Junior Sister is too competitive, she drastically alters the Joyful Union Sect.

Chapter 118 Slaying the Mother Insect
The sight of the ghostly infants crawling all over the ground sent chills down everyone's spines.

This one three-headed mother worm is troublesome enough, but if you add so many ghost infants... But surprisingly, the ghost infants did not continue to harm people!

The ghost infants crawled toward the mother worm in a purposeful and orderly manner.

Before long, the ghost baby crawled onto the mother insect and began to bite at her with its sharp teeth.

The blood-soaked mother worm opened its gaping maw to devour the ghost infant, but fortunately, Jiang Chenying and the others stopped her, preventing the ghost infant from being eaten.

With the ghost baby joining them, Jiang Chenying and the others suddenly felt much more relaxed.

Seeing that the first head was badly injured, the group worked together to cut it off.

With one of its heads broken, the mother insect immediately flew into a rage.

Its remaining two heads attacked Jiang Chenying and the others like madmen.

After dodging to a safe area, Shen Youqing raised his hand and formed a hand seal, and a healing array lit up beneath their feet.

The depleted spiritual energy was quickly restored, and after a short while, it was back to its peak.

With healers around, their combat effectiveness hardly declines, but the mother insect is different.

The ghostly infants, crawling all over the mother worm's body, gnawed at it bite by bite, drawing power from the mother worm's flesh and blood.

Jiang Chenying and the others fought with increasing ferocity.

Meanwhile, Shen Qiuluo, who had been thrown to Yin Zhongyu's side by Jiang Chenying, was acting very strangely.

After being bitten by the ghost baby, she hurriedly took a pill. Although the bleeding stopped, the chilling sensation emanating from the wound made her feel uncomfortable.

If Shen Qiuluo were to lift up her trouser leg and take a look, she would find that the wound was covered in dark marks.

Yin Zhongyu didn't pay much attention to Shen Qiuluo; his focus was on Jiang Chenying and the others, as well as Shen Youqing.

When Qi Bumian and the other two returned, the mother insect was already at a disadvantage.

The three returned in a hurry and were somewhat disheveled, with Qi Bumian holding a coffin in his hand.

Qi Bumian placed the coffin next to Shen Youqing and then went to help.

“We found another coffin in the pit,” Jing Liang said to Shen Youqing. He then took a couple of breaths before continuing, “The coffin hasn’t been opened yet, but we brought the lid from the previous coffin as well.”

Shen Youqing nodded, and she moved away, holding a coffin in one hand, to avoid being affected.

Looking at Shen Youqing, who appeared calm and relaxed, Xiao Youqi's face cracked.

Is this what body cultivation is?

They could lift the coffin with their bare hands and remain as steady as Mount Tai—it was truly terrifying!
Once they reached a safe area, Xiao Youqi handed the gray stone pendant to Shen Youqing, and then noticed that the mother insect in the distance was covered with ghost infants.

He suddenly pulled out the gourd-shaped magical artifact to examine it.

The ghost infants inside the gourd were sleeping in all sorts of crooked positions. Xiao Youqi scanned them with his divine sense and said, "The number of ghost infants inside the gourd is not missing."

Where did the ghost infant on the mother insect come from?

“Those ghost infants suddenly emerged from underground.” Shen Youqing took out the Nightmare Ring and examined the two extremely similar pendants.

Xiao Youqi thought about it for a moment, and finally put the gourd magic artifact away.

"Wait! How come the mother worm has grown a head?" Jing Liang's voice suddenly rose a little.

Shen Youqing leaned back slightly against the coffin and spoke calmly, "The three-headed queen worm, they just cut off one of its heads. Have you found anything about the queen worm's origins?"

"No." Xiao Youqi looked at the unopened coffin. "Shall we open it?"

There might be some clues inside the coffin.

Shen Youqing responded, grabbed the outer coffin lid with his five fingers and lifted it, then grabbed the inner coffin lid and lifted it as well.

"Another woman's skeleton." Jing Liang's cold voice carried a heavy tone.

Shen Youqing and the other two looked at the situation inside the coffin together.

