Once the external power this brat had borrowed wore off.
He would make sure to put him through hell.
At that thought.
Pinecloud True Person sat down cross-legged.
He began regulating his breathing.
Pinejade True Person, meanwhile, kept his wary gaze fixed on Li Qingshan.
Neither of them noticed.
That the spiritual energy drawn up from the underground Spirit Vein had quietly taken on a faint gray tinge.
While reinforcing the protective barrier, this faintly gray spiritual energy was also quietly being absorbed into their bodies.
Half an incense stick's worth of time passed.
Pinecloud True Person, sitting cross-legged inside the barrier to recover, suddenly shuddered.
He looked at Pinejade True Person.
In a low voice, he asked, "Junior Brother, do your meridians feel a little itchy?"
Pinejade True Person froze.
He had felt nothing until Pinecloud True Person mentioned it.
But now that he had.
Pinejade True Person really did feel an itch in his meridians. Not just his meridians-his internal organs began itching too, as though countless insects were crawling through them, gnawing away.
A terrible foreboding suddenly rose in both their hearts.
They hurriedly examined their bodies from within.
At that inward look.
Both of them panicked.
Countless poisonous gu were rampaging through their bodies.
An agonizing pain, enough to tear their hearts and lungs apart, suddenly struck.
Pinejade True Person's face instantly contorted.
It became hideously twisted.
"Aaaaargh!"
Clutching his chest, he collapsed to the ground.
Piercing screams kept pouring from his mouth.
Then he actually began rolling on the ground.
Amid those waves of shrill screams.
Pinecloud True Person's aura grew weaker and weaker.
His dantian, where he stored his spiritual energy.
Had been bitten open by the gu insects.
"S-Senior Brother, it hurts... save... save me..."
Pinejade True Person cried out to Pinecloud True