Chapter 159 The First World
"If you want my blood, then come and try it. Whoever finishes first will get the better of you!"
Tang Lingnan sneered. The poisonous gas hidden in the air had no effect on her at all. The green vine in her hand turned into a long whip, and the leaves rolled into sharp blades, breaking through the air.
The masked man didn't react, and the two-headed snake coiled beside him suddenly jumped up. The snake scales as hard as metal collided with the vine whip, making a loud clanging sound. There was a flash of golden red fire. The two-headed snake fell to the ground, and venom dripped from its fangs, melting a piece of grass.
Tang Lingnan clenched the whip in his hand and glanced at the two-headed snake: "So that's how it is. The person who made the Gu was actually devoured by the Gu..."
The spiritual energy from the masked man was continuously pouring towards the two-headed snake king in front of him. The snake king leaned over and rushed out from the ground like a bow, its target was Tang Lingnan.
The grass leaf bent slightly, and Tang Lingnan dodged it with a tip of her toes as if she had foreseen it. She was now a mortal with no training in resisting poison, so if she was really injected with the venom that killed people instantly, she would probably find it difficult to resist.
Don't let it get close!
As she thought about it, the soil at her feet stirred, and several vines broke through the ground, raising dust and sand, blocking the two-headed snake's path one after another, forming a siege.
Seeing the stalemate here, the masked man whistled. One by one, humans with special bloodlines walked forward and slashed their wrists with knives in a daze. Blood flowed into the small cauldron from mid-air as if being drawn. Layers of blood-colored silk cocoons formed in the cauldron, and the creatures inside were already eager to transform into butterflies.
The interwoven blood web coiled in mid-air, reflecting the golden sun's glow, a rather unusual spectacle. At Tang Lingnan's feet, where she hadn't noticed, her shadow swayed slightly, as if about to break free.
At this rate, before she could finish dealing with the two-headed snake, the others would be sucked dry!
Spiritual pressure poured out, and Tang Lingnan's consciousness rapidly expanded, connecting with the roots of the grass and trees underground. She had originally thought that this would consume a lot of her energy, but unexpectedly, the moment she actually connected, she didn't realize how much spiritual energy was consumed by controlling the trees on the mountain.
In this case, the advantage is mine!
Tang Lingnan no longer hesitated, his spiritual consciousness completely connected with the green plants all over the mountain. His mind moved at will, and the distribution of plants in the forest changed instantly. The masked man felt a flash before his eyes and was forced to change his shape and appear in another place, leaving him, Ding, the two-headed snake and the woman opposite in the same place. The blood bags that were captured by the secret method disappeared without a trace.
"What kind of top-notch wood-type magical power is this, the Myriad Forms!"
The masked man was greatly shocked. His chaotic thoughts were also cleared up by this scene. He screamed shrilly like a child, "Impossible! Impossible! Even space has been... cut!"
He stood there in a daze, motionless.
The two-headed snake was tightly locked by a thorny vine, its mouth forced wide open, and the flexible vine entered its esophagus, greedily absorbing its blood. Its scales had evolved to be extremely hard, and there were none in the esophagus.
Tang Lingnan let out a breath and calmed her mind. The mental consumption was not as great as she had imagined, but the consumption of spiritual energy was real. Fortunately, she had transferred the rest of the people to a safe place.
The evil creature in the cauldron fell silent for a moment, as if it had not yet woken up from the nightmare of all its nutrients escaping. A circle of ripples spread out from the center of the pool of blood, and the next second, a piercing sound wave swept over.
Like the chirping of insects!
This move did not distinguish between friend and foe. Blood gushed out of the masked man's five orifices, and his consciousness once again fell into endless chaos.
Tang Lingnan tried hard to stay awake, but her shadow was boiling uncontrollably, spreading silently and carrying a murderous aura.
She opened her eyes and saw something bleeding out of the cauldron. It opened its huge mouth and swallowed the masked man standing next to it in one gulp.
Oh no! The poisonous creature is devouring its master and forcing evolution!
Deep within his bones, he discovered the special bond between the Gu and its master: completely devouring the Gu Master was equivalent to feeding a hundred high-level bloodlines. This method of controlling Gu had long been abandoned by the Five Immortals due to its excessive risk. The relationship between the Gu and its master was not one of weapon and master, but rather a symbiotic partnership.
It's too late.
Before he could even scream, he was drowned in the sea of blood. His muscles and bones slowly melted into the blood. In the last moment before his death, the masked man remembered the bishop's meaningful words. He widened his eyes and realized that he was the bishop's backup plan for the poisonous creature.
The resentful soul was completely devoured, and with a crisp sound, all insects became silent.
rustle--
The newly born wings spread out, with circles of strange scarlet blood-colored lines, and black spots like eyes dotted around them. The butterfly danced gracefully in the sunlight, showing off its beautiful figure.
"What an ugly big fluttering moth."
Tang Lingnan complained expressionlessly.
The butterfly paused its flapping wings, realizing Tang Lingnan's ridicule. As a member of the butterfly clan that values beauty, it became furious.
Tang Lingnan became alert. She recognized that this was the Blood Shadow Butterfly Gu, which was ranked eleventh in the Ten Thousand Gu Dictionary. Its wings were blood red, with spots on them, black shadows like pupils, and its butterfly tail was winding like a skirt, transparent like gauze. It was bloodthirsty and difficult to deal with, and extremely ferocious. In the Ten Thousand Gu Dictionary, it was even more famous for its master-devouring and rebellious reputation.
The frivolous blood aura spread, making Tang Lingnan almost nauseous. A surge of violent murderous intent suddenly surged in her heart, and everything around her seemed like a ghostly shadow. She clenched her weapon tightly, knowing it was an illusion, but the murderous intent grew stronger.
