Becoming An Immortal Begins With Marrying A Wife

Chapter 278: Jiu Ji's Collapse (12)

After listening to Jiu Ji's description, Chen An couldn't help but furrow his brows slightly, thinking about the gu box he had dug up under the old banyan tree outside the house.

He had a bad guess in his mind, suspecting that Jiu Ji's grandmother had been parasitized by gu worms.

"Husband?"

Seeing that Chen An didn't say anything after listening, just furrowing his brows as if thinking about something, Jiu Ji raised her little face and called out to him softly.

Chen An regained his senses upon hearing her voice, and he told Jiu Ji about the gu box he had dug up under the banyan tree in front of the house, as well as his guess.

Jiu Ji's face turned pale after hearing it, and she felt scared in her heart. "Grandmother has been cursed?"

She was not afraid that her grandmother would be controlled, but afraid that her grandmother would be harmed because of it.

"Husband, what should we do now? We have to help grandmother!"

Jiu Ji's pure and worried face was full of concern.

Chen An was only high in cultivation and strong in power, but he had very limited knowledge in this area and knew almost nothing about gu worms. For a while, he didn't know how to handle this matter.

Facing Jiu Ji's pleading gaze, he could only say, "Let's go to your sister Xiao Qingyue's place now and discuss this with her."

Xiao Qingyue had lived for nearly a thousand years and was the former sect master of the Heaven and Earth Sect, so her knowledge far surpassed that of ordinary people. Perhaps she could come up with a solution through discussion.

Soon, Chen An teleported with Jiu Ji over the wall and into Xiao Qingyue's room.

At this moment, Xiao Qingyue was sitting cross-legged on the bed cultivating. Sensing Chen An and Jiu Ji's arrival, she slowly opened her beautiful eyes and asked in confusion, "Husband, little sister Jiu Ji, what brings you here?"

As soon as she finished speaking, she suddenly thought of the kinky things Song Huaying had told her before, thinking that Chen An wanted Jiu Ji and her to serve him together. Her cold and noble face immediately turned red.

Chen An had no idea what she was thinking about, and he approached with a serious expression, saying, "Qingyue, I suspect that Jiu Ji's grandmother has been cursed, but I don't know much about gu worms. Do you have any knowledge about them?"

Wasn't he here to play kinky things... Xiao Qingyue felt a little disappointed in her heart.

Soon, she furrowed her phoenix eyes slightly and felt worried about Chen An's guess.

She asked Chen An and Jiu Ji to sit on the bed together and said, "I do have some knowledge about gu worms."

"There used to be three demonic sects in the Mountain and Sea Domain, namely the Endless Pleasure Sect, White Lotus Sect, and Yin Sect."

"And the Yin Sect, the disciples inside practiced extremely sinister spells. The sect had a branch called the 'Gu Hall,' which specialized in studying the spells related to cursing."

"When I was still the saintess of the Heaven and Earth Sect, I participated in the battle to exterminate the Yin Sect and had fought against many gu cultivators."

"These gu cultivators cultivated various gu worms, including the lust gu that could manipulate the desires of living beings, the wrath gu that could make living beings become irritable and angry, the illusion gu that could make living beings fall into illusions, the counter gu that could make living beings confused and unable to distinguish friend from foe, and the corpse gu that could control corpses."

Among them, the corpse gu left the deepest impression on me."

Corpse gu?

Jiu Ji's face turned even paler upon hearing this, and she had a bad premonition in her heart.

Thinking back to Jiu Huayu's strange behavior last night, she now felt a sense of lifelessness, as if she were facing a corpse.

"Don't worry, your grandmother definitely hasn't been cursed by the corpse gu."

Chen An noticed Jiu Ji's worry in her eyes and reached out to embrace her, comforting her in a gentle voice.

Unfortunately, Jiu Ji's worries couldn't be alleviated in the slightest.

Her mind was in chaos now, and she looked at Xiao Qingyue with worried eyes and asked, "Sister Qingyue, what's special about the corpse gu? Why did it leave such a deep impression on you?"

Xiao Qingyue hesitated and didn't rush to answer her question.

But after thinking about it, she finally answered truthfully, "The reason why the Corpse Gu left a deep impression on me is because it can control a corpse to move as if it were alive, looking no different from a living person. It doesn't resemble a dead body at all."

"And the gu worms that parasitize the corpse will continuously consume the flesh and blood of the corpse, slowly growing and becoming stronger until they completely occupy the entire corpse. Then, they will break open the remaining skin and transform into the appearance of the parasitized corpse when it was alive."

"During this process, the corpse gradually becomes expressionless and its limbs stiffen, until only a thin piece of skin remains after being consumed by the worms."

Expressionless and stiff limbs... Hearing these eight words, Jiu Ji's heart sank to the bottom of the valley.

It matched.

Everything matched.

The scene of her grandmother, Jiu Huayu, suddenly sitting up from the bed last night, matched perfectly with those eight words.

Moreover, she also heard the sound of flesh being gnawed and torn from her grandmother's body.

"No, my grandmother can't be dead..."

"I'm overthinking, I must be overthinking..."

"No, I have to go see my grandmother!"

Jiu Ji couldn't sit still anymore and immediately got up and rushed to Jiu Huayu's room.

Chen An and Xiao Qingyue didn't stop her, but followed along because they also wanted to know the truth of the matter.

"Creak—"

Jiu Ji pushed open Jiu Huayu's door and hurriedly walked in, calling out, "Grandmother, I..."

But as soon as the words left her mouth, she stopped abruptly.

It was the scene before her eyes that froze her in place.

Jiu Huayu, who had looked perfectly normal before going to sleep, now stood by the bed like a puppet, motionless. A wriggling lump protruded from her beautiful mature face, and from within the lump came an extremely faint sound of flesh being gnawed.

"No! This can't be real!"

Jiu Ji, who had realized what was happening, shouted in excitement.

Her voice was loud, waking up the wives and daughters in the other rooms, who came out one after another.

Seeing that Jiu Ji was on the verge of a breakdown, Chen An directly used the Sleep Aid Technique on her, putting her in a half-asleep, half-awake state.

For a moment, he thought about making Jiu Ji fall into a deep sleep, then using the Memory Erasure Technique to erase her memories and take her back to the Wind Spirit Moon Shadow Sect as if she had never been to the demon realm.

But then he thought that depriving Jiu Ji of her right to know in this way would be unfair to her, so he only used the Sleep Aid Technique to calm her down.

"Husband, what happened?" Shen Qingyi's voice came from outside the door.

The wives and daughters who were alarmed didn't enter the room on their own, but stood outside the door, asking with understanding.

Chen An said to them, "Go back to your rooms and I'll tell you after I've dealt with it."

"Okay, we understand."

Shen Qingyi responded and led her sisters and daughters back to their rooms.

Setting up a soundproof barrier to completely isolate the sound in the room, and using the Immobilization Technique to immobilize Jiu Huayu, Chen An looked at Xiao Qingyue and asked, "Qingyue, can you tell what's happening to Jiu Ji's grandmother now?"

"Unless something unexpected happens, she should be controlled by the Corpse Gu. Jiu Ji's grandmother is probably already dead..."

Xiao Qingyue said with a somewhat unpleasant tone.

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