Lin Ming smiled lightly, chopping the grass as he used his True Essence to transmit his voice and ask in return, "Do you think that if I didn't give them these two knives, I would have been able to escape from their hands?"

  Nai hesitated for a moment, indeed, Lin Ming was just an easy-going martial artist, even if the bald big man and the monkey-faced man were bare-handed, Lin Ming would not be their match.

  However, Lin Ming was able to say this, at least proving that he wasn't stupid. Naiyi fell silent for a moment before speaking up: "Then what do you want to do? Paralyze them? Does that make sense?"

  Lin Mingdao said: "I'm not sure if it makes sense or not, but I have to try. You're the same, always guiding them. I thought it was Guangtou and Houlian who knew about that so-called ancient relic, expecting them to lead the way. Now I realize it's actually you leading the way. They must be forcing you, right? Do you really think they'll let your sisters go after taking away the treasure?"

  Nai's lips twitched slightly, and Lin Ming said these things she had thought of, she coldly said: "These don't need you to worry about!"

  "Of course I'm worried, I'm afraid you'll suddenly lose your mind and lead us into some inescapable trap, planning to die together with the enemy, then I'll be wronged to death."

  Nai spoke coldly: "When my parents died, I made two poisonous oaths. One of them was to protect my sister and let her live a peaceful life. So rest assured, no matter what, I will not let my sister die."

  Nai stopped talking at this point, and the two poisonous oaths were her deepest secret, which she would never tell a stranger. But now that her life was hanging by a thread, how could these two poisonous oaths be fulfilled?

  Lin Ming's heart moved slightly, and he looked back at Nai Yi with some surprise. However, he saw that this young girl with a tender face was only silently turning her head to gaze into the distance, and with her physique not yet fully developed, even when riding a horse, she could barely see over the tips of the grass.

  Just by looking at her, it's hard to imagine that such a burden has been shouldered on her tender shoulders. Two poisonous oaths, and another one is for avenging her parents?

  Lin Ming no longer made a sound, silently chopping the grass. At this moment, he suddenly felt a chill in his heart, and sensed that tens of meters away, there was a huge python, its coarse body as thick as a water barrel, with colorful stripes. Its length exceeded five zhang, and most of the snakes and insects in the southern wilderness were venomous.

  This enormous creature, plus its deadly venom, is a terrifying thought.

  Lin Ming remained expressionless, but was secretly on his guard.

  The team had advanced ten zhang when the bald big man suddenly raised the horse knife in his hand, apparently he had also discovered this giant python.

  The bald big man and the monkey-faced man may be scum, but they have a lot of jungle experience, otherwise they wouldn't have been able to roam around in southern Xinjiang for so many years.

  "Hua Wen Senya, Zhen Bei Yun, looking at this guy's thickness, I estimate his strength is equivalent to a Condensed Pulse Warrior." The bald big man furrowed his brow and took out a strange instrument from his backpack, which looked like a sheng but had some extra weird bamboo holes.

  The bald big man said as he flipped over and jumped off the horseback. Then, he picked up a zither and began to play it.

  Some hoarse voices came out, containing subtle true yuan fluctuations. The bald big man blew while tapping a strange rhythm with his feet, his two legs twisting left and right, the horizontal muscles on his face also trembling with his efforts.

  His body shape, combined with these movements, was a bit comical, but what surprised Lin Ming was that in no time at all, the big snake seemed to have been hypnotized and crawled away, twisting its thick body.

  "It's interesting." Lin Ming had seen many methods used by the people of Southern Xinjiang to deal with ferocious beasts and poisonous insects along this road. He originally thought that they would inevitably have a fierce battle, but in fact, most of the ferocious beasts could be driven away by these two guys using various strange methods, and only some weak ones would they take action to kill.

  So all the way here, no surprises, no danger.

  With these two people around, Lin Ming indeed saved a lot of effort.

  After playing the instrument, Da Han obviously consumed a lot, he took out a medicinal herb from his backpack, chewed it and swallowed it.

  This herb can restore some true yuan, although the effect is not very good, but it has a cheap price, as for the true yuan stone that is more expensive than gold by ten or even dozens of times, they are absolutely unable to afford it.

  "Let's go." The bald big man licked his lips and said with satisfaction, seemingly very pleased with his own record.

  Everything went smoothly until dusk, when the five of them arrived at the foot of a cliff. Lin Ming looked up and saw that this cliff was at least hundreds of meters high. If one were to fall from the top, they would be dead beyond dead.

  At this time, Nai, who had been silent all along, suddenly said: "It's here, from here you can enter the Witch God Sacred Land."

  "Huh?" The monkey-faced man's eyes lit up and he asked, "Where is the entrance? How do we get in?"

  However, Nai did not speak.

  The monkey-faced man frowned and his voice turned cold. "Little girl, stop playing tricks, tell me how to get in."

  "Let my sister go and I'll tell you." Nai said.

