Wei Mingyan was struck dumb, taking two steps back, his voice filled with disbelief. “…So you just wanted to complete the mission and didn’t want to help me at all!”

He actually considered this villain his benefactor and thought that he and his family were saved. It’s utterly ridiculous.

Old Master Wang’s gaze fell on his handsome face, a smile on his lips. “I never said from beginning to end that I would help you get rid of the gu worm. I wish you would die a horrible death, why would I help you get rid of the worm-bird heart gu?”

Wei Mingyan’s face turned pale, and a string in his mind snapped. He couldn’t understand this person at all. “Who are you? What do you want?”

There was no love without a reason, nor was there hatred without a reason.

What grudge did he have against his family that made him want to kill him so badly?

Although Wei Mingyan asked this, he had no hope in his heart and did not think that this mysterious person would tell him.

However, Old Master Wang said with a smile, “I have no relation to you, but I have a very close relationship with your father.”

“My father?!” Wei Mingyan was shocked to hear the news of his missing father. “Where is he… Did you kill him?”

“Yes.” Old Master Wang stared intently at him, as if looking through him at someone. “When he died, he was very distraught. He begged me not to kill him, saying that his son was still waiting for him to come home, and that his son couldn’t live without his father.

“But I still killed him, dug out his heart, and used it to raise the worm-bird heart gu.”

Old Master Wang smiled broadly, his expression strange, as he looked at the test tube in An Rugu’s hand. “Some of the gu worms inside that are yours, and some of them are your father’s. So, are you happy to see your father?”

Wei Mingyan suddenly turned around, looking at the red silk threads in the test tube. His stomach churned violently, and stomach acid surged up from his throat, making him feel nauseous.

His father not only died, but his heart was also dug out to raise gu worms, which was even harder for him to accept than the death itself.

He gagged, and it took him a long time to calm down. His eyes were bloodshot. “Who are you? I’ll make you pay!”

The hatred for the murderer of one’s father was irreconcilable.

Old Master Wang was not frightened by him at all; his smile grew wider and wider, as if he were taking pleasure in the other man’s suffering. “Your father was very foolish.”

“You’re talking nonsense. Don’t you dare slander him.”

Seeing him so devastated, Old Master Wang felt extremely pleased and wanted to make him even more devastated. “I told you before, your great-grandfather came to the Gu tribe, fell in love with the chief’s daughter and got married, but less than two years later, your great-grandfather couldn’t stand life in the Miao village and ran away.

“He returned to the country from studying abroad and believed in freedom of marriage; since he couldn’t stand it, he wanted to get a divorce.

“But Miao women are not to be trifled with.

“That woman was the most talented gu master of her generation, capable of restoring the worm-bird heart gu. She left the Miao territory, but when she found him, he was already married again. So she secretly placed the gu worm in his body…

“The more children he fathered, the happier she was, because then more of his children would die as well.”

Seeing how much he knew about his grandfather, Wei Mingyan felt something was off and pressed him for details, asking, “Who exactly are you?”

Old Master Wang ignored him and continued, “In the Gu tribe, the tribe rules are the law. She was expelled from the tribe and had to settle in another Miao village. Then, she adopted an orphan girl from the village. That girl grew up, got married, had children, and then had another girl.

“I am not related to you by blood, but in a sense, your father and I are siblings of the same generation.”

Seeing her expression, Wei Mingyan had a vague feeling that something was wrong. “That’s why my father went to the Miao village and ran into you.”

The gu witch recalled the past, laughing hysterically. “The Gu clan is xenophobic, so he couldn’t get in. He could only find me, the most famous one at the time, and wanted me to see if he was under a gu curse.

“That’s a gu worm that my grandmother planted to deal with her enemies. I know how to undo it, but why should I undo it for him? Who did he think he was?”

As she said this, a flash of resentment crossed her eyes. “He was a silver-tongued, eloquent man who tried to steal the secret of the worm-bird heart gu, just as despicable as your great-grandfather. The day he escaped with the method, I caught up with him, and then…

“My grandmother was too kind; she even let your great-grandfather live to be forty. To deal with a heartless man, he should die early, not a second longer, and have his heart dug out for me to use to raise poisonous gu.

“Hahahaha!”

Her hoarse laughter echoed in the room, sending chills down one’s spine.

An Rugu listened to the whole thing, pondered it for a long time, and then understood.

The witch’s maternal grandmother and Wei Mingyan’s great-grandfather had a past relationship. The man betrayed the woman, so she deliberately cast a gu spell on him, causing him and his descendants to die before the age of forty.

By chance, Wei Mingyan’s father came to the Miao village in search of a way to break the curse. He saw that the gu master was a woman; it could be guessed that he wanted to offer himself to her in order to win her heart and steal the secret of the worm-bird heart gu.

As a result, that generation’s gu master was even more decisive and efficient than her grandmother.

She directly removed the other person’s heart to use as a breeding ground for gu worms.

An Rugu lowered her eyes, somewhat dazed.

I Livestream Divination to the World translated by Maela @ whitemoonlighttranslations.com

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