"Forget it, let’s keep it for now and ask the Empress when we return."
Chen Mo picked up the ball of yarn from the ground and imdiately felt sothing was off.
Light and soft, yet frizzy and dry. Upon closer inspection, this was not yarn at all but a bunch of hair!
"Stupid cat, where did you find this thing?"
"ow~"
The black cat lifted its front paw and pointed under the bed.
Chen Mo got up and walked over, lifting the entire bed fra.
Underneath he found a wooden box, its lid open, containing talisman papers, human bones, and countless nail fragnts.
It seed to be used for so sort of ritual...
"What is this stuff?" Chen Mo frowned slightly.
"It’s the Blood Gu Technique."
Suddenly, a slightly magnetic voice sounded from behind him.
Turning around, Chen Mo saw Ji Hongxiu, who had sohow entered the room, leaning lazily by the window, stretching her body leisurely, the red Daoist robe barely concealing her shapely figure.
Compared to the silly Little Black, this woman seed more like a cat.
Lazy, elegant, mysterious, with an unpredictable temperant.
"Blood Gu Technique?"
"Using hair or nails as a dium, once the Blood Gu is released, the Gu Poison Worm will use it to lock onto the target and parasitize their body... It’s a usual technique of the Gu God Sect."
Chen Mo’s frown deepened upon hearing this.
"Judging from the quantity, there might already be over ten thousand people. What is their purpose?"
"Naturally, it is for refining Gu, concentrating the Gu Poison Worms in a vessel, letting them fight each other. The one that survives is the most potent King Gu," Ji Hongxiu said with a sly smile, "Looks like you accidentally wandered into soone else’s Gu Vessel."
?!
Chen Mo’s back felt cold.
Using an entire county as a Gu Vessel, tens of thousands of civilians as sacrifices, just to refine a so-called King Gu?
He had fought with the Gu God Sect several tis, knew their thods were bizarre, treating human lives as if they were worthless, but never imagined they’d be maddened to such extres!
Ji Hongxiu saw through his thoughts and said indifferently, "This place is remote, the court doesn’t care, moreover Southern Border is just the land of the Gu God Sect. Using humans to refine Gu is common here... just rarely on such a large scale."
Swoosh—
The night breeze began to rise.
The sky had darkened, with the moon slipping between clouds, the crescent moon had a faint bloody glow.
Ji Hongxiu leaned by the window, the breeze fluttering her hair, scattered around her fair neck, while she shook the wine gourd in her hand and softly uttered:
"It’s about to begin."
Chen Mo looked outside through the window, his pupils slightly constricted.
Originally empty streets were now crowded without him knowing.
Civilians walked out from their hos, expressions vacant, arms hanging, eyes glowing with crimson light, like statues, unmoving.
There were elderly people, children, and even pregnant won with large bellies... even the inn’s owner was among them.
"About an hour, judging by ti, they’ll start slaughtering each other under the Gu Poison Worm’s control."
"To break this disaster, the only way is to kill the caster in advance. Once blood is shed, there’s no stopping it; even blood relatives will tear each other to pieces."
"But pulling off such a grand sche, it’s at least soone of elder status—not easy to deal with."
"What does Lord Chen plan to do? It’s still not too late to leave now."
Ji Hongxiu said casually.
Chen Mo asked doubtfully, "With the Daoist Venerable’s power, resolving this should be easy, right?"
Ji Hongxiu shook her head, "This is your cause and effect, unrelated to ."
"My cause and effect?"
Chen Mo froze for a mont.
Suddenly, a prompt flashed before his eyes:
[Triggered Special Event: Blood Night Demon Hunting!]
"... "
Chen Mo fell into silence.
Can there be such coincidence in this world?
He just happened to arrive in Linyang County, Blood Gu was about to erupt, and the wooden box just appeared under his bed... there’s no way he believes the Daoist Venerable had no hand in this.
Tianshu Pavilion excels at interpreting Heavenly Secrets, acting unpredictably, like moving chess pieces, weaving seemingly random events together, effortlessly achieving their goals.
But what is the Daoist Venerable’s intention?
At this mont, Ji Hongxiu spoke up, "Ti waits for no one, has Lord Chen decided? Escape or save lives?"
Handing over the Ink Treasure, sending the silly cat, and now dumping this ss onto him...
This vile woman definitely harbors no good intentions!
"Wait for , I’m going to take on this al!"
Chen Mo silently made up his mind, his eyes turning cold, "Please take care of General Li who accompanies , Daoist Venerable, avoid any accidental harm."
"Don’t worry, not a hair will fall off your little lover," Ji Hongxiu said with a teasing smile.
Chen Mo said no more, directly climbing out the window to leave.
Squeak—
A mont later, Ling Ningzhi pushed open the door and walked in, puzzled, "Master, why are you here? Where did Mr. Chen go?"
Ji Hongxiu slightly tilted her head, her red lips parted, taking a sip from the wine gourd, her gaze enchanting and misty, like a deep pond shrouded in thin fog.
"Went off to kill."
"?"
...
Standing on the rooftop, Chen Mo looked around with his violet gold eyes.
In his vision, everything was elongated into colorful threads, filled with dazzling hues, like soaring mists.
This is the so-called ’Qi.’
By enhancing the Golden Eyes of Truth to the limit, he can see the flow of Qi in the air, whether potent or faint, steady or agitated... useful for tracking, investigating ons.
Every citizen on the streets had crimson Blood Qi floating above their heads, interspersed with streaks of black smoke.
Looking far off into the distance, a building glimred with blood-red light reaching the sky, dyeing the night sky dark red, Blood Qi rising, Evil Qi spread, a dire on!
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