After a moment's silence, Ma Xiaoyu poked Yin Xiu with her Yin Xiu could only smile and asked her, "How did you know we were going to the Thousand Buddha Temple?" The white peacock pointed to his head proudly, "I guessed it." "Guess?" "Yes." At this moment, she no longer had the nervousness she had before, and was only filled with pride, as if she was the one who had just subdued the giant snake. "You said you had no intention of going to the Taoist temple, but you were interested in the Gu worms instead of being afraid or surprised. Obviously, you have seen them before. Then, the Thousand Buddha Temple is the only place you want to go. Because there is a descendant of that wizard there, it is very likely that he brought the poisonous insect to Jiaozhi, and you came here just to find him, so I say we are on the same path." [It turns out that this girl is a blind cat that has caught a dead mouse...] Although it was an accidental coincidence that two completely unrelated things collided with each other, Yin Xiu still had to admit that the white peacock did become their "fellow traveler" to some extent. "Let's go then?"

Yin Xiu spread his hands towards Ma Xiaoyu, indicating that he was also confused. Ma Xiaoyu glared at him and nodded helplessly, "Please don't let her hold us back." "It's not certain who is holding us back. You are a Taoist priest, but this is Jiaozhi, which is even further south than Southern Xinjiang. Your tricks in the Central Plains may not work here." "It doesn't work? Do you want to try it?" Ma Xiaoyu stretched out his hand from his sleeve. The White Peacock was indignant and was about to retort when the incident with the White Phoenix suddenly flashed through his mind. She remembered that this woman was not easy to mess with and could easily make Bai Fenghuang suffer like that, so she could only hold back her anger and turn away with her hands behind her back. "How about we set off?" Yin Xiu was caught between two women and felt overwhelmed. "You can't leave yet!" The white peacock suddenly said: "Things here are not over yet!" "What's unfinished?" Yin Xiu asked puzzledly. “It’s the villagers here.” A sneer appeared on the white peacock's face. "These people tied me up here and almost made me get eaten by a giant snake while I was still dazed. For committing such an evil act, shouldn't they pay the price for it?" "Then what do you want to do?" Yoon Soo folded his hands and looked at her. "Kill all these bastards, of course!" The white peacock gnashed his white teeth, "We can't let any of them go. What do you think?" Ma Xiaoyu turned around and said, "I have no objection." "I don't have any objection either."

Yin Xiu handed over a dagger. "No, I have my own stuff." Bai Kongque took out a dagger from the package and waved it at Yin Xiu. "it is good." Yin Xiu took back the knife, "Then you do your best." "Um……" The white peacock nodded and was about to leave, but suddenly felt something was wrong. "No, are you planning to ask me to kill everyone in the village alone?" "We didn't ask you to do that, but you were planning to do that, right?" Yin Xiu spread his hands, "Since you are so determined, we must support you silently." "Just watching?" White Peacock confirmed with him again. "Yeah, just watching." Yin Xiu smiled and said, "After all, we are not comrades who love each other, so we can only watch." "it is good!" The white peacock nodded heavily, "Okay, okay! In that case..." She put the knife back into the package. "Then I'll spare their lives." "You are such a generous person." Yin Xiu clapped his hands, "Can we go now? Let's get going?" "anytime." The white peacock still said angrily: "It's a pity that they got the advantage. They continue to do evil here." "I can't do this for much longer." Ma Xiaoyu was walking in front and suddenly turned back and said, "Maybe in a few years, it may not even be certain whether this village will still exist." "Why?" asked the white peacock puzzled. "Have you only learned how to cast a Gu? Not to mention the scriptures, you haven't even learned the rituals?" Ma Xiaoyu asked back. "Uh……" The white peacock's ears turned red and he scratched his face, "Our master doesn't teach us that either." "That's no wonder." Ma Xiaoyu glanced at her and said, “This village has temples and tablets, but the villagers have not realized that the so-called Lingquan King they are worshipping is actually dead, and they continue to offer incense.

