was more terrifying was that I discovered that the “toxicity” of those poisonous dicinal materials in Cheng Clan was contagious. For instance, there were two groups of dicinal materials, one group belonged to Cheng Clan, the other group was nontoxic. The dicinal materials of Cheng Clan could pass their toxicity to those nontoxic dicinal materials through pollen transmission. As a result, the next generation of those nontoxic dicinal materials would beco poisonous too!”
“I doubt that the genes of all the traditional Chinese dicines had been modified. Although those dicinal materials looked nothing different than common dicinal materials, their genes had been demonized. Additionally, as long as they were planted, they would cause gene contamination. It’s a plot of demons and Three-eye Association!”
“I’m just an average bottle-suspending pharmacist. I have no reliance or powerful human relationship. After discovering that, I dared not reveal it to anyone else. Because Cheng Clan had a very great power in Jizhou Province; additionally, I heard that Cheng Clan even had a relationship in Xuanyuan Hill. If I exposed it casually, I might lose my life instead of playing any effect. I buried this secret deep in mind. Half a year ago, I found a reason to leave Cheng Clan. I planned to accuse Cheng Clan in Xuanyuan Hill. I preferred to die for the benefits of all the people across the country. However, on the way to Xuanyuan Hill, I was discovered by Cheng Clan. Therefore, Cheng Clan assigned a killer to kill . Thankfully, I had long prepared for that, the killer didn’t get . However, I had to hide here and there so as to survive myself...”
“All my words are true. If any word is false, you could chop off my head at any ti!” Sun Jiagu looked at Zhang Tie with hopeful eyes as he looked like a bit excited after saying so many words.
After being silent for a short while, Zhang Tie threw a glance at Sun Jiagu before asking, “Do you want to deal with Cheng Clan for you?”
“Cheng Clan does harm to the entire world; they’re definitely the lackeys of demons. Shouldn’t they be exterminated?” Sun Jiagu asked while being more excited.
“You’ve been staying in the inn since you ca to Embracing Tiger City in October?”
“Yes, I entered Embracing Tiger City in October. Because I was afraid of the killer dispatched by Cheng Clan, I spent most of my ti in the inn...” Sun Jiagu replied with a curious look after being stunned for a second.
“Cheng Clan in Jizhou Province had been exterminated. After the riot aroused in Xuanyuan Hill on November 15th, a catastrophe of bloody figures had broken out in Jizhou Province. The bloody sea that Cheng Clan built to raise bloody figures in their clan’s hinterland had been exposed. Cheng Clan had been exterminated by the Supre Court of Taixia Country. All the kights of Cheng Clan had escaped away. They were being wanted by the Supre Court of Taixia Country.” Zhang Tie exposed this news to Sun Jiagu.
The catastrophe of bloody figures in Taixia Country was growing increasingly fiercer in an increasing scale. More and more clans being related to Heavens Reaching Church and Bloody Soul Temple were involved in. The official news was always faster than those among the people. As a clan elder of Huaiyuan Palace, Zhang Tie knew the details a bit earlier. As for Sun Jiagu, after coming to Embracing Tiger City, he had been hiding here and there; therefore, he was more uninford and couldn’t get the first-hand details about the catastrophe of bloody figures across Taixia Country. Therefore, he still thought that Cheng Clan was dominating in Jizhou Province.
After hearing Zhang Tie’s news, Sun Jiagu beca dumbfounded at once. With mouth widely opened, he beca stunned and silent for quite a while.
“If the killer that Cheng Clan assigned to hunt you is still alive, he will never co for you anymore as he can’t even keep himself safe. Later on, you don’t need to hide here and there anymore!” Zhang Tie comforted Sun Jiagu kindly while watching the latter’s distracted look.
Based on Sun Jiagu’s battle strength, the killer assigned to kill him was at most a LV 9 fighter. As Cheng Clan had been exterminated, it was aningless for that killer to hunt Sun Jiagu. That guy might have been wanted by the Supre Court and was escaping or had been killed. Compared to his own life, an average bottle-suspending pharmacist who worked for Cheng Clan was nothing but sh*t.
However, Sun Jiagu’s words were still valuable to Zhang Tie. Additionally, although Sun Jiagu was just an average bottle-suspending pharmacist, he was disciplined. After discovering the problem in Cheng Clan, he dared accuse Cheng Clan in Xuanyuan Hill. This person must be generous and righteous; especially the last point which Zhang Tie appreciated the most. Although being a small figure, he carried a great moral standing.
“I’ve left 1,000 gold coins for you in the hotel. If you don’t want to stay here anymore or feel disappointed, you could open a small drugstore in the downtown and live a stable and peaceful life in the future with the money that I gave you. If you want to do sothing more, you could join Jinwu Business Group in Jinwu City!” Zhang Tie said. At the sa ti, he moved his hand as he put a vial of senior recovery dicant, which was giving out a bizarre light, on the table before saying, “This vial of senior recovery dicant could cure all of your injuries!”
After saying that, Zhang Tie directly put on his hood and left the courtyard of the hotel...
Sun Jiagu just watched that vial of senior recovery dicant with a blank look...
...
Outside the hotel, the air beca cold once again. At this mont, the gloomy skyline indicated that the night was falling. Although the cold in the air was nothing for Zhang Tie, the cold in Zhang Tie’s heart made him tighten up his hood unconsciously.
Zhang Tie looked up at the sky before walking towards the direction of Embracing Tiger Mountain imdiately...
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