Chapter 25: Hundred Ghosts Gu, Gu Control Technique, Ghost Button Fish Dragon Seal
Su Mo lifted his foot and walked into the tree hole.
The tree hole was extremely dim, and the moonlight filtering through the fissure at the top of the rock cave could not illuminate this place at all.
He paused at the cave entrance for a few seconds, letting his eyes gradually adapt to the darkness inside.
Su Mo’s physique had long surpassed that of ordinary people, and with the power of the kirin blood, he could see in the darkness.
After just a few seconds of adaptation, he could already see the scene inside the cave clearly.
The tree hole was extremely huge, perfectly matching the height of the bronze coffin outside, and the corpse beetle king, which was only an inch long and covered in golden yellow, was lying on the cave wall behind the tree hole.
But Su Mo did not rush over to kill it.
Because he saw some unusual things in the tree hole!
Thin bloodlines emerged from the depths of the tree hole, looking like the neural network of a human body, intertwining and coiling on the cave wall to form a large net, with the center of the net being a deep red like fresh blood.
And that corpse beetle king was lying in the center of the large net.
Thin bloodlines were wrapping around its body.
Su Mo could not help but feel a chill in his heart.
He suddenly understood why this nine-headed cypress could connect with the corpse in the coffin and react together.
These bloodlines were existences just like neural lines!
They covered the trunk of the nine-headed cypress, even connecting all the way to the vines between the branches, and on this end connected to the back of the corpse’s head in the coffin.
This was exactly why, when Su Mo killed the jade coffin corpse in the coffin, the nine-headed cypress had such a huge reaction, even with vines swinging the mummified corpses like chain hammers to attack!
After figuring it out, Su Mo immediately drew the Frost Moon Sword.
The trunk of the nine-headed cypress had these eerie neural lines, and the corpse beetle king seemed to carry residual memories of the jade coffin corpse; once combined, something eerie was bound to happen.
Then just kill it directly!
Sword light flashed, and the Frost Moon Sword in Su Mo’s hand stabbed fiercely toward the corpse beetle king.
Puff!
A crisp sound.
The corpse beetle king, wrapped in bloodlines, was instantly pierced through its shell by the Frost Moon Sword, emitting a shrill low hum.
The bloodlines on its body suddenly spasmed and twitched violently, like horsehair worms encountering hot water.
Suddenly, a chaotic noise rang out outside the tree hole.
Su Mo turned his head to look, only to see many vines outside the cave wildly dancing, with many mummified corpses wrapped in vines crazily smashing into the ground, shattering into countless bone fragments and corpse chunks.
From those bone fragments and corpse chunks, some bright red insects actually emerged.
These insects were only the size of a thumb, bright red like blood all over, and after crawling out from between the bone fragments, they all crawled toward the tree hole together.
As these insects crawled, thin long bloodlines trailed behind them.
Those bloodlines were exactly the ones emerging from between the vines, crisscrossing vertically and horizontally.
In the blink of an eye, the area outside the cave entrance was dense with bloodlines, almost completely blocking the space outside!
At the same time, some mummified corpses entangled in the vines suddenly started moving as well.
These originally desiccated mummified corpses actually grew some thin bloodlines on their bodies, and as the bloodlines wrapped around their bodies, their bodies seemed able to move.
Although their movements were stiff like puppets and extremely slow.
But with so many mummified corpses suddenly moving together, along with the blood-colored insects crawling out from the bone fragments toward the tree hole, the scene was indescribably terrifying.
What’s more, there were many bloodlines behind them as well.
Countless bloodlines intertwined, completely blocking the area outside the cave entrance, with no path to escape!
【Hundred Ghosts Gu, a blood gu insect made by the Dongyi People, coexists with corpses, its trailing bloodlines carry intense corpse poison, and touching them causes soul-searing corrosion!】
With the identification from the Great Yin Meditation Technique, a line of text appeared before Su Mo’s eyes.
Immediately after, a prompt sound suddenly rang in his mind:
“You see the Hundred Ghosts Corpse Gu, gain enlightenment of the principle of all things coexisting, and create the Gu Control Technique!”
As the prompt sound fell, many things reappeared before Su Mo’s eyes.
They were all things in the world that could mutually benefit and coexist!
Leafcutter ants and aphids, sea anemones and hermit crabs,
Even…
Cordyceps!
All things in heaven and earth are inherently one; many things can mutually benefit and coexist, just like this Hundred Ghosts Corpse Gu insect.
It was originally just a small insect discovered by the Dongyi People, nurtured on vines and entering corpses, allowing it to parasitize inside, absorbing nutrients for the nine-headed cypress while using the bloodlines on the nine-headed cypress to control the mummified corpses.
As images appeared before his eyes one by one, Su Mo thoroughly comprehended the mysteries of the Gu Control Technique.
Places like Dongyi and Miaojiang have had gu techniques since ancient times.
The Gu Control Technique merely utilizes the principles of mutual generation and restraint among all things to achieve the purpose of controlling gu insects or even manipulating creatures.
The bloodlines on these Hundred Ghosts Gu insects contain corpse poison and cannot be touched at all.
However, using the Gu Control Technique can disperse them!
Su Mo then walked to the cave entrance, cut a small incision in his palm with the Frost Moon Sword, and dripped a few drops along both sides of the cave entrance.
Originally, controlling this kind of Hundred Ghosts Gu insect required using some strange medicinal herbs or spices.
But at this moment, he had nowhere to obtain them, yet using his own blood containing the might of the kirin bloodline could achieve the same effect.
Those Hundred Ghosts Gu insects and mummified corpses had already crawled to the cave entrance, but as Su Mo dripped the blood, they all suddenly avoided the cave entrance in unison, crawling to both sides of the trunk.
In the blink of an eye, a path was cleared outside the tree hole.
Seeing this scene, Su Mo could not help but feel joy in his heart.
It really worked!
The Hundred Ghosts Gu insects outside the cave had been subdued, so he immediately turned and returned to the cave.
That corpse beetle king had already been shattered by his sword, and the bloodlines on the cave wall were no longer twitching; the entire nine-headed cypress seemed much quieter.
Su Mo then cast his gaze inside the cave, searching for the ghost seal.
Inside the cave, there were only some shattered wood chips, and no shadow of the ghost seal could be seen!
Su Mo frowned and pondered for a moment, then walked straight to the cave wall interwoven with those blood-colored lines, raised the Frost Moon Sword, and stabbed directly into the area where the bloodlines were most concentrated.
The entire Lu Wang Palace had no trace of the ghost seal; it could not have vanished into thin air!
There must be something strange here!
The Frost Moon Sword could cut iron like mud, and the blade pierced into the trunk without any obstruction, quickly digging out a large hole in the area where the bloodlines were concentrated.
Thick bright red liquid kept dripping from the dug-out tree hole, just like fresh blood.
Chunks of wood chips fell along with it,
Soon, Su Mo saw a purple gold treasure box hidden deep in the tree hole.
Opening the purple gold treasure box revealed a black eerie seal inside.
Its shape was a kirin stepping on a fierce ghost, and the kirin itself was composed of countless small ghosts, with twisted ghost bodies looking like countless snakes entwined and contorted; if viewed from another angle, it looked like countless dragon fish surging and leaping!
Ghost Button Fish Dragon Seal!
Su Mo’s gaze immediately sharpened.
