Feng Xinwei entered the Bai family villa, said nothing, took out his compass, and began to inspect.
Soon, the compass rotated automatically, locating several positions where yin energy was generated.
"There must be something underground here, let's dig it up and see what it is." In front of the main entrance of the villa, Feng Xinwei pointed to a flowerbed and said.
Bai Xiaoqing was still a little confused. Lin Hao found a shovel and started digging.
Soon, the shovel hit something hard. They widened the digging area and unearthed the hard object.
It was a large-bellied wine jar. Lin Hao picked it up and shook it, hearing the sound of liquid sloshing inside.
The mouth of the jar was sealed with mud, as if someone had buried wine there.
"Master Feng, there's a jar of wine here," Lin Hao said, carrying the jar to Feng Xinwei.
Feng Xinwei looked at the jar thoughtfully. Before he could decide what to do, Lin Hao used his hands to pry at the mud seal, wanting to open the jar.
"Don't move, it's dangerous."
Seeing Lin Hao about to lift the seal, Feng Xinwei quickly warned him, but it was too late.
With a bang, the seal broke open, and a black mist emerged from the jar's mouth. Bai Xiaoqing seemed to hear a scream.
The black mist sprayed directly into Lin Hao's face. Lin Hao's hand trembled, and the jar fell to the ground.
With a crash, the jar shattered, and a black liquid with a foul odor flowed out. Amidst the broken shards, a human-shaped black object appeared.
As black mist swirled, Feng Xinwei quickly retreated to avoid it. Bai Xiaoqing, being slower, was quickly enveloped by the black mist.
Bai Xiaoqing was on the verge of tears. Everything was dark around her. Just as she didn't know what to do, a red light emanated from the pendant of the necklace she wore, rapidly dispelling the black mist.
Lin Hao, who had been sprayed by the black mist, stumbled a few steps and then collapsed to the ground with a thud, foaming at the mouth and convulsing.
Feng Xinwei quickly pulled out a spiritual charm from his pocket and placed it on Lin Hao's forehead. Lin Hao convulsed a few more times and then stopped.
Lin Hao's face was dark, and his breathing was weak. Feng Xinwei called out a few times, but Lin Hao remained motionless.
Bai Xiaoqing became anxious. She hadn't treated Lin Hao very well usually, and she was still debating whether to establish a romantic relationship with him. Yet, he had been poisoned while helping her family.
"Master Feng, is Lin Hao going to die? Please save him quickly."
Bai Xiaoqing's voice was choked with tears. Feng Xinwei also began to panic. Lin Wei was Lin Hao's grandfather, and Long Xiao was Lin Hao's brother-in-law. He couldn't afford to offend either of them.
Feng Xinwei took out an antidote from his pocket, stuffed it into Lin Hao's mouth, and said, "Hurry and get some water."
The two fumbled to force the antidote down Lin Hao's throat. After a few minutes, there was no effect.
"Master Feng, is this medicine not working?" Bai Xiaoqing asked.
Feng Xinwei nodded and said, "It really isn't working. I'll think of another way."
After trying everything he could, Lin Hao's face remained dark, and he was still motionless.
As a last resort, Feng Xinwei called Long Xiao directly, not daring to call Lin Wei.
Long Xiao, accompanied by Xiao Ming, had just arrived at Xinglin Caotang. He went to the pharmacy and took out the various refined pills, preparing to deliver them to Lu Tianxing.
Although Long Xiao had agreed to cooperate with the various forces in the East Sea to deal with the Japanese and Long Nian, he did not want to interact too much with these factions when there was nothing going on.
Although he engaged in worldly affairs, Long Xiao did not consider himself a man of the martial world.
His actions against the Japanese and Long Nian were driven by his conscience, which compelled him to do so. This might be what people meant by being in the martial world and not being able to control oneself.
While packing medicine, Long Xiao received Feng Xinwei's call. He quickly stopped packing and rushed to the Bai family with Xiao Ming.
He drove the car directly into the Bai family villa and stopped in front of the main building. Before getting out, he saw Lin Hao with a face as black as ink.
Xiao Ming got out of the car faster than Long Xiao. He ran to Lin Hao's side and exclaimed in surprise, "What did this guy eat to make his face so black?"
