Two Realms Shuttle Gate: Don't Call Me a Demon!

Chapter 59: Chapter 57: Body Worm Focusing Method

“Let’s see what good stuff there is.”

Su Jie bent down, happily collecting the loot.

A roughly thirty-centimeter-tall black Nine-layered Pagoda.

This was a Low Grade Middle Level Magical Artifact that continuously released invisible blades with just the supply of Spiritual Energy, easily worth hundreds of Blood Marrow Crystals.

“Void Light Nine-Blade Tower, nice name, it’s my treasure now.”

Su Jie saw the seal script engraved at the base of the tower, which also bore the stamp of an Artifact Refiner, serving as a kind of advertisement.

Beyond this artifact, Su Jie found a palm-sized blue pouch, which was an Insect Control Bag.

An Insect Control Bag is a special branch of a Storage Bag; it has a unique space inside where poisonous insects can survive.

It cannot store items like a Storage Bag, its sole function is to carry poisonous insects and toxins. Once inside, the insects enter a semi-hibernation state where their metabolism nearly halts.

Since Gu Masters primarily rely on poisonous insects for combat, and often can carry only a limited amount, especially in the case of a large quantity of tiny insects, the Insect Control Bag is essential for transportation.

Like the swarm of mosquitoes and flies that Feng Wenjin had summoned, they would normally be kept in an Insect Control Bag and summoned for battle, because it would be impossible for an individual to carry such a large swarm otherwise.

Su Jie checked it and quickly covered it with his own blood, then used Spiritual Energy to refine away the prohibitions left by Feng Wenjin. He found that this Beast Control Bag had about several dozen cubic meters of space, quite substantial. It would cost at least two to three hundred Blood Marrow Crystals on the Black Market.

“This guy is loaded.”

Su Jie clicked his tongue twice, he hadn’t been willing to buy an Insect Control Bag himself, but this unexpected find had saved him an expense.

Next to the Storage Bag was another small bag, a three cubic meter mini Storage Bag.

Within the Storage Bag, there were a good number of Blood Marrow Crystals, as well as some Low Grade Talismans and elixirs, along with many auxiliary Cultivation Materials. Their value also added up to hundreds of Blood Marrow Crystals.

Adding up the previous findings, Feng Wenjin had provided Su Jie with loot worth over a thousand Blood Marrow Crystals.

“Eh, what’s this?”

As Su Jie was digging through the Storage Bag, his gaze suddenly sharpened when he saw three pale golden Scriptures.

The Scriptures were made from the same material as the Insect Control Technique he had previously obtained, which made Su Jie’s heart leap with joy.

He concentrated and saw that each of the three books had a line written in seal script on the cover.

“Gu Master’s Secret – Insect Control Technique”

“Gu Master’s Secret – Body Worm Focusing Method”

“Gu Master’s Secret – Human Worm Refining Technique”

Besides the Insect Control Technique that Su Jie had previously acquired, the other two Scriptures were unknown to him.

Based on the material, these three Scriptures should be texts only available to inner disciples for cultivation, considered an advanced version of the Hundred Poison Refining Insect Scripture.

Su Jie opened the Scriptures and read carefully. n/ô/vel/b//jn dot c//om

He discovered that the Body Worm Focusing Method was the technique Feng Wenjin had used to command the mosquito and fly Insect Cloud.

This method, in essence, was about controlling swarms of insects.

The specific process involved finding a type of insect that lived in a community, then continuously bathing them in Spiritual Power to gradually blend one’s own essence with the swarm’s.

Many insect communities have social structures with strict hierarchies and clear divisions of labor.

For example, in ant colonies, the queen ant is the core of the entire colony, and bee swarms have a queen bee.

The Body Worm Focusing Method is about disguising oneself as the leader of an insect swarm and thereby controlling the entire swarm.

Otherwise, like regular Gu Masters that connect through heart and blood, facing tens of thousands of insects, trying to control each one individually would be toilsome to the point of death!

“It’s actually a magic skill for controlling insect swarms.”

