Xiao Yu's voice, the two individuals ran even faster, disappearing in an instant. Seeing them vanish so quickly, Xiao Yu helplessly shook his head and walked over to the three women lying on the grou...Chapter 583: Poison Medicine

Although these doctors felt uncomfortable, none of them spoke up since they could not help the patients' injuries. Moreover, the acupuncture techniques on their bodies left them completely stunned and at a loss.

The doctors took some black blood from the wounds of the injured and walked out with a grim face.

Xiao Yu arrived just as these security guards were talking about how the doctors had taken the black blood for research over an hour ago and still hadn't returned.

When Xiao Yu heard this, he didn't say anything but simply nodded his head and walked towards the ward.

In the ward, all three patients were lying on treatment beds with a layer of dark mist covering their faces. As Xiao Yu approached them and observed their wounds, seeing the blocked black gas made him sigh in relief. It was good that nothing happened yet.

While observing their injuries, Xiao Yu pondered for a moment. Although this corpse poison wasn't as malicious as what Zhang Dahan had been infected with, it still counted as a virulent toxin. However, once the nature of such toxins was known, they could be neutralized.

Xiao Yu took out several medicinal herbs from his medical bag that were stored in bags and opened them to check before turning around and addressing the security guards: "You guys stay here and watch over them while I go brew some medicine! No one is to disturb these patients!"

"Understood, Doctor Xiao!" The security guards responded.

Back when Xiao Yu was working as a doctor in the antique city clinic, they had all come to him for prescriptions before. Hence, they knew who he was. Initially, they thought of Xiao Yu merely as an inexperienced intern and never bothered chatting with him much. They would just tell him what medicine they needed.

However, since they had met a few times, they recognized Xiao Yu, whereas Xiao Yu only found them vaguely familiar due to his short stint there.

"Alright!" After hearing their response, Xiao Yu nodded and walked out.

The area around the hospital had several pharmacies that offered decocting services. Although Xiao Yu had the main ingredients for his prescription, he still needed a few auxiliary herbs. Hence, by going to a pharmacy, he could both have his medicine decocted and buy those additional herbs.

Exiting the hospital's front gate, Xiao Yu saw that right across from it was a pharmacy with an advertisement on its window saying "Decocting Chinese Medicine."

When Xiao Yu saw this, he walked straight towards the pharmacy. This pharmacy was about a hundred square meters in size, mostly selling Western medicine, with an herb cabinet for traditional Chinese medicine placed directly opposite the entrance.

Nearby hospitals generally had pharmacies that mainly sold Western medicine because patients rarely bought Chinese herbs at hospitals, and besides, the profit margin of Western medicine was several times higher than that of Chinese herbs.

When Xiao Yu arrived at the pharmacy, he took out a pen and paper to write down the auxiliary medicines he needed and handed them over to the pharmacist.

The pharmacist's speed in dispensing medicine was very fast. In no time, she had prepared each herb and placed them on the counter before Xiao Yu. As Xiao Yu observed these herbs, he picked up a handful of one type and smelled it, nodding his head after confirming its quality. He then put down this batch of herbs and proceeded to smell another.

When Xiao Yu reached the last herb, his brows suddenly furrowed tightly as he said, "Why do these herbs seem slightly moldy"

"Moldy There's no such thing as mold! Isn't it good like this If you want to buy them, go ahead; if not, don't bother. Don’t cause a disturbance here; we’re affiliated with the hospital and wouldn’t sell moldy medicine."

Upon hearing Xiao Yu’s words, the pharmacy staff immediately wiped off their smile and spoke sternly to him.

"Heh heh..." Xiao Yu chuckled softly but remained silent. Since wasting time was not an option, he merely pushed the suspicious herb towards the pharmacist and said, "If it's not moldy, then fine! I don't need this one; instead, give me a dose of 'Gastrodia'!"

Hearing Xiao Yu’s words, the pharmacist gave him a glance and unwillingly picked up that herb to put back in the cabinet before getting another Gastrodia for him.

Seeing all his herbs were complete now, Xiao Yu reached into his medical bag and took out a bag containing several herbs. He said, "Boil these herbs three times! Hurry up; money is not an issue!"

The pharmacist smiled again upon hearing this: "Alright, if you want it fast, it's thirty yuan per dose. Are you sure"

Xiao Yu didn't say anything and just nodded his head. The pharmacist then wrote out a bill for him to pay before taking the herbs into the back.

"Please sit down; it won’t take long!" After Xiao Yu paid, another pharmacist said to him.

Xiao Yu nodded and sat on one of the chairs in the middle of the room while waiting.

