Chapter 501: Strongly Killing Ten Thousand Worms, I Eliminate Pests for the Sect

Wan Gu was overcome with shock and rage.

He quickly reacted, a swarm of tiny, reddish, granular insects flying from his sleeve. These were his Red Rust Worms, one of his preferred methods! These worms possessed a terrifying "corrosion poison" capable of eroding even the demonic essence of a Nascent Soul cultivator. They moved with lightning speed and were impervious to most attacks.

The Dragon Emperor version of the Underworld Demonic Dragon, launched by Wang Yu, slammed into the shield of Red Rust Worms. The crimson rust color spread out rapidly, like ink diffusing in water. It then exploded with a deafening roar, and the surging blast wave rapidly expanded. Wan Gu was violently flung backward, slamming into a large section of the Gu Poison Hall's rear wall, leaving spiderweb-like cracks.

A sharp pain coursed through him, leaving no time to catch his breath. He then saw a brilliant aurora swiftly approaching. In the dazzling light, a crimson blade glow struck once more; it was Wang Yu, wielding the Flesh and Blood Demonic Sword. He was unleashing his Grand Perfection Divine Ability: Blood Slaughter Heart Sword!

Under this relentless onslaught, Wan Gu's mind trembled. Dark, ghostly mist surged from his orifices, and although it was an illusory nether-mist, it clearly took the form of ants. These were Ghost Ants! These Gu worms specialized in defending against spiritual and mental attacks. They were highly targeted and could even invade a target's Mud-Pill Palace, damaging their soul. Both their offensive and defensive capabilities were top-tier. Ranked thirty-third among ancient rare insects, they were exceedingly rare.

The Blood Slaughter Heart Sword's formidable mental attack, which was typically hard to defend against, met its match for the first time, demonstrating Wan Gu's considerable skill.

With his attacks continuously obstructed, Wang Yu's right hand curved like a bow, then he unleashed a powerful, arcing punch. His fierce silver-blood divine power compressed the force field, forming a sharp, rapidly rotating invisible drill. With a wet thud, it pierced directly through the Red Rust Worm shield and the Ghost Ant mist, striking Wan Gu's side. His eyes bulged as his midsection took a heavy blow. His entire body contorted, yet the injury was far from fatal.

Wan Gu suddenly let out a sinister laugh. "You lunatic, do you really think I've lived all these years in vain? Those useless fools couldn't defeat you, but that doesn't mean I'm a soft persimmon you can just squeeze!"

Wang Yu frowned, his form shifting into a blur of light as he instantly moved behind Wan Gu. A poisonous scorpion tail abruptly shot out from the spot where he had just stood. Had he not detected it in advance, it would have impaled him. Such an insidious attack target revealed Wan Gu's preferred combat style. He specialized in underhanded tactics!

His counterattack foiled, just as Wang Yu prepared to strike his head, the swarm of Red Rust Worms burst apart, spreading out like waves in a river. This directly pushed Wang Yu away.

The battle was trending towards a stalemate, and the Nascent Soul clash on Gu Poison Peak had already attracted the attention of the Rebel Spirit Blood Sect's powerful experts. At the very least, the commander of the Blood God Guard was sure to investigate. At that point, even if the Grand Commander wished to assist him, he wouldn't openly show favoritism in plain sight. Therefore, his time to assassinate Wan Gu was, in fact, very limited.

Since brute physical strength alone couldn't achieve an instant kill, he would unleash his full power! If Red Rust Worms could corrode magical energy, then he would unleash his Yellow Springs divine abilities and see which was superior in corrosive power: Gu Dao or Yellow Springs Dao.

Wang Yu, who had been pushed back by the Red Rust Worm wave, clapped his hands together. The void suddenly replicated the same phenomenon: two turbid-yellow handprints, formed from demonic essence imbued with extreme cold, powerfully slammed towards the figure in the middle.

