Yu Wuhen's heart surged. He threw back his head and let out a long cry, his usually detached nature unable to contain his excitement. Tears nearly spilled from his eyes.
A hoarse, grating voice suddenly rang out. "Instead of hiding in the gutters like burrowing rats, someone from the Yu Family actually dares show his face in the Divine Capital and defile this sacred ground."
"Excellent. Since you've come, turn to rotten earth and be buried here."
Whoosh!
A short, hideously ugly man with a hunched back and protruding teeth bounded forward, moving so quickly that he left trails of afterimages. In an instant, he reached Yu Wuhen's back and spat a great mouthful of liquid. The moment it touched the air, it turned into a sky-filling mist.
Yu Wuhen immediately felt the air around him grow thick, turbid, and damp. The mist descended like a great net.
His face sizzled as though immersed in boiling oil. Flesh dissolved rapidly, sending up wisps of white vapor.
Yu Wuhen's face shifted, and a translucent membrane peeled away from it. Before it could reach the ground, it broke apart into countless insects invisible to the naked eye, which beat their wings and hurtled toward the ugly, hunched man.
Yu Wuhen's body burst like a phantom with a pop, then reappeared several yards away. His gaze chilled slightly. "The Rotting-Bone Blood-Transforming Astral Art? Corrosive Ant, one of Green Fly's Twelve Vicious Gu?"
"Correct! And I, Demon Midge, am here too!" It was not the hunched man who answered. A cloud of black mist suddenly swept over on the wind, a pair of sinister emerald eyes faintly flickering within it.
Those sinister emerald eyes blinked, and a strange fragrance spread through the air. The insects flying toward Corrosive Ant immediately rained down.
Yu Wuhen's