Su Jiu frowned. Although much of the situation had become clearer, unexpected things seemed to keep cropping up. "Then what was that water
supposed to be?"
The woman shook her head, her face equally puzzled, and said quietly, "No one besides the Holy Maiden is entitled to know. But
from the looks of things now, it clearly wasn't anything good either."
So these women had become like this at such a young age because their vitality had been drained away.
Unsurprisingly, the Chieftain here was exploiting them for profit.
What she found hardest to understand, however, was that the Heavenly Dawn Sect and the Misty Immortal Sect were involved as well-or, more precisely, the present-day Water Moon School.
Putting this together with what she and her Junior Granduncle had overheard at the Chieftain's Household, it was easy to see that they were the buyers of these Maiden Gu. But... what did they want with such sinful gu worms?
Gu worms brimming with life force like these were usually used by heretical cultivators to prolong their lives. Could they want them for the same purpose?
Su Jiu did not know whether they intended to prolong their lives, but she did know that if this continued, more young women would fall victim to it.
Everyone watched as Su Jiu lightly swept her sleeve. Several stones flew in from the courtyard and dropped into the boxes, after which the lids closed again.
Su Jiu drew more than a dozen sealing talismans identical to the ones she had deciphered earlier and affixed them to the boxes, leaving not the slightest trace of the contents' aura detectable.
Big Jiang scratched his head. He had encountered unforeseen complications outside his missions before, but there were simply too many people this time, making them too conspicuous a