Chapter Two: The Spirit Devourer
Picking up the hatchet, Gu Xiaoxing looked around cautiously, fearing that some terrifying creature would appear again. He was really afraid. Whether it was the giant python or the roc before, even a breath could kill him.
Holding back his injured body, Gu Xiaoxing stood up with difficulty. This was the first time in his life that he was so seriously injured. He grinned in pain. But suddenly, he felt a warmth on his forehead, as if there was a warm current gushing out from the center of his eyebrows.
After passing through various parts of the body, it actually... didn't hurt anymore!
I was suddenly startled and reached out to touch my forehead. The little bug was still growing between my eyebrows.
Gu Xiaoxing knew for the first time that it actually had the effect of healing. However, the next moment, he felt frightened. A strange suction force suddenly came from the center of his eyebrows. It was Gu Xiaoxing's life force that was being sucked. He could see it with the naked eye...
...lost weight again.
It seems that no matter how much energy is used to heal the body, it must be forcibly sucked back from the body.
"This...this is simply a vampire!"
Gu Xiaoxing was furious.
Seeing that his body was almost reduced to a skeleton, the fear in Gu Xiaoxing's eyes was beyond anything he had ever seen before. He felt hard in his heart, gritted his teeth and made what he thought was an unusually firm voice.
"No! I can't go back, I...I want to find a god!"
"Are you looking for a god?"
The ethereal sound came, as if it was in the sky and in my ears.
Gu Xiaoxing immediately held a hatchet in both hands and got into a posture with a fierce look on his face. He looked around nervously, but found no one.
"Who! Who is talking!"
"Raise your head."
The ethereal voice came again, and Gu Xiaoxing suddenly raised his head, only to see a man standing in the air with his hands behind his back, with fluttering white clothes and an immortal air.
It seems to confirm the saying that there is a god three feet up.
"God...god!"
With a clang, the hatchet fell from his hand. Gu Xiaoxing was so excited that it was indescribable and she immediately knelt down and worshiped.
"Please God save me!"
"I, Master Bai of the Soul-Eating Sect." Master Bai was attracted by Dapeng. He didn't want to meet such a little guy, so he was very interested. "Can you tell me how to save you?"
Gu Xiaoxing raised his head and saw the immortal slowly landing on the ground. He became more and more excited. With such a flying spell, he must be an immortal!
So with a pious look on his face, he quickly kowtowed and knelt down again.
"The little one's name is Gu Xiaoxing. A bug burrowed into his forehead half a year ago. The bug was so weird and tight that it couldn't be removed. It also sucked flesh and blood. It was about to be sucked dry by the bug. The little one was about to be sucked dry.
I’m afraid of death! After searching for the immortal from Fulai Village, I have gone through a lot of hardships and finally met the immortal. I beg the immortal to save me and take out this insect!"
"More than half a year?" Master Bai's eyes narrowed slightly, "The insect between your eyebrows is called the soul-eating insect. It doesn't take three months to enter the body and it can suck out all the flesh and blood of the human body. How did you persist for more than half a year without dying?"
Gu Xiaoxing raised his head again, with an inexplicable arrogance between his eyebrows, but he suddenly thought that the other person was a god, so he humbly said: "Young man was once the most beautiful man in Fulai Village. In the past... Hehe! Little Fatty
, Little Fatty!”
Master Bai glanced at Gu Xiaoxing. He naturally knew that Fulai Village was an isolated mountain village located in the Menghuai Mountains. Its folk customs were weird and fatness was regarded as beauty.
"Once the soul-eating worm enters the body, it lives with the host and cannot be taken out. If you take it out forcibly, you and the soul-eating worm will only die together."
Gu Xiaoxing was stunned, and kowtowed again quickly, almost crying, and said anxiously: "Please find a way to save me. You are an immortal with great supernatural powers. You must have a way to save me! I don't want to die! I still have something to save me."
