Inside the main house, Qin Yingxian and Acai, who remained, were somewhat surprised to see Su Hua leading Azheng step by step towards them.

They had eaten the skewers that A-Zheng grilled at Su Ji Restaurant, and they tasted great, but that's completely different from witchcraft.

Elder Xue and Elder Zhou immediately stood up and gave up their seats. With Su Hua, a genius in the medical field, as their predecessor, they could completely accept the addition of another shrewd person from the Gu realm.

Ignoring everyone's stares, A-Zheng casually lifted her skirt and sat down on a low stool in front of the bed, taking a small cloth bag the size of a palm from her waist.

The bag was all gray and inconspicuous, and looked quite old, with its original color completely unrecognizable.

Ah Zheng pulled open the drawstring of the cloth bag and took out a black ceramic bottle and a small knife about the length of a finger.

Immediately, he expertly grabbed Qin Yucheng's wrist and used a small knife to make a cut along the side.

"Sizzle—"

A streak of dark red blood splattered.

The stench of blood in the air suddenly intensified, sending a chill down everyone's spines. Then, the bloodstains transformed into droplets, falling into the dark ceramic bottle, which had been quiet all along. Suddenly, the bottle came to life.

A series of sounds, like a cat scratching glass, rang out. The sound wasn't loud, but it was still somewhat unpleasant to the ear.

After a while, the sound completely disappeared, and the black pottery bottle returned to silence. A-Zheng held the pottery bottle and looked at it for a long time, then leaned closer to sniff it carefully.

Her brows furrowed, and even the beauty mark at the corner of her eye seemed to come alive. "It's actually the Nine Yin Puppet Gu! Just who did this kid offend? How could he be cursed with such a vicious Gu?"

Nine Yin Puppet Gu?

The Qin family was both bewildered and frightened; this name sounded like someone who was not to be trifled with.

Moreover, Yu Cheng has always been kind to people and has never cheated or harmed anyone. He doesn't even know a single person from the Western Rong tribe, so how could he offend them?

Old Xue stroked his white beard and said in a deep voice, "When I was young, I traveled to the Western Rong and heard that the Nine Yin Puppet Gu was made by feeding the victim with nine kinds of extremely yin and cold poisonous insects from the Western Rong. It can cause hallucinations in the person who is infected with the Gu."

Over time, they may even completely lose themselves and fall into madness.

Ultimately, they became puppets of the one who cast the curse.

Therefore, the Western Rong shamans named it the Nine Yin Puppet Gu.

“The old man is right.” A-Zheng nodded, put away the knife, and put the cap back on the black pottery bottle. “This Nine Yin Puppet Gu, although different from the Bone-Eating Gu and the Life-Taking Gu, will not directly take people’s lives, but it is more terrifying than them.”

In the later stages, those afflicted by the Nine Yin Puppet Master become essentially living dead. Their flesh and blood remain, but their consciousness has been completely devoured, rendering them entirely subservient to the one who cast the Gu. Until their vital essence is completely drained by the Gu worms, they will instantly turn into a skeleton.

Upon hearing this, Qin Yingxian's tears, which he had managed to hold back, welled up again. Magistrate Qin's voice also choked with emotion, "Then... is there any hope for Yu Cheng now?"

A-Zheng looked up at him and said, "Logically speaking, from the time the Gu is cast until the poison takes effect, it takes at least seven days and at most two or three months. By then, it is often too late."

Judging from this kid's blood, the Nine Yin Puppet Gu was planted no more than three hours ago.

Perhaps because he usually consumes a lot of precious medicinal herbs, this Gu (a type of poison) is attracted to the taste of his blood. Once inside his body, it became unusually active, causing him to vomit blood frequently. He was lucky, in a way.

"Eating precious medicinal herbs?" Qin Yingxian was somewhat surprised upon hearing this. "My brother hates taking medicine the most. He doesn't even like ginseng chicken soup, saying that it has a medicinal taste that he can't stand."

"That's true." Magistrate Qin nodded.

His son was not a picky eater from a young age; he could eat meat and vegetables and was easy to raise.

He has an innate aversion to medicine; he would shake his head if there was even the slightest hint of it.

"That's strange. This kid's blood has a very faint fragrance that not only the Nine Yin Puppet Gu in his body likes, but my Gu baby also loves to eat it." A-Zheng rubbed the black pottery bottle with her fingertips, raising her eyebrows.

"It was this fragrance that caused the Gu worms to activate immediately. Otherwise, after two or three months, apart from the one who cast the Gu, this kid would have been devoured by the Gu worms and become a living dead."

A light, pleasant aroma?

Su Hua, who had been standing quietly to the side, twitched her nose slightly and carefully smelled the bloody scent in the air.

When she first entered, she smelled an extremely strong stench of blood and decay, but now, if she focused her mind and sniffed carefully, she could indeed detect a very faint, pleasant fragrance.

Moreover, this delicate fragrance seems somewhat similar to the scent of water droplets in the air.

Thinking of this, her almond-shaped eyes suddenly flickered. Could it be because of the vegetables she sent to the Qin family?

After the Hundred Flowers Banquet, the Qin siblings mentioned to her that Li Hongyan's health had improved after eating the vegetables, and that the whole family liked the vegetables they sent. Therefore, for the next two weeks, when the three Su brothers went to Qingshui County to sell spicy hot pot, they would bring them a basket of vegetables every day.

The vegetables at home are all grown by being watered with diluted space water droplets. Over time, some of them have been incorporated into the blood, which is probably equivalent to being pickled.

Magistrate Qin temporarily disregarded the fragrance and looked at A-Zheng with anticipation, "May I ask, young lady, do you know how to cure this Nine Yin Puppet Gu?"

Previously, Elder Xue only knew that Yu Cheng was infected with Gu, but he could not identify the specific type. However, this young girl in front of him, in a short while, said that it was the Nine Yin Puppet Gu, and between the lines, it was clear that she had a great understanding of witchcraft and Gu.

Upon hearing this, Elder Xue and Elder Zhou also looked intently at A-Zheng.

The latter pursed his lips and said patiently, "The best way to remove the curse is to have the person who cast the curse bring the mother curse and use it to summon the offspring curse inside this boy's body."

This method is the fastest and will not cause him any harm.

"We need someone to cast the Gu poison?" Magistrate Qin's heart skipped a beat.

She just said that the Nine Yin Puppet Gu was planted in Yu Cheng's body no more than three hours ago. Three hours ago, Yu Cheng and Ying Xian were still at the Tangshan Prefecture Stone Gambling Conference.

The gambling stone street was packed with people, and for a moment they had no idea who had cast the curse, or how to find the mother curse!