Dream Maker [Rebirth]

The Misang clan has been the largest Gu clan in the Southwest since ancient times, mastering the most secret and detailed way of raising Gu in the human continent.

Most of the voodoo have been recorded in the secret scrolls of the Misang clan, but new voodoo species that do not know the habits and effects are often raised due to the adjustment of the "recipe" for raising voodoo.Once the new Gu is developed, in order to ascertain its power, it must be tested with living animals. The tested animals include birds, livestock, and even living people.

Livestock and poultry are easy to get, but it is hard to find living people to test Gu.In order to meet the needs of Gu testers, the Misang clan has always had the practice of recruiting Gu testers, and attracting those who are willing to sell themselves to test Gu with generous rewards.

However, testing Gu is a dangerous thing after all, so most of the applicants who come here are seriously ill or terminally ill people who are dying, and they exchange their dying bodies for relatives and money.

These people are called "gu slaves".

Walking out of the tunnel where the Gu slave is, there is a relatively open circular cave in front of it. Hundreds of caves of different sizes have been dug on the wall, sealed with iron nets, and the iron net is covered with a layer that is the same as the stone chamber in the tunnel. There are all kinds of birds inside, ranging from large falcons to small sparrows.

The ground is similar to the wall, dug into a prison, covered with iron nets and gauze, and dozens of animals such as monkeys and rabbits are imprisoned.

Misang Yaoyue stopped in front of the prison where several monkeys were locked up, squatted down and used her nails to draw a crack on the edge of the upper layer of tulle, then opened the golden stove cover, and squeezed out a thing shaped like a grain of rice from the iron Throw it into the pit between the gaps in the net.

Lu Ci didn't know what she wanted, so he squatted down, and saw a scarlet spider emerge from the edge of the hole, crawled to the crack made by his fingernails, and quickly spun silk and weaved a web, closing the gap in a short while. as ever.

"Is this yarn a spider web?" Lu Ci asked in surprise.

Misang Yaoyue nodded and said: "This is a Gu spider, its web can intercept Gu insects. The lower iron net is to trap animals in the pit, and the upper spider web is to prevent Gu insects from escaping during the Gu test."

Lu Ci thought for a moment, then said: "The rice grains that senior sister put in just now are Gu worms?"

Misang Yaoyue nodded, but without further explanation, she pulled out the golden hairpin from her bun and pierced her finger, flicked her finger, and flicked the oozing blood into the pit below.

Across the spider web and iron net, Lu Ci could hardly find the whereabouts of the rice grain-like Gu worms, and only saw the few wild monkeys jumping around in the pit, looking full of vitality.

However, a moment later, one of the wild monkeys suddenly fell to the ground and convulsed violently. Blood gushed out from its eyes, nose, and mouth, and then its body began to shrink at a speed visible to the naked eye. A white skeleton and monkey hair all over the body!

Lu Ci was stunned, his chest couldn't help heaving violently, the dying faces of his fellow disciples ten years ago flashed through his mind like lightning, those wrinkled bodies and bleeding cheeks were like ghosts It strangled his throat, causing his breathing to be blocked instantly, and his heart beating wildly.

It was only at this moment that he finally understood why Missang Yaoyue was in such a hurry to bring him back, and what she wanted him to "see".

——The scene in front of you is actually the same as the "plague" in the secret realm back then!

Seeing his expression, Misang Yaoyue knew that what she expected was correct, but she still confirmed to him: "Is the plague you are talking about like this?"

Lu Ci took a deep breath to calm himself down, and replied, "That's true, but...not so fast."

Back then, it took at least a few days for the disciples in the secret realm to bleed from the seven orifices when they contracted the disease, and the carrion was gone. It was not as fast as what we saw today.

Misang Yaoyue said nothing, looked down at the other wild monkeys in the pit, and said solemnly: "The remaining monkeys will begin to bleed tomorrow, and then their flesh and blood will rot. After a few days, they will become the same as the first one." There are only hair and bones left."

This is exactly the same as the symptoms of the "plague" back then.

Lu Ci was startled: "What the hell is going on?"

Misang Yaoyue looked down at the golden stove in her hand, as if she was thinking about something, and finally said with certainty after a long time: "I suspect that the plague you mentioned is not a plague at all, but a voodoo. Its source... It might be this Gu."

