331: 331 331: 331 Sun Pinghui stood a few steps away from the coffin, muttering, “So this is the body of our revered ancestor…”
As he finished speaking, Sun Pinghui slowly knelt to the ground, bowing deeply, “The three hundred and ninety-fourth descendant of dicine King Valley, Sun Pinghui, pays respects to the revered ancestor.”
“Today, I bring the ancestor back ho!
If there has been any offense, please forgive , revered ancestor!”
“It feels a bit too easy,” Liu Wan Nian frowned as he spoke.
Qin Han glanced at Liu Wan Nian and said, “Of course, it won’t be that simple; otherwise, the poison on the coffin would not be so easily neutralized.”
“The coffin being here is probably just a hint for us.”
As he spoke, Qin Han took a pair of tweezers and a small bottle from behind Zhong Yuanliang’s backpack.
He gently scraped a little powder off the surface of the coffin and imdiately put it into the small porcelain bottle.
Afterward, Qin Han took Zhong Yuanliang’s backpack, extracting a dicine pot and several dicinal herbs from inside.
He smashed the herbs into the dicine pot, creating a black-green dicinal juice.
He took a drop of it and dropped it into the porcelain bottle containing the poison.
Monts later, the powder in the small porcelain bottle turned white.
Qin Han then told everyone, “Coat both palms thoroughly with the dicinal juice, and don’t miss a spot!”
Looking at the black-green viscous dicine in the pot, Sun Pinghui frowned and said, “Can this thing really work?”
Qin Han set the dicine pot on the ground and looked at Sun Pinghui, saying, “Why don’t you give it a try?”
Sun Pinghui, however, waved his hands repeatedly, “Poison is not my forte.”
“Ah, no wonder dicine King set this challenge.
You at dicine King Valley abandoned the true essence of the dicine King’s teachings and went on to learn his minor tricks!” Qin Han shook his head as he spoke.
“The reason why he was called the dicine King was not because his dical skills were superb, but because he was actually a master of poisons!
He specialized in treating poison with poison,” Qin Han continued.
“Didn’t you notice that many of the prescriptions passed down by the dicine King are fierce and aggressive potions?”
As Qin Han spoke slowly, he applied the dicinal juice to his hands.
“Kid Qin, where did you learn all this?
You seem to know even more than we do at dicine King Valley,” muttered Sun Pinghui.
“I’ve read widely!”
It wasn’t that Qin Han didn’t want to tell Sun Pinghui, but how could he explain that he knew from the blood dallion?
Ever since inheriting the legacy from the blood dallion, Qin Han’s life across two incarnations felt like he had cheats enabled.
But all these were ultimately too bewildering for most to comprehend.
Monts later, having coated themselves with the dicinal juice, the group approached the coffin and all pushed together to slide the coffin lid open.
However, the scene inside made them frown.
For inside the coffin, instead of a body, there was only a scroll of bamboo slips!
Everyone glanced at each other.
Qin Han promptly picked up the bamboo slips, blew off the dust, and flipped them open.
“Kid Qin!” Sun Pinghui cried out urgently as Qin Han picked up the bamboo slips.
Not for any other reason than his concern that Qin Han might be poisoned!
Since it was dicine King’s trial, it was very likely that dicine King had poisoned every possible thing!
Qin Han waved his hand and said, “It’s alright.
Since the poison was applied on the coffin, the bamboo slips here are most likely a clue.
If there’s poison here as well, it would make the dicine King appear rather petty!”
As he spoke, Qin Han began to read the bamboo slips.
“Now that you have obtained the bamboo slips, you possess the qualifications to inherit my mantle.
A doctor, committed to saving lives, must understand the principles of dication.”
“What is the principle of dication?
It is that drugs interact with each other, enhancing or countering their effects!”
“I once created the invaluable Detoxification Pills to save lives with dical skills, later in my old age, I pondered their essence, which is not the origin of the drugs.”
“Hence, I created the expanded invaluable Detoxification Pills!
To be preserved in this world!”
“Yet no one understood my intention, even the direct descendants of the dicine clan could not grasp my thoughts, only seeing it as a supplent to the invaluable Detoxification Pills, alas!”
