Divine Level Witch Doctor

Ying Ji knelt beside the corpse. After a careful examination, she said, ”I get it! He died and became a nest for the Vampire Bees because he suffered a Qigong Deviation. And what caused the Qigong Deviation? Nine times out of ten, it was Zhao Yuan destroying the Teng Mo!”

”Why do you say that? Did you find something?” Zhao Yuan asked curiously.

Ying Ji nodded and pointed to the corpse’s chest. ”Look here. See this runic pattern?”

Zhao Yuan, Hao Li, and Lu Qing all leaned in to look.

Although the corpse’s skin had rotted and fallen off, and much of its flesh had been devoured by the Vampire Bees, a runic pattern was still visible on its chest. However, the pattern had become blurred and incomplete.

Hao Li and Lu Qing were completely baffled. They couldn’t figure out what the runic pattern meant.

On Zhao Yuan’s Information Leaf, however, data related to this runic pattern appeared. He blurted out, ”It’s a Gu Attachment Talisman!”

Ying Ji turned to look at Zhao Yuan, a flash of surprise in her eyes, but she quickly calmed down. ’This kid even knows what the Teng Mo and the Hundred Insects Gu are afraid of,’ she thought. ’It’s not surprising he’d know about the Gu Attachment Talisman.’

Hao Li and Lu Qing, however, didn’t understand. They asked curiously, ”What’s a Gu Attachment Talisman?”

Ying Ji began to explain, ”It’s a special kind of rune that allows a Gu Master’s Divine Sense to attach to a Gu Insect. This lets them control the Gu Insect’s actions and also absorb the energy and nutrients the Gu Insect acquires. Most of the time, this kind of rune is used by Witch Priests to attract followers and Incense Fire Wish Power.”

Zhao Yuan picked up the thread. ”For example, the Yellow Immortals, Snake Immortals, and Centipede Immortals worshipped in many rural areas are actually just things concocted by Witch Priests. The locals don’t know any better. They only know that these animals seem spiritual, so they worship them as Demon Gods. They build temples, erect statues, and offer incense day and night. In reality, all of that Incense Fire Wish Power is absorbed by the Witch Priest into their own body via the Gu Attachment Talisman.”

”I understand now!”

As expected of an experienced police officer, once Lu Qing understood the function of the Gu Attachment Talisman, she immediately figured out the whole sequence of events.

She began her analysis. ”The culprit must have used the Gu Attachment Talisman to attach his Divine Sense to the Tong Moth Larva and control it to harm people. He then converted the human blood, Vitality, and Yang Qi it devoured into the energy and nutrients he needed to raise his Cultivation. But this time, Zhao Yuan incinerated the Tong Moth Larva with White Phosphorus, which damaged the culprit’s Divine Sense. That triggered a Qigong Deviation, and the Vampire Bees took advantage of his weakness, turning on their master and biting him to death!”

”That’s most likely what happened,” Zhao Yuan nodded in agreement.

”Wait, that’s not right,” Hao Li raised an objection. ”When the Tong Moth Larva was caught by Little Brother Zhao, why didn’t the culprit just deactivate the Gu Attachment Talisman and withdraw his Divine Sense?”

Ying Ji shook her head. ”It’s not that he didn’t want to, it’s that he couldn’t. Whether you’re attaching or withdrawing your Divine Sense, the Gu Insect must be in front of you, and you have to perform a complex ritual to do it.”

”Oh, so that’s how it is. No wonder.” Hao Li nodded. He looked at the corpse, which was mangled beyond recognition, and sighed softly. ”A Witch Priest who specialized in using Gu ended up being killed by the very Gu Insects he raised. How ironic!”

”That’s what you call reaping what you sow! Perfect karmic retribution!” Lu Qing said through gritted teeth.

Although there was no proof, her intuition told Lu Qing that the corpse in front of her was the very culprit who had killed many of her comrades, as well as her boyfriend!

Now this same culprit had been killed by the Vampire Bees. If that wasn’t retribution, what was?

Perhaps it was her boyfriend and those fallen comrades taking their revenge through this method?

For a moment, tears streamed down Lu Qing’s face, and she began to cry silently.

Hao Li saw this and couldn’t contain his curiosity. He nudged Zhao Yuan with his elbow and asked, ”What’s wrong with her?”

Ying Ji was also full of curiosity.

Zhao Yuan sighed softly. ”She and a group of police officers once tried to capture this culprit, but they were attacked by the same Vampire Bees we just encountered. They suffered heavy casualties. Seeing the culprit meet his divine punishment today and her comrades’ blood debt repaid, she must be overwhelmed with emotion. We shouldn’t disturb her. Let her have a moment alone.”

Hao Li and Ying Ji both nodded.

At the same time, Ying Ji muttered under her breath, ”To be crying like that, there must have been someone very important to her among the people who died back then. Maybe it was her boyfriend.”

You had to admit, a woman’s intuition could be frighteningly accurate.

Zhao Yuan and the other two left Lu Qing undisturbed and began to search inside and outside the house.

Besides the few vats of Gu Insects in the living room, they also found a tattered ancient sheepskin book, a diary, and a few Magical Artifacts in other places.

Hao Li was the one who found the ancient book. Instead of giving it to Ying Ji right away, he handed it to Zhao Yuan. ”Little Brother Zhao, take a look and see what’s written in this book. I can’t understand a single word of it.”

Zhao Yuan took the ancient book, and as soon as he opened it, Ying Ji leaned in for a closer look. However, when she saw the script on the page, she was just as baffled.

The script was too strange; it looked like squiggly worms crawling all over the Sheepskin Scroll, making it completely impossible to understand what any of it meant.

Ying Ji prided herself on being worldly and knowledgeable, but she had never seen such a bizarre script. She couldn’t help but mutter, ”You call this writing? It’s just a bunch of scribbles! I’d be shocked if anyone could read this.”

The words were barely out of her mouth when she was proven wrong.

Zhao Yuan said, ”This is the script used by the Witch Priests of the Ancient Dian Kingdom during their sacrificial rites to Ghost Gods.”

”Huh?” Ying Ji’s face flushed. She had just said no one could possibly recognize it, and now Zhao Yuan was explaining the script’s origin. If that wasn’t a slap in the face, what was? Still, she was a bit skeptical. ”Are you sure this script was used by the Witch Priests of the Ancient Dian Kingdom for their rituals?”

”Of course, I’m sure.” Zhao Yuan looked at her in surprise and asked, ”What, you don’t recognize it? You should, shouldn’t you? Aren’t you a Witch Priest?”

His words nearly made Ying Ji explode with rage.

’Who made the rule that a Witch Priest has to know everything? I’d love to know the ritual script of the Ancient Dian Kingdom’s Witch Priests, but nobody taught me! I can’t learn it even if I want to!’

She grunted unhappily and said nothing. Her expression, however, was an answer in itself.

Hao Li asked curiously, ”Little Brother Zhao, you can read this script? Can you tell us what it says?”

Zhao Yuan flipped through it briefly and commented, ”This records some of the cultivation methods of the Witch Priests from the Ancient Dian Kingdom. It seems the culprit understood some of their ritual script and learned the Witch Priest’s cultivation methods from this book. It’s a pity he ignored the essence of the book and only learned the malicious dregs. It’s like having the Nine Yin Scripture but only learning the Nine Yin White Bone Claw, which requires human skulls to practice. It’s completely putting the cart before the horse!”