Big Moon Ballad

Chapter 2458 Gu King

"Sun Sanniang, twenty years old, um, come in."

Ying Baoyue was lining up in the queue of maids entering the palace, carrying a basket and waist badge. After presenting her waist tag, the guard guarding the gate looked at her physical features according to the waist tag and nodded.

Each person's waist tag has their own obvious physical characteristics written on them, such as their height, skin color, and whether they have birthmarks or moles.

It was not difficult to disguise mere physical features with her disguise technique, so Ying Baoyue had made preparations for her and Li Ji in advance.

"Well, Chen Ji, twenty-five years old, enter."

The sound of the eunuch team was heard in the distance. Ying Baoyue lowered her head and glanced at it from the corner of her eye. Li Ji, disguised as an eunuch, followed the eunuch team. He bowed his head submissively and lined up into the dark palace gate. .

Ying Baoyue glanced at the neck of the guard in charge of the inspection with the corner of her eye, and looked deeply.

She held her breath and followed the procession of palace maids, stepping into this familiar yet unfamiliar palace step by step.

As a servant, if you are not respectful and timid enough, any abnormal behavior will be discovered.

Ying Baoyue resisted the urge to raise her head and look around, buried her head low, and walked cautiously among the palace maids.

Along the way, other palace ladies left the team and headed to their respective palaces.

After Ying Baoyue and other people in the team had walked about halfway, they turned around calmly and walked toward the path that passed through the palace on the side.

She was not alone on this road. There were several eunuchs carrying buckets and sweeping. Ying Baoyue walked quickly past them with her head lowered. Not far away, there was another eunuch standing facing the wall. Ying Baoyue stared intently. Walk behind him.

Just after Ying Baoyue's figure completely disappeared from the corner, no one noticed that the eunuch also turned and left.

Ying Baoyue kept walking forward, constantly detouring into more remote paths, as if the master she was serving was an unloved beauty who had been forgotten deep in the corner of the palace for many years.

It wasn't until she stood in front of an extremely remote palace that she stopped and raised her head to look at the plaque thickly covered by cobwebs.

A quarter of an hour later, there were footsteps behind her,

It is no longer the inaudible footsteps of practitioners, but the footsteps of ordinary people.

Ying Baoyue turned around and looked at the dark-skinned eunuch hidden in the trees behind her.

"Have you noticed? Those people's necks..."

Li Ji nodded and walked out of the bushes, "It's the same with the eunuchs. Most of them are three inches behind the ears, and some are on the Fengchi point. They all have red spots, and some people have black spots."

"Sure enough," Ying Baoyue lowered her gaze, "the guards at the door also have it on their necks."

At first glance, those red and black spots are very inconspicuous, just like ordinary moles, so no one can notice them even if they go out of the palace to do business.

But it's quite scary that so many people have such marks in similar locations.

"There are also people who don't have it," Li Ji took a deep breath. "Most of them have restrained auras and deep steps. I'm afraid..."

Ying Baoyue's pupils shrank slightly, "He is a disciple of the Zen Academy."

The two of them looked at each other silently under the trees, relatively speechless.

Ying Baoyue originally thought that it would take them a long time to investigate the strangeness, but she never thought that as soon as she entered the palace, she would discover the method of the Zen Yuan to control the entire Afang Palace.

Li Ji whispered, "Is it Gu?"

Ying Baoyue nodded, "It is a large-scale mind-eating Gu. It can control people's minds while maintaining their original living habits. Logically speaking, it is difficult to plant it on so many people at once."

There were thousands of palaces and guards in the entire Afang Palace, and almost all of them had the heart-eating Gu planted on their necks.

Ying Baoyue had never heard of such large-scale Gu cultivation, whether in this life or in her previous life.

It is impossible to plant the poison on such a large scale one by one, even if each of the Zen Academy disciples has three heads and six arms.

"Probably through the water source," Li Ji lowered his gaze. He once lived in Afang Palace for a short period of time and investigated the composition of this palace. Although everyone in this palace has their own duties and their status is high or low, there is only one thing that everyone can use equally.

That's the water source. Except for the King of Qin and the Queen, whose water was brought from Yuquan Mountain in the suburbs, everyone else, even the guards and commanders, drank water from an underground river drawn from outside the palace.

"If that's the case, we can only lay the poison through insect eggs," Ying Baoyue said softly.

Poison is spread through insects, which are divided into larvae and eggs. The larvae are easily found if mixed in the water source, but the eggs can enter the human body silently.

As long as the poisonous eggs are laid in the underground river, everyone in the palace will be infected with the poison in just three days.

But there is still a problem.

The survival time of insect eggs is much shorter than that of larvae. They will die if they do not hatch within a few hours after being separated from the mother body. At the same time, if they want to hatch successfully, the insect eggs cannot leave the mother body too far.

"Baoyue, you mean..."

Li Ji didn't have that in-depth understanding of the poisoning process. After listening to Ying Baoyue's narration, a chill ran down his back.

"If you want to use insect eggs to spread poison on such a large scale, you must have the mother of poison nearby." Ying Baoyue closed her eyes, "No, it is not accurate to call the mother of poison. I'm afraid this one should be called the king of poison." ”

Such a large-scale Gu to control people's minds must require a very powerful Gu King.

Ying Baoyue had heard her master say before that the Gu King's strength could be comparable to high-level divine beasts, and even stronger ones could even rival gods.

At this moment, the Gu King is hiding in Afang Palace.

Chanyuan, Yunzhongjun, Ghost Fetus, Gu King...

Li Ji no longer knew what to say.

"This place has really become a monster's lair."

"Then what should we do next?" Li Ji asked softly, "If we want to remove the poison from these palace people, do we have to find the Gu King?"

Ying Baoyue nodded. She glanced at Li Ji but hesitated to speak.

Li Ji's heart skipped a beat, "What's wrong?"

"I have a guess." Ying Baoyue took a deep breath, "Didn't you tell me before that the Zen Academy gave Ying Hanri a special spice to smoke for a long time?"

Li Ji nodded.

Ying Baoyue's heart beat violently because of her weird guess.

In fact, she had never understood before that if the Chanyuan wanted to destroy Ying Hanri and turn him into a living puppet, there were easier ways. There were even more affordable and high-quality prescriptions recorded in the "Poison Code" alone. Why? Using so many rare and precious spices?

But now that I think about it, most of those spices come from the Western Regions.

Since ancient times, poison has had two important origins, one is the Miao border, and the other is the Western Region.

"Aji, I doubt..."

Ying Baoyue raised her head and looked at Li Ji, "The King of Gu was planted on Ying Hanri."

When Ying Xun and others seized the throne, the reason why the palace people had not been cultivated with Gu was probably because it took time to cultivate the Gu King, and it had not been developed at that time.

Li Ji's heart beat wildly when he heard this, "Is that why the Chanyuan kidnapped Ying Hanri?"

"Anyway, he is probably quite important to the Zen Academy."

Ying Baoyue bit her lip, "We have to see him."

"But how can I see him?"

Li Ji frowned. If Ying Hanri was not only a puppet, but also the King of Gu, then he would be hidden in a very secret place by the Zen Academy and tightly guarded.

Ying Baoyue raised her head and glanced at him, her eyes strange.

"Wait, hugging the moon?!"