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Chapter 82 Deadly Realgar
At the end of summer and early autumn, the climate of Mount Wutai was originally cool, and the vegetation had started to wither and turn yellow, so it was easy to set off a fire around it.Eighteen people set fire at the same time, and the fire spread rapidly among the grass, and many snakes who had no time to escape were surrounded by the fire.

What Zhao Kuangyin said was right, the thick fog and thick smoke made it hard to keep one's eyes open.The face scarves of the Khitan warriors played a lot of roles, leaving their hands free to continue setting fire.The other three covered their mouths and noses with their clothes to avoid being choked by the thick smoke.

Suddenly, a gust of wind blew by, and the fire grew bigger and bigger by the force of the wind. The thick smoke was also carried away by the wind, and the surrounding fog became smaller and smaller.

"Screw..." The fire suddenly became uncontrollable, swallowing everything passing by, and the fire was accompanied by the sound of "crackling".

Surprisingly, the stronger the fire, the stronger the wind power, and it burned to a distance in a blink of an eye. At this time, the fog had completely disappeared, and everyone looked at the direction of the fire, not feeling sad.

"It's such a big fire~ It would be nice to catch a few snakes and roast them..." Lao Yi swallowed and said, "Master, how do you know that there will be a wind blowing soon?"

Everyone was very curious about this question. It had been very calm at first, and there was no sign of a wind blowing at all.Why did Zong Xin know that there would be a wind, so he asked everyone to set fire.

Zong Xin waved his hands and said: "You guys made a mistake. It's not because the wind blows that you set the fire, but because the wind blows after you set the fire. You can't understand too many explanations. Just remember one thing, as long as you are in the climate It’s cool, and if you set fire to it, there will be wind. But the fire must be big, and the bigger the fire, the bigger the wind.”

"Can fire make wind?"

"There are so many things that fire can produce. Fire can produce light, smoke, ashes, heat, and of course wind. So you must be good at using fire." Zong Xin briefly explained that everyone noticed that fire is so useful.If you think about it carefully, it is true. Hasn’t your life so far revolved around fire?But the more common things are, the easier they are to be overlooked.

The fire is still spreading but much smaller, and the hill is almost half burned.At this time, there were only ruins around Zong Xin and his party, and there was no trace to be found.Most of the snakes failed to escape, and after being devoured by the fire, there was only a charred corpse left. Apart from the scorched earth, how could there be any traces of snakes around?
"Can we still find traces of snakes?"

Yaoyao took a closer look, then pointed to the northwest and said: "Over there, the fire is burning out from the center of us. This direction has the most snakes burned to death, and it is most likely a snake nest."

Yaoyao took the lead, and the group headed northwest. The fire here was the first to go out because the fire was cut off by a small river.Yaoyao carefully looked around the small river, and then excitedly said: "It must be nearby. Snakes also need to drink water, but they like dry and ventilated environments. Therefore, the snake nest will be within a few hundred meters of the water source, and carefully search for a place on both sides of the small river. If you look for it, you will definitely find the snake nest."

Zong Xin looked up at the highest peaks of Mount Wutai and said, "You don't need to go there. The water must be very cold. Snakes can't cross the river, so the snake's nest is right here. Everyone spread out into a horizontal line and went up against the river." Push it."

Zong Xin's words were very effective. The Khitan warriors dispersed immediately. From the riverside, every two people could see each other at a distance of more than ten meters. The siege network went all the way north.

After crossing the two mountains, the terrain is getting higher and higher, and the temperature is getting colder.At the same time, traces of snakes were found again.Here is a pine forest, the pine trees are tall and straight, and the shallow grass is green on the ground.The leaves are not dense, and the sun shines through the gaps, but the forest is very quiet, terrifyingly quiet.It's the end of summer now, and it should be very lively in the pine forest.

After arriving at the top of the mountain, we finally found traces of snakes.It was blocked by the fire just now, and a lot of time was wasted. The group of snakes had already climbed to the mountainside of the third mountain.

Looking from a distance, densely packed snakes climbed in one direction, from the bottom of the mountain to the mountainside, and then gathered together in a cave on the mountainside.These snakes are of different colors and sizes. Several snakes are very huge as far as the naked eye can see.

The fire just now frightened the snakes, and they were all fleeing back to the cave.But the strange thing is that it is very cold here, and the snake should not choose this place as a lair.

"It's easy to find the hole, just rush in and kill them all." Zhao Kuangyin didn't expect things to go so smoothly. Although there are a lot of snakes, and some are even big in size, facing the martial arts masters sitting here, these snakes can only die .

"Strange, why do snakes live in such a cold place? Snakes like to stay in hotter places." Yaoyao has raised five poisons since she was a child, and knows snakes very well. I really don't know which snake likes cold.

Zong Xin suddenly gave a sinister smile, Zhao Kuangyin and Khitan warriors were familiar with this smile, as long as Zong Xin made such a smile, someone would be in bad luck.

"Don't be impulsive, let's wait for the group of snakes to go in first, and prepare two kinds of firewood, dry and wet, and that's about it."

The Khitan warriors nodded immediately, and dispersed to find what Zong Xin wanted.There are many pine trees nearby, and it is easy to find any kind of firewood you want, and a lot of them will be brought soon.

