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Chapter 548 Luo Ziqin

Upon hearing Chang Li's name, Lan Ying's eyes suddenly became complex, filled with both fear and hatred. "So you came here for him! He's in the Holy Temple, the real Holy Temple. I can take you there." But what she didn't say was that the Holy Temple was Chang Li's territory, and he had activated its barrier when he hid inside, preventing anyone from entering. If Qing Sang and the others truly had the ability to break the barrier, she wanted to see them both severely injured.

Qing Sang didn't miss the madness and scheming in her eyes. It was clear that she hated them and Chang Li to the extreme. She was cooperating like this because she wanted to see the two sides fight. She would be happy to see either side die.

"No need." Qing Sang shook her head, and the red leaves formed chains, binding her so tightly that she could not move. Song Tanxi understood and tacitly released the Dream Flower to extract her memories.

Lan Ying glared angrily as she watched the branches of the Dream Ephemeral Flower reach into her head. Her eyes gradually shifted from terror to pain and rage. Having her memories forcibly extracted was no less than being slowly tortured to death.

Thinking of the disgusting blood-exchange formation in the secret realm, the disciples who were sacrificed, and the disciples from various sects around them who were controlled by Gu worms and captured, Qing Sang didn't want to waste words with such a heinous and insane person. Asking her that question was just to give her a glimmer of hope, and then crush that hope, so that she could also feel the pain and despair of those people being drained of their blood bit by bit.

The woman's agonizing, desperate screams and the raucous barking of dogs filled the air, the leaves rustling in the surrounding forest as if the souls of the unjustly deceased were cheering for the moment. Lan Ying's voice gradually weakened, and her eyes slowly became vacant. The Dream Ephemeral Flower withdrew its branches and then condensed into a transparent sphere of light, containing the extracted memories of Lan Ying.

The branch that had been binding Lan Ying snapped at her neck, and the spider immediately spit out more silk to wrap the spliced ​​dog into a cocoon, slowly enjoying it. The surroundings became quiet.

"Get up. If you keep playing dead, I don't mind turning you into a corpse." Qingluo suddenly said to the right.

Qing Sang and the others remained silent, showing no surprise on their faces, clearly indicating that they all knew.

The surroundings were quiet, without any sound.

Qinglu clicked her tongue impatiently and raised her hand to kill him, when the person lying on the ground suddenly stood up. It was Luo, who had always been by Lan Ying's side. He stood there, still wrapped in that black robe, and said nothing.

In fact, Qing Sang and the others had noticed him long ago. As Lan Ying's right-hand man, his appearance was hard to ignore. However, if one paid attention, they would have noticed that Luo hadn't made a move since they first met, until Lan Ying used her ultimate move to summon the puppet army, at which point he flew out along with them. But unlike the other completely controlled puppets who recklessly attacked Qing Sang and the others, he cleverly positioned himself to their right, even blocking some of their attacks. He didn't seem to be controlled by the Gu worms, but when Song Yun deciphered Lan Ying's Gu technique and drew out the Gu worms, Gu worms did indeed crawl out of his mouth. Moreover, after the Gu worms were drawn out, the puppets died along with them. Only two people were still alive: Luo and Yan Wangshan, who had been surrounded by Qing Sang and the others. And Luo's location happened to be near Yan Wangshan, making it hard not to suspect the relationship between the two.

"What's your relationship with Yan Wangshan?" Qing Sang asked directly, too lazy to waste time arguing with him.

Upon hearing the name Qing Sang mentioned, Luo suddenly raised his head, seemingly surprised that Qing Sang and the others actually knew Yan Wangshan. He looked at Yan Wangshan, who had fallen into a coma again, and said carefully, "He is my senior brother!" "Then you are Luo Ziqin, the young city lord of Ziye City? You were captured on your way back to Ziye City from Lan Suyu?" Thinking that Lan Ying called him Luo, that was Luo Ziqin's surname.

Hearing Qing Sang's detailed account, Luo Ziqin believed they truly knew Yan Wangshan, and this time he spoke with much more sincerity. "Yes, I am Luo Ziqin. I fell in love with Miss Lan at first sight and wanted to follow her, but she rejected me. Heartbroken, I wanted to return to Midnight City. While staying in Chasing Moon City, I was suddenly cursed, and when I woke up, I was here. How do you know my senior brother? Did he come here specifically to find me?"

“Yes, we met in Thousand Crane Valley. He had been tracking Lan Suyu, searching for your whereabouts. Lan Suyu told him that you might be in Blue Creek Continent, and he was probably looking for you when he was captured in Hundred Miasma Forest. I'm curious if your Midnight City has any secret techniques that can suppress Gu worms? When we encountered Yan Wangshan in the secret realm, he was the only survivor; otherwise, he wouldn't have survived until we rescued him,” Qing Sang briefly explained.

