Chapter 929.
In the bathroom, the air mist was dense, diffusing a strong smell of medicine.
Wang Dust was sitting in a large barrel more than half a person high, his whole body immersed in being wrapped in a dark brown medicinal liquid.
The charcoal fire under the barrel was flourishing.
This large wooden barrel was wrapped in iron and was specially used for martial artists’ medicinal baths.
Many of the children of the big families started to soak in the medicinal bath since they were young, so that they could use it to refine their muscles and bones and strengthen their bodies, so that their starting point in the martial arts path would be a lot higher than the ordinary people.
Poor in literature and rich in martial arts is the truest portrayal of this world!
The medicinal bath that Wang Chen soaked in was far more precious than the ones used by the average children of the world.
This bucket of medicinal liquid contained ginseng, ganoderma lucidum, rhinoceros horn, deer antler, asparagus, snow lotus, and other medicinal herbs of the previous years, valued at more than five hundred taels of silver!
As Wang Chen’s vital energy operated within his body, the abundant and rich medicinal power was continuously absorbed into his flesh, sinews and bones, and was eventually turned into potential energy and stored away.
In the past, this process would need to last for an hour or two before the medicinal power of a barrel of medicinal liquid could be completely absorbed.
And now that Wang Chuan had broken through the Fifth Stage Martial Zong Great Realm and condensed the Martial Dantian, his absorption ability of the medicinal power had skyrocketed.
Therefore the soaking time was compressed to within one incense stick!
When the color of the medicinal liquid in the vat turned into a light brownish hue, Wang Chuan violently leapt up high with a body of water vapor, and then steadily landed on the ground.
The moment his feet hit the ground, the water droplets that had stained his body surface instantly evaporated cleanly.
Taking out his clothes and uniform from the storage space and changing into them, Wang Chen left his residence and rode his yellow horse towards the outside of the city.
He ran west for tens of miles, then turned into a narrow and rugged mountain road.
After running for another dozen miles, a mountain village appeared ahead.
Leaning Mountain Village.
Just this morning, Wang Dust received a mission assignment from the Self Defense Institute.
Seventy miles from the county town, the village of Leaning Mountain, suspected to be a scourge of evil demons, asked him to go to the investigation and examination.
Wang Dust gladly accepted the order.
As he galloped to the entrance of the village, Wang Chuan noticed a few villagers standing by the side of the road.
They looked terrified at the arrival of the freshly-clothed and angry Wang Dust, and backed away one after another.
Wang Dust raised an eyebrow, took the reins in his hand and strangled his yellow hussar, and asked in a deep voice, “Is this the village of Leaning Mountain?”
He had found this place based on the Linjiang County area map issued by the guardhouse, but he could not be sure that he had not gone to the wrong place.
After all, the map that was distributed was rather rudimentary.
The villagers looked at each other in dismay, and one of them gathered the courage to answer, “This is Leaning Mountain Village, may I ask what your honor is doing?”
“Where is your village chief?”
Wang Chen said, “I was ordered to come and investigate the evil and demonic chaos in your village!”
“Ah?”
As if waking up from a dream, the several villagers bowed and bowed again, flustered beyond recognition, “Little, little man will immediately take your lordship to see the village chief.”
Under the guidance of these villagers, Wang Chen quickly met the village chief of Leaning Mountain Village, also known as the village chief.
This village chief was very old with white hair, he could obviously recognize the grade of the flying fish suit worn by Wang Chuan, and busily bowed with a big salute: “My humble self, Zhang Ziwu, pay my respects to Your Excellency!”
The village chief was usually a respected member of the village, and was not part of the official establishment, so when he saw Wang Chuan, the seventh-ranked Blood Clothes Guard’s small flag, he was naturally terrified.
“No need to be polite.”
Wang Dust reached out to help the other party up, “Take me to see what the situation is.”
“Yes.”
The old village chief immediately led Wang Dust to an adobe house located at the west end of the village, and said in a trembling voice: “This is this village Zhang Xiaoqi’s family, a total of four people, yesterday at dusk the neighbor’s family found that the door of the room was open, and went in to take a look at it ……”
The result found a family of four all met an untimely death, the old village head knew immediately after sending people to run to the county town overnight to report the news.
Wang Duan nodded after listening, and then entered the house.
The house is not big, a total of two bedrooms, one of the bed lying a middle-aged couple, both face pale, staring at the eyes of the dead.
The other room is the residence of two children, the death is even worse!
Wang Dust examined the bodies and found that the family’s necks had two rows of bloody mouths on the top and bottom, as if they had been bitten by some kind of animal’s canine teeth, which looked quite oozing.
Bloodsucking Fang!
A name instantly surfaced in Wang Chen’s mind.
Bloodsucking fangs were a kind of low-level demon, they were as good at disguise as all demons, and lurked among the commoners, subsisting by sucking human or animal blood.
Some bloodsucking fangs even secretly imprisoned and bred humans to satisfy their bloodsucking hobby.
Wang Chen had previously received professional training from the Blood Clothes Guards and had mastered a great deal of knowledge about demons, so he was able to come to the right conclusion by comparing and analyzing.
He asked the old village chief, “Has such a situation happened in your village before?”
The old village chief nodded, “It appeared once more than ten years ago, that time the same family died, and the adults from the county came to see it.”
But after seeing it, there was nothing more.
However, after that time, Leaning Mountain Village had been peaceful and nothing had happened, and everyone had long since forgotten about it.
But the old village chief still remembered it clearly, his eyes showing fear: “It, they’re back!”
This village chief had lived for sixty to seventy years, and had seen more than one or two demonic scourges, and was well aware of the horrors of evil demons!
Wang Dust thought for a moment and asked, “How many families are there in your village?”
The old village chief swallowed his saliva and replied, “A total of one hundred and seventy-nine households, six hundred and eighty-three people, including Zhang Xiaoqi’s family.”
“Gather them all.”
Wang Dust said in a deep voice, “I want to sift through them!”
“Huh?”
The old village chief was a bit dumbfounded, “You, can you do it alone?”
Wang Dust looked too young, although he was wearing a flying fish suit, but he was now single-handed and alone, what if he went head-to-head with a demon and died in the village?
Wang Dust looked at the other party and did not say anything – are you teaching this official to do things?
The old village chief wimped out in seconds: “The little people follow orders.”
Clang clang clang!
The loud sound of the bronze bell quickly broke the tranquility of this small mountain village.
Villagers who heard the sound rushed from their fields and homes to the village entrance, making this open space lively and noisy.
Wang Dust asked the old village chief to arrange for the people from the village protection team to maintain order, then counted the list one by one.
One by one, they passed in front of him.
And in Wang Dust’s hand, he held a talisman.
Demon Discriminating Talisman!
This talisman can be used to identify demons, or Wang Chuan’s master, Wang Hui, gifted it to him, so that he could bring it with him to prevent demons.
However, there was a limit to the number of times it could be used, and its “shelf life” wasn’t very long.
This kind of talisman contains a weak spiritual qi, which will be slowly lost with the passage of time.
Because Wang Chen had a storage space, he could avoid this problem by placing it inside.
Moreover, he had also studied the Demon Identification Talisman.
The villagers of Leaning Mountain Village passed the screening one by one, and until the last person passed, Wang Dust didn’t find anything strange.
“There are still fifteen people missing.”
He said to the old village chief, “Where did these people go?”
The number of villagers reported by the other party just now, Wang Dust remembered clearly!