The old man spoke as he shakily rolled up his sleeve.
His arm was covered in large and small black spots.
Some of them had even begun to rot.
Tiny bugs crawled back and forth...
Li Yan sniffed, the suspicion in his eyes deepening. He shook his head and said, "A Evil Creature bold enough to cause trouble in Chang'an City would covet that little business of yours?"
"There's probably more to this than meets the eye."
"Come on. I'll take you to meet someone first..."
Lanling Ward, Renxin Hall.
Uncle Hei Dan puffed out his cheeks as he sat motionless on a stool, staring fixedly at Li ShiQing's expression.
Li ShiQing, meanwhile, had taken an egg and was rolling it back and forth over his wounds, occasionally stimulating the tiny bugs with a silver needle.
After half an incense stick's time, Li ShiQing lifted the egg and cracked it into a bowl beside him. The yolk and white inside had both turned into black, viscous sludge.
Countless rice-grain-sized white worms writhed incessantly in the muck.
Li ShiQing had already reached a conclusion, but he did not rush to announce it. Instead, he asked, "Does it taste fishy?"
Uncle Hei Dan shook his head.
"Mm. Spit it out."
At those words, the old man immediately spat out what he had been holding in his mouth.
They were some softened raw soybeans. To an ordinary person, their fishy stench would have assaulted the nose, but he could not taste anything at all.
Not only that, the soybeans he spat out had all turned black.
"This is a Gu infestation."
Li ShiQing shook his head and said, "Gu Curse. Though 'Gu Curse' is often said as one phrase, they are actually two different things. It isn't an Evil Curse."
"Oh?"
Li