The blurred dreamscape and the white fog of the present world rose.
A chubby little red fox emerged from it, frowned, and extended its paw to scoop up the red thread crawling on its master's new shoes, watching it curl and wriggle on the paw.
What is this?
How did it crawl onto the master's new shoes?
The master's new shoes are very expensive!
It held the worm up to show its master.
Both the master and the apprentice had used the Bright Eyes Soup, granting them insight into subtle things.
The fox apprentice could see the worm clearly, and Bai Mo could even discern the wrinkles on the worm's body, its semi-transparent flesh, and its twitching mouthparts.
Is this the worm lurking in the Immortal Medicine Soil?
This species hasn't been seen on Fox Mountain, is it the Red Line Insect recorded in literature?
Moreover, how many of these worms are there in today's Immortal Soil?
Bai Mo instinctively turned around, swept his gaze across the whole scene, and started observing.
He saw a Red Line Insect had already burrowed into Master Chong's shoe, climbed into his sock, and entered his pore, with half of its body still outside, struggling to get in.
He saw one expert and committee member after another, almost all of whom were affected, with worms crawling into their shoes, socks, or pant legs, but they were still immersed in the joy of the medicine field's completion, looking extremely excited.
The students in the back row were chatting and laughing, but the pores on Zhang Shan's instep had short worm tails drilling into them. Under the scab on Lu Yang's ankle, Red Line Insects were burrowing in as well.
Almost no one noticed anything unusual.
After all... these worms are so tiny, even if they enter the pores, it's undetectable.
And from the black soil, more and more Red Line Insects, caught by the sunlight's refraction, in the warmth, were gradually curling, gradually wriggling, gradually awakening, gradually crawling out, seeking blood feed!
...
On the podium, Chairman Chen Shu continued speaking.
"...Of course, this is not the only grass field belonging to our West State City.
"The dreamland Immortal Soil here comes from the support of all Immortal-Related Personnel nationwide, it belongs to all Immortal-Related Personnel.
"Subsequently, we will continue to engage in close cooperation with Immortal Technique Committees from other cities..."
The smiles on everyone's faces remained unchanged, happily whispering to one another.
Bai Mo summoned his Peach Blossom Eyes, attracting the expert's attention beside him.
Sitting next to him, Master Chong looked over.
"What are you doing?"
Before he could finish speaking, from under the sunglasses, a cricket rushed out of the eye socket, chirping, climbing down his face, slipping through his shirt, sliding through his pants, then out of his pant leg, onto his shoe, where it found the red worm drilling into Master Chong's pore!
Others couldn't see, but Bai Mo and his Peach Blossom Eyes could clearly see the cricket, extremely fierce, swallowing the red worm like slurping noodles!
Its mouthparts vibrated bit by bit, rapidly drawing the red worm from Master Chong's pore, slurping it into its belly.
The cricket seemed to have a mental connection with Master Chong, despite being unable to see the red worm, he realized what was happening, his face turned pale, sweat beading on his forehead.
"Damn! What the hell..."
The expert on Master Chong's other side, Master Hu Gou, who followed the "Beast Taming" path, had a dirty one-eyed black dog lying at his feet, its fur matted into clumps, filthy like a stray dog. At this moment, the stray dog's nose twitched, starting to sniff, and suddenly "woof!" it took a bite, chewing on Master Hu Gou's shoe, gnawing through the shoe, gnawing through the toe, drawing blood, causing Master Hu Gou to cry out "Ouch!"
Master Hu Gou dared not strike the dog, his face twisted in terror, hastily reaching to pat the dog's head, attempting communication, only to see the dog eagerly smacking its lips, drinking Master Hu Gou's blood... What others didn't understand, Bai Mo saw clearly, the dog drank blood to extract the Red Line Insect.
Sitting in front, Professor Zhang's graduate student, a girl, also quickly turned pale as iron. She, being a Medicine Person, with keen senses, felt a worm invading her body. Immediately, she took out a black bean, popped it into her mouth, chewed it to bits and swallowed it. Her skin rapidly turned black, her entire being transformed into a Poison Person, she burped, exhaled a breath of black air, and reverted to normal. But in just a moment of transforming into a Poison Person, she successfully poisoned the red worm inside her, eliminating the threat.
Several other experts each caused a commotion, using different methods to detect anomalies and expel the worms!
On the podium, Chairman Chen Shu, aware of the disturbances below, was puzzled, when suddenly his face changed!
He too felt a worm burying into his pores! Without pausing his speech, he extended his right hand, pierced his finger, discreetly slipped his hand inside his garment, drawing a talisman on his thigh. The talisman completed in an instant, a surge of energy spawned from it, streamed down his leg's meridian channel, surged into his foot, and struck the pore where the worm burrowed.
With a pop!
The force carried a thin trail of blood, expelling the Red Line Insect from the pore, shattering his sock and shoe.
At this moment, he was flustered...he was affected, the experts were affected, what about the ordinary members of the Immortal Book Committee? The sixty plus students? Would they avoid being affected?
Of course not!
That group would be affected even more severely and swiftly!
Over a hundred people present, all falling into this mess?!
In the blink of a heart-thought, he continued reciting from the script, quickly wrapping up that section, before switching topics abruptly, addressing the microphone, and announcing immediately.
"Now there's an urgent matter to announce.
"Everyone now, immediately, line up, quickly exit the Immortal Grass Cultivation Base.
"Do not take detours, line up towards the nearest East Hall.
"Except for those present, nobody else is allowed to approach along the way!
"Understood?
"Immortal Technique Committee members organize, and ask the experts for assistance."
...
After his speech, students and Immortal Technique Committee members, puzzled about what had happened, exchanged perplexed glances.
"What's going on?"
"The meeting was going fine, why the sudden evacuation?"
"What's happening?"
Nonetheless, they showed commendable discipline, immediately lined up, left this piece of black dreamland Immortal Soil, heading towards the nearest East Hall.
A group of experts, their foreheads sweating. When looking down at the black soil beneath them, a sense of dread crept up. They lined up alongside the queue, each demonstrating their skills, striving to protect the students and Immortal Technique Committee members.
Bai Mo followed the queue out as well. He had already thought of the best solution for dealing with these worms, issuing orders to Fox Mountain.
...
Fox Mountain was in the dead of night.
Two chubby little foxes, their eyes glowing dark red, one wielding a stone hammer, the other holding a kettle, guarded the stone slot, "bang bang bang" pestling the medicine.
The two types of herbs were worthless, plucked casually from the roadside.
The water in the kettle was also worthless, the leftover from dinner.
At this time, with the medicine thoroughly pulverized, "swoosh swoosh swoosh" the water got poured in.
The originally clear water gradually tinted with a faint green hue.
"Yip yip yip!"
"Howl howl howl!"
The task entrusted by the master, completed!