As Su Jie read more about the Body Worm Focusing Method, the more he liked it, feeling very tempted.

Then, Su Jie couldn’t wait to flip through the last scripture, the Human Worm Refining Technique.

However, the more Su Jie read the scripture, the more somber his expression became.

Because the cultivation method recorded in this scripture was too horrifying to contemplate.

The so-called Human Worm Refining Technique involved using living humans for cultivation feeding insects with humans, merging humans with insects, and finally transforming oneself into a human-like poisonous insect.

The whole process was incredibly bloody and terrifying. Even though the scripture stated that once mastered, this technique was mighty, Su Jie had no intention of practicing it.

“I’m afraid those Elders bought so many living people from the Black Market precisely to cultivate this kind of magic skill.”

Su Jie murmured to himself, relegating the Human Worm Refining Technique to an untouched shelf, unable to overcome the psychological barrier it presented.

After acquiring the three scriptures, Su Jie found no other spoils that caught his eye.

Looking around, the thousand-hand centipede had already cleaned up all the scattered insect corpses on the battlefield, its insect armor becoming even more lustrously shining.

Cleaning up some of the traces at the scene, Su Jie collected all the corpses and burned them thoroughly, destroying the evidence, leaving no bodies behind for identification.

An inner disciple was different from an Outer Disciple, whose status was expendable killing an Inner Sect disciple would definitely lead to an investigation by their respective Elders, and Su Jie certainly didn’t want to provoke an Elder at this time.

After making sure he left no personal information behind, Su Jie put away the Void Light Nine-Blade Tower, called back the thousand-hand centipede, and swiftly left the area.

……….

Two days later!

On the periphery of Insect Valley, in a desolate mountain cliff valley, thumb-sized insects with facial features akin to humans lay on rocks and trees. The noise created when they fluttered their wings sounded like the wind blowing through a sea of trees, and their number was astonishingly large.

This was the territory of the human-faced moth, and the human-faced moths living here would devour any enemy bold enough to intrude and disturb them.

On a cliff within the terrain of the human-faced moths, a figure stood.

It was Su Jie, who had just learned the Body Worm Focusing Method and wanted to test his newly acquired skills.

Facing the swarm of insects at the bottom of the cliff, Su Jie took a deep breath and took out a small bottle from his Storage Bag, filled with shimmering red blood.

The human-faced moths were extremely sensitive to blood. As soon as Su Jie opened the bottle, the human-faced moths within several kilometers were immediately alarmed. Flapping their wings and lifting their rotund bodies quickly into the air, they formed a dark, towering sandstorm that furiously surged towards Su Jie.

Su Jie had just positioned the thousand-hand centipede to coil itself properly, with him sheltering inside it.

Then he saw the masses of human-faced moths, drawn by the scent of blood, dive-bombing from the sky, hitting the thousand-hand centipede like rain, their ferocious mouthparts tearing and spitting corrosive acid.

The thousand-hand centipede, already at Low Grade Three Refinements, should not have feared the human-faced moth, which was considered an inferior poison insect.

But as the saying goes, quantity can cause a qualitative change—ants can bite an elephant to death.

The coiled-up thousand-hand centipede was completely enveloped by the human-faced moths, resembling an onion ring covered in breadcrumbs, with countless moths viciously biting and spitting acid, the insect shell hissing as it corroded.

If this continued, not even a Mid Grade Three Refinements could withstand it. This demonstrated the terrifying nature of the group-living human-faced moths.

Su Jie dared not delay. He decisively grew numerous pale corpse hands that reached out from between the coiled segments of the thousand-hand centipede, grabbing large numbers of human-faced moths. Without time to count them, he immediately made the thousand-hand centipede take off.

The thousand-hand centipede twisted its body, managed to swallow a few human-faced moths, then raised its head. The Bone Mask split open, and dozens of Purple Light Rays cleared a path. Its dense underside full of pale Corpse Hands crawled rapidly, breaking out of the territory of the human-faced moths.