“Thus I left this poisonous trap, to be deciphered by the future generations who truly understand my desires!”
“In the four auditory chambers, I divided the expanded invaluable Detoxification Pills into four parts and placed them within, solving the poison in the chambers would grant access to the books!”
“However, having one does not grant possession of the entire expanded invaluable Detoxification Pills!”
Qin Han then saw a series of numbers on the back of the bamboo slips and admired the dicine King’s ingenuity.
It seed that the dicine King wanted to find soone truly fit to inherit his legacy, not rely passing on parts of his knowledge.
He’d rather have no successor than scatter incomplete sacred learning!
Handing the bamboo slip to Sun Pinghui, Qin Han silently observed everything inside the tomb chamber.
After reading the content on the bamboo slips, Sun Pinghui also sighed deeply, considering the mood of the dicine King when he left this tomb, it must have been desperate.
He could also imagine that in the family back then, no one truly understood the will of the dicine King, perhaps because the dicine King no longer had the energy to train the next generation during his late years.
Or perhaps it was a complete disappointnt in the younger generation of his family.
Ultimately, not only was the expanded invaluable Detoxification Pills not passed down, but many of the dicine King’s fundantal dical skills also were lost to ti.
Qin Han patted Sun Pinghui, “Let’s not dwell on the past, let’s check the four auditory chambers.”
First, everyone went to the first auditory chamber shaped like the letter ‘jia’, Qin Han and Liu Wan Nian carefully examined the stone door of the chamber, Qin Han lightly said, “This phrase is not too difficult, it involves mixing dicine for poisoning.”
Just as Qin Han was about to proceed, Liu Wan Nian then said, “Mr.
Qin, let take care of this chamber.”
“Since when did your ninth bureau start studying antidotes?” Qin Han asked, sowhat surprised.
Liu Wan Nian smiled and said, “I haven’t studied antidotes, but I do know a bit about chanisms, and I’ve seen the chanism on this chamber’s door in other ancient tombs.”
“This type of theft-prevention thod is actually common in many ancient tombs; there are drugs placed in the groove above the door, and when you open the door, it mixes with the drugs in a groove on the side of the door to create a poison.”
“So, this challenge doesn’t require Mr.
Qin’s involvent, I just need to disable this chanism to prevent the drugs from mixing.”
Zhong Yuanliang whispered, “Mr.
Qin, there’s no poison applied to this door, right?”
“No!” Qin Han said.
“Can’t figure out what the ancients were thinking, crossing a thousand years just to set up a poison trap.
Since there’s no poison on the door, why bother breaking the chanism, just shatter the stone door with one palm,” saying this, Zhong Yuanliang was about to forcefully open the door.
Liu Wan Nian, however, smiled wryly, “Young brother, please be gentle, these relics are thousands of years old and still hold great research value once we obtain the expanded invaluable Detoxification Pills.”
“If your ninth bureau could open this door, then why did Ming Xizhi still co to ask Mr.
Qin?” Zhong Yuanliang suddenly asked, his gaze piercing as he looked at Liu Wan Nian.
While disabling the chanism on the door, Liu Wan Nian smiled wryly, “Young brother, no need to be tense, the ninth bureau excels at handling the supernatural, but we’re indeed not experts in poisons; without Mr.
Qin’s Detoxification Pills, we probably would have passed out before we could even open the coffin.”
“And do you really think the poison on that coffin was easy to deal with?”
Hearing this, Zhong Yuanliang nodded, Liu Wan Nian was right, what Mr.
Qin considered simple might not be so for others.
As soon as Liu Wan Nian opened the stone door, the whole auditory chamber was revealed to everyone, and at the center of the chamber sat a niche box.
“Although the dicine King was a master of poisons, he did not anticipate that there would also be tomb-raiding masters in the future, haha!” Liu Wan Nian walked into the chamber.
Just as Liu Wan Nian was about to pick up the niche box, he suddenly collapsed to the ground.
Zhong Yuanliang and Sun Pinghui were about to step forward, but Qin Han stopped them.
“I knew it wouldn’t be that simple, but I never expected the dicine King to be so ingeniously calculating!”
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