The guide was unwilling to go to Misty Valley, but there were others who were willing to go.

When the Linjia Village chief and his family woke up, they saw that their house was surrounded by the entire village. The house was also occupied by a group of people who seemed to have great martial arts skills and were dressed in bright clothes. They could only hide aside and dared not make a sound.

As it grew dark, the elderly and children went to stay with relatives. After all, everyone in the village was surnamed Lin, so being related meant sleeping there for a night or two wasn't a problem. After being infected by the parasite, he felt insatiable, and even after being rid of it, he couldn't sleep. The village chief and his sons quietly checked outside the house.

These people didn't even know how to do basic martial arts, so they were immediately discovered. A guard stepped forward and asked, "I just told you to go back to your rooms and rest. Why are you dawdling here? What's going on?"

The second son said without hesitation: "This is our house."

This is embarrassing.

Generally speaking, the court requisitioned your house for one night, so what else can you do? The guard was also good-tempered. After explaining a few words, when he mentioned that the source of the Gu plague started from the ancestral hall, the third son's face began to look a little strange.

"Gu... Gu insect?"

"Do you know what time it is now?" The guard checked the time for them, and the village chief and his family realized that more than a month had passed without them knowing.

The second son smelled his younger brother and said with disgust, "Why do you smell so bad?" It gets cold late in the south, and the humidity is high, so things get bad quickly.

Others might not know, but Village Chief Lin certainly didn't know the moral character of his own sons. One look at his third son's face told him he was most likely to blame, and he immediately tried to make amends: "Is there anything we can help you with?"

After they went into the house and discussed the news with General Dang, they decided on a specific location and agreed to go to Misty Valley early the next morning.

Eryi left a small number of people in Linjia Village, and the treatment station has not been demolished yet to provide a place for the people of Linjia Village to hide.

"I've filled the house with incense to prevent poisonous insects. If you see anything unusual before I come back, just hide in the house. Bringing the poisonous insects or the infected person into the house can also have a certain deterrent effect." Eryi has confirmed with Ling Lingba that even if she is not in the house, a notification will pop up when an abnormality is detected, and it can be operated remotely.

Thinking that he could gain a large amount of energy in the Misty Valley, Eryi felt happy.

The village chief, leading a group of guards, had just arrived at the entrance to Misty Valley when they encountered a group of people emerging. A closer look revealed that, in addition to those previously dispatched by the imperial court who had since disappeared, there were also numerous wushu figures who, after the martial arts conference, had been clamoring to wipe out the Southern Kingdom. Counting the heads, they were all there.

"Why are we here?" Several people were confused.

"I remember I was planning to go to the Southern Kingdom... What did this Southern Kingdom witch do to me?"

Eryi checked each of them one by one, and found that none of them had any Gu. The excitement he had felt when he first set out suddenly collapsed. Who had intercepted this mess?

"Zero Eight, explore the energy distribution from Luocheng to the southern border."

[Deducting 500 energy points for investigation.]

Not long after, the energy value distribution diagram appeared before his eyes.

It was clear that the energy values, which had been evenly dispersed the day before, were gradually converging into one spot today. Looking at the direction, it was right inside the Misty Valley.

【Host, the energy value is approaching.】

Eryi looked in the direction indicated by Ling Lingba, and vaguely saw a woman walking out of the misty valley. Her appearance was unclear, but she had a slim figure. However, she disappeared in the blink of an eye.

“…” There’s no way I can catch up with him.

After the court officials recovered, most departed for the capital that same day, while a few returned to Luocheng to discuss follow-up measures. Eryi hurriedly collected Gu eggs from several nearby villages, gaining 430,000 energy points. The villagers suddenly returned during the day, completely normal, with no recollection of what had happened.

When they surveyed the energy distribution again that night, they found that only two areas from Luocheng to the southern border still showed high energy values. One was probably a mineral deposit, and the other was probably the woman they had seen during the day.

…

After encountering Eryi, all the plans of the Southern Kingdom failed and they suffered heavy losses, but the story started five years ago.

Although the Southern Kingdom is small, its land is fertile and its climate warm. Winters are not freezing, and the farming season is longer. Their ability to hold onto this land is largely due to their witchcraft.

Every hundred years, a Saint is born in the Southern Kingdom. When a Saint is born, she is accompanied by a snow-white Gu with only a hint of red on its head. The Southern Kingdom people call this a Holy Gu.

The Holy Gu is different from other Gu insects in only one respect. If a child Gu controlled by the Holy Gu dies, the Holy Gu will not suffer any backlash. This can be said to reduce the risk of Gu magic to a minimum.

A Saint typically does not marry before the end of her lifespan, maintaining a youthful appearance and capable of living to at least a hundred years. Once a newborn is born, the previous Saint transforms into the nutrients of the Saint Gu and dissipates into the human world, leaving behind not even a hair.

When the Saint reached her fifties, the fifth prince of the Southern Kingdom, attracted by her beauty, sought a romantic relationship with her, regardless of age. While there was nothing wrong with a romance between people of different ages, he was also involved in multiple relationships and wanted the Saint to help him secure the throne. It was perfectly normal for a man to have three wives and four concubines, and he had no intention of concealing anything. But the Saint was a woman of her own, and how could she tolerate any injustice?

She had given him a choice, but it was obvious that he had made the wrong choice. He was turned into a puppet on the spot, and the Southern Kingdom also lost the protection of the Saint: the Saint ran away with her Holy Gu.

