Celestial Refining Divine Scripture-Chapter 269 - 267: Viperous Woman

Xu Yang was on high alert, as if facing a formidable enemy!

"Huangfu Qing, we’ve already agreed to cooperate, you..."

Halfway through his words, Xu Yang suddenly felt an overwhelming force crash over him, suffocating to the point he couldn’t utter another syllable.

Damn it!

What the hell does this crazy woman want?

Xu Yang glared daggers at Huangfu Shaoyao, his expression ugly.

Huangfu Qing shrugged helplessly. "I can’t control her!"

However, watching his aunt torment Xu Yang a bit, he was more than happy to see it happen.

After all, when it came to Huangfu Shaoyao’s methods, everyone in the Huangfu Family was deathly afraid of her.

"Let’s head in first."

Huangfu Qing summoned a square seal and stepped through the curtain of fire.

"Little guy, don’t be scared."

Huangfu Shaoyao shot Xu Yang a strange, bewitching smile that sent chills down the spine!

The next second, she grabbed Xu Yang and swept him into the fiery curtain.

Inside the fire curtain.

Xu Yang watched Huangfu Shaoyao warily, feeling both aggrieved and helpless inside.

Yet at this moment, he had no other choice.

Even his teacher was helpless against the Asura Blood Book for now—their situation was no better than fish on the chopping board!

"You two had better not get too cocky!"

Otherwise, Xu Yang feared that, when the opportunity arose, these two wouldn’t be able to withstand the consequences!

Shua!

Huangfu Shaoyao flicked her sleeve, and a figure appeared out of thin air.

Xu Yang stared, stupefied, at the suddenly materializing handsome youth—utterly naked!

With his sharp eyes, he immediately saw that this youth before him was a genuine human Martial Artist, not some puppet!

Which meant, Huangfu Shaoyao possessed a spatial treasure capable of holding living beings!

But the sight of this handsome man, nude as the day he was born, left him completely lost for words.

"Greetings, Master!"

The moment the youth appeared, he immediately dropped to his knees at Huangfu Shaoyao’s toes, sprawling flat in utter reverence! 𝒻𝘳𝘦𝘦𝘸ℯ𝒷𝘯𝘰𝑣ℯ𝑙.𝘤𝑜𝘮

"Good boy!"

Huangfu Shaoyao elegantly crouched, both hands gently cupping the youth’s face, a doting smile curling her lips.

Xu Yang noticed the young man’s body trembling—a fear of Huangfu Shaoyao saturating every fiber of him!

Crack!

The sudden snap startled Xu Yang out of his wits.

He watched as Huangfu Shaoyao nonchalantly twisted the youth’s neck—the head lolling aside, eyes blank, not even a trace of pain or shock visible.

Even more bizarre, not a single drop of blood spilled out!

Yet Huangfu Shaoyao’s smile grew even brighter.

This spectacle made Xu Yang’s skin crawl with goosebumps.

Suddenly.

The corpse began to spasm and writhe violently, contorting like a giant shrimp.

In the next instant, his flesh burst open and festered, as if some invisible giant hand was kneading him to pulp.

The grotesque, gut-twisting scene was enough to make anyone look away in sheer disgust!

Huangfu Qing turned away at once, nearly retching!

Xu Yang sucked in a cold breath, danger alarms blaring in his head, yet he still couldn’t fathom what this lunatic woman was after!

After more than ten heartbeats—

The handsome youth was now reduced to dozens of squirming white-and-red flesh worms crawling over the ground.

Huangfu Shaoyao fixed her gaze on Xu Yang, smiling: "Little guy, these are the Gu worms I’ve painstakingly bred. They feed on flesh and life force—once inside the human body, they burrow into the muscles, bones, and blood, greedily devouring everything while attacking the heart, delivering the most exquisite pain imaginable!"

"After they’ve gorged themselves, they’ll enter a dormant state. When they awaken, they’ll feed again and again, until nothing is left of you!"

"All these years, not a single soul has survived three feedings from my little babies."

As her words faded, her red lips arched into a slow smile. With a slender, jade finger, she flicked lightly.

Shua!!

