The Counterattack of the Villains

"Zhan Shijun, how is the situation?" Li Si asked Li Mu worriedly.

Li Mu frowned tightly, his face was very gloomy, and he said slowly: "It's not good, we just suppressed the poison temporarily and saved their lives."

"But if the poison in their bodies cannot be resolved, no one from your majesty to the princes will be able to survive within ten days."

"So we must find out as soon as possible what kind of poison they were poisoned and then try to detoxify it."

All the ministers were shocked when they heard this. One minister said in panic: "Zhan Shijun, you must save your majesty and the princes, otherwise our great Qin will be in danger."

Another person echoed: "Yes, Zhan Shijun, you have great medical skills and can even solve plagues that have harmed the world for thousands of years. I believe you will be able to resolve this deadly poison."

Everyone was talking to each other, putting high hats on Li Mu's head for free, and doing their best to flatter him.

Li Mu can now be said to be the last life-saving straw for people who are poisoned, and those imperial doctors cannot be relied on at all.

After all, they even relied on Li Muxian to teach them how to temporarily suppress the poison. How can they be expected to detoxify it?

Li Mu sighed and said: "Masters, please don't panic. I will definitely do my best, but whether it succeeds or not depends on God's will."

"It's a lucky thing that I was able to gain ten days. You still have to be prepared."

After hearing Li Mu's words, the ministers' expressions changed and became quiet, and the sound of a needle dropping could be heard in the hall.

They naturally understand what it means to be prepared with both hands.

Obviously, even Li Mu is not completely sure that he and the young master can be rescued.

As he said, being able to buy ten days has already made the situation much better.

If Your Majesty, the Young Master and the ministers who were poisoned died suddenly on the spot, the situation would definitely be out of control.

At that moment, many people began to have other thoughts, wondering which young master should be supported to succeed the throne if something unexpected happened, which would be in their own best interest.

"Ahem..." Li Siqing coughed, breaking the silence in the hall, "Zhan Shijun, after the discussion just now, the poison was probably placed in the water spinach. Do you want to take a look first?"

Hearing his words, the imperial doctors began to test the poison with silver needles without Li Mu opening his mouth.

But the result surprised them, and the imperial doctor told everyone: "Master, there is no poison in water spinach."

"What? How is this possible?"

"I've eaten all the other dishes, but I haven't eaten water spinach and carrots."

"Yeah, so am I."

The so-called manjing is the ancient name for radish.

Li Mu glanced at the ministers speechlessly. It was obvious that these gangsters were all carnivores who only ate meat and were not vegetarians. No wonder they were all fat and big-eared.

Li Mu ignored everyone, but walked up to the imperial physician and asked, "Have you tried all the other dishes?"

When the imperial doctor heard this, he quickly turned around, wiped the silver needle with silk, and then pierced it into another dish.

I tried them one by one, and finally tried the wine again, but no poison was found.

After thinking for a moment, Li Mu suddenly said: "Try the wine with a silver needle first, don't wipe it clean, and then try the water spinach directly."

The imperial physician did as he was told. When the silver needle was mentioned again this time, the ministers immediately exclaimed because the silver needle in the imperial physician's hand turned black.

Li Mu picked up the wine pot and poured it into all the dishes one by one. As a result, the other dishes had no reaction, only some white foam appeared on the water spinach.

The imperial physician Ling shouted excitedly: "Zhan Shijun is wise, and I understand that this is a highly poisonous mixture of two drugs."

"The drugs were mixed in wine and water spinach respectively. Taking one drug alone is not toxic, but once the two drugs are mixed, they can become highly toxic."

"The waiter who tasted the food and the wine was not the same person, so the poison was not discovered. The person who poisoned it is really insidious."

After listening to the words of the imperial doctor, the ministers suddenly understood why everyone was eating and drinking the same thing, but some were poisoned and others were fine.

Li Mu said solemnly: "Now that we know where the poison comes from, we need to find out what the poison is as soon as possible, and at the same time find out the person who poisoned it."

