The Divine Doctor and Adorable Consort: The Demonic Emperor is Too Cunning

Three days later, when they were a hundred miles away from Xidongzhuang, a plume of red smoke suddenly shot straight into the sky.

Upon seeing the red smoke, Luo Qianmo and the others all changed their expressions.

This is their unique communication signal; red represents extreme danger.

The signal flare was still more than ten miles away from them. Judging by its speed, it should have been a secret signal sent by Xuan Zhu and the other two.

"Is that Yanlei Town?" Luo Qianmo's eyes were pitch black, like thick ink that couldn't be spread.

"Yes, Your Highness." Xuan Lan's eyes were full of worry. With Xuan Zhu's abilities and keen senses, he didn't know what danger had he encountered that made him issue such a dangerous warning.

Luo Qianmo nodded slightly, and his cold voice rang out.

"All personnel on alert, proceed to Yanlei Town immediately!"

"Your Highness, you mustn't!" Xuan Lan's expression changed instantly. He was very worried about Xuan Zhu and the others, but he couldn't let Luo Qianmo be in danger.

Luo Qianmo's dark eyes suddenly swept over, containing an extremely dangerous aura: "I've already said, we're leaving immediately."

Xuanlan's body stiffened instantly, and he dared not say anything more.

In his haste just now, he almost forgot about His Highness's temper.

The others dared not raise any further objections.

Just then, Luo Qianmo had already spurred his horse forward.

Seeing this, Xuanlan quickly spurred his horse and instantly sped up to be in front of Luo Qianmo: "Your Highness, I will lead the way."

Yuefei and Fang Qingyou rode side by side, protecting her at all times.

Fang Qingyou turned her gaze away from the red smoke, her eyes filled with undisguised worry.

Although she didn't like Xuan Zhu very much, she didn't want anything to happen to him at all. She hoped they could make it in time and that Xuan Zhu could wait for them.

As Luo Qianmo, Fang Qingyou, and their group headed towards Yanlei Town, on a mountaintop a hundred miles away from Jingzhi County, their eyes lit up with hope upon seeing the red smoke.

It's their people; there are some of their people not far from here!

It turns out they haven't reached their dead end yet!

Luo Qianmo, Fang Qingyou, and their group traveled at breakneck speed for over ten miles, arriving at Yanlei Town in just fifteen minutes.

Then, they rushed to the location where the signal flare had been released.

However, they encountered obstacles along the way.

"Woo-woo—" It was a group of strangely shaped beasts, in all sorts of forms. Some looked like balls, some like stones, some like gourds, and some had one side of their body larger than the other...

Basically, none of them are normal animal forms.

Besides its body shape, its facial features were even more ugly and disgusting. Although it was a beast with hands and feet, it had no fur at all. It looked as if black pus was wrapped inside a slippery, black skin.

It seems that if you puncture that skin, disgusting pus will flow out.

After witnessing the Gu worms, the group quickly realized that these beasts must also be a type of Gu.

However, this Gu worm is larger than its predecessors.

After Luo Qianmo, Fang Qingyou and their group appeared, they were quickly surrounded by this group of Gu worms.

Each worm had long drool dripping from its mouth, making their already ugly appearance even more disgusting.

A large swarm of Gu worms tentatively approached the group, getting closer and closer to them.

Fang Qingyou frowned as she stared at the group of Gu worms, suppressing the urge to vomit, and carefully examined each one.

She wasn't admiring the ugliness of these Gu worms; she was searching for their weaknesses.

Ever since she encountered the Gu worm in Xidongzhuang that day, she has been cramming on knowledge about Gu.

Gu is an insect raised using secret methods. In fact, Gu can be divided into good and bad. Some Gu can be used to save people, but nowadays, more Gu are used to harm people.

Those who raise evil Gu are called Gu poison masters. Gu poison masters select ferocious poisonous insects as Gu seeds, and then use evil secret methods to make the poisonous insects grow stronger by devouring other insects or flesh and blood, and eventually grow into evil Gu or poisonous Gu.

Generally, this kind of Gu is either extremely poisonous, killing people silently, or extremely resilient, making it very difficult to kill if its weakness is unknown.

Fang Qingyou had heard her grandfather tell some stories about Gu, but at the time she listened to them as myths. However, she remembered the details of these stories very clearly.

Fang Qingyou looked at these Gu worms and found that they were not similar to the types of Gu she knew. These Gu worms did not seem to have strong toxicity or strong vitality. The only thing that made people wary of them was their ugly and disgusting appearance and their densely packed numbers.

These Gu worms reminded Fang Qingyou of a word: failed product.

These useless and unattractive Gu worms are probably not something any Gu master would deliberately cultivate, right? The only explanation is that these Gu worms were cultivated accidentally.

Now that these Gu worms they are facing have taken on the form of beasts, they should have some animal characteristics, such as a fatal heart. However, it is difficult for ordinary people to tell where their hearts are from their appearance.

Fang Qingyou was searching for the location of the heart of these Gu worms.

Suddenly, noticing the pattern, her eyes lit up: "Everyone, pay attention! The half-sized vital point is on the smaller half, the spherical one is between the feet, and the gourd-shaped one is on the gourd joint..."

Fang Qingyou's words seemed nonsensical, but everyone understood what she meant.

Suddenly, everyone except Yuefei started moving.

A flash of sword light appeared, and more than half of the hundred or so Gu worms that had surrounded them instantly fell down.

"Awooo! Awooo! Awooo—" In an instant, shrill screams rang out one after another, and the bodies of the Gu worms suddenly exploded, turning into black pus.

The scene was truly disgusting; it made anyone who saw it want to vomit their dinner from the night before.

However, Luo Qianmo and his group did not hesitate at all and continued to act, killing all the remaining small number of Gu worms that had realized what was happening and tried to escape but failed.

In a matter of seconds, the spot turned into a pool of black pus.

When Luo Qianmo and his group got back onto their horses, their expressions were not good. In addition to the disgusting scene, the fishy stench that kept getting into their mouths and noses was also extremely unpleasant.

Luo Qianmo, a germaphobe, had his sharp eyebrows furrowed into a knot.

Upon seeing this, Fang Qingyou quickly took out a stack of specially made scented masks from her person and distributed them to Luo Qianmo and his group.

After putting on a mask, the wrinkles between Luo Qianmo's sharp brows finally smoothed out.

However, he gave Fang Qingyou a somewhat resentful look, his expression clearly saying, "Why didn't you bring out such a good thing sooner? Why make me suffer all this for nothing?"

Fang Qingyou gave Luo Qianmo an innocent look. She had only made this mask in the last two days, but the scent of its incense would affect a person's judgment. Unless it was necessary, using it in this dangerous place would definitely be more harmful than helpful.