A dozen or so flesh worms turned into streaks of streaming light, shooting toward Xu Yang like lightning.

Xu Yang’s face changed dramatically. He wanted to dodge, but found himself completely bound in place, utterly unable to move a muscle!

He immediately roused his entire True Essence, forcing it to the surface to form a protective shield!

Yet, as the swarm of flesh worms crashed into it, the fully-powered shield didn’t even last a split second before shattering with a loud ’bang’!

Puff!!!

Blinding pain exploded in his nerves, making Xu Yang tremble violently, his brows knotting together!

He could clearly feel his flesh being ripped. A dozen Gu worms bore ferociously into him, gnawing and imprisoning his flesh and bones.

In an instant, the pain surged a hundredfold!

Tss!

Xu Yang gritted his teeth, shot a vicious glare at Huangfu Shaoyao, and shut his eyes tight in silence.

Tss!

The Gu worms suddenly unleashed a strange, chaotic ripple, intertwining as they drilled straight for his heart.

Xu Yang felt as if his heart was stabbed by a needle as thick as a barrel, driving straight through it.

It didn’t break!

But the agony was so intense he nearly lost consciousness.

His face was deathly pale, not a trace of blood left, sweat pouring down like rain!

The pain was absolute!

Impossible to describe in words!

"Such terrifying Gu worms!"

Xu Yang clenched his teeth, enduring the torment with everything he had, instinctively urging the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod’s power—but just as the thought rose, he forced it down.

"If I use the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod, these Gu worms would be instantly wiped out!"

"But if she realizes they’ve been refined, who knows what even more twisted torture this madwoman will come up with!"

Xu Yang was no masochist!

"I want to see what a few damned worms can really do to me!"

Xu Yang’s face twisted into a grimace, mustering all his will, steeling himself for the ordeal!

Pupupupu!!

The relentless gnawing inside his flesh and bones was incessant—tendons torn, muscles shredded, everything shuddering uncontrollably.

Layer after layer of pain crashed over him, each wave pushing the limits of his endurance further.

It spread through his entire body, from his skin to muscle to bone; every so often a sudden shock would lance toward his heart, enough to jerk him out of numbness and deliver agony that seared itself into memory.

It was far, far more unbearable than even the famed ’ten thousand ants devouring the heart’, flaying alive, or getting one’s bones crushed!

"You all like to eat, huh?"

Xu Yang drew forth a constant stream of Purest Essence Qi from the Celestial Refining Divine Tripod, fusing it into his flesh and bones.

This way, the Gu worms would first feast on that Purest Essence. Only after they devoured all of it would they nibble on his actual flesh and bone!

As soon as the Purest Essence Qi appeared, the Gu worms went insane, as if the taste was even more divine than blood and meat.

They instantly ravaged with even greater ferocity.

Xu Yang quaked uncontrollably, his features twisting, blue veins and arteries bulging hideously, so that merely looking on made one’s scalp tingle—it was impossible to imagine such suffering.

Even Huangfu Qing felt chills in his heart.

Huangfu Shaoyao, however, was wide-eyed with amazement: "What astonishing willpower! Not a single cry?"

"Hmph. Let’s see how long you can last!"

She had the utmost confidence in her little darlings.

What she wanted wasn’t for Xu Yang to endure, but to collapse, to snap, to kneel and beg for mercy!

Especially given that it was Xu Yang, this peerless prodigy!

That would give her a thrill beyond words!

As time passed, Huangfu Shaoyao’s prior self-assurance began to slip.

She frowned deeply.

"How is this possible?"

"Aunt—isn’t something wrong with those bugs?" Huangfu Qing muttered doubtfully.

Huangfu Shaoyao’s shame turned to rage. She shot Huangfu Qing a venomous glare and snorted coldly, the cruelty in her eyes undisguised.

"This is just the beginning!"

She ghosted directly in front of Xu Yang, stared at his still-quivering, contorted face, and let out a cold laugh: "I did underestimate you."

"But with this, I want to see just how long you can last!"

As her words fell, she stretched out a jade-like finger, aiming for Xu Yang’s brow.

At her fingertip, a faint green light flickered into existence.

Within the green glow was a small, emerald-green worm.