Chu Hong and Zhong Shan stopped in their tracks and looked inside through the window. An old Gu Master missing an arm lay in the room, reeking of alcohol, his hair a complete mess as he lay there alone in a drunken frenzy.
They both knew this man.
Venerable Purple Spider, the most famous Two-Insect Gu Master in the area. When he faced Old Master Shrimp last night, this old fellow had practically been unable to fight back. One of the Gu insects he had painstakingly raised had died, and he had survived purely by luck. Now his courage had been scared out of him, and he was using alcohol to numb himself.
"Let's go."
Chu Hong withdrew her gaze and left Black Crow Valley with Zhong Shan.
Running away was the stupidest choice.
When the tide truly arrived, there would be nowhere to hide. Not even the tallest mountain in the world could escape the tide's impact. Besides, they had an even more troublesome problem on them.
Concentric Gu!
When they had escaped back then, all of them had been planted with Concentric Gu. Every time the tide came, the Concentric Gu would flare up. The agitated Gu would gnaw at their souls, and that agony was simply unbearable. If they wanted to live, they had to endure the Concentric Gu's agitation. In the past, Chu Hong and Zhong Shan had always weathered it head-on, but this time, they were not certain they could.
The Concentric Gu's power stacked.
The more times they endured it, the heavier the Concentric Gu's backlash became.
Seawall.
When Chu Hong and Zhong Shan arrived, more than a dozen people were already standing there. Like the two of them, every one of them wore a Black Robe, and from the outside, only the aura