Wan Gu's expression instantly changed. "Yellow Springs Intent? How could you comprehend such a thing... This is impossible!" For Nascent Soul cultivators, comprehending a single Intent was typically sufficient. While there were indeed prodigies who grasped a second or even a third Intent, it was incredibly difficult to cultivate all of them to the Grand Perfection realm. Different Intents were clearly vastly different to comprehend. This inherent conflict meant that unless one temporarily set aside another Intent, the comprehensions would clash and merge. Furthermore, Wang Yu's Yellow Springs Intent had already achieved minor accomplishment. He could never have known that Wang Yu's Intents were comprehended through a "placement slot" system, where he merely received the feedback from his "other self," so the issue of conflicting comprehensions simply never arose.

Facing the imposing Yellow Springs Grand Handprint, Wan Gu spread his hands wide. Endless swarms of Red Rust Worms poured from his sleeves, forming a crimson worm tide that clashed against the Yellow Springs Handprint. The two forces were evenly matched, but this was not Wang Yu's ultimate killing blow.

In the blink of an eye, the Yellow Springs Buried Bone Curse Sword descended from the sky. Its bone blade radiated a chilling aura, and the surging Yellow Springs Intent seemed poised to corrode everything in the world. Like a celestial judgment, it plunged directly towards Wan Gu's head. His greatest mistake was confronting Wang Yu head-on, getting dragged into a situation where he couldn't utilize his evasion techniques to dodge unnecessary attacks. Meanwhile, Wang Yu, proficient in the ancient Heavenly Soul Sect's spiritual sense techniques, could effortlessly cast three or four divine abilities simultaneously.

Wan Gu let out a roar towards the sky. The ground of the Gu Poison Hall suddenly cracked open, and countless blue poisonous scorpions rapidly merged into a giant scorpion. It used its pincers to block the descending Bone Curse Sword. In the fierce exchange, the Yellow Springs Grand Handprint and the Red Rust Worm swarm vied for corrosive supremacy, currently in a deadlock. The Divine Ability: Yellow Springs Buried Bone Curse Sword directly clashed with the Heavenly Poison Scorpion.

Also locked in a stalemate, Wan Gu's mind stirred, and his innate magic weapon, the Gu Dao Sacred Bell, suddenly flew out from his Qi Sea. With a jingling sound, a mysterious power imbued the Gu worms, instantly turning the tide of battle. A dense aura of devouring spread outwards. This was Wan Gu's cultivated Intent: "Insect Devouring Intent"!

Once the balance was shattered, the situation became one-sided. The Gu worms gained the upper hand, completely counter-corroding the Yellow Springs power and rapidly consuming Wang Yu's demonic essence. "Hahahahaha, Wang Yu, you cannot defeat..."

His words caught in his throat. Wan Gu felt the world abruptly fall silent, followed by a terrifying ice storm that erupted from the ground, infusing the entire Gu Poison Peak with its chilling cold. Black, solid ice spread, and above it, the source of this extreme cold, a massive, mountain-like, prison-like Ice Hell Demonic Seal materialized directly above Wan Gu.

In an instant, a sensation of profound inertia, as if his body were bound by chains, overwhelmed him. Wan Gu found that under the Ice Hell Demonic Seal, even moving a single finger became incredibly difficult. Both the Red Rust Worm swarm and the Heavenly Poison Scorpion Gu still needed several breaths to neutralize the two preceding divine abilities. Under the assault of the third demonic seal, he actually felt an urge to simply sit down and succumb.

Danger, danger, danger! The warning from his spiritual perception jolted him, instantly restoring his clarity. His innate magic weapon, the Gu Dao Sacred Bell, rattled frantically, and the worm swarm grew even more frenzied.

Finally, the two Yellow Springs Grand Handprints and the Yellow Springs Buried Bone Curse Sword all dissipated into spiritual light. Wan Gu attempted to escape using his evasion technique but found himself sinking as if in quicksand. This was due not only to the Ice Hell Demonic Seal's inherent power to seal the surroundings, but also because Wang Yu, observing him from a distance, unleashed his Fourth Eye Technique: Empty Moon Art, causing the crescent moon imprint in his eyes to glow intensely.

