Origin Chapter 644: The Curse of the Undead

Seeing that Jiang Zhu remembered this, Wu Zhongyuan breathed a sigh of relief, "Do you recognize the person who easily exchanged bronze medals with you?"

"I know, it's Mr. Hu from Leprosy Ridge." Jiang Zhu said.

"Very good." Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly. Jiang Zhen had previously said that most of the people in Leprosy Ridge were ugly. He was planning to go to Leper Ridge after coming to Qingshan, and Jiang Zhu also confirmed that The person who changed the bronze medal to him was from Leprosy Ridge, and he knew his name, so it would be much easier to find out.

"However, Mr. Hu has been dead for many years, and the Holy Master can't find him." Jiang Zhu said.

"Unexpectedly," Wu Zhongyuan waved his hand, "how many sides does the bronze medal have?"

"Three sides." Jiang Zhu said.

"Where is it now?" Wu Zhongyuan asked.

"A few years ago, I gave it to the city owner Jiang Xiu as a gift." Jiang Zhu replied.

"How many years ago?" Wu Zhongyuan continued to ask.

"Five years? Maybe six years. I'm old and my memory is poor. I can't remember." Jiang Zhu shook his head.

Seeing that Wu Zhongyuan wanted to get up, Wan Shanhong asked, "Why did you give the three bronze medals to Jiang Xiu as a gift? What's so special about the three bronze medals?"

Jiang Zhu heard the words and turned to look at Wan Shanhong. He didn't know Wan Shanhong, but even the King of Yong Jiang Zhen stayed outside the door, but Wan Shanhong was able to walk into the house, which shows that Wan Shanhong and Wu Zhongyuan had a close relationship. , thinking of this, he did not shy away from concealing it, and replied, "The three bronze medals record the method of alchemy. Jiang Xiu is proficient in the art of alchemy by fire. This thing may be of great use to him."

Wan Shanhong asked again, "You got those three bronze medals 30 years ago, why didn't you give them to others until five or six years ago?"

Jiang Zhu was a little embarrassed when he heard the words, and after hesitating for a long time, he said embarrassingly, "The city lord celebrates his birthday. Every year, everyone like me will present congratulations. In the early years, I was old and still in office, but I can find a decent birthday gift. It's a rare thing, so I can only give the three bronze medals as a congratulatory gift to the Lord of the City."

Corruption has existed in all dynasties. Although Wu Zhongyuan was annoyed, he did not show it. He just asked, "You gave him the bronze medal. How did he react?"

"I am ecstatic, and I have many gifts in return." Jiang Zhu said.

Hearing Jiang Zhu's words, Wu Zhongyuan and Wan Shanhong looked at each other. Jiang Xiu's actions showed that he knew the value of these three bronze medals.

"Reporting to the sage, before the bronze medal was given to Jiang Xiu, the old man had a rubbing seal." Jiang Zhu took the initiative to report.

Wu Zhongyuan asked, "Where is the rubbing now?"

Jiang Zhu shuddered to get up and went to the east room. Wu Zhongyuan glanced at Wan Shanhong, who understood, stepped forward to help him, and went to the east room with Jiang Zhu.

After a sound of flipping, the two came out of the east room. Jiang Zhu held a roll of cotton cloth in his hand. The cotton cloth had turned yellow. He untied the rope and spread it out. It was the rubbing of three bronze medals. The content of the text corresponds exactly to what the old blind man said.

Wu Zhongyuan looked at them one by one, tied them up again, and then took out two qi supplement pills and a dark blue pill from his waist pouch and put them on the table. Limited by his talent, Jiang Zhu has improved his cultivation in the past 30 years. It's unusually slow, but so far it's only a blue qi cultivation base.

"You keep these three medicinal pills," Wu Zhongyuan said in a deep voice, "don't talk to anyone about our conversation today, otherwise it will bring disaster to our descendants."

Jiang Zhucheng was frightened, thanked him repeatedly, and kept promises.

The two of them didn't stay long, pushed the door and walked out. Jiang Zhen quickly walked up to him and asked in a low voice, "Can you go to Jiang Xiu's residence?"

Jiang Zhen's words illustrate two problems, one is that he heard the conversation between the two and Jiang Zhu, and the other is that this person is rarely a city man and can't pretend to be deaf and dumb.

