“This is a gift from the great god Chi You to our Daika tribe. We will definitely be able to defeat the Daimen tribe quickly and retrieve our ancestral sacred object. Then you will become a great shaman.” Jinka became more and more excited as he spoke, waving his withered arm to emphasize his aura. “Lai, you must arrange for people to keep a close watch on Dika. As long as Dika is in our hands, Lin Yao will definitely be under our control.”
"Let Dika handle the love potion himself; that will be more effective. Otherwise, Lin Yao will think we're deliberately deceiving him." Jinka smiled dismissively, sat back in the rattan chair, and immediately closed his eyes to rest, ignoring his son Baoka.
Dika sat on her usual wooden stool, tears still wet on her face, her worry a heartbreaking sight.
"Ah Lang, I'm so sorry!" As soon as she finished speaking, Dika threw herself onto the wooden table and began to sob. Her trembling shoulders made her look very pitiful.
"Dika, what's wrong? It's okay." Lin Yao gently patted Dika's shoulder, comforting her tenderly, "It's just that I've been affected by your love potion, it's nothing. I promise I won't get hurt. I'll just not miss any other girls afterward. It's just a waste of your love potion..."
Lin Yao decided to lie to comfort Dika. He knew that this woman cared a lot about his safety, but he had a way to deal with it. So telling a beautiful lie would be better, so that Dika wouldn't be hurt too much after they left the valley.
"No, no!" Dika continued to sob, burying her face in her hands on the table, shaking her head frantically. "It's not like that!"
"What is it like?" Lin Yao asked curiously.
“Alang, I know you want to go home. I know the people in the tribe kidnapped you. I know you were kidnapped.” Dika raised her head, her red and swollen eyes looking at Lin Yao, tears streaming down her face. “But today, because of my mistake, you can never leave the valley again. If you want to leave, you must get Chief Jinka’s permission, otherwise you will die, you will die!”
Lin Yao was even more puzzled and shook his head, saying, "No way, wasn't it a love curse? I know about love curses, you're the one who told me about them."
“As long as I don’t fall in love with other women, the love curse won’t take effect. Even you can’t make the larvae take effect. As long as I don’t think about other women, how could I possibly die?” Lin Yao stood up and brought Dika a cup of tea.
This tea was made from the tender tips of the vegetable tree that Dika personally picked in the spring. He gave Lin Yao a whole bag, and it looks like he'll be drinking it until next year. However, the taste is particularly fragrant, and Lin Yao likes it very much.
“Ah Lang.” Dika’s expression was very serious, his swollen eyes staring straight at Lin Yao. “I told you, I can’t raise any kind of Gu worm, except for the love worm.”
Lin Yao nodded in agreement, feeling even more puzzled.
“But my love bug is different from others’, completely different, not at all…” Dika cried again as she spoke, bending down and resting her head on her knees.
Different? Lin Yao was shocked. He recalled what happened when Xiao Cao had just woken up. At that time, Xiao Cao was about to kill the love insects. Dika shouted and rolled on the ground, looking like he was in great pain.
Could it be that Dika's love potion is a form of reverse control?
That's not right. If it were controlled in reverse, that old fox wouldn't be laughing so happily.
That must be a two-way control! But so what? If he doesn't fall for other women, Dika can't control himself. Isn't that the same effect as a regular love potion?
“Ah Lang, other people’s love potions are called love potions, but mine can no longer be called that. Mine is the ‘Thousand Mountains Gu’!” Dika’s face was ashen. She had already anticipated how she would be treated and how her beloved Ah Lang would be restrained.
She herself doesn't matter, since she's been a good-for-nothing for so many years anyway, but Alang can't be controlled like this. He still has his Matamir, and his friends. His sky isn't in these mountains and fields, but in the faraway metropolis.
"Thousand Mountain Gu?!" Lin Yao's pupils contracted sharply.
This name sounds suspicious!
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Chapter 238 Taking Action
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As Dika explained, Lin Yao's expression grew increasingly grim.
Only a woman can cultivate a love potion using her own blood and essence. She then places the male worm on the man she loves. From that moment on, the man cannot love or be affectionate towards any other woman. Otherwise, the woman who cast the potion will immediately know. No matter how far apart the two are, she can control the male worm to bite the heart of the unfaithful man until it has completely devoured the heart, at which point the male worm will die.
This is a way for Miao women to protect their love and happiness; it must be said that the ancients had great wisdom.
Love without constraints and based entirely on self-awareness is unreliable. Humans are by nature highly adaptable to their environment, but also capable of ignoring it.
Entering a room filled with orchids, one soon ceases to smell their fragrance; entering a fish market, one soon ceases to smell its stench.
This is a basic human physiological instinct, and the same applies to emotions.
Sometimes, habits are a good thing. They make people hardworking, enterprising, and fearless in the face of difficulties. Good work style and a fighting spirit can help people improve and achieve greater success.
But sometimes bad habits make us overlook the beauty and happiness around us. They make us restless and fickle. Only when we lose those beautiful things do we feel immense regret and unbearable pain, but by then it's too late.
The ancients were clever, and the Miao women were wise!
They use this method of threatening life to protect their happiness, allowing men to continue to experience and enjoy their past choices. Unless coercion is used when casting a spell, they can live happily ever after.
Life may not be the most precious thing, but most of the time it is extremely precious. We only have one life, so this constraint is very effective. This applies not only to love, but to everything else as well.
Therefore, there were very few thieves in ancient times because they would have their hands chopped off; there were also very few cases of disrespecting elders in ancient times because there were seven grounds for divorce; and the situation of telling lies was extremely rare in ancient times, so much so that the saying "a ruler's words are not to be taken lightly" came about because everyone valued integrity.
Unlike modern society, where dishonesty leads to success and those who lie and deceive are idolized and worshipped once they become rich and successful.
This society has lost its integrity, and sooner or later it will suffer enormous consequences!
Dika's love potion is completely different. The only potion this little girl has cultivated can no longer be called a love potion, but the legendary "Thousand Mountains Gu".
The "Thousand Mountains Gu" takes its name from the phrase "Love transcends mountains and rivers." Ordinary love Gu can only sense a man's love and desire, but not his location or distance. The "Thousand Mountains Gu," however, is different. It not only allows the man and woman who possess these Gu worms to know each other's location, but also their approximate distance. No matter how many mountains the lovers traverse, their presence will be felt.
What's most unique is that this kind of Gu cannot be used to control the life or death of the other person, regardless of gender. However, they can decide the death of the other person by sacrificing themselves.
Once one party sacrifices themselves or dies unexpectedly, the other party will wail for an hour before following them in death; this is called "the mourning of a thousand mountains".