Hou looked back at Armen and explained "I can control parasites, that's all you need to know right now. I don't want to overwhelm you with information, just know that I am in control"
"Phew we were always told in the family that once you were infected with a parasite you would lose your sense of reasoning, I didn't know it was possible to control them"
"First reunite with your family, I'll make sure the surroundings are safe then once they wake up you can introduce them to me"
Hou shook off Armen gently and left Da to protect the family in small form. Hou took the time to look around himself and take care of any monsters or parasites.
As Hou was looking around he mostly just saw small animals, rabbits, foxes but nothing dangerous. That was until he found one parasite, another moss, but this one was green, Hou bit his thumb on his left and bonded with the moss, he then used his blood formation to control it but did not attach it to his body.
He could not to test it since it was not fully bonded so he saved it for when he came back to 'camp'. Hou patrolled through the rest of the perimeter finding only an old abandoned wolf which he easily dispatched with a few punches since it had no parasites and was not a monster.
Hou walked out of the first and back to the clearing he left Armen at, his red hair being immediately visible to Armen's family.
"You must be Uncle-in-law Hou, thanks for not being a monster and eating us hahaha" Armen's wife joked with Hou, but he could still see she was rattled as her hands trembled.
"Hou this is my wife, René and my beautiful baby boy named after his father Armen Junior" Armen teared up a little patting Junior's head.
"Nice to meet you René and little Junior, I'll introduce myself to him once he wakes up. I'd first like to propose something to you. Would you like to join me and start a travelling sanctuary, we'll be moving constantly but I will guarantee your safety"
"René what do you think, this is best for all of us to stay safe now that we are by ourselves.." Armen spoke quietly having a private conversation so Hou did not eavesdrop and let them talk amongst themselves.
After a good twenty minutes or so the couple decided and Armen spoke up "we would definitely like to join you, we think it's what's best for the safety of our child so we'll be in your care from now on"
"Good decision Armen, now hold out your hand" Hou spoke with a smile on his face.
"My hand...?" Armen questioned but still did as told and put out his right hand palm up.
"Do you trust me Armen?"
"Logically I shouldn't but yes, I trust you"
Hou nodded then using his sharp fingernails he slashed into Armen's palm. Then he did the same to his own and dropped his blood into Armen, then he closed Armen's wound with some green moss.
The green moss seemed to become alive and started growing and patching itself over Armen's palm.
"You now have your very own parasite that I'm controlling, go on try it out"
"W..what like that, but I felt nothing just the stinging of your cut, now I've gotten an ability like you?" Armen was dumbstruck, parasites should be painful and take over your mind but he felt nothing of the sort. Of course this was due to the blood Hou was manipulating inside him to create a formation and control the parasite.
"Yep, as simple as... Now just think of activating it, then I'll make it so whenever you want to use it you can of your own volition"
When Armen though to use it, Hou took that will and used a blood formation to connect it with the action of giving the parasite miasma qi activating will.
Now Armen used his parasite and a green fog started spreading from his hand, but unlike Hou's blood fog it only became half a metre in diameter and if he pushed it a metre.
"What does it do?" Armen was confused since nothing happened except the green fog
"I dunno, but aim it at me and I'll know" Hou was confident that no matter the effect the green fog had his spirit will infused body was strong enough to endure it.
Hou flinched but then he felt relief, the muscle tension in his arms loosened. Hou had an idea and lifted his cut palm into the green fog and saw it heal at a speed even faster than his already abnormal healing factor.
It was a healing fog!
Armen saw that too and turned to use it and on his wife as she seemed to melt under the relief. They had all been injured from living alone in the wild but luckily nothing severe. Even then with the healing fog it all seemed to disappear.
Then the fog disappeared and Armen was left confused shaking his head.
"You can't use it forever, it takes time before you can activate it again, and you can only last a while. Even then this is an amazing parasite power. Come here I'll give you some miasma the parasite uses and you shouldn't need to wait long for it to be used again for a while"
Armen walked over and Hou moved a miasma orb from his body to Armen's through the parasite to bypass Armen's natural will wall as easy as possible.
Hou decided now was a good time to sleep and led the family back to their tent, giving them a rest.
Hou however did not need to sleep much so he put Da on watch and say in a meditative pose. While absorbing qi with his symbiote he communicated with Yue again.
"So how was my fighting, and what should I look out for now that I have companions to protect" Hou asked Yue for guidance as his master.