How come the celestial technique I stole is so powerful?!-Chapter 154: The Living Ancestor of Miaojiang Poisonous Insect Technique
Chapter 154: Chapter 154: The Living Ancestor of Miaojiang Poisonous Insect Technique
Lin Xiaosu let her down, and although Yixiang’s legs were a bit weak, she still managed to take a few steps forward, facing the tombstone right in front of them.
These tombstones were different from those in other places.
Typically, tombstones stood upright, but here, they were laid flat on the ground.
Some might say, with tombstones laid flat on the earth, over time they’d get buried in the dirt and become untraceable. This is exactly the profound mystery behind the flat tombstones here.
For buried here was the Gu Family lineage.
The Gu Family touched upon the taboo Gu Technique, which triggered chaos in the Gu Technique of Miaojiang, bringing catastrophe upon the Eight Great Sects, and turned the Gu of the Gu Family into a forbidden art.
Other ancestors needed to be remembered by future generations.
They, however, needed to be forgotten by theirs.
The earth enveloping their tombstones marked the definitive end of their era, aligning with the Gu Technique, human morals, and the Heavenly Dao...
"Do you mean... the person buried here is that forbidden character from the Gu Technique, Gushan, you were talking about?" Lin Xiaosu’s eyes shimmered with a mysterious light.
"Yes!" Yixiang said.
"Is his grave... this one here?" Lin Xiaosu pointed at the tombstone in the very center, which bore no inscription. Covered in soil, it had almost become an ordinary floor tile.
"Yes!" Yixiang said, "This cemetery follows the burial system of the Gu Miao. With mountains towering around, the chief peak stands out. The center peak, it must be Gushan, not his disciple."
"It matches!" Lin Xiaosu exhaled softly, "The Gu Worm burrowed down from here!"
Yixiang’s entire body shook...
The Living Corpse Gu belonged to the Corpse Gu series.
And the Corpse Gu was the unique trademark of Gushan, a forbidden figure of the past fifty years, theoretically extinct now.
If it reappeared, there was only one explanation—someone on Shishen Mountain was secretly practicing this forbidden art.
Now, another possibility, a hundred times more terrifying, had emerged.
Because the Gu Worm had not returned to the Residential Area of Shishen Mountain but burrowed into a grave.
This grave just happened to be Gushan’s grave.
Could it be...
Could it be that Gushan was not actually dead?
Others reviving from the dead—that was utterly impossible.
But what about Gushan?
Who could definitively declare it impossible?
He had dug up his wife, dead for three years, from the ground so she could cook for him, do his laundry, and warm his bed... leaving aside the warming of the bed, for even in death, a body would hardly warm up...
Couldn’t he himself revive from death as well?
For a moment, a chill ran down Yixiang’s back.
Gushan, this was the man who dueled in Gu Technique with her great-grandfather.
If he were still alive, he’d undoubtedly be Miaojiang’s living grandmaster.
Although she was also talented in the Gu Technique, facing such a grandmaster...
"Brother!" Yixiang grabbed Lin Xiaosu’s hand; her hand was somewhat cold.
"At this point, the arrow must fly once it’s on the bowstring!" Lin Xiaosu said, "I know what you’re worried about. I can only say, let’s join forces for one attack!"
Yixiang nodded slowly: "Ok!"
Lin Xiaosu reached out and grabbed the tombstone beneath their feet.
With force, the tombstone flipped over.
Below was empty space!
A dark hole led straight underground.
Lin Xiaosu reached out, holding Yixiang by her slender waist.
Yixiang clutched her little turtle lamp.
Whoosh, daytime brightness vanished, replaced by a gloomy tomb.
Yixiang’s heart raced. Although she was a legendary person in the Gu Technique, her Gu was always for healing people; she had never actually competed against others in Gu Technique.
At present, they were in a tomb, and she couldn’t make out her surroundings; she could only feel the man holding her, his body so warm.