It is precisely because Jiang Zhen can't pretend to be deaf and dumb that Wu Zhongyuan likes this person. In fact, he is very clear that with Jiang Zhen's aura cultivation base, Jiang Zhen can hear the conversation of the three from the room clearly, and warned Jiang before. Zhu's words are actually admonishing Jiang Zhen indirectly.

"Lead the way." Wu Zhongyuan nodded to Jiang Zhen.

Jiang Zhen goes first, and the two follow.

Because Jiang Xiu died in the battle, his family had not moved out of the city lord's mansion. The three of them went straight to the city. On the way, they met with Jiang Guangping, the deputy city lord, who had arrived after hearing the news. The four of them walked together to the city lord's mansion.

Knowing that Huang Di was coming, Jiang Xiu's family members came out to greet them in panic. Wu Zhongyuan didn't say anything to them, and directly ordered Jiang Xiu's main widow to take them to Jiang Xiu's storage place.

In modern terms, Jiang Xiu is a big corrupt official. Jiang Xiu's widow is guilty of being a thief, and she is afraid and panic, but Huang Di dared to deceive her when she came to her, so he had to take the three to the secret room located in the underground of the mansion.

The secret room is filled with all kinds of things that Jiang Xiu has looted all his life. Compared with modern corrupt officials, Jiang Xiu's greed of these things is not a lot, but in the ancient times of material scarcity, Jiang Xiu was already considered a huge corruption. , Jiang Xiu's widow only thought that the three were here to raid the house, and fell to her knees in fright, shaking like a sieve.

The three of them did their own thing and searched wildly, but they couldn't find the three bronze medals after a long time.

The search was fruitless, Wu Zhongyuan turned his attention to the widow, who was in his 40s, and since he knew the secret room opened, it meant that he had a good relationship with Jiang Xiu, and Jiang Xiu should not hide anything. she.

Once asked, the widow really knew the whereabouts of the three bronze medals. Jiang Xiu gave the three bronze medals to Jiang Zheng, the head of the cattle clan, two years ago.

Jiang Zhen has been stationed outside these years. He has a very general relationship with his father Jiang Zheng and his elder brother Jiang Tao. Hearing the words of his widow, he turned to look at Wu Zhongyuan, and his eyes were full of questions.

Wu Zhongyuan shook his head. Now that he has won three bronze medals in rubbings, the originals are not so important, and there is no need to run to Lianshan. What he was looking for was Hunyuan Ding, and the bronze medal was handed down from Leper Ridge. The focus of his search should be on Leper Ridge.

Seeing Wu Zhongyuan shaking his head, Jiang Zhen looked around again, and finally his eyes fell on the shivering widow.

"This is your fief, you can deal with it as you see fit." Wu Zhongyuan said casually, after saying that, thinking that Jiang Xiu had died in battle, it would be unfair to search the house at this time, so he temporarily changed his mind, "Forget it, the merits and demerits are equal. No reward or punishment, leave things to them.”

"Follow the decree." Jiang Zhen nodded in response.

The widow was so frightened that she even forgot about Xie En, until Jiang Zhen reminded her, she came back to her senses, kowtowed and burst into tears.

Wu Zhongyuan did not stay there either, and left the secret room with Wan Shanhong first, while Jiang Zhen stayed behind, admonishing Jiang Xiu's widow to be tight-lipped and not to speak out.

Leaving the city lord's mansion, Jiang Zhen said, "Leaping Ridge is 400 miles west of here, and there are more than 200 people in the stockade. It is rumored that the people there are ugly and horrible because they suffer from leprosy. , but we once sent people to check, and they were not suffering from leprosy, but a strange disease whose cause could not be found. Since the ancestors of the leprosy village lived by robbing graves, some people suspected that they were blaspheming the undead. Curse."

Wu Zhongyuan frowned slightly when he heard the words. Although he was in ancient times, he had received modern higher education. The curse is mostly nonsense and not credible.

"If there is no dispatch from the sage, then the subordinates will go back?" Jiang Zhen said.

