Chapter 1407: One Poison Against an Army (Part 2) [Requesting Monthly Tickets]

Sizzle sizzle—

The sudden thunder seemed to startle thousands of birds into a chorus of cries.

The metallic fish cried out in pain, its body accelerating towards the ground, a crater predictable to be formed upon impact. The shadowy figure, believing victory was assured, thought it was time to deal with Bai Su, this little snack. Two large bulges, each several meters long, appeared on his back, beneath which something seemed to wriggle.

Finally, the "living creature" pierced through the large bag.

Spurting forth "egg-like arms" coated in slime, one half grasping at the chains, attempting to break free with brute force, the other half trying to capture Bai Su. The shadowy figure's voice was sinister and twisted: "Let me see where you can hide now—"

Got him!

Before she could even feel surprised, a hand passed through Bai Su's body.

"I'm not going anywhere, I'll just send you to the Yellow Springs!" With the woman's indifferent voice, the metal monster fish disintegrated in mid-air, its armor and scales flying upwards toward Bai Su's palm. The body wrapped in the armor turned into water, instantly filling the entire battlefield.

Wu Xian plunged his long sword into the ground: "Quick!"

Elite soldiers formed a battle formation, their immense morale adding to the thundercloud's strength. Meanwhile, over a thousand strongmen wielding heavy shields stomped their feet and shouted in unison, "Thunder, come!" Armored figures burst forth from them, coalescing into a seamless wall of heavy shields.

A war drum, hundreds of feet in size, appeared in the sky above the army formation.

Bai Su frantically mobilized the martial energy within her dantian, and countless long chains wrapped around the octagonal war drum: "Sword light as the guide, lightning as the hammer."

As the thunderbolts crashed down, the thunderclouds in the sky finally found their outlet, and hundreds of bolts of lightning pierced the heavens and earth like chains. The black shadow pinned down by Bai Su had not expected her to be so ruthless, and it let out a shrill, ghostly roar. The Gu worms that made up its body screamed and exploded in the thunder and fire, and the charred corpse turned into countless black, fluffy substances that scattered and fell.

The mournful howls continued, and the strange snow showed no signs of stopping.

In just a few breaths, the battlefield was covered with a layer of black mud.

The water droplets in the air were also wrapped in fine electric snakes. Falling on a person wouldn't be fatal, but would only cause a tingling, numb feeling in the hands and feet, a dizzy head, and a state similar to being half-drunk and half-awake. Amidst the swirling lightning, Bai Su landed, panting slightly.

He accidentally choked on his throat: "Cough cough cough—"

Wisps of water gathered in the air and gradually transformed into an orca, no longer than Bai Su's arm. The cool metal gently brushed against Bai Su's cheek, its small eyes showing concern. Bai Su said in a muffled voice, "Now you do remember to care about me."

Why didn't you show leniency when you promoted him before?

Bai Su was struggling at the moment, partly because her own cultivation level was not yet stable, and partly because she had suffered greatly when she subdued the Martial Gallant Totem. Her ribs were broken one by one, and she was almost drowned by the Martial Gallant Totem using its flippers to hold her down in the water.

The orca, covered in metallic scales, tilted its head innocently.

It's as if it's saying, "What did you say? I don't know."

Bai Su wiped the blood from the corner of her mouth, then heard a furious roar erupt from beneath the war drums. A phantom of a warrior clad in chainmail leaped high from below, slamming his bare hands down on the head of the dark figure. His fists rained down like bullets, causing black powder to fall from the shadowy figure. From time to time, the heavy, furious breathing of the warrior could be heard: "Die, you bastard!"

Lightning flashed like a reversed Milky Way, and the dark shadow gradually shrank.

Bai Su leaped and dashed away, afraid that the enemy would escape.

Upon reaching the deep pit, they suddenly saw the ashes of the fallen Gu worms spinning on their own without wind. Only Wu Xian and his short figure, bound hand and foot, remained in the pit. Seeing Bai Su arrive, Wu Xian greeted her as if she were his savior: "General Bai, come and lend a hand."

Bai Su conjured two silver chains that bound the opponent tightly.

Wu Xian got up in a disheveled state, his facial features and flesh trembling with each harsh word he uttered: "Electrocute him, electrocute this old bastard to death, electrocute him until he loses control of his bladder!"

Unfortunately, Bai Su did not possess these attributes.

She controls the water and ice through her connection with the Martial Spirit Totem.

But it doesn't matter. The military formation has a substitute. As soon as Wu Xian arrived, he arranged a full-on meal for the opponent, including fire roasting and lightning strikes.

Before the enemy general could even utter a complete sentence, he was subjected to severe torture. Only when his Danfu Martial Gallbladder was covered with dense cracks did he realize what fear was and beg for mercy.

If Bai Su hadn't been there, Wu Xian would have twisted his head off—the riot in the army had been quelled by using lightning and fire to kill the Gu worm eggs. After the battle, a headcount revealed over a thousand casualties, and Gu worm eggs were also found in the army's provisions.

