Medicine Martial Prodigy
Chapter 414 Too Late to Leave

Chapter 414: Chapter 414 Too Late to Leave

Looking at Qin Chuan with furrowed brows, Tang Yue’er asked with concern, "Big Brother Qin, is there something wrong?"

Qin Chuan shook his head slightly, "Nothing!"

But the moment his words fell, his heart suddenly pained, and that was just the beginning. The intense pain exploded from his heart and spread to his entire body.

"Pfft!"

Qin Chuan suddenly spat out a mouthful of black blood, his face twisted in agony.

"Big Brother Qin!"

Tang Yue’er’s face changed drastically, and she asked with a face full of concern, "Big Brother Qin, what’s happened to you?"

Qin Chuan didn’t speak, he simply sat down cross-legged on the ground and quickly formed hand seals.

"Heaven and earth are limitless, borrow the laws of the universe, the heavens clear, the earth dark, yin murky yang clear, seal for me!"

With a loud shout, he fiercely pointed at the location of his own heart.

Tang Yue’er was frantically anxious, only able to watch helplessly as Qin Chuan healed himself, unable to do anything.

After a full ten minutes, Qin Chuan’s face turned the red of a pig’s liver, and something seemed to be wriggling in his throat.

"Gag~"

Suddenly, he vomited another mouthful of blood.

At the location where he vomited the fresh blood, a worm the size of a little finger was squirming.

Seeing this, Tang Yue’er’s face instantly changed, almost trembling as she said, "Heart Devouring Gu! This is the Miao family’s Heart Devouring Gu!"

Qin Chuan’s face was pale, and his body extremely weak. He looked at Tang Yue’er and asked, "You know the Heart Devouring Gu?"

At this moment, Qin Chuan looked as if he had been drenched in sweat, appearing entirely sickly and feeble.

Only then did Tang Yue’er come back to her senses, hurriedly helping Qin Chuan off the ground. She glanced at the worm still squirming in the blood and, with eyes reddened, she looked at Qin Chuan and said, "Miao Qingfeng had a book about Miao family’s Gu Art, which I had the chance to glance through."

"Only a Gu Master of the Miao family can cultivate the Heart Devouring Gu, and the conditions for its cultivation are extremely harsh; the Gu master must feed the Heart Devouring Gu with the flesh and blood of their own heart."

Hearing Tang Yue’er’s words, Qin Chuan was somewhat surprised. There were such madmen in this world who would feed a Gu worm with the flesh and blood from their own heart.

The heart is the center of the human body and the most important organ. Once injured, at best it causes great damage to one’s vitality, and at worst, it leads to death.

Tang Yue’er continued, "According to the ancient records of the Miao family, only a Gu Master who has cultivated their Gu Art to the utmost can refine a Heart Devouring Gu."

"To cultivate the Heart Devouring Gu, one must feed it with their own heart’s blood daily. To quickly recover from the damage done to the heart by the Heart Devouring Gu, the Gu Master needs to consume the heart’s blood of living people. They need to suck the heart’s blood of three living people daily just to barely recover the heart’s flesh and blood lost to the Heart Devouring Gu that day."

"To successfully refine the Heart Devouring Gu, one must persist for forty-nine days, a cycle of seven sevens, meaning that the entire process of refining the Heart Devouring Gu requires at least the heart’s blood of one hundred and forty-seven living people."

"Boom!"

A terrible intent to kill erupted from Qin Chuan, and the marble floor beneath his feet shattered.

Qin Chuan said through clenched teeth, "Such an evil technique should not exist in this world!"

He rarely became so intensely angry, but after learning of the method of refining the Heart Devouring Gu, he could still barely suppress the rage in his heart.

Tang Yue’er added, "Of course, refining the Heart Devouring Gu also causes irreversible damage to the Gu Master themselves. Unless they have a blood feud warranting life or death, very few Gu Masters would refine the Heart Devouring Gu."

Qin Chuan was stunned, a blood feud warranting life or death?

Since leaving Kunlun Divine Prison, he seemed to have only encountered one Gu Master, and that was Miao Qingfeng who had trapped Tang Yue’er at his side.

