“So, the wronged souls gu were just a decoy to attract everyone's attention. In reality, the *jin can gu* (golden silkworm gu) are the ones doing the work?"

Hu Ma took a few deep breaths, still feeling somewhat shocked. He felt as if some unknown insects were burrowing in his body, drilling into his blood vessels and gnawing at his flesh.

Moreover, this feeling increased rapidly in a very short time. The insects seemed to be getting bigger and bigger, and the flesh in his body felt like it was being devoured quickly. He didn't know if this was real or just an illusion.

The key question was, when was this gu placed on him? How did he get infected without realizing it before?

Even he couldn't help but sigh. That Monkey Wine was indeed a madman, but he was also truly capable. His mind raced, and he quickly turned around and shouted into the shack, "How can this kind of gu be dispelled?"

The main force in the gu fight earlier were the girl Wu Ya and the young Wu clan member named Neng Neng. But now, both of them also had golden expressions on their faces, obviously infected as well, revealing panic and helplessness.

"Jin can gu…"

Inside the shack, the Wu Gong patriarch raised his head. His dark face actually showed a golden hue, and he said with difficulty, "Jin can gu are the most evil and powerful of all gu…"

"This is also where the protective gu is located. Within a three-mile radius, everyone will be infected, their flesh will be gnawed away, and they will wither and die…"

"Unless, you can escape beyond this three-mile radius, but… but we can't move. If… if you escape, there are even more vicious gu waiting for you outside…"

"..."

"This is so unreasonable?"

Hu Ma couldn't help but take a deep breath and said quickly, "Can't we find it?"

"Find it?"

The Wu Gong patriarch inside the shack smiled bitterly. The golden hue on his face was becoming more and more obvious. He said in a low voice, "He used the wronged souls gu to create chaos and quietly threw the jin can gu into the valley. It's such a large place, where can we find this tiny gu insect?"

"That is indeed a practical difficulty…"

Hu Ma listened and couldn't help but grit his teeth. How many people in the valley were panicking now? Some even heard the Wu Gong patriarch's words and desperately fled out of the valley.

As long as they could escape beyond three miles, they would be saved?

But those who held this idea only took a few steps out of the valley before the flesh on their bodies suddenly withered and they collapsed to the ground, never to make a sound again.

Indeed, escaping meant dying even faster.

But if they didn't escape, what could they do?

Even Hu Ma felt his flesh being rapidly devoured. He could already be certain that this was not actually a literal devouring of flesh but an illusion; what was actually being devoured was his own cultivation.

His three pillars of cultivation were now rapidly disappearing. Every moment he delayed, his cultivation became weaker. When it was completely lost, that would be when he lost his life.

And if even he felt this way, what about Zhou Datong and the others? What about those meat-cutting workers who hadn't even entered the Dao?

This was even more cruel than forcibly turning people into human candles. Becoming a human candle only used one's life to exchange for abilities, but this jin can gu forcibly devoured people's life force until they were completely killed, leaving them helpless.

If there was any way, it would be to find the jin can, but with their life force being rapidly devoured and their minds in a panic, who could find it?

Those infected with the gu would become weaker and weaker, while the gu would become stronger and stronger by devouring everyone's life force. This was simply an unsolvable and terrifying existence.

"Ha!"

While quickly thinking in his mind, Hu Ma also hurriedly took out two blood food pills and stuffed them into his mouth, temporarily making up for the emptiness of his flesh being devoured. At the same time, he pressed his hands on his ribs, his five organs vibrated, and he suddenly let out an earth-shattering roar.

He had originally felt the evil intent of the jin can seemingly drilling into his internal organs through his blood vessels, so he mobilized his five organs to resist it slightly.

But he didn't expect that this shout in desperation would actually be full of masculine energy. The feeling of the gu insects raging in his body was slightly alleviated, and even the people around him who had pale faces and were in great pain were also slightly relieved.

It seemed that with this shout, the injuries in their bodies were slightly relieved.

"Hmm?"

This unexpected scene made Hu Ma's heart stir slightly. He suddenly withdrew and strode back to his lodging place, which was also where he stored this batch of newly collected blood food.

He sat cross-legged on the bed, feeling that after the slight suppression just now, the evil aura of the *jin can gu* had already begun to become active, climbing and growing in his body. He took out another blood food pill and quickly stuffed it into his mouth.

Then he circulated his energy, vibrated his five organs, and roared again.

"Drink!"

Like spring thunder surging, shaking the four fields, this time he used all his strength. The golden toad's roar echoed throughout the valley.

It was as if a golden toad was lurking somewhere in this valley, roaring with all its might, and all things heard the sound.

