Jin Ziyuan’s voice was soft, but it didn’t change, and Gu Youyou recognized it was him.
Despite hearing that these creatures were bugs, Gu Youyou couldn’t help but shiver.
The long sword Huo Li carried was filled with so many bugs, good lord, that’s not scientific!
Given she had arrived at this ghostly place and encountered so many unscientific things, she gradually came to terms with it.
Gu Youyou watched for a while, then turned to the carriage driver, who was curled up in fear, and said, "Take this chance and run, whoever wins, you won’t live."
The carriage driver was stunned for a moment but then gestured to Gu Youyou to flee with him, knowing she had also been captured.
However, Gu Youyou said, "I can’t run, I will be fine, you just go."
The carriage driver, looking out for himself and seeing Gu Youyou insist, didn’t hesitate any longer, quickly got off the carriage, and quietly left.
Seeing Huo Li’s bugs spreading all around, it was clear they were unstoppable.
The bandits were all holding torches, trying to use them to stop the bugs from approaching, but it was of no use, and they could only keep retreating.
Jin Ziyuan shouted angrily, "Who has tung oil, pour tung oil and set it on fire!"
These bugs only feared tung oil fire and Tianzong’s Chixiao sword.
(Forgive me for changing the sword name Chixiao into a dagger.)
"I have it!" someone in the crowd shouted, and quickly, that person handed a pot of tung oil to Jin Ziyuan.
The season was just right, when the tung trees were producing tung oil.
These people, nomadic as bandits, always carried their necessities wherever they went, and since tung oil was the most readily obtainable combustible oil of the season, several of them responsible for fires had brought it.
They quickly took out their tung oil, followed Jin Ziyuan’s instructions to pour it on the spreading pale blue bugs, and set them on fire.
The bugs, glowing pale blue, instantly began to wilt, rolling a few times, then lost their luster.
Huo Li felt a wrenching pain in his heart, knowing how hard these little creatures were to raise.
Seeing the situation turn against him, he quickly twisted the hilt of his sword to recall the Eclipse Worms.
Jin Ziyuan was overjoyed, and shouted loudly, "Everyone, on him, capture this man and flay him!"
Then, just like a bunch of bandits, they all rushed towards Huo Li while shouting.
Huo Li watched them coldly, as he considered the bandits beneath him. How could Huo Li be afraid of these riffraff?
If one came, he killed one; if two came, he killed both.
What he didn’t expect was that these bandits were so formidable. While he didn’t care for one or two, when about a dozen surrounded him, he couldn’t gain the upper hand.
These weren’t bandits?
The dead soldiers under Jin Ziyuan’s command were all desperate fighters, nothing like ordinary bandits.
"What exactly are you people?" Huo Li couldn’t help but grow anxious.
Both Jin Zijin and Yue Rujing had been snared by his trap, so it couldn’t be them. Who were these people daring to rob his carriage?
"Ha ha, hand over gold, jewels, and beauties, then kneel and call me grandpa, and I’ll tell you who we are."
This was definitively the behavior of a group of bandits, and Huo Li was infuriated.
Huo Li was surrounded, and Jin Ziyuan had already moved to the carriage.
He opened the carriage door, and at first glance he saw Gu Youyou.
"Is it really you?" He was ecstatic, smiling as purely and impeccably as a night-blooming cereus.