Southern Commandery City, Horizon Inn

Bauhinia Valley.

After eating the fruit and dividing up the roasted meat,

the Medicine King and Immortal Physician pulled themselves together and discussed their next move with Shen Yi and A' Yue.

First, a trip to Southern Commandery City was imperative.

For one, they needed to inspect the grave extent of the gu insects' spread. For another, both the Pacification Office and Heaven's Secret Pavilion's Southern Borderlands branch were located in the commandery city. Shen Yi needed to use them to send news from here to Shangjing and Heaven's Secret Pavilion's main headquarters.

Second, according to A' Yue, for gu insects such as Mother-Child Gu, if the mother gu died, all the child gu would perish on their own.

If they found the mother gu and killed it directly,

the crisis would naturally be resolved.

However, leaving aside the vastness of Southern Commandery and the boundless sea of people, how were they supposed to trace the mother gu's whereabouts?

Even if the one who had planted the gu was the Witch God returned from the Grotto-Heaven, the Witch God would never squat in his old nest in the Ten Thousand Mountains and wait for Shen Yi to come knocking. He must already have emerged and begun moving about.

The more they thought about it, the likelier it seemed that the other party was hiding in a great city like the commandery seat, living in silk and feasting on fine food, rather than lurking in the mountains and dining on wind and drinking dew.

Besides, Shen Yi had by his side two great masters of the healing arts and a genius versed in both gu and poison. Naturally, they had to find a way to study other methods of removing gu.

If they truly succeeded,

perhaps they might even force the