The shadows couldn't bear it any longer and were about to rush out to kill this ungrateful moth, but they suddenly stopped and retreated to Tang Lingnan's feet like a tide, waiting silently as always.
Ding-ling-ling——
The crisp ringing of a bell woke Tang Lingnan from her dream. A beautiful butterfly, wearing a gauze dress woven by the golden light of the sun, stayed above Tang Lingnan's head with reserve and did not move.
The blood butterfly, no, the large moth fluttered as if it had encountered something terrifying. Its wings, which had been flapping leisurely, now moved as fast as a spiral. It was so frightened that it wanted to retreat!
But it did not notice that the beautiful tail that its clan was proud of was curled at the edges as if it was burned by invisible flames, and turned black little by little into flying smoke. The golden butterfly flapped its wings lightly, and the breeze brought intoxicating fragrance. The ugly big moth fell stiffly from the air in an instant.
Just a little fragrance brought by the wind, just a glance, and the Gu King that the masked man had fed with all his heart was poisoned to death.
Tang Lingnan didn't understand why the blood butterfly fell to the ground motionless as if dead the moment she opened her eyes. She cautiously used the command vine to test it, and it seemed... it was really dead.
"My name is Tang Lingnan. Thank you for your help, senior."
Not even the wind moved, and the forest was silent. Perhaps the senior didn't like to see people. Tang Lingnan said again: "Senior, this blood butterfly is extremely poisonous. If its body is left here, I am afraid something bad will happen to it. I wonder if you..."
Still no sound.
Has he already left?
Tang Lingnan waited for a moment and thought: This is really a good person who does things without leaving his name.
She was in a dilemma. Logically, the blood butterfly's corpse should belong to the elder, but now that the elder had disappeared, she was worried that something else might happen if she left it here, like the masked man or his accomplices coming to collect the body. After all, a dead Gu creature was a rare treasure.
The butterfly standing on the head opened its wings slightly, as if mocking someone's cowardice. Another gust of wind blew by, and the body of the blood butterfly seemed to be corroded, and in an instant it decomposed into dust and dissipated.
Seeing this, Tang Lingnan breathed a sigh of relief. She used Teleport again and returned to where she had placed the group of ordinary people.
Unaware of the light mass floating above the head, the butterfly that had disguised itself as a hairpin for countless years had reached its peak here, making its presence unnoticed.
Tang Lingnan saw the unconscious Lu Chudan at a glance. She carefully walked around the other "corpses" lying there, squatted beside Lu Chudan, pulled up Lu Chudan's wrist, frowned, and used her spiritual energy to check her physical condition.
How could it be!
She gasped in shock and checked the bodies of several people around her, and found that they were all the same.
This is difficult...
Tang Lingnan had a worried look on his face. Logically, the Gu King was dead, and the rest of the Gu that were controlled should have died as well. But fortunately, the Gu worms in these people's bodies were not dead yet. Now, it was the Gu in these people's bodies that kept them alive.
The poison penetrated deep into the bone marrow, and most of the blood was lost. The people in front of him were nothing but the living dead.
Speaking of which, Tang Lingnan seemed to remember that if two Gu Kings fought each other, the winner would inherit everything from the loser. Forget it, that’s not important. What’s important is how to save people.
The golden time is six hours. If no solution can be found within six hours, the toxin will invade the brain nerves, and these people will become puppets, forget themselves, and become weapons in the hands of others.
Tang Lingnan knew how to force out the poisonous insects, but she had no auxiliary tools, no herbs to remove the toxins, and no elixirs to keep them alive. The moment the poisonous insects were forced out, this group of people would go from being the living dead to being truly dead, and she would not be saving people but killing them.
What to do?
Tang Lingnan was at her wit's end, looking extremely anxious. The golden butterfly above her head sensed her anxiety and flapped its wings slowly to fly away. The slight airflow and sound made Tang Lingnan aware of something unusual.
When did the butterfly land on her hair?
Tang Lingnan touched his head, and sure enough, he felt a handful of golden phosphorus powder.
She silently withdrew her hand and saw the beautiful butterfly slowly fly into the forest. When it saw that she didn't catch up, it turned back and fanned her face with gold powder again.
For some reason, my hands suddenly felt itchy.
Tang Lingnan understood what Jindie meant and stood up to follow. The butterfly was not flying very fast and looked back at her from time to time, as if urging her.
After circling a fallen tree, the golden butterfly, like a playful forest elf, landed contentedly on a pair of large white hands. The godlike and handsome man lowered his eyes and said in confusion, "You..."
"Strange, where did it go?"
In a blink of an eye, Tang Lingnan saw the butterfly leading the way disappear. She looked around in confusion for the golden butterfly.
Hearing the familiar voice, the man froze, his body instinctively wanting to run. A domineering butterfly pounced on his face, spraying him with dizzying powder. Unprepared, the man inhaled a large amount of the poisonous powder, feeling dazed for a second or two.
It was this delay of a second or two that allowed him to be seen.
"Who are you……"
Tang Lingnan lifted the fallen vines and looked hesitantly at the figure in white in front of him. The more he looked, the more familiar it seemed to him, not in terms of figure, but in terms of aura.
Tang Lingnan couldn't figure it out, so she chose to follow her heart. She narrowed her eyes and said, "Turn around and let me see."
Ying.
The gorgeous big wings flapped against the handsome face of the man again. The butterfly was so disappointed that it told him to turn around. Turn around!
The sound of footsteps behind him was getting closer and closer. The man finally compromised and slowly turned around, but he didn't dare to look at the person opposite him.
Tang Lingnan was startled: "What? It's you..."
"Brother, why are you hiding from me?"
【Author’s words】
Oh, oh, oh, I'm sorry. I will definitely update tonight. If I don't update at 12 o'clock, I will be a puppy.
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