"This... is the Gu King?"
Sun He, standing beside him, stared at the centipede that was taller than a small hill, his face filled with shock and fear. He instinctively held his breath, afraid that the giant centipede would notice him.
The giant centipede was staring intently at Sun Zheng. It opened its maw, revealing ferocious fangs dripping with green saliva, clearly indicating potent venom!
Instant death for any ordinary person who touched it!
Sun Zheng looked at the giant centipede before him with a face full of terror, his pants already soaked.
He had lost control of his bladder.
Sun Zheng kept retreating, trying to put distance between himself and the giant centipede released by Ye Ling.
But with every step he took backward, the giant centipede moved closer, its fangs almost touching his face, filling Sun Zheng with dread!
"Mr. Kong, save me!" Sun Zheng, fighting the urge to vomit from the stench emanating from the centipede's maw, pleaded with Ye Ling, "It's going to eat me!"
Ye Ling looked at Sun Zheng, who had fallen to the ground, and chuckled, "Don't resist, it won't harm you."
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Sun Zheng instinctively relaxed, but he still dared not look directly at the Gu King before him, fearing he would be swallowed whole!
Ye Ling added, "My treasure can remove the gu poison from your body, but the process is a bit disgusting."
"Disgusting?"
Sun Zheng was slightly taken aback by Ye Ling's words.
Before he could comprehend what Ye Ling meant, the centipede opened its maw and swallowed him whole!
"Patriarch!"
Sun He, seeing Sun Zheng suddenly swallowed by Ye Ling's centipede, turned deathly pale and stood frozen, unable to believe the horrifying scene he had witnessed!
Had Sun Zheng been devoured alive by the Gu King?
Even the two experts from the Red Dust Pavilion, hidden in the corner of the room, were startled by Ye Ling's actions and immediately considered saving him.
Sun Zheng was the patriarch of the Sun family and the universally recognized Medicine King of China, his alchemy skills were superb, and with future dedicated cultivation, he could become the next Kong Xu Han!
Countless individuals across China had joined the Medicine Sect because of Sun Zheng.
By controlling Sun Zheng, the Red Dust Pavilion would gain an endless supply of new recruits to command.
Therefore, Sun Zheng could not die!
However, before the two hidden experts from the Red Dust Pavilion could act, they saw the giant centipede released by Ye Ling spit out the dying Sun Zheng!
Sun Zheng, covered in green mucus, lay on the ground, his eyes filled with terror.
Although his time inside the giant centipede was brief, it was the most terrifying experience he had ever endured!
Even though he was protected by the Gu King's mucus after being swallowed, preventing him from being corroded by venom, and his internal gu worms were dissolved by the Gu King's gastric juices...
The process was simply too disgusting; he would rather die than go through that experience again.
It was worse than death!
Ye Ling looked at Sun Zheng lying on the ground, a hint of amusement in his eyes, and said, "The poisonous gu has been removed. How do you feel now?"
Sun Zheng struggled to lift his head and tremblingly asked Ye Ling, "Mr. Kong, what kind of treatment is this? How have I never seen it before?"
This was certainly not a treatment!
To be honest, with the Gu King's pressure, a mere roar could have completely cleared the poisonous gu from Sun Zheng's body, eliminating the need to swallow him and digest the gu worms with gastric juices.
The reason Ye Ling made the Gu King swallow Sun Zheng and then spit him out was purely out of his own twisted amusement, wanting to torment Sun Zheng.
At the same time, Ye Ling also intended to plant a parasitic gu, hidden within the Gu King's abdomen, into Sun Zheng.
Sun Zheng had seen Qing Mu. If the Red Dust Pavilion investigated, Sun Zheng would become a risk of exposing Qing Mu, thus he had to be eliminated!
The parasitic gu would hide within a person's blood cells, continuously multiplying, eventually absorbing all the oxygen from the blood cells, causing them to suffocate to death.
With the parasitic gu's proliferation rate, Sun Zheng would suffocate to death shortly after the auction, and his body would be consumed by his own gu worms.
Moreover, the parasitic gu could not survive outside and would disappear completely within a very short time after consuming Sun Zheng.
In other words, once the parasitic gu was planted, Ye Ling wouldn't have to lift a finger; Sun Zheng would simply vanish.
Ye Ling naturally wouldn't tell Sun Zheng about the parasitic gu, stating matter-of-factly, "My Gu King is a king forged through the battles of myriad gu, then nurtured with my vital blood for a hundred years, a supreme treasure meticulously cultivated, rarely seen in this world. How could you have witnessed the Gu King's treatment methods?"
Hearing Ye Ling's words, Sun Zheng dared not question him. He quickly stood up, his body still covered in mucus, and respectfully bowed to Ye Ling, "Mr. Kong is correct, it is my nephew's ignorance."
"Your great kindness, Mr. Kong, this nephew will never forget!"
Catching the pungent odor emanating from Sun Zheng, Ye Ling frowned, retracted the Gu King, and urged Sun Zheng, "Enough, the poisonous gu has been removed. Hurry and change your clothes; you are too disgusting now."
"Yes, yes... I'll go right away!"
Sun Zheng nodded repeatedly, not daring to disobey Ye Ling, and quickly left the private room to change.
Sun He, still in the private room, trembled as Ye Ling's gaze fell upon him again. He quickly said to Ye Ling, "Mr. Kong, the auction is about to begin. Shall I escort you to your seat?"
Sun He was extremely uneasy, fearing that Ye Ling would summon the Gu King again and do the same to him!
He had a severe洁癖 (germophobia). If he were swallowed by that giant centipede and then spat out, he would rather die directly!
Seeing Sun He's anxious demeanor, Ye Ling merely smiled, having no intention of dealing with him, and said, "Let the auction begin as soon as possible. I've waited long enough."
"My patience is limited."
"Yes, yes... it will begin immediately! Mr. Kong, please follow me!" Sun He bowed and scraped, quickly leading Ye Ling out of the private room.
As Ye Ling exited the private room, his gaze swept over the corner of the wall, a cryptic smile flashing in his eyes.
There, a tiny hole.
Without careful observation, no one would notice that small hole, let alone the pinhole camera hidden within it!
Someone was constantly monitoring this private room!
...
Golden Wind Hotel, Monitoring Room.
Ye Yi sat in a chair in front of the monitoring screens, calmly watching Ye Ling leave the private room, her index finger tapping lightly on the table.
"That is indeed the Gu King, and it's Kong Xu Han's." Ye Yi murmured, her eyes deep.
She had never met Kong Xu Han and didn't know what he was like.
However, for some reason, she felt as if she had seen Ye Ling somewhere before. Coupled with the incident at the Sun family estate at this time, it strongly suggested that someone was destroying evidence to conceal their identity...
All these factors made her increasingly suspicious of Ye Ling's true identity!
But Ye Ling not only possessed the Elixir of Immortality but also the Gu King. Furthermore, Sun Zheng consistently believed Ye Ling to be Kong Xu Han. Even with all her suspicions, she couldn't find any evidence.
The Red Dust Pavilion needed a top-tier alchemist. She couldn't simply reject an alchemist capable of refining the Elixir of Immortality and Immortality based on mere suspicion!
If she did, the Red Dust Pavilion would not let her off the hook!
"Perhaps... I'm being overly suspicious?"