"Old Dong, are you missing Big Sister Wang again?"
Li Ta Tian glared at Elder Dong, then turned to Xu Hao and said, "Young friend, don't mind this old geezer, just speak your mind, we don't have any outsiders here."
Xu Hao nodded and said, "Then I'll just say it. Have you ever encountered any strange people, or has a strange person ever touched you?"
Li Ta Tian thought for a while, but could not detect anything unusual and shook his head slightly, "In my line of work, some things need to be verified personally, so I've touched all sorts of people. As for anything strange, I really haven't paid attention, since to me, all kinds of people are customers."
Elder Jiang, who had been silent until now, suddenly spoke up, "Young friend, are you saying he is like me?"
Xu Hao nodded and said, "Exactly!"
"That's troublesome!" Elder Jiang said, "Young Li meets all sorts of people, he probably wouldn't know when he's been framed."
"What are you guys talking about? I don't understand," Li Ta Tian asked.
Elder Jiang immediately told Li Ta Tian about the Gu Insects Xu Hao had found on him.
Li Ta Tian instantly felt his scalp tingle. Pointing to his head, he said, "Young friend, are you saying there's a worm in here?"
Xu Hao nodded and said, "Correct. I don't know who cast the Gu on you, but I can tell that the person who did it has abilities in Gu techniques that are much stronger than the one who cast the Gu on Elder Jiang. But this also means that once the Gu starts devouring your brain matter, you will die within just ten seconds."
Suddenly, Li Ta Tian became seriously unsettled. If it had been before, he would have never believed in such things, but with Elder Jiang's firsthand experience, he couldn't not believe even if he wanted to.
"Nonsense! This completely defies science!" George angrily said, "Our latest scientific research in America has shown that there's little to commend about traditional Chinese medicine from Huaya, and those Gu techniques, corpse puppet techniques, it's all nonsense, completely unscientific!"
Xu Hao was finally growing tired of George and said with a faint smile, "Keep talking, and see if I don't make you speechless."
George sneered, "Are you referring to the acupuncture point sealing I often read about in your martial arts novels? Your Chinese acupuncture points are all nonsense, fooling those who are ignorant is one thing, but trying to fool a Havard graduate like me is utterly delusional…"
But before he could finish, Xu Hao casually released a faint Qi force!
The Qi force flew to George's lips, and no matter how George tried to open his mouth, he was horrified to find he could no longer make a sound!
As he desperately tried tearing at his mouth, he found it was all in vain!
"Oh! My God! I actually witnessed acupuncture point sealing in Huaya!"
Louise exclaimed excitedly, "This is actually real! Acupuncture point sealing technique truly exists in Huaya!"
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Xu Hao was able to project the Qi force externally!
Given time, he would become a Grandmaster Level Expert!
Elder Chen sighed in his heart, it really is the new waves of the Yangtze River pushing the old waves, each wave stronger than the last!
Xu Hao, as if he had just swatted a fly, showed no change in expression but focused intently on Li Ta Tian.
Extracting the Gu, and ensuring Old Mr. Li isn't hurt, was not an easy task in fact.
Xu Hao said, "Old gentleman, although last time I successfully extracted the Gu for Elder Jiang, his was the Life Devouring Gu, ranked tenth among the Top Ten Gu Worms, and relatively easier to extract. But the one in your brain, called the Brain Eating Gu, as the name suggests, is designed to devour a person's brain matter. However, it's been lurking in your brain for at least a month without any incident, which clearly shows that the culprit definitely has a bigger plan."
Li Ta Tian smiled and said, "No worries, I've been in this business for years, auctioning items without asking for their origins. Naturally, I might have unwittingly offended some people, but haven't I lived long enough to see through these things? As long as I'm clear in my conscience, that's enough. Go on, just extract it however you want, I trust you!"
Xu Hao laughed and said, "Since Old Li has spoken thus, I won't be coy. I'll still use the Guigu Thirteen Needles again this time, but I won't be using acupuncture, because it's ineffective against the Brain Eating Gu. I will use Qi force to drive it out."
George cursed inwardly, still the damn Qi force?
Huaya's Qigong has already been exposed as fake, a misguided belief.
Qi force can also expel Gu worms?
Elder Chen and others who knew about Qi force were baffled.
The scenes in martial arts novels where internal strength saves people, those are all fake. Everyone's cultivation of Qi force is different, once encountered, they only clash.
Moreover, the power of the Qi force is immense, explosive even, recklessly entering an ordinary person's body might just blast their internal organs apart, let alone the extremely fragile brain, filled with a labyrinth of nerves. Just the slightest mishap could leave a person brain-damaged.