If the ancestral tablet is absent, a wild god from somewhere else will naturally take its place. These wild gods are originally lonely ghosts, full of hostility, and are different from the local gods that are worshipped with incense. They only know how to take, not build, and do not cherish local resources and believers. Some of them just come here to absorb people's incense and lifespan. Some rely on the blessings and luck here to practice evil skills, which goes against the laws of nature. Therefore, it is only a matter of time before this place becomes a place of unrest and encounters all kinds of disasters.” "Worship the wrong god?" White Peacock felt a chill on his neck. "It's so scary, let's go quickly." She no longer had any thoughts of punishing these people and just wanted to leave quickly. …… "What are you doing twisting and turning?" Ma Xiaoyu was riding on a camel horse and was very dissatisfied with the white peacock that was sitting in the front and kept twisting and turning and was uneasy. "Is there a nail under your butt?" "Then you move me to my brother's side." White Peacock turned around and muttered, "Maybe if I sit in front of him, I won't feel that uncomfortable on my butt anymore." "I'm afraid you'll be hurt even more." Yin Xiu whispered. "What did you say?" Ma Xiaoyu has surprisingly good hearing. "Oh, nothing." Yin Xiu kicked the horse's belly and pulled it further away. Seeing that Yin Xiu wisely avoided her gaze, Ma Xiaoyu turned her gaze back. She stared at the white peacock and said, "I will give you two choices now. Either I switch to him and ride on the same horse with him, or you get off and walk to the Thousand Buddha Temple on your own two legs." "Hey, we are in the same boat!" said the white peacock angrily. Ma Xiaoyu smiled and said, "We are on the ground, not on the water." She smiled, and the white peacock also smiled casually, "How about I choose the third way? That is, I will just sit here and not make any noise?" "This is the best policy, I agree." As Ma Xiaoyu nodded in agreement, the slight friction between the two girls finally resolved and disappeared. Yin Xiu didn't know whether he should feel regretful or relieved. Anyway, he was temporarily freed from the vortex of dispute. To lighten the mood, he asked White Peacock, "By the way, how much do you know about the rag doll insect, other than the fact that it was bred in Miaojiang?" "That's a lot."

White Peacock folded his hands and said confidently: "Speaking of understanding Gu worms, I am an expert. Gu is actually a kind of magic. It is a medium, a carrier, or the medium required for casting spells. In Southeast Asia, it is called "jiangtou", which is actually very similar to witchcraft and the same thing. There are insect Gu, animal Gu, plant Gu, human Gu, and even strange ghost Gu. Do you know about them, brother?" Seeing the white peacock blinking at him, Yin Xiu could only pretend to be serious and said, "I have seen a kind of Gu in martial arts novels before. It is said that after swallowing it, you can reverse time and swim against the long river of time." "nerve!" The white peacock rolled his eyes. "Where can I find such a powerful Gu? But I want to say that Gu is not used to harm people. In other words, most of the Gu are used to cure diseases and save lives, and to treat difficult and complicated diseases, such as when someone is bitten by a snake in the mountains, or when someone eats the wrong thing and gets poisoned. At this time, the wizards fed a worm into the patient's mouth, letting the worm crawl along the esophagus into the stomach, eating up all the toxins without damaging the patient's intestines. The best time is when the poison is completely eaten up and the insect is almost dead. Unfortunately, most people only know how it can harm people, but don’t know how it can save people, so they stay away from witches and witchcraft and turn pale at the mention of them.” Ma Xiaoyu nodded and said, "Most ordinary people only seek benefits and avoid harm, and cannot bear risks. As long as they hear that there is something harmful inside, most people will run away without even taking a look. For example, the mushrooms in the rainforest are poisonous. Although not all mushrooms are poisonous, when many people hear this, they already have the stereotype that all unknown mushrooms are toxic. So they only eat mushrooms, flower mushrooms, and nothing else." "Well, that's the point." White Peacock's impression of Ma Xiaoyu changed slightly. “That ragdoll bug is probably just a kind of bug in nature, living inside the bodies of insects or animals. It doesn’t have the ability to make the corpse stand up again and become extremely powerful. However, the wizards’ ability to cultivate and create poisonous insects is unique, so they can create such amazing works. " Not knowing whether to express admiration or a wry smile, the white peacock shook his head. “I’ve heard from that wizard that ragdoll worms can’t actually create so-called [zombies]. Because it uses the time when the animal is still alive, or has not yet died, and its meridians and blood vessels have not completely atrophied, to develop its own meridians. So it’s actually a parasite, just a more powerful one.” "It's not just a little bit stronger, it's too strong." Yin Xiu sighed. Suddenly he thought of another possibility, although this possibility made him feel quite horrified. "Can the ragdoll bug live in the human body? Can it turn a human into a monster with such immense power?" When asked this question, White Peacock was stunned for a moment, "Are you talking about zombies or puppets? You don't think that this wave of zombies is caused by puppet bugs, do you?"

