Phoenix Destroyer
39. Worm Gu

The day of departure has been decided.

In the morning, the four young men gathered in front of Xiao Jia's entrance. The cold morning air did not make some people undo the intention.

After waiting for a while, two ordinary-faced people approached them. None other than Xiao Mingsu and the first Elder.

In order not to let others know about what they were going to do, they had to change their faces first into the faces of others.

Feng Mo couldn't help but look at the two. Although his eyes could recognize anything, but his cultivation was also still low. So that he could not see through what spell the two were in order to be able to change their faces.

For him a high-level spell was still an obstacle.

"Let's go." The first elder flicked the sleeve of his robe.

Before Feng Mo could react, his gaze had changed. A tall city wall appeared before his eyes. He was a little surprised, it turned out that this was the benefit of having a high cultivation.

The first elder took them straight out of the city.

The first elder raised his hand again, this time he split the air with his bare hands. Space cracks suddenly appeared along the hands of the first Elder.

"Lake in."

Xiao Jinxi entered for the first time, then Meng Shize followed. Although Feng Mo was curious about how the first Elder did it, he was not too late to enter.

After everyone passed by, the crack slowly shrank until it disappeared. And what Feng Mo saw again was Xiao Jia's basecamp outside of Shicheng.

This was the strength of a Tribulation stage cultivator.

You can cut through the void to speed up the journey. No need to waste time.

Since their group had come secretly, they did not disturb the guards. Just call the Elder in charge of escorting the family children.

After confirming that there were no more missing people, they rushed straight towards Shenyuan.

Shenyuan still had no change.

Standing on the edge of the abyss, Xiao Jinxi handed the jade given by the inscription spirit to the first Elder. When the first Elder leapt to Shenyuan, the others immediately followed.

The jade was activated, and a burst of light enveloped them.

No more feeling of falling down.

No more darkness.

When the bursts of light finally receded, they had switched positions next to the labyrinth's exit.

The light carried them directly through the layers of illusions.

Xiao Mingsu was shocked when he felt an extremely abundant amount of spiritual energy. "Is this the place you mean?"

"Yes the Patriarch."

They wasted no time, and rushed in.

Despite having seen it once, Feng Mo was still stunned when he saw the scenery of the fairyland.

Xiao Mingsu and the first Elder were people who had lived for many years, but when faced with such a sight, they also still felt shocked. But experience makes both immediately stabilize emotions.

"Come, show me the way."

Xiao Jinxi led the way and they immediately flew to where the inscription was.

The stone remains in its original place.

Xiao Mingsu and the first Elder saluted the inscription spirit, as the inscription responded, a familiar burst of light appeared again. This time the light only enveloped the two, leaving the four Feng Mo behind.

"When we first came, did we also look like this?" Ask Kong Li.

"That's when we received the image of the destruction of the Chengxuan Sect." Meng Shize answered him.

Kong Li stroked his chin. "But why does Patriarch Xiao seem to be frowning?"

Others saw that not only did Xiao Mingsu have an ugly face, even the first Elder as well.

"Perhaps the vision that the inscription spirit gave us was more complex than ours? After all our cultivation level is not so high."

What they guessed was true.

Seeing yourself is more intuitive than hearing.

When Xiao Mingsu listened to Xiao Jinxi's story, he felt no other feeling than listening to the story. But now, faced with the events themselves, he could feel for himself how it felt when the great sect was destroyed.

Feelings of fear, sadness, and despair filled his mind.

Death filled the air, leaving the eyes of many empty.

Looking at the scattered immortal being in the face of destruction, Xiao Mingsu felt that perhaps the next moment was his turn to be destroyed.

Crushed into dust.

Stabilizing the mind, Xiao Mingsu took a deep breath and immediately came out of sight.

When he opened his eyes again, he returned to the world. He was still standing in front of the inscription.

"Dad, are you okay? "

Xiao Jinxi's voice retracted Xiao Mingsu's mind from the chaos. "Ms."

The face of the first Elder had returned to normal, but he was still not out of sight.

Waiting for the first Elder, Xiao Mingsu spread his spiritual senses outside the building. Stretched mountains, floating white clouds, and a stretch of spiritual grass lined up.

Even the weeds had an aura.

What a powerful spiritual energy.

It used to be that the aura here was immortal energy, but after hundreds of thousands of years of not having any energy supply, immortal energy had degenerated into spiritual energy.

If Xiao Jinxi and the others did not find this place, God knew when this place would disappear with the passage of time. Unfortunately... Xiao Mingsu frowned, Unfortunately his body is not friendly, not knowing what happened.

Even if he lost one soul out of seven souls and three souls, it should not deter him from cultivating. But every time he absorbed the aura of heaven earth, the spiritual energy within his body would mysteriously disappear.

If not for maintaining his cultivation base, Xiao Mingsu would not have bothered to do something futile.

Now that the spiritual energy in this place was extremely powerful, and the place was safe, Xiao Mingsu wanted to investigate the cause of the aura loss within his body.