"Whose medicine is this, whose medicine is this......" The pharmacist had been inside for only a short while before she came out with a difficult expression. Following her was a middle-aged man in his fifties who immediately shouted when he entered the pharmacy.

The pharmacist pointed at Xiao Yu with a grim look and said, "Boss, it's him!"

"Sorry, we don't decoct this medicine!" Upon seeing the pharmacist pointing at Xiao Yu, the middle-aged man walked up to Xiao Yu with his medicine and handed it over with an unpleasant expression.

"Why not I've already paid for it!" Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned before he asked.

"Don't you know This is poison! Highly toxic! Our shop is small; we can't afford to randomly decoct such dangerous medicines!" The middle-aged man looked at him and replied in a bad mood upon hearing Xiao Yu’s question.

"Uh......" Hearing the middle-aged man's words, Xiao Yu was momentarily stunned. He hadn’t expected it would be because of this reason.

“Haha, you're also a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner!” However, Xiao Yu looked at the middle-aged man and chuckled.

Xiao Yu’s prescription included some toxic herbs, but their toxicity wasn't strong. They could only cause slight harm to the human body.

However, only experienced traditional Chinese medicine practitioners would know that when these slightly toxic herbs were decocted together, they wouldn’t produce a mildly toxic medicine; instead, it would become a deadly poison.

Hence, upon hearing this middle-aged man say Xiao Yu's prescription contained highly toxic ingredients, Xiao Yu knew the person must be a doctor.

"Indeed, I am a doctor!" The middle-aged man nodded and said after hearing Xiao Yu’s words.

“Since you're also a traditional Chinese medicine practitioner, you should know that poison can become a cure if used properly!” Upon hearing the middle-aged person's response, Xiao Yu nodded at him.

"Of course I know this. But that only applies to mildly toxic drugs! The toxicity of these combined medicines rivals that of Seven Herb Poison. Anyone who gets poisoned will have no chance of survival!"

"Haha, but some poisoning symptoms can only be treated with this poison. You just need to prepare the medicine; you don't have to take responsibility for anything else!"

Xiao Yu chuckled after hearing his words. Actually, Xiao Yu didn't tell him that the medicine was meant to treat corpse poison. To eliminate this kind of corpse poison from the flesh-eating insect, only such potent medicine could work; regular drugs couldn’t remove it at all. They had no choice but to counteract with poison. Furthermore, they needed to choose a very good type of poison—one that would be in direct opposition to the insect's venom.

Xiao Yu’s prescription was also one from Zhong Kui's memory. With this prescription and Xiao Yu’s earlier use of golden needles to block his meridians, it could just manage to counteract such toxins.

After hearing Xiao Yu’s words, the middle-aged man thought for a moment before nodding. He was afraid that they would be blamed if someone died after taking this medicine. After all, most people who prepare medicines are ordinary folks who wouldn’t know that it contains poison.

Moreover, he couldn't identify the toxicity of these herbs from an average Traditional Chinese Medicine practitioner because he had seen such a prescription in an ancient medical book before. Back then, it was used as a harmful prescription. As for using this prescription to save lives, he hadn’t heard about that.

However, since they didn't have to take responsibility and the person knew that this prescription contained poison, there wasn't anything else he needed to worry about. After all, if someone wanted to use it to harm others, they could simply brew the medicine at home; why would they need to come here

Therefore, after hearing Xiao Yu’s words, the middle-aged man turned and walked into an inner room.

Xiao Yu sat down again to wait when he saw the middle-aged man walk inside.

About half an hour later, the middle-aged man came out with a vacuum-sealed packet of herbs and gave it to Xiao Yu. "Your medicine seems to have one ingredient switched."

During preparation, he had taken his medical book and cross-checked it; thus, when he saw that one ingredient was Heavenly Hemp (Gastrodia elata), he paused in surprise. While the nature of Heavenly Hemp is similar to what the book described for another herb, they were indeed different.

"Yes, I did switch it." Xiao Yu nodded and said.

“Then which one would be more suitable” He thought about it before asking when he heard Xiao Yu’s reply.

“The other one is the most suitable; this one is only used as a last resort!” Xiao Yu replied with a nod. These weren’t secret recipes, and besides, this middle-aged man had already seen such prescriptions in ancient times, which were often recorded in poison books.

However, no one knew that these prescriptions could actually serve as excellent detoxifying remedies. Yet they could only treat corpse poison; other types of toxins couldn't be treated by them. Perhaps there was a possibility that they might work, but people simply didn’t know about it.ause some trouble for the other side when he went to the restroom; however, things took an unexpected turn while he was away.It seemed that they weren't intentionally leaving him hanging but were deal...