The Otherworldly Adventures of a Super Naive Girl

448: Gu Parasite

Alante used the same attack with such high speed that her motions were a blur.
Feng Wu would have had her heart carved out if she was any slower.

Feng Wu frowned she didn’t expect Alante’s nails to be so strong.

In the meantime, Rui Baby had successfully delivered Feng Wu’s message to Pei Qing while Feng Wu and the countess were fighting.

Wind and Pei Qing went to help Feng Wu while Rain went to the fifth floor to find out what was going on with the count.

There were many maids guarding the fifth floor, but they were ordinary people so they were no match against a sword user like Rain.
She didn’t have any problems knocking them out.

After she knocked everyone unconscious, she walked to the master bedroom and opened the door.

A scrawny man lay on a bed in the center of the room.
His eyes were bruised black and blue and his body was best described as withered.

“Fuck! Too vicious!”

Rain had a special ability from her mother, and because of it, she easily saw what was afflicting the promising young count.

Count Nigusu was caught in a long lost evil gu[notes] seduction spell.

Rain didn’t know how the count ended up being caught in one, but it was one which was extremely unusual.
In fact, the seduction spell that bound him wasn’t a pure seduction spell.
It was clear he wasn’t the only source of sustenance for the gu, that there was an external source feeding it as well.

Seduction spells powered by external forces were far more harmful to the body so that was why Nigusu looked on the brink of death.

This kind of seduction spell needed one male and one female gu.
The female gu rejuvenated its host, making the host appear beautiful and attractive.
Men would fall in love with her easily.
The male gu made its host love the female gu host beyond reason with single-minded devotion.
He would not have to ability to deny her anything.

A female gu like this could help a woman get the man she wanted.
But ultimately it was the wrong way to go about doing it.

Once the two worms have helped their hosts consummate their love physically, the male gu will absorb the life force of the male host until there is none left and the male host dies.
Once that happens, the male gu will burrow out of the host’s body in search of the next host.

It was a rare spell.
Long ago, there was a woman who couldn’t get the affection of the man she loved so she turned to seduction arts.
She had lousy talent and failed to get any advanced arts so she didn’t progress far.
Finally, out of desperation, she used two gu worms.

She snuck the male one into the man’s meal then took the female one herself.

It worked just as the woman expected.
The man fell madly in love with her and would have done anything for her.
Eventually she began to feel physically uneasy.
The gu worm gave her a beautiful face but she needed to feed it the blood of young, beautiful woman to maintain it, otherwise she would lose her prettiness.

In order to keep her appearance, she began murdering women in the area for their blood.
Things went well and she thought she would be happily in love forever, but things took an unexpected turn.
Her lover’s body began to weaken and his vitality dissipated as the days wore on.
She tried everything she knew to prevent his decline, but nothing worked and he eventually died.

In the end she died a martyr for her love.
It was a sad story that managed to popularize the the refinement technique for the gu worms.

Rain couldn't imagine anyone still knew how to refine the worms.
It had been a over a thousand years since the worms were extinct.

Using gu worms for seduction was an evil art.
Those who understood true seduction arts would never use a technique that left such undesirable side effects.
For example, Chiba’s Holy Maiden, a well-known practitioner of seduction arts, held the title of Most Beautiful Woman in the World.

Gossip was, any man who saw her, would involuntarily fall in love with her.
As for other women, even if they didn’t fall in love with her, they certainly would not hate her or feel any sense of jealousy toward her.
As long as they met her face to face, it was impossible for them to control their hearts and not be moved by her beauty.

This was the embodiment of a master of seduction arts.
She would never use a gu, which had unsavory side effects, to force someone to love her.

Those who used the gu had to continually kill people to feed it, otherwise the worm would eat them to death instead.
It wasn’t an easy way to die.

Because the worm did so much harm to both parties, only the truly desperate used the technique.

After sighing at the madness of it all, Rain tried to think of a way to save the count.

In reality, Rain misunderstood.
Alante didn’t know her change was related to the worm, then by the time she did learn about it, it was far too late to stop.
Besides, she wouldn't shed any tears over dying if it meant getting the man she loved.

As long as Nigusu belonged solely to her for eternity, she was willing to give up everything.
Even if it meant dying, what did it matter? As long as they were together, she didn’t care what happened to her.

Alante never considered whether Nigusu, who was controlled by the worm, would be willing to die with her.

How to save him. . .  Rain was uncertain how to go about doing it.
Her uncertainty made her anxious.
In the end, she decided to have the old lady come over first, they could figure it out together afterwards.

She was about to leave when a breeze blew the curtains.
Rain immediately raised her sword and yelled out, “Who’s out there?”

A pink haired girl stood on the balcony.
She had a very pretty dainty little peach imprint on her forehead between her brows.
The flower seemed to light up her whole face and made anyone looking at her feel reenergized.

“You go downstairs first; I’ll save him.” Her smile was like a playful spring breeze.

“You haven’t said you are.
I don’t know if you were sent by that crazy woman, Alante.” Rain did not sheath her sword.

“There’s no time to explain.
The more time we waste, the more helpless his situation will be.
Believe that I am a friend of Feng Wu.
I’m not a bad person.
Now please leave first.
I must save him now.”

The girl was Spring Envoy, Scarlet, one of the four Holy Envoys from Star Marshall hall.