Chapter 9: Hungry Ghost Worm

I stopped struggling, clenched my right hand around the tiger claw, and secretly built up my left hand. At that moment, my spirit was incredibly focused, and my willpower was very confident that I could do what I wanted to do.

Gradually, Guo Er opened his mouth wide, and I saw a scene that I will never forget in my life. A white mass came out of his throat, and then a piece of the mass slowly poked out of his mouth!

Fuck, I cursed in my heart. Today I had thought about the image of a hungry ghost many times, and I had also seen it on Guo Er’s belly, but I had never imagined that the real body of this hungry ghost was like a roundworm, which was too fucking disgusting.

Yes, it was just like a roundworm, white and soft. The only difference was that the worm’s head was much more hideous. At this moment, due to my intense concentration, my third eye opened spontaneously.

At this moment, the white worm that was trying to emerge from my eyes changed, turning into a very small, grayish-blue human being. The face was exactly the same as the one carved on the Hungry Ghost’s tomb that I had seen not long ago. Now, its head had already emerged from Guo Er’s mouth and was running towards me.

At this moment, I suddenly pulled my left hand, which had been holding my chin, away from Guo Er’s grasp, and then closed my mouth, sticking out my tongue and drawing a symbol!

This is a special way of drawing characters, using the tongue to draw characters on the palate. The runes are relatively simple, but the difficulty is also quite great. It is generally used to increase the power of the spell, or as in my case now, it requires the use of blood from the tip of the tongue.

Saliva is originally a good thing, and it has a slight effect of warding off evil spirits. According to Old Man Jiang, it comes with the aura of a person.

However, its effect is relatively weak. In comparison, the blood from the middle finger and the blood from the tip of the tongue have the strongest yang energy and the best effect of expelling evil spirits.

In this case, I wasn’t sure I could bite open my middle finger, and that action would disrupt my concentration when I was drawing the runes, so I could only use the blood from my tongue.

My tongue was rapidly drawing runes on my palate. This was the only one I knew how to do, and it was a rune that blessed the power of the object and the spell. At this moment, my entire mind was highly concentrated, without fear or nervousness. I didn’t even know what Guo Er was doing.

This kind of rune combined with the mantra is relatively simple, and I don’t know if it worked. At the moment when the rune was completed, I suddenly bit my tongue. A salty smell immediately filled my mouth, and then came the pain.

It worked!

At this point, I felt Guo Er’s hand had already broken free of mine and was pinching my chin again. The heavenly eye had opened unintentionally, and now I didn’t know where it had disappeared. So, I also saw that the worm had already crawled out of Guo Er’s mouth by almost three inches, and it was less than a foot away from me.

I didn’t have time to think about it, so I spit the blood from my tongue mixed with saliva at the bug.

Then I heard a sound that was not loud, but extremely sharp, a sound that was between the sound of a chicken and the sound of a bug. Then I saw the bug covered in blood from my tongue, twisting in extreme pain and shrinking back, but not fast enough.

I was originally planning to save the person, so how could I just watch the hungry ghost shrink back into Guo Er’s stomach? Taking advantage of the situation, I picked up the tiger claw and stabbed the bug with it. The tiger claw easily pierced the bug’s fat, soft body, and I stuck the tiger claw in the flowerpot nearby.

A strange thing happened. The bug was stiffened by the tiger claw, and it didn’t move. Guo Er on my body also suddenly deflated, and it was about to lie down. How could I let him lie on me, not to mention that the bug didn’t know how long it had in his mouth.

I pulled Guo Er away and sat up. The next thing I did was disgusting, but I had to do it. I stood up tiredly, tore off a piece of Guo Er’s ragged clothes, wrapped my hands in it, and pulled the worm, or rather the hungry ghost, out of Guo Er’s body completely.

It was long, about half a meter long, and when I looked closely, I saw that the upper part of the worm had two barbs, which looked like two human hands, and the tail had already forked, like two human legs.

I don’t know why all this is happening, and I don’t know the cause and effect of hungry ghosts, or what their specific manifestations are, but I’m sure this is the thing that is causing trouble in Guo Er.

There was a blood line on the bug’s body, only a small section, faintly visible. I watched it for a while and found it boring. Because I was tired, I started to sit on the ground and pant. At this time, Guo Er, who was lying on the side, began to cough violently. I turned my head and saw that Guo Er had coughed up a large amount of blood.

Although metaphysics also has a medical branch, my homework is already very heavy, and I don’t have time to dabble in that at all. I don’t even have a little bit of a foundation, so I don’t know how to help Guo Er. I had to tell him, “You hang in there. My master is coming and you’ll be saved.”

Guo Er looked at me with gratitude in his eyes, but he was also very weak and could not speak. He coughed a few times and then fainted.

This is understandable. After being so exploited by the hungry ghost, it would be strange if he could still be lively and active. Moreover, what the hungry ghost did in his body, I’m afraid only the hungry ghost knows.

I myself was also dizzy from time to time. This was not a problem of physical strength, but the result of repeatedly using my “power” beyond its limits. In Taoism, power can be understood as mental power, mental power, willpower, aura, and so on. I used more than I could bear, and the consequences were just like this.

Moreover, I was barely able to perform the incantation.

However, I couldn’t faint because I didn’t know if the tiger claw could completely suppress the hungry ghost worm, and I couldn’t step on it to crush it. My master said that there are all kinds of strange things in the world, and that things are not destroyed just because you see them destroyed.

For example, you might have pinned a leech to the ground with a nail, but if you step on it, it will break into several pieces and escape.

And these things, only a genius knows what’s weird about them.

So I have to keep an eye on it!

According to Su Rou, smoking is refreshing. I was a bit tired, so I rolled over Guo Er’s body and took out a pack of Hongmei cigarettes from his pocket. They were quite good, and Guo Er was indeed a rich man in the countryside who could afford to smoke Hongmei cigarettes.

I took out a box of matches, lit them, and lit my first cigarette in my life.

As the smoke rose, I began to cough violently. A special bitterness rose in my mouth, and I felt even more dizzy, but I could also feel that my spirits were slightly better.

Leaning against the wall, I slowly smoked the cigarette, recovering my severely depleted body. I thought to myself that it was so difficult to exorcise demons, and that just one bug almost killed me. It could have gone into my stomach, so you can see how powerful my master, the old man, was.

In this way, I relied on the cigarette to keep my spirits up, and I waited for a minute or two. I don’t know how long it was, but anyway, when I had smoked my fifth cigarette, I heard a loud knocking on the door.

“Sanwa, Sanwa…” It was the voice of the crispy meat.

My master had finally arrived. A wave of joy rose from the bottom of my heart. I stood up with some difficulty and almost stumbled to the door. I opened the door with a loud crash and there were three people standing at the door.

Su Rou, my master, and the old monk Hui Jue.

“Sanwa, you’re still alive! I’ve been gone for more than three hours, and I was afraid you were dead.” Su Rou suddenly jumped up and hugged me. I was already weak, and I almost couldn’t breathe when he hugged me. If I didn’t let go, I think I would have fallen.

I glanced at my master and saw that his expression immediately settled down. The old monk Huijue also put away his worried expression and became the image of a thief.

But the next moment, my master flew into a rage, pulled Su Rou away, and slapped me on the head. He roared, “How capable are you? Do you think you’re Zhang Tian Shi or Zhong Kui? You’re still young, you don’t have much hair, and you dare to fight a hungry ghost?”

I was stunned by my master’s slap, and the old monk Huizhuo was fanning the flames with his hands behind his back: “Where did a genius come from? He’s too young to fight hungry ghosts.”

I cursed in my heart, and I fainted uncontrollably.