The so-called Gu is to put snakes, scorpions, centipedes, toads and other poisonous substances in the altar to make them fight and eat each other, and it will be cultivated when only one is left.

Generally speaking, the more poisons put into the altar, the longer it takes to grow, and the greater the power of the final Gu.But due to the fact that poisons are hard to find, and high-quality pure-bred poisons are even rarer, so most methods of raising Gu use three, seven or twelve kinds of poisons to enter the altar.

There are many families raising Gu in the Southwest, and almost every family has an unwritten custom, that is to raise a jar of new Gu when a child is born, just like other regions would bury a jar of daughter wine for a newborn daughter, When it grows up, open the altar to bleed, making the Gu things recognize it as the master.

As the leaders of the Gu raising family, the Misang clan is naturally not immune to the vulgarity, and what they prepared for the only daughter of this generation, Misang Yaoyue, was a thousand worm Gu that is unparalleled in the world—a golden altar with thousands of poisonous substances. Well, it took 18 years to develop.

Before the opening of the Gu altar, no one knew what kind of poison would be left at the end, and no one knew what kind of Gu would be cultivated, but everyone knew that the last one that could fight among thousands of top poisons The power of Gu worms must not be underestimated.

Fifteen years ago, Missang Yaoyue turned eighteen and returned to the southwest valley from Lizhou, a secret place of hidden spirits.

With her return, the Thousand Insect Gu Altar, which had been sealed for 18 years, finally ushered in the opening day.

On that day, surrounded by her family, Misang Yaoyue pricked her finger and squeezed out blood drops to prepare for the voodoo to recognize its owner, and then carefully opened the golden altar that belonged to her alone.

However, after opening the altar, she leaned over to take a look, but she was stunned for a moment, because the altar looked empty.

Just when she thought that there was no Gu in the altar, a Gu worm shaped like a grain of rice jumped out from the bottom of the altar and landed firmly on the blood drop on her fingertip.

As soon as they saw the Gu worm, all the elders present were overjoyed - this is actually a lice Gu that is rare to see in a hundred years!

Lice are small in size and easy to hide. They are the most suitable for Gu, but also because of their small size and weak strength, it is extremely difficult to survive to the end even in the three-worm Gu altar, let alone in thousands of poisons. Fight to win.

Thousand insects Gu is already rare, and thousand insects and lice Gu is even rarer!

The Gu worm drank the blood and accepted the officiant ceremony.

From now on, it has become something that only the blood of Misang Yaoyue can drive.

With the new Gu in hand, Misang Yaoyue naturally wanted to experience its power, and to test its power, he had to try the Gu.

At that time, the Illusory Gu Immortal Palace did not exist yet, but recruiting Gu slaves was the practice of the Misang clan, and all Gu slaves were placed in the secret room deep in the ancestral house of the Misang family.

The layout of that secret room is not the same as the Gu trial cave of Immortal Palace today, there are only a few Gu-inhibiting spider webs at the entrance, and all the Gu slaves in it are in one place, not separated separately.

Because of this, the result of that trial Gu was extremely tragic.

After the Gu slave who had been infected by the Gu turned into bones in the blink of an eye, Misang Yaoyue thought that the trial Gu was over, she put the lice Gu into the golden furnace and took it out of the secret room in awe, but unexpectedly, from the second day onwards, in the secret room, The rest of the Gu slaves fell down one after another, and within a few days, they turned into white bones just like the original Gu slaves.

Only then did they know that this lice venom would actually penetrate into the belly of a living thing and eat the internal organs, devouring the flesh and blood from the inside out, causing the living thing to bleed from the seven orifices until there was no flesh left, and finally only the skeleton remained.

What's even more frightening is that it will reproduce by itself.

The more living things are around, the more gua will be produced, the gua will hatch in the surrounding living body, after growing up, although the power is not as powerful as the voodoo mother, but it is only a little slower than the voodoo mother to eat flesh and blood. This enables the "prey" to linger on for a few more days.

One life is ten, ten begets one hundred.

Until there are no more living things nearby, the Gu mother will fall into a deep sleep, and the Gu child will stop multiplying due to lack of food, and will gradually die.

The Misang family expected that the Thousand Insect Gu should not be underestimated, but they never expected it to reach such a terrifying level.

It is conceivable that if such a Gu enters the common people, it will inevitably cause a disaster that cannot be resisted by thousands of troops.

