The vice-leader didn't expect Feng Yuqin to be at a loss either. A flicker of anxiety flashed across his eyes.
Seeing his reaction, Feng Yuqin thought for a moment and said, "Although I haven't come up with a complete solution, I do have some ways to control the situation in the short term."
The vice-leader's eyes lit up. "Madam, you really have a way?"
Feng Yuqin nodded. "This is a brain-eating Gu worm. At present, I only have a way to block it, but not a complete solution, because a spiritual medicine is missing."
So before finding the spiritual medicine, they could only block the Gu worms, which would consume a great deal of energy.
Ultimately, it wasn't just a matter of her being able to refine the blocking antidote. They had to find the root cause to solve the problem.
"Even blocking the Gu worms requires a large amount of medicinal herbs, right?" The vice-leader quickly grasped the key point.
He also understood the other meaning behind Feng Yuqin's words that it would be very troublesome.
Feng Yuqin nodded. "That's right. You have to bear the cost of the medicinal herbs yourself. I don't have that many herbs here."
"Then I'll make arrangements immediately. And..." The vice-leader glanced at Feng Yuqin. "Madam, should the medicinal herbs be delivered here?"
"This is the pill recipe." Feng Yuqin had already asked Xiaoying to engrave the recipe on a jade slip.
The vice-leader took the jade slip and scanned it with his divine sense.
He was stunned when he saw that a grandmaster-level alchemist was required.
This time, the Earth Flame Continent was hosting a weapon refining competition.
So there weren't many alchemists here.
Moreover, there were so many people infected with the Gu worms. It would be difficult to refine a large number of grandmaster-level pills in a short time.
Feng Yuqin noticed the vice-leader's dilemma and said calmly, "You arrange for the grandmaster-level alchemists to refine as many pills as they can. Leave the rest to me."
"I thank you on behalf of everyone, Madam." The vice-leader didn't expect Feng Yuqin to go so far.
Previously, his impression of Feng Yuqin was that she looked cold and unapproachable.
Unexpectedly, when he actually got in touch with her, he found that she was so easy to talk to.
This was also because Feng Yuqin wanted to figure out how this Gu worm came about.
The vice-leader acted quickly. After getting the pill recipe, he immediately contacted the relevant people.
Many people were terrified when they saw that the souls of those infected with the Gu worms had disappeared.
Now that there was a solution, and it was proposed by Feng Yuqin, they were very grateful.
Of course, this didn't include the people from the Starfall Hall, the Soul-Separation Sect, and the Wei Family, who were on bad terms with Feng Yuqin.
They all thought that Feng Yuqin was just showing off.
"Humph, I don't believe Feng Yuqin can solve such a Gu worm problem," Si Tu Zihan said with a sinister look on her face.
Si Tu Lin beside her immediately echoed, "She has such a powerful man by her side. She must have stolen someone else's credit."
Hearing this, Si Tu Zihan felt a little better.
However, even so, she wouldn't let Feng Yuqin steal all the limelight.
So she had to do something.
However, before Si Tu Zihan could do anything, a new round of the spread of the brain-eating Gu worms began.
This spread wasn't limited to outside the city. It soon reached the inside of the city.
Because some people didn't know they were infected with the Gu worms after they went outside the city, they brought the Gu worms into the city.
After something happened to some people in the city, the situation couldn't be hidden anymore.
The most important thing now was to quickly refine the pills to reduce the number of people infected with the Gu worms.
The Alchemist Guild had branches everywhere.
So when the vice-leader saw this situation, the first thing he did was to find the people from the Alchemist Guild.
There were the most alchemists in the guild, so it would be faster to find some grandmaster-level alchemists than in other places.
The people from the Alchemist Guild also knew that this matter was of great importance. So after getting the pill recipe, they didn't hesitate to start refining pills.
People who took the pills would emit a smell from their bodies.
This smell might not be very obvious to humans.
But for these brain-eating Gu worms, it was a smell that scared them.
"Look, isn't that Gu worm crawling out of that person?" Someone saw the Gu worm and got goosebumps all over.
"That's right. It should have been trying to crawl onto Wang Hui, but Wang Hui took the pill before. So the Gu worm seemed to have encountered something it was afraid of and turned to look for other targets." After saying that, an alchemist from the guild slapped the Gu worm directly.
The Gu worm was instantly split into pieces.
The pieces of the Gu worm turned into several more.
This change scared everyone.
They all quickly stepped back. "Quick, hide. This Gu worm can't be killed."
This news soon reached the vice-leader's ears.
The vice-leader had encountered this situation before. After consulting Feng Yuqin, he learned that this Gu worm could only be burned with fire. If it was cut into pieces with a sword or spiritual power, more Gu worms would be born in the next moment.
It was also because of this that the Gu worm had spread so quickly.
At first, there weren't that many people infected with the Gu worms.
It was just that some people didn't know and cut the Gu worms into pieces.
If they didn't solve the problem immediately, the Gu worms would quickly hide and lie in wait, looking for an opportunity to attach themselves to people and enter their spiritual seas.
The vice-leader divided the people in the Earth Flame Continent into several areas, each of which was under the jurisdiction of a different force.
With this arrangement, it was much easier to manage.
However, this situation didn't last long.
Feng Yuqin saw the panicked vice-leader come to her.
"What's going on?" Feng Yuqin and the people from the Divine Sword Sect were still staying in the original inn.
After learning that the vice-leader insisted on seeing her, she had no choice but to let Mo Xuanye and his sons stay in the space and come out of the space alone.
"Madam, something bad has happened," the vice-leader said. "Four of the eight great sects have been affected."
Feng Yuqin was stunned. "Wasn't the situation already under control?"
"I don't know what's going on. Many people from the Heavenly Mystery Sect, the Flying Immortal Gate, the Three Realms Valley, and the Flying Cloud Sect among the eight great sects have been infected with the Gu worms..." The vice-leader detailed the situation.
Because of the speed of refining the pills and the number of people, not everyone could take the pills.
At first, those who had taken the pills were asked to protect those who hadn't.
But somehow, the Gu worms broke through the defenses of those who had taken the pills and entered the crowd of those who hadn't.
Once triggered, it was like a switch had been turned on, and the situation got out of control.
Feng Yuqin gave all the pills she had just refined to the vice-leader. "Take these pills and let them take them. As long as the Gu worms haven't started eating their brains, they can be saved."
The vice-leader knew that Feng Yuqin could trigger a pill tribulation and that her alchemy speed was much faster than others.
So he didn't ask any more questions. He took the pills and left quickly.
When Feng Yuqin entered the space again, Mo Xuanye was unhappy. "Qin'er, you've been refining pills all the time. You need to rest."