Lin Xiaosu gently exhaled, "We’re surrounded by bugs, it’s a bit disgusting..."
Bugs?
Yixiang’s body trembled, her gaze lifted, staring at the wall of the hole.
That wall was damp, with many white, moldy spots. But at this moment, the spots moved—what were thought to be stains were actually worms!
White worms, about half an inch long, swarming everywhere.
"Corpse Gu!" Yixiang exclaimed softly.
Corpse Gu?
Lin Xiaosu’s back suddenly felt cold...
He had never seen Corpse Gu before but had read about them in records.
Corpse Gu was a kind of Gu Technique, extremely malicious, with just one bite resulting in death!
How many were there in this place, tens of thousands, hundreds of thousands?
They had stepped directly into the lair of Corpse Gu.
He wasn’t afraid of powerful enemies, but the sight of so many tiny bugs, writhing and dancing, was nauseating...
What followed was not revulsion, but terror!
The Corpse Gu on the wall of the cave suddenly curled up...
"They’re attacking!" Lin Xiaosu reached out, grabbed Yixiang, and was ready to shoot up into the sky, to retreat the way they came.
"Don’t worry, Brother!" Yixiang said.
Her hand suddenly reached out!
The moment her hand reached out, a slight sound came from the walls of the cave on all sides, and countless corpse Gu sprang up, shooting towards Lin Xiaosu and Yixiang.
It was like a sudden downpour in a sealed cave.
Just when Lin Xiaosu felt quite troubled, the little turtle in Yixiang’s hand suddenly glowed all over.
A hazy white light tore through the cave’s darkness...
Hiss hiss hiss...
Countless corpse Gu entered the ring of light formed by the white light, becoming rigid once they passed through, and fell to the ground motionless.
Not only corpse Gu, but a large number of green long worms, the same type of Gu Worm that led them here: Corpse Gu.
Lin Xiaosu’s eyes widened in astonishment as she stared at the turtle.
"Little Wu has the ability to convert life and death energy, emitting vitality from its body, this vitality is the bane of the death-representing corpse Gu," Yixiang said so.
"Let’s go!"
The two proceeded along a gloomy underground passage.
Different from the beginning, Yixiang now held a lamp in her hand—a turtle lamp.
The light from the turtle became increasingly intense, to the point where the gloomy underground resembled a brightly lit living room. The surrounding corpse Gu, green Corpse Gu, and countless other unheard-of strange insects all fell to the ground and became rigid upon being touched by this white light.
Not only was the light bright, but Lin Xiaosu felt that even the air he inhaled was full of vitality, not the deathly stale air of the underground. This breath, too, was emanating from the turtle.
This turtle...
How can one describe it?
Now was not the time to ponder this, as a coffin appeared before them.
This coffin, with its blood-red surface under the white light of the turtle, appeared as if the blood was melting, extremely terrifying and chilling.
Suddenly, there was a soft sound from within the coffin, and an old man sprang out violently.
The gloomy tomb.
The blood-red coffin.
In the boundless silence, suddenly, an old man bounced up like a ghost...
If ordinary people witnessed this scene, they would surely scream and run at the first opportunity, but the people who came were clearly exceptions. Lin Xiaosu’s Heavenly Tao Wisdom Eye firmly locked onto the old man.
The old man’s face was very thin, his skin devoid of any blood color, his eyes dull as if he had no pupils at all, which made him look no different from a corpse with eyes wide open before death.
However, there was a change in the expression on this old man’s face as it slowly shifted under the turtle lamp.
"A Divine Artifact with the power of life and death conversion! There is actually such a Divine Artifact in the world..." The old man’s hoarse voice contained a hint of excitement.
"You are Gushan!" Yixiang said sternly.
The old man’s pupil-less eyes moved away from the turtle and towards Yixiang’s face: "And who might you be?"
This counter-question was actually an acknowledgement that he indeed was Gushan.
