Chapter 280 The Truth About the Blood Gu Worm!

Li Qinglu stared curiously at Zaina, who was sitting on the veranda.

In just one hour, half of her hair had turned gray.

Not only that, her skin also seems to be aging...

The blood worm kept her appearance unchanged.

However, once the Blood Gu Worm died, it was as if her fig leaf had been torn off, and her true appearance and the passage of time were about to be fully revealed.

But she didn't seem to care about what she was about to become.

He simply sat quietly, staring at the tightly closed door in front of him...

Old Duke Pei is still lying inside, his fate unknown.

Although Prince Su always had a doctor by his side, the one he was with today happened to be Dr. Du, who was not the most skilled physician.

So there has been no news yet.

The message sent by carrier pigeon had already returned to Jinling City, but Li Qingluo also had her own selfish motives.

After consulting with Prince Su, she also sent a message back to General Xiuli's residence.

I hope my grandmother and Doctor Luo can arrive soon.

After sitting for a while, Li Qinglu couldn't resist her curiosity and walked over to Zaina, asking directly, "Actually, your blood worms aren't for your own immortality, are they?"

Zaina looked up and gazed quietly at the little girl who had appeared before her.

She asked, "Is your grandmother Xiuzhen?"

Madam Pei's maiden name was Pei Xiuzhen, which should have been known only to close relatives. However, because of her title as the First Female General of the Great Liang, she was different from other women, and her name was known throughout the world.

Moreover, Zaina had accompanied the old Duke to the battlefield, and although she and her grandmother did not get along well, they were still old acquaintances.

Li Qingluo nodded: "Yes, my biological grandmother was indeed General Xiuli."

Zaina sighed: "No wonder your blood drives the mother worm so crazy."

"In this world, the blood that would drive Pei Lang to the brink of madness is his closest blood relative, his daughter or sister."

"Your grandmother's blood is indeed sweeter and more delicious to him than the blood of other sons of the same clan."

Upon hearing this, Li Qingluo involuntarily shuddered.

"Could it be that my maternal great-uncle has been deliberately distancing himself from and isolating my grandmother all these years because of this matter?"

"He didn't actually hate his grandmother?"

Zaina gave a bitter smile: "Hate?"

“Pei Lang did hate, hated that he was powerless to protect his two younger brothers’ lives, so he could only take his anger out on your grandmother. But in fact, even those resentments have long been let go.”

"He has already lost two younger brothers. If it weren't for a last resort, how could he bear to completely push away his only sister who had gone to the battlefield with him and suffered so much?"

"Because he knew that if he hadn't done it back then, your grandmother would have died at his hands long ago."

Li Qinglu was deeply shaken.

If my grandmother knew the truth, I wonder if she would be happy or sad?

She was glad that her brother hadn't actually hated her all these years.

She was saddened that her brother was living a hellish life on earth.

But what exactly happened?

"You just mentioned a mother worm, but what exactly is a mother worm?"

Zaina looked at Li Qingluo; now that things had come to this, there was no point in hiding it anymore.

So after a moment's hesitation, he answered, "Do you know about the Gu poison of Miao territory?"

Li Qinglu shook her head.

She does indeed lack knowledge. Even though she has been reading and writing for the past six months since she returned, the time has been too short, so what she has learned is still shallow and limited.

She had never read about this in a book before.

But she had a thirst for knowledge.

"Blood Gu worms, could they be the Gu poison of Miao territory?"

Zaina: "I guess so."

"The Gu poison of Miao territory is the most evil poison in the world. The poison techniques of Miao territory are even more extremely poisonous."

"Have you ever heard of the most unbearable pain in the world that a person afflicted with Gu poison will experience before death?"

"You need to know how this Gu poison is made. Hundreds of insects are put in a vat and can devour each other. The ones that survive are the Gu."

"If a snake survives, it becomes a snake gu; if a centipede survives, it becomes a centipede gu, and so on. Gu poison is extremely potent and dangerous; ordinary Gu poison will kill you within a year once you are infected."

Li Qingluo: "But the Gu poison in my maternal great-uncle's body has been there for more than thirty years, hasn't it?"

Zaina: "Therefore, the poison used by Pheasant Pei is not the ordinary Miao Gu poison."

"Gu worms are divided into mother and offspring worms. Where there is a mother, there is an offspring, and where there is an offspring, there is also a mother."

"If you want to use a curse on someone, you must first put the larvae on the person who is cursed."

"And the one who holds the mother insect can control the person who is poisoned by the Gu."

"The bone and blood worm is the mother worm. And you should have seen it before, I spat out a pool of white worms, those were the offspring worms."

Li Qingluo realized something was wrong: "Wait! How come you have a Gu worm in your body?! Isn't the one who was poisoned the old Duke?"

She finally realized where the problem lay!

Because she had always thought that the old Duke was the one who was poisoned, but now Zaina said that she was the one who was poisoned by the Gu, and that she was the one who was being manipulated!

