Perhaps the venom of those insects is the reason why people become vegetative.
"Hmm!" Jin Zijin responded softly, then added, "Yu Jizi probably wants to use this method to devour Jin Ziyuan's soul, so he can replace it with his own."
After speaking, he took out the booklet from the cave earlier and flipped to a page for Gu Youyou to see.
It was a series of drawings. The first showed a person lying on a stone platform, covered with pitch-black insects crawling all over them. The person was writhing in agony.
The second image depicted the person completely stripped of their soul. Their eyes remained open, yet they seemed to see nothing. On the ground, a shattered shadow was being torn apart by a swarm of black insects.
Jin Zijin explained, "This shattered shadow represents the soul of the person on the sacrificial altar."
Gu Youyou felt a chill creep through her.