"Witch God lineage! Yixiang!"
Gushan’s eyes suddenly turned into a bottomless ancient valley, his voice as if coming from the netherworld, filled with endless chill: "So, you are Yixiang!"
Yixiang was slightly startled: "You know me?"
Lin Xiaosu intercepted the answer: "Of course he knows you. When he and Chu Tiankuo set that ingenious trap, they originally intended to end the lineage of the Witch God of this generation. How could he possibly not know the representative figure of the Witch God’s current lineage?"
Stirring up the conflict between Lin Xiaosu and Yixiang was the key core of their strategy.
It was a foolproof scheme.
Because no matter how things evolved in the end, as the designers, they would benefit, since both Lin Xiaosu and Yixiang were the ones they wanted to eliminate.
To eliminate Lin Xiaosu, because Chu Tiankuo could not withstand his investigation.
To remove Yixiang, because Yixiang’s grandfather was Gushan’s greatest enemy.
Moreover, with Yixiang’s death, the most authentic lineage of Wushen Mountain would be severed, avenging the blood feud of Gushan’s clan being destroyed and his disciples killed many years ago.
Gushan sneered sinisterly: "That’s right! Fifty years ago, your grandfather Yi Kun, representing the Witch God lineage, allied with the seven great Witch clans of Miaojiang to extinguish the lineage of Shishen Mountain. How could I let this go? Today, you’ve stumbled before me - like lambs to the slaughter! Die!"
At the sound of his voice, two Blood Snakes suddenly sprang from the coffin.
Shooting towards Lin Xiaosu and Yixiang.
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Slash!
A cold light flashed, and the two Snake Heads fell to the ground simultaneously.
Gushan roared: "This isn’t Gu Technique!"
"Gushan! Times have changed," Lin Xiaosu said indifferently.
Gushan stared at him coldly: "The times have changed, and your ignorance must change too... Lifebound!"
Yixiang’s face changed rapidly.
With a swish, a green centipede spat out from Gushan’s mouth, shooting towards Lin Xiaosu like an arrow.
Its speed was as fast as lightning.
The attack was so strange that it overturned all known forms of attack.
Lin Xiaosu reacted extremely quickly. His dagger rose, slicing through the void, striking the centipede’s head squarely, but the moment they touched, it was like metal clashing against iron. The green centipede suddenly twisted, coiling around the dagger. Its sharp barbed tentacles, like a jellyfish, spread out to envelop Lin Xiaosu’s wrist...
Just then, a beautiful glow burst forth in the cave.
The glow originated from Yixiang’s brow.
At her brow, the shadow of a Blood Butterfly emerged.
With a flutter, the blood-colored shadow separated from Yixiang’s brow, turning into a real butterfly, shooting towards the green centipede.
The centipede on Lin Xiaosu’s dagger, upon contact with the incoming butterfly, jerked as if struck by thunder, tentacles retracted, the centipede retreated and landed on the coffin, its head reared high like an enraged spectacled cobra.
This butterfly gracefully returned and settled on the tip of Yixiang’s finger.
Gushan stared at the butterfly on Yixiang’s fingertip, his face also full of shock and doubt: "Witch God Gu: Blood Butterfly! Even your grandfather failed to cultivate it, yet you have succeeded?"
Yixiang took a step forward, standing in front of Lin Xiaosu: "Gushan, you are also a member of the Gu lineage, so you naturally understand the rule that fighting with one’s Lifebound Gu must result in death. You should also know that the Witch God Blood Butterfly is the supreme Lifebound Gu in all of Miaojiang. Your Lifebound Gu is no match for my Blood Butterfly. Once it is broken, you too will not escape death. It would be better for you to retract your Lifebound Gu, surrender without a fight, and you may still have a chance at life!"
At this moment, she was infinitely pure, infinitely beautiful.
She was the most beautiful butterfly that had emerged from the cocoon.
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