I made the entire cultivation world cry

Chapter 298 Reaping the Reward (Seeking Monthly Tickets)

On a deserted island in the vast ocean, a blood-red array spread out like a spider web, with dark red lines meandering among the charred rocks, emitting a nauseating stench.

Cultivators from Yuyang City were continuously teleported here. The Gu Lou stood in mid-air, its withered body illuminated by the blood light, making it appear like a ghost.

He spread his arms wide, greedily absorbing the rising blood energy from the great formation below. As soon as the cultivators stepped into the formation, their flesh and blood melted like wax, turning into wisps of scarlet mist that flowed into the Gu Lou's dantian.

The parasites will awaken from their dreams, and the cultivators would also die silently in their dreams. In the eyes of the Gu worm, this painless death is a gift from it.

"Hahaha, I've finally waited for this day!"

The worm laughed wildly, its voice hoarse like the chirping of insects.

The hideous, pitch-black Gu worms wriggled wildly within the Gu Lou's dantian, devouring the endless stream of blood energy.

Gradually, the Gu worm began to change shape, its body swelled, it grew limbs, and finally transformed into the appearance of an infant covered with strange patterns.

The moment the Gu infant took shape, the world suddenly changed color!

The once clear sky was instantly covered by blood-red thunderclouds, and the lightning rolled like a blood dragon, emitting a deafening roar.

Gu Lou's laughter stopped abruptly. He looked up at the sky, a hint of fear flashing in his eyes.

"Blood Lightning Tribulation?!"

This is a tribulation of lightning that Heaven sends down only to those who have committed grave sins; it is known as a tribulation with no chance of survival!
The Gu Lou gritted its teeth, "A mere heavenly tribulation?! Don't even think about stopping me!!"

The first crimson lightning bolt struck down, and the Gu ant roared angrily as its Gu infant flew out of its dantian to meet the lightning.

The Gu infant opened its mouth full of sharp teeth and swallowed the thunder whole!
However, the Gu infant that swallowed the lightning trembled violently, the patterns on its body cracked, and black blood seeped out.

Immediately afterwards, a second and a third bolt of lightning struck down in succession, each one more ferocious than the last.

Gu Lou's face gradually contorted, and his mind was pulled into an endless illusion.

He saw himself being forced by the Insect Valley, saw himself ruthlessly killing innocent people to become stronger, and saw the children he used as Gu vessels crying in pools of blood...

"No! This world is a world where the strong prey on the weak!" the Gu ant roared in the illusion. "The strong are respected, what wrong have I done?!"

But the heavenly tribulation is merciless!

The crimson lightning grew increasingly dense, and the Gu infant finally could not withstand it, exploding with a shrill scream.

The gu worm spat out a mouthful of black blood, and its aura instantly weakened.

"Wait... how can this tribulation lightning last so long?!"

The Gu Lou suddenly awoke from the illusion. He had already endured countless tribulation lightning bolts, but the tribulation clouds above his head were growing thicker and denser, showing no signs of weakening.

It seems this is just the beginning, with the most amazing part yet to come.

The worm's heart trembled uncontrollably. Faced with the might of Heaven, its will to survive suddenly broke its spirit.

"Let me go, give me a chance. I will turn over a new leaf, I will atone for my sins. I just want to live..."

Heaven could not hear Gu Lou's pleas for mercy. A bolt of blood-red lightning pierced through the heavens and earth, like a giant blood-red sword, shattering Gu Lou and his ambition into pieces.

Do not--

Before it vanished into nothingness, the Gu ant heard a sigh carried on the wind.

"You're not as certain as you say you are..."

Shang Shixu pushed open the door, and the flickering candlelight inside illuminated the gaunt figure of Gu Lou.

There are no islands, no blood arrays, and no heavenly tribulations.

Gu Lou remained seated in the sandalwood chair, her hands resting on the armrests, her head slightly lowered, as if she were merely asleep.

Outside the window, the wind and snow howled; inside, all was silent.

Shang Shixu slowly approached, his fingertips lightly touching the Gu Lou's neck.

Cold, stiff, without a pulse, his soul had disintegrated, leaving not even a trace of remnant spirit.

Ugh……

Shang Shixu sighed, his voice so soft it was almost swallowed by the wind and snow.

He took out the jade flute Cangming Yin, held it to his lips, and lightly pressed it with his fingertips. The flute's sound was low and mournful, like weeping and lamenting, echoing in the silent room.

Halfway through the song, a line of bloody tears slid down from the corner of the Gu Lou's withered eye, winding its way down the folds of its eye.

Shang Shixu's flute music continued, his gaze calmly fixed on that drop of bloody tear.

Immediately afterwards, the worm's eyelids trembled slightly, and a translucent worm, resembling a weevil, emerged from its eye, its antennae quivering as if sensing the outside world.

Its entire body is like glass, but wisps of black energy flow inside.

Gu Lou would never have imagined that he had already been unknowingly devoured by the Dream Gu Mother Gu he had nurtured himself. Everything he had experienced—the blood sacrifice, the formation of the Nascent Soul, the Heavenly Tribulation, the roar, the resentment…

It's all just a dream! If Gu Lou is determined enough to break free from this dream, he will no longer be troubled by inner demons when he forms his Nascent Soul, and he will surely forge ahead and prove his Dao.

But if he hadn't broken free, he would have ended up like this, dying from his own fear.

Fortune and misfortune are interdependent; a single thought can determine life and death.

As the flute music faded, Shang Shixu reached out, and the mother Gu of the Dream Gu obediently crawled onto his fingertips, its long nose affectionately rubbing against Shang Shixu's palm.

