The Lord of Void and Real-Chapter 1571 - 1567: Golden Silkworm Gu

Shen Luo let out a small sigh of relief, turned his head to survey the surroundings, and noticed that everyone was still engaged in fierce battles, many were wounded, but none seemed too severe.

Clearly, their strengths were not insignificant.

Just then, a strange, low humming sound arose from all directions, sounding somewhat like the chirping of cicadas, yet it was much more muffled, as if it were the noise of cicadas that had yet to break free from the earth.

While Shen Luo puzzled over it in his heart, the humming of the cicadas grew louder and louder.

Suddenly, Shen Luo’s eyes twitched, sensing something flying towards him, and he immediately tried to dodge with a swift shift of the body controlled by Ghost Teng Master.

But this body wasn’t his own after all, and was a bit too slow, and in an instant, he felt a sharp pain on his cheek, as a wound "pfft" opened up on the right side of his face.

Shen Luo had no time to care about the wound, and quickly adjusted his line of sight to follow the trajectory he had just noticed, only to see a flash of translucent light, which then disappeared in the blink of an eye.

But a burning pain soon emanated from his right cheek.

Ghost Teng Master raised a hand to touch it, and his fingers too felt a burning pain. Looking down, he found to his surprise that his fingertips were charred black, showing signs of corrosion.

He casually conjured a water mirror to look, and was immediately alarmed.

Right where the wound was on his cheek, the flesh had been corroded and burnt into a terrifying hole about the size of a fist, revealing the pink tendons and bones within.

"Everyone be careful, there’s something very powerful here, it moves quickly and is extremely difficult to detect, but its Gu poison is exceedingly virulent," Shen Luo hurriedly warned aloud.

"Ah..."

On another side, a miserable cry from Li Biao followed soon after.

"It’s the Golden Silkworm Gu, everyone be cautious," Tao Xiang also noticed the creature’s track and quickly spoke up.

Shen Luo paid no more attention to this and instead, while maintaining his guard, began to repair the injury on his face.

However, upon trying to do so, his expression inadvertently shifted slightly.

Not only was the wound on his face not healing, but while the wound itself did not continue to grow or change, the Gu poison within was spreading at a rapid pace through Ghost Teng Master’s blood and mana.

What worried him even more was that the earlier inadvertently inhaled Gu poison from the poisonous insects, the snake Gu, and the spider Gu had apparently been activated as well, and began to grow exceedingly active as if being summoned.

Concentrating his divided soul, Shen Luo exerted his full strength with his spells to suppress it, but still felt an overwhelming sensation.

These two types of Gu poison seemed to share some inexplicable connection, and were frantically converging towards each other.

Although Shen Luo had not yet figured out the exact reason, he knew that he absolutely could not let them merge, as the combination of the two Gu poisons would indeed lead to uncontrollable consequences.

With this thought in mind, Shen Luo discreetly opened the Free and Easy Mirror from within Ghost Teng Master’s sleeve and a round pearl quietly moved from Shen Luo’s hand to that of Ghost Teng Master.

He secretly channeled his mana into the Ten Thousand Poison Mixed Element Bead, and faint flowing lights began to flicker on the pearl.

The two types of Gu Poison wreaking havoc inside his body suddenly slowed in their spread, then began flowing towards the Ten Thousand Poison Mixed Element Bead.

When both converged in the palm of Ghost Teng Master, an indescribable intense pain nearly caused Shen Luo’s divided soul to lose control, almost making him cry out involuntarily.

The flesh and blood in his palm dissolved almost instantly, were it not for the fused Gu toxins being absorbed by the Ten Thousand Poison Mixed Element Bead immediately, his exposed bones might have also dissolved on the spot.

Fortunately, at the critical moment, he firmly guarded his Divine Sense, keeping Ghost Teng Master from letting go of the bead.

Only after the Gu toxins were completely absorbed did he once again deploy his secret technique, and the flesh on his palms and cheeks began to rapidly regenerate.

"Thankfully, I was only slightly injured just now, and I didn’t absorb too much poison; otherwise, Ghost Teng Master’s body might have been completely dissolved," Shen Luo thought to himself.

However, he only repaired half of the flesh on his face, leaving a terrifying wound without fully healing it.

With the Ten Thousand Poison Mixed Element Bead in hand, Shen Luo felt somewhat at ease, no longer afraid of the poison invasion, and began to focus on the battlefield for the Golden Silkworm Gu’s trace.

Perhaps due to the presence of the Ten Thousand Poison Mixed Element Bead, for a time, neither the Dark Green Poisonous Spiders nor the Golden-tailed Pythons launched any attacks on Shen Luo.

Ghost Teng Master’s gaze rapidly shifted all around and finally managed to capture the trace of the Golden Silkworm Gu.

The creature was extremely small—truly the size of a cocoon—but its shape was more like a kind of miniature beetle with a body that was actually golden yellow. Due to its extreme speed, it was difficult for the human eye to clearly see its true form, making it appear almost translucent.

Upon seeing this, Shen Luo was somewhat astonished; its flying posture while moving bore an uncanny resemblance to his own Thousand-mile Wing Flapping Technique, although it wasn’t for long-distance travel and thus left a trace to follow.

After discovering this, he became interested, pretending to be entangled with a Gu snake while focusing on tracing the whereabouts of the Golden Silkworm Gu. After several observations, he finally determined that there were only six Golden Silkworm Gus in the entire hall.

And the flight paths of these six Golden Silkworm Gus were all different, crisscrossing each other, almost dividing the interior region of the entire hall.

The areas they left empty were instead filled by the Gu snakes of the Golden-tailed Pythons and the Dark Green Poisonous Spiders.

Moreover, only two of the Golden Silkworm Gus were actively moving and attacking in the hall at the moment. Although the others were also moving, they did not actively attack them, but rather seemed to be lying in wait for an opportunity.

Shen Luo speculated that the reason why these Golden Silkworm Gus hadn’t all mobilized to attack was to wait for the Golden-tailed Pythons and Dark Green Poisonous Spiders to deplete everyone’s Mana, and even gradually spread the poison, before they would move in to harvest lives.

From this perspective, the arrangement inside the Soul Dying Gate was tighter than that within the Soul Birth Gate, almost like a precise Array—if one were to barge in unprepared, it would truly be a life-and-death situation.

After observing for a while, Shen Luo gradually understood the key to this arrangement—it was the six Golden Silkworm Gus. As long as they were slain, the fatal threat would be eliminated in advance, and those Gu snakes and spiders would no longer be a concern.

"Fellow Daoists, if you wish to break through this place, would you be willing to hear my word?" Shen Luo, controlling Ghost Teng Master, suddenly shouted.

"Could it be that you’ve found the Soul Dying Pillar?" Tian Sanqi brandished a longsword to cut down a Spider Spear in front of her and asked.

"No, but if the fellow Daoists are unwilling to listen to me, in at most Half a Moment, I’m afraid it won’t be as relaxed as it is now," Shen Luo confidently declared.

"Ghost Vine Fellow Daoist, what do you mean by that?" Wanshui Zhenren also asked from a distance.

"From the moment we entered the Soul Birth Gate and began slaying the Poisonous Insects, perhaps you haven’t noticed, or perhaps you’ve already realized, that even though these Insects die, the toxins within their bodies have not been completely dissipated and have spread into the Void. Although you all have magical instruments and secret techniques for protection, you have more or less inhaled some of these toxins," Ghost Teng Master said.

Upon hearing this, without even checking themselves, the others also knew that Ghost Teng Master’s words were true.