At this time, the snakes also entered the cave, Zong Xin waved his hand, and everyone ran down the mountain.Down the mountain and up again, the distance is still quite far, but the speed of the warg is extremely fast, and it doesn't take much time.

After arriving at the cave, I realized that the entrance of the cave was as high as two people, and the snake had crawled into the depths. At least there were no traces of the snake within a few meters of the entrance of the cave.

Zong Xin put his finger in his mouth and took it out again to check the direction of the wind. The wind was blowing into the cave.

"Put the firewood into the hole, as long as you can see it. The dry firewood is on the bottom, and the wet firewood is on top. The speed is fast."

Zong Xin gave an order, and the sixteen Khitan warriors made preparations in pairs in a blink of an eye.Zong Xin quickly walked to the firewood pile, took off the cloth bag around his waist, poured all the realgar inside on the top wet firewood, and then picked up Ri Wuji Qi and pointed at the dry firewood, which immediately ignited stand up.

"Go and hide away from the headwind, that thing is highly poisonous." Zong Xin ran away after leaving the cave, and the others were not stupid, and immediately followed behind, finding a place against the wind to hide.

Yaoyao said depressedly: "Husband, is it useful for you to do this? Realgar is weakly poisonous. Although snakes are afraid of realgar, it is not fatal. If you want to smoke them out, you don't have to run so far."

"I'm bah~" Zong said, "It's a pity that you have studied the Five Poisons God Chapter, haven't you heard of arsenic? Do you know how arsenic came from?"

"I know~ red letter stone or arsenic stone is refined. If it is red, it is called crane top red. If it is white, it is arsenic. What does this have to do with realgar?" Yaoyao is a professional drug maker. How could she not know such a thing?
Zong Xin asked curiously: "Didn't you know that realgar will turn into arsenic after being burned? Don't underestimate realgar. Although realgar is very weak, the smoke after burning is very poisonous. No wonder you don't know... …After burning the realgar turns into smoke, who would have thought that the smoke is also arsenic? Moreover, the poison is turned into air and directly inhaled into the body, which is more powerful than eating it.”

I can't believe it, Yaoyao really doesn't know that realgar is arsenic after burning, or even that realgar is highly poisonous after burning.Anyway, after so many years of refining poison, how could Zong Xin, a monk who didn't understand poison at all, know these things?
Zhao Kuangyin gritted his teeth and said, "Zong Xin, how many things are you hiding from me? This eldest sister has been refining poison all her life, and she doesn't even know that realgar is highly poisonous after burning. How did you know?"

Yaoyao was also about to ask, but Zhao Kuangyin asked first.But everyone is used to it, because Zong Xin knows many things that ordinary people don't know.

"You want to care? If you have the ability to kill me, I will tell you." Zong Xin intentionally concealed that no one could do anything to him, but he didn't expect that he, an eminent monk, would play tricks.

Everyone sighed and stared at the cave. Although the wind was blowing into the cave, there was still some smoke coming out from the top of the cave. The color of the smoke was very complicated, including white, black, yellow, and orange.

White and black are common, because the oil in the pine tree is very thick, dry wood will naturally emit white smoke, and wet wood will emit black smoke, as for yellow and orange, it should be the color of realgar burnt.Are these smokes really poisonous?
Soon, some ground on the mountain began to smoke, which is not surprising, there must be other vents in this cave.However, these vents are small, and large snakes should not be able to escape.

The group waited outside the cave for a long time, but there was no response. When all the firewood was extinguished, no snake came out...

At this time, no one doubted Zong Xin. If such thick smoke was not extremely poisonous, the snakes in the cave would definitely be smoked out.Although a fire was lit at the entrance of the cave, those snakes just now were not small in size, and they would definitely be able to break through the fire and escape.Since they didn't do this, there is only one possibility, these snakes have been poisoned to death by the poisonous smoke.

But the next problem is more troublesome. The cave is full of poisonous smoke, so how to go in and confirm whether all the snakes in it are dead.Although the air in the cave is circulated, there is no guarantee that there will not be some poisonous gas left, and it is easy to be poisoned if you enter directly.

"I have to find a way to go in and have a look at the situation... The wind is too weak, and I'm afraid it will take an hour to wait for the smoke inside to completely dissipate." Zong said.

"Didn't you practice the Five Poisons? Arsenic is not a powerful poison. It's okay for you and Yaoyao to go in directly."

"You know shit."

Zong Xin didn't want to explain too much, realgar was extremely poisonous when burned, and the five poisons were originally refined from five poisons, and the five poisons were afraid of realgar, let alone the toxicity after burning.

Yaoyao didn't make a sound, but just looked at Zong Xin with a puzzled expression, because the poison of arsenic is indeed incurable for ordinary people, but it is not fatal for people with advanced skills, let alone people who have practiced poisoning skills... When they were young He ate the arsenic like candy.Maybe it was because the burnt realgar was more poisonous than arsenic, so Zong Xin didn't dare to approach it.

Or maybe Zong Xin didn't know how powerful the Five Poisons were, and he thought he could only cure the Five Poisons.Just tell him secretly in the future, don't let Zong Xin lose face in front of so many people.

(End of this chapter)