For ten years I practiced Gu poison in Southeast Asia; all living beings revered me as a deity.

Wuchai is dead.

The moment Luo Feng heard the scream, he understood.

He didn't turn around to guess how Wu had died, but instead strode forward.

The witch doctor guessed that she might have encountered a real female ghost, while the one on her side must be a fake one, and that was the chance for survival.

He strode forward quickly, gripping the Demon-Slaying Blade tightly in his right hand.

Even if the gamble goes wrong, this knife should still be of some use.

However, unexpectedly, when they approached the big tree where the female ghost was hiding, the white ghostly figure vanished without a trace.

"It really was fake..."

Luo Feng was overjoyed.

He didn't stop running and continued sprinting forward.

The candle then went out.

The only remaining light source was the sliver of moonlight overhead.

Luo Feng sensed something following him closely. He gritted his teeth and glanced behind him. In the darkness, he occasionally saw some shadows flash by, but he couldn't make out what they were at all...

"Whatever."

Ignoring everything else, Luo Feng ran forward desperately, sprinting along the road until finally, the illusion of being trapped in a maze seemed to be broken, and the road ahead suddenly opened up.

In the darkness, he rushed to the end of the tree-lined path in one breath.

"Alas?"

Luo Feng stopped, completely stunned.

"This is... a graveyard?"

Under the thin moonlight of the waning crescent, the eerie banyan tree stood before me, its long, brown aerial roots resembling slender shadows hanging from the tree.

"A ghost wall?"

Luo Feng realized something, but it was too late.

The moment he stepped into the cemetery, a pair of icy hands reached out from behind him and gripped his eyes tightly.

The chilling reality of death struck again.

He lost consciousness again.

……

……

【you are dead】

[Intervention in "Panupong's Reincarnation Fragment" failed; you have 7 chances left.]

[Comment: You're more persistent than before, which is a good sign.]

[Reward: You have obtained a Gu material called "A Strand of Hair from a Skin-Piercing Ghost", type "Grievance", level "D", which can be used to synthesize and refine Spirit Gu.]

What does "lasting longer than before" mean?

After opening his eyes, Luo Feng exhaled and couldn't help but make a sarcastic comment about the evaluation.

"A strand of hair from the Skinflint Ghost... Is this considered an ingredient for a Gu curse?"

There are five types of Gu materials: "human heart", "ghosts and gods", "karmic debt", "calamity" and "cause and effect".

Luo Feng himself is not quite clear about the different functions of these five categories at present.

Curious, he pulled a dry strand of hair from the "vortex symbol" of the Reincarnation Gu, which was the Gu's aperture, and tied it with a red thread. This red thread was called a "meridian thread," a common prop in many rituals.

For some unknown reason, when Luo Feng held this strand of hair in his hand, he had a strange feeling—that this thing possessed an inexplicable evil quality.

Suddenly, an image flashed in his mind: a woman with her head being held down by a large hand, her entire head submerged in water.

The woman struggled desperately to breathe, but her head was pressed down by a rough hand, and she drowned in the water shortly afterward.

The woman was then pulled from the water, and the owner of the hand fed something into the mouth of the already dead woman.

Later, the surrounding scenery changed rapidly, and the drowned woman's body was taken to a cemetery and buried in a pit.

She was buried in the cold, silent earth, and after an unknown amount of time, the woman's body was apparently dug up.

"Hurry up, Panupong!"

The sound of a pickaxe shoveling dirt came over, and the faint chatter of two people could be heard.

Is it me, and that Wuchai?

Luo Feng understood that this was his "yin-passing" physique at work, and he was seeing from the female corpse's perspective.

Next, he felt the two men lift the female corpse up and place it on the ground next to the pit.

At that very moment, the drowned woman's vision shifted, as if she had detached herself from the corpse, and a wisp of her soul slowly rose up.

The female corpse seemed to be floating in the air, rather than being imprisoned in her body. She saw her own corpse lying on the ground, as well as the two corpse thieves, Panupong and Wuchai.

At the same time, it seemed that the female corpse's gaze moved upwards, looking at the large banyan tree in the graveyard.

Hidden in that banyan tree was a pair of sinister eyes, staring at the ghost of the female corpse.

hiss…

Suddenly, the images in front of him began to blur.

Everything disappeared.

Luo Feng let out a soft breath.

After all that, he finally managed to get some important intelligence.

The real culprit in the cemetery was that "thing" hidden in the banyan tree.

Suddenly, he paused, a flash of inspiration crossing his mind.

"I get it! This isn't some kind of 'haunting,' it's just someone playing a trick!"

Only now, when he could connect all the clues, did he suddenly realize this.

A cursed spirit?

An oil lamp that mysteriously broke and went out?

And then there's Wuchai's claim that "someone is casting a spell in the dark"... Putting all of this together, we can arrive at a conclusion:

All of this was done by the person hiding in the banyan tree!

"Someone is secretly plotting against Panupong and Wuchai. Who could it be?"

He was once again filled with doubt.

However, this problem can be put aside for now, because he has obtained a piece of Gu material, "a strand of hair from a skin-baring ghost," which can be used to make the most basic Gu worm.

A single strand of hair from a skin-demon, mixed with a drop of blood, a fingernail, and crow's blood, can be used to create a "Hair Gu".

"Fa Gu" is a basic type of Gu worm.

According to the description, this kind of Gu worm can parasitize a person's scalp, disguise itself as hair, and use this hair Gu to track the location of others.

In addition, basic Gu worms can be used as materials to refine advanced Gu worms.

"Does crafting this 'hair-inflicting poison' require crow's blood?"

Luo Feng was in a bit of a dilemma.

He doesn't have any of those things on hand.

"However, it's possible that you can buy it with money."

……

Early the next morning.

Luo Feng rode a shared electric scooter, drove through several streets, and arrived at an old street.

During the day, this place is deserted and quite quiet. However, at night, it transforms into one of Chiang Mai's more famous night markets.

"I remember there were several shops that specialized in handicrafts, and one shop that specialized in traditional lamps..."

He carried the oil lamp in his hand, searched around, and finally settled on a shop in the old street.

The shop's entrance displays rattan lamps, solid wood and bamboo floor lamps, and some handmade lamps, such as small coconut shell lampstands and lotus-shaped hanging lamps, which seem to be handicrafts rather than commodities.

The shop owner was a young man, and he was somewhat surprised after hearing Luo Feng explain his purpose.

"We are indeed a lighting shop, and we do take on repair work, but..."

The young man smiled slightly.

"Now everyone uses smart lights, even handmade items are equipped with LED lights. After all, the biggest problem with traditional lamps is that they are not very safe."

"I see."

Luo Feng nodded.

"However, I do know someone who can fix these old kerosene lamps."

The young man asked with some doubt, "But repairing this kind of lamp is a waste of time and costs extra money. If you really like this kind of traditional lamp, it's more convenient to just buy a new one than to get it repaired."

"This lamp has some special meaning to me, so I hope to restore it, and I don't mind spending a little more money."

Luo Feng naturally had to come up with a suitable explanation.

"Okay, I can notify them for you. It should take about half a month."

The young man said it would take half a month to fix the lamp.

"Can you speed things up? Ideally, it should be completed within a few days. I'm willing to pay more."

Luo Feng was very familiar with the attitude of Thai people.

It's common for Thais to be slow in getting things done.

In this situation, the only solution is to "pay more money".

The young man was taken aback for a moment, then smiled and nodded.