Zi Yi asked Lu Jingye as soon as they walked out of the room, “Where’s that Gu Master? I’ll go and meet with him.”

Lu Jingye looked at her taut expression and raised his hand to hold hers. “This person is a little strange, so wear some protective clothes before you meet him.”

Zi Yi responded with a nod.

The three of them walked to one of the labs. The Gu Master who had been secretly following Zhang Hanyu was locked inside.

Zi Yi did not immediately open the door to the lab. Instead, she knocked on the door several times.

Shortly afterwards, the door changed into a one-way mirror where she was able to see the inside of the room from the outside.

The Gu Master had his hands and legs tied as he leaned against the wall in a corner.

The Gu Master looked like a middle-aged man around his thirties or forties. His clothes and accessories were those from Southern Xinjiang and he seemed to have struggled when he was captured, as his hat had dropped off, revealing his braided hair.

He had an emaciated physique with an average-looking appearance. However, the depth of his eyes looked poisonous and gave off a chilly aura.

“This Gu Master must have been creating poisonous parasites for a long time.”

Zi Yi and Lu Jingye looked at Elder Hu when he spoke.

Elder Hu pointed at the Gu Master’s eyes. “Look at his eyes. It’s a result of his body being eroded by various poisons. Also, don’t you feel that the aura he gives off feels uncomfortable?”

“That’s right.”

“It’s because he has been creating parasites for an extended period of time and dealing with poison. There is poison concealed throughout his body and you have to pay special attention when dealing with someone like him. He can soundlessly cast a parasite on you if you are not careful.”

Zi Yi nodded her head. She thought for a while and said to them, “The both of you stay here. I’ll go and meet him.”

Lu Jingye furrowed his brow. “I’ll go in together with you.”

He was worried about her.

Zi Yi turned around and smiled at him. However, there was a sly glint concealed within her eyes. “I won’t be able to deal with him if you follow me.”

Lu Jingye still had a frown in between his eyebrows.

On the other hand, Elder Hu felt that it was better for Zi Yi to enter alone. “Little Lu, we can stay outside and keep watch. As long as Little Zi is in the slightest danger, we’ll head inside.”

Zi Yi nodded in agreement. Following that, she opened the door and made her way inside.

Zi Yi walked toward the Gu Master and kept a safe distance from him when she was around three meters away from him.

The Gu Master raised his head at the sound of the door opening. Currently, he was staring at her with a vicious gaze.

Zi Yi opened her mouth and said, “If you tell me who sent you, I’ll let you off.”

The Gu Master laughed at the sight of Zi Yi. His laughter was extremely weird. “Since I’ve been caught by you people, I have no plans of leaving alive.”

However, he was thinking deep down, “What a pretty appearance. She seems to be a good container for me to cultivate my poisonous insects.” 

Zi Yi looked at the Gu Master. Her eyes looked down while her brows slightly furrowed together. It seemed like she was not satisfied with the Gu Master’s answer, but dared not approach him.

The smile on the Gu Master’s face deepened. “Even if you’ve captured me, you don’t dare to approach me, do you?

“I have all kinds of different parasites with me. I heard that you just got married. Why don’t I give you a pair of love parasites? In that case, you’ll be able to ensure that your man will never have a change of heart.”

Zi Yi looked at the Gu Master who acted as if he was thinking for her benefit. She did not answer him but instead, asked in a serious tone, “Do you really have no intentions of telling me who sent you?”

The Gu Master snorted and said provocatively, “What can you do to me if I don’t reveal anything?”

“Nothing.” Zi Yi took out a bottle from her pocket and said with a calm expression, “I have developed some poison these past few days and I’d like to see if the poison I’ve developed can kill those poisonous parasites of yours.”

The Gu Master looked at the bottle in her hands for several seconds. He felt as if she was being ridiculous and said, “Do you know how poisonous parasites come about?”

“Yes, I know. You catch a hundred poisonous insects and have them fight each other in a container. The last one standing would become the parasite.”

“Then do you know that the winning insect would also mutate?”

“I know.”

“Ha… Then do you think that your poison can kill the parasite I created using a hundred different types of poisonous insects?”

“Do you want to give it a try?”

Zi Yi revealed an expression full of curiosity.

The Gu Master looked at her expression and sneered internally. “Hmph! Naive and ignorant!”

He said, “Since you want to give it a try, then untie my ropes.”

As long as she dared to approach him, he would let her have a taste of being inflicted with a parasite!

A woman like her would be perfect to be the container for his precious parasites.

Zi Yi looked at his cold gaze and said to the air, “Untie his ropes.”

The Gu Master subconsciously looked around. When he was still wondering who she had been talking to, he felt someone loosening the ropes on his hands.

He turned around to take a look but did not discover anyone behind him.

His expression changed for a moment before it returned to normal in the next second.

As soon as the ropes on his hands were released, he flung his hands towards Zi Yi.

A small parasite that was flying toward Zi Yi was unexpectedly caught by a hand that suddenly appeared when the parasite was around a meter away from Zi Yi.

Following that, the Gu Master widened his eyes in disbelief at the sight of a person appearing out of thin air.

There was a special barrier in Shadow’s hand. When the parasite ended up in its palms, it could only lie there obediently.

Shadow stretched out its hands towards Zi Yi. She stared at the Gu Master and opened the bottle of poison before she poured it on the parasite.

Shortly after, while the Gu Master was watching in disbelief, the parasite seemed to have met with boiling oil, as it squirmed and struggled while producing sizzling sounds. In the end, it turned into powder.

Zi Yi looked at the powder in Shadow’s hands and said out of curiosity, “I wonder if the powder is poisonous… go and have it checked.”

As soon as she said that, Shadow turned invisible.

Zi Yi turned to look at the Gu Master who was standing rooted in the same spot due to shock. The corner of her lips curled up and she asked, “Do you want to give it a try again?”

The expression of the Gu Master changed several times before he said sternly, “I’d like to see if you are capable enough to handle all the parasites I have on me!”

Having said that, he waved his hands again and several parasites flew towards Zi Yi this time.

Zi Yi stood there without moving. When the parasites were about one meter away, they were once again frozen in place.

This time around, no hand appeared.

It was just like they had been frozen in midair.

The Gu Master was so surprised that his eyeballs nearly fell out.

“You- what sorcery did you use?!”

“Sorcery?” Zi Yi smiled and said in all seriousness, “To tell you the truth, I’m a member of the Hundred Poisons Sect. Do you know what the Hundred Poisons Sect is? It is a mysterious organization and not only can our sect easily create hundreds of poisons, but we also possess mysterious abilities. Just like this right in front of you. It’s called a barrier. As long as you’ve read fantasy novels, you would definitely know what it is.

“Also, I would like to remind you. My patience is limited. I can still play with you now, but if I lose my patience, I will barbeque all your insects and eat them.”

At the thought of the scene Zi Yi had described, the Gu Master’s body trembled.

Elder Hu, who was standing outside the door, muttered at this moment, “Little Zi’s ability to fool people is getting increasingly good. I thought she said that she only believes in science?”

Lu Jingye’s lips curled up, but he did not say anything.

However, even Elder Hu had no idea what was going on and he asked Lu Jingye, “What is that thing that has blocked those parasites from reaching Little Zi?”

Lu Jingye looked at his wife standing inside the room and said a few seconds later, “It’s a magnetic field created by special equipment. That magnetic field can block all substances.”