(Happy New Year in advance to all my readers!)
After seeing that scene in the Myriad Forms Mirror and considering the thing's properties, Tang Changsheng suddenly remembered. Could this be the mother Corpse-Guarding Worm?
The thought made his heart pound. The Corpse-Guarding Worm was the pinnacle of Gu Worm Ritual Refinement. It could even spread through the mind; Ghost Creatures and primordial spirits alike could be parasitized and controlled.
The General's Temple had recorded it in such detail back then. Perhaps they, too, had entertained the idea of imitating it.
Tang Changsheng's eyes lit up. He walked back step by step. Fragments and black blood lay scattered across the ground.
Tang Changsheng did not have Sword Immortal Yun Muyu's domineering sword light, but he still had the power to force it out...
He lit the Primordial Yang Divine Lamp. The moment its wishfire shone, the scattered black blood stirred in fear, surging toward the river as though trying to hide in its waters.
How could Tang Changsheng let them escape? He sneered. "Playing dead, are you? Let's see you keep it up."
As it happened, wishfire was the natural bane of Corpse-Guarding Worms. In an instant, the black blood turned into countless insects smaller than pinpoints and tried to flee in every direction.
The things were so tiny that, once dispersed through the air, they would be hard even to see, let alone catch.
The Primordial Yang Divine Lamp blazed, sealing off the entire stretch of riverbank. Countless insects too small for the naked eye to see burned away into nothing.
He drove the small cluster that remained into a little porcelain bottle, then sealed it with talismans.
Tang Changsheng searched the area for quite some time. Only after confirming that every other Corpse-Guarding Worm had been destroyed did he