The thing that crawled out of the corpse and was stabbed to death by Manjing was disgusting.

I only glanced at it before my stomach started churning.

Taking advantage of this moment, the skin of the corpse on the ground suddenly tore open, and several of these creatures crawled out from inside, quickly disappearing into the darkness.

Shortly after the pink monster died, an unbearable stench filled the air, and the monkey immediately covered its nose, exclaiming, "Holy crap, what's that smell in the air?! Did this thing grow up eating shit? It stinks so badly!"

The thing on the ground looked disgusting, so I quickly looked away from it. When I saw Wei Shengnan and the others coming over, I explained, "It was a false alarm. What we just saw wasn't a zombie at all; it was being controlled by this thing!"

"This thing looks so disgusting..."

Wei Shengnan frowned after glancing at the thing on the ground: "This thing looks like the cub of something. Is it some kind of underground creature that can't be found in the market?"

"Impossible. Our ancestors from the Four Gates have been tomb raiding for generations. If such a strange creature really existed, we couldn't possibly have been unaware of it."

Song Laosan took out disposable surgical gloves from his backpack, put them on, and squatted down to examine them: "This thing's skin looks fragile, but it's actually very tough, and its muscles are also very strong. It should be an adult species!"

Qu Ruilin, upon learning that what we had encountered was not a large-scale zombie outbreak, was no longer so nervous: "Do you know what this is?"

Old Song grabbed Manjing's knife and dissected the monster's corpse: "It has internal organs, but they are not fully developed. This thing only has intestines but no stomach. It doesn't look like a normal creature at all."

I also mentioned our experience: "When we entered Ping'an Village, a group of paper figures stole our luggage. We caught a few of them, but found that their bodies contained nothing but wooden skeletons! Now that I think about it, those paper figures also had something like that inside them, and they should be able to control those paper figures!"

"In that case, its identity is not hard to guess."

Old Song shifted his gaze from the monster's body: "This thing is a Gu!"

"Gu? As far as I know, aren't Gu all insects?"

Wei Shengnan said, "Putting many poisonous insects in a container and making them devour each other, the last surviving poisonous insect is called Gu. So practicing Gu is a process of cultivating poisonous insects. But who has ever seen such a big insect?"

"The outside world's understanding of Gu breeding is only a one-sided understanding. A true Gu breeder must be proficient in a variety of disciplines, including herbalism, epigraphy, entomology, botany and zoology, mathematics, astronomy, and Qimen Dunjia! A successful Gu breeder is a leader in any industry! So they are not just the kind of people you imagine who lock themselves in a small room all day to fight crickets."

Old Song paused for a moment: "When I was a peddler in India, I once got a job to go to Thailand to buy 'ghost children,' which are little ghosts made from babies. That's how I came into contact with a Thai sorcerer. That sorcerer was quite famous in Thailand, and I even personally witnessed him using sorcery to kill people!"

"I bought my ghost doll from that sorcerer back then. How should I put it... he gave me a terrifying feeling. Even though the Four Gates were known for their shady dealings, that person still felt out of place to me! If we compare the world of normal people to Yang, then the world we live in is merely the boundary between Yin and Yang, but that strange man truly lived in the underworld!"

Monkey already disliked Song Laosan, and upon hearing his words, he retorted impatiently, "We're talking about raising Gu poison, what does it have to do with Thailand? If you want to reminisce about your tender moments with ladyboys, save that for when you go back and tell your own people. We have no interest."

Song Laosan ignored the monkey's rudeness and continued, "As you all know, the top ten richest people in Thailand are all Chinese immigrants. The sorcerer I knew at the time served a wealthy Chinese businessman. With his help, the businessman's business always went smoothly!"

After the little ghost I bought from him was taken away by someone else, the effect was extraordinary, so I returned to Thailand to try and get another little ghost back! But this time in Thailand, I didn't manage to meet him because I heard that his boss had gotten into trouble!

It took me a lot of effort to find this person. It is said that his boss hired someone to shoot and kill the owner of a rival company in order to steal business. That company owner was also Chinese. After the other party died, his family spent a lot of money and vowed to avenge him! So the sorcerer ran away with his boss.

Just as I was about to leave Thailand, the sorcerer sent someone to find me, saying that his boss had offended the wrong person this time and was preparing to leave Thailand, but he didn't want to leave and needed to make some money for retirement, so he tripled the price of selling ghost children!

After my boss agreed to their demands, I went to the manor where they were hiding. Just as I got the little ghost, his boss suddenly vomited blood. Only then did the sorcerer realize that the other party had vowed revenge and had chosen this method!

He had already severed ties with that boss, but out of consideration for their friendship, he still decided to perform the ritual to save the person. I was also somewhat of an insider in the business, and since he had no help, he asked me to help him, promising to give me the little ghost for free!

I was so poor I was practically urinating blood. When I heard there was money to be made, I agreed without a second thought. The sorcerer set up an altar with a basin of water in the center. He threw a bunch of bamboo sticks smeared with rooster blood into the water, and five of them stood up!

According to the sorcerer, the five upright bamboo sticks represent that the other party has hired five feng shui masters. He was constantly performing rituals here, and the bamboo sticks in the basin kept falling over. At that time, I asked him if the falling bamboo sticks represented that the person had died or had given up, but the sorcerer did not answer me.

I remember it clearly; it took us seven hours to knock down all five bamboo sticks! The sorcerer was exhausted by then. He said that everyone he had met was a world-class expert. He had saved the boss's life, which was considered repaying his debt of gratitude. From now on, he planned to retire from the martial arts world!

Just as he finished speaking, he suddenly vomited a mouthful of blood, and the blood was black and full of maggots! After vomiting this blood, the sorcerer was clearly dying. In his dying moments, he uttered one sentence!

He said he had been tricked. From beginning to end, there was only one other person on the other end. He had been bewitched by someone who was a Gu master!

When we were performing the ritual, there were only two people in the entire villa, but he was killed without even seeing the other person's face!

Before that, I never believed in metaphysics or such things, but it was that incident that made me realize that such bizarre things really exist in this world. I have only seen it once in my life, and the scene is still vivid in my mind and unforgettable!

Therefore, the Gu master is definitely not just someone who only uses poison as you might imagine; they are a truly terrifying being!