Chapter 537: Is It the Ancient Divine Insect Race? First Test of the Five Elements Crystal Pearl

Chapter 537: Chapter 500: Is It the Ancient Divine Insect Race? First Test of the Five Elements Crystal Pearl

Song Ciwan stood before the cultivator with the centipede legs. After a moment of contemplation, she drew an Observation Talisman in the air and sent it into his body.

The cultivator with the centipede legs had stopped screaming. The icy, unholy light in his eyes, which streamed with dark green blood, had vanished. He now stared at Song Ciwan, his gaze dazed and bewildered.

As the Observation Talisman entered his body, the cultivator immediately shuddered violently, as if electrocuted.

‘This isn’t right. An Observation Talisman is meant to perceive the root of an illness; it shouldn’t cause any harm or stimulation to the human body. For him to react so strongly can only mean his body has become incredibly sensitive due to the Poisonous Insect.’

As the cultivator trembled violently, the white light from the Observation Talisman rapidly illuminated his entire body.

The next moment, illuminated by the white light, the cultivator’s body became semi-transparent right before everyone’s eyes.

A few gasps of surprise came from the crowd. It was the rest of the West Wind Army, along with Liu Mingzhong and the other Medical Cultivators, who had finally arrived.

It turned out that after the earlier delay, Liu Mingzhong and the other Medical Cultivators, riding in a Puppet Carriage, had finally arrived at Willow Leaf Hall.

The moment they stepped out of the carriage, they witnessed Song Ciwan using an Observation Talisman to see through the man’s body. This miraculous display of Magic immediately elicited gasps of awe from the crowd.

But no one paid any mind to the astonishment; all eyes were on Song Ciwan as she worked.

The cultivator’s body was semi-transparent. Logically, one would assume the source of his affliction was in his legs. But under the white light, everyone could clearly see something else: a black hole, like an abyss, was floating right in his Dantian!

Although the white light was bright, the abyss-like black hole was bottomless.

The blackness was like a whirlpool, a storm, a tunnel with no end in sight, completely and utterly consuming the cultivator’s Dantian.

The Dantian of a Divinity Transformation Cultivator should be pure, like a lake or an ocean.

But at this moment, this cultivator’s Dantian was dark and foul.

Their gazes were uncontrollably drawn to that mass of darkness. As they stared into it, they felt an endless temptation luring them, pulling at them.

It was as if innumerable, chaotic voices were whispering and shouting, “Come, come now! The shores of immortality await. Won’t you come and see?”

Lured by the temptation, several figures involuntarily stepped forward, as if to draw closer to the cultivator, or perhaps even crawl right into his pitch-black Dantian.

At the critical moment, just as the darkness spun and expanded, a sharp ray of golden light shot from Song Ciwan’s fingertip!

Like a falling meteor trailing a dazzling wake, the golden light slammed into the blackness.

It was a Gold Element Crystal Pearl from the Spirit Star Race, refined from the raw ore of a Five Elements Crystal Pearl using their own special techniques.

In the Giant Spirit Realm, this item was the bane of all insects.

‘But who knew how effective it would be out here, in the Mortal World?’

The golden light flared white as it crashed into the darkness. In that instant, it was like a meteorite striking primordial chaos.

BOOM!

BOOM BOOM BOOM!

There was no sound, yet everyone could have sworn they heard it.

Then, a segment of an insect’s body reared up and emerged from the darkness.

The strange insect shrieked. Song Ciwan’s expression turned grave as her right hand shot forward in a grasping motion.

Heaven-Stealing Day-Changing!

Using an Exorcism Talisman she had prepared as a medium, she cast the Heaven-Stealing Day-Changing Skill, swapping it for the strange insect in the cultivator’s Dantian!

Just like that, the strange insect was pulled from the cultivator’s Dantian and landed in Song Ciwan’s palm.

The Exorcism Talisman, meanwhile, appeared in the cultivator’s Dantian. It emitted a ring of pure radiance that swept through the Dantian like moonlight, purging it of all accumulated malevolent energy.

And yet, the strange insect in Song Ciwan’s palm was still alive!

The insect was about the size of a thumb, with a plump, round body, like a fleshy, many-legged worm.

The fleshy worm reared its head, hissing as it spat out distinct gray threads from its mouth.

Brimming with malevolent energy, the threads sought to leap across space and wrap around Song Ciwan.

A gout of flame erupted from Song Ciwan’s palm. Lashing tongues of impossibly hot fire incinerated the ethereal threads in an instant, leaving behind only a half-dead, scorched black insect curled in her palm.

The entire area fell silent. The cultivators who had arrived later, though not bound by Song Ciwan’s Forbidden Character, stood with their mouths agape, utterly speechless.

A moment later, the cultivator on the ground suddenly cried out in pain.

“It hurts! It hurts so much!” he cried.

The pure radiance of the Exorcism Talisman spread from his Dantian, sweeping through his entire body.

His legs began a miraculous transformation. The centipede-like appendages dropped from their sides, and chitinous plates resembling centipede segments peeled away from his skin as if they were charred husks.

CLATTER, CLATTER. The chitinous plates rained down onto the ground.

Finally, a pair of withered, scorched-black human legs was revealed!

The cultivator hugged his own withered legs—

Of course, with his centipede legs gone, he could no longer be called the Centipede Leg Cultivator.

With trembling hands, he touched his legs.

Yu Wenxu walked over and peered at the scorched, fleshy worm in Song Ciwan’s palm, his tone one of amazement. “So this is the Poisonous Insect you spoke of? Where did it come from? Does it have a name? How is it so powerful that it can cause the human body to mutate to this degree?”

Song Ciwan used her Spiritual Eyes to carefully observe the half-dead insect in her palm, sensing that a wisp of its life force had not yet completely dissipated.

But Song Ciwan didn’t rush to crush the life out of it. She replied with a hint of regret, “General Yu, this is an Alien Gu. I am not very familiar with it. I was only able to extract it thanks to the power of the Observation Talisman.”

‘This isn’t one of the Ancient Divine Insect Race.’

‘That was the source of her regret. The Ancient Divine Insect Race… she couldn’t possibly have extracted one so easily. She wouldn’t believe it was possible to remove a true Ancient Divine Insect without being struck by lightning a few times.’

‘Of course, there was another reason she was so certain it wasn’t one of the Ancient Divine Insect Race: the Heaven and Earth Scale had stirred.’

‘Just as she used the Heaven-Stealing Day-Changing Skill to capture the strange insect, the Heaven and Earth Scale had registered a cloud of its energy: [Bad Luck. The Bad Luck of an Alien Gu, contaminated by the Divine Power of the Ancient Divine Insect Race. Weight: one jin and two taels. Tradable.]’

Alien Gu!

An Alien Gu contaminated by the Divine Power of the Ancient Divine Insect Race!

Song Ciwan’s thoughts stirred. While this wasn’t one of the Ancient Divine Insect Race, the fact that it had been contaminated by their Divine Power meant it was still connected to them.

The fact that the Five Elements Crystal Pearl, refined by the Spirit Star Race with their Secret Technique, also had a clear suppressive effect on the Abnormal Insect was undoubtedly a huge piece of good news.

Just then, General Yu spoke. “Xing Lan, may I have a look at this Abnormal Insect?”