Chapter 193: Vanished Overnight
Sanhe Commandery, Earth God Temple.
This was a branch altar of the Beggar Sect.
Dozens of ragged beggars were boiling medicinal herbs, and the acrid smell of medicine filled the air.
Inside the main hall of the temple, a burly man lay on a pile of straw. His eyes were shut, his face pale, his lips darkened, and his breathing faint as a thread.
Three men stood beside him, doing their utmost to save him.
One was pounding mountain ginseng, squeezing its juice and feeding it into the unconscious man’s mouth.
Another, an elderly man with graying hair combed meticulously and without a single strand out of place, held a lodestone and carefully moved it across the man’s chest and abdomen. At the wound site, something could be seen slowly wriggling, as though a sharp object were trying to emerge…
After a while, with a clear “ding,” a needle as fine as an ox’s hair snapped onto the lodestone.
A stream of black blood gushed from the wound.