Chapter 129 Waiting for the rabbit
Gu Chudong was worried, but Sang Tugong's eyes lit up and he said, "If the attack on the Snow Ridge Twin Immortals wasn't an accident, that would be great."

Gu Chudong asked in confusion: "Why?"

Lord Sang Tu said, "If our speculation is correct, and it is indeed the accomplices who are behind the creation of the Heart Robbery Gu King, then the deaths of Mr. Tieqin and Sect Leader He are patterned.

The Heart-Robbing Gu is divided into three stages: the first is the Heart-Robbing Gu, the second is the Heart-Robbing Golden Gu, and the third is the Heart-Robbing Gu King. From the Golden Gu to the Gu King, there are three processes in between. The first is the Golden Gu fighting. This process requires a large amount of blood and essence, and finally five Golden Gu will be selected. The second process is to cultivate the five Golden Gu into the Five Elements Golden Gu. This process requires the heart essence and blood of five internal strength masters or the heart essence and blood of five virgins with extremely Yin fate who were born in a Yin month, Yin day and Yin hour, and all of them must belong to the Five Elements.

Relatively speaking, it is much harder to find five virgins with extremely yin destinies belonging to the five elements than to find five masters of internal skills belonging to the five elements. Moreover, the five-element golden Gu raised by five masters of internal skills who have cultivated five kinds of attributes are also more powerful.

Obviously, judging from the current situation, the evil spirits chose five masters of internal strength as sacrifices. The Five Elements encompass everything. Although there are countless martial arts in the world and they are different, in the final analysis, they cannot escape the Five Elements.

Mr. Tieqin's internal energy is the Shi family's Meteoric Art, which corresponds to the metal element. Sect Leader He's cultivation is the Tongniu sect's signature martial art, the Mystical Su Gong, which corresponds to the wood element. Therefore, the killer's next target is someone with internal energy attributes corresponding to water, fire, and earth. The Snow Ridge Twin Immortals are a strong possibility, as the Snow Ridge Villa's Ice Art corresponds to the water element.

Gu Mo thought for a moment and said, "I do have a question. If that's the case, why did the minions have to wait for these people to gather in Cangshan Town before taking action? Wouldn't it be easier to defeat them one by one as they arrived?"

Lord Sang Tu shook his head and said, "This is related to my second clue. If the first inference about the ghost refining the King of Robbery Gu is correct, then we can get the second clue. The ghost must be in Cangshan Town.

Because there is a condition for refining the Five Elements Golden Gu, that is, it must be fast. The Golden Gu cannot be too far away from the mother body. At the same time, the heart cannot be taken out for too long, at most within the time of an incense stick. The heart will completely lose its vitality and then it will be ineffective.

There is another crucial condition: after the Five Elements Golden Gu begins to be refined, the time interval between refining each subsequent Five Elements Golden Gu cannot exceed twelve hours. If this time is exceeded, all arrangements will be wasted. Therefore, the ghost must wait until the five elements sacrifices he has selected are gathered together."

Gu Mo nodded and said, "According to this, digging out the heart and refining the Gu worm must be done by the Henchman himself. In other words, even if someone else does it, the Henchman can't be too far away. It can be confirmed that the Henchman is now in Cangshan Town."

Lord Sang Tu nodded and said, "That is to say, everyone in Cangshan Town could be a ghost!"

Gu Mo said slowly, "In fact, that means, if we find the next target of the ghost now, we only need to wait and see, and we will be able to find the whereabouts of the ghost?"

"That's right," said Sang Tugong. "However, everything is based on the premise that our initial inference was correct. The ghost is trying to refine the Five Elements Golden Gu. And now, we just need to find the person who has been poisoned and secretly protect them.

This was easy to investigate. The master sacrifices required to refine the Five Elements Golden Gu required extremely high internal strength. Sect Leader He's level was already the minimum requirement, so there weren't many who met these requirements in Cangshan Town today. Now that we've found victims of the metal and wood attributes, we can narrow the search to the water, fire, and earth attributes, making it even easier.

The Five Elements Golden Gu has very strict time requirements. Within twelve hours, there will definitely be further action."

……

Sang Tugong's ability to act is still very strong.

Soon they began to identify those masters one by one.

After dawn,

It suddenly rained heavily in Cangshan Town.

The heavy rain came suddenly.

Sang Tugong hurried back to the inn, slapping the rain off his body while cursing, "This damn weather in Lingnan, it rains when it says it will, and thunders when it says it will!"

