The Challenge of a Farmhouse Son-in-Law
Chapter 875 - 869: The Onset of Poison Gu

Chapter 875: Chapter 869: The Onset of Poison Gu

Everyone pounced at once; the leopard was held down firmly, being beaten and smashed with whatever they had in their hands. In no time at all, the leopard was bloodied all over.

The final fatal blow was delivered by Youyou who pulled the dagger out from the leopard’s rump.

At that moment, the dagger was deeply embedded in the leopard’s neck, blood pouring out like a fountain.

The group sat collapsed on the ground, their tense nerves gradually relaxing.

Having eaten only fruit for several days, Youyou wiped her face, her smile still shaken by the encounter.

"We can finally eat meat," she said.

After surviving such an ordeal, everyone was both tense and elated.

However, it was too dangerous to start a fire in the woods, so they could only cut some meat from the leopard and wait for a more open area to eat.

...

Meanwhile, Yu Jizi was also not idle.

If Youyou were there, she would find that Yu Jizi was performing a ritual outside the ancient tomb.

Holding the Peach Wood Sword, setting up an altar, he used the tip of the sword to write with some vermilion-like substance on yellow paper.

But the vermilion seemed to be alive, tiny granules moving gently.

One paper done, he started on the second, and then the third, until he had written six in total.

More than an hour had passed before he finished writing on the six papers.

Then, he set those yellow papers alight on the candle on the altar. The yellow paper and living vermilion burned with blue flames, not ordinary ones.

At the same time, a few people deep in the mountains suddenly felt a sensation.

Despite the scorching sun overhead, despite sitting beside a fire laughing and roasting the leopard’s thigh meat...

They should have been sweating profusely... yet frost formed on their faces.

The women dropped the meat they were roasting and curled up in agony.

Youyou fared a bit better than the others, perhaps because she had consumed more medicinal herbs over the years, reducing some of the substances inside her body.

Even so, she shivered with cold; it was as if her consciousness was about to vanish.

Searcy and Gui Yunxi, who had never seen anyone affected by poison react this way, were terrified.

When Searcy touched Youyou’s hand, she exclaimed, "Why is it so cold?"

Youyou told her, "Zijin once said that a type of Gu poison had been planted inside us, I guess it’s taking effect now. I don’t know how much longer I can stay conscious. Remember, you must survive, find Zijin, and tell him... Ah..."

Unable to bear the pain, Youyou screamed.

"Don’t talk, let me check on you," Searcy grabbed Youyou’s hand.

Youyou was suffering immense pain, an insidious chill spreading within her, trying to control her mind. Gradually, she felt the cold become less unpleasant and instead quite comfortable.

This feeling was not unfamiliar to her; it had been like this the other two times, slowly, she began to immerse herself in her own world, becoming a vessel for the cold Gu.

In a daze, she saw the other five affected women rise and start running frantically in one direction, their speed far beyond their limits.

Gui Yunxi was holding onto a woman, who gave him a cold smile before throwing him forcefully. Gui Yunxi crashed onto a tree branch, caught halfway.

Searcy was both angry and anxious as she tried to get him down, but returning her attention to Youyou’s condition, she hurried back.

Youyou thought, soon she would be like them. Clinging to her last bit of sanity, she said to Searcy, "It’s no use... you must go quickly..."