Chapter 538: Frontline Military Situation, Transformation of the Alien Gu

Chapter 538: Chapter 501: Frontline Military Situation, Transformation of the Alien Gu

Song Ciwan didn’t refuse Yu Wenxu. She held the Alien Gu in her palm and presented it to him.

‘I wonder how this half-dead Alien Gu will react in Yu Wenxu’s hands?’

Yu Wenxu reached out, and though his movement seemed casual, True Intent flowed through his palm as he deftly plucked the insect away, much like an eagle’s beak snatching a worm.

The insect hung limply between Yu Wenxu’s three fingers. Its charred body looked withered and pathetic, and its once-menacing evil aura had completely dissipated.

Yu Wenxu squinted, examining it closely, but he couldn’t discern anything out of the ordinary.

He was purely a Military General; he neither understood Poisonous Insects nor possessed the various wondrous Magic of Cultivators.

He opened his left hand, and a Jade Box appeared in his palm out of thin air. The box opened automatically. Yu Wenxu prepared to seal the Alien Gu inside and take it back to present to the Grand General.

However, disaster struck in an instant.

Just as he held the Poisonous Insect, about to place the little thing into the Jade Box, the previously limp and half-dead creature suddenly straightened its body and raised its head high.

Then, its tiny head swelled rapidly, instantly transforming into a giant head the size of a millstone.

The giant head opened its cavernous maw, and in a flash, before anyone could react, it swallowed General Yu whole.

CLATTER!

General Yu was gone. The Jade Box fell to the ground.

The giant insect shot its body into the air, its tail whipping up a fierce gale as it tried to flee through the sky.

This all happened too fast. It looked as if the giant insect was about to escape—

No, it had already fled into midair.

Below, Deputy General Cai An roared, “Vile creature, halt!”

He reached for the saber at his waist, but before Cai An could even draw his blade, an electric net suddenly lit up the sky out of nowhere.

It was the City Defense Array of Demon Suppression City!

All cities within the Great Zhou’s borders were equipped with a City Defense Array. Smaller cities had weaker arrays, while larger cities had stronger ones. Of course, the power of this particular No-Fly Array above Demon Suppression City was on a completely different level from the arrays of ordinary cities.

Thunder crashed and lightning crackled, carrying within it a faint azure glow.

The crowd below could sense the vast and mighty conception within that azure glow. Within its light and shadows, one could almost see mountains and rivers stretching into the distance, and the silhouettes of cities turning in succession.

It was a manifestation of Great Zhou’s national fortune!

Demon Suppression City’s Defense Array was linked to the national fortune. It didn’t require deliberate control from the city’s Governor; whenever an evil creature took to the sky, this special power would activate on its own and smite the creature to cinders.

SKREEE—!

The giant insect raised its head and let out one final, piercing shriek.

The next moment, its body split apart, spraying dark green blood everywhere.

SIZZLE! SIZZLE! SIZZLE!

The insect’s blood splattered onto the white marble of the plaza, burning small, shallow pits into the ground.

General Yu’s towering figure burst out from within. Enraged, he turned and roared, “You wretched thing! I will see to it you die without a burial place!”

As he spoke, he swept his palm, and the resulting gust of wind obliterated the scattered remnants of the insect’s body into dust.

The dust fell from the air, then quickly scattered on the wind.

It was just as General Yu had said: the giant insect died without a burial place.

But even though the giant insect was dead, the scene had become strangely awkward.

General Yu had lost a great deal of face. Fortunately, no one dared to laugh at him at that moment. His Deputy General, Cai An, hurried forward and asked with concern, “General, are you… all right?”

It would have been better if he hadn’t asked. The question only made Yu Wenxu even more embarrassed.

The embarrassed Yu Wenxu gently stroked his chin. Ignoring Cai An, he walked over to Song Ciwan and asked, as if casually, “Xing Lan, this Alien Gu is quite formidable. What do you think? Is there any possibility of capturing the other Poisonous Insects on the field alive?”

Song Ciwan hadn’t expected the Alien Gu to be capable of such an explosive final act on the brink of death. She felt a slight sense of regret.

‘Actually, she had wanted to crush the Alien Gu and collect it in the Heaven and Earth Scale to see what she could trade it for.’

However, although she hadn’t managed to get her hands on the Alien Gu, she had collected a ball of “qi” from Yu Wenxu: [Human Desires: The vexation, embarrassment, and curiosity of a Celestial Pride Level Martial Artist in the Innate Acupoint Fusion Realm. Weight: Two catties and three taels. Tradeable.]

Innate Acupoint Fusion was the same as Innate Fourth Transformation, equivalent to the Divine Refining Stage for Cultivators.

Song Ciwan had obtained “qi” of this level before. Zhang Ping, whom she had met in the Giant Spirit Realm, was a dual cultivator of the Refining Spirit and Nascent Soul stages.

But Yu Wenxu was Celestial Pride Level! In his youth, General Yu had once been on the Celestial Pride List!

Song Ciwan was very curious to see what the “qi” from a Celestial Pride Level expert of the Innate Acupoint Fusion Realm would fetch.

Song Ciwan replied to Yu Wenxu, “The other cultivators’ injuries are more severe. It’s not certain that their Poisonous Insects can be extracted intact. As for whether they can be captured alive after extraction, I cannot be sure.”

As she spoke, she performed the Ganlin Healing Skill, flicking her finger to send a shower of gentle, healing rain onto the former Centipede Leg Cultivator.

Although the “Centipede Leg Cultivator’s” legs no longer resembled a centipede’s, his life force had plummeted the instant the Poisonous Insect died. Indeed, even though the Alien Gu had been separated from him, its death still had an impact on him.

Song Ciwan used the Ganlin Healing Skill at the perfect moment. Droplets of life-giving Spiritual Light fell like a timely rain in the desert, forcefully dragging the “Centipede Leg Cultivator’s” weakened aura back from the brink of collapse!

In just a few moments, the “Centipede Leg Cultivator’s” near-death aura began to skyrocket. Visible to the naked eye, under the rain of life-giving light, flesh and muscle regenerated on his withered, charred legs, and his skin regained its elasticity.

A few breaths later, the rain of light stopped. The “Centipede Leg Cultivator’s” charred legs were completely restored. He shot up from the ground and shouted as if waking from a dream, “I’m back!”