Unlike the secret arts of the Profound Sect, Gu techniques involve controlling insects to achieve the practitioner's goals.
These insects have undergone special cultivation and can enter designated locations according to their master's instructions. What they are seeing now is the Soul-Controlling Gu, which can control a person's consciousness by manipulating insects.
This is one of the most difficult Gu techniques. After all, the human brain is the most complex. It is much easier to control what a person does than what they think.
The Soul-Controlling Technique allows people to think according to the practitioner's established thoughts, ultimately saying what they want them to say and doing what they want them to do.
People controlled this way do not appear like walking corpses, making their predicament obvious at a glance.
However, there is a significant drawback: once the controlled individuals complete their assigned tasks, their brains will suffer varying degrees of damage due to the insect invasion.
This results in different degrees of sequelae. Minor cases might lead to memory loss for a specific period, while severe cases could cause brain spasms and death.
These two individuals have been afflicted with the Soul-Controlling Gu, have completed their assigned tasks, and are now exhibiting the onset of sequelae.
This is evident from their vacant stares and the drooling from their mouths, which they cannot control.
Ye Huohuo leaned in close to the two women, shining her flashlight in their eyes and then pulling open their eyelids to examine their pupils.
Both individuals' pupils were somewhat dilated, and more importantly, their pupils showed a significantly sluggish reaction to light.
"They've entered the brain. If they aren't removed soon, there's a risk to their lives! This group is too ruthless, playing with people's lives to avoid leaving clues," Ye Huohuo gritted her teeth.
She detested people who manipulated others with various arts, disregarding their lives.
"So, you're saying the insects are already inside their brains?" Li Mohan asked. Throughout the day, he had encountered and heard things he had never imagined before.
If this were any other day, he wouldn't have believed it, at least not so readily. But now, no matter how bizarre Ye Huohuo and the others' claims were, Li Mohan accepted them as facts.
"Hurry and send them to Mohen's hospital! Perform craniotomy to remove them!" Li Mohan said, calling Li Mohan.
He gave a brief description of the two women's conditions. Upon hearing it, Li Mohan's interest was immediately piqued; he had never encountered such a situation before. He offered to send an ambulance to pick them up.
When Ye Huohuo heard that Li Mohan intended to send them to the hospital for surgery, she immediately objected.
"No, performing craniotomy, regardless of success, will render the person disabled. The moment you open the skull, the insects will burrow deeper."
Li Mohan's phone was on speaker, allowing Li Mohan to hear Ye Huohuo. Hearing her words, he had a thought, "We can perform Gamma Knife surgery. Gamma rays can kill the insects within the brain, and then they can be removed."
Ye Huohuo immediately dismissed this. "I know about the Gamma Knife. It's for tumors. It can kill tumor cells, but killing insects instantly is impossible. If the insects are disturbed and start wriggling around in the brain, the person will be even more ruined!"
"This won't work, and that won't work either. Do you have a better method?" Li Mohan was most sensitive to others interfering in his domain.
If Ye Huohuo hadn't helped him before, he might have already hung up the phone. However, he was genuinely curious about how Ye Huohuo planned to extract the insects from the women's brains.
Ye Huohuo furrowed her brow tightly and looked at Master Brother Ba Ge beside her.
"Brother, I'll lure the insects out later. You be responsible for capturing them and putting them in bottles. We can't do all this work for nothing."
Ba Ge tilted his head. "Are you, are you physically able?"
He wasn't worried about Ye Huohuo's abilities but rather her physical condition.
Ye Huohuo had used the Visage Renewal Charm, which could block others' sight but not Nie Ming's. Even with only a soul and three spirits remaining, as Ye Huohuo's eldest senior brother, he was knowledgeable.
Ye Huohuo knew she couldn't hide it from him, so she didn't deny it. "It's fine. Luring out insects is a small matter. Besides, saving two lives is such great merit. Even suffering minor injuries is worth it!"
