CHAPTER 702: 579 DONGXUAN IMMORTAL

Shi Feiyang originally intended to follow Feng Wu in pursuit but unexpectedly encountered a "Flying Heart Gu" just as he was about to set off.

The "Flying Heart Gu" was an extremely tiny spider; smaller than the tip of a needle, it could bore into a person’s body and reach the heart through the bloodstream.

The caster could communicate with the host through it. If the host dared to betray the caster, the "Flying Heart Gu" would lay eggs in the host’s heart; numerous tiny spiders would hatch and devour it.

The "Flying Heart Gu" Shi Feiyang encountered was specially refined by Bai Guanhong for rescue purposes; it could ride the wind, dive into water, and enter the earth, displaying truly remarkable divine skills.

This "Flying Heart Gu" brought a message of a request for help to Shi Feiyang.

Previously, on the peak of Yellow Mountain, Bai Guanhong had allied with Shi Longgu to defeat the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal, and they took her back to Divine Dragon Island.

He took her to the island and used the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal as a Gu mother, exploiting her body to refine Gu worms.

The Heavenly Silkworm Immortal unsuccessfully resisted multiple times; her only hope was that her master, Dongxuan Immortal Granny, could come to rescue her soon.

Dongxuan Immortal Granny herself was a high-level practitioner at the pinnacle of cultivation. However, at this level of cultivation, one must face their future path and various tribulations.

Though her Gu refining skills were at their peak, her inner cultivation wasn’t strong; she hadn’t even achieved Earth Immortal status.

In other words, although she had lived for over a thousand years, she had not survived through the methodology of the Earth Immortal Nascent Soul. Instead, she connected her bloodline with various Gu worms and relied on them to extend her life.

Including numerous tribulations, her status only reached that of an Independent Immortal. She had endured the tribulation of a forty-nine-layered catastrophe twice, facing numerous minor and major calamities. Beyond her own potent magic power, she depended on various Gu worms to face death for her; during the last forty-nine-layered catastrophe, she barely survived by using up a million Golden Silkworm Gu.

In another two to three hundred years, she would face her third forty-nine-layered catastrophe.

This kind of tribulation was increasingly severe and ferocious each time; she truly had no assurance that she could survive the upcoming immense Heavenly Tribulation.

Two hundred years might seem like an eternity for a mortal, perhaps spanning from the rise to fall of a dynasty.

But for an immortal, it was exceedingly brief, with many tasks left undone.

Therefore, over these years, she had secluded herself in the deep mountains of the Southern Border, tirelessly researching techniques to successfully cross the tribulation, and was constantly in closed-door cultivation.

During a rare outing, she discovered from her disciple’s Lifebound Gu that her disciple had been abducted years ago.

The Heavenly Silkworm Immortal was a century-old Golden Silkworm Gu raised by her, assisting in breeding several younger generations of Gu during her early phases of cultivation, rendering considerable help.

Later, she assisted the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal in transforming into a human form and accepted her as a disciple, her sole direct disciple.

The Heavenly Silkworm immortal founded her doctrine and gathered disciples, which she neither interfered with nor cared for.

This disciple’s transformed physique and innate qualities were not the best; her future achievements were limited. Dongxuan Immortal Granny held no expectations for her, letting her do as she wished without involving herself in her affairs.

Now, aware of her disciple’s plight, Dongxuan Immortal Granny was not excessively angered. She used secret techniques to intuitively examine if there was any hope for rescue.

Upon examination, the outcome was unexpectedly pleasant!

She discovered that the one who had abducted the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal was also a transformed unique being, a Stone Silkworm!

Most importantly, her investigation revealed that Bai Guanhong’s innate qualities surpassed the Heavenly Silkworm Immortal by countless times; if she could obtain her, there might be some hope for her to overcome the future third Heavenly Tribulation.

Thus, she brought the various formidable Magical Treasures she had collected and refined over the years, stealthily traveled to Divine Dragon Island, and captured Bai Guanhong by surprise.

Bai Guanhong attacked her with various Gu worms, yet all were ineffective; whether it was the numerous Hundred Poison Golden Worm Gu or Golden Spiders, Green Worms, she casually collected them all.

In the end, Bai Guanhong was captured by her. Since his transformation into human form was actual transfiguration rather than illusionary, he was not reverted to his original form and remained as a young boy.

Dongxuan Immortal had always treated Bai Guanhong like a cherished child, lovingly pinching his tender cheek, "My dear child, do not be afraid, Granny will take good care of you."

In her presence, Bai Guanhong was completely powerless, and only then did he realize the severity of the situation.

Originally, Dongxuan Immortal had planned to transform Heavenly Silkworm Fairy and Bai Guanhong into two substitute gu, useful not only in duels but also as a gu father and gu mother, invincible in battle. And if she ultimately couldn’t survive the heavenly tribulation, she could use them to die in her place while extracting their spiritual energy to prolong her own life.

After some research, she discovered an even better method, which involved using them to breed offspring...

Under Dongxuan Immortal’s orders, the members of the Divine Dragon Sect dug eighteen layers of gu pits on the island and set up a massive gu refining formation. The couple was placed inside, scattered with gu medicine, and forced to engage with each other under the casting of spells.

After three years and six months, they finally produced a child, whom Dongxuan Immortal named Heavenly Silkworm Child.