Feng Mo and the others saw Xiao Mingsu sitting in meditation.

Xiao Mingsu concentrated on grabbing the spiritual energy in the air and pulling it into the body. Spiritual energy travels along the meridians, just as it is about to pass through the heart, something happens.

Thumping!

"Ohuk!" Xiao Mingsu coughed up blood.

Fourth Feng Mo was surprised.

"Dad!"

"Uncle Xiao!"

Xiao Jinxi approached with a worried expression. "Dad? What's going on?"

Xiao Mingsu waved his hand, preventing Xiao Jinxi from helping. He rubbed the blood that was still on his lips. "Don't worry."

"Is there something wrong with your body?" Xiao Jinxi was very worried.

As a leader, Xiao Mingsu had been trying to keep his illness a secret. So that no one would take this opportunity to fight Xiao Jia. But it also means leaving other family members ignorant about the illness.

Even his own children, Xiao Mingsu did not say his.

"Dad, let Feng Mo see your body." Xiao Jinxi remembered that Feng Mo seemed to be an alchemist.

"Oh, is Feng's boy an alchemist?"

Xiao Jinxi did not respond, only turning her head towards Feng Mo.

Feng Mo was too embarrassed to refuse, so he advanced.

Meng Shize left her place for Feng Mo.

"Patriarch Xiao, please give me a hand."

Xiao Mingsu easily gave his hand. However detected or not a problem in his body, did not stop Xiao Mingsu from finding another alchemist.

Feng Mo inserted his spiritual senses along Xiao Mingsu's meridians, due to the difference in cultivation level, Feng Mo did not need to be cautious in action.

Feng Mo's spiritual sense examined carefully within Xiao Mingsu's body.

With the precedent that had happened to Kong Li, Feng Mo examined it more thoroughly.

There were no problems within the internal organs, but it could make Xiao Mingsu cough up blood, there must be something more hidden. Feng Mo's consciousness turned to a more important place.

Xiao Mingsu could feel the heat currents spreading within his body, he did not expect that Feng Mo's spiritual senses had any special characteristics.

After going back and forth but not finding any abnormalities, Xiao Mingsu intended to let the young man stop. But suddenly he felt his heart pounding again.

"Geez-uhuk!" Blood came out of his mouth.

"Dad!"

This time Xiao Mingsu clearly sensed something wrong, he raised his hand preventing others from interfering.

A cold sweat appeared on Feng Mo's forehead, he closed his eyes to concentrate. After a while he retracted his spiritual senses. Feng Mo instantly locked some acupoints near Xiao Mingsu's heart.

Feeling a light feeling, Xiao Mingsu let out a long sigh.

Kong Li who had long been a background board, quietly stood behind Feng Mo, if something bad happened, he could immediately pull Feng Mo to escape.

"Boy Feng found something?" Xiao Mingsu had wiped away the blood in his mouth.

Feng Mo's face was ugly for a while, not knowing how to explain. "I saw a worm as big as a thumb attached to the heart of Patriarch Xiao."

"Worm?!"

Everyone is surprised.

Xiao Mingsu's countenance also changed, although he did not know what the worm was for, which was definitely not a good thing.

Feng Mo nodded. "The worm was alive by absorbing the vitality of Patriarch Xiao, if not for Patriarch Xiao being a cultivator who needed to absorb spiritual energy, then, maybe no one will know that there's something extra in her body." And no one will know how the host will die.

Feng Mo did not say, but some intelligent people could think, what would happen if the worm was not found?

Four youths and one adult could not help but goosebumps.

"This worm, how do I get it out?" Meng Shize felt bad.

Feng Mo himself was confused, he did not know either. There seems to be nothing in the legacy.

"It must be called Gu."

The voices of others interjected.

The crowd turned their heads and found that the first Elder had opened his eyes.

"Uncle recognize this worm?" In terms of generations, the first Elder could be considered as Xiao Mingsu's uncle.

The first elder stroked his white beard. "I've read some classics when I was younger. If the worm you are talking about is the Gu worm, then the hidden danger will be even greater. Gu worms are a type of parasite. This thing relies on sucking the vitality of the host to live. When the host dies, he will not die but find his way back to his owner. With vitality successfully stored, the owner of the Gu worm can use this worm to do many things. Like extending life."

The sound of someone else's voice.

"Uncle means, this Gu has people who intentionally cultivated him?"

"Yes." Yeah."

Everyone is silent.

"When did you start to feel uncomfortable?" Xiao Jinxi asked critically.

"It happened after getting hurt. Initially it was fine after recovering, but when I wanted to concentrate on retreating, the new spiritual energy entering the body suddenly disappeared mysteriously."

"Why did you hide it?" Xiao Jinxi frowned unhappily.

"You young people don't know the minds of adults!"

Xiao Jinxi pouted. "I'm hundreds of years old."

"Let's think of a way to kill the worm first." Meng Shize mediates.

Everyone frowned.

Worm Gu has never been heard of before, and it sounds like a perverse practice. How to kill him without injuring Xiao Mingsu?