  "This is impossible, I've said it before. Unless we obtain the power of the witch god and come out safely from the sacred place of the witch god, I won't let your sister go. Don't think I'm a fool. Since this sacred place doesn't allow outsiders to enter, who knows what mechanisms are inside? If I let your sister go, you'll lead us into traps and we'll die without knowing how."

  "I'll say it again, let my sister go! I can swear to the witch god that I will bring you to the power of the witch god! Otherwise, you will get nothing."

  "Hah, what can't be gotten?" The bald big man sneered "No no no, even if we can't get the power of the witch god, at least us brothers can have some fun first, how about it little girls, don't you want your sister to... Haha!"

  The bald man said so, Na Shui's face suddenly turned pale and she shrank behind Nai Yi.

  Lin Ming also slightly furrowed his brow, but he still needed these two men for now and it wasn't the time to take action.

  Nai didn't say a word, she just stared coldly, obviously, she had no intention of backing down.

  At this time, the monkey-faced man spoke up. He said to the bald-headed man: "Old Second, you'd better not say anything more. You're so narrow-minded. With power, what woman can't be had?"

  He turned to Nai and said, "You have already led us into the sacred land of the witch god, which is considered a betrayal of the witch god. You still swear in the name of the witch god, how can I trust you?"

  Nai was silent for a moment, then tore off a piece of her sleeve, revealing a healthy and smooth arm. On her arm, there was a bright red dot, which was the cinnabar powder made from the crushed body of a gecko that had been fed with mercury for a long time.

  And below the palace guard sand, there is a pair of golden dots.

  Nai's hand moved, and she wiped away the pair of golden dots. Only then did Lin Ming see clearly that the two small dots were actually a pair of golden beetles, but they had been curled up together before, so they looked like a pair of golden beads.

  "Are you willing to die together and share the same fate?"

  The monkey-faced man's expression changed when he saw this pair of golden beetles and spoke out a name.

  People of southern Xinjiang are skilled in witchcraft and sorcery. This place is home to many poisonous insects, making it an ideal location for raising Gu (a type of venomous insect used in dark magic).

  "What's this 'same birth and death, shattered heart' business?" The bald-headed big fellow had never heard of such a thing.

  The monkey-faced man said: "The same life and death fragment heartworm, one male and one female, they must be attached to a person's body, sucking the blood of living people to survive. If they eat the blood of dead people, they will die quickly. The same life and death fragment heartworm has only one partner in its lifetime. If the partner dies, it will also die with the partner. After death, their bodies will break apart and release a deadly poison!"

  "Huh? What does it mean?" The bald-headed man didn't understand.

  The monkey-faced man said, "She wants to implant this pair of life-and-death linked Gu into her sister's body and one of our bodies. The Gu must feed on human blood to survive. If her sister dies, the Gu will also die, and then the Gu in our bodies will commit suicide, releasing deadly poison, and we'll be finished!"

  "Is it that ruthless?" The bald big man's face turned pale as he looked at these two small golden beetles, feeling a bit mysterious.

  Nai Dao said: "Although the human face is kind, the human heart is unpredictable. The poisonous wasp may be poisonous, but loyalty and chastity are unshakeable! With the same life-and-death fragmented wasp in you, you should believe me now. I couldn't possibly kill you by harming my own sister. If you agree, I will implant the fragmented wasp into your heart and take you with me. If you don't agree, I will die myself!"

  The monkey-faced man looked at the small golden beetle with a changing expression, hesitated for a while, and finally gritted his teeth and said: "Let it out, but first put it on your sister."

  Nai nodded and said: "Nashui, stretch out your arm."

  Nà shuǐ yǎo le yǎo zuǐ chún, shēn chū le gē bo.

  Translation: Nà squeezed her lips and stretched out her arm.

  Nai put one of the Shattered Heart Wasps from her sleeve onto Naihe's wrist, and immediately, the wasp bit through Naihe's skin and burrowed inside.

  Nana let out a soft "ah" due to the pain.

  Then, on Na Shui's small arm, a slight bulge appeared. The bulge went up along Na Shui's arm and into her heart through the bloodstream, where the shattered soul worm had entered her vein.

  Nina bit her lip tightly, her small face pale. For a little girl, this scene was really scary, and the pain and numbness that pierced through her blood vessels made Nina hard to bear.

  A moment later, Nai Shui covered her chest, her face slightly pale, apparently the feeling of a small beetle drilling into her heart was unbearable.

  "Nai comforted him: 'A Shui, don't worry, after three years of fragmentation, the Gu will transform and flow out of your heart along with your blood, it won't harm you.'"

  "Uh-huh." Nana nodded reluctantly.

  Lin Ming had been watching from the side with a cold eye, and although he hadn't seen the same life and death shattered heart gu before, he roughly understood what it was from their conversation. This sounded like a good contract, but in fact its binding force wasn't necessarily very strong. Lin Ming himself had ways to avoid this same life and death shattered heart gu's contract and render people useless.