In a quiet room, Chu Yuanbai, the king of Xiaojingnan, was meditating in front of a bronze tripod with a strange shape and carved with ferocious beasts and poisonous insects. Suddenly, his chest felt tight and blood overflowed from the corners of his lips.
"Well……"
"Little prince, how are you?" The two guards who had been protecting him immediately supported him.
Chu Yuanbai motioned for them to take the cauldron, lowered his head and spat blood into it, and thin lines of cold sweat broke out on his forehead.
After the black water in the cauldron came into contact with the blood foam, it seemed to surge with life.
He wiped the corners of his lips with the handkerchief again and said calmly: "I am fine, I'm just a little uncomfortable."
As he spoke, he even raised the corners of his lips and smiled, with his eyes bright and frightening: "You can actually resist my king's poison-hunting technique. It seems that the other party may be a master. I didn't expect that the Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon in the capital of the Central Plains is really amazing.
It’s an eye-opener!”
The two guards looked at each other: "Who can resist the prince's poison-hunting skills? Could it be some great wizard?"
This is the unique skill of my young prince. It was passed down from his mother, who is the Saint of Bai Miao. So far, among the Bai Miao in Lingnan and Guizhou, no one except a few great wizards can match it.
Chu Yuanbai shook his head: "No, it won't be any great wizard. The great wizards all sit in the mountains to refine Gu. Unless there is a serious event that annihilates the clan, they cannot leave the place where they are guarding."
At this time, outside the door, a beautiful girl dressed as a Miao girl with the same thick eyebrows and big eyes came in with medicine. As she moved around, the silver jewelry on her body jingled.
"Brother, drink this herbal tea first. You failed to use the poison-hunting technique and you were poisoned, so you vomited blood!" The girl sat next to him.
Chu Yuanbai took the bowl of medicine and rubbed the girl's head lovingly: "Xiang Na, don't worry about brother, brother has a sense of discretion."
Xiang Na tilted her face and looked at Chu Yuanbai, wondering: "Brother, is there any Gu master in this capital who is better than my brother?"
Chu Yuanbai lowered his head and smiled, with a strange look in his eyes: "Who knows, but I have a hunch that maybe through the Gu Master who bewitched the prince, we may be able to find the Gu God who has disappeared for decades."
Shanna's eyes suddenly lit up, and she asked excitedly: "Brother, if we can find the Gu God, can I become the Saint of Baimiao like my grandma?!"
Bai Miao refers to the Miao family with different clan surnames, living in three provinces in the southwest. They are the most powerful ethnic group after the Han people.
Chu Yuanbai patted her hand gently: "You are my grandma's daughter. Who else is worthy of being my Bai Miao's saint?"
Shanna murmured unwillingly: "None of the saint candidates recommended by the great wizards in the noble land of Lingnan and Guizhou are economical, and their voodoo skills are also very powerful! I am still worried that I can't compete with them!"
Chu Yuanbai smiled: "Don't worry, this time, my brother will definitely find our Miao territory's sacred objects and bring the Gu god back to Miao territory! If I hadn't discovered the clues about the Gu god, how could I have come to the Central Plains to see the emperor!"
Shanna was a little puzzled and slapped Chu Yuanbai on the shoulder: "Brother, is the clue you mentioned about the grandma you spent so much effort to capture?"
Chu Yuanbai closed his eyes, and the delicate indigo vine tattoo on his cheek made his handsome and deep eyebrows look a little slutty and enchanting: "Yes, it is not easy to catch that old witch, and many of us died.
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This was the real reason why he delayed coming to Beijing.
It's not that someone in Baimiao rebelled, but they captured the saintly girl Aguna who had been missing for more than 40 years and rebelled in the previous generation.
More than forty years ago, Aguna, who was thirty years old but still failed to give birth to a new Saint, was about to step down as Saint of Hundred Miao.
According to the rules, she needs to choose one of the young Gu Masters recommended by several great wizards to inherit the position of Holy Girl Baimiao.
But Aguna suddenly disappeared. It is said that she escaped from Miao territory with her Han lover.
