"Wujiu, you do all these things and try to please me because I can be a medicine man for the Gu Master, right?" I asked straight to the point.

His expression was stunned for a moment, but then he returned to normal and smiled slightly, "Do you know what a medicine man is?"

I shook my head.

"Your Great Qi medical skills use wild plants, trees, and animals in the forest as medicine, and witchcraft uses Gu as medicine. After the Gu enters the human body, it uses the essence and blood as a guide to turn the person into medicine. Originally, the medicine man was dead, because no living person could endure the pain of refining. Once the medicine man is successfully refined, his whole body will be full of treasures!"

As he spoke, the look he gave me became a little scary again, as if he wanted to eat me in one bite.

I couldn't help but distance myself from him, "Don't look at me like that..."

"What are you afraid of?" He came closer and lowered his voice deliberately, "I won't eat you."

This greasy tone, coupled with his expression that looked like he deserved a beating, immediately brought back some bad memories to my mind. "What about the other Gu Masters? Will they want to capture me and make Gu?"

"We have already formed a blood pact. If other Gu Masters dare to take advantage of you, I hope they will give it a try."

"Are you still using me as bait?"

"You can't say that," he tilted his head and thought for a moment before correcting himself, "That's called a honey trap."

I couldn't help but roll my eyes, having absolutely no desire to talk to him anymore.

However, in the next two days, Wu Jiu took the initiative to tell me a lot of theoretical knowledge about Gu Shu. He also told me proudly that these were secret techniques that were not passed on to outsiders. I listened to some of them and understood about 70% of them, and then verified them on Tianhe and Ya Nu.

Tianhe recovered faster, and the poisonous insect that caused him excruciating pain was removed by me using the method of the Wujiu Sect.

Then Wujiu threw the poisonous insect into the wooden barrel where the mute slave was, under the pretext of not wasting it.

The number of poisonous insects in the wooden barrel had decreased a lot by the second day. I asked Wujiu where the poisonous insects had gone, and he pointed at the mute slave without saying anything.

After I figured it out, I felt the hairs on my body stand up and I almost ran out of the room.

This was also the first time that I experienced the horror of witchcraft so vividly.

On the third day, the mute slave also woke up. What surprised me most was that his skin had regained some color and looked almost the same as that of an ordinary person, except that it still felt a little cold to the touch.

Wu Jiu was teaching on the spot, "This is the puppet after it is refined. It looks like a living person, but in fact it only obeys the orders of the master. It has infinite strength and is painless and tireless. It is the most useful weapon in the world!"

I couldn't help but look at the mute slave carefully. He was standing in the barrel, looking at me with a confused face, but with a bit of attachment in his eyes, like a newly hatched bird seeing its relatives. His body had also changed a little. The scars, new and old wounds on his body were all gone, and he seemed to have become much stronger. In addition, his hair was now messy and disheveled, and he looked like a wild man in the mountains, not to mention the thing hanging in the middle.

"Or, you should go and wash up and get ready first. This...this is ridiculous!" I covered my eyes and couldn't bear to look any further.

Wu Jiu laughed out loud, "Kui can only accept the simplest orders. How can he understand you after you said so much?"

As soon as he finished speaking, the mute slave stepped out of the wooden barrel, turned around, walked to the side, picked up the small bucket on the ground, raised it above his head and poured it down, and began to clean his body from head to toe in front of the two of us.

I turned around and walked out, and I heard Wu Jiu muttering behind me, "How is this possible? How is this possible?"

Just as he said, I became a living medicine man by chance, a very rare situation. The mute slave came back to life and became what he called a puppet. From my understanding, he should have been a zombie who only knew how to accept simple commands, but he could have his own emotions and seemed to have some memories and habits of his previous life.

Despite this, I still feel that he is no longer the vivid person in my memory, but only a part of him remains.

Tianhe appeared in front of me, handed me a thin bamboo tube, and said solemnly, "News about the Imperial Dragon Guard."

I have seen this kind of communication tool before. It was removed from the feet of a carrier pigeon.

When you take it out, you will get a two-finger-wide silk strip with the words, "Return to the Princess's Mansion as soon as possible, the situation has changed."

There is a hidden pattern of the Dragon Guard on the back of the silk strip, so the news cannot be false.

"The name of the sender was not written. Do you know who gave you the message?" I asked.

Tianhe shook his head. "There are only three people in the capital who can contact me through the Dragon Guards' channels. But it involves some confidential information, so it's better for you not to know."

Seeing my hesitation, he continued, "If you don't want to go back, you must leave Beijing as soon as possible, otherwise..."

"Let's go back. Maybe something really happened." I sighed, feeling inexplicably uneasy, as if something bad was going to happen.

After making the decision, I told Wujiu about my plan, and at the same time hoped that the mute slave could stay with him for a while.

Everyone in the princess's mansion knew the mute slave, and he definitely couldn't go back in his current condition.

"Okay, I just want to study it carefully!" Wujiu's eyes lit up.

I quickly warned him, "Your research is your research, but you are not allowed to hurt him!"

"Don't worry, I definitely won't..."

"He's not material!"

Wu Jiu was so glared at by me that he quickly changed his words, "I was wrong. Anyway, don't worry, I will take good care of you."

"Thank you." My expression softened a lot.

"If you want to thank me, you might as well do something practical." He blinked, "Then we'll see you at the palace banquet tomorrow."

Oh, there is also a palace banquet, I almost forgot about it.

When I think of the palace banquet, I think of Jiang Huan. To be honest, I am a little afraid of him now.

Even after returning to the princess's mansion, I was still worried about entering the palace tomorrow.

Tianhe loosened his hand and put me down. Although I already had a solid foundation of internal strength and could use Qinggong quite well, it was more convenient to rely on him to clear the way without alerting the guards in the mansion.

"Who is it? Princess?" Cai Yin, who was sitting by the window, was stunned when she found out that it was me. She immediately stood up and rushed over to me, kneeling down in front of me, "Princess, please save Guard Ning."

I helped her up and said, "Get up first, and talk slowly if you have anything to say."

It was then that I noticed that she had lifted the disguise. Although she was still wearing the standard princess clothing, her appearance had returned to its original state.

I remembered that she had entered the palace under my identity before, and it seemed that she had encountered trouble. I comforted her softly, "You have worked hard during this period. Calm down first and then tell me what happened."

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