Dream, I haven’t become the most beautiful man in Fulai Village, I haven’t married a beautiful lady, I still..."
"Noisy!"
Master Bai waved his hand impatiently, "Misfortune depends on blessings. It is not a bad thing if the soul-eating insects enter the body. It is also qualified to practice. If you are willing, I will introduce you to the soul-eating sect and become my soul-eating sect."
disciple."
Gu Xiaoxing raised his head and asked weakly: "If you practice practice, you can survive, but can you gain weight?"
It was a simple question, even if Master Bai was asked about his conduct, he was stunned for a moment, with a hint of disgust in his eyes.
"You can live!"
Then, he waved his hand. In an instant, Gu Xiaoxing felt like he was flying and his soul was chasing him. His vision was blurred, and a shrill scream rang out in the sky.
"My hatchet...!"
It wasn't until he gradually stabilized and adapted after a long time that Gu Xiaoxing realized that he was already high in the sky, standing behind Bai Zhenren and moving rapidly.
"It's too fast! Immortal, it's too fast!" Gu Xiaoxing wailed all the way. He wanted to reach out and grab Zhenren Bai's gown but couldn't reach it. He was terrified in his heart, fearing that he would fall and be shattered to pieces.
Just over an hour passed. Gu Xiaoxing could not imagine how far he had traveled. Gradually, a peak appeared. That peak was higher and bigger than any other mountain he had ever seen. It was still faintly visible on the top of the mountain.
With a palace.
Next to the peak, there was a short peak, and the surrounding scenery passed by quickly. Not long after, Gu Xiaoxing and his wife appeared under the short peak.
"Come with me." Master Bai said calmly.
Gu Xiaoxing's legs trembled and she followed closely behind Master Bai, but she kept swearing secretly in her heart that after entering the sect, she would never step out of the sect!
The outside world is so scary!
Along the way, he saw all kinds of strange and terrifying monsters.
There is a giant ape as big as a mountain; there is a deformed creature with two different heads but the same size as a mountain; and there is an old turtle lying in the ice lake, which is even more ridiculously big.
What's more, he also encountered a giant eagle with thunder and lightning flashing all over his body and suddenly attacked him. The ferocious aura made Gu Xiaoxing's scalp numb, and then he was killed by Bai Zhenren's sword.
But what he found most terrifying was the roc that covered the sky and the sun.
As for the wild boars we had seen in the previous month, even the largest ones were no longer ranked! From what Bai Zhenren said, we learned that those wild boars were named Menghuai and were monster beasts.
Monsters can also practice cultivation and possess spiritual intelligence, but their natures are mostly cruel. There are countless monsters in this small wasteland.
Gu Xiaoxing kept Bai Zhenren's words in mind and vowed again.
Absolutely, can’t go out!
Not far away, a stone tablet appeared in front of them, with three words engraved on it - Shiling Peak.
Beside the stone tablet, there was a young man, dressed in gray clothes, with a mediocre appearance. He was sitting there cross-legged and drowsy. He seemed to hear the sound of footsteps. He frowned and opened his eyes to see that it was Zhenren Bai. He perked up and quickly stepped forward to salute respectfully.
"I've seen a real person!"
Master Bai nodded lightly and said: "Assign this person, um... seeing that he didn't let go of the dropped hatchet before, let's arrange a job for him to chop wood."
After saying that, without waiting for the young man to reply, Master Bai turned into a stream of light and left.
"Yes, congratulations to the real person!"
The young man bowed in the direction where Bai Zhenren left, and then looked at Gu Xiaoxing.
Gu Xiaoxing was very excited at this moment, because he saw that there were also parasitic soul-eating insects on the young man's forehead, but the young man did not feel thin and weak at all, but exuded a strange sense of otherworldly strength. This shows that the young man understands the truth
What you said is true, you can survive through practice, and you can still be saved!
"I am Cui Yan, the deacon of Shiling Peak. Just call me Senior Brother Cui." The young man nodded and looked at Gu Xiaoxing with a little thought. After being a deacon for so many years, this was the first time for him to see the sect's great elder personally lead the way.
