Chapter 14

The buzzing sound of the Medicine King jade pendant grew louder and louder, the hairpin and the jade pendant were having a silent conversation, strange energy fluctuations rippled, and the torches around the altar flickered, reflecting Tang Yun's face distorted by shock.

"This... this how is it possible..." Tang Yun muttered to himself, feeling a burst of dizziness.

Lin Xiyue noticed Tang Yun's abnormality and hurriedly supported him, asking with concern: "Tang Yun, what's wrong with you?"

Tang Yun didn't answer, his eyes staring fixedly at the big yellow dog puppet, or more accurately, at the half-wooden hairpin on its neck.

Suddenly, Tang Yun's shadow on the wall began to twist and deform, and gradually, it actually turned into the outline of the Gu King! That gloomy smile, that cold look, were exactly the same as the Gu King in Tang Yun's memory.

Lin Xiyue also noticed the shadow on the wall, and she exclaimed, subconsciously taking a few steps back.

"Tang Yun, your shadow..."

Tang Yun took a deep breath to calm himself down. This must be the Gu King playing tricks.

The ground of the altar was covered with dense Gu insect patterns, countless wriggling insects, creepy. Nine bronze pillars supported the Blood Moon projection above the altar, emitting an eerie red light, shrouding the entire space in a blood color.

The moment Tang Yun stepped onto the altar, the Medicine King jade pendant on his heart emitted a crisp phoenix cry, resonating with the heart-devouring Gu on the neck of his mother's puppet.

The crystal coffin in the center of the altar opened slowly, and a puppet rose from inside.

It was exactly the appearance of Tang Yun's mother!

Only, her skin presented a sickly blue-purple color, her pupils glowing with a blood-red light like the Blood Moon, and her right hand tightly gripped a blood-stained surgical knife.

"Mother..." Tang Yun's voice trembled, he couldn't believe his eyes.

The puppet mother suddenly moved, and she drifted toward Tang Yun with a strange pace. The surgical knife brought up a burst of corrosive black mist, slashing three blood marks on Tang Yun's right arm.

"Hiss..." Tang Yun gasped, a burst of severe burning pain coming from the wound.

A picture appeared in his mind: a pitch-black night, his mother was controlled by the Gu King with evil arts, forced to stab the surgical knife into her own heart...

Tang Yun's heart twitched violently, he endured the pain, condensed True Qi again, and prepared to counterattack.

However, the puppet mother's speed was too fast, her attacks came like a storm, and Tang Yun couldn't parry at all.

Whenever the puppet attacked, memory fragments of his mother would appear in Tang Yun's mind, making it even harder for him to concentrate.

He deliberately exposed flaws seven times in a row, hoping to wake up his mother's consciousness, but the puppet mother didn't stop at all, instead attacking him even more fiercely.

Tang Yun's left arm was also corroded by the black mist, revealing white bones.

"Tang Yun!" Lin Xiyue shouted in horror, she wanted to rush up to help, but was blocked by an invisible force.

Just when Tang Yun was about to be unable to hold on, the Medicine King jade pendant on his chest suddenly erupted with dazzling light, and the remaining pages of the "Medicine King Scripture" flew out automatically, turning into golden chains, firmly binding the puppet mother.

Tang Yun seized this opportunity, cut his wrist, and dripped Medicine King blood into the puppet mother's brow.

A powerful energy fluctuation erupted from the puppet mother's body, her body trembling violently, as if she was experiencing a painful transformation.

In Tang Yun's mind, countless broken memory fragments surged in.

He saw the scene of his mother being imprisoned by the Gu King, saw his mother being forced to learn Gu arts, trying to resist again and again, but ultimately failing...

Also saw that his mother's soul was imprisoned in the Blood Moon, and this puppet was just a killing container made by the Gu King!

"Damn Gu King!" Tang Yun roared, his eyes full of flames of hatred.

Just then, the Blood Moon above the altar suddenly shook violently, and a gloomy voice came from the Blood Moon: "Tang Yun, you finally came..."

Tang Yun ignored the Gu King, his eyes staring fixedly at the puppet mother bound by golden chains. Although her face was stiff, the gentleness of the past could still be seen.

Tang Yun gritted his teeth and took out a set of silver needles from his bosom.

This set of silver needles was named "Blood-Reversing Soul-Return Needles," a forbidden art he learned from the remaining pages of the "Medicine King Scripture," using his own heart as a guide to reverse the bloodline and forcibly force the heart-devouring Gu out of the body.

But the price was that the user would lose ten years of life.

"You are crazy!" Lin Xiyue exclaimed outside the altar, "This forbidden art will cost you your life!"

Tang Yun didn't look back, just said lightly: "I must save her."

He stabbed the silver needles into several major acupoints on his chest. Severe pain spread through his whole body instantly, Tang Yun groaned, his face turning pale instantly.

At the same time, the True Qi in his body began to flow backward, his heart beating violently, almost exploding.

Tang Yun endured the severe pain and stabbed another set of silver needles into the puppet mother's acupoints.

With the fall of the silver needles, the puppet mother's body began to tremble violently, black gas surged out of her body, circling above the altar, emitting sharp screams.

"Ah... ah..." The puppet mother let out a painful groan, her skin began to ulcerate, revealing white bones.

Tang Yun knew this was a sign that the heart-devouring Gu was being forced out of the body.

He gritted his teeth, urged True Qi, and guided the black gas to the altar core.

The altar core was a blood-red crystal.

The moment the black gas touched the crystal, the entire altar shook violently.

"No... impossible!" The voice in the Blood Moon was full of horror, "You actually... actually..."

Tang Yun ignored the Gu King's horror, and injected the last trace of True Qi into the altar core.

"Boom!"

With a loud noise, the altar exploded.

Dazzling white light illuminated the entire Ghost Cry Valley, and the shockwave generated by the explosion blew Lin Xiyue away.

"Tang Yun!" Lin Xiyue shouted heartbreakingly, she struggled to climb up, but found herself powerless.

Just then, a golden light rushed into the sky from the center of the explosion, turning into a huge golden phoenix, tearing the Blood Moon apart.

The jade pendant in Lin Xiyue's hand also shattered into powder at this moment.

She looked at this scene blankly, muttering to herself: "So... this is your Dao..."

On a distant mountain peak, a blurred figure flashed by.

After the explosion, Ghost Cry Valley was a mess.

The altar had disappeared, leaving only a huge deep pit.

Tang Yun lay at the bottom of the deep pit, covered in blood, dying.

A blood-red fragment was embedded in his heart, which was a fragment of the Blood Moon.

Every full moon night, this fragment would make him suffer the pain of ten thousand ants biting his heart.

Tang Yun's jade pendant had also shattered, but a trace of his mother's soul fragment remained on it.