"I... What happened to me? My... divine ax!" The woman glanced around, and the moment she saw the golden ax, she lunged at it again. Longqiu You immediately blocked her path, but the woman hurriedly slipped around him to snatch the ax, only to be stopped once more by Ye Xian Yuan, who was standing nearby.
I also looked at the so-called divine ax. Although the entire thing gleamed with golden light, faint red veins of blood lay hidden within it. This thing should contain a living entity. I flicked the Qingshan Sword in my hand and infused it with my power. Sure enough, after my power forcefully suppressed it, the static things resembling thin blood vessels suddenly came alive. They crawled over the divine ax, apparently controlling the girl.
"This ax can bewilder your mind. I think you'd be better off not taking it back, miss. There are countless treasures in this world—why insist on taking something that already has an owner? You can still be saved. How about I save you?" I said with a smile, pointing at the webbing between her thumbs and forefingers, as well as the child-finger-sized black holes scattered across the backs of her hands.
The black holes followed her meridians. No blood flowed from them, yet they would not heal, making them horrifying to behold. The insects I had stirred up earlier were undoubtedly writhing through the woman's meridians at this very moment. Every immortal present felt their scalps go numb, as though they could even see the many insects that had already burrowed into her body.
"Master, is this... the Golden Thread Gu?" Ye Xian Yuan cried out. When she saw me nod, she hurriedly said, "These are dormant insects that can attach themselves to treasures and become part of them!"
"How