Bai Su stopped him only after she had seen enough: "Duke of Lu."

Wu Xian stopped, his eyes still filled with murderous intent.

"If we interrogate him directly, this old man probably won't be honest."

Surprisingly, this enemy was shorter than Wu Xian's waist, with short, thick limbs and a withered skin that was almost hanging on his skeleton, looking like a dried-up corpse with severe osteoporosis.

When Wu Xian directly engaged him in hand-to-hand combat, he discovered that the man's strength was far less than he had previously judged. Thinking of how many of his men had been killed by the old man's schemes, Wu Xian wished he could crush the old man's bones and feed them to the fish: "General Bai, why don't we just use the Word of Power? The Word of Power will reveal the truth, saving us the trouble of distinguishing between his truth and falsehood."

Bai Su said, "Alright."

This person doesn't need to be persuaded to surrender, so there's no need to worry about the mental damage caused by torture and verbal manipulation. The primary requirement is to extract useful information from the enemy; everything else can be ignored. The enemy general panicked and tried to beg for mercy, but the moment he opened his mouth, chains were stuffed into it.

The cold metal stretched his mouth shut, making it impossible to close, and a tearing pain shot through his jaw and the corners of his mouth. He made a whimpering sound, but met Bai Su's unwavering gaze: "Be a good boy, and I might leave you with a whole corpse. Otherwise—you wouldn't want your throat and internal organs to be ripped apart from the inside out and minced into meat paste, would you?"

Speaking the most shocking words in the calmest tone.

"Drag him away!"

Even Wu Xian was frightened by her methods and calmed down a bit.

This kind of torture was not even commonly seen in the Ministry of Justice.

Bai Su frowned as she waited for the result. Wu Xian paced back and forth, the campfire crackling more than ten times, until finally, the sound of someone bringing news arrived.

"General, we have news."

Bai Su said, "Speak."

The information obtained through interrogation was not optimistic.

Upon closer examination, this enemy general was actually a colleague of the Wei Cheng uncle and nephew, meaning he was one of the former subordinates of the Wu Kingdom. When the Wu Kingdom collapsed, he was quite famous in the army, leading an elite force of five thousand second-class superior soldiers.

Wu Xian thought he had misheard the number.

"Five thousand second-class superior soldiers?" This force would be the elite of the elite anywhere. In Wu Xian's opinion, there were no more than five generals in the entire Kang Kingdom who were qualified to have such elite troops.

Was this skinny old man really that powerful before?

Bai Su was not surprised.

"The soldiers of the Wu Kingdom are all brave warriors."

The entire second-class superior legion was not particularly outstanding.

However, this strength was built on human lives. Huang Lie's training of the Heavy Shield Warriors was an attempt to emulate the Wu Kingdom, but unfortunately, he didn't master Wu Kingdom's core technology, resulting in a hybrid that was neither fish nor fowl. The yield rate of the Heavy Shield Warriors was far lower than that of the Wu Kingdom.

After the death of the King of Wu, the kingdom was leaderless, and their proud elite army perished one after another as the Gu worms drained their lifespans. Beset by external threats and internal strife as officials argued endlessly over the succession, the kingdom ultimately fell apart.

Some of the elders were unwilling to let the Wu Kingdom's ambitions come to an end, and attempted to reintegrate the Wu Kingdom by force. Most of them died during the campaigns, while others chose to go into hiding and make other plans.

Today's enemy belongs to the latter.

Over the years, he has been trying to recreate the martial arts masters of the Wu Kingdom.

Wu Xian's expression was not good, clearly also recalling Huang Lie, the leader of the Dragon Slaying Bureau back then: "He hid a group of elite troops in the mountains?"

If so, we still need to be on high alert tonight to guard against a night attack.

Bai Su rejected this answer.

There are no living people in the mountains.

This former subordinate of the Wu Kingdom indeed failed to develop a Gu worm comparable to the Wu Kingdom's Gu Calamity. In fact, due to a lack of talent, he vaguely sensed more than sixty years ago that his lifespan was about to end. In order to survive, he began experimenting on himself with Gu, gradually transforming into this inhuman and monstrous form, with his craving for flesh and blood growing stronger day by day. At first, he could satisfy it with animals, but later he developed a need for living people.

The flesh and blood of living people can slow down one's own decline, and the more vigorous one's blood and qi, the better. He was blocking this place because he was under the command of the outside world.

Wu Xian felt disgusted: "Eating people to prolong life?"

The messenger soldier answered truthfully: "According to his account, initially eating three people was enough for a month, but later it took thirty people a month."

The effect is even better if the user is a powerful and courageous martial artist.

Most of the previously missing scouts have become food.

The insect eggs parasitize living organisms, devour their flesh and blood, and then fly back to the lair of the person who raises the insects, thus achieving a feedback effect.

"Damn it! How come everything has to do with the Gods?" Wu Xian slammed his fist on the ground. He thought this club was just a resource platform, but he never expected that what they did behind the scenes would be so shocking.

