Winter Wizard said in a deep voice: "Everyone in the Divine Village has sworn a solemn oath: if they fail to protect the secret realm, they will die as a token of their sin."
"If it was a few hundred years ago, when the God Village was newly established, the chief witch guarding the village would not ask anyone to go down to the secret realm. If they couldn't stop the other party, the worst that could happen was a fight to the death. Now it's different. The descendants of the God Village have been multiplying and thriving for hundreds of years. They all have families. Once the other party leaves Miaojiang, everyone in the God Village will die to apologize. As the chief witch guarding the village, I can't take this risk. Do you understand what I mean?"
I nodded and said, "I understand. But aren't you afraid that if I get that thing, I'll turn around and use it against you?"
Winter Witch waved his hand and said, "First, I believe in Doudou's judgment. She will not take in cunning people as her sons or nephews."
"Second, you also have something to ask of me." Winter Wizard pointed at Monk Shi and the others and said, "I can cure the poison in their bodies. I know exactly what you have done along the way. Didn't you go deep into the Miao area just to cure them of the poison?"
The Great Winter Wizard should not have the ability to know everything and predict the future, otherwise, he would not have allowed people to sneak into the secret realm.
I guess, after we fell unconscious, she used some method to dig out what all of us saw and heard, and even various speculations. It's not surprising that she knew about our situation along the way.
Winter Witch put his hands behind his back and smiled, "Third, I have a way to control you. Since you know Doudou, you should know that Doudou sometimes has no bottom line to achieve her goals, and she and I are just like birds of a feather flock together."
I smiled faintly and said, "I agree to your terms, because I also believe in Dou Po's vision."
"Okay!" Winter Wizard raised his thumb. "I will reward you after the task is completed. Come here, I will help you get rid of the poison in your body first."
The Winter Witch led me into a hut, cut the skin of my wrist with a knife, and then immersed my wound in a large bowl filled with wine. Before long, the wine in the bowl was stained red with my blood, and I felt something moving slowly along my arm to the wound. Not long after, I saw ripples in the wine bowl, as if something was twisting its body in the wine.
Winter witch said: "Don't be nervous, it's the peach blossom poison, it will be fine after a while."
I looked at the Great Winter Witch and asked, "Can I ask how the other party sneaked into the God Village?"
Winter Wizard said: "Actually, it's worthless. That person just controlled people's hearts."
"There has always been a legend in the Divine Village, that is, there is a divine Gu hidden in the secret realm. It is precisely because of that divine Gu that there is a legend of a Gu suppressing the Miao region."
"This legend has been circulating for many years, and everyone believes it. Because, apart from the King of Ten Thousand Gu, there is nothing that the Divine Village cannot stop even with all its might. Even I think this legend is true."
I looked up at the Great Winter Witch: "Isn't it?"
"Whether it is true or not, we can only see it if we go deep into the secret realm. However, my intuition tells me that the divine Gu in the secret realm is not as magical as the legend says." Winter Wizard changed the subject and said, "However, many people believe that the legend is true, including the other three Gu gods."
Winter witch said: "About a few months ago, the poisonous insects near the God Village suddenly became agitated on a large scale. At that time, many poisonous insects lost control and tried to escape from the God Village like crazy."
"I teamed up with several wizards to suppress the rioting Gu worms several times before we pacified them. However, not long after, the Gu worms rioted for the second time. After that suppression, the Gu worms in the God Village began to die in large numbers. After several studies, we came to a conclusion: those Gu worms were scared to death."
I couldn't help but raise my eyebrows when I heard this: "Can poisonous insects be scared to death?"
“Yes!” Winter Wizard nodded. “Poisonous insects have some spirituality to a certain extent. When they encounter irresistible danger, they will also feel scared, and may even be frightened to death.”
Winter Witch continued, "Since then, rumors have spread in Miaojiang that 'the divine Gu in the secret realm of Shenzhai has awakened'. At first, I tried my best to control this rumor, but the more I tried, the more widespread the rumor became, and the more realistic it became. In the end, even the three great Gu gods began to test the truth of the rumor."
"At that time, our village had just experienced a massive loss of Gu worms. Although we still had some strength, once the rumors spread and caused the three Gu gods to attack at the same time, the village would be in danger of being destroyed."
"I simply opened the door and let all three people in, asking them to help me find the cause of the mass death of the Gu worms. At that time, we four Gu Gods gathered together and had to concentrate on guarding against each other to ensure that we would not be calculated by others. Letting them all into the God Village may seem risky, but it is actually the safest way."
I couldn't help but give a thumbs up and said, "I admire you!"
Although Winter Witch is a woman, her determination and courage are unmatched by ordinary people, making her worthy of being a local hero.