"It's still a demonic artifact." Shen Youqing looked at the burial objects inside the coffin, but this time he didn't rashly reach out and search.

Xiao Youqi frowned slightly. "This coffin is directly below the previous one. This coffin is buried very deep, and there are mechanisms around it."

The reason the three of them were in such a sorry state was because of those traps. "Judging from the condition of the skeleton, they shouldn't be cultivators." Shen Youqing had a slight headache.

The origins of the mother insect are unknown, as are the origins of these two skeletons, and the relationship between the mother insect and the skeletons remains a mystery!

The clues that are emerging now are extremely fragmented!

What exactly is missing in this process?
The part of the clues they don't know yet will definitely connect all these clues!
“If he’s neither a cultivator nor a demonic cultivator, then he can only be an ordinary person.” Jing Liang said, his mind nearly exploding as he looked at the state of the skeleton inside the coffin.

The jumbled clues are like incomplete puzzle pieces that can't be pieced together at all!
Yin Zhongyu walked over without anyone noticing.

Having no choice but to follow, Shen Qiuluo suddenly collapsed to the ground before she even reached the coffin.

Yin Zhongyu glanced at it, then looked away.

"Jing Liang, something's happened to your junior sister." In the end, it was Xiao Youqi who spoke up to remind Jing Liang, who was lost in thought.

When Jing Liang came to her senses, she saw Shen Qiulu lying on the ground, half-dead, her body trembling.

He quickly went over and helped Shen Qiulu up.

"Boom——"

The dull thud sounded like a heavy object hitting the ground, and the group that had been fighting for a long time successfully severed the other two heads of the mother insect.

The ghost infants that had climbed onto the mother insect's body stopped gnawing. As if they had received some kind of command, they crawled into the ground in an orderly fashion.

In a short time, countless ghost infants disappeared.

"Mother~" a sinister voice rang out.

All the people saw was a two- or three-year-old toddler running towards Shen Youqing. If it weren't for her grayish-blue, semi-transparent body, she really wouldn't look like a ghost baby.

Before Shen Youqing could say anything, he felt a weight on his leg.

"What just happened?" Shen Youqing bent down, reached out, picked up the ghost baby, and tossed it onto his shoulder.

If she wasn't mistaken, those ghost infants were summoned by the little guy on her lap.

The ghost baby that climbed onto Shen Youqing's shoulder opened its big, dark eyes and spoke in a sinister tone with seriousness, "Nannan must protect her mother."

Shen Youqing raised her hand and patted the little guy. "Thank you."

Admittedly, if it weren't for so many ghost infants causing trouble on the mother worm's body, Jiang Chenying and the others would probably have needed some more time to kill the mother worm.

Jiang Chenying and the others looked at the ghost infant with complicated expressions.

The ghost baby helped them, and the ghost baby also bit Shen Qiuluo.

They were grateful for the ghost baby's help, but also feared that the ghost baby might harm people again.

The power of this ghost infant should not be underestimated; if she gets out of control, the consequences will be extremely serious!

What should they do with this ghost baby?!
Speaking of Shen Qiuluo, Jiang Chenying and the others looked at Shen Qiuluo, who was pale and trembling uncontrollably, with serious expressions.

It looks like he's badly injured.

Jing Liang said in a deep voice, "I've already given Junior Sister the antidote, but it didn't work."

Jiang Chenying frowned slightly.

Shen Qiuluo's condition is too serious; she probably needs to return to her sect immediately.

"So many ghost infants were summoned by her?" Duanmu Jingyun ignored Shen Qiuluo's situation and looked at the ghost infant with a probing gaze, asking Shen Youqing, "Second Miss Shen, is she the master of the ghost infants?"

Shen Youqing glanced coldly at Duanmu Jingyun, "I don't know."

"Miss Shen doesn't know?" Duanmu Jingyun seemed to find this a joke. "She..."

"Don't mess with me," Shen Youqing's impatient voice rang out.

Piecing together a jumble of clues is already annoying enough, but Duanmu Jingyun's sarcastic questioning makes it even more annoying.

Seeing Shen Youqing's cold expression and impatience, Duanmu Jingyun didn't speak again, but his expression wasn't very pleasant.

(End of this chapter)