Dashing Student-Chapter 717, A Terrifying Existence

Hu Die let out a cry of alarm, staggering back two steps.

Inside the Crystal Coffin, her father's face was pale as paper, yet his chest twisted in a strange way, as if something alive was burrowing under his skin!

"Dad!" Hu Die rushed toward the coffin, but was pulled back by Chen Nan.

"Don't touch!"

Chen Nan's eyes were sharp, firmly fixed on the chest of the person inside the coffin, where the skin had become nearly transparent. A vague crimson Gu Insect coiled around the heart, its thin tendrils slowly wriggling with each breath.

"This is the Heart-eating Gu!" Chen Nan's voice was deep, his eyes filled with gravity: "It has already formed a symbiosis with your father's heart. Forcefully extracting it would cost him his life!"

Hu Die's face turned pale, trembling as she asked, "Then what do we do?"

Chen Nan didn't answer immediately but instead surveyed his surroundings.

The stone chamber was perfectly circular, its walls etched with ancient Gu texts, and on the floor was a giant Yin Yang Fish pattern, with the Crystal Coffin positioned precisely at the intersection of yin and yang.

"This is a Gu Raising Array." Chen Nan said solemnly, "Someone deliberately placed your father here to nourish the Heart-eating Gu with his flesh and blood!"

A simple sentence sent shivers down Hu Die's spine; knowing this was the legendary Gu God Tomb, if what Chen Nan said was true, who on earth had placed her father here?

Boom!

Without any warning, the stone chamber violently shook!

Fragments of stone fell from the ceiling, and the glowing insect eggs simultaneously extinguished, plunging the entire space into pitch darkness.

"Brother Chen!" Hu Die clutched Chen Nan's arm in panic.

"Don't be afraid!" Chen Nan bit his fingertip, drawing a Flame Rune in the void with his blood!

In an instant!

The rune erupted, illuminating the surroundings!

The flame's glow lit up the area.

However, in the next second, he and Hu Die's pupils suddenly contracted, their eyes revealing an incredulous gaze!

The lid of the Crystal Coffin was slowly sliding open!

"Step back!" Chen Nan yanked Hu Die behind him, simultaneously forming a hand seal with his right hand, a thick layer of True Qi enveloping the two of them.

"Clack... clack-clack..."

Inside the coffin, Hu Die's father suddenly opened his eyes!

But his whites were completely black, and his pupils contracted to pinpoints, his lips twisted into an eerie grin, revealing ghastly white teeth.

"Dad?" Hu Die's voice trembled, unable to believe the sight before her.

The man did not respond, instead slowly sitting up, the crimson Gu Insect in his chest wriggling excitedly, emitting a piercing screech.

His neck twisted at an unnatural angle, staring intently at Hu Die, a hoarse voice croaking from his throat: "Daughter... you have finally come..."

Chen Nan's heart tightened; this was definitely not Hu Die's father's voice!

The tone was sharp, grating, like a cacophony of countless insect chirps mixed together!

"You're not my dad!" Hu Die finally snapped back to reality, tears glistening in her eyes: "What are you?!"

The man chuckled darkly, the Gu in his chest writhing violently, tendrils of blood threading out from under his skin, moving like living creatures in the air.

"I am a wisp of the Gu God's soul..." It tilted its head, black pupils glinting with sinister light: "And your father was the perfect vessel I chose..."

Chen Nan's eyes turned cold, hesitating no more, as a terrifying surge of True Qi gathered in his palm, then exploded forward!

"Boom!"

The terrifying energy wave materialized instantaneously before the man, yet he casually raised a hand and crushed it effortlessly!

He slowly stood up, blood threads spreading madly beneath his skin, in an instant covering his entire body, forming a layer of grotesque exoskeleton.

"It's futile." The Gu God laughed sinisterly: "In the Gu God Tomb, I am the supreme ruler!"

The Gu script on the walls of the stone chamber suddenly lit up with a crimson glow, black blood began oozing from the ground, countless poisonous insects crawled out from the pool of blood, rustling as they surrounded the two!

Hu Die's face was ashen, but determination flashed in her eyes.

She suddenly drew a silver dagger from her waist, without hesitation, slicing her palm!

Using blood as a guide, Gu as a medium... she chanted lowly the ancient incantations of the Miao Border, her blood dripping onto the ground, transforming into crimson runes, standing in defiance against the Gu God's black blood!

The Gu God's smile froze, its eyes revealing disbelief: "How do you know the Gu God's sacrificial text?!"

Hu Die did not answer, instead turning to Chen Nan, eyes pleading: "Brother Chen, buy me some time!"

Chen Nan nodded, True Qi surging around him, his gaze sharp as a knife, as if possessed by a battle deity: "Come, let me see how much weight this so-called ruler holds!"

The Gu God let out an enraged screech, the blood-thread exoskeleton suddenly expanding, transforming into a formidable three-meter-high armor!

Black blood boiled, poisonous insects danced wildly, the entire stone chamber seemed to morph into a living entity, frantically pressing toward Chen Nan!

The battle, on the verge of exploding!

"Boom—!"

Chen Nan collided bare-handed against the Gu God's blood armor, releasing a visible shockwave.

The Gu script on the stone chamber walls flickered madly, the poisonous insects formed from condensed black blood were reduced to ash under his True Qi's rampage.

"Mere mortals think they can challenge me?" The Gu God roared, its blood armor suddenly splitting open into dozens of fissures, expelling a foul purple mist.

The mist revealed countless twisted human faces, the resentful souls of past Gu practitioners it had devoured!

Chen Nan spun back, though protected by his True Qi and his body formidable, those souls seeped in like mercury!

They penetrated his True Qi defense, infiltrating his body through his pores!

In an instant, a multitude of memory fragments exploded in his mind—

He saw the black-robed priest sacrificing his entire clan three hundred years ago, the girl being gorged by Gu Insects, and Hu Die's father pierced through the chest by blood threads...

"It hurts!" Chen Nan knelt on one knee, True Qi in turmoil around him.

The vertical pupil in his right eye suddenly oozed black blood, his vision blurring!

"Brother Chen, are you alright?" Hu Die's voice of alarm sounded from afar.

The crimson runes beneath her feet had spread into an array, but three crucial nodes were still missing.

The Gu God emitted a triumphant screech, its armor suddenly disassembling, transforming into a rain of blood needles enveloping Chen Nan!

At the critical moment, the dormant King of Ten Thousand Gu within Chen Nan suddenly awoke, six golden wings bursting forth from his back!

"Buzz!"

The high-frequency wing vibrations shattered the blood needles, Chen Nan took the opportunity to bite his finger, painting a Blood Talisman on his forehead: "Heaven's True Path, all Gu submit!"

The King of Ten Thousand Gu howled upward, tearing those invading souls from his body forcibly!

The Gu God was shocked and angered, about to attack again, when Hu Die suddenly plunged the silver dagger into her own heart!

"With my essence blood, I call upon thy true name!" The blood mist she spewed formed three ancient Miao characters in the air: "Ali Chiyou!"

The Gu God was struck as if by lightning, its blood armor instantly shattering!

Hu Die's father's body convulsed violently, the crimson Gu Insect in his chest screaming in anguish!