The court lackeys of the eight-hour workday

Chapter 107 Pupa Girl
"!!!"

Several people were already on guard against the dozens of corpses, and were frightened when they saw this situation.

Before he could think too much, the few people who were close to the corpse at this time were all first-class masters who had been famous in the world for a long time, and they reacted almost instinctively!

Lao Qifeng secretly used his true energy, ready to launch a "Dragon Fighting in the Wild" move.

Several other masters also picked up their weapons and gathered their inner energy, ready to destroy the poisonous insects along with their corpses before they could crawl out.

Just as they were about to take action, a figure suddenly appeared in front of them and waved his hand.

"Please wait a moment," said Li Miao.

A few people were blocked for a moment and slowed down their actions, but when they saw the corpses raised their heads, they stopped moving, so they stopped attacking.

"Master Liu, please come down from the stage first." He said to the master of Kongtong Sect.

The head of Kongtong followed his instructions and withdrew his foot from the platform.

As he came down, the heads of the corpses slowly drooped.

"Master Li, what is this?" asked Lao Qifeng.

Li Miao ignored him at first, walked forward, pinched the face of a corpse, lifted it up, and looked it over carefully from left to right.

Then, in front of everyone's shocked gazes, he stretched out two fingers, reached into the hole on the corpse's face, and pinched out a hissing insect.

Everyone felt their hair stand on end, and some of those who had little experience in the martial arts world felt their stomachs churning and they almost vomited.

"Oh, these things are called 'Pupa Girls'." Li Miao looked at them for a while and then said indifferently.

He held the bug in his palm, rubbed it a few times, and it turned into a ball of powder, which he sprinkled on the ground.

"Pupa...Pupa girl?" Lao Qifeng asked.

"Oh, actually, it is the same as the soldiers and concubines who were buried with the great men. They are the guards of the mausoleum and also the sacrifices of these great men." Li Miao replied.

"Choose young girls around 12 or 13 years old, peel off their facial features and flesh, and then 'raise' various poisonous insects in their bodies while they are still alive, and use herbal medicine every day to keep them alive."

"Let her lose all her five senses and experience the pain of these poisonous insects building nests, hunting and gnawing at her flesh and blood. After three years, those who die will be considered not 'pious' enough to the Miao King, and those who survive will be qualified 'pupa girls'."

Li Miao had been collecting witchcraft for many years for Xiao Si. He had read about the origin of this "pupa girl" by accident. It was too cruel and weird, and he was deeply impressed.

At this time he did not describe any details, but just gave a brief account, and everyone present felt a little overwhelmed.

"So... so cruel..." Yin Minjun murmured.

Li Miao turned his head and glanced at her: "This is not the main topic yet."

"Once the 'Pupa Girl' is refined, she will be buried alive with him."

"These 'pupa girls' who have lost all five senses were placed in front of the Miao king's coffin and made to kneel. The tomb was sealed."

"After they are chosen, someone will tell them that this is a ceremony to revive the Miao King. As long as they are pious enough, the Miao King will wake up in their prayers, restore their five senses, and bless them and their families."

"So, in this empty tomb, these 'pupa girls' endured the pain of being cut into pieces by a thousand knives, while silently praying in their hearts."

"All five senses have been lost. They don't know the time, nor do they know whether their companions are still alive. They don't know how many holes have been opened in their bodies by the poisonous insects. All that is left is false hope and endless pain."

"Until death." Li Miao's calm voice echoed in the empty hall, but no one responded for a while.

Everyone had seen life and death, but they had never seen such a cruel and inhumane crime. They were choked with emotion and speechless.

After a while, Lao Qifeng was the first to calm down and said to Li Miao, "Master Li, what's the matter with these corpses looking up? I just saw that corpse oil has condensed on the bodies. They must be dead."

"It's dead, but the poisonous insects in its body were selected using secret methods," said Li Miao.

"There are many species. Among these corpses, they have formed a pattern in which they can devour each other and circulate on their own. They can survive for a hundred years in a state of suspended animation."

"There should be a mechanism on the platform where the coffin is placed. As long as someone steps on it, it will release some kind of drug, awakening the poisonous insects in the corpse and causing the corpse to move."

"If Sect Leader Liu had stepped on it, these poisonous insects would have awakened, broken open the corpse, and attacked all living things. After not eating for a hundred years, I think these poisonous insects are very hungry."

"And if you guys attacked these corpses just now, if you couldn't crush all of them in an instant, the smell emitted by the corpses of the poisonous insects would also awaken all the poisonous insects in the other corpses."

After hearing what Li Miao said, several people realized that they had just walked through the gates of hell and felt terrified.

Witchcraft is indeed strange and difficult to guard against. Just now, a single witchcraft worm killed a second-rate master. If all the witchcraft worms in these dozens of corpses came out, I wonder how many of the people present would survive.

But there is no way out now, and the hall is empty. If I don’t explore the coffin, how can I find clues to the way out?
Li Miao smiled and said, "Miaojiang is isolated from the Central Plains. The Jianghu people don't know about witchcraft, and the witchcraft people don't know how to defend against martial arts."

"Why not just not step on this platform?"

After saying that, Li Miao jumped up to a height of ten feet like a scallion in dry land, and then floated in the air like a fallen leaf, and landed on the coffin suspended by iron chains.

"Elder Yin, can you lend me your sword?" Li Miao said.

Upon hearing this, Yin Minjun took off his sword and threw it towards Li Miao.

Li Miao took the sword and drew it out of its sheath.

He pretended to use all his strength to strike with the sword and with one stroke he cut off an iron chain that bound the coffin.

"Hold the iron chain tightly, and don't let it fall onto the platform." Li Miao said, and with a flick of his sword, he moved the iron chain aside.

Lao Qifeng stepped forward to catch the chain, glanced at the broken end, and was shocked.

The chain is made up of rings as thick as two fingers, and Li Miao can cut it in half with one sword.

This sword technique is probably close to the top level. It seems that what he said about ordinary horizontal training is just a cover-up. This sword technique alone is enough to match him.

What he didn't know was that Li Miao had put more thought into controlling the strength of this sword than into drawing the sword.

It is actually quite difficult for Li Miao to pretend to be at the level of Lao Qifeng.

Keng!
Keng!
Keng!
In a moment, the iron chains binding the coffin fell down one after another and were caught by Lao Qifeng and put aside.

Li Miao also pretended to have uneven breathing, adjusted his breath for a moment, and raised his hand to open the coffin lid.

"Hmm?" He uttered softly.

"How is it?" Lao Qifeng asked anxiously.

"Empty." Li Miao said.

(End of this chapter)