The combination of space solidification and divine ability sealing rendered him almost completely immobile. The next moment, the Ice Hell Demonic Seal fully descended, and Wan Gu's screams were barely audible. They were too faint to be heard over the tremors that shook the entire Gu Poison Peak, which showed signs of its mountain-protecting array being unwillingly activated. It should be noted that Gu Poison Peak was one of the main peaks of the Rebel Spirit Blood Sect, having been repaired and reinforced by countless array masters, and its inherent durability was top-tier. To shake it completely was truly no easy feat.

As for why Wan Gu didn't activate the mountain protection array against him: as a fellow Nascent Soul Patriarch of the Rebel Spirit Blood Sect, and with Wang Yu possessing the Blood Demon Token, he wasn't afraid of it in the slightest. He could even forcibly seize control of the array and turn it against Wan Gu himself. Wan Gu didn't refrain from activating it because he didn't want to, but because he didn't dare. By deliberately not activating the mountain protection array, he hoped to avoid any unforeseen complications. However, the situation was still vastly different from what he had anticipated.

"How could... be so... strong!"

In the shattered ice hell, at its very center was a large crater, the former site of the Gu Poison Hall. Wan Gu lay prone, barely clinging to life. His eyelids were on the verge of closing, and his body was covered in black-purple frostbite. His unnaturally twisted waist had completely deprived him of sensation in his lower body, leaving him temporarily paralyzed on the ground, completely numb from the waist down...

His innate magic weapon lay dim and discarded nearby. All three Gu worm swarms had vanished without a trace.

Wang Yu's figure slowly approached, stopping a hundred feet from where Wan Gu lay. His spiritual sense detected that a flicker of life force remained, though it was extremely faint. To be cautious, he immediately unleashed a Phantasmal Moon Eye Technique. Dragging Wan Gu's spiritual will into the Phantasmal Moon Realm, he then remotely waved his hand, bringing down a second Yellow Springs Buried Bone Curse Sword. It plunged fiercely, like a judgment from the heavens. With a wet squelch, Wan Gu's physical body exploded into countless spatters of blood.

In a subconscious reaction, the Thunder Fiend Coffin automatically appeared, collecting the Nascent Soul cultivator's corporeal essence, leaving only a dark Nascent Soul floating mid-air with its eyes closed. Wang Yu's figure spun like lightning, instantly appearing before Wan Gu's Nascent Soul. The Glazed Pagoda whirred as it pressed down; it seemed the matter was settled.

Wan Gu's Nascent Soul's eyes suddenly snapped open. Amidst the eerie ghost mist, it transformed directly into the form of a Ghost Ant Gu, charging straight for Wang Yu's Mud-Pill Palace.

"I knew you had something up your sleeve!"

A dark vortex unfolded behind Wang Yu, and thousands of black paper boats moved freely through the air as if floating on a river. This was the Soul-Severing Evil Boat Charm! Besides its soul-searching capabilities, it was also excellent for defending against spiritual attacks. And during his years in secluded cultivation, Wang Yu had also found time to deduce it to the fourth rank. After all, attempting to forcibly search a Nascent Soul's mind with a third-rank soul-searching secret art was exceedingly difficult. He would allocate time in the "placement slot" for these minor techniques, aiming to elevate them all to the fourth rank.

The defensive circle formed by the black paper boats was shredded by Wan Gu, in his Ghost Ant form, using his pincer-like jaws specialized in spiritual power. However, the delay it provided was entirely sufficient. A beam of gray divine light shot out from Wang Yu's glabella. The Soul-Shattering Death Ray, a technique he hadn't used in a long time, wasn't outdated; rather, Wang Yu had simply acquired an increasing number of methods to control his opponents. This spiritual sense divine ability naturally saw less use. But for the current situation, it was perfectly suited, specifically countering the Ghost Ant's unique power when illuminated by the gray divine light.