When a person enters Shiling Peak, he should take care of him no matter what. However, the errand arranged by Master Bai makes him confused.
"Little Gu Xiaoxing, I have met Senior Brother Cui!"
Gu Xiaoxing's face was sincere. He was already fair and handsome, and coupled with his frail appearance at the moment, coupled with his innocent eyes, he looked like a young man who had not experienced much in the world but had suffered a lot.
It's easy to let down one's guard and sympathize from the bottom of one's heart.
Cui Yan's eyes softened a bit as expected, and he said: "It turns out to be Junior Brother Gu. The feeling of being parasitized by the Soul-Eating Insect is not pleasant. I must have suffered a lot these days! I remember that when I was first parasitized by the Insect, I lost weight in a month.
I lost more than 20 kilograms. Although it is not as serious as yours, I am still worried all day long and have suffered a lot. Fortunately, the sect guide came to find me and led me into the sect, otherwise I might have been a pile of bones!"
"What Brother Cui said is true! Since I was parasitized by the soul-eating worm, even if I eat and drink like crazy, I still can't change the outcome of losing weight day by day. Three hundred kilograms! I lost a full three hundred kilograms! My heart aches!"
Three hundred pounds?
Cui Yan didn't react for a moment. Looking at the now skinny Gu Xiaoxing, he became curious about what would happen if he piled three hundred kilograms of meat on top.
Gu Xiaoxing was very excited. Maybe he had heard an experience so similar to his own, and his emotions resonated. He rolled his eyes, and there was an understood grievance in his eyes, and then said: "Fortunately! I just saw it.
When I was about to be sucked dry by the Soul-Eating Insects, luckily Uncle Bai appeared! Then he took me back to the Soul-Eating Sect!"
"Uncle Bai? Zhenren Bai?" Cui Yan asked in surprise.
However, Gu Xiaoxing suddenly looked like he had said something wrong. He hesitated for a moment, and when he saw no one around, he leaned closer and whispered: "My father and Uncle Bai were old friends. They were as close as brothers, and they were like brothers. Unfortunately, the small wasteland is dangerous.
Only Uncle Bai with such vast supernatural powers can come and go freely. He would visit my father once every few years. Although my father passed away the year before last, fortunately Uncle Bai missed his old friend and found me who was parasitized by the soul-eating worm.
Introducing me into the sect, for me, Uncle Bai is my reborn parent! But Senior Brother Cui, you just need to know these things, Uncle Bai has warned you not to reveal anything about this."
If Gu Xiaoxing admitted it, Cui Yan didn't believe it very much. Seeing how cautious he was, even if he had doubts, he believed it a little. Although he had never heard of any old friends of Master Bai, Elder Bai was eating souls.
Zong is lower than ten thousand people, and his status is too high. Many things about him are rumors, and little is known about their authenticity. Moreover, Gu Xiaoxing was indeed brought by Master Bai. In this case, Master Bai should also pay attention to this place.
.
Cui Yan didn't believe that anyone dared to lie under Zhenren Bai's nose.
However, Gu Xiaoxing felt extremely guilty at this moment. He grew up eating a lot of food, so he naturally knew how to observe people’s emotions and take advantage of others’ situations. When he first came to the Soul Devouring Sect, how could he not find a backer? Even if he had just entered the sect, he could see it.
Come out, Master Bai is obviously a great figure in the sect.
"You have been flying away for so long, so you probably can't hear me anymore! Since you are such a big shot, you won't care about such a trivial matter with me, right?" Gu Xiaoxing was not sure.
On the main peak of the Soul-Eating Sect, Master Bai's mouth twitched, and he had the urge to turn around and go back to take Gu Xiaoxing back to the mountain. However, he disliked it, and Master Bai's status was there. He would not really explain anything, it was childish.
Just a small trick.
Chapter completed!