The Scapegoat

"I nearly forgot."

Chen Luo came back to his senses, and the spiritual fire in his hand shifted.

In the distance, Myriad Manifestation Old Ancestor's head and remaining chunks of flesh were swept up by the spiritual fire and burned clean. To make sure nothing remained, Chen Luo even took out the Soul Banner and swept the area once. After so long without collecting souls and burying corpses, he had grown a little rusty at the craft Third Uncle had passed down.

Once he finished dealing with the suspicious points, the Life Silkworm Gu's doubts instantly vanished.

Its mood immediately turned docile. This time, there was no need for the Soul Parasite Gu to control it. It jumped into Chen Luo's palm on its own, tucked away its wings and sharp claws, and fell peacefully asleep.

Black Robe beside him watched with unconcealed envy.

For an Insect Cultivator like him, this method of subduing an Adult Insect was a power he could only dream of. If he had possessed such an ability back then, he would not have gone to his death without ever laying hands on a Rare Insect.

Sensing the power transmitted back by the Life Silkworm Gu, Chen Luo instantly understood every one of this Gu insect's abilities.

As the Rare Insect ranked twenty-second on the Exotic Insect Ranking, the Life Silkworm Gu's greatest ability was "transfer." It could transfer a person's lifespan, cultivation, and fortune entirely onto someone else. Myriad Manifestation Old Ancestor's previous method had merely been the most basic application of the Life Silkworm Gu: using Child Insects to share cultivation while harvesting the fortune, cultivation, and lifespan of his subordinates. Immortal Venerable Wan Xiang, who had originally possessed inferior aptitude, had relied on this very method to rise step by step from among