As soon as he finished speaking, Xiao Ming recoiled in fear, his small body trembling. "Why is there such heavy malevolent energy?"
Long Xiao stepped forward, grabbed Lin Hao's wrist, and examined his body. He discovered that in addition to malevolent energy, there were several potent toxins in Lin Hao's body.
Feng Xinwei's spiritual charm had blocked some of the malevolent energy from entering Lin Hao's internal organs, but it had no effect on the toxins.
Long Xiao looked at the shattered jar and the black human-shaped object among the fragments.
He found a stick and poked at it, but he couldn't identify what it was.
"Ghost Infant, it's terrifying, and it's highly poisonous!" Xiao Ming shouted and quickly jumped back.
Long Xiao threw down the stick and asked, "Do you recognize this thing?"
Xiao Ming nodded and said, "Of course I know. We赊刀人 are very skilled."
Xiao Ming told Long Xiao that ghost infants, like僵尸, were refined from living people.
First, they found a child with a pure yin constitution, then fed him various trace amounts of highly toxic substances, slowly allowing the toxins to permeate his body until he died.
At the moment of death, forbidden arts were used to seal his three souls within his body, and then he was treated with special medicinal substances for eighty-one days, thus becoming a ghost infant.
Ghost infants were used to form formations, slowly dispersing their yin and malevolent energy to cover everyone within the formation.
If someone broke the formation and dug up the ghost infant, the ghost infant's potent toxins would take effect, poisoning the person who broke the formation.
"Go to the car's trunk and get the antidote," Long Xiao said, looking at Xiao Ming.
Xiao Ming replied with difficulty, "Boss, I don't know which one is the antidote."
The antidote Long Xiao refined this time had a faint life aura and was effective against all toxins.
After retrieving the antidote from the trunk, Long Xiao took a bottle of beverage from Xiao Ming's backpack and poured it into Lin Hao.
The blackness on Lin Hao's face quickly began to recede. As his complexion turned gray-black, a red shadow emerged from Long Xiao's clothes and flew towards Lin Hao.
Just as Long Xiao was about to take out his silver needles to dispel the malevolent energy from Lin Hao, he saw the Scarlet Flame Worm land on Lin Hao's body and greedily absorb the yin and malevolent energy within him.
Soon, all of Lin Hao's yin and malevolent energy was absorbed by the Scarlet Flame Worm, and his grayish-black face returned to normal.
Xiao Ming, Feng Xinwei, and Bai Xiaoqing watched the Scarlet Flame Worm absorb Lin Hao's yin and malevolent energy, all looking astonished.
Xiao Ming and Bai Xiaoqing had never seen a Scarlet Flame Worm before. They never imagined that such an insect, capable of absorbing yin and malevolent energy, existed in the world.
Feng Xinwei was even more shocked. He knew how powerful Scarlet Flame Worms were; the pure yang energy within them was extremely potent and could ignite anything they encountered.
The fact that a Scarlet Flame Worm was hidden in Long Xiao's clothes was simply incredible.
"Boss, this worm is so beautiful. Why don't you let me raise it?"
Seeing the Scarlet Flame Worm finish absorbing the yin and malevolent energy and about to fly back to Long Xiao, Xiao Ming, full of envy, wanted to catch it.
The Scarlet Flame Worm was fast, but Xiao Ming was even faster. He lunged forward. The moment his hand touched the Scarlet Flame Worm, he let out a yelp and jumped back seven or eight meters, clutching his hand.
"Boss, your pet bit me."
Long Xiao chuckled and said, "Scarlet Flame Worms are very well-behaved; they don't bite people."
Xiao Ming turned over his palm and looked. He found that his finger had been severely burned.
"Boss, quickly get me some burn ointment. It's killing me!" Xiao Ming shouted.
Long Xiao took out his self-refined burn ointment from the trunk, chewed it a few times, and applied it to Xiao Ming's burnt finger.
A cool sensation spread, and Xiao Ming happily exclaimed, "Boss's medicine is amazing, it feels so good!"
The Scarlet Flame Worm squatted on Long Xiao's shoulder, glaring with its small eyes, chittering at Xiao Ming a few times, and then burrowed back into Long Xiao's clothes.