Clearly, Meng Gu's move of sacrificing his own flesh to feed his Gu Insects had worked.
Yet Yellow Immortal showed not the slightest panic at the sight.
He merely cast a contemptuous glance at Meng Gu, who lay prostrate on the ground, then unhurriedly drew a sharp dagger from his sleeve and lightly sliced the tip of his left index finger.
A drop of fresh blood dripped from Yellow Immortal's fingertip onto the ground.
In an instant, a fragrance ten, even a hundred times richer than Meng Gu's spread from that drop of blood.
The Gu Insects crawling toward Meng Gu all froze in place the instant the blood fell, as though struck by lightning.
Only several breaths later did the swarm react, turning as one and rushing toward the drop of blood Yellow Immortal had shed.
In mere moments, beneath everyone's horrified gazes, every Gu Insect on Demon Emperor Meng Gu's body-including those he had recalled earlier-was drawn to Yellow Immortal's drop of blood.
All at once, not a single Gu Insect remained on Demon Emperor Meng Gu.
A Meng and the others beside the Sword Platform exchanged looks.
After a long while, watching Yellow Immortal slowly approach Demon Emperor Meng Gu on the Sword Platform, Cui Tiegu gave a somewhat helpless, wry smile.
"Now I understand why the Sword Chief Ranking chose Liu Gu."
"The Sword Chief Ranking didn't choose Liu Gu because he had some especially compelling reason for Sword Inquiry. It was simply because it needed his abilities to counter Meng Gu!"
Xu Taiping nodded slightly.
"If Yellow Immortal weren't equally proficient in Gu arts, even an expert at Great Completion of the Heaven Questioning Realm might not necessarily be able to slay Meng Gu."
Beside him, Lin Qingnu nodded as well.
"Even if we could