Listening to this roar, the suffering meat-cutting workers all showed surprised expressions. Their minds were slightly clearer, and they rushed towards his house. They didn't know why, but they found that the golden toad's roar seemed to help suppress the gu poison.

On the other side, the Wu Gong patriarch, Wu Ya, and Neng Neng, who couldn't move, were also deeply shocked. Some stood there in a daze, while others hurriedly seized the time to start refining gu.

"The jin can gu is evil among evils, but the golden toad's roar is the most masculine power that I have cultivated, which can restrain evil spirits. Therefore, invisibly, it can vaguely restrain this raging jin can?"

At this time, in the room, Hu Ma also noticed this and was both surprised and delighted.

"Unfortunately, it can only be slightly suppressed."

He quickly thought, "As long as the other party's jin can gu exists in this valley, it can play a role at all times. But my Five Thunder Golden Toad Roar consumes a lot of blood energy every time I roar, and it can only suppress the jin can gu."

"In this way, no matter how much I persist, I can only delay the speed at which my flesh is devoured. Sooner or later, I will be destroyed by this *jin can gu*."

"After all, no one's blood energy can be consumed so recklessly, but…"

"..."

While thinking in his heart, he also came up with an unexpected and infinitely surprising idea: "How does it feel like this has just solved the problem of my blood food refining limit?"

After carefully feeling it and confirming this point, he was even more pleasantly surprised.

He had already entered the mansion stage, but he was limited by the speed of blood food refining. But now, with the jin can causing trouble, this limitation was broken in a short time.

Hu Ma was overjoyed. He suddenly took out all the blood food pills, then hurriedly took out a stick of incense, quickly lit it, chanted a few times, and a gust of Yin wind blew by. He saw Xiao Hongtang, covered in mud, staring at him with wide eyes.

This child had been running wild in the forest for a few days and didn't want to come to the mine. Only now was she called back by Hu Ma burning incense.

As soon as she came, she was puzzled and tilted her head to look at Hu Ma.

"Xiao Hongtang, I have important things to do. Please take care of me. Move those jars of blood food to my side and don't let them run out…"

Hu Ma took a deep breath and quickly told Xiao Hongtang. Without explaining too much, he hurriedly sat cross-legged again, took out the blood food pills next to him, and stuffed them into his mouth.

While occasionally roaring like a toad to suppress the troubling jin can, he swallowed the blood food and quickly refined it.

Xiao Hongtang's eyes widened when she saw so much blood food at once. But seeing Hu Ma's solemn expression, she could only swallow a few mouthfuls of saliva and hurriedly ran back and forth to help him carry the blood food.

She was just thinking in her heart that when this matter was over, she must ask Brother Hu Ma for blood food to eat, and it had to be a big piece…

…

…

"He can leave…"

The others in the valley didn't know about Hu Ma refining blood food and taking the opportunity to enter the mansion stage. They only saw him returning to his house, occasionally roaring like a toad to help the meat-cutting workers in the valley suppress the evil aura, and they were all surprised and moved.

"What kind of person is that Second Master Zhou from Old Yin Mountain? The disciple he taught is not only highly skilled, but also so kind?"

Even the mine chief, Zhuang Erchang, had a drastic change in expression and couldn't help but think, "Even I am preparing to escape from the valley. If he wants to escape, it would be much easier for him…"

"But he is thinking about the lives of the meat-cutting craftsmen in this mine, so he is using his own cultivation to help suppress it?"

"Is there really such a good person in this world?"

"..."

His mood suddenly became extremely complicated, and a hint of unbearable flashed across his face.

"Damn it, this can't go on like this…"

Similarly, the Old Abacus outside couldn't hold back any longer. His forehead, chest, ears, and nose were all covered with plasters. He didn't know if they were useful or not, but he was not as affected by the *jin can gu* as others, but he was obviously not feeling well.

It wasn't until Hu Ma used the Golden Toad Roar to suppress the *jin can gu* that he recovered. He quickly glanced around and saw the miserable state of the people in the valley struggling to maintain themselves, and secretly gritted his teeth:

"This old man hasn't done such a desperate thing for many years, but now there is no way…"

"..."

Saying that, he hardened his heart and quickly rushed to the edge of the valley. He saw the horse that had been lying here for a few days, its skin waiting for that wonderful moment.

The Old Abacus rushed over and slapped it on the butt, saying, "You can't die now, otherwise it would be too ungrateful…"

"This old man is going out to find some things to dispel the gu, aren't you going to help with this?"

"..."

The horse was too lazy to even look at him. It just stretched its legs more diligently and began to show a happy expression, closing its eyes. The Old Abacus was anxious and suddenly leaned close to its ear and whispered a sentence.

"Swish!"

The horse's eyes suddenly widened.

(End of this chapter)