Wan Gu, in his Ghost Ant incarnation, let out a piercing scream. It dissolved at an almost visible rate. Without the protection of a physical body, the Soul-Shattering Death Ray's power was truly the bane of soul entities. In a matter of moments, a black-and-crimson Ghost Ant detached from his Nascent Soul and was collected by Wang Yu using an ice gourd. This was likely the Gu King of the swarm, the Ghost Ant Queen! With it, he could continuously produce a large number of Ghost Ants for his command. Its status was equivalent to that of the Ice Flame Emperor Butterfly. To rapidly cultivate Ice Flame Butterflies using the Crying Blood Evil Gu method, these Gu swarms, used as "sacrificial materials," were also an indispensable component. He wanted them all!

A few breaths later, the even weaker Wan Gu's Nascent Soul glared at him with hatred. Forcibly contorting his face into a grotesque smile, he finally yielded under the threat to his life.

"Fellow Daoist Jifa, hold on! I will present the Crying Blood Evil Gu method to you without any conditions. All the resources required for cultivating the Gu worms, I can also provide them for free. I only beg you, Fellow Daoist, to spare my life."

Wang Yu stared at him with a chilling expression. "Oh? So, you know you're about to die, rather than feeling you've done wrong."

"No, no, not at all." Wan Gu's Nascent Soul's smile instantly brightened. From its core, it produced a Cosmos Ring, and as a gesture of sincerity, it directly extracted the jade slip containing the secret technique and personally handed it to Wang Yu. "Fellow Daoist, see, this is the secret method. I swear on a heart demon oath that it is absolutely genuine, with no hidden tricks."

As his words fell, Wang Yu's right hand shot out like lightning. The spatial silver chains of the Chains of Heaven secret art extended from his wrist, almost instantly sealing any possibility of teleportation. It then seized Wan Gu's Nascent Soul by the neck, and the extreme cold sealing power of the Glazed Pagoda rapidly spread. However, Wan Gu's Nascent Soul suddenly unleashed a wave of spiritual consciousness. The information it contained spread rapidly in all directions like a sonic wave.

"Grand Commander, save me!!!"

Wang Yu suddenly turned his head. He saw the Grand Commander of the Blood God Guard, whom he had encountered once during the Blood Abyss trial, appear not far behind him. The commander looked at him with a slight frown. Wang Yu, however, quickly regained his composure, calmly sealing Wan Gu's Nascent Soul completely into his innate magic weapon before speaking. "The Sect Master commanded me, Wang Yu, to handle the matter of Wan Gu completely. This, of course... includes his life."

The Grand Commander remained silent, his expression still icy. It wasn't until Wang Yu held up the Blood Demon Token and waved it that the other party's expression thawed into a smile, as if ice had met warm sunlight. He then gently squeezed his right hand. The sonic wave of spiritual consciousness that had just spread out, as if time itself were reversing, rapidly converged back into his palm, where it was finally crushed, erasing Wan Gu's last words in the mortal world.

The Grand Commander spoke. "So, you were dealing with a sect traitor. Demon Lord Jifa has eliminated a scourge for the sect and should indeed be credited. This, along with your previous merits at Ice River Pass and Azure Cloud Sect battlefields, is a reward specifically ordered by the Sect Master for you, Fellow Daoist."

Participating in the righteous-demonic battlefield indeed brought rewards. Typically, for Nascent Soul cultivators, these rewards would be distributed gradually after the war's conclusion, as a sustained flow. After all, they couldn't immediately produce such vast resources. They also had to wait for the spoils of war to be processed before the exact distribution could be determined based on the total gains.

Upon receiving the Cosmos Ring, Wang Yu's eyes lit up. The primary reward inside was Astral Devil Stones, a unique cultivation resource condensed by the geomantic formation at the sect headquarters, valuable for many purposes. There were also many top-grade fourth-rank spiritual items. He had recently depleted a significant amount while refining the Sun-Piercing Demonic Bow, so this would greatly replenish his reserves.

As for why he didn't use this spiritual treasure against Wan Gu... the reason was simple: that fellow simply wasn't worthy!