Chapter 102: Gu God’s Guidance, Jiao Tu Carrying The Stele, Mausoleum Registry’s Mu Chen Pearl
The old man’s corpse and the skinned giant python were severed by Su Mo’s sword into a pile of rotten flesh. This corpse flesh surprisingly shrank rapidly at a speed visible to the naked eye, and the blood silk Gu worms on it also gradually shrank, beginning to spit out black water.
They seemed to be spitting out all the nourishment they had received over the years and the essence they had absorbed, continuously expelling black water outward.
The black water soon spread over a large area of ground, finally seeping into the soil.
As the black water was expelled, the old man’s corpse and the skinned giant python’s rotten flesh shrank even faster. The giant python, which had been soaked in blood water like a giant, had now completely shrunk to the size of an ordinary person.
The blood silk Gu worms between the skin and flesh finally shrank into individual bright red blood spots.
“You observed the retraction process of the Gu python blood corpse, gained new enlightenment, and learned Gu God’s Guidance!”
“Gu God’s Guidance, the method of creating and controlling Gu worms, created by ancient Diannan, later developed to great heights by Xian Wang. There are especially many Gu worm creations in the Tomb of King Xian!”
As the prompt sound transmitted, many figures suddenly flashed before Su Mo’s eyes like a lantern show.
One by one, the figures seemed to walk out from the ancient barbaric lands of Diannan, flashing past before his eyes.
Some raised Gu worms, some began experimenting with using Gu worms to raise poultry and beasts, finally turning the poultry and beasts into Gu!
Some even began experimenting with living people…
By the end, Su Mo had completely comprehended the methods of creating and controlling Gu worms!
Gu takes disease as the trigger, with worms as the main component.
It originally started as a method by the ancient Diannan people using Gu worms, hoping to keep themselves away from diseases, and eventually even a way to cultivate to immortality!
The Stone Tablet Shop old shopkeeper raising tooth-blade viperfish with living people, then eating the tooth-blade viperfish, was one of the crudest methods.
And She Pa River in the waterway under Zhelong Mountain, Xian Wang developed this Gu technique to an extremely high level.
He used human figures, sealed the seven orifices and body surface with things externally. After consuming the Gu trigger, worm eggs were planted in the body. This Gu trigger could hibernate and slowly develop in the human figure for many years, until after hundreds or thousands of years, the Gu worm eggs covered the entire human figure, finally all hatching into larvae.
Then, the Gu human figure fell into the water, the surface cracked and hatched water pig bees. These water pig bees were then swallowed by tooth-blade viperfish in the water, and finally the tooth-blade viperfish were swallowed by the green scaled giant python, forming a complete closed-loop ecosystem that replaced Xian Wang in guarding Zhelong Mountain Insect Valley, serving as the first checkpoint of the Tomb of King Xian!
And there must be even more Gu techniques in the Tomb of King Xian. Su Mo had now fully comprehended these Gu techniques. Feeling the complexity and terror of the Gu technique at this moment, he couldn’t help but furrow his brows.
This thing was too heaven-defying and harmful, but for now, it was still quite useful to him!
As Su Mo was thinking, he suddenly heard a loud rumbling from under the tree roots.
After all the blood water inside had flowed out, the jade coffin surprisingly began to rise slowly amid this rumbling sound!
“What’s happening now?”
Hu Ba Yi, Wang Pang Zi, and Xue Li Yang were all extremely shocked.
Zhang Qiling focused his gaze and said:
“It’s the tree roots!”
It turned out that the blood water accumulated in the jade coffin of this husband and wife banyan tree had pressed down the tree roots, but as the blood water in the coffin flowed out and the coffin became lighter, the tree roots were pulled up from the ground by the broken tree trunk.
Only to see the roots of this old banyan tree slowly emerging from below. Under the tree roots was like a huge pitch-black mouth cracked open, with black qi surging and spraying out again from inside.
In the black qi, a huge stone Bi Xi carrying a stone tablet on its back slowly emerged from the soil!
As the stone Bi Xi appeared, the ground seemed to tremble for it. The black qi below rushed straight into the sky again, black clouds gathered in the sky once more, and faint thunder sounds transmitted!
