My Sister Really Has Some Skills

Ever since Ji Qingge changed her name in the group chat yesterday, she had expected Xu Mu to mock her.

But to her surprise, he just asked her to change it back. Even so, she didn’t.

She wasn’t someone who couldn’t accept defeat, so after bandaging her injuries, she came looking for Xu Mu.

When she found out that Xu Mu had actually gone to the Inner Realm, Ji Qingge was completely stunned. She couldn’t believe that Xu Mu and that martial grandmaster beside him had dared to go there.

Before she had gone out to train, her family elders had taught her never to set foot in the Inner Realm—no matter what.

Even if a divine herb grew on the other side of the barrier, she was not to go.

The Inner Realm was full of uncertainties. Because foreign tribes lived in constant war, almost everyone there was a martial artist, and there were many powerful fighters.

Of course, the truly top-tier experts of the Inner Realm couldn’t compare to those in the Outer Realm.

The reason the Inner Realm was more dangerous boiled down to its fragmented territory.

Each fragment was small in area, making the population denser, which led to a high concentration of experts.

Moreover, the foreign tribes harbored deep grudges against the descendants of Yan Huang. As soon as someone released their Qi, experts could immediately identify their origins.

Ji Qingge never imagined Xu Mu would dare to cross over. If a high-level expert locked onto him, it would mean utter doom.

Xu Mu melted the ice on the two blood-red Gu insects, and they quickly fell to the ground, just as Li Chenshuang had described.

As soon as they touched down, the insects immediately burrowed into the earth, trying to hide.

Xu Mu quickly drew his longsword and slashed at the space above them.

Crack!

The space where the Gu insects were seemed to shatter along with the strike.

The Gu insects, which had been preparing to dig in, both froze—their heads buried in the dirt, their bodies still exposed.

Xu Mu raised his hand and said, “Come to me.”

Hearing this, the two Gu insects withdrew from the ground at blinding speed, like streaks of light, crawling up the leg of Xu Mu’s pants and into his palm.

“What’s going on? Xu Mu, you can control other people’s Gu insects?”

Ji Qingge couldn’t help but ask.

Zhao Qian and Wang Pengyan exchanged a glance. They both knew what had happened.

Back when the Valley of Ten Thousand Tribes and the Eternal Life Research Institute had caused that incident, senior cleaners like them had reviewed the case multiple times.

Among them, Xu Mu had been a great help. He had used his unique technique to counter-control Chi Ting’s corpse army.

Now it seemed that what Xu Mu had done then was exactly this technique.

“Impressive mental technique. If I hadn’t seen it with my own eyes, I wouldn’t believe that a mental technique could actually control sacred Gu insects.”

Li Chenshuang crossed her arms, and terrifying bolts of lightning covered her forearms.

Ji Qingge was also baffled—she had never heard of a technique that could control Gu insects.

“Alright, I think I understand now.”

Li Chenshuang smiled.

“In short, your technique doesn’t directly control the corpses—it controls the sacred Gu insects. That’s how you command them and give orders.”

Xu Mu nodded lightly. “Then why can Chi Ting counter-control them?”

“Because the mother has absolute dominance over her larvae. Think of it this way: the larvae are essentially part of the mother. Even if you take control of the larvae, the mother can issue a single command and reclaim them.”

Li Chenshuang raised her slender finger. “That command is the highest order, and no ability can override it.”

“I see. That means I can use the larvae to drive those corpses, but as long as Chi Ting gives an order, the two larvae will return to the mother.”

Xu Mu also had sacred Gu insects inside him. The mother in his body held absolute authority over any larvae that had been split off.

When he controlled the larvae, he was actually commanding the mother, and the mother commanded the larvae.

“Exactly, that’s it.”

Li Chenshuang nodded.

Xu Mu took a deep breath. “If that’s the case, I can only use those two corpses when Chi Ting isn’t around. That complicates things.”

His original plan was to take the corpses of those two men and cause trouble for the Baishi tribe.

But since Chi Ting was confirmed to be there, he could easily stop the corpses at any moment.

That meant Xu Mu would be facing fifth-rank experts directly.

“Brother Mu, if that’s the case, wouldn’t it be better to have the seniors send an expert to escort us? With just the two of us, going up against a fifth-rank expert is still too much.”

Chen Xuan said from the side.

When Ji Qingge heard this, she was baffled. Facing a fifth-rank expert and only finding it “a bit too much”?

That was some impressive acting.

Forget fifth-rank—against a fourth-rank, the two of them would be one-shot before they even knew it.

“Xu Mu, since you can control these larvae, I have an idea. It’s up to you whether you’ll agree.”

Li Chenshuang suddenly gave a faint smile.

“Don’t smile like that—it creeps me out. Just tell me your plan first. With both seniors here, we can discuss it together.”

Xu Mu looked toward Zhao Qian and Wang Pengyan.

Li Chenshuang lifted her finger, and at its tip appeared two black Gu insects that looked like maggots. “Immortal Gu, parasitic Gu.”

“Immortal Gu?”

Xu Mu knew the general classification of Gu insects—Immortal Gu was just below Sacred Gu.

“That’s right. This Gu is used by the Jiuli tribe to control traitor armies. To put it simply, before it parasitizes, it’s extremely fragile. If someone uses their Qi and simply erupts internally, they can kill it outright.”

Li Chenshuang explained. “So implanting a parasitic Gu requires the host’s consent—allowing the Gu to gnaw through flesh and nerves. Once it successfully parasitizes, it integrates completely and becomes mine to command.”

“You mean you want to parasitize the parasitic Gu onto the You Yi insects?”

Xu Mu immediately saw what Li Chenshuang was getting at.

“Exactly. By all logic, a parasitic Gu could never parasitize a You Yi insect. As a Sacred Gu, the You Yi insect’s very aura would terrify the parasitic Gu into paralysis.”

Li Chenshuang smiled. “But since you can control the You Yi insects, if you let them accept it, once the parasitic Gu succeeds, the You Yi insects will become my property.”

Xu Mu rubbed his chin. “Sister sure has a sharp mind. If I agree to your proposal, from now on those two corpses over there would be completely under your command, right?”

Zhao Qian and Wang Pengyan’s expressions also turned serious.

Xian Lingcui and Xian Lingbu were one at sixth-rank Break Realm and the other at fifth-rank.

Driven by the You Yi insects, they could unleash at least seventy to eighty percent of their original power.

That meant these two corpses could put out fifth-rank and fourth-rank power.

For the Jiuli tribe to suddenly gain combatants of that level—the Sanitation Department certainly wouldn’t want to see that.

“Heh, you’re right.”

Earlier, while chatting with Zhao Qian, Li Chenshuang had already learned about the strength and identities of those corpses.

If she could control both corpses, her Second Tribe’s power would skyrocket.

This was a massive opportunity—but only if they agreed.

Li Chenshuang noticed that Xu Mu didn’t reply right away, so she continued, “I can promise you that I will never let these two corpses do anything that threatens Yan Huang. Besides, you could easily destroy them.”

Hearing this, Zhao Qian waved his hand. “This is Xu Mu’s own business. We won’t interfere.”

“Xu Mu, come with me. I can offer you a few more benefits.”

Upon hearing this, Li Chenshuang grabbed Xu Mu’s arm and headed toward a distant mountain peak.