Chapter 280: Can You Live Without a Head?

As soon as Xuanzang arrived in this small country, a local monk immediately reported to the king. As soon as the king heard that a monk from the Tang Dynasty was coming, he couldn't wait to summon him, because in his opinion, the Tang Dynasty was a big country in the Celestial Empire, and it was very developed in all aspects, even if it was a monk, it would definitely be stronger than his own small country.

Xuanzang knew all about this, but when he walked into the main hall, he was a little surprised by the scene he saw in front of him-he saw many guards, in a circle, holding a broom in their hands, looking at the ground vigilantly and nervously.

At that time, Xuanzang was still very puzzled - is this a special etiquette? I've never heard of it before, it's really the world's big, it's all strange.

But since Xuanzang stepped into the main hall, the guards have noticed an astonishing detail - those Gu insects under their feet have avoided Xuanzang who walked in slowly.

This shocked everyone in the hall!

Because for anyone in the main hall, these Gu worms are eager to try and try to attack, but only for Xuanzang, not only do they not attack, but they also avoid it.

They hurriedly reported this astonishing phenomenon to the king in the innermost.

When the king heard this, he couldn't help but be overjoyed, and felt that he had really not miscalculated, this Tang monk had indeed cultivated extraordinary, so he immediately became very polite, and commanded loudly across the crowd, and gave Xuanzang a seat, served tea, and served a few large plates of fruit. The other people in the hall also respected Xuanzang.

However, for this qiē, Xuanzang was still in the dark, and he didn't notice the little Gu insects on the ground.

He just thought that the etiquette of this small country was really too strange - when the king received people, he was surrounded by a group of guards with brooms, which was really unseen and unheard of.

When he sat down in a daze, he suddenly heard the crockpot in his bag crackling, and suddenly remembered that the crockpot still contained those strange insects.

At this time, the crockpot became louder and louder, as if the insects inside were going crazy. Xuanzang felt that something was wrong-since he put these insects in the crockpot, they had been very quiet, why did they suddenly become restless at this moment?

He subconsciously put his hand into the baggage, and wanted to stuff the crockpot inside, but he didn't expect to be in a hurry, and accidentally opened the lid of the crockpot a little, and he only felt that a worm passed through his hand and quickly crawled out, which made him a little more hurried.

Before Xuanzang could react, the insects inside quickly crawled out, and at a very fast speed, they crawled out of their burdens and fell to the ground.

Xuanzang was a little panicked, because after all, this was in the king's hall, and if he released these weird insects, once he disturbed others, the consequences would be very strict.

But the next scene is even more striking:

I saw these insects rushing towards those Gu insects on the ground, and then devoured the Gu insects one by one at an extremely fast speed. These Gu worms that couldn't be burned, drowned, or crushed were wiped out in an instant! Moreover, while eating Gu worms, these bugs pulled down clumps of black, foul-smelling.

Soon, on the smooth ground, not a single Gu worm was gone.

In this hall, in order to prevent the Gu worms from hiding, almost everything was removed - except for a few chairs. Therefore, the people in the house could clearly see that those extremely terrifying Gu worms had indeed been completely eaten by these worms.

Everyone in the room was stunned by this strange scene. After a long while, everyone came to their senses, and then the room resounded with earth-shattering cheers.

In this way, Xuanzang actually saved the king in a daze. This made the king throw himself to Xuanzang's admired five-body body, and was ready to let Xuanzang be the national teacher.

After a long time, Xuanzang figured out what was going on, and wanted to explain the origin of those bugs to the king and ministers, but because of the language barrier, he even spoke with a comparison, but in the end he couldn't explain it clearly.

However, Xuanzang thought that even if he said it clearly, the king might not believe it, so he finally gave up. Later, the king couldn't keep Xuanzang, so he tentatively asked Xuanzang if he could leave these insects to him, so that if those Gu insects appeared again, he would be able to deal with them.

Xuanzang gave the worm to the king very happily, and the king was also very grateful to Xuanzang and gave Xuanzang a lot of treasures, but Xuanzang only charged a little travel expenses.

For a long time afterward, Xuanzang would repeatedly think of this adventure and those mysterious insects, but this was simply an unsolvable mystery for him.

And this mystery was not solved by a senior monk there until he arrived in Tianzhu.

The eminent monk told him that the dried corpse he had met in the desert with a burning brain had a very special constitution, and that he was an individual person who was "extremely masculine" -- this kind of person had a very strong masculine body.

How is this determined?

The monk said that if anyone dies of heat stroke is split open from his skull, he will see that his brain is smoking, and his brain will seem to have been burned. This phenomenon is generally known to very few people.

