Chapter 104: The final moment

After Gao Ning returned to the insect room, he first nervously stared at the female insect before saying to me, “That Boqie must have a way to expel the snake spirit without harming the eggs. At most, it will take some effort, so the eggs won’t be able to delay for long, at most twenty minutes.”

I had regained some strength and could already stand up. I smiled indifferently and then walked up to Gao Ning and said, “So, whatever you have to do, do it as quickly as possible.”

As soon as I finished speaking, the female insect next to Gao Ning and I suddenly struggled, looking very labored. This movement attracted my attention, and I carefully observed the female insect around it. I suddenly discovered that the female insect was laboriously laying eggs. The egg was a strange purple color, and at this time it had already revealed half of its appearance.

Seeing this, a trace of doubt arose in my heart. Could it be that Gao Ning wanted to be a midwife, delivering the eggs for the female worm? This idea was of course ridiculous, and I guessed that Gao Ning must have a greater purpose.

Sure enough, the struggle of the female worm caused Gao Ning to become nervous. He frowned and said to me, “My plan needs you, first because it requires the Taoist art of attracting thunder, and second, for the evolution of this female worm. I, Gao Ning, ask myself if I am not a great evil person, nor do I want to harm your life, Chen Chengyi. So before this, I also made some efforts, but from the current situation, it is not going to work. Let me be frank, I need your essence and blood.”

This mother worm is not laying eggs, it is evolving? I frowned at once! Such an evil worm, Gao Ning actually wants to let it evolve. What is Gao Ning’s purpose?

Need blood? I thought to myself, and I smiled wryly. It turns out that Gao Ning and the people of the Black Rock Miao Village have the same goal. Am I fucking the monk? Everyone wants my flesh and blood?

I frowned, and before I could say anything, a man had already walked up to me and said to Gao Ning in an unusually firm tone, “No, I absolutely disagree. Don’t you know what the essence of a person means? You originally brought Chen Chengyi here with great difficulty, and you also want to kill him?”

Facing Ling Ruxue, Gao Ning smiled wryly and said to her in a rare tone of sincerity, “I know you put a curse on me, but it doesn’t matter to me, really. And, you have to believe that I absolutely have a way to temporarily suppress this curse! Miss, I don’t care what you think, what I want to say is that my carefully planned plan for decades cannot be ruined because of this. I want Chen Chengyi’s essence, but I won’t harm his life. I only need a little bit. What do you think I just sprinkled on the bug?

As he spoke, Gao Ning bent down and picked up something from the ground. It was a fragment of the container that had been used to hold the bloody substance. The old monster had also said that it contained essence blood.

Then Gao Ning handed the fragment to Ling Ruxue and said, “As a gong seedling, you can’t not recognize this thing. Take a good look.”

Ling Ruxue frowned, sniffed the remaining liquid on the fragment carefully, then touched a little on her hand, rubbed it open, sniffed it carefully again, and then said, “It’s human essence, mixed with a little medicine unique to the Miao village, preserved essence. But so what?”

Gao Ning said, “I have carefully collected this blood over the years. I admit that I am a murderer, but in this village, killing or not killing is not a big deal. I, Gao Ning, am a selfish person. I only want to achieve my own goals, but I don’t want to be an enemy of the world, nor do I have that ambition. I killed the people who deserved to be killed. I don’t want to say more, I just want to say that I didn’t succeed in deceiving Chen Chengyi into the village, so I could only collect some substitute blood, but the effect was not so good. While talking, Gao Ning even affectionately touched the hideous head of the worm, as if to encourage it.

After doing so, he said, “The effect is not good, but it is not without effect. Therefore, I only need a little more of Chen Chengyi’s essence to completely realize what I have been planning for decades. Really, it only takes a little bit.”