Bai Su wasn't too surprised.

The downfall of the Wu Kingdom was inherently related to the Gods' Society. Like a whale falling and countless creatures emerging, the Gods' Society likely absorbed a great deal of resources left behind by the Wu Kingdom. Naturally, they possess many secrets; perhaps even the enemy general's Gu-raising manual was obtained from the Gods' Society.

The final confession matched Bai Su's guess.

The only surprise was—

This enemy general was unaware that the Gods' Society had orchestrated the downfall of the Wu Kingdom. He viewed his relationship with the Gods' Society as merely one of cooperation; they provided him with necessary intelligence, and he occasionally removed obstacles for them. In terms of strength, he wasn't particularly powerful, only possessing some expertise in raising Gu poisons. This time, he had intended to recreate the Wu Kingdom's strongmen from the Kang Kingdom's troops, but he hadn't expected the results to be so disappointing.

The Wu Kingdom's Gu calamity was not particularly afraid of thunder and fire.

Bai Su then asked, "What's going on with the mountains moving?"

Could it be that old man's doing this too?

That's a misrepresentation.

The movement of the mountains had nothing to do with him.

As for the inside story, he found out when he was in seclusion in the mountains, raising Gu worms and conducting experiments. It is said that the continent beneath his feet was formed after a great cataclysm, and the various tectonic plates are unstable. Some places are prone to earthquakes and shifts. The rock layers of this mountain range are very special, accumulating a large amount of special heaven and earth energy, forming a strange aura. It can continuously record and play illusions from different periods under certain weather conditions. People who are not familiar with it are easily lost in it, trapped in the illusions until they die.

As for the disappearance of the villages at the foot of the mountain...

The truth is that they were all eaten by the enemy general.

Wu Xian was stunned: "Actually, the mountain didn't move; it's just that the aura made us see an illusion, leading to a wrong judgment?"

There has been movement, but it's not very noticeable.

It will take several years to move some of it.

Wu Xian: "..."

After a period of severe interrogation, they managed to extract the correct path from the enemy general: the only way to cross the mountains was by this route.

According to the initial plan of the Foreign Society, this front could be delayed for more than a month, at which point the Gu worms could annihilate the Kang Kingdom's army. Even if they couldn't, they could still cause chaos. Therefore, not many elite troops were left on this front; they were just a bunch of blusterers.

Wu Xian looked at Bai Su: "Is this believable?"

If this is credible, then we can take a route to annihilate them all and advance the battle line.

Bai Su stroked the engraved patterns on the sword hilt: "Fight!"

Wu Xian hesitated for a moment: "Why don't we report the news first? If we send it quickly, we should be able to get a reply in six days."

It took about this long to go back and forth.

Bai Su said, "Six days is enough time for the enemy to react."

I don't believe Wu Xian doesn't understand this principle.

Wu Xian understood, but faced with the ultimate temptation of military merit, his first thought was who would take responsibility if he made a mistake.

Bai Su stood up and beheaded the enemy general with a single sword stroke.

"I'll vouch for you! If anything goes wrong, I'll take full responsibility!"

Wu Xian looked at the mummified head, which was blackened even to the bone, and took a step back, fearing that there might still be insect eggs in the body.

He clasped his hands in a fist salute and said with a smile, "The Great General is wise and mighty!"

I admire people who shoulder hardships alone but share the joys.

Bai Su: "..."

She wants to act first and report later; the necessary procedures still need to be followed.

He immediately ordered his men to deliver the enemy general's corpse, some relatively intact fragments of Gu worms, and rocks collected from the mountains to his lord, while also informing other fronts of the situation. Similar Gu worm attacks must be guarded against with extreme caution.

Shen Tang received it several days later.

"Has the High Priest been able to identify what kind of Gu worm it is?" This was Ji Moqiu's specialty, something he could easily master.

"You can't tell, they've just been raised haphazardly."

"……Too."

If it were a genuine Gu worm, it probably wouldn't be so easy to kill.

Although the species is not discernible, it is a type of Gu worm, and if one is accidentally parasitized by its eggs, it can easily cause considerable trouble in the military.

Ji Moqiu took some fragments back with him, intending to raise a batch of Gu worms capable of counteracting and neutralizing Gu poison. His gaze shifted from the pile of black, drifting fluff, passing over the lifeless, dried corpse, and finally settling on a few stones: "Your Highness, these stones—"

Shen Tang: "Shao Xuan said that these stones can form a special aura that can cause hallucinations and has the wonderful effect of bewitching people."

Ji Moqiu said, "That's not an illusion."

Shen Tang was surprised that he even knew this.

"What else could it be but a hallucination?"

“It should be mixed with nuclear waste…” Before Ji Moqiu could finish speaking, Shen Tang had already smashed the stone with a blank expression. He silently added the rest of his words, “But after so many years, the radiation level should not be enough to pose a fatal threat to humans now. General Bai said that the entire mountain was made up of these things… It’s only natural that mortals would hallucinate in such an environment…”

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