And for a person who is extremely positive, if he dies from heat stroke, the situation will be even worse - his brain will burn. Because the dried corpse only had its brain burned to ashes, and there were no traces of other organs being burned, it can probably be judged that the person was an extremely positive person before his death, and the insects born on this dried corpse are also "extreme yang things", and the corpse insects of this "extreme yang thing" can be said to be invulnerable, and they are the most masculine and rigid things in the world.

And those Gu insects that are almost impossible to kill are "extreme yin things", and only the corpse insects of "extreme yang things" can "regulate" them.

After such an explanation by the monk, Xuanzang figured out what was going on.

Xuanzang also asked the monk curiously, since the corpse insect can defeat the kind of Gu insect with extremely tenacious vitality, is it the vitality of the corpse insect itself, which is also as tenacious as the Gu worm - it can't be burned, drowned, crushed, and chopped with a knife.

In the book, Xuanzang recorded the monk's answer to his question: "You Shiye" - that is, the vitality of the corpse insect is stronger than the vitality of the Gu worm.

The monk further said that this kind of corpse insect will only die and disappear without a trace, and ordinary artificial methods cannot kill them at all.

This shocked Xuanzang, he couldn't imagine that there were such strange insects in the world, people can kill tigers and lions, but they can't kill this little corpse insect, it's really incredible.

Could it be that this kind of corpse worm really has no nemesis in the world? When Xuanzang couldn't help but ask this question, the monk just smiled and shook his head, saying Of course not, everything in time is mutually reinforcing, and of course this kind of corpse worm also has a nemesis.

So what is its nemesis? -- The monk simply replied that it was "a living beast without a head."

Huizhong saw that this was recorded in the book, and he thought at the time that this might just be a joke made by the eminent monk, because the so-called "living beasts and birds without heads" refer to beasts or birds that have no heads, but are still alive, that is, only such "living creatures" can become the "nemesis" of this corpse insect - but without a head, how can beasts or birds still live?

Therefore, Huizhong felt that this was just a joke made by a monk, and this kind of corpse insect might really have no nemesis. But what happened tonight subverted his point of view and reminded him of this record in the book, could it be that the violent death of this kind of corpse worm was because there was really a "nemesis" of corpse worms around?

With Huizhong's profound medical attainments, he knew very well that the corpse insects died so violently, and it was very likely that a special yin qi appeared around them, and this special yin qi happened to be the nemesis of the corpse insects.

There are thousands of kinds of yang energy, and similarly, there are thousands of kinds of yin energy, and the yin energy that appears around it may be precisely the nemesis of corpse insects.

So what exactly is this yin energy emitted? According to the Tianzhu monk, the one emitting this kind of yin qi should be a headless, but still alive beast or bird!

When Huizhong thought of this, he couldn't help but shiver. Is this really possible?

If he didn't hesitate, the corpses might soon be dead, and he knew he should act immediately.

What's next?

The first step is to follow this special yin qi and find the source of this yin qi -- perhaps the source of this yin qi is, as the high monk in Tianzhu said, a headless beast or a bird -- but whatever it is, this source of yin qi must be eliminated.

So how do you detect this yin energy? Huizhong has thought of a way.

What he didn't expect was that this method of exploring yin qi, which he had already mastered, would now come in handy, and it was really a lot of art.

This method of detecting yin qi is also very wonderful. So how did Huizhong learn this method?

It turned out that Huizhong had met a master tomb robber during his medical practice in the past, and became a good friend. The two have a similar temper, often drink and chat together, and finally become friends who talk about everything.

This master tomb robber has a special ability that is staggering - he can find the exact location of the tomb just by smelling it. Moreover, he only needs to smell the soil layer dug out by the Luoyang shovel to accurately tell the age of the tomb. Therefore, this person is rich with this nose alone.

Because his surname is Zhang, others jokingly call him "Dog Nose Zhang".

Huizhong is of course very interested in this kind of strange person, but he has always thought that the superhuman sense of smell of "dog nose open" is completely innate. And often jokingly said to "Dog Nose Zhang" that it would be good if he could have such a nose, he would no longer have to work hard to make money by practicing medicine, digging a few big graves, and he would eat and drink for the rest of his life.

Sure enough, later, this secret was finally revealed.

One day many years later, "Goubizhang Zhang" got seriously ill and invited many Langzhong - including Huizhong - but they did not get better, and his condition became more and more serious, and he couldn't do it anymore.

When Huizhong arrived at the "Dog Nose Zhang" ward, he saw that "Dog Nose Zhang" had lost his human shape, and when "Dog Nose Zhang" saw him coming, he struggled to sit up, struggled to half lean on the pillow, and then told Sù Hui a shocking secret.