"of course not." Ma Xiaoyu denied it, “Zombies and the walking dead are actually two different things, although the lowest level of zombies are also called walking dead. However, it was still a human body with a soul left, which was completely different from a pile of rotten flesh and bones that were just moving." What Ma Xiaoyu said is different, actually referring to the former, that is, zombies, which can be dealt with by talismans. Whether it is damaging the body or dispersing the soul, these are ways to eliminate them. The latter are truly soulless and are just rotten meat that moves. Even if you are bitten by them, you will only be injured but will not be affected by the corpse poison. Therefore, to deal with the former, one uses talismans, glutinous rice, and chicken blood, while to deal with the latter, one only uses knives, guns, sticks, and clubs, and that's all. Although Ma Xiaoyu believed that the zombies in Jiaozhi were real zombies infected with corpse poison and were definitely not parasitized by insects, she was also very curious about whether the poisonous insects could turn people into such monsters. “So, can ragdoll bugs really be used on humans?” she asked. The white peacock put away his smile and became serious. "I know that there are some poisonous insects that, when combined with poisonous techniques such as silver needles, can make the dead grow flesh and bones and turn them into living people at night. Those wizards often use this kind of witchcraft on female corpses in order to use them to appear in places of entertainment and lure men. Some people also use poisonous insects to control corpses, making them become extremely powerful and kill people. But like you said, it wasn't a [zombie], it was just a pile of rotten meat. But when the ragdoll worm parasitizes a dead body, it is actually alive, which means that it actually has a symbiotic relationship with the host, even though the host is dead. The spell I mentioned above is actually mainly for refining the corpse itself, rather than simply breeding insects. " Listening to the white peacock's description, Yin Xiu fell into deep thought for a moment. If the wizard who brought the insect was really still in the Thousand Buddha Temple, then Ren Qi and Liu Banxian might really meet him. Is the crisis facing the two also related to that wizard? If so, then are they not friends but enemies to the White Peacock, the leader behind her, and the Miao village? Yin Xiu was so absorbed in his thoughts that he didn't notice that he was staring at the white peacock. The white peacock's face turned red when he was looked at, and his waist softened and began to shake again. "Hey brother, stop staring at me." "Ok?" A cold light flashed in Ma Xiaoyu's eyes, and then she pulled Yin Xiu back. "I was just thinking about something," Yin Xiu explained. "You better be!" Although Ma Xiaoyu is very confident about her appearance and figure. However, her aunt had also told her that men are fickle, and if you are not careful and let him eat too much or not enough, he will easily change direction and pursue other targets. This made Ma Xiaoyu confused for a moment. What kind of condition was Yin Xiu in? Even though the two of them sometimes slept together, it wasn't to the point where it made people's ears turn red and their hearts beat fast.

If this is the case, is it also a kind of oppression for a passionate young man like Yin Xiu? So his eyes turn green when he sees a woman? Yin Xiu didn’t know that Ma Xiaoyu was thinking about so many questions. She just felt that her back was still a little cold under the scorching sun. In fact, Bai Kongque is an expert in raising and using poisonous insects, but she is not an encyclopedia. As for the poisonous insects that she has never used, she only has a general understanding of them and cannot be said to be proficient in them. So after chatting for a few more sentences, the three people's conversation about the puppet worm came to an abrupt end. After all, it was just a coincidental discovery. Yin Xiu and the others did not come for the ragdoll worms, but the wizard who raised the ragdoll worms happened to be in the Thousand Buddha Temple. Everything is just a coincidence! Everything is just a coincidence? (End of this chapter)