Chapter 107: Heartless Gu Technique, Secret Of The Huo Clan Undying Worm
The Huo Clan Undying Worm immediately became like a sea cucumber that had lost its vitality, its huge body quickly collapsing and going limp.
Boom!
The massive body smashed into the water, sending water splash everywhere!
But although Su Mo had cut a huge gash in its body with the Frost Moon Sword, it seemed not entirely dead yet, its body constantly contracting, spewing out various filth from its mouth and the wounds on its body.
At first, it only spat out black and red juices, along with the Gu People Female Corpse it had just swallowed, but the female corpses it spat out later were all pitch black all over, as if they had been corroded by stomach acid.
Little Brother finally stood up from the stone wall. He had been internally injured from being hit by the Huo Clan Undying Worm earlier. Seeing that the Huo Clan Undying Worm had been defeated, he immediately sat cross-legged on the stone platform, using the breathing technique Su Mo had taught him to gather his internal energy.
Fortunately, his injury wasn’t serious. As long as he rested and used the method of expelling the old and taking in the new that Su Mo had taught him to recuperate, he could recover quickly.
With the Huo Clan Undying Worm defeated, those Gu People Female Corpses also seemed to lose their motivation to attack, flipping over and sinking back into the water, soon all disappearing.
Hu Ba Yi and the others, still shaken, ran over and gathered around the Huo Clan Undying Worm.
“This big worm swallowed so many female corpses and didn’t even digest them!”
Hu Ba Yi looked at the black female corpses spat out by the Huo Clan Undying Worm, unable to hide his surprise.
Su Mo shook his head:
“It swallows the female corpses not to devour their flesh and blood, but to absorb the Gu seeds from their bodies!”
“Gu seeds?”
Hu Ba Yi and the others were somewhat puzzled.
Su Mo pointed at the female corpses that the Huo Clan Undying Worm had spat out first and said:
“Look at the difference between these female corpses and the ones spat out later?”
Hu Ba Yi and the others looked closely and found that the female corpses spat out first by the Huo Clan Undying Worm were no different from the dead bodies floating outside. Although their skin was pale and their bodies emitted a eerie blue glow, they didn’t look very different from when they were alive.
Whereas those black female corpses, perhaps soaked too long in the Huo Clan Undying Worm’s stomach acid, had skin as black as charcoal like a black person’s, with faces that looked extremely ferocious and particularly terrifying.
Xue Li Yang carefully examined those fresh corpses and found that their arms and legs were bent backwards at the joints behind their backs, holding an olive-shaped translucent object between their hands and feet.
This thing was like a huge insect egg, covered with transparent insect silk like a hard cocoon shell, with layers of secret spells carved on the shell, like some kind of curse to seal resentful souls!
There were many fine holes under the insect cocoon, densely packed like a honeycomb, as if for insects to lay eggs. When Xue Li Yang touched it with her hand, she felt a suction force.
She immediately turned on the flashlight and shone it on the insect cocoon, but a shadow was revealed inside, looking just like an unborn baby in the womb!
Wang Pang Zi leaned in to look and couldn’t help exclaiming in surprise:
“How is there a big shrimp inside this insect cocoon?”
Xue Li Yang couldn’t help saying irritably:
“Are you thinking about eating shrimp? Otherwise, I’ll dig it out for you to take a bite!”
Wang Pang Zi quickly waved his hands:
“Who dares to eat this thing? I was just joking!”
Xue Li Yang then took out the entrenching tool and cut a slit in the insect cocoon.
The black shadow inside the insect cocoon wriggled, suddenly bursting out like an insect breaking its shell, seemingly trying to crawl out along the crack. But at that moment, this female corpse seemed startled, its limbs suddenly kicking out, its body instantly shooting out of the water, turning to run forward.
“Where do you think you’re running!”
Wang Pang Zi and Hu Ba Yi reacted very quickly, immediately drawing the ice axes from their backs and hooking the female corpse, dragging it back.
Wang Pang Zi cursed:
“It must be the thing in the insect cocoon causing trouble!”
With that, he raised the entrenching tool and chopped at the insect cocoon.
Slash slash…
Two chops and the insect cocoon was hacked to pieces. The thing inside was chopped into black rotten flesh like meat paste, with pink blood threads visible among the rotten flesh.
Xue Li Yang then carefully picked out the rotten flesh inside with her paratrooper knife, only to find that beneath this mass of rotten flesh there was even a umbilical cord-like tip connected to the female corpse’s body, and inside there was even a petrified placenta.
An indescribable fishy stench spread into the air as the rotten flesh was picked out.
Hu Ba Yi and the others were immediately disgusted by this thing, finding it both baffling and nauseating, extremely terrifying, with a feeling of wanting to vomit in their hearts.
Su Mo shook his head:
“Don’t look anymore. This is a Gu Egg!”
He had gained enlightenment from the Gu God’s Guidance and was now thoroughly familiar with this Gu Technique. Looking at these Gu People now, there was only pity in his eyes.
“These Gu People are all women who were pregnant. When these women had just become pregnant, Xian Wang used Gu seeds implanted into their bodies. As the fetus gradually developed, the Gu seed would fuse with the fetus to form a Gu fetus!”
“After the woman carries the pregnancy for ten months, what she gives birth to is no longer a baby, but the Gu fetus along with the placenta, like laying an egg. The umbilical cord tip is still connected to the mother. Then Xian Wang ordered people to break the woman’s limbs backwards at the joints, wrap the Gu fetus around her body, forming the state you see now!”
Hearing his words, Hu Ba Yi and Wang Pang Zi’s gazes toward these Gu People Female Corpses couldn’t help but change.
These female corpses had all suffered cruel torture in life, and after death, unaware and insentient, they had turned into monsters!
They themselves were not at fault!
The fault lay with that old bastard Xian Wang!
Xue Li Yang looked at these female corpses, her eyes full of sorrow.
Su Mo sighed:
“Xian Wang turned this Gourd Cave into a complete ecological closed loop. The cave is rich in oxygen, so the creatures are all very large. Giant toads devour insects, and after death, their corpses are digested by Gu People at the bottom of the water to nourish the Gu Eggs. When the Gu Eggs mature, they gather beside the Huo Clan Undying Worm in a bizarre way.”
“This Huo Clan Undying Worm swallows Gu People Female Corpses not to digest their skin and flesh, but to use stomach acid to absorb nutrients from the Gu Eggs. Once the nutrients in the Gu Eggs are exhausted, it expels them through other channels, then the Gu People return to the water to continue absorbing nutrients from the corpses of toads and insects, cycling endlessly!”
“And the mist spat out by this Huo Clan Undying Worm is expelled outside the cave through the special structure of the Gourd Cave, forming a poisonous miasma outside Insect Valley, becoming another barrier guarding Xian Wang’s tomb!”
After hearing Su Mo’s explanation of this Gu Technique, Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t help gnashing their teeth in hatred:
“That old bastard Xian Wang deserves to be torn to pieces a thousand times and it still wouldn’t be enough!”
“Let’s go overturn his nest right now and drag his corpse out to be exposed!”
Su Mo shook his head:
“Don’t rush!”
“Besides swallowing female corpses to absorb Gu Eggs and then spitting out poisonous mist to create miasma, this Huo Clan Undying Worm has another function here!”
“Another function?”
Hu Ba Yi and the others couldn’t help being puzzled.
Su Mo nodded, his gaze turning to the Huo Clan Undying Worm, which was still spewing various filthy things:
“That’s the Mountain God you saw in the mural!”
No sooner had he spoken than the Huo Clan Undying Worm’s body convulsed violently, suddenly expelling a square huge object from the wound in its body!
