Brave Ma Yi Feared No Danger

The space inside the cave was much larger than Gao Yunyi had imagined.

It's as if the entire mountain has been hollowed out.

There were no lights inside the cave.

It was as black as ink, so dark you couldn't see your hand in front of your face.

But in Gao Yunyi's eyes, it was as bright as day.

He stood at the entrance of the Myriad Gu Pit, looking down at the bottomless cavern below, a look of great interest on his face.

Ma Yi followed, her legs clamped together. The darkness momentarily blinded her, and she crashed heavily into Gao Yunyi's back.

"I'm sorry, I'm so sorry."

Ma Yi took a few steps back, touching her forehead and apologizing repeatedly.

Gao Yunyi didn't mind, a stark contrast to his usual petty nature.

Ma Yi's face was filled with fear.

The bottomless pit seemed to remind her of the terrifying experience of her Coming-of-Age Ceremony last year, and her body trembled even more violently.

"Young master, just look from here, don't go down, it's too dangerous down there."

Ma Yi whispered her advice, not wanting the handsome young man before her to die tragically in the Myriad Gu Pit.

Pity,

Gao Yunyi ignored her advice and walked straight inside.

Ma Yi was so anxious that tears were almost streaming down her face.

He quickly pulled a tinderbox from his pocket, lit it, and followed closely behind.

The tinderbox emitted a faint light, barely illuminating the scene inside the pit. Ma Yi could only rely on her memory of going down there last year, cautiously groping her way in.

This Myriad Gu Pit is divided into three areas.

The first area is where common Gu worms are kept, and they are also the most numerous.

The Gu worms raised in the second area are rarer, and their aptitude and strength are much greater than those in the first area.

As for the third area, legend has it that a Gu King lives there, capable of commanding all the Gu worms in the Myriad Gu Pit, but for hundreds of years no one has ever set foot there, let alone been able to tame it.

Ma Yi was very scared.

He was trembling with fear, his face turning deathly pale.

But she still stepped into this dangerous place, a nightmare for her.

The faint firelight illuminated the blurry figure in front of her. Although the fair-skinned and handsome scholar from the Central Plains looked frail, he gave her a great sense of security.

It was as if as long as she followed behind him, even if the sky fell, it wouldn't hurt her.

As the two became more and more intimate,

A constant rustling sound began to reach their ears, as if countless pairs of ferocious and eerie eyes were staring at them.

Ma Yi's hands, holding the tinderbox, trembled slightly. She shrank her neck and tucked her legs together, looking just like a panicked hamster.

"Young master, young master."

She called out softly, as if only in this way could she find some sense of security.

Gao Yunyi as if he were taking a stroll in his own backyard, his face completely unmoved.

Ma Yi couldn't see it, but he could see it very clearly.

This area is very vast, and the dark bottom of the pit is densely packed with all kinds of poisonous insects, spiders, centipedes, scorpions and other unknown poisonous creatures huddled together.

The rock face was covered with countless white bones, and a foul, damp smell wafted over, accompanied by the incessant sound of insects rubbing against each other, like a scene from hell.

Perhaps sensing that a living person had entered,

These Gu worms suddenly became unusually restless, constantly emerging from the rock walls, behind the rubble, and from within the skeletons, and then rapidly crawling towards them.

As if to these Gu worms,

They are a delicious meal, a truly unparalleled delicacy that can satisfy your appetite.

Ma Yi was almost scared to death.

Her petite body trembled violently.

Those nightmarish and terrifying memories suddenly flooded back like a tidal wave.

It seems like this was around here last year.

She and her companions who entered the cave together were attacked by thousands of Gu worms. Many of them died on the spot, becoming food and nutrients for the Gu worms.

She remembered the screams of her companions before they died, and the horrific state of their bodies after death. She, like a deserter, abandoned them and fled alone.

Ma Yi squatted on the ground.

My mind was filled with piercing screams and horrific images.

Pain, self-blame, regret, fear, and terror—these negative emotions robbed her of all thought and resistance.

Just when she was on the verge of despair, an Azure figure suddenly appeared in her mind, like a ray of dawn that cleaved through the darkness and illuminated her lost path.

Ma Yi suddenly stood up from the ground.

Without even picking up the extinguished tinder that had fallen to the ground, he immediately pulled a bottle from his pocket, uncapped it, and sprinkled the powder inside onto the ground.

The powder was scattered into a circle, perfectly enclosing her and Gao Yunyi inside.

This is a powder for Gu Repelling; it will keep these insects away.

Really,

After the powder was sprinkled, the surging Gu worms immediately dared not approach and frantically circled and crawled outside the circle.

Ma Yi picked up the tinderbox from the ground and relit it.

She looked up at Gao Yunyi, and only after confirming that he hadn't been frightened or hurt did she breathe a heavy sigh of relief.

I don't know why,

She desperately wanted to protect this handsome young man from the Central Plains and didn't want to see him get hurt in any way.

It turns out that wanting to protect someone makes you brave and strong.

Despite Ma Yi's protection, Gao Yunyi seemed unmoved. He merely glanced at her indifferently before stepping out of the circle of medicinal powder.

"Don't..."

Ma Yi had just breathed a sigh of relief, was immediately terrified and tried to reach out to grab the other person back, but it was too late.

They could only watch helplessly as the young man walked towards danger.

However, just when she thought the other person would be torn apart and devoured by the Gu worms, suffering unbearable pain and becoming unrecognizable, a scene that shocked and horrified her occurred.

The ferocious and terrifying Gu worms, baring their fangs and claws, suddenly retreated frantically, like mice seeing a cat.

It's as if Gao Yunyi has a circle around his feet; wherever he sets foot, all the Gu worms retreat in fear.

Gao Yunyi squatted down, picked up a centipede that hadn't had time to crawl away with his fingertips, and examined it carefully in front of his eyes.

He exuded an air of scholarly profundity, like a biologist studying a novel species.

This centipede was entirely crimson, much larger than an ordinary centipede, with thick limbs like thin bamboo, its jaws gleaming with a cold, dark light, its long, slender antennae trembling incessantly, and a faint, fishy, malevolent aura emanating from its body.

The moment Gao Yunyi held the crimson centipede in his hand, its entire body stiffened instantly, as if it were being suppressed by an inexplicable pressure, and it dared not make any move.

They're so well-behaved and honest that it breaks your heart.

But this adorable, obedient, and well-behaved little centipede was crushed to death by Gao Yunyi with a gentle pinch.

"That's a really awful sound."

Gao Yunyi disgustedly threw away the centipede corpse in his hand, then walked back to the dumbfounded Ma Yi and wiped the filth off his fingers on her clothes.

Let's keep going.