More importantly, that would be a disaster that even the Misang Yaoyue could not control—only the Gu Mother could be manipulated by Misang Yaoyue. It will also continue to multiply due to the lack of living creatures around it, until no armor remains.

If that time really comes, apart from Misang Yaoyue who can not be attacked as the lord of the Gu mother, I am afraid that even the rest of the Misang clan will be poisoned by him accidentally.

The lethality is so huge that it has to be frightening.

Even though Missang Yaoyuedang wanted to destroy the lice, unexpectedly, the elders in her family stopped her together.

the reason is simple.

Thousand insects and lice are indeed terrifying, but it is also because it is terrible that it is necessary to keep it - a sharp weapon does not need to be unsheathed, and it is enough to make people frightened when held in the hand. This is undoubtedly a deterrent to all major forces in the human continent. And it is a rare bargaining chip for consolidating the status of the Missan clan.

Missang Yaoyue obeyed what the elders said, but at the same time decided to let the louse venom sleep in the golden furnace for a long time, making it a trump card with a false name.

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Lu Ci had been quietly listening to her memories, and at this moment he couldn't help wondering: "Since it has been sleeping since 15 years ago, how could it have anything to do with the plague in the secret realm ten years ago?"

Misang Yaoyue frowned and said: "I also thought that it would become a sharp blade that would never come out of its sheath as the elders said, but... the world is unpredictable."

14 years ago, that is, the second year after Misang Yaoyue returned to the human continent, at the age of 19, she took over the position of Patriarch of Misang from her mother.

To celebrate his succession, the Misang family invited famous families from all over the world to hold a feast for several days.

During that time, the entire southwest was full of excitement.

In addition to the leaders of the major families in the human continent, the guests attending the banquet also included Misang Yaoyue's fellow family members who had known each other in the secret realm in the past, and their backgrounds were all over the world.

The horses and chariots coming from afar, the reception of the guests, the food and drinks at the banquet, all of which could not be neglected, made the Missang clan extremely busy from top to bottom.

With such a grand banquet, Missan Yaoyue, who is the protagonist, was naturally even busier, so that she was surprised to find that it was only a few days after the banquet was over and the last batch of guests had been sent away—the one that had been put on hold in the back of her boudoir. The year-old golden stove is gone.

Missang's mansion has always been tightly guarded, coupled with its reputation, no thieves have dared to set foot in it for so many years, but unexpectedly it is such an important thing as soon as it is stolen.

Lice Gu was stolen, and the whole family was furious.

But turning anger into anger, it is not easy to even pursue accountability—the domestic servants who were supposed to guard outside Misang Yaoyue’s house were repeatedly sent to take care of trivial matters when the banquet was short of manpower, and it was Misang who transferred them away from duty. Sang Yaoyue herself.

——It was she who gave the thief an opportunity.

And the reason why she is so careless is not without reason, because in her opinion, no one is stupid enough to covet lice.

She is the master of the lice, and only her blood can awaken the lice in this world, even if other people steal the lice, it is meaningless, because to those who cannot control it, it is just a sleeping lice insect.

After hearing her thoughts, Misang's mother couldn't help but smile bitterly: "Yue'er, have you ever thought that maybe the purpose of the people who stole the lice bug was not to use it, but just to make our Misang family lose this piece of paper?" Hole card?"

As soon as these words came out, Misang Yaoyue realized how much negligence she had committed—she was still young at that time, and she had never experienced many sinister human beings, and she had never considered this level at all from the beginning to the end.

That's right, if the thief wanted to make the Misang family lose his hole card, then whether he could manipulate the lice or not was of little importance to him.

With such speculation, the Misang family naturally targeted the suspects on those aristocratic families who attended the banquet, but they did not investigate thoroughly with great fanfare.After all, until then, except for the real thief and the Misang clan, the rest of the aristocratic families did not know that the lice had been stolen.Although the sharp weapon is no longer in hand, the deterrence still exists. If everyone knows about it, it will be counterproductive.

In this way, the theft of lice worms was suppressed by the Misang clan with humility.

……

Hearing this, Lu Ci already had some ominous premonition, he knew that the matter would not end here, otherwise there would be no reason for the lice to return to Misang Yaoyue's hands, not to mention the mystery plague would be involved.

Sure enough, Missang Yaoyue sighed: "We once thought that this matter would be settled for the rest of our lives, but we didn't expect that we all underestimated the thief."