"If we can catch the poisoner, we may be able to get the antidote, and then the crisis will be resolved."

Li Si immediately said to Ting Wei, the highest judicial officer of the Qin Dynasty and one of the Nine Qings: "Wu Jun, you will personally supervise this matter and find out the person who poisoned it as soon as possible."

"You know how much time you have, and you must leave enough time. So you actually only have six or seven days."

Tingwei Wu Ping's heart trembled, and he clasped his fists and said: "Promise, I will do my best to investigate. I will send a team of imperial guards to help you."

The doctor ordered Zhao Cheng to nod his head and said: "No problem."

…

There was no progress at Shang Shijian. After all, there was indeed no problem with the chefs, but Tingwei found a problem at Yuefu.

After counting, the Yuefu Order discovered that two musicians were missing, and various clues seemed to point towards Concubine Li.

However, Tingwei did not get any strong evidence. The matter involved concubines in the harem, so he did not dare to make an independent decision, so he had to report the matter to Li Si and ask him to make a decision.

The imperial doctor also quickly got results. The poison came from Tu'an and was a specialty of Tu'an. It was not found anywhere else.

What makes everyone's heart sink is that there is no antidote for this poison, and those who are poisoned will definitely die.

For a time, undercurrents surged in Xianyang City. Zhao Gao, the commander of the CRRC, secretly persuaded Li Si to support Hu Hai's succession once the First Emperor and Fusu died.

Under the leadership of Li Si and Zhao Gao, Li Mu, Zhao Cheng, and Dou Ling were called together, and they held a small meeting in private.

After this meeting, the tone for the future of Great Qin was set. Zhao Gao would be in charge of all affairs in the harem in the future, Li Mu would be appointed as the Young Master, and the positions of the others would remain unchanged.

The Prime Minister on the right, Feng Quji, and the Lieutenant General Feng Jie, who was in charge of Xianyang's security and garrison, did not join in their sins and were destined to be liquidated.

As for Hu Hai, he is naturally just a puppet. He only needs to be responsible for eating, drinking and having fun. In the future, Li Mu and the other five people will basically have the final say in the court.

They have not made any move on Concubine Li's side for the time being. They will wait until the First Emperor and Fusu die and Hu Hai succeeds to the throne.

At this time, Queen Tuan had fallen into the trap, but General Jin was deliberately let go by Li Mu.

He just wants General Jin to return to Tu'an to report the news and let Tu'an prepare for a national war.

Their role is to contain Meng Tian's army so that he has no time to return to Xianyang to join forces.

At the same time, two letters were sent to Yunmengze and Jiangdong respectively, indicating that the chaos of the late Qin Dynasty was about to begin.

…

Nine days later, the First Emperor's first seven orifices bled to death, followed by the poisoned ministers and Fusu.

During this period of time, the positions of those poisoned ministers have been replaced, almost all by people from Li Si, Zhao Cheng, and Dou Ling.

As soon as the poisoned man died, Li Si and others supported Hu Hai's ascension to the throne with lightning speed.

The first thing Hu Hai did after he ascended the throne was to attack his brothers and sisters. He ordered Li Mu to send out killers to kill all his brothers and sisters.

Li Mu did not refuse, after all, this matter was in his interests.

Seeing that Li Mu was willing to obey his orders, Hu Hai was very happy and trusted him even more. With confidence in his heart, he acted more and more recklessly.

It was better for those princes and princesses to die at the hands of the killer in the trap than to be brutally killed by Hu Hai like in the original history, and not even a whole body was left behind. At least they had a good time.

However, Li Mu looked at Xiao Yue and saved Ying Yin Man.

Today, Master Fusu's mansion has become his residence. Ying Yinman lives here and no one dares to make trouble for him.

Li Mu begged Hu Hai for mercy and promised that Ying Yinman would not threaten his throne.

In order to win over Li Mu, Hu Hai naturally gave him this face.

After dealing with the brothers and sisters, Hu Hai then started to deal with Li Fei.

