"Being struck by my Golden Silkworm Gu King, even a Martial Arts Grandmaster would be injured and lose their life," the woman mused coldly to herself. "Given that there's still a long time before the emergence of that great power's cave dwelling, I have nothing better to do, so I might as well fight with you!"

"Xue Chong!"

Upon her sharp call, a handsome man immediately entered from outside the door. However, the sight of this aloof woman filled him with a hint of fear.

"Ms Fang, what are your orders?" Xue Chong asked obsequiously, showing great respect to the woman before him.

"Investigate!" The woman uttered a single command. "Years ago, your family's old master bestowed some kindness upon me. Yesterday, I helped you by laying two fierce Gus. But just now, someone broke one of my Gus, and I want you to find out who did it!"

"Yes!" Xue Chong replied in shock.

Eventually, Xue Chong left, and the woman sat in deep thought. Controlling Gu from a hundred miles away had also consumed a great deal of her energy.

"This person has forced out the two fierce Gus I laid previously. Even if he is now struck by my Golden Silkworm Gu King, he probably won't die easily!"

"This master's arrival is timely. I just happen to want to test out several new fierce Gus that I've developed!"

This cold woman hailed from the exotic lands of Miaojiang, skilled in the Controlling Gu Skill, but with little experience in fighting great masters. Ye Chen's appearance gave her an opportunity to refine her Gu Skill!

"Ye Chen, how are you?" Qin Lan exclaimed in horror, just as she saw a tiny Gu insect burrowing into Ye Chen's body.

"I'm fine, don't come near me!" Ye Chen's face was composed, unflustered by the surprise.

The Gu insect that had merged into his body was extraordinary, likely a fierce Gu King. This Gu King might not harm him, but it could easily take Qin Lan's life!

Ye Chen's mind delved into his body, using his consciousness to observe the fierce Gu within. The dark red Gu insect was merely the size of a grain, yet it was extremely terrifying. As it merged into Ye Chen's flesh and blood, it began to devour his essence and qi immediately.

Ye Chen was a Grandmaster-level powerhouse, with boundless vital essence and a robust life force. Compared to his vast life force, this Gu insect seemed minuscule.

Yet what terrified people was that with each bit of essence it devoured, the Gu grew stronger, and with each passing second, its consumption speed increased!

At this rate, even with Ye Chen's sky-high life force and ocean-like essence, he would be wholly consumed by this single Gu!

Based on this pace, it wouldn't take too long before Ye Chen's life force sharply declined, turning him into a skeletal being!

Upon realizing this, Ye Chen gasped in shock, his limbs turning icy.

"This fierce Gu is absolutely terrifying. It can devour my essence and strengthen itself. Continuing this way, I may only have a few days before my life force decays and I perish, while this Gu insect becomes stronger!" A shiver ran through Ye Chen, a sense of unspeakable horror welling within him.

This was definitely a fierce Gu King, otherwise, it wouldn't have such a terrifying capability!

"You want to devour me to transform yourself, then I will also refine you to strengthen myself!" Ye Chen was extremely cautious of this Gu King but wasn't without means to deal with it.

The Tianshi Medical Classic contained a remarkable account of Ancestor Ye Tianshi. He once encountered a Ten Thousand Gu King, an entity almost akin to a Land God. Like Ye Chen now, that Ten Thousand Gu King merged into Ancestor Ye's body, wanting to devour his essence to strengthen itself. However, it was ultimately refined by Ancestor Ye using a Supreme Mysterious Skill. The Ten Thousand Gu King became his nourishment, greatly enhancing his strength!

Currently, Ye Chen's situation was very similar to that of Ancestor Ye back then. Although his cultivation wasn't as advanced as Ancestor Ye's, the Gu King in his body was far from being a Ten Thousand Gu King!

Ye Chen was at a critical moment of breaking through to a new realm. He had a strong intuition that if he could refine the Gu King within, he might be able to break through to the later stages of a Grandmaster!

"Heaven's Gate Eight Techniques, Immortal, Purple Sun, Pure Blood, Glazed ... Eight major acupoints, surge with vital essence, arrange to suppress!"

Ye Chen sat cross-legged on the ground and struck his body's eight major acupoints. Instantly, a grand life force array formed within his body, pressing down on the Gu King inside him.

This technique of stimulating acupoints, handed down by Ancestor Ye, possessed an unimaginable suppressive force against Gu insects!

The Gu King inside Ye Chen was frantically devouring his life force, growing increasingly powerful, even emanating a faint golden glow as if undergoing an unimaginable transformation, and its devouring rate was speeding up. But suddenly, as it devoured the essence, its body stiffened and trembled slightly, as if encountering an extreme fear.

"Whoosh!"

The Gu insect attempted to flee desperately. A powerful force inside Ye Chen pressed down on it, which now showed a hint of sentience, knowing that if it were suppressed, it would face destruction.

"Ye Chen, how could you also be possessed by a Gu!"

Qin Lan looked at Ye Chen, her face showing shock, as there was a visible flow within his flesh, as if a dragon was lurking within him, ready to burst forth at any moment.

