The woman in green nodded upon hearing this: "Bring her inside."

"Let's go." Fu'er grabbed Ye Xianya and quickly dragged her into the house, then kicked the door shut.

In order to give herself a pretty little face, Qingzhu has been living in this small courtyard with her junior sister Fu'er for two months.

The Thread-Pulling Gu King she released was extremely powerful; the mother Gu could split into up to a thousand child Gu, which she controlled through invisible soul threads.

Those little girls were all brought to this courtyard by the mother Gu after being parasitized by the worm.

Over the course of two months, the Silkworm King brought her over a hundred girls, but none of them caught her eye.

At first, Qingzhu and Fu'er would release the people quickly, but in the last ten days or so, they have locked all the girls in the cellar.

The reason is simple.

If Qingzhu still can't find a face she likes, she'll have to choose a few girls from among these girls who are somewhat pleasing to the eye and use their features to create a beautiful face.

By then, she will still be able to change faces.

With a wave of Qingzhu's hand, Ye Xianya's body was uncontrollably pushed backward, and after sticking to the wooden stake nailed to the wall, she was immediately wrapped up by the rope.

Qingzhu formed hand seals and performed a Taoist technique. Suddenly, strands of white silk shot out from her chest and flew to Ye Xianya's face.

Ye Xianya immediately felt her face being locked on, with thin white threads, finer than a hair, desperately trying to burrow into her skin, making her scalp tingle.

She also understood how the woman had her face changed.

The silk-pulling worm is extremely difficult to raise, but once successfully raised, it can greatly enhance the strength of the worm breeder and bring them immense benefits.

Once the silk-pulling worm grows up, the mother worm will acquire the ability to split, creating offspring worms.

Through the parasitic ability of the offspring Gu, the mother Gu can even control hundreds or thousands of people.

If you're lucky, the silk-threading worm you raise will become a worm king, which would be even more powerful.

The woman before him was transformed using another skill of the Silk-Pulling Gu King—stripping—to change her face.

These white threads are expelled by the Silk-Pulling Gu King inside the woman's body. These threads will enter the person's skin, merge with it, and then slowly peel away.

The person who controls the mother Gu can naturally claim the peeled-off face as their own.

The entire Great Yan Dynasty prohibited the raising of Gu poison.

However, in the Zhuwu Kingdom, which borders the southern border of the Great Yan Dynasty, raising Gu worms is very popular, especially in the royal family of the Zhuwu Kingdom, where almost everyone raises powerful Gu worms.

Of course, raising treacherous creatures comes at a price.

Gu worms usually parasitize the body of their master, feeding on the master's blood. Many Gu masters eventually become thin as skin and bones, and most of them do not live long.

The He family, who were ordered to guard the southern border of the Great Yan Dynasty, frequently fought against the people of the Zhuwu Kingdom.

Although most of the Gu Masters in the Zhuwu Kingdom are emaciated, the Gu worms they raise have different abilities. Some Gu worms, after fusing with a Gu Master, can temporarily turn the Gu Master into a powerful warrior, and some can even fly and disappear into the ground.

Monsters also wreak havoc in Zhuwu Kingdom, and since most Gu masters prefer to live in the mountains to raise Gu, the people's lives are not easy, and Zhuwu Kingdom is also prone to disasters.

When natural disasters strike and the people can no longer make a living, the Zhuwu Kingdom tries to plunder the Great Yan Dynasty.

The He family, the Marquis of Zhennan, who was ordered to guard the southern border, always led the He family army to keep the people of Zhuwu Kingdom out and never allowed them to break through the border and invade the Great Yan Dynasty.

However, those Gu Masters possessed all sorts of strange and unpredictable abilities, sometimes making them impossible to guard against. Even though the He family was very powerful, they suffered countless casualties.

He Qingyue, whom Ye Xianya saved last time, is the only son of the He family.

Of course, He Qingyue's mother is pregnant again and will give birth to a younger brother for him next year.

"Hmm?" Qingzhu cast the spell for a moment and found that the Gu threads she released had not been able to successfully integrate into the skin and flesh of the little girl's face, which puzzled her.

Could it be that I've been frequently using the Silk-Pulling Gu King to bring people over to her lately, and the Gu King is tired, which is why it's not performing normally?

Qingzhu was just about to ask the Gu King to put in more effort and try again when a golden light appeared before her eyes. The next moment, the golden light rushed over and swallowed up all the Gu threads that the Gu King had released.

Qingzhu was instantly struck by a backlash, spitting out a mouthful of blood. The Thread-Pulling Gu King parasitizing her body was also struck by a backlash, instantly becoming listless.

"Senior Sister!" Fu'er exclaimed in shock and quickly helped her up.

"Who...who exactly are you?" Qingzhu pointed at Ye Xianya, took a few steps back, and asked in a trembling voice.

"Who I am is not important. What is important is—why would a Daoist nun from Biyun Temple raise Gu poison? Could you be spies sent by the Zhuwu Kingdom?"

When Qingzhu and Fu'er heard Ye Xianya reveal their true identities, their expressions changed simultaneously.

"Senior sister, she knows our identities. We must kill her to prevent future troubles," Fu'er said through gritted teeth in a deep voice.

"Let's do it together!" After Qingzhu finished speaking, she used a special spell to feed the Gu King parasitizing her body with her own heart's blood, instantly releasing hundreds of sub-Gu to try to control Ye Xianya.

Nafu also summoned her magical artifact, a white feather.

The feather instantly grew larger, and the white down on it transformed into sharp thorns that shot towards Ye Xianya.

Ye Xianya formed hand seals, and a pale golden barrier instantly appeared. Flames ignited outside the barrier, and the attacking Gu worms were burned to ashes as soon as they touched it.

The flying spikes were also swallowed up by the pale golden flames.

Qingzhu and Fu'er were dumbfounded when they saw it.

This was the first time in recent years that the two sisters had encountered a setback when facing enemies.

In the past, as long as they cooperated like this, they could fight even powerful Taoists head-on.

This little girl, however, easily neutralized their combined attack.

This is terrifying!

“Yunxiao Palace, one of the ten major Taoist sects, is almost entirely populated by evil cultivators, while Biyun Temple, the only sect that only accepts female disciples, has produced disciples who raise Gu poison. The ten major Taoist sects... have truly fallen.” Ye Xianya frowned and said.

"Enough with the nonsense, prepare to die!" Fu'er shouted, pulling out a hairpin that instantly grew larger, transforming into a jade sword, which she slashed at Ye Xianya.

The jade sword emitted bursts of cold light, and wherever the sword light touched, it quickly froze into ice.

Ye Xianya's eyes lit up when she saw it.

This jade sword and the previous feather artifact were both valuable items, and since she didn't have a suitable weapon at the moment, she gladly accepted them.

It has to be said that Yunxiao Palace is just not good enough. As the lowest-ranked of the ten major Taoist sects, the disciples who come from Yunxiao Palace do not have any good treasures.

Biyun Temple is different.

The female disciples of Biyun Temple possess quite a few magical treasures.