Corpse Devouring Insects

Corpse Devouring Insects

## Name

The word Gu 蛊 can also refer to Chinese voodoo poison arts.

## Poison

They were specialized in eating the flesh of corpses in order to grow. They reproduced shockingly quickly, and the speed at which they grew was especially chilling.

Their rate of growth depended on their feed. They weren't picky about their food. Any corpse was alright with them, whether it was human or beast. The more rotten the corpse was, the more they liked it.

Due to being specialized in eating a corpse's flesh, their pincers all contained an intense corpse poison. Normally, that poison would let them ingest rotten flesh easier.

But if a living person were to be bitten by one, then even if it was a Tendon Transformation expert, they would still be unable to endure it. That kind of poison had no antidote.

As soon as you were bitten by a Corpse Devouring Insect, their corpse poison would immediately enter your body. That poison was different from ordinary poisons. It didn't target people's nerves, nor did it target a person's organs. Instead, it directly rotted your flesh.

Once you were bitten, your body would immediately rot away, and in just a couple of breaths, you would become a true rotting corpse.

When Corpse Devouring Insects didn't have any rotting flesh to eat, they could just create their own rotting corpses with their poison. So their poison was exceptionally terrifying.

The most terrifying aspect of them was that although their bodies weren't powerful, their pincers were as hard as steel and could easily cut open a person's flesh.

If it was an ordinary Corpse Devouring Insect, Tu Fang wouldn't be this worried. Tendon Transformation experts were more than capable of using the astral wind released by their weapons to crush them to pieces before they approached.

But the ones this Favored had just released were not ordinary. There were three different lines on their bodies, meaning they had advanced three times.

People who raised poisonous insects usually confined many of them all together, letting them massacre each other. Within the thousands and thousands of insects, only one king would be born.

After killing enough of its fellows, that king poisonous insect would gain a faint line on top of it.

Then if thousands of one-line poisonous insects were confined again, letting them massacre each other, the last poisonous insect remaining would have two lines.

As for this Favored's insects, they had three lines. In other words, they were kings amongst kings amongst the poisonous insects.

Not only were they defensively strong, but their attacking strength was even sharper. Furthermore, over ten thousand of those poisonous king insects had come out of his jar.

His family had raised them for hundreds of years only to make such a limited number. It was his most powerful trump card. It was because of this trump card that other Favored were extremely apprehensive toward him.

These poisonous insects' major weakness was that it was extremely taxing to raise them. That was because once they reached their king level, they had essentially reached their peaks. And along with that, the toxicity in their bodies also reached a peak. Once they released their poison, it would require many years for that toxicity to replenish.