Dongxuan Immortal once had a disciple who was also called Heavenly Silkworm Child. That child was a human from the village and had died during Shi Longgu and Bai Guanhong’s destruction of the Five Poison Sect; he was killed by Bai Guanhong’s Golden Silkworm Gu.

Now, the newly acquired gu child, named thus by Dongxuan Immortal, was indeed of the Heavenly Silkworm bloodline.

Having just been born, Dongxuan Immortal introduced various gu worms into his body, including poisonous snakes, scorpions, centipedes, spiders, and Green Worms, engaging them in combat with the child.

Ferocious from birth, the child, despite his foreign environment, captured these poisonous creatures and tore them apart with his mouth. Due to his special physique, bites from the poisonous insects didn’t kill him but caused unbearable pain, enhancing his ferocity and leading him to feed on these creatures daily.

With this more powerful Heavenly Silkworm Child, Dongxuan Immortal prepared to use him to cross her tribulation, while Heavenly Silkworm Fairy and Bai Guanhong were to be refined into Gu Kings.

Gu refining also required various materials. Dongxuan Immortal aimed to create the most powerful Gu God in the world, necessitating her to collect poisonous gu from all over the world, and hence she frequently ventured out.

She typically kept Bai Guanhong confined in the deepest gu cave, sealing him with spells and placing an evil curse on him so that if he ever left Divine Dragon Island, snakes and scorpions would emerge from within his body, consuming him from the inside out, leaving nothing but a husk!

Bai Guanhong had endured secretly for a long time, never finding an opportunity before, but this time Dongxuan Immortal was out again. He used his blood connection to have his son, Heavenly Silkworm Child, carry out Heavenly Silkworm Fairy and send out a Heart-Questioning Gu, which finally informed Shi Feiyang of his distress signal.

Shi Feiyang could not care less about Feng Wu’s situation and instead headed to Divine Dragon Island. There, Heavenly Silkworm Fairy confronted him with her son, attempting to duel him. He revealed several Purle And Blue Divine Flames, breaking all the evil skills and burning many gu to death, injuring both mother and child. He then broke the gu cave’s prohibitions and rescued Bai Guanhong.

Bai Guanhong had been transformed and reborn into human form with Shi Feiyang’s help, his body even retaining some of Shi Feiyang’s Essence Energy and Divine Blood. Seeing him felt like seeing a father; he had been severely bullied by Old Monster Dongxuan all this time, and was so aggrieved that he was nearly in tears.

When Shi Feiyang decided to take him away, he revealed the curse placed on him by Dongxuan Immortal, which prevented him from leaving Divine Dragon Island.

After a thorough examination, Shi Feiyang fed him a White Jade Lotus Seed, the poison eraser, and then stored him inside the Nine Suspicions Tripod to take with him.

Heavenly Jade Lotus could neutralize all poisons of the world; even the deadly venom of Myriad Cold Centipede, which no Earth Immortal could withstand, could be cured by the lotus root.

This lotus seed, embodying the essence of Heavenly Jade Lotus, had even better detoxifying effects and contained energy capable of killing internal gu eggs.

Shi Feiyang took him to an island, pondering how to lift the remaining curse when a tiger-headed monk suddenly attacked, aiming to steal his Nine Suspicions Tripod.

"You monk are truly vicious and cruel; I’m sitting here, haven’t provoked you, yet you come to kill me and seize my treasure!"

The tiger-headed monk, overwhelmed by a divine light issued casually by Shi Feiyang, lay prostrate, unable to move, and realizing Shi Feiyang’s mana was far superior, he kept pleading, "I was blinded by ignorance, seeing you appear young and unrecognizable as any celebrated sage from the past, and the tripod wasn’t a famous treasure either... I was momentarily blinded by foolishness, please spare my life."

The tiger-headed monk had practiced for many years but limited his activities to the East Sea and occasionally visited the South Sea, seldom going to the North Sea. He only vaguely knew of figures like the Great Ming National Master and King of All Demons, not even realizing they were the same person.

Shi Feiyang lamented, "To obtain someone’s possession, I have to devise a plan to trigger their imminent calamity early on, then help them cross it as compensation. But look at you, you see someone’s valuable item and immediately attack to steal it. You really live freely."

The tiger-headed monk took his words for sarcasm and kept kowtowing, "I ended up in your hands, which shows that good deeds are rewarded, and evil acts attract retribution. Had I not harbored greed for treasures or malice to kill, I wouldn’t have ended up like this!"

Shi Feiyang was somewhat surprised, "You’ve actually studied Buddhist Law? I thought you were just dressed as a monk."

The monk explained, "I was genuinely a monk from Tiantai Mountain in Zhejiang, and I had practiced Buddhist Dharma aimed at developing divine skills. However, after being bullied by the monks in the temple, I killed them in a fit of anger and fled. Fearing that my master would pursue me, I escaped to the sea and have been vagabonding ever since. Over fifty years ago, I even returned once, but my master had passed away, and my enemies had all died—nothing but new monks whom I didn’t recognize..."

Shi Feiyang stated, "You offended and tried to kill me to steal my treasure. I should have killed you and condemned you to reincarnation, but seeing your sincere plea, I can’t simply execute you. However, letting you go without punishment isn’t how the world works. I happen to have a perilous task to undertake; if you can complete it for me, I’ll spare your life and even heal your lost leg. Whether you survive ultimately depends on your fate!"