Remembering the scene of Ye Chen expelling Gu for Tong Xingtong and the others, Qin Lan immediately realized that Ye Chen must have been infected by a Gu!

The Gu squirmed inside Ye Chen, his life force in turmoil and a heart-wrenching pain spreading throughout his body.

However, Ye Chen remained dignified and did not let out cries of agony, because even if he cried out to shake the heavens and earth, it would be useless. To stop the violent surge of his blood essence, he had to suppress the Gu King inside him!

Employing the Mysterious Skill of his blood essence, expelling the Gu King from his body would have been a piece of cake, but he wanted to suppress and refine it, aiming to break through to a higher realm, and that proved to be a difficult task!

"What! What method has this man used to actually refine my Golden Silkworm Gu King?"

As Ye Chen attempted to refine the Gu King within him, a hundred miles away, the aloof woman who controlled the Gu King suddenly lost her composure.

"This Golden Silkworm Gu King is one of my only three Gu Kings, and it has yet to fully mature, possessing merely a dark red body. But once it transforms into a golden Gu King, even a martial arts grandmaster at the peak wouldn't stand a chance against it and would be devoured without the slightest ability to resist!" The aloof woman's face was frosty. "I absolutely can't give up this Gu King, for each one is rare in this world, and this Golden Silkworm Gu King is even more my lifebound Gu. If someone were to refine it, I fear I would suffer the consequences too!"

"If you wish to refine my lifebound Gu King, then I have no choice but to stake my life in this struggle!" Ruthlessness appeared on the woman's face.

Originally, she used her lifebound Gu King to swallow Ye Chen's blood essence, hoping to evolve the Golden Silkworm Gu King completely. Once the metamorphosis succeeded, not only would she gain a powerful trump card, but her own strength would also surge dramatically.

But, this woman had never imagined that Ye Chen would actually have the ability to refine her lifebound Gu King!

Hundreds of miles apart, Ye Chen and the female Gu Master were fiercely contesting their skills, and their battlefield was his physical body!

"The power of this Gu King is unpredictable and profound; just its own combat strength alone might come close to that of a martial arts grandmaster!" Ye Chen ultimately failed to refine the Gu King inside him. However, the Gu King did not escape either, as Ye Chen managed to suppress it within the vital energy in his dantian, using the Mysterious Skill.

"He has trapped my lifebound Gu King, intending to refine it slowly!" A hundred miles away, the female Gu Master's complexion turned somewhat pale. After a fierce battle of skills with Ye Chen, she had naturally expended a great deal. "I lost this battle, but this Golden Silkworm Gu King is linked to my life. How could I let others benefit from it? Even if it costs me my life, I must reclaim the Golden Silkworm Gu King!"

This Golden Silkworm Gu King was simply too important for this woman, and it was even closely related to her life, so it was decided that she would not give it up easily!

"This Gu King might very well be the key to my breakthrough into the later stages of grandmastery. However, I do not yet possess the ability to forcibly refine it, I can only erode it slowly and then refine it!" Ye Chen got up from the ground; the Gu King was locked within his dantian, being bombarded and refined by his own vital essence.

Though strong, the Gu King could not escape being refined by Ye Chen's relentless assault of vital essence in the long run.

With the Gu King subdued and being refined within his dantian, the crisis seemed to have been averted, but Ye Chen still had a lingering sense of imminent danger.

He worried about the owner of this Gu King!

This Gu King was ferociously powerful, even developing a hint of intelligence, undoubtedly nurtured with great care by the Gu Master. How could she allow it to be refined by him so easily?

If the Gu Master were to come personally, that still made Ye Chen somewhat apprehensive.

After all, Gu Masters are beings that no powerhouse wishes to provoke lightly. Each Gu Master is extremely terrifying, capable of controlling Gu insects from a thousand miles away, killing invisibly. And someone who could control the kings of Gu insects would not be an ordinary Gu Master!

"Even if the opponent is a fearsome Gu Master, we are already at enmity, leaving no possibility for reconciliation!" thought Ye Chen. "But what if she does find her way here? The terror of a Gu Master lies in their Controlling Gu Skill, and their own combat ability might not be particularly formidable. I have Ancestor Ye's Mysterious Skill to protect my body and fear no Gu. Even if she herself comes looking, I stand unfazed!"

"However, I now have one significant weakness, my only weakness, and that is the woman beside me!"

Ye Chen had been a lone wolf, a single person who was full when fed, unconcerned for anyone else, so he had never feared anything.

But now, with concerns in his heart, he naturally had weaknesses, and his biggest weakness was none other than the beautiful economist, Zhang Xinlan.

"Ye Chen, are you alright?" Just as Ye Chen was lost in thought, a voice calling out brought him back to his senses.

"Tong Xingtong, you're awake!" Ye Chen walked over to the bedside. Having purged the Gu insect from within her, she indeed awoke quickly.

"What on earth happened to us?" Tong Xingtong looked at her hair that now resembled withered grass, struggling to come to terms with it for the moment, and immediately, tears streamed down from her eyes.

"You were cursed with a Gu!" Ye Chen said gravely. "Have you offended anyone recently?"

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