Chapter 76 Gu Insect
"Snap, snap, snap."
The sound of several lights exploding came from behind, and the dark passage that was originally pitch black also lit up.
Feng Tianning lowered his head and realized that what he was stepping on was not a corpse, but a dense mass of soft-bodied insects.
The entire passage was filled with insects, one on top of the other, and even the walls of the secret passage were covered with them.
A few brave ones even quietly climbed onto their feet, trying to climb to higher places. However, the soft-bodied worms were light, and they were too busy escaping to notice them.
When Fu Ruxuan saw the bugs covering her legs like a layer of armor, her scalp went numb.
Even though she didn't have trypophobia, she couldn't stand the scene at the moment.
She didn't care about the people chasing them and raised her legs to shake the bugs off.
"Don't move!" Feng Tianning wanted to stop Fu Ruxuan, but it was too late.
The insects climbed up madly as if stimulated by something, and the soft touch under their feet became stronger and stronger. The insects on the wall also fell down and cricket pupae towards them.
"Tian Ning..." Fu Ruxuan didn't dare to move now. She wanted to use her spiritual power but found that her dantian seemed to be covered by something and there was no reaction at all.
"This is a silkworm poison."
"Poisonous insect?" Fu Ruxuan was shocked. Although there was the Miaojiang witchcraft school in the world of cultivation, they were extremely rare. In all her years of life, she had only seen one cultivator who used poisonous insects.
She could barely accept that there were thousands of evil spirits in a small ghost domain, but how could there be so many poisonous insects?
"The Ming Dynasty medical book 'Lingnan Health Prescriptions: Gu Du Pian' records that a type of blood filament worm exists in the Lingnan region. It's as thin as gossamer threads and gathers like miasma. It burrows into flesh and binds bones, causing them to twist."
Feng Tianning looked a little serious. If this kind of poisonous insect got into their bodies, it would be difficult to deal with.
This kind of poisonous insect often lurks in water sources in the form of eggs or larvae, and will come out in groups when it encounters a host. The "Dongxi Xianzhi" in the Qing Dynasty records that it "looks like an iron wire worm but is red in color and soft as if it has no bones."
Feng Tianning was a little confused. Even if Fengmen Village had become a strange place, it was an inland strange place. There were no rivers or lakes. There shouldn't be such poisonous insects that live near water.
Unless... someone is raising it here on purpose.
"Ah Xuan, don't move. When this insect encounters resistance, it will secrete mucus to reinforce its wrapping and drill deeper into the muscle."
Feng Tianning was not in a much better situation. Logically, the poisonous insects could not get close to her, but the poisonous insects here were not afraid of her spiritual pressure at all. Instead, they became more excited the moment they felt her divine power, and climbed up desperately.
The Samadhi True Fire in his hand posed no threat to these poisonous insects. They remained unharmed even after being set on fire.
"Tianning, what should we do?" Fu Ruxuan's voice trembled slightly.
Before Feng Tianning could come up with a solution, the footsteps that had stopped when the light came on in the secret passage started to sound again from behind him.
Feng Tianning turned back stiffly, and even though she was knowledgeable, she was still shocked.
Two people whose faces could not be seen clearly slowly approached them. Feng Tianning squinted her eyes and observed carefully, only to find that these two people could no longer be called human beings.
Scarlet filarial worms were swimming through their pores, and every part of their bodies was covered with poisonous insects. The worms in their eye sockets turned into grape-like tumors, pushing the festering eyeballs out half an inch.
As they approached, they scratched their necks with twitching movements. Their lips did not move, but a hoarse sound came from their throats, and bloody insect bodies were pulled out from between their fingers.
Feng Tianning swallowed her saliva. She had lived for so long and had seen all kinds of scenes, but the appearance of the "person" in front of her still made her shudder.
Their bodies were enlarged by the poisonous insects and they moved extremely slowly, but they blocked the way Feng Tianning and Fu Ruxuan were coming.
Feng Tianning used his divine power to force the two men back, but the moment the divine power was released, they were like people with chicken blood.
The insects on their bodies were jumping around, as if they were about to burst out of their bodies at any moment, and their movements became much faster as well.
Feng Tianning thought to himself that something was wrong and quickly withdrew his divine power.
She has no spiritual power now, and even her divine power can only make them more excited. Now she doesn't know what to do.
"Xiaobao, do you know what they are?"
The Mountain and River State Map was silent for a long time before Xiao Bao's trembling voice rang out in her mind:
"Mom, run quickly! They are neither human nor evil spirits. Xiaobao is afraid."
Feng Tianning certainly knew that they were not human, but he didn't expect that they were not even evil spirits.
It was impossible to retreat. Feng Tianning looked to the other side of the secret passage and found that there was a stone door about ten meters away from them.
The stone door was tightly closed, and it was obvious that some mechanism had to be triggered to open it.
The insect had now crawled onto Feng Tianning's waist. He could faintly feel a warmth through his clothes, which was the insect's body temperature.
Feng Tianning was shocked by her own thoughts. She didn't expect that insects also have body temperature.
"Axuan, do you dare to take a gamble?"
Feng Tianning spoke with a serious expression, his eyes falling on the stone door at the end of the secret passage.
She could already feel the bugs trying to drill into her body, but they couldn't break through her skin despite trying for a long time.
Just because Feng Tianning is fine doesn’t mean Fu Ruxuan is fine. Her face is turning pale now, and she probably won’t be able to hold on for much longer.
In fact, she didn't know how to open the stone door, but if they continued to stay here, they would surely die.
Fu Ruxuan followed Feng Tianning's gaze and saw the stone door that appeared out of thin air.
She felt as if there were bugs in her body, and those attached to the surface seemed to be sucking her blood. At this moment, she was a little dizzy, and Feng Tianning seemed to have a double image in front of her.
No, if this goes on, I'm afraid I'll die here.
Fu Ruxuan bit the tip of her tongue hard, and only when she felt a rusty taste spreading in her mouth did she barely regain consciousness.
"Tianning, let's take a gamble!"
Feng Tianning nodded and said:
"I'll count to three and rush over with all my might."
"three."
"two."
"one."
The moment he finished speaking, Feng Tianning and Fu Ruxuan rushed towards the stone gate without any hesitation.
The poisonous insects in their bodies became more excited and drilled into their bodies like crazy.
Feng Tianning only felt a pain of his skin being torn spread throughout his body.
She thought to herself that it was not good, it seemed that she had also been entangled by this insect.
The two people behind them suddenly sped up their movements and followed closely behind them in a few strides, with their long arms still a few centimeters away from their backs.
The bugs on their bodies also stretched their bodies and tried desperately to catch them.
Feng Tianning only felt a pain on her shoulder. When she looked down, she found that the insect had crawled onto her shoulder and neck, and Fu Ruxuan's face was covered with the insect for most of the time.
Fortunately, the stone gate was not far away, and just before they met him, he and Fu Ruxuan ran to the stone gate.
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