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So it was a gu? “It really was fast. From beginning to end, it took less than thirty breaths.”
Bai Ziqi signaled for the physician to proceed with the autopsy, then said to the two of them, “I’ve traveled all across Beijia. Twenty years ago, in the State of Xuluo, I saw a case like this and later made a point of studying it. The dead man in that case was the attendant of a high-ranking official. After poisoning his master to death, he himself also died. People killed by a Shared-Life Gu almost always die looking like this.”
“Shared-Life Gu come as twin worms from a single egg. One larva is planted in the victim’s heart, where it feeds on the blood in the heart and true energy. Only after three hundred days does it mature enough to threaten the host. But by then, the gu host is also completely under the gu master’s control, because the master can activate the gu at any time and take their life.”
He Lingchuan cut in, “And the ‘shared’ part means?”
“The two gu worms are twins from the same egg. One lodges in the target’s heart, and that’s called the yang worm, also known as the affliction worm. Naturally, the yin worm remains in the gu master’s possession. This thing can go without food for years, but the container used to keep it is extremely important. It can’t be stored in metal, porcelain, jade, or the like....
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