Chapter 249: Consulting with An Shenyi

"Of course there is, but if you're waiting for the Green Division to send someone down to handle it, you'll be waiting a long time. Don't tell me you don't know how remote your Heiqing Shanmai's location is—calling it a backwater would be generous. For something with no profit in it, there aren't many in the Green Division willing to do the work. It's entirely possible they'll dawdle for years before sending anyone down."

Ni Dongmei's tone carried a hint of mockery, as if she had a strong grievance against the Green Division.

Fang Yue's heart sank.

If what Ni Dongmei said was true—if a phenomenon of large numbers of Sheep Void Guis encircling the village occurred—his situation would absolutely be nothing to be optimistic about. God knew how long Mo Cun's formation could hold out.

"Then what should I do? If I lift the Guicurse, it'll draw the attention of the Sheep Void Gui swarm and trigger a village encirclement. If I don't lift it, that swarm will just keep wandering near the village…"

Fang Yue even considered whether he should abandon the Gu Yue Cun escort team, time it carefully, and leave Mo Cun before lifting the Guicurse and drawing the Sheep Void Gui swarm's attention—so he wouldn't be trapped and die inside Mo Cun.

But the dangers of the wilderness doomed this method as unreliable.

The situation seemed to have fallen into a troublesome state.

These past few days had been too comfortable—so comfortable that Fang Yue had forgotten this was a perilous, bizarre world where one careless moment could cost lives!

"What to do? Naturally, use my prescription to refine pills and solve the problem."

"Use your pills? But didn't you say lifting the Guicurse was useless… wait, you're not trying to trick me, are you?" Fang Yue stared at Ni Dongmei suspiciously, but the latter merely gave a cold laugh.

"Trick you? A little punk like you—is it worth that much effort? Believe it or not, it's up to you. When the time comes and Guis encircle the village, or even Mo Cun is wiped out, it's none of my business."

"…Then what's the story with this 【Feibai Pill】?"

"Naturally there is. If I'm stepping in to solve your problem, I'll solve it at the root. This pill doesn't simply lift your Guicurse—it absorbs your Guicurse and preserves it within the pill for a certain period.

Place the Feibai Pill that has absorbed the Guicurse inside the village. That way the Sheep Void Guis will still think you're in Mo Cun. What you need to do is leave the village, find the intelligent one among the Sheep Void Gui swarm, kill it, then destroy the Feibai Pill—and the problem will be completely solved."

"Man, that's a lot of trouble…"

"Trouble for you, not for me. Little punk, you'd best remember—never underestimate any Guicurse. That's the advice I'm giving you."

Fang Yue sighed. He hadn't expected things to turn out like this.

Leaving the village to kill that intelligent one or whatever—he hadn't even considered it before.

"About that Sheep Void Gui's intelligent one—roughly what strength?"

"God knows. But Sheep Void Guis are only Black Grade early-stage, so their 【Guizhi】 is probably around 【Black Grade mid-stage】."

Black Grade mid-stage?

Fang Yue, who had just been a little worried, immediately calmed down.

He'd encountered quite a few Black Grade mid-stage before, and now that his strength had improved, dealing with them would probably only be easier.

As for 【Guizhi】, it was simply a term similar to 【Prophet】 within a Gui swarm—a name for some 【intelligent one】 born within the swarm.

"Hurry up and get the 【Feibai Pill】 ready, deal with the Guicurse on your body, then kill their 【Guizhi】. Use the meatball I gave you to notify me. I'll destroy the Feibai Pill you left in Mo Cun. Without a 【Guizhi】, the Sheep Void Guis will disperse on their own. Then you go find that tail for me and finish what I assigned you."

"Fine."

Ni Dongmei had said as much as she had, so naturally Fang Yue wouldn't fail to appreciate the favor.

After taking his leave, he hurried off to the medical hall.

"Captain Yeye, you're back at just the right time. The Blood Hunter says he has something to discuss with you and told me to tell you to find him as soon as you got back…"

A Guard Team member left on duty spotted Fang Yue and said hurriedly.

But Fang Yue only said, "I'll go find him in a bit," and rushed toward An Shenyi's room.

By this time, An Shenyi had already rushed to the medical hall to treat the wounded.

This news had been told to Fang Yue earlier by the young physician, who said An Shenyi would also be coming.

After all, this wasn't a small matter. With the外出 Hunters suffering such large-scale casualties, and combined with the previous matter of Captain Huo's death, the villagers of Mo Cun were inevitably unsettled. They needed a big shot like An Shenyi to come out and hold things down, to soothe the people's hearts.

Entering An Shenyi's room, he was in the middle of treating a patient with a severely injured leg.

"Yeye? Something urgent?"

An Shenyi looked up in surprise. If his relationship with Fang Yue weren't good, for an act like barging straight into the room, he could have had people drag the intruder out and beat him to death.

"You go ahead, I'll wait at the door."

After a moment's hesitation, Fang Yue stepped back out.

After waiting a while, An Shenyi's room door opened. The apprentices immediately went in and carried the patient away, leaving only An Shenyi alone in the room.

Fang Yue entered the room, closed the door, and immediately asked An Shenyi whether, after his Guicurse was lifted, the phenomenon of Guis encircling the village that Ni Dongmei had mentioned would occur.

"【Guizhi】… that is indeed a bit tricky. If it's a 【Guizhi】, and it's truly relentless against you, then a village encirclement is almost inevitable. But it doesn't make sense—how could your Guicurse react so intensely? By all accounts, it should only be an enhanced version of the Guicurse that the Blood Hunter and I had before."

"Then… you don't think this Sheep Void Gui swarm is coming for me?"

"I don't know."

An Shenyi spread his hands.

"I'm a physician, not a master who studies Guis. How would I know what Guis will do?"

"Besides, a being like 【Guizhi】 is the most troublesome. Guis are already powerful, but most aren't very intelligent—their behavior patterns are simple, like insects and wild animals, just more ferocious and terrifying."

"But a 【Guizhi】 is a being with intelligence, and the actions of such beings are inherently unpredictable."

"If you're willing to gamble, then stay in Mo Cun and wait out the Guicurse's duration, see how the Sheep Void Gui swarm reacts. If the village really does get encircled, the village formation can hold out for a while. As for when reinforcements arrive—well, just as that lady said, it's entirely up to luck."

After a pause, he said somewhat nervously: "By the way, that woman—surely she's not here to cause me trouble, right? Did she mention me or the An family or anything?"

"No, not a word. And I got the feeling her mind was entirely on the wilderness, so it shouldn't be about the matter of you killing that Extreme Ice Sect Elder back in the day."

"Cured him! What do you mean killed—don't talk nonsense!"

An Shenyi stubbornly insisted Fang Yue change his wording, then thumped his chest and said: "Good, good. So what are you planning to do now?"

"I…"

Fang Yue hesitated, but after thinking for a while, he still looked up and said: "I'll try her method."

"But our Mo Cun doesn't have 【Ruoming Birds】 or 【Sinking Ash Cloth】. These things aren't rare curios for a sect Elder like her. But for a backwater like us, they're practically treasure-grade."

(End of this chapter)