He looked down at the corpse of the Gu worm, took out the yellowed jade slip, and the green seal patterns that were originally wrapped around the jade slip had now disappeared without a trace, like faded ink.

Shang Shixu's divine consciousness invaded the jade slip, and the ancient characters, like worms crawling, twisted and crawled into his sea of ​​consciousness.

"Formless and shapeless, you spent your entire life trying to use all the Gu to your advantage, but you never discovered that the true inheritance of the Insect Emperor was hidden in the Gu you planted in me."

The jade slip turned to ashes in his hands.

The Insect Emperor's relics consisted of only two items: a jade slip and a Gu egg of the Formless Gu.

In its early stages, the Formless Gu has no effect other than making it easier for the recipient to control the spirit insects. Moreover, for the Formless Gu to grow, it needs to devour a large number of Gu and insects. The greater the number and the more types of Gu, the faster the Formless Gu grows.

When Gu Lou obtained the Formless Gu, he already had his own natal Gu, which he had cultivated at great cost and which was one with his life.

The Wuxiang Gu chooses its master under very strict conditions. Gu Lou did not tell Shang Shixu that it was not Gu Lou that chose him, but the Wuxiang Gu that chose him.

Unfortunately, the Gu ant didn't know that the Formless Gu, after completing its first-stage transformation, could not only enhance the abilities of other Gu, but also turn the enhanced Gu into its offspring Gu.

The Formless Gu is the mother of all Gu, and he is now nothing more than a Gu slave of the Formless Gu.

According to the Demon Control Contract, it is a service contract, with the Gu being the master and the Gu being the slave.

Whatever the Formless Gu wants, it must give it to; it cannot disobey.

Fortunately, the Formless Gu is still very weak and spends most of its time in a dormant state. He doesn't need to do anything to borrow some of the Formless Gu's power.

The Insect Emperor did not write this information in the jade slip, but recorded it in the molted body of the Formless Gu, so only Shang Shixu knew about it.

Each time the Formless Gu molts, it will surely bring new content.

boom!
A series of explosions came from the direction of the dock. Shang Shixu's eyes sharpened, he collected the corpse of the Gu ant and strode into the wind and snow.

……

On the dock.

Jiang Yi retracted the Yaoling Sword and ended her auto-battle. Hong Li transformed into a crimson shadow and leaped from her shoulder, attacking Song Ming from both sides.

Song Ming's face was contorted with rage, and he continued to mutter strange whispers.

The surrounding parasitized cultivators' eyes immediately turned bloodshot, their meridians swelled like balloons, and they frantically lunged at Jiang Yi to self-destruct.

Jiang Yi threw out a handful of mountain-suppressing talismans. The yellow paper talismans transformed into mountain phantoms in the wind, crashing down and pinning the group of cultivators to the ground, rendering them unable to move.

The red-tipped candle moth suddenly ignited with pure white flames, which transformed into a moth that flew towards Song Ming.

Song Ming was unable to dodge in time; the corner of his clothes caught fire and burned instantly. He screamed and retreated in panic, only to run into the Five Elements Copper Coin Formation that Jiang Yi had already set up.

Over the years, Hong Li has reformed herself and worked hard to improve herself. She has long been able to skillfully cooperate with Jiang Yi to lure her prey into the traps Jiang Yi has set.

Five copper coins hovered in the air, humming, their five-colored light forming a cage that sealed off all escape routes for the Song and Ming dynasties.

Jiang Yi pointed his fingers and held up a golden talisman in front of him. He frantically poured in his fire and wood true essences, and the Golden Crow Talisman soared into the sky, transforming into a blazing sun that crashed into the formation. The flames exploded, and Song Ming's body turned to ashes amidst screams.

A wisp of black demonic energy burst forth from the ashes, attempting to escape. It crashed into the array wall and, in the blink of an eye, corroded a hole in it with its demonic energy.

Without Jiang Yi's command, Hong Li slapped the Green Wood Cauldron away with one claw, just in time to collect the wisp of black demonic energy into the cauldron.

As soon as the lid was closed, Hongli jumped up and sat on it.

The spirit of the Azure Phoenix, with its three legs, flapped its wings and stirred the wind, while the coiled dragon pattern on the tripod body roamed to suppress evil and firmly lock the demonic seed.

The pure fire from the candle moth on the red glass's tail poured in, and the demonic seed howled pitifully in the cauldron as it was gradually refined.

Not far away, Zhao Cangyun's Burning Prison Blade, imbued with the True Fire of the Qilin, was locked in fierce combat with the three-headed, six-armed demonic monster.

The monster's bone blade tore through the air, but it was blocked by the dark blue Xuanwu Heart Fire barrier surrounding Zhao Cangyun.

He roared, and his blade flashed with crimson flames, cleaving the demon in two. As black blood splattered, Zhao Cangyun's eyes shone like a god of death, showing no fear.

As Zhao Cangyun wiped the black blood off his blade, his murderous aura lingered as he swept his gaze around, causing the remaining cultivators to retreat in fear.

The snowstorm suddenly stopped, and the dock was deathly silent.

A biting cold wind suddenly swept in, and the dream demon above Yuyang City roared silently. Its huge phantom twisted and surged, and countless black threads appeared and disappeared, connecting the nearly one thousand cultivators at the dock like a spider web.

"Ahhh-"

Painful screams rose and fell, the cultivators' skin cracked and split open, their flesh writhed and their bones twisted and deformed, and demonic energy surged out of their bodies like a tidal wave.

Their bodies began to merge and merge with each other, transforming into deformed and twisted demonic creatures. Their auras rose steadily, and in the blink of an eye, they were approaching the Golden Core stage!
(End of this chapter)