Finally, the black qi gradually dispersed, the sky became clear again, but the surrounding air was filled with the ozone scent after a thunderstorm!
“Jiao Tu carrying the tablet?”
Hu Ba Yi clearly saw this stone Bi Xi in the sunlight and couldn’t help but exclaim.
Wang Pang Zi laughed:
“Old Hu, what’s this Jiao Tu or Jiao Ma?”
Hu Ba Yi frowned and said:
“Commander Wang, you really are ignorant and incompetent. This Jiao Tu is one of the ancient mythical beasts, often called the ninth of dragon’s nine sons. Bi Xi and Jiao Tu are each one of them. There are also Suanni, Baxia, Bian, Chiwen, Yazi, Taotie, and eight other mythical beasts!”
“Although this Bi Xi and Jiao Tu are both dragon sons, Jiao Tu is used to guard gates. I thought I had misseen it at first glance, so I exclaimed!”
Su Mo smiled faintly:
“You didn’t see wrong. This is the Jiao Tu that guards the gate, because this place is originally the acupoint of the Tomb of King Xian, which can also be considered the gateway of the Tomb of King Xian!”
“As recorded in ancient books, Jiao Tu likes to close things and has the ability to guard gates. It can suppress evil qi near the king’s tomb and gather heaven and earth spiritual energy!”
“Xian Wang placed this Jiao Tu here to suppress the gate and guard the acupoint, and connected the old man and skinned giant python in the jade coffin with Gu worms, preserving them with blood water medicinal juice, all to guard the tomb and absorb heaven and earth spiritual energy to help himself ascend to immortality!”
Hearing Su Mo’s words, Hu Ba Yi couldn’t help but spit:
“This Xian Wang went mad wanting to ascend to immortality! Look at his method of making Gu human figures—he didn’t treat others as humans at all! If such a person can ascend to immortality, I’ll be the first to object!”
Wang Pang Zi also nodded:
“Exactly, this dead old man ate so fat, still holding a golden scepter and wearing a golden mask. He must be a high official like a prime minister under Xian Wang. I decide to confiscate all his exploitative gains on behalf of the working people right now!”
After saying that, he walked to the old man’s corpse, directly stuffed the golden scepter into his backpack, and took the golden mask off the old man’s face.
After removing the golden mask, underneath was a very ordinary-looking face, but it had been soaked in the medicinal water until it was wrinkled and shriveled, looking somewhat disgusting.
Wang Pang Zi was also disgusted by the old man’s face after removing the mask. After spitting hard, he kicked it aside with one foot.
Hu Ba Yi saw him unceremoniously taking the antiques and said:
“Commander Wang, you’re really not polite at all. Did Master let you take it?”
Wang Pang Zi chuckled:
“I’m holding it for Master first. These things were anyway exploited by old Xian Wang from the suffering people. How to handle them back in the Capital City is up to Master.”
Su Mo knew that Wang Pang Zi was the type who never left empty-handed. Seeing such good golden scepter and mask, if he didn’t take them, it would be more painful than killing him, so he simply ignored him.
Meanwhile, Xue Li Yang and Zhang Qiling were intently studying the stone tablet behind the Jiao Tu.
Only to see a tomb chart engraved on the stone tablet, detailing the entire process of building the Tomb of King Xian. It said that Dian Kingdom was originally three commanderies established by Qin King Ying Zheng. During the late Qin when various heroes rose, to avoid disaster, they closed the borders, cut off traffic, and finally established Dian Kingdom.
By the time of Emperor Wu of Han, Han envoys demanded the ancient divine object Mu Chen Pearl from Dian Kingdom. Xian Wang refused to hand it over, so he led some subjects to migrate to the barbaric lands of western Dian. The Dian King had no choice but to offer a shadow pearl to Emperor Wu of Han, that is, gave Emperor Wu of Han a fake Mu Chen Pearl…
Seeing this, Xue Li Yang couldn’t help but be pleasantly surprised:
“The Mu Chen Pearl is indeed here!”
