Chapter 120: Exposed

Preparing Mu Hun Ye not only consumes time but also drains physical strength.

Without Big Brother's help, Su Jin could not have managed it at all.

With her tiny arms and legs, she would have collapsed halfway through, utterly exhausted.

Although she claims to have reached the second layer of Body Tempering, she is still small; even having broken through to the second layer of Body Tempering, her small body still has a huge gap compared to an adult at the second layer of Body Tempering.

Adults have far greater endurance and physical strength than she does.

After finishing the Mu Hun Ye, Su Jin rested for two hours before struggling to climb out of bed, intending to continue preparing Bing Chen Lu.

Su Jian could not bear to let her do any more work, so this time Su Jin only gave orders while Su Jian completed everything else.

It left Su Jian sweating profusely.

Although he has already reached the sixth layer of Qi Refining, his Body Tempering realm is merely the fifth layer, because he spent most of his time improving his Spirit Tempering Cultivation Technique; his Spirit Tempering realm is the seventh layer, the highest among his three methods.

It is also the one he has invested the most effort into.

Su Jian secretly plans to raise all three methods to the ninth layer before Foundation Establishment, so as not to become a crippled Foundation Establishment in the future.

His combat power would be limited!

Although a crippled Foundation Establishment is still Foundation Establishment, he still has a chance to strive a bit more, doesn't he?

They placed the spirit liquid and spirit dew into the cellar to wait for sedimentation.

Su Jin was carried back to her own room by her elder brother; she didn't even eat dinner and fell straight asleep.

Early the next morning, the first thing Su Jin did upon waking was feed a small piece of Wu Jin to Busatan. Busatan released Jin Guang that directly enveloped the small piece of Wu Jin, and then, under Su Jin's gaze, the Wu Jin gradually disappeared.

Once the Wu Jin had completely vanished, the Jin Guang that had enveloped it seemed even more brilliant.

The Jin Guang shot back into Busatan's body.

Did Busatan seem overfed this time?

Previously, she had only fed Busatan Hong Zhan Tie.

Hong Zhan Tie ore is abundant near Xiancheng, plentiful, filling, and cheap.

Busatan ate it quite happily.

It never complained about the taste or anything like that.

But Busatan had indeed saved her life. Su Jin hesitated for a moment, then decided to increase her feeding of Busatan, letting it eat another delicacy: Wu Jin. Wu Jin is far more valuable than Hong Zhan Tie.

Moreover, its price is three times that of Hong Zhan Tie.

This time, however, Su Jin did not hesitate, letting it eat more of the fine ores.

Once it grows up in the future, it can protect itself.

Yesterday, Su Jin suddenly asked for leave and did not come. The students of the Wood Class were all alarmed. Everyone was guessing why Su Jin had not come.

So as soon as Su Jin sat in her seat today, Su Wuji, Su Cheng, and several others surrounded her.

"Su Jin, why did you ask for leave yesterday?" Su Wuji asked in shock. "Did something happen in your family?"

"It wasn't my family that had an incident; it was me," Su Jin quickly explained.

"What? What happened to you? Did you suffer qi deviation due to impatience in cultivation?" Su Wuji's face immediately changed color, and he asked with concern.

"No, no. On my way to school, I encountered something strange and dangerous. I found a little boy in the roadside grass who could not move or speak. Thinking he needed help, I approached him to ask.

As soon as I got close to that boy, a fleshy hole suddenly split open on his forehead, and a beam of Bai Guang jumped out, rushing straight toward the center of my forehead.

Fortunately, I had brought a protective treasure given by Grandpa; it directly slew that beam of Bai Guang. After the Bai Guang vanished, it turned out to be a white caterpillar that fell to the ground.

And ever since that beam of Bai Guang emerged from the boy's forehead, the boy was completely dead.

As for me, I almost had that strange thing drill into my brain.

It was just a hair's breadth away. I was terrified.

I have never felt so close to death before."

Su Wuji and the others were all stunned into silence.

"Is our clan territory really this dangerous?" Su Cheng nearly lost his composure and cried out in shock.

"Look, I even brought my protective headgear," Su Jin said, pointing to her forehead.

"A white caterpillar that can even disguise itself as a living person to lure you over?" Su Wuji pondered thoughtfully.

"I don't know whether that boy was dead or alive at the time. Whether the caterpillar directly ate the person's brain or parasitized within it, in any case, the Patrol Office took away both the boy's corpse and that white caterpillar," Su Jin said.

"It's over; I fear another large-scale search will be launched in our clan territory." Just as he finished speaking, Liu Shi walked in, accompanied by two other male instructors.

"A very terrifying type of caterpillar has appeared in the clan territory. It can silently attack living people, eat their brains, and control the living to continue moving while seeking the next target to devour.

To eliminate hidden dangers, the family has ordered the clan school to conduct inspections on all students and instructors to prevent any changes.

The instructors in the clan school have already been inspected; now we will inspect you.

Everyone, return to your seats and do not move.

I will use a magical artifact to inspect each of you one by one.

Students wearing forehead protective artifacts, please remove your protective artifacts first. Wearing artifacts will affect the inspection results."

In fact, only Su Jin was wearing a forehead protective artifact.

Su Jin, looking utterly awkward, removed the artifact.

Liu Shi glanced at her with a smile, then, starting from their row, used a palm-sized small brass mirror to shine on the brow centers of Su Jin and the others one by one.

If no trace of a caterpillar was found, he moved on to inspect the next person.

Only after the entire inspection showed no problems did the other two male instructors leave.

Liu Shi continued the lesson.

While Su Jin and the others obediently attended class, the entire Su clan territory underwent a sudden and dramatic shift.

Countless members of the Patrol Office patrol teams, along with elite personnel drawn from the family, solemnly began a new large-scale search.

It had only been a few days since the last search, and now this again.

And it was another new kind of bug.

Isn't it just terrifying?

Even home isn't safe anymore?

The clansmen of the Su family lands waited in anxious unease for the great search.

Because so many hands had been pulled away, this great search only took half a day, and directly turned up four people parasitized by the bugs.

All of them were people who had come in from the outer city districts and the streets outside the city to work or visit relatives!

Only then did the Su family patriarch breathe a slight sigh of relief.

That no large-scale parasitization had occurred was truly a stroke of heaven-sent luck.

This kind of bug parasitization was too well-hidden, very hard to detect.

If given time to breed and conceal itself, it would surely be able to produce a great number of parasitized people.

That little girl Su Jin is weak as anything.

She's still young, so probably the bug also thought she was tastier, easier to take a bite of.

So it plotted against her.

But the bug miscalculated Su Jin's grandfather's protection of her.

A single powerful protective magic artifact directly slashed that bug to death.

And so the whole affair came to light.