Immortal Cultivation and Life-Saving Guide

Chapter 306 Worm

"I'm just kidding. There's no need to get so excited!"

Lian Gouyue patted his chest and said with lingering fear, "Auntie! Don't scare me like that next time! One shout from me will scare the hell out of me!"

"The fire won't start for a while," Wei Xi said, reciting the cleaning spell and then sitting down on Qin Feng's blanket. "There are quite a few bugs, but your day is over!"

After hearing Wei Xifangcai's bizarre adventure, Lian Gouye looked up and saw two Green Gu corpses standing in the shadows of the trees. He collapsed and said, "What the hell is this?! It's too weird!"

"That big spider..." Qin Feng's expression was a little strange, as if he had swallowed a fly. "Could it be the bug that is targeting the Tao Bin tribe?"

Wei Xi's eyes and eyebrows were cold, and now he was not hiding it at all, his words were very harsh, "That's not a good thing! Maybe he's hiding the intention of using us as bait!"

"I can't figure it out for a moment," Wei Xi said unhappily. "Let's go to the village at dawn and see for ourselves! Seeing is believing!"

"Just now, the two of us were haunted by that 'ghost dream'. Is there someone else causing trouble in this forest?"

Wei Xi lamented the loss of his bedding roll and pulled out a spare one from his Qiankun bag. "I'm not sure, but I saw spiritual power. I'm afraid a cultivator may have intervened!"

"That big spider might not be able to make up a story out of thin air. Perhaps a monk once died here and left behind a secret place!"

Qin Feng's speculation was not groundless; it gave Wei Xi a new idea: Who says only the living can scheme against others? Who knows, the person who disturbed them for two nights might be a dead person?

The big spider was so scared that it revealed its true form, which showed that it feared the fog like a tiger. It was hard to imagine that the spiritual power closely related to the fog was in the same group as the big spider.

The situation became more complicated, and Wei Xi planned to take a nap first.

"Those two corpses are just standing here?" Lian Gou's voice trembled slightly, but he didn't dare to look directly at the Qing Gu corpse. Every time he glanced at it from time to time, he felt like his heart was going to fly out of his chest.

When he thought about how this thing could have an intimate contact with a person silently, Lian Gou Xie really couldn't understand how Wei Xi wasn't scared half to death by this thing last night.

Wei Xi said nonchalantly, "I guess they used some kind of poisonous insect. The big spider was too busy to remember these two things for a while. If you feel scared, just burn it!"

After saying that, Wei Xi consciously crawled into his quilt to catch up on his sleep.

Lian Gouqie looked at Qin Feng for help. The latter looked at the rotten flesh hanging on Qing Gu's body, hugged Gao Han and took a step back.

Lian Gouqie, helpless and wanting to cry but without tears, could only stare at the green Gu corpse until dawn.

Wei Xi woke up from his sleep, stretched, got up before his complicated thoughts overwhelmed him, and yawned.

As soon as I opened my eyes, I saw Lian Gou's sad face with dark circles under his eyes, crying and complaining, with a lot of emotions.

Wei Xi craned his neck to take a look, then commented in surprise, "Why is it still there? I thought I'd see the ashes when I woke up today..."

Lian Gouqie took a deep breath and replied in a calm tone, as if his heart were dead: "Because I am kind!"

Qin Feng was speechless after hearing this. Seeing Lian Gou's expression of "I'm going to break", she couldn't help herself and took out two talismans from her Qiankun bag. She urged her spiritual power and affixed them to the two Green Gu corpses. Then, with a loud bang, the two Green Gu corpses turned into celestial flowers.

Wei Xi looked at the green and red fragments that fell into the bowl and began to seriously think about whether he should drink porridge in the future.

"Can you feel at ease now?" Qin Feng snorted at Lian Gouyue. "These two things scared you so much that you couldn't sleep. What a shame!"

"Where did this talisman come from?" Wei Xi used chopsticks to pick at the piece of rotten meat in the bowl. "It's a waste to use it to fry people!"

"I bought it from the Richen Pavilion," Lian Gouqie replied, relieved of a heavy burden. "I bought a batch of talismans. I was planning to learn some high-end stuff, but I found I couldn't even afford the materials, so I just split the talismans with Qin Feng."

Wei Xi, feeling rich, scratched his head. The world of immortal cultivation was flourishing. Spiritual stones were certainly valuable, but could they compare to natural treasures? The prices of many materials were prohibitive. It was no wonder that, in the past two years, Lian Gou's cheap talismans, under the auspices of the Richen Pavilion, had successfully captured the lower-tier market in the world of immortal cultivation.

"This thing is quite powerful," Wei Xi said as he stuck his chopsticks into the rotten meat. "If we can control the overflowing spiritual power, it will be even more powerful!"

Lian Gouyu had been on edge all night, and now was the perfect time to relax. He took out some dry food and stuffed it into his mouth, mumbling, "You think too highly of me! This kind of powerful spell... can't be made without the ability to recognize gods..."

Wei Xi became interested in this talisman: if she could learn it, and then draw ten or so of them on the puppet, even the Taoist monks would not be able to withstand it.

The first person Wei Xi thought of for this "good thing" was Li Changxu, and his expectations became even more eager.

Wei Xi picked out the rotten meat from the bowl and found a dark purple worm wriggling. It looked so pitiful and indescribably disgusting.

The dark purple insect looked a little panicked. Although Wei Xi's reason told her that it was an emotionless insect, she felt that the insect seemed quite human.

"Bugs in the meat?" Lian Gouyu didn't like any bugs. When he saw this thing, he immediately jumped eight feet away and said, "Step on it to death! Don't let it get in the way!"

"This might be the insect that controls the Green Gu Corpse," Wei Xi pointed at the insect's abnormally swollen abdomen with the tip of his chopsticks. "This is the flesh and blood it feeds on!"

"A Gu worm?" Qin Feng looked over curiously. "It's so strange that such a small creature can control a Green Gu corpse!"

It was the first time for Wei Xi and the other two to see a real poisonous insect. Naturally, they didn't know that the one thrown into the bowl was called a walking zombie insect, a very evil poisonous insect.

The process of creating a walking zombie insect is extremely cruel: while a person is still alive, the larvae are stuffed into their ear canal, and then the person's head is tightly wrapped with cloth strips, suffocating them to death. Afterwards, the person's head is cut off, and the last breath of yang energy is used to nurture a walking zombie insect, which can move the corpse as if it were alive.

The giant spider hadn't lied; the method for making this thing was indeed a secret. The various tribes in Nanjiang weren't close to each other. Besides the diverse deities they worshipped, another factor was the refining of the Gu worms. Some tribes employed gentle methods, while others preferred more devious methods. Capturing members of other tribes to refine the Gu worms was a common practice.

Under these circumstances, it's no surprise that the Nanjiang Tribe is so fragmented. It's not so bad in places like Yudai City, where tribes are constantly merging. But in remote places like Jiuai Mountain, the deeper the resentment between tribes, the more secretive the Gu worm's production becomes.

Wei Xi didn't know what was going on here, but this purple monster the size of a little finger didn't look like a good thing.

The final outcome was that Qin Feng froze it into powder.

(End of this chapter)