荒墟牧神 - 第142章 藥迷太學殿 - 錦書坊

The young Patriarch looked at him with a half-smile. "You're overthinking. He's a divine physician—he cured even the Empress Dowager's illness, and with a single dose of numbing drug he felled the whole mountain. If you kill him, I'll kill you."

"So it was him!"

Libationer Bashan understood all at once. "I'd long heard a divine physician had come to the capital—I never thought it was this boy. I've no objection to watching him, only that I'm wild by nature and not used to staying on the mountain..."

The young Patriarch said with a smile, "Wherever you go, take him with you."

Libationer Bashan assented.

The young Patriarch let out a breath of stale air. "Don't just stand there—carry these felled scholars and Libationers out and let them get some air."

Shen Mu and Libationer Bashan hurried into the Hall of Imperial Physicians and carried the people inside out.

Most of the Grand Academy's scholars had been felled, and no few men of the Directorate as well. When the Bewildering Incense's potency passed, all of them woke one after another, though their heads were still somewhat muzzy, and for a while they could not fully recover.

The several old imperial physicians of the Hall of Imperial Physicians apologized to everyone, deeply ashamed, yet their admiration for Shen Mu had grown a little more.

Only now did they understand why Shen Mu had made them keep their distance when he gathered up the medicine: the Bewildering Incense's potency was too strong, and Shen Mu, fearing it would leak out, had sent them far away.

And it was for this very reason that they had not seen how Shen Mu gathered the medicine, and so this great disaster had come about.

It was fortunate it was only a numbing drug; had it been a poison that killed on a single breath, then most of Jingping's future elite would have died at one stroke.

Just then, someone suddenly cried out in alarm, "Buddha-Heart, the Buddha's Son, and Great Monk Jingming have left!"