Chapter 175: The Origin of the Flying Corpse Silkworm

Just at this moment, with a "clatter," Lin Qingyue suddenly emerged from the ruins. She was covered in ash from head to toe, and her face was also dirty.

Everyone hurriedly gathered around with concern:

"Deputy Envoy Lin, are you alright?"

"You told us to run just now, why did you stand still yourself?"

"Exactly, we were all able to run out, there's no reason you would be buried inside?"

"It's good that you're okay, you scared us brothers to death!"

Lin Qingyue flicked the ash off her body: "Because of this."

She opened her palm, and what appeared before everyone's eyes was a gray-white insect, similar in size and shape to a silkworm. The difference was that there was a pair of transparent little wings on its back.

The insect's wings had been broken and it could not fly, and its fat body kept twisting and turning, seemingly still wanting to escape from Lin Qingyue's palm.

Everyone leaned in to look again and again.

Dami even stretched out a finger and poked the insect's fat body: "Is this a silkworm? It's soft, it looks quite cute, it doesn't look like it has any lethality."

Lin Qingyue said: "One or two are certainly not to be feared, but many are a big trouble. This thing is called a 'Flying Corpse Silkworm,' an ancient creature that grows on the snowy plateau. It loves to eat rotten meat and especially likes to parasitize the abdomen of human corpses."

Hearing this, Xie Shouzheng instantly reacted: "So, the corpses we saw in the ice cellar just now with swollen abdomens, and things wriggling inside—that thing is... is this Flying Corpse Silkworm?"

Lin Qingyue nodded: "Correct. Once this kind of insect senses danger, it will use self-detonation to perish with the intruder, and at the same time, take the opportunity to scatter the remaining unhatched eggs to achieve the purpose of continuing the species."

"I told you to run quickly just now because I was afraid you would be affected by the explosion, and if you were careless, you might even be parasitized by the eggs."

"However, this kind of insect has a characteristic. The mother insect about to give birth will parasitize a living person's body and devour their internal organs. After laying the eggs, the host is basically dead. The larvae hatched from the eggs grow up by eating the rotten corpse, grow wings, and then fly to other places."

"But this kind of insect has a fatal flaw. They love cold environments, and the eggs they lay can only hatch successfully in a cold environment."

"During the process of the larvae growing up, once the ambient temperature does not meet the standard of cold, they will die along with the host."

"It is also because of such harsh breeding requirements that this species is difficult to propagate on a large scale once it leaves the extreme cold."

And the reason Lin Qingyue did not retreat in time just now was to take advantage of the moment of the explosion to cast a Fire Array Talisman to burn them all to death.

She only kept one as evidence and brought it out to open everyone's eyes.

After hearing Lin Qingyue's explanation, and thinking of the scene of the insects wriggling and swelling in the corpses' abdomens just now, and then looking at the insect in Lin Qingyue's hand, everyone couldn't help but want to vomit.

Only Hong Yao had the strongest psychological endurance and did not have much of a reaction, turning her eyes to Feng Ying not far away:

"So, someone deliberately stole the corpses and used the cold environment of the ice cellar to raise Flying Corpse Silkworms? But what is the purpose of raising this kind of thing?"

"The purpose is extremely sinister." Lin Qingyue's face was unusually cold.

The Flying Corpse Silkworm is a low-level demon, with weak strength, and reproduction is also very difficult.

But the cocoons they spit out after adulthood can be refined into a special kind of medicinal powder called Gu Heart Powder.

Gu Heart Powder can bewitch a person's mind, causing them to gradually lose the ability to think, and eventually become a puppet.

Three thousand years ago, those cultivators with ulterior motives in the Immortal Cultivation World disguised themselves as gods in order to obtain faith and incense power.

For this reason, they carefully cultivated a group of slaves as human agents, using false merits to brainwash simple believers.

In order to make these minions more capable, the false gods not only taught them cultivation techniques but also introduced the Flying Corpse Silkworms from the snowy mountains of the Immortal Cultivation World into the mortal world.

There were once slaves who relied on this species to commit great evils and mass-produce puppets. At the peak of their power, they even built towering temple towers. Even the monarch of a country had to kneel and worship.

Seeing the chaos, Immortal Zhuohua happened to be passing by with his disciple.

He saw through this conspiracy at a glance and took action to wipe out all the Flying Corpse Silkworms, which curbed the spreading evil.

It was not until the subsequent investigation that it was discovered that the mastermind behind the scenes was actually related to an elder of a certain sect in the Immortal Cultivation World.

And Zhuohua knew the situation was not right, so he did not tell his disciple. Instead, after returning to the Immortal Cultivation World, he secretly investigated.

In the end, although he found out everything, he was falsely accused by those hypocritical cultivators because he shook the interests of the entire Immortal Cultivation World, and was subjected to death by fire, turning into ashes.

The past of a thousand years ago, although it has turned into smoke and scattered.

But back then, the tumor that the master had worked so hard to eradicate even brought about a fatal disaster.

How could Lin Qingyue allow these harmful things to reappear in the world?

The murderous intent in her eyes flashed by, but on the surface, she remained calm.

When telling about the Flying Corpse Silkworm, she only explained it in a few words. She emphasized the harm of the Flying Corpse Silkworm and did not mention the past of a thousand years ago.

"Feng Ying!"

Lin Qingyue raised her hand and grabbed into the void—

Feng Ying only felt himself being violently sucked by an invisible force, and after a dizzying spin, he rolled to Lin Qingyue's feet, and the thing stuffed in his mouth to seal it fell out.

He was shocked: "You, you, what are you doing?"

Lin Qingyue pointed at the Flying Corpse Silkworm and asked: "Is this thing raised by you?"

Feng Ying had also listened in just now and knew that this was something that ate rotten corpses, so he shook his head repeatedly: "No, how could I raise such a disgusting thing? I don't know, I don't know anything!"

Xie Shouzheng said: "The missing corpses were in your ice cellar, and this kind of insect was raised in the corpses. You say you don't know anything, who would believe that?"

Hong Yao added: "Oh right, I heard that those who come to Tianxiang Lou to eat are high officials and noble children. Could it be that the refined Gu Heart Powder is for those guests to eat?"

As soon as these words came out, the noble children who were still on Feng Ying's side just now panicked.

They had all eaten and drunk at Tianxiang Lou yesterday!

Someone started to induce vomiting on the spot, but unfortunately, the overnight food could not be vomited out.

Feng Ying was so scared that he slumped on the ground, trembling and saying: "No, no, it really wasn't me... I..."

Then he rolled his eyes and fainted from fright.

Xie Shouzheng frowned: "So timid? Doesn't look like someone who could do this kind of thing."

Lin Qingyue said coldly: "Even if he didn't do it, it has something to do with the people under him!"

Her gaze fell coldly on the manager: "From the beginning, you tried to stop us from entering the ice cellar in every possible way. Speak, who told you to do it?"

The manager knelt on the ground with a "thump" and wanted to argue, but Xie Shouzheng lashed out with a whip: "Speak!"

The manager knew he could no longer argue, so he had to confess truthfully: "It was all Madam Yan who told me to do this... I, I didn't know it would be like this..."

"Madam Yan?" Lin Qingyue sneered and slowly walked to Feng Ying's side.

Feng Ying was still in a coma, but it didn't matter. Lin Qingyue stepped on his arm, and the sound of "crack" bone fracture accompanied by Feng Ying's heart-piercing wail was exceptionally tragic. ===== CHAPTER 176 =====