At the end, Gao Ning’s eyes were already flashing with a crazy look. He stared at Ling Ruxue and almost couldn’t help but grab Ling Ruxue’s shoulders and said, “You don’t understand my plan. Although I am only for myself, I may be the great man who leads mankind into a new era. You can’t hinder this plan, okay? You can’t hinder it!”

Seeing this, I couldn’t help it. I pulled Ling Ruxue behind me and said to Gao Ning, “Okay, it’s just a little essence, I’ll give it to you, but I just want to know, why does it have to be my essence? What’s the difference?”

Gao Ning suddenly smiled and said, “Don’t you know what makes you different from others? Your powerful spiritual awareness has given you a birthmark on the back of your head. Can’t that explain the problem? Otherwise, do you think you can use the lower-body technique at such a young age? Go ask your master how many years of experience and how many pills he took before he could use the lower-body technique. Don’t compare the present with the past. There were far more natural treasures back then than there are now. Even so, your master can’t even come close to you in this regard. Do you understand?

Understand what? My brows furrowed even more tightly. My master had only mentioned that I would learn some techniques very easily, and I had verified this over the past three years. I had a very secret trump card, but what did this prove? What did I need to understand?

Gao Ning simply said to me very directly, “Your spiritual awareness is strong, which means your spirituality is strong. Your essence contains spirituality, which is becoming more and more rare in this world because people seem to be getting stupider and stupider. Many people have already been blinded by spirituality, and it has become more and more difficult to find this spiritual blood. But the evolution of this worm…”

At this point, Gao Ning’s eyes flashed with madness again, and he took out a bone knife, waved it around, and shouted at me, “Hurry up, time is running out. Let me take some of your essence blood.”

But the evolution of this worm requires spiritual blood, doesn’t it? Gao Ning didn’t finish his sentence, but I already had the answer in my heart. Now we have no choice in this situation, unless we fight to the death with Gao Ning.

Even if the three of us can win against Gao Ning in our current state, what about the group of people outside who are eyeing us? There is only one pill, and I don’t have any hope. I can’t win against all of them with just one pill.

Looking at Ruoxue and Huigen, my heart was at ease. After smiling at them, I said, “Take the blood.”

Ling Ruxue suddenly stood in front of me, shaking her head at me, while Huigen said to Gao Ning, “Can’t you take the blood from the forehead?”

Gao Ning looked at Huigen with a pitying expression and said, “You are also a very spiritual boy. Unfortunately, Taoism and Buddhism are different. The blood of Buddhists has nothing to do with the insects in that place. Haha, that place…”

What place is that? I vaguely feel that this has some connection with my master, but Gao Ning should not tell me. I gently pulled Ling Ruxue behind me and said to her, “Don’t be like this. I believe I won’t die. As long as I don’t die, I can come back again. Moreover, this is the life of three people. If you and I don’t want to die, Hui Gen’er is still young.”

Ling Ruxue moved her lips, but in the end she didn’t say anything. Instead, the little guy Hui Gen’er said very bravely, “I can also not die.”

I just laughed and touched Hui Gen’er’s round head, without saying a word.

Before taking the blood, I asked Gao Ning a question that I had always wanted to ask: “Gao Ning, how do you know so much about us? What makes you think you know? That story you told me a long time ago, was that a lie?”

When Gao Ning heard my question, a rare look of fear appeared in his eyes, but then, madness reappeared on his face. He shouted, “You don’t need to know so much. Knowing won’t do you any good. You only need to know that I’m going all in. I’m not afraid of anything, and I don’t care if I offend more gods.

I didn’t understand what Gao Ning meant, and as I was thinking about it, Gao Ning’s bone knife was already at my brow. The next moment, he began to chant a spell…

He first took the essence of my eyebrow, and as he wished, a drop of bright red essence flowed onto his bone knife. I felt a strange sensation. Bleeding is a very common feeling, but the feeling of not wanting to lose a drop of essence is like losing a piece of life.

Gao Ning carefully protected the drop of blood, and then placed it on the brow of the worm.