"Damn it, our home base was stolen!"
That day, Zhou You had rarely taken a day off and returned home, only to be stopped by Lian Feihong at his doorstep.
Lian Feihong grabbed Zhou You and hurried off in a panic, telling him that something major had happened.
It turned out that while Zhou You had recently been busy with the palace guards, Lian Feihong had also been focused on an important matter. Neither had expected the Eight Lords' side to have their home base stolen.
Half a month earlier, Wu Luoye had introduced a fellow townsman from the north to the Eight Lords, a man named Lu Xiangxing.
Lu Xiangxing was also a mixed-blood Witchman and possessed the rare profession of "Curse Witch." After defecting from the Northern Territory, he had fled south all along to evade the Witch Clan's pursuit.
Somehow, Wu Luoye had learned of his whereabouts and set out to invite him to the capital to plot great matters together.
Wu Luoye possessed the "Witch Blessing" trait and had also come into close contact with the Myriad Transformations Scripture and the Gu Emperor. His mastery of Witch Clan secret arts had reached a level even ghosts and gods dared not approach.
The ladder to advancement he offered the Eight Lords was a rare Gu worm known as the Spirit Lotus Gu.
The Spirit Lotus Gu took its name from the image of severed lotus roots still joined by silken threads. It was one of the Witch Clan's secret Gu worms for extending life.
Many of the Three Witches were advanced in years, their essence blood depleted, their bodies little more than skin stretched over bone. Yet they could still cling to a lingering breath because the Spirit Lotus Gu forcibly sustained that last thread of life.