"Thank you!" Luo Ziqin bowed deeply to Qing Sang and the others, sincerely expressing his gratitude. He thanked them not only for saving his senior brother but also for removing the Gu poison from his body and killing his enemy. Therefore, he no longer concealed anything: "Our Midnight City lineage does indeed possess a unique skill called Night Owl, which we've been learning since childhood. However, it's not specifically used to counter Gu worms; rather, it's used to protect ourselves against powerful opponents. Even while unconscious, the body automatically enters this state. When we feel a threat to our lives, we can use this skill to mimic a night owl and enter a state of suspended animation. In reality, it involves concentrating all spiritual energy around the heart, wrapping it layer by layer, and isolating it from the torso. This way, the torso still appears injured, but the heart is actually intact, simultaneously deceiving the enemy. When I was captured, I was only unconscious; it was only after being brought here that I was..." "After being afflicted with the Heart-Eating Gu, I used the Night Owl to evade its control. I tried to escape, but I couldn't get out of here. Lan Ying caught me. She took a liking to my face and used the Puppet Gu to control me. I pretended to be controlled and stayed by her side, constantly looking for an opportunity to escape. When I saw my senior brother being controlled by the Heart-Bewitching Gu in the main hall, I almost exposed myself. I could only take advantage of a moment when no one was paying attention and place a spirit pearl that could restrain the Gu worms on my senior brother, and then find a chance to return to the secret realm to save him. I didn't expect that you would break through the secret realm first. Thank you!" At the end, Luo Ziqin bowed to them again to express his gratitude, because he actually had no confidence at all that he could save his senior brother, and was even prepared to die. He never expected that things would turn out this way.

Qing Sang nodded: "Let's talk about Lan Ying!"

"I don't know much either. She usually goes to important occasions alone, without me. I only know that she and the Grand Elder seem to be grandfather and granddaughter, but they are actually wary of each other. Lan Ying has no blood relation to the Grand Elder. Once, after she came back from going out, she suddenly went mad. I heard some things, it seems that the Grand Elder imprisoned the direct descendants of the Gu lineage, and the person whose bloodline was closest to the pure bloodline born from a branch lineage. However, when she was young, she was controlled by the Grand Elder and pretended to be his granddaughter, until the highest ruler of the Gu lineage, the one you mentioned, left the Gu lineage with people, and then she was pushed out to be the Holy Maiden. The three elders joined forces to create this secret realm, wanting to control the Gu lineage. But they didn't expect Chang Li..." Suddenly, he returned, bringing with him the Innate Gu Body. The First Elder and Third Elder conspired to make the Second Elder a scapegoat and slaughtered the disciples of the Second Elder's lineage. After that, they dared not open the secret realm again, until one day Chang Li left again, without taking the Innate Gu Body with him. The two elders then began to act again, secretly inscribing magic arrays within the secret realm. Chang Li returned quickly, but was severely injured. The temple's defenses were lax, and they launched a surprise attack. Although their feint attack didn't succeed against Chang Li, they stole the Innate Gu Body. Moreover, Chang Li directly sealed off the temple and began his seclusion, allowing them to successfully begin their purebred modification. The Third Elder was severely injured and soon passed away, leaving only the First Elder.

Luo Ziqin had basically told Qing Sang everything she wanted to know. Remembering what she had seen in the Hundred Malaria Forest, she couldn't help but ask curiously, "If that's the case, why did Lan Ying kill the disciples of the Third Elder's lineage in the Hundred Malaria Forest?"

“Because she hates everyone in the Gu lineage. She not only killed the disciples of the Third Elder, but also the disciples of the First Elder. Many of the disciples sent in as embryos for modification were from the First Elder's lineage. She's a madwoman!” Luo Ziqin spoke with hatred in his eyes, pointing to the pieced-together dog wrapped in a cocoon by spiders. “That dog was her favorite pet. One day, she went mad and killed it. After killing it, she regretted it and spent a lot of effort using Gu magic to revive it. But she kept experimenting on it, feeding it many Gu worms. It died and came back to life, eventually being pieced together into this monster. She used the wild animals in the forest for practice, turning them into half-dead, pieced-together monsters.”

As soon as he finished speaking, the spider unwound the silkworm pupa, revealing it to be empty, and its body had grown larger. It spun its silk again, sticking to Lan Ying's corpse on the ground and pulling it to its mouth, then gently waving it towards Song Yunting's antennae. Song Yunting thought for a moment, then nodded. The blood of a near-pureblood species was highly beneficial to Gu worms. Receiving confirmation, the spider quickly spun its silk again, wrapping Lan Ying's corpse inside.

Meng Tanhua had already handed over the extracted memories of Lan Ying to Qing Sang, but the memories of a person's entire life were too complex, and she had no interest in looking at them in detail. So, while listening to Luo Ziqin, she extracted the parts of Lan Ying's memories related to Chang Li and the Holy Temple. At the same time, she also had Meng Tanhua extract the parts of Lan Ying's memories related to Gu techniques and the inheritance of Gu lineage and give them to Song Yunting.

"Let's go to the temple." She had already spotted the temple and couldn't wait to get things ready for Changli.

The others followed closely behind. Spider hoisted the Blue Cherry pupa onto its back and carried its own provisions as well. Suddenly, flames erupted behind them, turning the bodies of the tragically deceased Gu Clan disciples and cultivators to ashes, a return to dust.