"Is that all? Isn't this a little too easy?" Li Biao asked dubiously.
As he spoke, he glanced uneasily toward the top of the hall again, only to find it empty. No more poisonous insects had appeared.
"Don't let your guard down. Let's find the Soul-Birth Pillar first," Taoxiang said, surveying their surroundings.
No sooner had she spoken than strange noises came from the roof of the hall again, much louder than before.
Everyone looked up at the sound and saw several bizarre humanoid creatures perched on the roof beams. No one knew when they had appeared.
They looked like children of six or seven, their skin bruised blue and purple. Without a stitch of clothing on them, they hung stark naked upside down from the beams.
"How did these things... appear?" Ghost Vine Venerable asked in bewilderment.
"I don't know. There was nothing there when I last looked, and then they appeared in the blink of an eye," Li Biao exclaimed softly.
Just then, the children suddenly turned their heads toward the people below. Their eyes were enormous and pitch-black, without a trace of white, and a strange curved horn grew from each forehead.
"These things seem to be the legendary gu bred from poisonous insects-Slaughter Poison Insects," Myriad Waters True Immortal said with a frown after studying them briefly.
"Fellow Daoist Ghost Vine, haven't you always studied strange creatures like these? Do you know how to deal with them?" Tian Sanqi suddenly asked.
Ghost Vine Venerable might truly have known what these creatures were, but Shen Luo had never heard of them.
"I have no interest in studying such sinister things." Silently cursing Tian Sanqi, he controlled Ghost Vine Venerable and made him reply coldly.
As soon as he finished speaking, a burst of chilling giggles rang out