Queen Tu'an was handed over to Zhao Gao. She didn't know from the beginning to the end that she was captured by Li Mu's people. She only thought it was Zhao Gao's handiwork.

Only then did Yu Shu know that it was her mother and queen who poisoned the First Emperor Fusu and other important officials of the Qin Dynasty.

Queen Tu'an was given poisonous wine by Hu Hai on the spot, and at the same time he issued an edict, ordering Meng Tian from Shangjun to lead an army to attack Tu'an and avenge the First Emperor and Fusu.

However, at this time, the Rong Di and the Xiongnu invaded the Qin Dynasty at the same time. Although Meng Tian won consecutive battles, it was impossible to end the war completely in a short time.

Coupled with Tu'an's interference, he joined forces with the Xiongnu and Rongdi, and Meng Tian was tightly restrained in the north.

Originally, Yu Shu could not escape death, but Li Mu spared her life on the grounds that it was Queen Tuan who committed the attack and Yu Shu was completely kept in the dark, but she was thrown into the cold palace.

With Bai He and others taking care of her, the cold palace was not a torture for her, but it allowed her to be free from any intrusion.

However, her mother's death and Tu'an's upcoming attack by the Qin army made her extremely sad.

…

After Hu Hai succeeded to the throne, he began his brutal rule.

Excessive taxation and brutal rule of law are basic operations.

Regarding the survivors of the Six Kingdoms, he changed Fusu's gentle and appeasing policy and adopted bloody massacres.

His father didn't have time to do the burning of books and humiliation of Confucian scholars, but his son inherited his father's legacy and did it.

The survivors of the Six Kingdoms who surrendered to Juxian Hall fled one after another, returned to their old lands, and returned to the service of the nobles of the Six Kingdoms.

Under this situation, Yi Xiaochuan took a step ahead of Chen Sheng and Wu Guang in Yunmengze, and took the slogan "Princes, generals, and prime ministers would rather have their own kind" as the slogan, and officially rebelled against Qin.

He launched the anti-Qin campaign two years in advance, and all forces in the world failed to react, allowing him to completely take the lead.

For a time, followers gathered together, with the 50,000 elites under his command as the core, and soon no less than 300,000 troops were gathered. Even Chen Sheng and Wu Guang took the initiative to join the army.

Because the slogans Yi Xiaochuan shouted were very in line with their wishes, they felt that Yi Xiaochuan would be their confidant.

After the Yi Xiaochuan uprising, he immediately laid down all the Daqin granaries in the entire Jianghan Plain, completely resolving all worries.

Then we started from Jingling and marched all the way to Xianyang.

More than a month after Yi Xiaochuan's uprising, Xiang Liang and Xiang Yu were fully prepared and started the uprising at the same time.

The other six countries also followed the two in revolt, and war broke out all over the world.

The rebellion came so suddenly and quickly that the Qin army was almost stunned.

Li Si and others soon realized that with such a large-scale rebellion, how could Luo Wang not receive the news?

Gao Yao has a problem.

It's a pity that when they realized this and tried to capture Li Mu, it was too late.

In one night, Bai Niao brought a large number of snares and night killers to raid the residences of all the top dignitaries of Da Qin.

Prime Minister Li Si, Lang Zhongling Zhao Cheng, Wei Wei Dou Ling, Right Prime Minister Feng Quji, General Feng Jie and other important officials with real power were all killed.

Hu Hai was also completely under the control of Zhao Gao. This boy only cared about having fun and had no interest in political affairs.

Li Mu reported that Li Si and others intended to rebel, were discovered by snare spies, and have all been killed. Then he presented several pieces of so-called evidence that he had fabricated.

Hu Hai just looked through it roughly and didn't care. Instead, he praised Li Mu for doing a good job.

Li Mu took Li Si's place and became the Prime Minister of Qin, and he and Zhao Gao firmly controlled the court.

Zhao Gao also acted out the allusion of "referring to a deer as a horse" under Li Mu's instructions.

