Chapter 147

Squish!

With just one strike, the three Heavenly Human Gu soldiers, along with that centipede, were smashed into a lump by Li Miao.

You in me, I in you, bones intertwined, flesh and blood fused.

The Diamond Gu soldier caught in the middle had all his ribs smashed, his entire upper body was only a foot wide, and the rest of his parts had all been smashed into his chest cavity.

No matter how tenacious a Gu soldier's vitality was, it could not survive such injuries. Its head was already limply tilted on its shoulder, no longer moving.

Within this mass of flesh and blood, the centipede was still twisting its body, hissing, trying to get closer to Li Miao.

And the two Gu soldiers tossed over by Li Miao also reached out their arms to lock Li Miao's joints, exerting force to twist, trying to break Li Miao's arms.

Li Miao remained unmoved, only watching their futile struggle, his hands continuously exerting force.

And so, these few things were squeezed tighter and tighter, tighter and tighter.

Creak.

Creak.

Creak.

The bones let out a mournful sound.

Snap.

The sound of internal organs rupturing.

Crack.

The spine of the Gu soldier on the right made a crisp sound, its lower body suddenly stopped moving, leaving only the upper body hanging on Li Miao's arm, still twisting continuously.

Clatter—

The abdomen of the Gu soldier on the left burst open, fresh blood spraying.

Li Miao remained expressionless, continuing to squeeze.

Until the spines of the three Gu soldiers were gripped together by his hands.

The three pale heads all lost movement, hanging limply. As the centipede twisted, they swayed back and forth on the shoulders.

Li Miao let go.

The flesh and blood that was no longer in human shape fell to the ground.

The centipede had originally been clamped by the Gu soldier's ribs; now that Li Miao had let go, those few ribs also scattered, and it finally gained its freedom.

Swish!

Without a moment's pause, the centipede sprang up from the ground, pouncing toward Li Miao's face again.

Slap!

Li Miao slapped the centipede, directly smashing it into a lump of filthy blood on the wall.

"Tsk, good thing I wore gloves in advance."

Li Miao clicked his tongue, wiped the wall twice to rub off the filth, and then turned to continue forward.

The firefly that the old man had left to guide Li Miao had long since been shaken to death by the aftermath of the battle, but fortunately, Li Miao only needed to follow the path the Gu soldiers had come from, no longer needing a guide.

And along this path, the Miao King sent out various Gu beasts, Gu soldiers, and Gu insects one after another to block Li Miao.

But, no more Heavenly Human level things appeared among them. It seemed those few Heavenly Human Gu soldiers were the Miao King's trump card.

Actually, that made sense.

A killing move is best used at two times: either the very first move upon meeting, or the final move to decide life and death.

Heavenly Human experts had not appeared in the world for a long time; for the Ming Cult and the Miao King to pull out four Heavenly Human Gu soldiers was already quite difficult. And the greatest advantage of this thing was the element of surprise, so the Miao King did not hide her cards, but sent her trump card in the first wave, attempting to achieve victory in one battle.

It was just that she still underestimated Li Miao.

Killing all the way, walking all the way, Li Miao couldn't even count how many things he had killed.

Often, as soon as a limb was revealed, Li Miao would directly strike with a Great Nine Heavens Palm, beating it into a pile of minced meat, without even having time to see its original appearance.

By now, the soles of Li Miao's boots were already soaked with blood, leaving a trail of bloody footprints on the ground.

He walked to the end of the passage.

Before him was an ancient stone door, opening to both sides, carved with various patterns, with insects being the most numerous. There were also many figures with narrative significance; Li Miao took a look, and most were content like blood sacrifices.

Li Miao had no intention of being polite and directly kicked the stone door.

Boom!!!

The stone door, which was a foot thick, collapsed with a roar, and the ground even shook.

Li Miao stepped over the stone door, stood still, and looked around.

This was an extremely spacious hall, a hundred zhang square. Smooth bluestone slabs were embedded in the stone walls, the gaps between them faintly black, emitting a faint, fishy stench.

In this hall, in the middle was a circular platform, with four ridges extending in four directions, dividing the hall into four square areas.

The area to the front left was piled with countless corpses and bones, both human and animal. Hair matted into felt, skin and flesh rotted into mud and dust. Human tendons were wrapped around human bones, dry and scorched, shining like silver. It was truly a mountain of corpses and a sea of blood, indeed fishy and foul-smelling.

To the front right was a flat area, neatly stacked with hundreds of large jars. The jars were covered with wooden boards, and a hole was opened on each board, from which a skull protruded.

The black hair had already scattered along with the rotting skin and flesh, piled on the wooden boards.

"Pupa Girl."

Li Miao frowned.

This was one of the processes for making a Pupa Girl.

Each of these hundreds of jars stored the skeleton of a young girl in her prime.

They were all Pupa Girl candidates who couldn't survive the torture of the Gu insects and died before entering the Miao King's tomb.

But the reason Li Miao frowned was not just because of these departed girls, but because these jars reminded him of Li Xiaosi.

When he rescued Li Xiaosi back then, she was also trapped in such a jar, bitten by the Gu insects inside, exactly the same as these girls. It seemed that the Great Shaman back then, when refining human Gu, had also referred to the methods of refining Pupa Girls.

Li Miao continued to look at the other two areas.

One was a huge pool, from which rustling sounds constantly came from the bottom; it should be the place where Gu insects were stored.

One was a row of narrow cages, from which countless pale arms reached out, waving wildly; they should all be Gu soldiers.

Finally, Li Miao looked at the platform in the center of the hall.

There, a woman was standing, expressionless, looking coldly at Li Miao.

Her face could be described as stunningly beautiful, her skin as clean as congealed fat, her nose like an orchid, her cheeks like peaches, her eyes like autumn water, her face containing heroic spirit. Unfortunately, the murderous intent in her eyes was too heavy, making this appearance look somewhat fierce, like a female ghost.

She wore a worn-out Miao man's outfit on her upper body, equipped with a silver crown, silver ornaments, silver necklace, shawl, necklace, and hairpins, and wore a long pleated skirt made of blue homespun cloth on her lower body, covered with twenty-four flower ribbons embroidered with patterns of flowers, birds, insects, fish, clams, frogs, dragons, and phoenixes on a red background.

She wore no shoes, her snow-white feet bare.

Clearly a woman, yet she wore men's clothes and women's ornaments, appearing neither fish nor fowl.

Most conspicuous were the countless snakes and insects wrapped around and crawling on her, all of which raised their heads at this moment, looking at Li Miao together, hissing.

"Miao King?"

Li Miao spoke.

"Lord Li."

The woman said.

"It's good that it's you."

Swish!

Her clothes fluttered, and with a flash, Li Miao had already approached the Miao King.

"One Saber"!

Now was not the time to tease Zuo Lishan; Li Miao had no mood to play along with the Miao King.

Li Miao was also feeling a bit tired of these Gu and insects.

He left the capital to see the Jianghu, but for several months in a row, he had been dealing with insects. At first, it was a bit fresh, but by now, he was really a bit tired. It just so happened that the Ming Cult was entangled with witchcraft and Gu, forcing him to deal with this stuff all day long.

The people of the Twelve Branches had already been beaten into submission by him; now the only remaining uncertain factors were the Ming Cult and this Miao King.

If he could end these things here, Li Miao would be more than happy.

The first move upon meeting, he would kill this Miao King!