Wang Baochang's shoulder wound made me feel scared, and I unconsciously took a step back.

Grandpa snorted coldly, "Hmph, getting what you deserve, huh?"

Wang Baochang lowered his head, "I never expected Uncle Qi to... to undergo corpse transformation... If I had known how fierce Uncle Qi was, even if you offered me twenty thousand, I wouldn't have dared to take on this job!"

Ku the Cripple glanced at Wang Baochang, "In this whole area, is there any job Daoist Wang wouldn't dare to take? Weren't you quite arrogant before?"

Wang Baochang choked with tears in his voice, "I didn't know my place before. This time... this time, I've truly learned my lesson!"

Ku the Cripple said, "You've been poisoned by corpse toxins. Let me see your hands!"

I was surprised. I hadn't expected Wang Baochang to be poisoned by Uncle Qi with just a scratch.

If Uncle Qi had scratched me or Fatty that night... Oh, it's too scary to think about!

I've heard of corpse toxins before. It's a poisonous gas inside corpses, very fierce. Even regular hospitals can't treat it, only folk remedies specialized in treating corpse toxins.

Obviously, Wang Baochang, this third-rate Taoist who was seeking fame and reputation, didn't know how to treat corpse toxins. So after being poisoned, he had no choice but to swallow his pride and seek help from Ku the Cripple. After all, Ku the Cripple was the one with real skills.

Trembling, Wang Baochang stretched out his hands, rolled up his sleeves, and saw a black line on his arm, spreading from the palm of his hand to the elbow, feeling very strange. It seemed like a black snake was wandering inside his arm, surrounded by visible black energy.

Ku the Cripple said, "Thankfully, there's still hope!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Baochang knelt down directly in excitement, repeatedly calling out to Ku the Cripple.

Ku the Cripple said to Grandpa, "Old Master Yang, go to the village and get a black donkey hoof, and then bring some glutinous rice. The whiter the glutinous rice, the better the effect!"

"I think we shouldn't save this bastard!" Although Grandpa kept muttering, he still went out.

It's relatively easy to find these two things in the countryside. Grandpa soon returned with a black donkey hoof and a sack of glutinous rice.

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The black donkey hoof was still warm, with bloodstains on it, emitting a fishy smell.

Grandpa said, "Lucky us, we happened to meet a family unloading a millstone and slaughtering a donkey. We got a black donkey hoof! I don't know what you're going to do with this black donkey hoof?"

"Removing the poison!" Ku the Cripple said.

Grandpa was slightly puzzled, "Removing the poison? Use this thing to remove corpse toxins?"

Ku the Cripple nodded, "Yes, Old Master Yang, please take this black donkey hoof to the kitchen and grind it into powder!"

With the black donkey hoof in hand, Grandpa, wearing a look of doubt, went to the kitchen.

Ku the Cripple said, "The toxicity of corpse toxins is very severe. After the toxins infiltrate the flesh, there's initially no sensation, but later it becomes unbearable itching. Eventually, the flesh will rot and fester, and the toxins will spread rapidly throughout the body. The poisoned person will soon die!"

Upon hearing this, Wang Baochang's face turned pale.

Ku the Cripple asked me to take the sack of glutinous rice to the kitchen and bring it back after steaming.

After a while, the glutinous rice was steamed. I carried a plate out, filled with steaming hot glutinous rice.

I grabbed a bit and tasted it, "Hmm, the glutinous rice is quite fragrant. Eat it while it's hot!"

Ku the Cripple said, "You silly kid, this isn't for eating!"

I asked, puzzled, "Then what's it for?"

Ku the Cripple took out a handkerchief, grabbed a handful of hot glutinous rice with it, and said to Wang Baochang, "Endure it!" Then he pressed the steaming hot glutinous rice onto Wang Baochang's shoulder.

"Ah—"

Wang Baochang immediately let out a painful howl, his eyes wide open, and his body shaking violently.

I said with some concern, "Ku the Cripple, aren't you afraid of scalding him to death?"

Ku the Cripple said, "You don't understand. The hotter the glutinous rice, the more effective it is. It's a bit painful now, but he'll feel better later!"

"Better... feels... very..." Wang Baochang's teeth were chattering, his hands tightly gripping the table edge, and the veins on his arms bulging, as if they were about to burst through the skin.

"Look, the glutinous rice is changing color!" Ku the Cripple said.

Sure enough, the glutinous rice in Ku the Cripple's hand quickly turned black, and a mass of black gas, like ink, slowly permeated the glutinous rice.

Before long, the glutinous rice had completely turned jet black. If you didn't know any better, you'd think it was a lump of black mud, which looked quite terrifying.

"Is this the corpse toxin?" I pointed to the black glutinous rice and asked.

Ku the Cripple nodded, threw away the blackened glutinous rice, grabbed another handful of freshly steamed glutinous rice, and continued to press it onto Wang Baochang's shoulder.

"Ah—Ah—Ah—" Wang Baochang's body shook violently, and it took him a long time to catch his breath.

Ku the Cripple frowned, "Can't you endure it a bit? You're in your forties, why are you screaming so coquettishly?"

This went on repeatedly three or five times, and the plate of glutinous rice was almost used up.

Ku the Cripple clapped his hands and looked at the wound on Wang Baochang's shoulder, "Hmm, the corpse toxins have been removed for the most part!"

I curiously stepped forward to take a look and found that Wang Baochang's shoulder was no longer the dark color it was before. It had basically returned to its normal flesh color, with a large red mark on the wound, probably from the scalding.

I hadn't expected that the glutinous rice we usually eat could remove corpse toxins. The interactions between all things in the world are truly wonderful.

"Is that it?" I asked Ku the Cripple.

Ku the Cripple shook his head, "There's one more step. Right now, we've only removed the surface corpse toxins, but there's definitely still corpse toxins seeping into his body. The next step is to expel the corpse toxins from inside the body. Glutinous rice won't be useful anymore!"

At this moment, Grandpa came in with a bowl of powdery substance resembling sesame paste, bloody and with a strong stench.

Grandpa said to Ku the Cripple, "Ku the Cripple, as per your instructions, I've ground the black donkey hoof into powder!"

Ku the Cripple rubbed his chin, "Very good, well done. With such a big bowl, it should be enough to fill the stomach! Old Master Yang, please take this bowl of hoof powder to boil it!"

Grandpa looked at Ku the Cripple in surprise and then went to the kitchen with the bowl.

After a while, Grandpa came out with the boiled "black donkey hoof porridge," the bowl of bloody hoof porridge was still bubbling.

Ku the Cripple handed the bowl of black donkey hoof porridge to Wang Baochang, "Eat it while it's hot. It's nutritious. Once you swallow this bowl of black donkey hoof porridge, the corpse toxins in your body will naturally be resolved!"

As I smelled the stench of the black donkey hoof porridge, I couldn't help but want to vomit. It made me develop a psychological aversion even to sesame paste.

Wang Baochang widened his eyes and stammered, "This bowl of stuff is too disgusting, how... how can I... swallow it?"