I am an insect

"What happened there?" Ji Ye asked Lao Qin.

"I don't know, they're probably looking for Granny Ma. Let's go take a look." Old Qin said as he immediately walked to the other side of the street. Ji Ye followed behind Old Qin and noticed that many people from Ma Village had gathered around after hearing the commotion.

When he followed Lao Qin over, he found that the person crying was a disheveled woman. She was crying and shouting in a dialect that he couldn't understand at all.

Judging from her appearance, she was about thirty years old. Several young, strong men forcibly dragged her toward the gate, where a banner reading "Fortune telling, character analysis, exorcism, and rituals" was hanging.

Ji Ye now knows that this is where Granny Ma lives; she is a famous sorceress in the area.

The woman who kept crying was clearly considered "possessed" by her family, who brought her here to ask Granny Ma for help in exorcising the evil spirits.

A crowd had gathered at the entrance, and Ji Ye, mingling in the crowd, also peered inside.

Inside the lobby, the disheveled woman was being held down by several burly men, preventing her from moving. Granny Ma was standing in front of the woman, holding a cane, observing her carefully.

An elderly couple, presumably the woman's parents, were talking to Granny Ma with worried expressions about their daughter's situation.

Ji Ye was also observing the woman's condition in the crowd, but he couldn't see anything special about her. Judging from her appearance, she seemed to have mental problems. He just didn't know how to treat and exorcise this old woman.

After listening to what the other person had said, Granny Ma nodded, took out a yellow talisman from her body, and muttered incantations. Ji Ye couldn't understand what she was saying, but he knew that she was chanting a spell.

As she continued chanting, the yellow talisman she held in her hand quickly reacted.

Ji Ye didn't know if it was the incantation she recited that worked, or if the yellow talisman itself contained some special energy, but at this moment, a faint misty vapor appeared on its surface.

However, judging from the reactions of the people around him, Ji Ye guessed that these ordinary people probably couldn't see the faint smoke.

Grandma Ma suddenly let out a low shout and stuck the yellow talisman in her hand to the center of the woman's forehead. As soon as she stuck the talisman on, the faint smoke swirling around its surface rushed into the woman's forehead. Immediately afterwards, Ji Ye noticed a wisp of gray-black smoke being expelled from her head.

This wisp of grayish-black smoke is the energy of intention, but it is very weak. Once it is forced out of the body, it immediately dissipates.

Strangely enough, as the smoke was forced out, the woman who had been crying, struggling, and talking nonsense suddenly quieted down, shut her mouth, and stopped talking.

To everyone around, it looked like Granny Ma took out a talisman and stuck it on the patient's forehead, and the "possessed" patient immediately calmed down, which amazed everyone.

Although the people of Mazhuang knew of Granny Ma's magic and power, they still praised her endlessly and looked on with admiration when they saw her again. The family members who came with the woman were even more impressed.

"She's weak right now and needs to rest for a while. Get her some calming and brain-boosting medication. Old Qin, go and get some medicine for them to take with them."

Old Qin responded, and the whole family thanked him profusely. Some of them went with Old Qin to get the medicine.

Ji Ye followed Lao Qin back, and he had his own guesses about what had just happened.

"If I'm not mistaken, this woman was invaded by an adult worm. However, the worm's mental form was extremely weak, similar to an adult worm that hadn't undergone the forty-nine-day pupation process. Therefore, although the worm's mental form invaded her body, it didn't control her body. This caused the mental form and her consciousness to become entangled, neither able to overcome the other, which led to the woman's possession-like condition. What Granny Ma did was simply use the power of the yellow talisman to defeat the invading mental form in the woman's body, and thus she returned to normal..."

"Of course, what invaded her body wasn't necessarily an adult worm that had died; it could also be some kind of animal that had lived to a certain age and become a spirit..."

"If exorcism is this simple, then perhaps I could do it too..."

As Ji Ye pondered, he followed Lao Qin home and saw a queue forming at Granny Ma's door. In Ma Village, her business was the best.

In reality, there aren't many people like today who come to her for exorcism and healing because they're "possessed" by evil spirits. It's rare to see them like this. Most people come for fortune telling and face reading.

Finding Granny Ma to tell fortunes and read faces is not cheap, and you need to make an appointment in advance. Moreover, she only does five divinations a day, and closes down her stall after she finishes doing so. Every day, many people come from the surrounding counties and cities.

Ji Ye saw this and now understood that although Granny Ma lived in the countryside, she actually made a fortune every day and was quite wealthy.

Having learned the reason for the abundant spiritual energy in Mazhuang, Ji Ye returned to the place where he had rested the previous night, closed the door, and began to continue his cultivation.

Although he had considered sneaking away several times and even thought about changing his body, he gave up on them for the time being.

Since Granny Ma entrusted herself to Old Qin without fear of him escaping, there must be a reason.

Old Qin may seem like a smiling old man who is well-versed in ancient medicine, but Ji Ye felt that he was not simple. Perhaps he, like Granny Ma, was proficient in some special methods.

If you act rashly without knowing their background, you could easily run into trouble.

"The most important thing now is to seize the time to cultivate. At least I'm safe until Grandma Ma's granddaughter gets her hands on the radio."

This Ma Village can be considered a treasure land for cultivation. Ji Ye didn't want to waste time. Although the effect of cultivating during the day was much worse than at night, it was better than nothing.

Sitting cross-legged on the bed, I slowly entered a meditative state. Sure enough, the mental energy I could sense during the day was much thinner than at night, and the speed at which I could transfer and integrate this energy into my mental body was also much slower.

He didn't know how much time had passed when a knocking sound woke him up. It was Old Qin knocking on the door, asking him to come out for lunch.

It seems that Old Qin must have received instructions from Granny Ma to not only provide Ji Ye with free medical treatment and a place to sleep, but also to provide him with food and drink.

Ji Ye guessed that Old Qin might know what he was. Although he always smiled when he saw him, there seemed to be something hidden beneath that smile.

Perhaps because Ji Ye hadn't eaten enough in the morning, this lunch was much more lavish. After finishing his meal, Ji Ye went back to his room to rest.

He didn't continue cultivating in the afternoon, but instead rested in bed. Since his cultivation was less effective during the day, Ji Ye decided to sleep during the day to conserve his energy so that he wouldn't need to rest at night and could use the entire night for cultivation.

The mornings in Mazhuang were quite lively, with many people coming to Granny Ma for fortune telling and face reading. By the afternoon, it had mostly quieted down. When Ji Ye woke up, it was already getting dark. After dinner, he locked himself in his room and began his cultivation.