It wasn't difficult to make this Gu Emperor obey. My current Dao Body was actually the offspring it had given birth to. Since it had previously feared Ru Jin's fortune, it naturally feared the offspring born from her as well. That explained everything. I also understood the art of Ghost Gu, and before long, I was already able to communicate with the mother worm through it.
The Gu Emperor's intelligence was quite high, and its loyalty was correspondingly strong. It knew that it should obey me, so when I ordered it to release the hundreds of brothers and sisters inside its body, it obediently let out a whole mass of them. These spheres, each about the size of a thumb, looked rather terrifying when densely packed together, though directing them was as easy as controlling one's own arm.
"Social Ghost Gu are pretty easy to control, but what kind of existence is the mother worm to them?" I asked.
"An incubator. It doesn't actually perform the devouring and controlling itself. Only the offspring worms can devour the pathways of a Dao Body. Once an offspring worm has a Dao Body and energy, it can feed that energy back to the mother worm when it isn't using it," Miao Xiaoli explained.
"If it feeds the energy back to the mother worm, do those pathways and such still remain in the offspring worm?" I asked.
"Insects can't destroy the Dao. They only become weaker, like incorporeal bodies. But I'm not that evil. I only had them devour a few ferocious Six Paths ghosts, so you can summon them out," Miao Xiaoli said.
"What use is summoning them? They're only incorporeal bodies, so they probably won't be very useful, right?" I asked curiously, but still waved my hand and ordered one of the