Chapter 1256: Divine Gu Golden Cicada
Upon hearing the elder's words, Shen Qiang was taken aback but after hesitating for a moment, he still entered the house, followed closely by Ke Bizhu, Kang Luoying, and Ye Guyun.
Once inside, Shen Qiang immediately noticed that the house was not small. In the living room, which was about fifty to sixty square meters, smoke swirled around. Seven or eight men of considerable age, along with two elderly women, were sitting on the sofa smoking, making the air thick and smoky, resembling the scene in Journey to the West when demons were about to appear.
"This is Shen Qiang, the boss of Heshenghe. Siya asked him to come!" the elder hurriedly said to everyone in the living room.
"It's impossible!" A man in his thirties suddenly raised his eyebrows and said, "She is unconscious now, how could she have sought help from him?"
"It must be her, definitely her." With that, the elder placed the cicada that Shen Qiang had given him onto the coffee table and said, "This is Siya's cicada, so it could only be Siya reaching out to him for help."
One of the elders sitting on the sofa smiled, his eyes somewhat teasing as he looked at Shen Qiang, who was surveying the room, teasingly said, "What did you call him here for? What can the boss of Heshenghe do? This is our domain, not a place for someone like him."
The others all nodded in agreement.
"His cultivation is good, and Heshenghe is indeed powerful, but Heshenghe deals with demons, while we deal with insects, which are two different worlds."
"True, without decades of background in Gu poison, you can't even be considered an entry-level. The problems Siya is facing now cannot be solved by someone like him."
"You should leave, this is not a field you can meddle in."
Hearing their words, Shen Qiang raised his eyebrow calmly and said, "When you're talking to me, you'd better be polite. First, it was that cicada that brought me here; I don't know any of you, nor do I want to see you pretending. Second, if you're wise, don't provoke me; my temper isn't good."
Seeing everyone in the living room staring at Shen Qiang unkindly, the elder quickly said, "Everyone, this Mr. Shen is indeed one of us in insect Gu tradition. He has a Golden Cicada Gu, which is very powerful. I mentioned him to you in the spring, and it was only after seeing his golden cicada that Siya wanted to practice with it."
Shen Qiang raised an eyebrow and said, "The Siya you're talking about, is she the girl who played with the Iron Wire Gu back then? Where is she?"
Hearing this, a thirty-year-old man sitting on the sofa's expression turned cold, and he said coldly, "Where she is doesn't matter. What matters is, without my permission, you have no right to play with Gu."
Shen Qiang laughed, "I've seen plenty of posers, but I've never seen a brainless poser like you. Whether I have the right or not is none of your business."
Having said that, Shen Qiang swept his Divine Sense and found that in this house, there were two bedrooms that were unobservable by Divine Sense, one of which had its door open. Without asking, Shen Qiang knew that the girl with the clean face who once invited him to some parasitic worm research, Liu Siya, should be in that room.
So, Shen Qiang turned and headed for that room.
"Stop, don't you think that having a few demons can make you unchallengeable?"
With the young man's cold shout,
Squeak! Squeak!
Two eerily thin insects appeared suddenly and fell beside Shen Qiang.
They only emitted a terrified chirp before immediately dying.
The young man's face instantly turned wax yellow.
He stared at Shen Qiang in horror.
"This is impossible, what did you do? My Heavenly Centipedes, you heartless thief, you actually killed them!"
Hearing the young man's exclamation, and seeing with their own eyes the centipede-like Gu worms already dead, the people present looked at Shen Qiang in horror, shocked.
"Who is he, after all? These Heavenly Centipedes are among the Five Poisons, with the most tenacious life force. Even a cultivation practitioner with the power of the Mixed Element Realm couldn't kill them silently!"
"I didn't perceive how he did it, how is it possible! Those were Heavenly Centipedes, which needed nine years to refine into fine Gu worms, strong as fine steel, how could they die instantly!"
"Could it be the Golden Silkworm Gu?" An old woman's eyes shone as she stood up, blocking Shen Qiang, and stared at him, "Indeed, it's impressive. It must be a family artifact, right? However, even if you have the Golden Silkworm Gu, you can't save her, please leave."
Shen Qiang frowned and smiled at the old lady.
If it were in the past, encountering someone blocking him like this, Shen Qiang would probably be angry, but now, having seen much, Shen Qiang no longer had the urge to compete with others.
"Whether I can save her, let me see first."
Hearing Shen Qiang's words, the young man also came over, and said coldly, "Alright, I didn't expect you to use the Golden Silkworm to trick my Heavenly Centipedes. Seeing that you're here to save someone, I won't quibble with you, but you should leave immediately. Even our Sacred Beetle Gu can't save Liu Siya's situation, the Golden Silkworm Gu certainly won't work."
Shen Qiang said helplessly, "Move aside."
The moment they heard Shen Qiang's cold tone, everyone in the hall was visibly angry.
An elder stood up and said sharply, "Young people just don't know their limits. They think that just because they raise Gu, they're powerful. Even we who have Holy Grade Gu worms couldn't save her. Why can't you listen to advice, young man?"
"It's good for young calves not to fear tigers, but look at the situation and time, Liu Siya is in dire trouble, and we've barely managed to control the situation. There's no way we can let someone as inexperienced as you mess things up."
"Hmph, even though the Golden Silkworm is an excellent Gu worm, compared to ours, it's still far behind!"
Hearing their words, Shen Qiang felt inexplicably irritable.
"Young people, huh, you think that just because you have a Gu, you can save the day if even we can't handle it? A bunch of self-proclaimed experts." Shen Qiang coldly raised his brow, "Get out of the way, I don't have time to waste words with you, and frankly, I don't look down on you. In front of my Spirit Gu, your so-called Holy Grade Gu worms are all garbage."
Instantly, the people in the hall erupted.
"What did you say? Such arrogance in this young one!"
"Arrogant!"
"Not just ignorant but completely unaware!"
Amidst the roars of the crowd, Shen Qiang lightly snapped his fingers and said, "Get out of the way, no matter who you are, if anyone else stands in my way, they'll all be crippled!"
Almost the moment they heard this.
A petite and exquisite golden cicada emerged from Shen Qiang's shoulder.
In an instant, these fellows whom Shen Qiang did not know, whose cultivation was mediocre yet inexplicably felt they were superior, were stunned.
When the golden cicada fluttered its wings and let out a soft chirp.
The room was filled instantly with the sound of poisonous insects falling to the ground en masse.
At the same time, this group of people was instantly overjoyed, the previously arrogant old lady was dumbfounded, then suddenly fell to her knees in incredible reverence, tears flowing instantly from her eyes.
"It's not a Golden Silkworm, not a Golden Silkworm, this is a Divine Gu! Golden Cicada!"
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