Since the Meng family army had been taken away by Meng Tian, ​​the general guarding Xianyang Feng Jie was killed and replaced with someone loyal to Li Mu. Xianyang was completely under Li Mu's control.

In terms of war, wherever Yi Xiaochuan went, there would always be killers to help him, and he rarely fought a few tough battles.

Because the generals of the Qin army were assassinated in large numbers by snare killers, the Qin army was leaderless and almost collapsed at the first touch, and the cities often fell in one fell swoop.

In addition, all the battle reports sent to Xianyang were suppressed by Li Mu, and the entire Qin Dynasty was almost completely fighting on its own.

In the name of Hu Hai, Li Mu mobilized the Qin army to completely crush Xiang Yu and the survivors of the Six Kingdoms.

In the original history, Zhang Han, together with Wang Li, Shejian and other generals, led 400,000 Qin troops to besiege Xiang Yu and the survivors of the Six Kingdoms.

But now there are 600,000 troops fighting against Xiang Yu, and Yi Xiaochuan has almost no resistance.

Xiang Yu and the troops of the Six Nations were almost beaten to tears, and Xiang Liang was also killed on the battlefield.

The main reason is that communication was inconvenient in this era, and intelligence completely relied on the support of the court.

With Li Mu in control of the overall situation, he can naturally fight however he wants.

In the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu was still as desperate as in the original history.

Unfortunately, this time Li Mu interfered, and Xiang Yu failed to achieve a complete victory. Instead, both sides suffered losses.

Both the 200,000-strong army of the Six Kingdoms and the 600,000-strong Qin army suffered heavy casualties, with not even three out of ten left.

After the Battle of Julu, Xiang Yu and a group of nobles from the Six Nations were all killed by the assassins of Luowang, and the Overlord of Western Chu was eliminated.

Even though he has the strength to carry the cauldron, he still cannot survive the assassination by a martial arts master.

Nearly a year after the world was in chaos, Meng Tian finally defeated the Xiongnu, Rongdi, and Tuan coalition forces.

The Xiongnu and Rongdi were driven back to the grasslands and the northwest desert, while Tuan was destroyed.

Meng Tian then led the Meng family army, which had only about 200,000 men left, and quickly returned to Da Qin. However, he received an imperial edict on the way, ordering him to go to Shangluo to stop Yi Xiaochuan's rebels.

At this time, Yi Xiaochuan had already reached Wuguan, which was less than 500 miles away from Xianyang. He would arrive at Xianyang City in ten days. Shangluo can be said to be Xianyang's last line of defense.

Meng Tian did not dare to neglect. At this time, he had no time to return to Xianyang to understand what had happened in these years, so he immediately led the Meng family army and rushed directly to Shangluo.

In Meng Tian's eyes, he always thought that Yi Xiaochuan was his biological brother Meng Yi.

Now that his brother has become the biggest rebel, one can imagine Meng Tian's mood, which is extremely complicated.

It was also in this year that Cui Wenzi finally gathered the ingredients for the elixir of life when Tianxing went to Dongjun.

And Li Mu had already sent the white storks and egrets, the top experts among the birds, to wait in Dongjun. As soon as he saw the star falling to the ground, he immediately rushed to the scene and watched secretly.

After Cui Wenzi arrived and took away some of the Tianxing powder, he followed him.

When Cui Wenzi made the elixir and was dancing with excitement, two people suddenly appeared, one touched Cui Wenzi's acupoints, and the other took away the elixir.

Of course, the storks and egrets didn't know that this was the elixir. They only thought it was some kind of unique medicine that could cure the plague.

The two people quickly sent the medicine back to Xianyang and handed it into Li Mu's hands.

The piece of sky star was also secretly transported back to Xianyang by the snare spies and placed in a secret base outside Xianyang city.

Li Mu does not intend to turn this piece of heavenly star into some heavenly palace, but will find a place to hide it deeply so that it will never be touched.

In this way, after he takes the elixir, he doesn't have to worry about problems with the sky star, which will absorb the star powder from his body and cause the elixir to become ineffective.