Winter witch smiled bitterly and said, "It was the liar who was smart, not me. Gathering the four Gu gods should be one of his plans, but this part was completed by me. At that time, my attention was all on the three of them, but that person took advantage of the opportunity and deceived Luo Wang and the others' trust."
Winter Witch stopped talking here, but I was surprised and asked, "That man deceived Luo Wang and the other three right under your nose? Didn't you tell Luo Wang the purpose of summoning the Gu God?"
"What's the use of telling me?" Winter Great Witch said in a deep voice, "When they believe that I summoned the three Gu gods to lure the divine Gu out of the secret realm, no matter what I do, they will think in that direction. So, they will only trust their own judgment."
Once people fall into a certain misconception, if there is no one to guide or analyze them, they can easily get deeper and deeper into it. Even after others have pointed out the scam, they will still argue with others, trying to prove that their views are correct.
A clever scammer does not try to gain the trust of the victims in a short period of time, but instead leads them into a misunderstanding.
Luo Wang and the other two wanted to become great witches, so the secret realm divine Gu was a fatal temptation to them; moreover, the legend of the divine Gu was deeply rooted in their hearts, so they naturally believed in it without a doubt.
The fact that the poisonous insects rioted twice and died of fright was completely consistent with the characteristics of the poisonous insects. In addition, the Great Wizard Winter had repeatedly covered up the matter before. Even if the Great Wizard Winter told them that he summoned the three poisonous gods to dispel rumors, they still would not believe it.
On the contrary, in their minds, the four Gu gods working together to lure out the divine Gu and take it for themselves are more trustworthy.
Because the Gu God can only be a Miao people, it is impossible for them to enter the secret realm of Shenzhai. All Luo Wang and his friends can think of is that the four Gu Gods will use some method to lure the divine Gu out of the secret realm.
This also laid the groundwork for them to fight for the so-called "divine Gu Yin".
I nodded after hearing what Winter Witch said, "So, how did the person who set up the trap deceive Luo Wang and the other three?"
Winter Wizard pointed at Jiang Yan who was still tied up outside and said, "That guy used those fools outside to set up a trap. This trap looks simple, but in fact, the other party spent several years setting it up. That guy should have been planning to take over the secret realm a long time ago, but he was missing something, so he didn't act yet."
I asked curiously, "What is he missing?"
"I don't know." Winter Wizard shook his head. "That's just my guess. I can't really say whether it's right or not."
I couldn't help but whisper to myself, "It seems that you haven't fully grasped the opponent's strengths and weaknesses!"
Winter Wizard said, "You think it's ridiculous, don't you? A liar could actually use a group of ordinary people to deceive the three major sects of Miaojiang?"
I nodded and said, "I really can't think of how he tricked three sect leaders in your territory."
Winter witch said: "The liar took advantage of the curiosity of those people and took them to tour Miaojiang along the way. He specially arranged for them to see the Three Evils of Western Hunan. Finally, he took them to the Rock Village not far from the God Village to see the Flower-Falling Cave Girl."
Since the people in the village had already offered the fallen cave girl to the cave god, they naturally would not keep a close watch on her. Because the cave girl had voluntarily married the cave god, there was no such thing as her escaping privately, so why would they keep a close watch on her
Besides, Gu Piaoran had already set up the plan, so he could naturally bring people in and out smoothly.
Winter Great Wizard said in a deep voice: "You probably also know that they not only stole the cave girl, but also almost successfully brought her out of Miao territory. However, the cave girl came back soon."
"The people in the Rock Village were very surprised to see the cave girl return, but she said she was kidnapped. The cave god was angry and poisoned the people who kidnapped her, and those people would die a miserable death. The people in the Rock Village calmed down their anger and sent the cave girl back to the cave."
"But no one expected that a few days later, the cave girl returned to the Rock Village again, saying that the cave god was angry and wanted to bring all those people back to the cave to be executed."
"For the people in the mountain village, the orders of the cave god are like imperial decrees, and they dare not disobey. However, the people in the mountain village have never left Xiangxi in their lives. There are so many people in the village, where can they find a group of people who are just here for tourism?"
"Finally, the people in the village had no other options, so they thought of seeking help from a wizard. They first found Gu Men, who was good at using poisonous insects. This incident also aroused Gao Yang's interest. You know, since the cave god has already brought down divine punishment, ordinary people will have a hard time escaping death. Even if they find a sorcerer to help them, they may not be able to keep their lives. Why would the cave god go to such lengths to find them back?"
"Out of curiosity, Gao Yang went to the Rock Village to find the cave god himself, but he got a 'secret' from the cave god."
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Thank you Doudou for the reward! (To be continued)