The Demonic Cultivator In Zombie World-Chapter 289: A Fortuitous Change of Host

Xiao Huo roared in desperation, "Impossible! Stop talking nonsense! Put Yan'er down, he's just a child!"

Lie Yong laughed uproariously, "A child? 'The fault of the son is the teaching of the father!' I will kill him, and then I will kill you!"

With that, his knife swept across swiftly.

In an instant, fresh blood spurted from Xiao Yan's neck as he collapsed to the ground.

Xiao Huo frantically tried to piece together his grandson's head and body. But the two Fire Ants had already charged, one from each side.

With a crunching sound, Xiao Huo was killed on the spot. Lie Hei and Shi Wu stepped forward, laughing heartily.

"Well done! Now, the Fire Ant Tribe will be ours!"

Lie Yong managed a strained smile, turned around, and said with a complex expression, "Father, you never told me about your dealings with the Rock Ant Tribe."

Lie Hei sighed deeply, "Such matters couldn't be shared with you—I feared you might leak them. Now, with Lie Xiu dead, we can easily pin everything on Xiao Huo. Just say that he, unable to become patriarch for so long, harbored thoughts of assassinating Lie Xiu. You, Lie Yong, discovered this and heroically struck down Xiao Huo, alas, too late to save the patriarch."

Shi Wu smirked slightly, "A clever plan indeed!"

Lie Yong nodded, then suddenly said, "I think adding another corpse might make the story even more believable."

No sooner had he spoken than his two Fire Ants unexpectedly lunged at the unguarded Shi Wu!

Shi Wu, shocked and furious, desperately tried to summon his own Rock Ants.

But it was too late.

The sharp forelegs of the Fire Ants had already pierced his chest. The searing flames engulfed his body.

Shi Wu screamed in agony. Soon, there was no more sound from him.

The two Rock Ants, linked to his psyche, also screamed and fell motionless.

Lie Hei's eyes widened in shock, "Son! What... what have you done?!"

Lie Yong calmly replied, "Killed him, can't you see?"

Lie Hei, stomping in anger, exclaimed, "Of course, I know you killed Shi Wu, but why?!"

Lie Yong scoffed, "You didn't actually believe Shi Wu's nonsense, did you? The ambitions of the Rock Ant Tribe are clear to all the neighboring tribes. Now, with two Silver Insect Masters from our tribe dead, our strength is greatly diminished. It's likely that the Rock Ant Tribe might seize this opportunity to attack. Killing Shi Wu now weakens them a bit."

Lie Hei was startled, then enlightened.

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"Son, you are the smarter one." He gave a thumbs up. "Let's clean up the battlefield and leave."

Lie Yong spoke evenly, "After we return, we'll say that Xiao Huo conspired with Shi Wu to assassinate Lie Xiu."

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Lie Hei was effusive in his praise, "Very good! We'll do as you suggest."

While searching through Xiao Huo's clothes, Lie Yong suddenly felt something hard at his chest. He struggled to pull it out from between the layers of clothing. It was a shard of a mirror.

"Huh, what's this?"

Lie Yong couldn't help but be surprised.

What could be so important that Xiao Huo carried it on his person? Instinct told him this was no ordinary item. He immediately pocketed it.

"Indeed, I was not mistaken about Lie Yong," Chu Xuan mused appreciatively. "Brave and clever, with a temperament far superior to Xiao Huo's. Finally, a more formidable host."

Chu Xuan reflected deeply. He had been unable to intervene in the recent battle, merely observing from the sidelines. A change in host, however, might prove beneficial. Lie Yong might well achieve even greater heights.

...

Nighttime.

Lie Yong returned with the bodies of Lie Xiu, Xiao Huo, and Shi Wu. He told the people a convoluted and incredible tale. Whether they believed him or not didn't matter. The important part was that in his story, he occupied the moral high ground, positioning himself to judge others.

Moreover, the presence of Shi Wu's body, a Silver Insect Master from the Rock Ant Tribe, made the Fire Ant Tribe's animosity towards the Rock Ant Tribe drive them to instinctively support and believe Lie Yong.

Combined with Lie Yong's behavior over the decades, which had been more laudable than Xiao Huo's, all these factors quickly quelled the unrest within the Fire Ant Tribe.

The elders decided that they would elect Lie Yong as the new chieftain of the Fire Ant Tribe the following day.

...

In a room built of red bricks.

Lie Yong washed and, clad only in a soft, white leather kilt, returned to his bed. Beside him, only his two Fire Ants, deep in slumber, kept him company—closer to him than even his wife and children.

Lie Yong personally prepared two large bowls of food and placed them before the Fire Ants. "Big Fire, Little Fire, you two played a significant role today, enjoy a hearty meal."

The two Fire Ants animatedly moved their antennae and then began to feast.

Lie Yong smiled faintly. The larger of the two Fire Ants had been with him since he was fifteen. This Fire Ant was fiercer and stronger than its siblings, and its flames were hotter and more intense. Lie Yong often marveled at his luck in selecting the best ant egg back then.

"Ah, the mirror shard from Xiao Huo..." Lie Yong seemed to remember something. He walked over to the table and picked up a shard of mirror with two fingers.

He reclined on the bed, examining the shard closely, but could see nothing unusual about it. "Is it just my imagination? Is this merely an ordinary piece of mirror..."

He was about to set the Mirror shard down when suddenly, Chu Xuan's consciousness condensed into words, which appeared on the surface of the mirror.

"Orifice Opening Scripture!"

Lie Yong noticed the lines of text. He was initially stunned, then his expression turned to one of ecstatic delight. This scripture promised the opening of an additional Insect Orifice upon cultivation! No wonder Xiao Huo had been able to open two Insect Orifices. It had been with the aid of this Orifice Opening Scripture!

"I already possess two Insect Orifices. If I can open another, that will make three Insect Orifices," Lie Yong mused. "I am only forty-eight years old; given some time, I might even break through to the level of a Golden Insect Master!"

Overjoyed, Lie Yong immediately began to silently recite the "Orifice Opening Scripture" and embarked earnestly on his cultivation.

Chu Xuan nodded slightly. This Lie Yong, indeed, displayed a sharper intuition than Xiao Huo. He had only needed to reveal the "Orifice Opening Scripture" once, and Lie Yong had nearly memorized it entirely.

"Changing hosts was indeed a good choice," Chu Xuan thought with a slight smile. "Time for this old man to play his part again."

The "Orifice Opening Scripture" was derived from the Foundation Establishment stage technique known as the "Blood Worms Tome."

Chu Xuan still had other gu insect techniques at hand, such as a Golden Core stage technique called the "Fire Gu Refinement Method."

To him, these were no longer of much use. However, he could modify them and continue to provide them to Lie Yong to help him strive for higher levels of cultivation.

"However, Lie Yong has good intuition; perhaps he could modify the technique on his own. I might as well teach him the original text directly. It's not about being lazy; it's about letting him exercise his skills."

Chu Xuan once again condensed his consciousness into text, displaying the first half of the "Fire Gu Refinement Method." Still, he chose to omit words like gu insects and Spiritual Qi, substituting them with terms like yao insects and energy.

As for the second half...

Well, that could be exchanged for cultivation methods!