It seems to be responding to Sang Tugong's words,
As soon as he finished speaking, a flash of lightning appeared in the sky, instantly illuminating the dark Cangshan Town, followed by rumbling thunder.

There was another person with Sang Tugong.

It was none other than Taoist Qingyun from Xiandu Temple.

The two of them walked together, quickly went upstairs, and came to a room.

At this time, in the room, Gu Mo was sitting and drinking tea.

As soon as Taoist Qingyun entered the room, he hurriedly bowed and said, "Master Gu, I heard from Elder Sang that you have something to ask me?"

"No rush, some people haven't arrived yet." Gu Mo said.

After a while, footsteps were heard outside the door. It was Gu Chudong who came with the Xueling Twin Immortals.

As soon as he entered the room, Ye Lingsu asked, "Master Gu, what's the matter? Why did you call us here in such a hurry? I still need to go back to sleep!"

Gu Mo smiled slightly and said, "Elder Sang, you should speak first!"

Lord Sang Tu immediately bowed and said, "I called you all here in such a hurry because I have the latest clues about the deaths of Mr. Tieqin and Sect Leader He." As he spoke, Lord Sang Tu bowed to Ye Lingsu and Taoist Qingyun and said, "It's related to you two!"

Ye Lingsu and Taoist Qingyun were both shocked.

"Do you have a wound on the Chize point on your left arm..."

Then, Sang Tugong began to tell the story.

After he finished telling the story of the Soul-stealing Gu and the Heart-stealing Gu,
Ye Lingsu and Taoist Qingyun were both stunned and shocked.

"Elder Sang, do you mean that Taoist Qingyun and I have both been infected with the soul-stealing insect?" Ye Lingsu asked in surprise.

Lord Sang Tu nodded and said, "Fairy Lingsu, the Ice Art you practice is a water-attributed technique, while Taoist Qingyun's Mountain-Suppressing Technique is a typical earth-attributed technique. Furthermore, both of you focus on internal cultivation. Sect Leader He and Mr. Tieqin also focus on internal cultivation, which perfectly meets the requirements for the Five Elements Gold Gu sacrifice."

Taoist Qingyun acted calm, neither sad nor happy, and said, "I've heard a bit about the Jie Xin Gu. It's said that during the Five Elements Golden Gu, the deeper the inner strength of the person being sacrificed, the more powerful the Five Elements Golden Gu that's born. Theoretically, there's no upper limit, which is why there's talk of people becoming immortals and ascending to heaven in broad daylight."

"That's right." Sang Tugong said, "Finding a sacrifice with a Five Elements Extreme Yin Fate is only the minimum requirement, and a master of internal energy is the best choice."

Taoist Qingyun said, "On my way down the mountain to Cangshan Town, I ran into a group of Moon Worshiping Cult thieves. During the fight, I was injured in the Chize acupoint. At that time, I thought it was an accident, but now it seems that I was plotted against." Ye Lingsu's face was very ugly, and he said angrily, "So, when I was attacked in Kongming Temple, I was secretly used as a sacrifice by others. They simply didn't take me seriously!"

Gu Mo, who was sitting nearby drinking tea, smiled slightly and said, "Fairy Lingsu, don't be angry. From another perspective, isn't it also a recognition of your cultivation? After all, if your cultivation was average, you wouldn't be qualified to be a sacrifice, right?"

Ye Lingsu said unhappily, "Then I should thank him for his recognition?"

Gu Mo smiled and said no more.

Ye Lingsu asked again, "Then, what about the other one? According to what you said, there should be five Five Elements sacrifices. Mr. Tieqin, Sect Leader He, plus me and Taoist Qingyun, there are only four of us. What about the other one who belongs to the fire element?"

Sang Tugong shook his head and said, "I have carefully calculated that there are only about ten qualified internal martial arts masters in Cangshan Town. I have just checked them all, and you two are the only ones with injured Chize points.

I didn't dare to screen openly. After all, apart from the few people present who could be confirmed not to be the murderer, everyone else could be a possibility. If I screened openly and the murderer noticed, my plan to lure him into a trap would fail.

Even you two still have to hide yourselves. Fairy Lingsu is fine, as you're staying at the Yuelai Inn. However, Taoist Qingyun is different. You don't live here, and if you rashly come here, it will easily arouse vigilance. For the time being, we're using the cover of checking on Sect Leader He's body."

