He who is strong, let him be strong, a gentle breeze brushes the mountain ridge.
He who is横, let him be 横, the bright moon shines on the great river!
The Gu Master's golden Gu worm armor was indeed impervious to blades and spears, and unharmed by water and fire.
But Yan Shouyi's painstakingly practiced inch-force could directly ignore these golden Gu worms, like striking a mountain from afar, applying the punch's force directly to the Gu Master's core body!
This series of punches was enough to pierce steel plates, let alone the Gu Master's already rotten body!
The Gu Master's head slumped limply to the side, and Yan Shouyi exhaled a breath of turbid air.
This guy is finally dead!
It could be imagined that once the golden Gu worms lost their leader, fleeing in all directions, all that would remain would be a corpse beaten to pulp.
Yan Shouyi took two steps back, not letting his guard down. He cautiously observed the Gu Master's body and the golden Gu worms on him.
Suddenly, the Gu Master, who had appeared limp, jolted upright!
Seeing this, Yan Shouyi's pupils constricted.
Could it be...
Was the Gu Master's body merely a disguise?
The true soul of the Gu Master was still sealed in the main hall, and what remained outside was merely a walking corpse, incapable of controlling the golden Gu worms.
It wasn't the Gu Master controlling the golden Gu worms, but the golden Gu worms controlling the Gu Master's body?!
So, all along, Yan Shouyi hadn't been fighting the Gu Master, but the layer of golden Gu worms covering him?!
Thinking of this, Yan Shouyi felt a chill. Killing a corpse was simple, but killing all the dense, impenetrable golden Gu worms before him was not so easy!
Sanyuan seemed to sense Yan Shouyi's unease and quickly landed beside him, ready to take Yan Shouyi away from the Gu Master's corpse.
However, the Gu Master, who had suddenly sat up straight, became utterly silent afterward, making no further movements.
What was going on?
Yan Shouyi and Sanyuan exchanged glances. Yan Shouyi picked up a piece of gravel from the ground and threw it at the Gu Master from a distance.
Crack!
The stone hit the Gu Master's head, knocking him to the ground again.
Then, with a "poof," the Gu Master's chest suddenly exploded!
Rotten flesh, turned into mush, gushed out from the opening!
The golden Gu worms covering the Gu Master also fell one after another, landing on the ground, kicking their legs and twitching before perishing.
What was going on now!
Yan Shouyi tiptoed and peered, only to discover a giant black Gu worm nestled within the Gu Master's chest!
The Gu worm had a hard carapace and countless tentacles, deeply embedded in the Gu Master's corpse, integrated with it.
It seemed...
It was this Gu worm controlling the Gu Master's body?
Yan Shouyi's eyes lit up; he understood.
The Gu Master, knowing his life was ending, raised a Gu with his own body before his soul was taken away.
What he raised was the current behemoth, the Black Gu Worm King.
This giant black Gu worm not only controlled the Gu Master's corpse but also continuously bred descendants over two thousand years, finally producing the current army of golden Gu worms!
And Yan Shouyi, intending to kill the Gu Master beneath the golden Gu worms with his inch-force, had inadvertently killed the Gu Worm King hidden within the Gu Master's corpse!
What injustice!
I am just a pure-hearted, powerless Gu Worm King. Trouble truly came to me while I was resting at home!
With the Gu Worm King killed by Yan Shouyi, the Gu Master's corpse naturally lost its control.
And the golden Gu worms, obeying the Gu Worm King's commands, lost their leader and, confused about the meaning of their worm lives, committed suicide one after another, following the path of the Gu Worm King.
Only now did disgusting blue blood flow from the Gu Worm King's body.
Seeing this, Yan Shouyi finally breathed a sigh of relief:
"At least I dealt with this fellow."
Sanyuan also chirped excitedly.
"I know, I know, you played a great part!" Yan Shouyi patted Sanyuan's head.
This Gu Master was a master from over two thousand years ago. When Yan Shouyi fought him, he was at a disadvantage in every way, even his Heavenly Fiend Corpse Puppet body became useless.
If it weren't for Sanyuan desperately helping Yan Shouyi escape earlier, and then guiding him to avoid arrows, he wouldn't have had the chance to strike the Gu Worm King with his penetrating force later.
Sanyuan also benefited from misfortune. It abandoned its original body and acquired a golden body cast in gold, its capabilities improved in all aspects, and it was now overjoyed.
"We've only dealt with one of these four disciples of folk sects."
Yan Shouyi put the key fragments into his satchel, feeling worried about Lin Zitong.
The Gu Master, whom he initially thought would be the easiest to deal with, had put him in grave danger. The Illusionist that Lin Zitong encountered was likely equally formidable.
"Sanyuan, let's go help that brat first!"
Yan Shouyi made his decision, intending to not pursue efficiency but to proceed steadily.
First, help Lin Zitong kill the Illusionist, and then join forces with her to deal with the remaining Corpse Relocators and Paper Figures.
So, Yan Shouyi climbed onto Sanyuan's back. Sanyuan flapped its wings and soared high, the man and the bird flying over the prosperous ancient-style buildings of the inner city towards the east.
...
At this very moment.
Inside the small hut.
Hu Hai, unable to speak or hear, could only observe these "commoners" from two thousand years later with his eyes.
At this moment, the unconscious experts, under the rescue of Wang Sihui and the team, slowly woke up.
The thirteen experts stared blankly at the ceiling, then sat up instantly, their faces filled with fear:
"There are zombies! There are zombies!"
Wang Sihui and the team quickly restrained the experts, fearing they would escape the house and enter the ghost's den again.
Liang Yinqiu also said, "Everyone, please calm down!"
The experts saw Liang Yinqiu and quickly calmed down: "Professor Liang, why are you here... Where are we?"
"You lost contact in the imperial tomb, so I followed the rescue team down to save you. We are now in the inner city of the imperial tomb," Liang Yinqiu explained.
The experts breathed a sigh of relief, then remembered the scene they saw before fainting.
They were all staunch materialists, so they all showed self-mocking smiles, shaking their heads and saying,
"We saw zombies before we fainted, but now that I think about it, it must have been an illusion, ha! How can there be zombies in this world!"
"Uh..."
Xia Qi awkwardly raised his hand and said, "Professor, there really are zombies in the imperial tomb."
Not only zombies, but also evil spirits, Gu worms, and moving paper figures!
However, the experts didn't believe him, seriously lecturing, "Xia Qi, you're a postgraduate student, and also Professor Liang's student. How can you still believe in those phantoms and monsters! There are no ghosts in this world at all!"
"No ghosts?"
Taohua Ying, floating in mid-air, was stunned and pointed at herself, asking, "Then what am I?"