What exactly happened?

Zaina looked up at the sky with a blank stare in her eyes, and slowly said, "Back then, in the last battle with the tribes of the Western Regions, your grandparents and Pei Lang were all trapped in a formation that disturbed people's minds."

"Pei Lang said that at that time, the formation not only caused people to hallucinate and see ghosts, but also had several large black dogs eyeing them menacingly."

"Although it wouldn't be difficult for the three of them to escape the formation together, those mad dogs were quite troublesome."

"In order to help your grandmother escape, Pei Lang didn't think much at the time and cut a gash in his own arm. Unexpectedly, the smell of blood instantly drew all the ghostly shadows and black dogs toward him."

"Although your grandparents rescued Pei Lang in time and all three of them eventually escaped, Pei Lang burned in his tent for three days and three nights after returning home."

"At that time, your grandmother thought that your great-uncle was just having a common illness, but she didn't know that Pei Lang had already been on the verge of life and death."

"Pei Lang's health has been poor ever since then. Sometimes he can't even muster the strength to practice martial arts. What a frustrating blow that must be for a military general!"

"However, no one in the world knows about this except me."

"After returning to Jinling, I lived in a house outside the Duke's mansion, so Pei Lang would often come to see me. One dark and windy night, Pei Lang was assassinated on his way to see me."

“Pei Lang’s health was already much worse than before, and the assassin he encountered that time was determined to take his life.”

“Pei Lang came to see me one last time, covered in blood. When I opened the door, he was barely alive.”

"He collapsed into my arms, tears streaming down his face, and asked me why His Majesty wanted to exterminate the Pei family."

"Clearly, he's the only son left in the Pei family!"

"But the emperor is wary of the military power held by the Pei family, and the Pei family still has descendants who will produce countless generals and heroes. What's even more terrifying is that the Pei family's achievements back then already overshadowed the emperor!"

"In the end, the Pei family made outstanding contributions in battle to protect the country, but the emperor actually wanted to discard them after they had served their purpose, showing no regard for the Pei family's sacrifices and wanting to completely eliminate the Pei family!"

"As I watched Pei Lang slowly breathe his last and grow cold in my arms, how could I not feel hatred in my heart?"

"For Pei Lang, I betrayed my sect and left my only relative, my older sister. I would rather be his concubine without any status or title. I have given up so much. I love him as much as I love myself. I cannot watch him die!"

"Therefore, I planted the blood worm in myself."

"The Blood Gu Worm is different from other Gu poisons in Miao territory. It is a rare poisonous insect that I discovered in a village back then."

"If an ordinary person accidentally drinks its insect eggs, they will get a kind of mad blood disease. And the symptoms of mad blood disease are the same as those of your great-uncle, gradually going mad and losing their mind, and needing human blood to sustain them."

“I am a witch. Although I am a woman from the Western Regions, my sister and I were adopted by the Miao people when we were young, so I am a disciple of the Miao school and I also know the art of Gu poison.”

"Back when I was traveling the world, I obtained the Blood Gu Worm and have always treasured it, raising it with my own blood."

"Moreover, during the years I followed your maternal great-uncle, I was also trying to use it to refine the art of Gu poison. Unexpectedly, I refined a method of preserving youth with one's life."

"I never imagined that one day I would use this method on Pei Lang."

"Although it is said to preserve one's youth with one's life, only those who have been poisoned can regain their youth and maintain their youthful appearance forever. If I want to save your great-uncle, I need to tie my life to his life forever in this lifetime."

"First, I swallowed the larvae of the blood worm. Then I released bowls of my own blood from my wrists, and used my sect's unique blood-exchange method to exchange my blood for Pei Lang's. Finally, I released Pei Lang's blood to exchange for my own."

"Our mother-child Gu relationship is thus established."

"Although the blood transfusion method is extremely dangerous, we could both die at the same time if we are not careful."

"But at that time, I had no other choice."

"I have no choice but to try anything, even risk my own life, to save Pei Lang's life."

"At least we succeeded in exchanging blood, and Pei Lang survived. Although from now on, Pei Lang will be the one suffering from the Blood Rage Disease. This disease will cause him unbearable pain, but at least he is still alive."

"And for him to live, he needs to drink human blood or take pills made from human blood to prolong his life."

"Due to the characteristics of the Blood Gu worm, he is yang and the woman is yin. Therefore, he can only consume blood pills made from the blood of his mother."

"However, for every woman whose blood he consumes, I will become a year younger, until I can remain forever young and ageless."

Zaina touched her face as she spoke, her expression bitter and bewildered.

"But what's the point? I'd rather face growing old with Pei Lang like an ordinary couple..."

"How can it not be a punishment for someone to live forever, like a monster? And to be kept in this state by the life of a loved one, no wonder... I am that Gu."

Li Qingluo has come to understand many things.

"You two are bound by fate, which is why your great-uncle has been bedridden for so many years, and you have also become unable to speak or move?"