Riding the Gu King, Soaring into the Sky

The seal-script character 'Gu' was the character Zhou You had built his fortune upon, and also the most extraordinary one. It possessed the dual nature of 'insect' and 'character.'

The seal-script character 'Bewitch' could switch at any time into the living Gu, or transform back into cold, lifeless writing.

It had infiltrated the body of Withered Void Mountain's master, bewitching him bit by bit over time while drawing nourishment from the fluctuations of every kind of emotion.

Until he fell step by step, ultimately assimilating with the Calamity Bewitching Treasure, his body becoming one hundred percent Calamity Bewitched...

The Bewitching Qi and Blood Gu was like an ant clinging to a tail fin. As his physical body rose and evolved, it too rose with the tide, crossing the threshold of evolution in one stroke—from an ordinary Gu Worm into a... Gu King of the witch clan system.

According to the Myriad Transformations Scripture Lu Zhigang had obtained from Poison Grand Peak, the witch clan's Gu Kings followed the evolutionary path of demonized exotic beasts. An evolved Gu King was equivalent to a demonized Gu Worm.

The key lay in the totem. Ordinary witchmen believed that totems were merely a means of controlling witch beasts, but only great witches knew that a totem was the sole means of controlling demonized Gu Worms.

Totems weakened their wildness and prevented them from going berserk, but the price was a reduction in power. Thus, Gu Kings of the same level were often somewhat weaker than demonized exotic beasts.

Just like that flying bear earlier: its strength had not been weakened in the slightest, but it could not be controlled for long. Once the time stretched on, it would easily go berserk.

Plop!

The Bewitching Qi and Blood Gu bored through the skull, then fell