After being reborn as an ugly cannon fodder, my appearance stats are off the charts!

Yan An donned a black cloak, pulled up the hood, and used his light-footed skills to sneak out of the Glazed Pagoda.

Not only were there no birds, but there were hardly any animals to be seen along the way.

You have to go to the most secluded dark alleys and cave corners in the city to see a few small animals.

Some bees and butterflies seemed to be asleep among the flowers.

Several small birds flew and then crashed into obstacles or wobbled and fell from the branches.

Many underground insects that prefer darkness crawled onto the dry ground, but remained curled up and motionless.

Yan An also found a carrier pigeon that looked somewhat listless and unwilling to take off.

The pigeon was held in the palm of Yan An's hand and nuzzled affectionately.

Someone is coming—

Yan An hid in the shadows with the pigeons.

Soon, a very well-hidden door opened, and a stumbling person ran out.

Yan An discovered that this person seemed to be an ordinary disciple of the Hidden Demon Sect.

Behind this person, a tall, thin young man with regular features, sinister and cold eyes, and a twisted and crazed expression walked out.

The young man didn't chase after him; he simply stopped where he was.

Before the Hidden Demon Sect disciple had run many steps, his face grew increasingly red, and fine beads of blood began to seep from his seven orifices and pores all over his body. He immediately tried to expel the toxins by circulating his internal energy, but not only did it have no effect, but a surge of heat rose from his body, accelerating the seepage of the blood beads. Soon, those blood beads condensed into a horrifying layer of blood frost on his skin...

Yan An realized that this was likely caused by poisoning.

Only then did the young man walk over, but he didn't even look at the corpse on the ground that had died from poisoning. Instead, he took out a small bamboo tube from his sleeve.

The moment the bamboo tube mechanism was pressed, the lid popped open a crack, and several small gray shadows flew out. They hovered for only a very short moment, as if they had locked onto their direction, and flew straight towards Yan An's location.

Yan An remained wary of the other party's actions. In this world, most people who specialize in poisons also like to raise Gu (a type of poisonous insect).

He wasn't surprised to see the gray Gu worms and quickly unleashed a dozen palm strikes.

When the first palm strike was unleashed, the Gu worms strangely changed direction and were about to continue flying towards him. However, after the palm winds from the subsequent strikes formed a brief gale, they were immediately blown away.

The young man did not attack; after releasing the Gu worms, he remained standing there.

But Yan An's sense of danger only increased, and his figure vanished on the spot like a ghost.

Upon seeing this, the young man immediately revealed a ferocious grin and said, "Another beast from the Hidden Demon Sect."

He had met two protectors of the Hidden Demon Sect before, so he naturally knew what such internal energy and movement techniques represented.

"Run... I want to see how far you can run!"

Yan An suddenly stopped what he was doing.

He felt something foreign fall onto his neck.

He reached out to take it, and the thing crawled into his palm on its own.

This is a Gu worm the size of an adult's thumb, with a deep purple body. Its shell is like some kind of hard but warm crystal, and it has two pairs of wings as thin as cicada wings. When it vibrates, it makes a very slight, crisp sound like wind chimes colliding.

The Gu worm's mouthparts are long and thin, with a sharp, cold glint at the tip. If it were anyone else, they would probably have already been injected with the poison, and by the time they realized it, it would be too late.

Fortunately, Yan An's beast-related constitution in this life is quite special. Not only did the Gu worm not attack him, but it also seemed to want to fall asleep in his palm.

Yan An looked up at the young man.

The two were quite far apart, but the young man's expression had completely frozen, as if he had been struck by lightning.

This purple Gu worm is clearly extraordinary. Even if it's not a natal Gu, it's absolutely precious. I wonder how much effort and time it took to cultivate it.

The young man was so shocked because the Gu worms didn't attack him.

Yan An recalled his discoveries along the way and suspected that there was poison in Ruiyun City.

There's so much poison here, it's everywhere.

Otherwise, in such a town, there would be no trace of stray cats and dogs, no chirping of birds, and even very few mosquitoes and flies.

The person behind the scenes must have removed the animals beforehand. Even if anyone asks, they can say that they used such a large-scale "cleaning" method simply because they valued this Lingchun Banquet so much.

So, where might the poison be?

Yan An thought of those flowers that covered the sky.

The young man opposite me, whose ability to use poison and raise gu is top-notch, must know something.

Yan An carefully pinched the Gu worm to prevent its mouthparts from touching his skin before saying to the young man, "I have some questions for you. If you are unwilling to answer them, I will have no choice but to kill it."

Yan An's voice jolted the young man out of his daze. The madness in his expression faded somewhat, and his eyes shone with an astonishing brightness. He scrutinized Yan An's figure and face, which was hidden by the hood, as if searching for and confirming something. His face turned ashen and flushed in turns.

The other person's appearance was too strange, and Yan An frowned slightly.

Until a trembling voice rang out.

"Chu Chenhuan is my name," the young man said.

The tone of the sentence was not high, but Yan An felt as if it had exploded in his ears with a thunderous sound.