Deep within True Person Yuan Yong's nascent soul, a twisted Gu insect with neither head nor eyes writhed madly like a pitch-black earthworm.
It was roughly half an arm long and a finger thick, seemingly brimming with vitality. At that moment, it was absorbing the power of True Person Yuan Yong's nascent soul.
The sight made one's hair stand on end.
"You destroyed my body and murdered my son, Lin Ke! Even if I am reduced to dust today, I will drag you into that boundless Purgatory with me!"
As he spoke, the Gu insect inside him began to twist and tremble. More surging energy poured into it, like an activated magnetic needle searching for its direction.
True Person Yuan Yong's nascent soul also began collapsing rapidly around the Gu insect.
Waves of witch Gu qi spread outward from the Gu insect, like a venomous jellyfish hunting in the deep sea.
Densely packed black tendrils reached out to coil around Lin Ke and Zong Ya.
Seeing this, Lin Ke swept his sleeve, and the solidified rock on the ground rose into the air once more, forming walls of stone before him.
He had not expected an Illusionless Gu Insect to have been lurking inside True Person Yuan Yong all along. The man simply had never sacrificed his essence blood to activate it.
Perhaps the Illusionless Gu Sect had wanted to recruit him and had given him this Gu insect for that reason.
His own stance had remained ambiguous, perhaps because he also knew that once he became involved with a Gu insect, he would have to make sacrifices for the rest of his life.
So he had neither agreed nor refused outright, instead imprisoning the Gu insect inside his body to use as a trump card.
Now, like a cornered