Taoist Qingyun said, "That's easy. I'll have my disciple pretend to be sick and send him to you for treatment. Then I can stay at the Yuelai Inn. As for the disciple pretending to be sick, you can rest assured. He is absolutely trustworthy and there is no chance he is in collusion with the evil spirits."

"That's no problem."

Lord Sang Tu bowed to Gu Mo and said, "From now on, the safety of Fairy Lingsu and Taoist Qingyun will have to rely entirely on Hero Gu."

Gu Mo waved his hand and said, "It's not that exaggerated. When the time comes, as long as the murderer shows up, it will be kingly for all the masters to gather together. As for me, I can only say that I will do my best!"

Ye Lingsu curled her lips and said, "Master Gu, please don't just do your best. You must be absolutely sure that there is nothing wrong with it. I'm here as bait. When the soul-stealing insect activates, I'll be a lamb to be slaughtered. If you don't protect me, then I'm doomed."

After saying that, Ye Lingsu looked at Sang Tugong again and asked, "Elder Sang, does the Soul-Snatching Gu really have no other effects?"

Lord Sang Tu nodded and said, "Fairy Lingsu, don't worry. I, Lord Sang Tu, guarantee with my life that this Soul-Snatching Gu will not have much effect on an internal martial arts master like you. When the time comes, I only need to shout loudly to make you wake up instantly.

In fact, the soul-stealing Gu was not originally called the soul-stealing Gu, but the flower-picking Gu. It was used by some rapists to pick flowers. Because the person who was infected with the soul-stealing Gu has no memory of the process between the start of the Gu and the end of it, the infected person will not feel any discomfort, and there is no difference from usual. The only difference is that the mind will be controlled by the Gu when it attacks.

But it doesn't matter. Once I find the murderer, I will definitely remove the Gu for you. It's not very difficult to remove the Soul-Snatching Gu."

Ye Lingsu nodded and said, "Forget it, for the sake of Canglan Sword Sect, I will just trust you for now!"

Then, several people got up and left.

The room suddenly became quiet.

Outside the window, the wind was raging and the rain was pouring down, and some rain was blown into the house by the slanting wind.

Gu Chudong hurried over to close the window. Just at this moment, a flash of lightning flashed across the sky, instantly lighting up the dark sky. Immediately afterwards, bursts of thunder exploded, and the dark clouds were filled with thunder.

"Brother, it's raining so hard today. I wonder how long it will last."

Gu Mo smiled and said, "This is the climate in Lingnan. I've gotten used to it during my time here. It's thundering and raining every other day."

"However, there are extraordinarily many thunders today!"

"Indeed, the rain is particularly heavy today."

……

After discussing the plan of waiting for the rabbit to come,

Taoist Qingyun did as he was asked. Shortly after returning to their Xiandu Temple residence, he sent a disciple here for treatment. Then he naturally stayed at the Yuelai Inn and waited.

Gu Mo was in the room, concentrating and fully aware.

The two Snow Ridge Immortals and Taoist Qingyun lived in the rooms on his left and right respectively, so he could sense their movements at any time.

"Brother, there's still a fire-type internal martial arts expert we haven't found yet. What should we do with him?"

In the room, Gu Chudong stayed with Gu Mo. She thought for a long time but still couldn't figure it out. She said, "If the evil spirit who attacked this time wasn't Taoist Qingyun or Sister Lingsu, then that internal martial arts master of the fire element must be..."

"That's just bad luck for him." Gu Mo said calmly, "Ye Lingsu knows, Taoist Qingyun knows, and Lord Sang Tu knows, but they don't mention it. That's because, if it's really such a coincidence that two of the three candidates are here, and the only one who's not here gets chosen, then that can only be bad luck for him, but it also means that the fourth one will definitely appear between Ye Lingsu and Taoist Qingyun."

"Oh, is that so? I see."

Night gradually falls,

Amidst the lightning, thunder, strong winds and heavy rain, Cangshan Town seems particularly quiet today.

Everything is calm.

It was not until the beginning of midnight that Gu Mo suddenly heard two faint gong sounds, as if there was a night watchman beating the night watch in the distance.

It just made two dull sounds and then there was no more sound.

The door to the next room was opened.
Ye Lingsu slowly came out of the room, her movements were a little stiff, but if she hadn't been mentally prepared in advance, she wouldn't have noticed anything unusual and would have thought it was just a normal nighttime wake-up call.

(End of this chapter)

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