Wu Zhongyuan did not answer the call immediately. Jiang Zhen knew that the two were going to Leper Ridge next. He was worried that he would get in the way, so he explained the situation and took the initiative to leave. It can be seen that Jiang Zhen is not a martial artist, and his brain is still very strong. Aura.

After pondering, Wu Zhongyuan said, "Don't be in a hurry to go back to Xiaoshan. You work hard and go to Lianshan to find out the whereabouts of the three bronze medals."

"Okay." Jiang Zhen nodded.

"Go early and return early, we will return to Xiaoshan later today." Wu Zhongyuan said.

Jiang Zhen nodded again, and the three of them split into two groups, Jiang Zhen heading north, and the two heading west.

Leaving Qingshan, Wan Shanhong said, "Jiren has God's help, and this trip was very smooth."

"If I didn't find the Hunyuan Cauldron, I dared not say it went well." Wu Zhongyuan turned to look at Wanshanhong, "What is the location of Leprosy Ridge?"

Wan Shanhong shook his head, "The Leprosy Ridge is located in the Western Desert. I don't come here on weekdays."

Wu Zhongyuan said, "You have heard what Jiang Zhen said just now. The ancestors of the people in Leaping Ridge made a living by digging graves. The three bronze medals in Hu Laosan's hand are probably brought by him or his family from a tomb somewhere. out."

Wan Shanhong glanced at Wu Zhongyuan and didn't make a decision.

Wu Zhongyuan said again, "If this is the case, the Hunyuan Ding was buried in an ancient tomb 5,000 years ago."

Wan Shanhong didn't answer Wu Zhongyuan's words, but said, "The people in Leprosy Mountain probably suffered the curse of Hunyuan Ding."

"Why did you say this?" Wu Zhongyuan was puzzled.

"How much do you know about Hunyuan Ding?" Wan Shanhong asked rhetorically.

"Not much." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head.

"The Hunyuan Cauldron can refine the ninth-order celestial elixir, but at the same time it brings endless killing and plundering," Wan Shanhong said, "This Cauldron can balance yin and yang, neutralize the five elements, all Anything that contains spiritual energy can be put into it and turned into qi-boosting elixir, you can imagine what will happen in order to **** the treasures of heaven and earth and alien inner elixir.”

Hearing Wan Shanhong's words, Wu Zhongyuan nodded slowly. According to Wan Shanhong's statement, Hunyuan Ding is like a corpse incinerator. People who practice qi will go everywhere in order to get the qi tonic elixir to improve their cultivation. Looting, rampant killing.

"Hunyuan Ding is not only extremely yin, but also has undead resentment. Everyone in Leprosy Ridge must be cursed by the undead." Wan Shanhong said.

Wu Zhongyuan said, "The people in Mafengling have been ugly for a long time. According to you, they should have entered the tomb where the Hunyuan Ding was sealed many years ago. The three bronze medals were not brought out by Hu Laosan himself. .”

"There is such a possibility." Wan Shanhong nodded.

Wu Zhongyuan didn't argue with Wan Shanhong either. The two were on their way to Leper Ridge by bird at this time. The specific situation will be known soon.

Mafengling is easy to find. It is a cottage built on a mountain. Unlike ordinary villages that face north and south, the stockade in Mafengling sits west and faces east. The houses in the stockade are very dilapidated and there are many fences outside. There was damage. When the two arrived, the people in the stockade were cooking dinner. The sun was setting, and the smoke was swaying.

There is a wooden fence around the stockade and an exit from the gatehouse. The dilapidated gate is open and not guarded by guards.

The arrival of the giant eagle alarmed the people in the stockade, and they all came out of the house and walked to the open space to look east.

It is also fortunate that Wu Zhongyuan had psychological preparations in advance. Otherwise, he would have been startled by these people. The people in Leprosy Ridge were not only ugly, but also had many disabilities in their limbs. The dozens of people who came out were only seven or eight. indivual.

"This is a group of cursed people." Wan Shanhong looked at the crowd.

"No, it has nothing to do with the curse." Wu Zhongyuan shook his head slowly.

Wan Shanhong was puzzled and tilted her head to look at him.

"This is a genetic mutation caused by severe radiation." Wu Zhongyuan said.

"What?" Wan Shanhong naturally couldn't understand Wu Zhongyuan's words.

"It's nothing, let's go, go in and see..."