That shout of "I'm back" was truly strange.
He stood there, his gaze darting about. First, his eyes swept over the surrounding apricot grove, then they landed on Yu Wenxu.
He immediately cried out, a mix of pleasant surprise and agitation in his voice, "General Yu! Quick, I have urgent military intelligence for the Grand General! We who were poisoned by the Gu... Oh no!"
He was halfway through his sentence when his expression suddenly changed.
Behind Song Ciwan, a scorpion tail suddenly shot high into the air.
It was the half-human, half-scorpion Female Cultivator. She had been lying on the ground, her condition identical to the others afflicted with the Alien Gu—on the verge of death, looking as if she could expire at any moment.