The saint's escape was a capital crime. Not only did Aguna escape, she also stole the parasitic holy object in her body - the Gu God!
At that time, the Baimiao people searched for her everywhere, but found nothing!
Everyone thought that after so many years, Aguna had become an old woman and should be dead, but they didn't expect it.
For more than forty years, Aguna is not only alive, but she even dares to sneak back to the Miao territory, intending to steal another sacred object of Bai Miao - the God Gu Cauldron.
Aguna thought that no one remembered her, so she secretly contacted the maid who had served her before.
Only then was the trace discovered, and he had the opportunity to lead people to catch the old woman!
Chu Yuanbai smiled happily and leaned on the soft pillow. If he could find the Gu God with Aguna's hand, this would be his chance.
"The wizards said that the previous Saint Aguna of Hundred Miao was the most powerful Saint in history. Her poison skills were even more powerful than the Great Wizard. She was about to retire after her success and succeeded the Great Wizard of Hundred Miao, but she suddenly betrayed our Miao territory.
, eloped with the Han people, this old woman is really bad!"
Shanna gritted her teeth, feeling that the previous saint had lost her mind.
The Saint of Baimiao is blessed by the Gu God, who is parasitic in her body. She has an extremely high status. She is worshiped by all Miao people and protects the safety of the Holy Mountain of Baimiao.
A saint cannot have a husband, but she can choose the man she likes to serve her.
If the saint cannot give birth to a daughter before the age of thirty, she will step down as a saint, select a new saint's heir, and pass on the Gu God to the new saint.
Because the Gu God is parasitic on the Saint, it is generally difficult for the Saint to become pregnant. However, if the Saint becomes pregnant before the age of thirty, it means that the child has been blessed by the Gu God.
If the child is still a daughter, she will be the next heir to the Holy Saint!
The whole Bai Miao will celebrate with wine, singing and dancing for seven days and seven nights.
When the little saint reaches the age of twelve, she will naturally acquire the Gu God from her mother and completely become a new saint.
"In Miao territory, the saint can get whatever man she likes. Aguna was really out of her mind back then. If she really liked that Han man, she would just put a love charm on him and be trapped in Miao territory for the rest of her life.
Got it!"
Shanna really didn't understand why Aguna would elope with a Han and betray Bai Miao.
Just decades ago, this Aguna ran away with the Gu God in her body. She was responsible for refining and suppressing the ten thousand poisonous Gu insects in the mountains. They were leaderless and caused chaos everywhere, causing serious harm to the people of Baimiao.
The great wizards tried their best to control and suppress, and many low-level Gu masters died, so they relied on the Gu Divine Cauldron to suppress those terrible Gu.
And without the Gu God, the position of Saint Bai Miao had to remain vacant for several years.
In the end, the great wizards had no choice but to choose who among the female Gu masters had the most talent for Gu magic and could use the Gu divine cauldron to be the saint, and then they would work hard to teach them.
Their grandmother also stood out as the new saint.
But Grandma is the only saint without a Gu God in her body. No matter how hard she tries, she can never reach the height and talent of the previous saint in controlling Gu worms and refining Gu worms.
"I, Shanna, was originally the natural heir to the new Saint, but I was reduced to competing with other great wizard candidates and being ridiculed by those stinky women. I really want to feed that old traitor Aguna to my golden snake poison!"
Shanna gritted her teeth and was indignant.
Chu Yuanbai patted his sister's hand gently and smiled: "That's not possible. There is no trace of the Gu God on Aguna. She must have hidden the Gu God or given it to someone else."
You can't kill her until you find the Gu God!
"Brother, didn't you say you have found out which man Aguna ran away with back then? Who was it?" Shanna's eyes lit up.
Chu Yuanbai patted her hand gently, his eyes a little strange and complicated: "Yes, I found out, that man's surname is Xiao."
"Really! Let's go find them right away and get our Gu God back!" Shanna was extremely excited.
As long as we can get the Gu God back, her brother and her status in Bai Miao will be supreme!
Chu Yuanbai was silent for a moment and showed a complicated and unpredictable smile: "But the man named Xiao died twenty years ago, and his entire family was killed."