Without the Saint, the Southern Kingdom's living space began to be squeezed. The vast kingdom of Sha, with its many capable individuals, had long coveted Ming territory and seized the opportunity to coerce and bribe the Southern Kingdom into a coup. Unlike before, the Southern Kingdom, without its most important ceremonial guard, could no longer remain aloof from the fray as before. They joined forces with the kingdoms of Sha and Jiaer, seeking to divide Ming territory.

The plan was well-planned. First, they poisoned the Wulin leader, encouraging him to incite the wulin community to attack the Ming court. The Ming Emperor had long disliked the wulin community, and when the Ming court launched an attack against the wulin, they would reap the rewards. Unexpectedly, the Wulin leader and the Medicine King were so skilled, the plan dragged on for years. Next, they targeted Sang Manor Master. If Liuyue Mountain Villa were to attack the court, it would surely cause a major disturbance. This time, even worse, they encountered Eryi.

That year, the Kingdom of Sha held a sacrifice, declaring that this winter would be colder than usual and that food would be scarce. Based on past experience, large numbers of people would die. The Kingdom of Sha, desperate to seize Ming territory and food supplies, offered the Southern Kingdom half of the Ming in exchange.

The Southern Kingdom's ruler gritted his teeth and ordered the expending of most of their Gu worm reserves, beginning with Luocheng and moving inwards. But to be honest, their attack was merely a show of force, lacking in strength, serving only as a diversion for the Sand Kingdom's subsequent attack. If Gu worms alone could erode an entire nation, the Ming Dynasty would have collapsed long ago.

This plan was useful in the first half, but unfortunately, he ran into Er Yi again. Not only was he killed in the middle, but he also lost a lot of poisonous insects, and some of the poisonous women were counterattacked, so they could not be demons for a while.

Southern country.

A Gu woman seemed to realize something: "My connection with the Gu worm is broken."

"Mine too."

After a while, the Gu woman said again: "The connection is reconnected, it's back."

"No backlash?"

"No."

"Could it be that the Holy Lady took back our poisonous insects? Why did she stop us?" Only the Holy Gu can make all the poisonous insects obey orders, and as long as the Holy Gu is willing, the poisonous insects will not retaliate against the Gu master when they withdraw.

…

Things ended faster than anyone expected. Eryi finally set up a treatment station in a small thatched cottage outside Fengjia Village, waiting only a few days before his return journey. The detoxification reservoir (B) he'd purchased before departure had already been fully charged and given to several of his guards to be sent back to the capital. The detoxification reservoir originally in the capital had already begun to function, and the detoxification mission progress was 43/100, and was slowly rising.

[Host, please note, extremely high energy value is approaching.]

As Eryi walked out, a woman slowly approached through the night. She stopped at the edge of the treatment station's management area and didn't move forward. Something could be seen swaying at the edge of the system.

Eryi opened the woman's personal profile and enlarged the panel and brought it closer.

Saint [Holy Gu]

HP 100%, Fatigue 0/100

Each generation of saints in the South Country does not have a unique name, and everyone calls them saints.

The saint has a beautiful face, clear eyes, and a hint of exotic charm. She is the most beautiful person Eryi has seen since he came to the martial arts world.

The Saintess saw Eryi come out and put the insect away. "A few months ago in Liuyue City, did you help a couple remove the symbiotic insect?"

"yes."

"Very good." After saying that, the saint turned and left again.

No one knew what agreement the Saint Lady reached with the officials in Luocheng that night, but the Southern Kingdom temporarily became an ally of the Ming Dynasty.

Mountain Gate Pass.

It is not just South Korea that has reached an agreement with Saudi Arabia.

The Jiaer Kingdom administered a debilitating drug to the Ming soldiers. By the time the Medicine King arrived, most of the soldiers had temporarily lost their martial powers, and it was too late to treat them all. Inspired by Eryi's incense recipe, Sun Yipu, along with several of his disciples, devised a new one, ultimately resolving the crisis.

Good news poured in, with martial arts masters surfacing, even the long-absent Shangqing Palace sending troops. During the stalemate, martial artists took advantage of the opportunity to infiltrate the Sha Kingdom's barracks and take the head of the deputy general, throwing them into disarray. Coupled with the sudden appearance of the long-missing Zhenbei Marquis, the Sha Kingdom was forced to withdraw its troops.

"I can't remember what happened before." The Marquis of Zhenbei disappeared before and was suspected of being poisoned.

…

After Eryi left, some people in Luocheng began to speculate about her identity.

"That day, she just gave an order, and those who were poisoned by the Gu all knelt down before her!" The guide returned to the city alive and told everyone he met about what he had seen and heard in the past few days.

"You must have fallen asleep and haven't woken up yet." Others laughed at him.

Someone at the side interrupted: "It seems that she was the one who cured our Gu." The martial artist from Misty Valley had not left yet, thinking that if Luocheng and the Southern Kingdom went to war, he would be the first to fight.

"I've only seen her catching the Gu directly with her hands." This person is from an unknown village.

"Is this really someone from our Ming Dynasty? Why haven't I heard of this person before?"

"I'm so ignorant." The martial artist from Liuyue City was inexplicably proud. "You should ask about the divine doctor Er in Liuyue City."

Everyone came over and asked, "What do you mean?"

"She's skilled in treating injuries from falls, fractures, knife wounds, and detoxification. She can even reattach severed limbs and regenerate bones..."

"You're going a bit too far." Everyone dispersed.

…

The crisis in the capital was resolved, and the detoxification storage device was returned to Eryi after it had played its role.

The conditions for upgrading the Level 5 Plane Healing Station have been met:

Are you sure you want to upgrade to a level 5 plane healing station?

【yes】