Chapter 351: Chapter 344: Another Life Lost_1

Qin Niu also became uncertain.

He could only wait and see.

After a while, her eyebrows furrowed.

“Ugh!”

She made a retching sound, and her expression was no longer numb but revealed a hint of pain.

Seeing this, Qin Niu actually felt a surge of happiness.

A reaction was a sign of a good thing.

If there had been no reaction, then it would mean the exorcism method was ineffective.

“Master Qin, we keep roasting my wife like this, and she seems to be struggling.”

Wang Haikun was worried that the charcoal fire would burn his wife.

Indeed, her body had begun to overheat, sweat had already soaked her face, dampening her hair.

“Ugh… Wah!”

Splash!

She vomited a mouthful of foul-smelling filth, her eyes rolled back, her body went rigid, and she spasmed continuously.

It looked very much like the reaction of someone on the verge of death.

“Master Qin, if we keep roasting her like this, my wife will die.”

Wang Haikun hurriedly moved his wife aside.

“Don’t move, don’t move. Let her keep roasting, trust me.”

Qin Niu commanded.

Life was at stake, and Wang Haikun clearly did not trust him, still wanting to carry his wife away to a safer place.

At that moment, black blood began to flow from He Yue’s nostrils.

“Ah…”

She let out an exceedingly mournful scream, and blood started to flow from her eyes as well.

The scene was extremely frightening.

Qin Niu’s heart sank; the Mother Gu was being forcibly expelled from her body, could it be out of spite, and now intended to destroy the host?

Just as he was puzzled, a red spider crawled out from her left nostril.

It dashed into the wooden bucket below in a blink.

It plunged into the blood and disappeared instantly.

The Gu was shadowless, traceless, formless, dissolving into the blood as soon as it entered.

He Yue screamed once and then passed out.

“Your wife should be alive. You go fetch some river water and clean her up, burn all the blood-stained sheets and clothes.”

After speaking, Qin Niu carried the bucket and promptly walked out of the room.

The Mother Gu was in the blood within the bucket.

It shouldn’t come out now.

Once it had consumed all the energy in the blood, it would emerge.

It’s a pity that he hadn’t mastered the Gu Control Technique.

Otherwise, he could have found a way to control this Mother Gu.

But Qin Niu wasn’t entirely without a means to deal with it.

He carried the bucket directly to the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze and placed the bucket inside.

Even though the Mother Gu could transform and escape from the Insect Jar as a wisp of blood, it should not be able to escape from the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze.

Keeping this Mother Gu, he had his own uses for it.

After leaving the Ancient Banyan Tree Maze, Qin Niu quickly headed to He Saixiang’s home in Daoyuan Village.

But it was still one step too late.

Just as he arrived outside the house, he heard wails and cries of grief from inside. The person must have already died.

It was fate sealed.

Such matters involving the heavens, Qin Niu had no way of intervening.

King Yama would not keep a person destined to die at the third watch until the fifth watch.

If he had forcefully intervened, even if he had managed to save He Saixiang, he would have contracted a great karma.

Upon entering the room, he saw He Saixiang’s corpse drenched, as if just pulled out from the water.

Her clothes had plenty of mud on them.

“Master Qin is here!”

The crowd made way.

Just yesterday, Qin Niu had his wedding and invited all the villagers from Shuangfeng Village and Daoyuan Village to his home for a banquet in celebration. Everyone had already gotten to know him.

So many big shots attended Qin Niu’s wedding yesterday, even two deputies from the Black Tiger Gang were present, making it hard for the villagers not to remember Qin Niu.

Living in this region, one might not know who the Black Tiger Gang Leader is, but one must know who the local elites are.

Otherwise, you wouldn’t even know how you died after offending someone you should not have.

“When did she die?”

Qin Niu, accustomed to the fearful gazes cast his way, confronted the crowd.

“Master Qin, please seek justice for my daughter! She was always shy and timid, but sensible. She went to the city for work, and when she came back, I noticed her belly was swelling…”

The deceased’s mother wailed, recounting her daughter’s cause of death.

An unmarried pregnancy was an exceedingly shameful matter.

Most would keep it tightly concealed, never speaking of it to outsiders.

“I asked you when she died!”

Qin Niu had already inquired clearly about these three women’s affairs.

Now he wanted to know how long He Saixiang had been dead.

To see if there was still a chance to catch the two Gu that were gestating inside her.

“She was just fished out of the well when you arrived. Not long ago, she clutched her stomach and went into the latrine, and after a while, she came out with blood on her trousers. I asked what happened, but she didn’t speak.

She walked to the backyard, and I saw her pull up the well bucket, thinking she wanted to draw some water to wash up.

But unexpectedly, she fell right in.

I was so frightened, I immediately called for help, but by the time she was pulled out, it was too late.”

He Saixiang’s mother described the circumstances of her daughter’s death.

Speaking of which, all three women had tragic lives.

He Saixiang’s father died early, and she was raised by her mother. It was said that her mother was a prostitute who reformed and married her father.

People in the village often pointed fingers at He Saixiang’s mother.

He Saixiang, too, was implicated, being called a bastard and a child of sin since childhood, and ridiculed as the spawn of some wild man.

This caused He Saixiang to become reclusive and taciturn from an early age.

Her mother, lacking in understanding, didn’t guide her daughter properly and often blamed her instead.

When she saw her daughter return from working in the city for a few months with a big belly, she was so angry she beat her.

She feared even more the gossip of the villagers once they found out.

So much so that when she saw her daughter emerge from the latrine with bloody trousers, she did not show much concern.

Rather, she ignored her child as she went to the backyard to fetch water and wash by herself.

Now, seeing her daughter jump into the well and drown, she must be filled with regret.

Qin Niu squatted down and examined He Saixiang’s body closely; black blood flowed from her mouth and nose, and the way she died was pitiful.

The body was not yet stiff, still soft.

It indeed indicated she hadn’t been dead for long.

Qin Niu ran to the well and looked inside, only to see a mist of blood clinging to the walls of the well.

That must be the mother Gu.

It seemed to wait for its host to die before emerging.

If the host did not die, even if the Gu came out, it would likely return to the mother’s body, using it as a nest.

This was also the reason why the mastermind behind the scenes wanted to kill the three women.

Qin Niu watched the motionless mother Gu clinging there and wondered to himself, if it kept hiding here, how would the mastermind take it away?

Plus, He Saixiang’s belly had deflated, suggesting she might have birthed the other Gu in the latrine.

After emerging, would that Gu go directly to seek the person who seeded it from behind the scenes, or come find this mother Gu?

Books are invaluable only when needed.

Although he had read through the contents of the Puppet Gu Immortal Manual, he hadn’t studied and researched them carefully.

Once he was done handling this matter, he absolutely had to cram and thoroughly learn the contents of the manual.

The techniques for raising Gu and Gu Control Technique were just too important.

Being skilled does not burden one, and even though Gu arts are shunned by the world, they are undeniably powerful.

Blending them with the Insect Commanding Technique could definitely help Qin Niu become a superior Insect Master.