Gu He was still clutching the crescent moon's neck. Perhaps, even he himself did not know that he had actually fallen into the trap. What he had said earlier, and the summoning of ghosts might not have been intentional., but it was a natural behavior under the effect of the "Greed".
First, he sent ordinary people to feed it,
then, it started to send ghost messengers to feed it,
the word "Greed"could constantly magnify a person's desires while lowering the person's bottom line again and again.
If you said that the ghost was "Controlling"him, it probably wasn't, not really, but he was actually doing things according to the ghost's train of thought.
When you were in the swamp, it was already too late to realize the danger. The more you struggled, the faster you fell.
Your Neck became tighter and tighter, and gradually, you couldn't breathe.
In fact, the crescent moon felt that as long as gu he wanted to.,