Hearing me anxiously call his name, Gu Yuan blinked and stood in front of me.
With a solemn look on his face, he took my hand entangled by the red thread. Using his index finger, he quickly hooked, pulled, and tugged at the thread. He wound it around the middle part and then tied it to his ring finger.
He dug his thumb nail into the pad of his ring finger, taking a drop of blood from the tip and pressing it onto the red thread.
The red thread trembled slightly, giving off a faint rosy glow. The other end of the thread snapped, leaving only the red thread connecting the ring fingers of Gu Yuan and me.
"Third Master, go check on Qingluan quickly." As Hu Xuanfeng walked out of the room, Gu Yuan gently rolled up his sleeves, and the red thread gradually disappeared.
He was worried about leaving me alone outside, so he asked Hu Xuanfeng to stay here and guard me while he went in alone to check the situation.
I was a bit worried and wanted to ask him what was going on.
Gu Yuan comforted me, saying, "Don't worry. I've already connected your red thread to mine. Once we find the person who cast the Gu, I'll naturally have a way to dispel this Red Thread Lover Gu."
The Lover Gu, I seemed to have heard of it in books. It was a kind of Gu worm in the Miao region, a kind of poisonous Gu cast on one's lover to prevent them from being unfaithful. It was said that if the lover changed their heart, they would be devoured by the Gu worms, and after death, their bodies would be covered with worms, a very tragic sight.
But what the hell was this Red Thread Lover Gu? I really didn't understand.
Gu Yuan didn't have time to explain it to me for the moment. He quickly entered the room to check on Hu Qingluan's condition.
At this moment, Hu Qingluan could hardly maintain her human form. A fiery - red fox was lying on the couch, constantly spitting out blood.
Gu Yuan pasted a talisman on her head, making Hu Qingluan turn back into a human. Then he calculated with his fingers. A look of surprise flashed across his otherwise calm face but disappeared in an instant.
The yellow talisman on Hu Qingluan's head gradually changed color. A puff of black air lingered over it, and the red cinnabar runes on the talisman paper gradually turned black.
Hu Qingluan was shaking violently on the bed, making the bed board shake as well.
It seemed that there were worms wriggling non - stop in the blood vessels of her emaciated body. I held onto the door frame, biting my lips, terrified.
Hu Xuanfeng was just as nervous as me. He paced back and forth outside the door, but his eyes never left Hu Qingluan's face.
He was afraid that Hu Qingluan would lose her life if he blinked.
"Xuanfeng, what on earth did you invite here? My daughter was fine before he came."
The woman who spoke was in tears. She was dressed in a green gown, with a flower decoration on her forehead as red as her lips. There was a cinnabar mole under her fox - like eyes. She was extremely charming, and when she cried, she was even more pitiful.
Hu Qingluan looked somewhat similar to her, but was not half as beautiful.
As she said this, she was about to rush in to check on her daughter, but was pulled back by Hu Xuanfeng.
"Fu Jin, he was invited by the Third Master Hu. He has great powers. Don't go in and cause trouble."
Out of love for her daughter, how could she listen to Hu Xuanfeng's words? She turned around, pushed Hu Xuanfeng away, and rushed into the room crying, wanting to hug her daughter.
"If you don't want her to die, don't touch her." Gu Yuan stood there coldly, not even bothering to stop her.
Just as Fu Jin's hand was about to touch Hu Qingluan, hearing Gu Yuan's words, she turned to look at him with an aggrieved expression.
Her eyes widened in shock, as if she was intimidated by Gu Yuan's powerful aura.
"Who are you..." She didn't continue.
"Gu Yuan, the third of the Liu family." Gu Yuan's long and narrow eyes met Fu Jin's face.
Fu Jin lowered her eyes and thought for a while. Then her expression changed immediately, and she said defiantly, "Gu Yuan? I've never heard such a name. As far as I know, the Third Master Liu is called Yunhe, not Gu Yuan at all. Who exactly are you?"
It seemed that she had figured it out. This was her territory. What did she have to be afraid of Gu Yuan for?
My heart skipped a beat. Oh no, was it going to be exposed? Had she recognized that Gu Yuan was an imposter?
"Fairy Fox, are you sure the name of the Third Master Liu is really Yunhe?" I quickly rushed in from outside and stood beside Gu Yuan to support him.
"Our Third Master Liu has been in seclusion for many years and never interacts with any immortals. Few people in the three realms have seen him, and even fewer know his name. How did you know his name was Yunhe?"
My words stumped Fu Jin, but she quickly reacted and said, "Naturally, I was told by the Liu family."
"Really? But as far as I know, the Third Master Liu was not registered in the Liu family when he was born. He has always been a lone ranger. Except for the Third Grand Master Liu, who knows he has a younger brother, even the Third Grand Mistress Liu doesn't know about his existence. It was only a few days ago when the Third Master Hu was drinking with the Third Grand Master Liu that the latter accidentally let it slip that there was such a medical immortal, but he never asked for his real name. Your generation is much younger than the Third Master Liu. How did you know his name?"
Hu Fu Jin was left speechless by my questions.
"If it weren't for the Third Master Hu's plea this time, we might not have been able to invite the Third Master Liu to come and save her. Instead of being grateful, you deliberately investigated the Third Master Liu's identity. This is simply not respecting the Liu family."
I put my hands behind my back, looking arrogant. At this moment, I definitely had to support Gu Yuan and divert her attention to myself. My voice grew louder and louder. I was so confident that even I believed Gu Yuan was the real Third Master Liu.
Seeing that we were angry, Hu Xuanfeng quickly stepped forward to mediate, saying, "Fu Jin, stop making trouble. Saving the patient is the most important thing. Don't be angry, you two. My sister loves her daughter so much, that's why she's acting like this. Don't mind her nonsense. Saving the patient is the most important thing."
Hu Fu Jin was so angry that she was fuming, but she couldn't come up with any evidence to refute me. She stood there like a wooden stake, biting her back teeth hard.
It wasn't surprising at all that Hu Qingluan had such a mother.
To be honest, it was really frustrating to save such a person. If it were me, I would definitely turn around and leave. Whether she lived or died had nothing to do with me.
But Gu Yuan had promised the Golden Flower Cult Leader, and he would keep his word.
"If you don't want your daughter to die, get out of the way. Otherwise, if you delay the time to save her, don't blame us for not warning you in advance." Gu Yuan spoke only after I had said a lot.
"Fu Jin, just listen to the Third Master. Look, isn't our Qingluan's complexion getting better?"
Following Hu Xuanfeng's words, we all looked at Hu Qingluan. Sure enough, after all the cinnabar incantations on the black - air - surrounded talisman paper turned black, her complexion looked much better.
She just hadn't regained consciousness yet.
"You... This is not normal... You're so young, yet your magical power is even higher than that of the Third Master Hu..." Hu Fu Jin still suspected Gu Yuan's identity.
"Gu Yuan, let's go. It's not worth saving such a person." After I said this, I pushed Gu Yuan on the back and walked out.
"Wait. Did you cast this Gu?"
Seeing that her daughter's condition had improved a lot, Fu Jin thought the poison had been dispelled.
Suddenly, her tone became tough. She flicked her water - sleeve, which wrapped around my neck and pulled me towards her.