Chapter 23 Bone-Melting Maggots

After Ye Yang released his second sword, five pebbles struck the other side of the grave pit in the air, and after rebounding, smashed into the coffin.

After five strange sounds of pebbles embedding into wood, the locking mechanism completely opened, and the coffin lid burst into the air, with rolling black gas surging out.

The black gas, like a tide, angrily rolled towards Ye Yang, but Ye Yang, with a slight tremor in his ears, held his sword horizontally in front of him.

As soon as Ye Yang's sword stopped, two crisp sounds came from the blade.

The sword body also suddenly bent backwards under the impact of some force, pressing against Ye Yang's eye socket.

With a single-handed exertion, Ye Yang released the force from his feet, and using the tremendous force from the sword, slid backwards five feet, and then exerted force again with his feet, sinking them into the ground.

Ye Yang tapped his toes three times in a row, and both feet sank three inches into the soil at the same time. The sword in his hand remained motionless. "What's on my sword?"

"Two bugs!" Nie Xiao Chun indeed saw two white bugs on the sword that looked like silkworms, but had a pair of wings.

Even now, the two white bugs were still shaking their wings, desperately pushing against Ye Yang's long sword, trying to break the sword and hurt him.

"I know!" Ye Yang sneered and shook the sword with one hand, and the long sword instantly burst out a dragon's roar. With just this sword cry, Ye Yang's long sword vibrated more than a hundred times in succession.

The two white bugs on the sword were instantly shattered by the long sword.

Before the shattered white bugs could land, Ye Yang reversed the sword and wrapped the juice of the exploded bugs on the blade, and with a backhand, stabbed the coffin from which black gas was gushing.

As Ye Yang's sword swept through the air, the long sword did not stop rotating. When the sword pointed towards the heavy mist, the long sword had already spun into a cylindrical white light.

Under the traction of the long sword, the sky-filled black mist turned into a conical whirlwind, directly attacking the figure sitting up from the coffin.

In an instant, Ye Yang had already straddled the edge of the coffin with his feet, and the long sword in his hand had pierced the corpse's brow that was sitting up in the coffin.

The insect corpses stuck to Ye Yang's sword also penetrated into the corpse's brain along the blade.

In just a few seconds, blackened blood plasma poured out from the corpse's orifices, and the entire corpse withered like a deflated ball at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Ye Yang's long sword took advantage of the situation to pick upwards, and lifted up half of a blood-soaked human skin.

Nie Xiao Chun, who had rushed up, was so frightened by the scene in front of her that she took several steps back. "This... what's going on?"

Ye Yang threw the human skin on the ground, "Because of those two bugs just now. Go down and look for it. There should be a queen bug in the coffin. Grab it!"

When Ye Yang jumped to the ground, he added, "Don't worry, that bug can't hurt the soul. Just put it in a bottle. Don't let it run away!"

After Nie Xiao Chun picked up the shovel and jumped into the coffin, an ear-piercing scream came from the coffin. The sound was like a frightened mouse, squeaking and screaming as it scurried back and forth in the coffin.

Ye Yang just glanced back at the grave where the shovel was flying up and down, then turned his head and slowly spread the human skin on the ground with his sword.

The sound of the shovel hitting the coffin kept coming from behind Ye Yang. The shattered coffin, the splashing clods of earth, flew all over the sky, but the squeaking screams in the coffin became smaller and smaller.

Ye Yang shouted without turning his head, "Be gentle, don't kill it!"

"You're telling me what to do?" Nie Xiao Chun, in a fit of rage, raised the shovel and slapped it a few times in the coffin. Ye Yang only heard a crack, and then saw the shovel head fly out of the coffin, spinning several times in the air before falling to the ground.

After a while, Nie Xiao Chun jumped out of the grave carrying a bug that she had almost flattened into a pancake. She rummaged in the car for a mineral water bottle and forced the bug into it. "Here you go!"

Ye Yang glanced at the bottle, "You hold it for now! We'll give it to Yun Shang when we get back."

Nie Xiao Chun shook the bottle vigorously twice. "Be honest, or I'll hit you again!"

The bug seemed to understand human language. It immediately quieted down after being shaken by Nie Xiao Chun. Nie Xiao Chun then smiled and said, "What is this thing?"

"Huagu Qu (Bone-Melting Maggot)!" Ye Yang said while fiddling with the human skin, "It's a rather strange kind of Gu insect!"

"This thing can only hatch in the graveyard. Smashing the bugs and smearing them on a person's wound can turn the person's flesh and bones into blood. Leaving only a human skin."

"If you dry the bugs and put them in tea for someone to drink, that person will die suddenly within a few hours. The corpse won't leave any traces except for a few blood spots that can be found in the eyebrows."

Nie Xiao Chun looked at the Bone-Melting Maggot in the bottle again. "How do you know these things?"

Ye Yang said without raising his head, "Don't forget, I'm related to Bei Yiye. To put it bluntly, Bei Yiye is a tomb-raiding family with the name of scholars. They know everything related to cemeteries."

While Ye Yang was speaking, he had already spread the human skin completely on the ground, and his eyes also showed a trace of solemnity. "Xiao Chun, contact Ben Gou (Stupid Dog). If he's free, talk to him."