A Game of Your Life

The Witch God had not, of course, been enraged to the point of exploding by A' Yue.

Rather, he had learned that A' Yue had made another breakthrough in refining poisons and Gu, and no longer dared sit steady as a fisherman on his platform. He hurried back to make fresh arrangements.

To guard against A' Yue truly following the clues to find her way here.

Yet he still had confidence in his Life-Severing Gu. It was far more than a simple mother-and-child Gu.

The mother gave birth to children, and those children gave birth to more children. Generation upon generation, they multiplied without end, weaving a vast net. If one tried to trace it through nothing but the connection between mother and child Gu—

Starting from a single child Gu,

One would only find the child Gu that had birthed it.

Not the mother Gu directly.

Unless...

Within Tian Shu Pavilion, A' Yue happily held a teacup as she told Shen Yi and the two old men:

"Good thing we didn't use the Gu worm dug out of that hemp-robed man's body to test the poison. If the Witch God wants to control Celestials, he likely refined them directly with his natal mother Gu!"

The Witch God, whose soul had fled, swiftly realized the same problem. Shen Yi had pierced straight through the hemp-robed youth he had possessed, leaving him no chance to destroy the evidence.

Then, he comforted himself.

It was fine.

The tracking range of a tracing Gu was limited as well. The other side could not possibly use some so-called Life-Seeking Gu to find him from thousands of miles away.

Knock, knock, knock.

The doors of Tian Shu Pavilion rang.

Qingfeng, clad in blue-and-white Daoist robes with a breeze in both sleeves, walked in and asked