EFB Chapter 532 The Gu Girl in the Coffin
Chapter 532 The Gu Girl in the Coffin
Chapter 532 The Gu Girl in the Coffin
Yun Xiao stroked his beard and recounted the barbarian deeds of this place. If we're talking about evil and heretical practices, the level of evil cultivation in other places probably can't compare to some of the barbarian Gu cultivators here.
Some traditional methods of Gu cultivation in southern Xinjiang are extremely bloody and sinister, even demons and ghosts who have gone astray would find them beyond compare.
Of course, the reason why the barbarian cultivators here are like this is partly due to the environment.
The harsh environment of southern Xinjiang is a huge natural breeding ground for poisonous insects.
Whether you're human, insect, demon, or ghost, if you want to survive here, you have to be ruthless and fight, otherwise you'll just become nourishment for others to grow.
Qingyi rested her small hand on the edge of the boat, looking at this unfamiliar place.
This damp and poisonous place made her feel uncomfortable, and she had an inexplicable urge to burn it all down.
As a special being born of heaven and earth, Qingyi is extremely sensitive to the atmosphere of a particular region.
Her inherent abilities and subconscious existence are capable of changing the world.
However, Qingyi is currently very clear-headed and can control her power, so she won't do anything outrageous.
Lu Zheng seemed to sense something, and looked down at Qingyi beside him, asking in a low voice, "What's wrong?"
Qingyi tilted her head back and said, "This place is not good."
Hearing this, Yun Xiao chuckled and said, "You are a drought demon, so this kind of place is indeed not a good place for you, like a fish going to the desert..."
Lu Zheng couldn't help but say, "Just bear with it for a bit. This place shouldn't have any effect on you, right? If you really don't like it, I'll send you to stay at the Wen Palace."
Qingyi shook her head and said, "It's nothing."
She just doesn't like it here; this place doesn't affect her yet.
Yun Xiao said, "She is a living being of heaven and earth. The environment of the Southern Frontier is not suitable for her, but the heaven and earth here will not reject her..."
In the southern border region, there is little suppression of cultivators from other ethnic groups or countries.
Yun Xiao paused for a moment, then smiled and said, "However, if we go to a big place like Chengdu, I'll be a whole realm higher than you."
As the capital of a country, a place where national fortune and imperial aura converge, any outsider who goes there, whether a dragon or a tiger, must be kept in check.
Seeing that Qingyi didn't react abnormally, Lu Zheng felt relieved and took out a map to confirm their location.
Below, the vast mountains stretched as far as the eye could see, towering forests, and there was not a trace of human habitation, not even a road.
After observing for a while, Lu Zheng determined that the nearest city was still several hundred miles away.
The southern border of the Shu Kingdom covered a considerable area, spanning nearly ten thousand miles, yet it had few cities.
The town markers are scattered across the map, and their locations are not necessarily accurate.
The spirit boat sped through the sky.
Qingyi suddenly looked down at a spot and said, "There, people are buried underground."
Upon hearing this, Lu Zheng immediately brought the spirit boat to a stop.
The group looked toward the place Qingyi had mentioned, using their divine senses to investigate.
But in the mountains and fields, there was a small, hidden formation.
At the center of the formation, ten feet underground, lies a bronze coffin.
Inside the coffin, a young woman lay unconscious with her eyes closed and her breathing extremely weak.
The woman was wrapped in a thick layer of cloth, which gave off a strong medicinal smell.
After examining it for a while, Yun Xiao speculated, "It's being used as bait to lure Gu worms!"
He had heard of many methods of Gu cultivation in the southern border regions, where people would use humans as bait to attract and capture special Gu worms.
Yun Xiao noticed the strong medicinal aura emanating from both the woman's body and surroundings, suggesting she had been given a large amount of medicinal herbs previously. Seeing that the woman was full of vitality and there were no Gu worms in her body, and that the mechanisms within the bronze coffin hadn't been triggered, it seemed she had just been buried and hadn't yet attracted any Gu worms.
Yun Xiao glanced sideways at another mountain and discovered the presence of another person.
It was an old man wearing a peculiar robe that exuded a strong poisonous aura, and many poisonous insects were hidden beneath the robe.
Yun Xiao said, "Tsk, so he's a Gu cultivator at the third realm. We can capture him and question him."
Yun Xiao couldn't help but look at Qing Wan beside him.
Qingwan understood, took a step, and flew directly out of the spirit boat, heading towards the strange old man.
With a wave of her hand, Qingwan scattered a handful of beans into the air.
One by one, bean soldiers appeared and descended with Qingwan.
Lu Zheng and the other two went to the location where the Gu worms were being lured.
Yun Xiao casually used a spell to easily break the formation and bring up the bronze coffin from underground.
The coffin was opened, and Yun Xiao carefully examined the woman inside, clicking his tongue and saying, "She's a woman with demon blood, specifically insect demon blood. This kind of physique makes her more likely to attract Gu worms... This girl is fair-skinned, and doesn't seem like a barbarian from the mountains..."
Yun Xiao discovered that the woman not only had demon blood but also Shu blood, but mainly local barbarian blood, so she was probably not from outside the Southern Frontier.
Yun Xiao flicked his finger, and another spell was launched at the woman.
The young woman slowly woke up, still somewhat dazed.
Her eyes were unfocused as she looked at Lu Zheng and the others, and she didn't react for a moment.
A rustling sound came from the mountains.
But then Qingwan walked briskly, followed by a group of soldiers carrying an old man who had been bound like a rice dumpling back to her.
Qingwan said, "The person has been caught, but he had too many insects on him."
As she spoke, Qingwan revealed a hint of disdain.
She had just been commanding her bean soldiers in battle when the old man summoned all sorts of insects, which she found truly disgusting.
Fortunately, the old man was no match for her at all, and she easily dealt with him and eliminated all the insects as well.
Upon seeing the group, the old man began to speak rapidly and incoherently.
The old man spoke a foreign language, which Lu Zheng and his companions did not understand. However, they were not ordinary people and could grasp the meaning to some extent.
The gist of it was asking Lu Zheng and his group why they attacked him, what their background was, and what tribe he belonged to, etc.
Seeing that the old man's words and attitude were not very good, and that he seemed not to be afraid of being treated like this.
Lu Zheng turned to look at Yun Xiao.
Seeing this, Yun Xiao said, "I don't speak the Mandarin, but you can ask him directly; he should be able to understand us."
"Are you people from the Shu Kingdom, outsiders?"
Just then, the woman stood up weakly and looked at Lu Zheng and the others.
Yun Xiao clicked his tongue and said, "Tsk, you can actually speak our language?"
Seeing her current predicament, the woman, still somewhat dazed, vaguely deduced something from the situation.
She bowed slightly and replied, "My name is Hua Ling. I am from Yu Man City. I have been learning Shu language since I was a child, so I can speak your language."
Jade Barbarian City is the closest city that Lu Zheng and his group are heading to. The barbarian women who live in the city and speak the languages of the outside world are no ordinary barbarian women.
(End of this chapter)