#849 - Chapter 849 Gu Ren
"You guys, were you prepared in advance? How did you know the cultivators were coming?"
"Why aren't you hiding now?"
Lin Yaoyao asked a barrage of questions.
She stared at these dozens of people, discovering that their cultivation levels were low. Most were at the Qi training stage, with only two or three having just established their foundation. They seemed to be ordinary Gu Clan commoners.
"This... the chief instructed us, saying that if we wanted to live, we should get used to living underground. We had no choice..."
"Underground? Has everyone from your Gu Clan moved to live underground?"
These commoners nodded. "We work hard planting Gu for the cultivators and chiefs, providing them with cultivation resources in exchange for a meager living allowance."
"But some time ago, the chiefs were not satisfied with relying on Gu for cultivation. They actually used humans to refine Gu, causing many families to be torn apart and fall apart. Life became unbearable."
Listening to what these Gu Clan people were saying, this place was indeed almost like a living hell.
"We thought that we would be caught and refined into Gu sooner or later anyway, so we decided not to stay underground. We came out to breathe some fresh air. Kill us or torture us, it's all the same."
Hearing this, everyone nodded vigorously. "That's right, that's right. He said that the cultivation world would be destroyed by other worlds and could not protect itself, and that we would also be killed."
Hearing these words, the three of them gasped inwardly. After exchanging glances, Lin Yaoyao said, "Lead the way ahead and take me to meet your chief."
"Don't worry, the cultivation world is fine now. The alien world has long been repelled, and the cultivation world will not kill you!" Lin Yaoyao tilted her head slightly, looking towards the sky, as if looking down on everything, and announced an important matter in the tone of an emperor.
Hearing what Lin Yaoyao said, the Gu Clan people were relieved and entered the underground palace one by one. Lin Yaoyao and the others immediately followed.
After walking through a sloping, dark tunnel, they arrived at the Gu Clan's underground palace.
This underground palace seemed to have been built in a hurry. Many places were still exposed with yellow earth, and the road was crooked. There were also many Gu Clan men with bare chests repairing the road on both sides.
"You bunch of deserters, you still have the face to come back. I told you long ago that you can't survive outside, and now..."
A fierce voice came from the front. A man who was two meters tall, with a strong build, wearing a black animal skin jacket, covered in dirt, and with a face full of dust and black mud, looked like he had just fallen into a big mud pit.
The Gu Clan people walking in front immediately lowered their heads when they heard the voice, their bodies trembling slightly, obviously afraid of him for more than just a day or two.
"Call out your chief!" Lin Yaoyao shouted loudly, her willow eyebrows furrowed. The crowd on both sides dispersed.
When the black man saw that the newcomers were two pretty girls and a pretty boy, especially the one walking in front, who was really a delicate and charming little beauty, he felt a burst of itchiness in his heart.
Seeing those black eyes looking up and down, Lin Yaoyao felt disgusted and directly waved her hand. A sword energy surged out, and the black man didn't have time to shout before falling to the ground. Suddenly, bright red blood emerged from under the black robe.
The others were all frightened and fled in all directions.
Suddenly, a burst of "rumbling" sounds came from the ground ahead, as if some heavy stone was hitting the ground again and again.
The front began to blur, as if someone had released a lot of mist.
"Be careful!" Lin Yaoyao, Mu Qianqian, and Ye Wuxin immediately held their breath and mobilized the spiritual power in their bodies to protect themselves.
The fog got closer and closer. Suddenly, Gu people with hollow and lifeless eyes, and bodies blackened and necrotic, walked out of the fog, emitting a stench.
At their eyes, noses, mouths, and ears, small black worms were constantly wriggling, going in and out. One Gu person after another walked out. Lin Yaoyao and the other two retreated to avoid them. Ye Wuxin accidentally touched the hair of a Gu person on his arm.
"Ah!" Ye Wuxin cried out in agony. A puff of smoke rose from the arm that had been touched, and Ye Wuxin's arm began to turn black, spreading at an extremely fast speed.
The Gu person who had been touched seemed to have been activated. Originally, it could only walk forward mechanically, but now it could identify Ye Wuxin's position and chased after him.
Seeing this, Lin Yaoyao quickly gathered the spiritual power in her body, took out her spiritual sword, and slashed fiercely, chopping off the Gu person who was chasing over. Then, she quickly retracted her palm, and a thick barrier fell between the three of them and these Gu people.
She opened her palm, grabbing with her five fingers, and surging spiritual power gathered in her palm.
Then, she placed her hand above Ye Wuxin's arm, slowly wandering, forcing back the rapidly spreading Gu poison.
"Pa pa pa!" The barrier wall formed by spiritual power was constantly being hit, and the runes on it vibrated slightly. More and more Gu people poured over, and the degree of bending of the runes due to the vibration became higher and higher.
