Spirit Hunters of Maoshan Sect

Ye Shaoayang did not respond to Xiao Ma’s question . Instead, he drew a Hellfire Talisman Paper and held it close to the woman’s face . The hair covering the face instantly retracted upon sensing the fire .

Ye Shaoyang held the Hellfire Talisman Paper and circled it over the woman’s face again to make sure all the hair retracted back . Everyone on the scene stepped closer to the hole out of curiosity . They soon found out that the woman’ had a beautiful face . She was a beauty, alive or dead .

“Oh, what a waste…” Xiao Ma sighed .

Ye Shaoyang squatted by the woman’s body and forced her eyes open . The sight sent chills down everyone’s spines . Instead of eyeballs, there were two balls of hair behind the woman’s eyelids .

Ye Shaoyang frowned and further investigated by opening her mouth . It was filled with hair as well, but the hair crawled like worms on top of itself as if it was alive .

Everyone was disgusted by what they saw . Some almost threw up .

Ye Shaoyang checked the woman’s nose and ears and found that they were also filled with hair .

Ye Shaoyang said in a stern voice, “If I am not mistaken, this is a Hairy Gu . The hair of the person cursed with this would start to grow into their body . ”

Everyone stared at each other with wide eyes . Nobody could have imagined that there was such a thing, but the proof was right in front of them .

Xiao Ma mumbled, “If their hair grew into their body, how painful would it be?”

“Very painful,” Ye Shaoyang explained, “At first, the person would feel itchy all the time . There’s no way to tell from the outside, but by the time the person started to feel pain, hair would have already grown all over the person’s inner organs . Death would come soon after that,” Ye Shaoyang pointed at the woman, “You can dissect this woman’ and check for yourself . Her stomach and all inner organs are all filled with hair . ”

Xiao Ma shook his head, “No need for that . It is creepy enough just to imagine . If I see it, I bet I will not be able to eat for the next three days . ”

A village council member pointed at the woman’s face and said, “Hey guys, look . This woman-- doesn’t she look like Zhu Zi’s wife who went missing?”

This reminded the rest of the village council members as they gathered nearer to the woman and examined closely . Finally, they concluded that she was indeed the missing person from the village .

Li Laoxing sighed as he explained, “This woman was from Northern Shan Wang . She was quite a beauty and married to our village head Zhu Zi . They were married for four or five years, and then, two or three years ago, she suddenly disappeared . Nobody could find her . Rumors spread that she eloped with another guy . Zhu Zi and his family were so ashamed . Turns out, she was murdered and buried here . ”

Ye Shaoyang asked, “Did she go missing before the undead turned up in the village?”

Li Laoxing frowned as he tried to recall . Before he could speak, a few village council members started to agree, “You are right! I remember it now! Just a few days after she went missing, undead started to turn up in the village!”

Xiao Ma angrily gripped his fist, “This must be the work of that ugly-faced man! He intentionally released undead here to hurt the villagers . Then, he pretended to come and solve the problem as a sorcerer! He cheated you and your trust, killed this woman, and buried her here! He even asked you to help him move a whole forest here! Old man, you guys were all taken for a ride!”

The people of the village were simple people . Li Laoxing and the villagers realized that they had unknowingly helped a person commit murder . They were so ashamed that they could not lift their heads .

Ye Shaoyang comforted them, “Naivete is not guilt . You should inform her next-of-kin and clear her name . It would be a fitting penance . ”

Li Laoxing nodded . He instructed two men to go down and inform her family at once .

Then, Ye Shaoyang instructed Xiao Ma to take pictures of the scene using his phone and send them to Xie Yuqing . Since there was a murder involved, it had to be dealt with by the police .

After taking enough photos, Xiao Ma could not take his eyes away from the crawling hair in the woman’s mouth and eyes . He was disgusted by the sight, and he turned to Ye Shaoyang, “What should we do now?”

Ye Shaoyang thought for a while before he spoke, “This is certainly not a simple case of a Hairy Gu . Although my knowledge of Gu Craft is limited, I know for sure that Gu live off human flesh like parasites . After the person dies, the flesh starts to rot, so it either finds a new host or dies with the human . However, this woman has been dead for two years now . Her body has never rotted, and the hair is still alive . Something is not right here . Let me try to figure it out . ”

As he finished talking, he took out a piece of sulfite rock and wrapped it in a talisman paper . Then, he folded the talisman paper into an octagon shape and tied it with a string of his hair . He put the talisman paper into the woman’s mouth and started to chant the Hellfire Chant .

The talisman paper soon ignited . Yellow smoke started to drift out of the woman’s orifices .

The balls of hair started to react to the burning . They started to struggle before retracting further into the woman’s body . To make things even scarier, the woman’s body started to twitch .

Li Laoxing and the rest of the group cowardly ran a few feet back as they watched .

The dead became alive?

Ye Shaoyang, on the other hand, was not intimidated at all . He calmly grabbed the woman’s hands and held them together with his left hand . With his other hand, he pressed along the woman’s body with his knuckle . He kept knocking on the woman’s body to examine it as he pressed along her acupoints . Suddenly, the woman’s mouth opened and her tongue fell out as though she was trying to throw up .

Ye Shaoyang grabbed the woman by her neck as he released a stream of Gang Qi into the woman’s body . He intended to draw out the Gu in the woman’s body . However, the woman’s mouth closed again after a while . Ye Shaoyang could feel something in the woman’s throat burrow down into her stomach .

Then, the woman’s stomach expanded and stopped when the woman looked as though she was pregnant .

“This is bad!” Ye Shaoyang stood up as he stared helplessly at the woman’s bloated stomach . He intended to force the creature out through her mouth and kill it with a Talisman Paper . However, he did not expect the creature to be so strong . Instead of coming out, it burrowed further into the woman’s stomach . There had to be something protecting the creature inside the stomach . The stream of Gang Qi Ye Shaoyang sent into her body could not sense anything once the creature hid in her stomach .

“Now, I understand,” Ye Shaoyang nodded as he mumbled . “There’s something inside of her stomach that has provided energy to the creature and the body for the past two years . This is why the body has not rotted and the Gu stayed alive . But what on earth is it?”

“Could it be a baby?” Xiao Ma chipped in, but as soon as he spoke, Ye Shaoyang rolled his eyes in annoyance . Obviously, Xiao Ma was wrong . Xiao Ma awkwardly scratched his head as he explained himself, “I was just guessing because it looks as though she is pregnant . Little Ye, why don’t we just cut the stomach open instead of just guessing? The truth is in there . ”

“Easy for you to say of course . I was taking a risk just now . I did not expect this creature to be so strong . Fortunately, the talisman paper intimidated it, so it retreated into the stomach instead of fighting . If I cut the stomach open now, there will be a fight waiting for us . ”