"You need to be careful in a moment. Don't underestimate this forest. There are insects everywhere, and if they burrow into your body, they'll make you wish you were dead," Tu Qianqiu warned solemnly.
"Gu Elder raised them?" Tang Wen asked.
"That old fellow loves playing with these things. He's spent his whole life dealing with insects." Tu Qianqiu nodded, then stood outside the forest and pursed his lips to project his voice.
"Tu Qianqiu, you've come to bother me again! Didn't I tell you not to come anymore?" An angry roar came from within.
"Old fellow, I've brought you a treasure," Tu Qianqiu said.
"Bullshit!" Gu Elder snorted.
"It's true. A kid has been afflicted with Gu, a kind you've definitely never seen before," Tu Qianqiu said.
"Come in!" Gu Elder seemed interested. The trees shook, and thousands of insects immediately leaped off to one side.
"See that? If you'd barged in, those thousands of insects would have treated you as a snack to go with their wine. Even Xifang Kongming would balk at this forest." As he spoke, Tu Qianqiu led Tang Wen into the woods.
Once they reached the clearing in the middle, all those insects scurried back.
These insects certainly made a natural barrier.
But when he saw Gu Elder, Tang Wen still received an abrupt fright.
The fellow was so ugly that he could only be described as too horrible to look at.
His face was covered in patches of scarring, uneven and pitted, purple here and blue there, red here and black there, as though every paint color had been splashed onto his face.
"Gu Elder's face is entirely the work of insect bites." Seeming to sense Tang Wen's thoughts, Tu Qianqiu sighed.
"No wonder Gu Elder can be called the founding ancestor of