But Miao Qingfeng had already been killed by him...

No, that’s not right!

Qin Chuan suddenly remembered that he had previously cured Murong Fu of Gu poison in Jiangcheng City, and at that time, he suspected the Gu Master who had poisoned Murong Fu was very skilled in Gu Art.

But he had never imagined that person would find him and managed to poison him with a tiny Jade Bottle.

The reason he suspected it was the same Gu Master who poisoned Murong Fu was because he felt the same aura from the Heart Devouring Gu as the Zimu Gu that was inside Murong Fu.

Whether Zimu Gu or Heart Devouring Gu, both required the host to rear the Gu, hence the aura they carried was identical.

Qin Chuan also figured out why the other party had poisoned him: because the child and mother Gus were connected. In order to save Murong Fu, he had killed the child Gu in Murong Fu’s body, and with the death of the child Gu, the mother Gu in the Gu Master’s body would also perish.

Once the mother Gu died, it would cause tremendous backlash damage to the Gu Master.

Therefore, when he helped Murong Fu deal with the Zimu Gu, he had already been marked as a mortal enemy by that powerful Gu Master.

Qin Chuan sighed, "What was bound to come has come!"

Murong Fu had once offered him half of his family’s wealth to eradicate that Gu Master, but Qin Chuan had declined.

The reason Qin Chuan had refused was that he knew the Gu Master was very powerful, a person who could only exist in the Ancient Martial World.

Handling that adversary wouldn’t be difficult for Qin Chuan, but it would take some effort and likely cause greater commotion, which in turn could increase the chance of being discovered by the people from Kunlun Divine Prison.

That was exactly why he had turned Murong Fu down.

But unexpectedly, the adversary had still found him.

Tang Yue’er asked, "Big Brother Qin, do you know who poisoned you with the Heart Devouring Gu?"

Qin Chuan nodded and turned to Tang Yue’er, "Did you just say that only people from the Miao clan can refine the Heart Devouring Gu?"

Tang Yue’er nodded urgently, "That’s what the ancient Miao clan book says."

Qin Chuan understood immediately. In that case, this Gu Master must be someone from the Miao clan.

He then asked, "Do you know the family behind Miao Qingfeng?"

Tang Yue’er shook her head, "Miao Qingfeng only exploited me, she told me nothing. I only took a sneak peek at that ancient Miao clan book when she wasn’t around."

Qin Chuan nodded, and rightly so. How could someone like Miao Qingfeng share the affairs of the Miao clan with Tang Yue’er?

All of a sudden, Tang Yue’er looked worried and asked, "Big Brother Qin, are you very weak now? Feeling listless all over? Can you only exert at most one-tenth of your full strength?"

Qin Chuan nodded.

Tang Yue’er’s face turned pale as she despairingly said, "It’s over! Everything’s over!"

Qin Chuan also felt the gravity of the situation and frowned, "What do you mean?"

Tang Yue’er said with teary eyes, "Once afflicted with the Heart Devouring Gu, you’ll lose at least ninety percent of your cultivation, and throughout your life, your Martial Path Realm will have no possibility of advancement."

"Big Brother Qin, today is the day you’re supposed to battle Liu Kuangren, what should we do now?"

With that, she hurriedly grabbed Qin Chuan’s hand, her face full of urgency, "Big Brother Qin, never mind the battle, let’s go now. Let’s escape far away before the appointed time of the duel."

However, she couldn’t budge Qin Chuan at all; he stood his ground, his brows deeply furrowed.

He tried to unleash all his power but to no avail, just as Tang Yue’er said, he could only use one-tenth of his cultivation.

In his current state, he couldn’t possibly deal with Liu Kuangren.

Seeing Qin Chuan motionless, Tang Yue’er was almost in tears, "Big Brother Qin, what are you hesitating for? Let’s escape quickly!"

But just as her words ended, an intimidating aura enveloped the entire Cloud Summit Heaven Villa.

Then, a crazed laugh echoed through heaven and earth, "Hahahaha, stricken by my Heart Devouring Gu, and you think of escaping? Too late!"