With that, she took out a small black glass bottle from her backpack, opened its lid, and handed it to Xiao Lingzi.
"After Brother captures the Gu worms, quickly seal the lid."
"Okay!" Xiao Lingzi's eyes were opened today. He had previously asked Ye Huohuo to bring him along when she helped people, even if it was just to assist. He wanted to witness it firsthand.
However, Ye Huohuo had always refused.
This time, it truly opened his eyes. Not only did he see a fierce ghost that could appear during the day, but he also witnessed shadow control techniques. He never expected to see how Gu worms were lured out at the end. This trip was truly worthwhile; even without payment, it was worth it!
Li Mohan had Li Mohan turn on the video. Although he couldn't be there in person, the internet was the most advanced technology now, and seeing it through video was better than nothing.
Despite witnessing Ye Huohuo capture ghosts yesterday, he still didn't believe she could remove insects from a person's brain without surgery.
After Ye Huohuo finished giving instructions, she took out two talismans and a brush, dipped it in specially prepared cinnabar, and drew two talismans with flamboyant strokes.
Each talisman was drawn with Ye Huohuo holding her breath from start to finish, without pausing for breath. If she faltered, the talisman would be ruined. The key was the continuous flow of energy.
After drawing the talismans, they had to be tested to see if they were usable spiritual talismans, as no one could guarantee that the drawn talismans would be 100% effective.
Therefore, testing the talismans was crucial.
Ye Huohuo made two hand seals and pointed at the two paper talismans. The talismans, without any wind, floated up from the table.
Ye Huohuo took a deep breath and exhaled slowly. The tension on her face finally eased slightly.
"Ye Huohuo, you are truly a genius in talisman drawing. Such difficult talismans, and you've drawn two successfully! A single one of these talismans can sell for tens of thousands in the black market. You still bother with fortune-telling and feng shui, working yourself to exhaustion for a mere hundred or eighty yuan, barely able to afford a good meal. If I had your skills, I could earn a fortune just selling talismans."
Xiao Lingzi, standing by, was both envious and jealous. They were similar in age, but his skills in the Profound Sect paled in comparison to Ye Huohuo's.
Ye Huohuo glanced at him indifferently, her expression slightly somber. "Practitioners of the Profound Sect emphasize accumulating merit. How can we only consider money? What's the difference between that and people like Master Peng!"
With that, she placed the two newly drawn talismans on the foreheads of the two women.
The other ends of the talismans fell down, covering their noses. The airflow from their breaths blew across the tips of the paper, causing the tips to sway slightly, indicating that the women were still breathing.
However, the movement was slight, suggesting their breathing was very weak.
"Master Brother, I'm starting!"
Ba Ge nodded, his two small eyes fixed intently on the two women.
Ye Huohuo took out two silver needles and inserted them into the Baihui acupoints of both women. The needles were pushed in halfway by her, leaving only half an inch exposed.
Li Mohan, on the other end of the video, became anxious. "The Baihui acupoint is not to be trifled with. If done incorrectly, it can be fatal! What if their families come looking for us..."
Li Mohan muted his communication. "I'll take responsibility if anything happens!"
Ye Huohuo looked up at him. Li Mohan nodded at her. "Don't worry, do what you need to do. I'm here."
In a daze, this feeling of trust made Ye Huohuo's heart flutter again. She quickly averted her gaze and secretly took a breath, suppressing the stirrings in her heart.
She couldn't help but give a wry smile, realizing how difficult it was to control her own heart!
Just then, the two women began to twitch, foam at the mouth, and their eyes rolled back, as if they were about to pass out.
Seeing this situation, Li Mohan jumped with anxiety at the other end of the video, but his voice was muted, and he was helpless to do anything about Ye Huohuo's situation, only able to watch.
Ye Huohuo, however, was completely focused, placing her hands on each of their heads. Her face became increasingly pale, almost translucent, while her pupils grew darker and darker, her whites almost disappearing. She began to look eerie and terrifying...