The only way

Chapter 896: The Art of Controlling Gu

As the dawn broke, the battle in Jumang City came to a temporary end.

What remains is a series of post-war trivialities.

The demon army was completely annihilated, and no prisoners survived.

The monks from the Twelve Linked Docks cleaned up the battlefield together with the monks from Jumang City, because there were also monks from the Twelve Linked Docks who died on the battlefield.

The floating warships kept traveling back and forth between the demon army’s base and Juming City, transporting back batches of wounded soldiers.

The aftermath of the battlefield was led by the Jindan cultivators present. Lingchu and Luomei Zhenjun, two Yuanying cultivators, one returned to Jumang City to take charge, while the other stayed in the spirit boat in the Twelve Linked Docks to take charge of the battlefield.

When Ling Chu returned to Jumang City, he reported the news of the great victory to the sect, and at the same time met with Master Nan Gu who came to report the situation.

"In addition to the monks who were rescued, Master Qiu and others who went out for inspection also included two humans from the Western Continent."

When Master Nan Gu came, his main report was about Ding Xiangxue and Chen Liushi who were rescued.

As well as those people from the Western Continent who were trapped in the underground prison in the demon army’s base and were not affected by the war.

The people from Western Land in the dungeon have not been brought back to Jumang City for the time being and are still left there. The lessons learned from the past have made the monks everywhere wary of these people from Western Land.

As for Ding Xiangxue and Chen Liushi, firstly, they had been investigated several times and were under restrictions, so even if they self-destructed it would not cause any impact; secondly, there were only two people, so they were still within the controllable range.

In addition, Master Nan Gu also wanted to understand the reason why the human race in Western Land self-destructed, and these two people were an opportunity.

After listening to the report from Master Nan Gu, Ling Chu looked a little uncertain.

If the situation of the Western Land people's self-destruction cannot be resolved, these Western Land people will become a troublesome existence.

She did not want to kill innocent people, but it was not easy for her to settle these people from the Western Land.

"Where are those two people now?" Ling Chu asked. Maybe the way to break the impasse may have to be found from these two people.

Nan Gu Zhenren quickly replied, "Imprisoned in the stone prison first."

The Stone Prison is a prison specially built in Jumang City. It has many formations inside and is specifically used to imprison monks or captured demons.

Since its establishment, it has imprisoned several ignorant monks, as well as the domineering monks from Lei Fengdao and the Lou family.

As for demon captives, there has never been one before, and this is also the first time for the human race in Western Land.

But with the formation guarding it, even if something unexpected happens, it will not affect other people.

"I'll go and have a look."

Ling Chu’s decision was also the purpose of Master Nan Gu’s visit.

There are only two Nascent Soul cultivators in the city. Yunyou is a casual cultivator and is elusive. Apart from emergency contact information, it is difficult for Nan Gu Zhenren to find his whereabouts on a normal day.

If one wants to examine the situation of the two Western Land humans more carefully, one can only rely on Lingchu, the Nascent Soul cultivator.

Stone prison.

Chen Liushi sat in a corner with his legs folded up. He looked around at the relatively clean environment and said with a smile, "This place is much cleaner than the cages of the demons."

He wondered if he would be suspected when he came to East Land since he was from West Land, but he didn't expect that after going around in circles, he ended up in jail after arriving in East Land.

However, Chen Liushi recalled the scene of Jumang City that he saw before he was escorted to the stone prison.

The streets were clean and wide, and people were all walking on the streets. All of them were in high spirits, and the expressions on their faces were something he had never seen before in the West Continent...

  Maybe that's...freedom?

Chen Liushi pulled his pants which were so short that they revealed his thin ankles. His expression became depressed, and the longing in his eyes could not be suppressed.

Ding Xiangxue sat next to Chen Liushi and patted his shoulder as a silent comfort.

She also thought of the scene she saw when she entered the city. It turned out that the human race could still have such a lifestyle, without the slavery of the demons, without bent backs, and without cowardly expressions...

Such a scene was something Ding Xiangxue could not have imagined before. Seeing such a human city, and those cultivators who easily killed the demons.

Even though she was treated as a prisoner, Ding Xiangxue did not feel too angry.

She just thought, it would be great if the human race in the West Land could live like the human race in the East Land.

Be able to laugh freely, walk with your head held high, and straighten your spine.

How nice it would be if that were the case...

In the silent stone prison, the two people from the Western Continent sat in silence.

While the two were unaware, two figures appeared in the stone prison, one in front and one behind.

As soon as Ling Chu appeared, his eyes fell on Ding Xiangxue's face. His eyebrows moved slightly, and long-lost memories emerged in his mind.

is her?

The little girl from Xilu who asked her for a name, her eyes full of perseverance.

His spiritual sense passed by, and a familiar spiritual power fluctuation came from the purse around Ding Xiangxue's neck.

Ling Chu's expression moved slightly. It seemed that it was the lilac flower that she had created with her spiritual power.

The little girl actually still kept the flower.

Immediately afterwards, her spiritual consciousness silently passed through the bodies of Ding Xiangxue and Chen Liushi without attracting the attention of the two at all.

Chen Liushi was just an ordinary mortal boy, his body a little weak, probably because he didn't eat enough, exercised too much, and had insufficient Qi and blood. He only relied on his youth.

Ding Xiangxue is different. Although she looks a slender girl, she has plenty of energy and blood, and her body is filled with slightly violent Tiangang Disha energy.

A physical cultivator who has reached the peak of Qi Refining is only one step away from becoming a Foundation Establishment cultivator.

In a place like Western Land, it is not easy to cultivate to such a level.

Ling Chu showed a relieved smile on her face. On the way here, she had heard from Master Nan Gu that it was Ding Xiangxue who helped the monks from Donglu escape from the prison.

Under the questioning of Master Nan Gu, Ding Xiangxue also revealed a lot of information.

For example, how she sneaked into the human cave and how she avoided the poisonous insects planted by the demons.

According to Ding Xiangxue, the way the demons control the slaves in the human cave is to make them take the eggs of a kind of poisonous insect. The eggs feed on flesh and blood and coexist with the bodies they inhabit.

It doesn't have any effect on daily basis, and it can even make people who swallow the insects rarely get sick, and they can be more energetic even if they need less rest.

But these poisonous insects are controlled by the Insect Queen, who is in the hands of the demons.

The mother insect can sense the location and life or death of the larvae, which is a major means for the demons to control the slaves in the human cave.

The death of the slugs does not have much impact on the mother worm. On the contrary, the mother worm can freely control the life and death of the slugs.

Moreover, once the mother insect dies, all the daughter insects will die as well. Before the daughter insects die, they will directly detonate the qi and blood in the human body and die together with the host.

These larvae usually sleep silently inside the body and are difficult to find unless you search inch by inch of flesh and blood.

This is also the reason why other cities were affected.

Ling Chu had no intention of showing up to meet Ding Xiangxue. After investigating with his spiritual sense, he and Master Nan Gu quietly left without letting the two people in the stone prison notice anything.

After leaving the stone prison, Ling Chu shook his head at Master Nan Gu.

There were no poisonous insects in Ding Xiangxue and Chen Liushi's bodies, and no other abnormalities were found.