Lěng Yè tightly gripped Old Master Yě’s wrist, continuously channeling spiritual power refined through the Nine Heavens Profound Fire directly into his body to help him resist the erosion of the Gu poison. At the same time, Lěng Yè’s mind raced as he tried to find a way to break the curse.
In truth, Lěng Yè knew very little about Gu insects. He had only heard that certain factions in the Southern Frontier used this method—placing countless venomous insects in a single enclosure and letting them slaughter one another until only the ultimate survivor earned the right to be raised as a Gu. However, the process of nurturing a Gu was extremely complex, requiring it to be fed with the caster's own vital blood, and the creature subsisted solely on lethal poisons. Cultivating a top-tier Gu often demanded centuries of time and effort.
Precisely because of this scarcity, superior Gu insects could fetch astronomical prices. Yet the Gu inside Old Master Yě was clearly an unusually lethal variety. At least while Lěng Yè had been treating Old Master Yě previously, he had not sensed the presence of any Gu at all. In the span of mere minutes, this single insect had pushed a powerhouse at the Ninth Layer of the Golden Core Realm to the brink of death, illustrating just how virulent its poison truly was.
Chapter 1271