After Li Mu got the elixir, he was surprised to find that there were four pills. In the original plot, there were only three pills.

But he soon understood that there were supposed to be four, but in the original play, Cui Wenzi had already eaten one when he sent it out.

After all, he is immortal, and no matter how high his realm is, it is impossible for him to not care.

It’s just that Cui Wenzi never seemed to appear again, which is not something difficult to understand.

After all, the elixir only makes people immortal, not immortal. If they are killed or encounter an accident, they will still die. This is most likely the case for Cui Wenzi.

After Li Mu took the elixir, the effect was quickly apparent. He found that he no longer felt thirsty or hungry, and he no longer had to excrete.

However, his body functions can operate normally, and others must not be able to figure out the reason for this.

However, Li Mu could vaguely feel that his body was absorbing a kind of energy from the outside world to maintain his body functions.

And when he is transporting internal energy and practicing internal strength, this feeling will be more obvious, and the speed at which he accumulates internal energy will be greatly accelerated.

The original phenomenon of compressing and condensing the true energy in the body, which had become very slow, has been greatly improved, and the speed has become faster again.

Moreover, the quality of Qi is also gradually changing, reaching a higher level.

As a reincarnator, Li Mu's knowledge is ultimately better than that of the natives.

He guessed that the energy absorbed by his body to maintain body functions was most likely the so-called spiritual energy of heaven and earth.

It's just that this world is a world of ordinary martial arts, and no one knows how to actively absorb spiritual energy.

The laws of heaven and earth in this world also prevent humans, animals and plants from absorbing spiritual energy.

But this star that falls from the sky and comes from the outer universe can give people a special physique that can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth for their own use.

If everything is really as he guessed, then the origin of this star is very extraordinary.

This is probably something from a fairy world.

However, apart from transforming the human body so that people can absorb the spiritual energy of heaven and earth to maintain vitality and achieve immortality, it seems to have no other effects.

It's a pity that he can't take away either the other three elixirs or this piece of heavenly star.

I can only wait for my own reincarnation in the future, experience the fairy world, find out the situation of this star, and then return to this world to slowly study it.

This time it was just a reincarnation in the world of mortal martial arts, but the harvest was greater than Li Mu imagined.

As for the three extra elixirs, give them to the three sisters Xiaoyue!

If I had to live alone for two thousand years, it would be too boring. With three sisters by my side, I would feel less lonely at least.

As for Gao Lan in the future, since Tianxing is still there anyway and has not become the core of the Heavenly Palace, he will never fall into the abyss.

In the future, when he experiences the fairy world, he might be able to make the elixir himself, and then it won't be too late to give Gao Lan medicine.

In addition to the harvest of the elixir in this reincarnation, the other thing is the time for cultivation.

In two thousand two hundred years of cultivation, Li Mu could not fathom the extent of his internal strength.

However, the Dragon-Elephant Prajna Skill can definitely be achieved, and even go one step further, surpassing the highest thirteenth level.

Because according to his estimation, with his qualifications and progress, it would take more than seven hundred years to practice Dragon Elephant Prajna Kung Fu to the thirteenth level.

In the extra fifteen hundred years, he would not make any progress at all.

Because of the particularity of this exercise, there is no difference in the subsequent cultivation methods. It just relies on time to grind and continuously strengthen the physical body.

As long as you don't rush and practice step by step, you will continue to make progress.

It's just that according to the cultivation speed of a stupid person, it would already take a thousand years to cultivate to the thirteenth level. There is no need to think too much about the next fourteenth or fifteenth level.

But Li Mu is different. His qualifications are not bad. It only takes more than 700 years to reach the 13th level of Dacheng. However, he can really live for such a long time.

Then if you continue to practice, it may not be impossible to reach the fourteenth, fifteenth, or even sixteenth level.

The thirteenth level should have the strength of ten thousand kilograms. If you practice to the fifteenth level, you may be able to move even the golden cudgel.