Raising Gu

After Tang Changsheng left, Wu Shulan gave a wooden smile. "So we've sold ourselves, have we?" Chen Xiang snapped, "Why make it sound so ugly? I was already a disciple of the General's Temple... Ow..."

Before he could finish, Wu Shulan seized his ear and shouted, "Well, look at you, Chen Da Xiang! Getting bold, are you? I took a huge risk going to the General's Temple to find someone to save you. And now, you heartless bastard, you're shouting at me?"

"Ow, ow! Easy, easy! My injuries haven't healed yet. It hurts, it hurts..."

Tang Changsheng heard them and merely smiled. Da Xiang was quite the expert at playing dumb!

Forget it. Everyone has secrets. When he's ready to talk, he'll come and tell me himself... This isn't the time to press him too hard!

Tang Changsheng had not forgotten how this fellow had once used the Effigy Curse to harm Ling Xiaoyu...

And what Tang Changsheng had performed today could be called the foundation of the Effigy Curse...

Wu Shulan had been half wrong. The wisp of black qi he had exhaled was not a Three-Corpse Worm... It was the power of Fu Shi within it.

Hun was divine, while Po was foolish; Hun was clear, while Po was turbid. Po was formed of accumulated yin qi and resembled a ghost. It stirred desire and weariness, brought constriction and distress, delighted in filth and shunned cleanliness. It could turn a person into a walking corpse, make him turn his back on life and face death, grow fawning, crooked, and deceitful, lust after women, breed evil day and night, and hasten his death.

Thus, the Nine Luminaries Heavenly Heart Method corresponded not only to the nine stars in the heavens, but also to the soul and corporeal spirits within