My Silly, Sweet Wife

However, Ye Guichen not only avoided it but did so with such composure.

Could this guy really be not as ordinary as he appears on the surface?

As the Barbarian King thought this, his feet did not stop. He once again strode forward to Ye Guichen, extending his fist to strike him.

Ye Guichen grew somewhat impatient: "I told you, I wasn’t the one who used the poison. I can help cure Man Wu, but if you keep entangling with me, don’t blame me for being rude!"

As soon as he finished speaking, a hundred swords were unleashed.

With Ye Guichen’s current increase in cultivation, the power of the hundred swords also greatly enhanced.

If Ye Guichen wished, using the hundred swords to decimate the Barbarian King before him was no problem at all.

The Barbarian King seemed to have sensed the terrifying killing intent emanating from the sword array and finally halted in time.

But the Barbarian King’s dignity could not be compromised.

"If Man Wu dies, you won’t escape the Barbarian Tribe, but if you manage to bring him back to life, I can help you enter the Land of Life’s Wellspring."

This already counts as a compromise.

"Alright!" Ye Guichen didn’t say much more, turning to move beside Man Wu.

Now, the Barbarians looked at Ye Guichen with eyes not just filled with anger, but more with confusion, and even admiration.

The abilities Ye Guichen displayed just now made many Barbarians feel incredulous.

A human cultivator possessing such tremendous power was in itself a display of strength.

It gave them reason to admire him.

In fact, they were not as repelled as before.

Yet Ye Guichen didn’t know what these Barbarians were thinking. After approaching Man Wu, he directly took his pulse.

With just a slight examination, Ye Guichen’s brows immediately furrowed.

It was corpse energy?

Logically, ordinary corpse energy shouldn’t harm a master like Man Wu, and even in small amounts, it should not be able to affect a master like him.

However, within Man Wu’s body, there seemed to be a bizarre force directly controlling him.

If that entity wished, it could take Man Wu’s life on the spot.

"Corpse worm?"

A term flashed through Ye Guichen’s mind.

After gaining some understanding of corpse cultivators, he knew they were intricately linked to human cultivators and even had connections to the Witch Sect.

They seemed to refine a kind of corpse worm.

This corpse worm is similar to the gu worms of the Witch Sect.

Yet, depending on the corpse cultivator’s level, the power of the corpse worm varies.

But the corpse worm that entered Man Wu’s body was obviously unusual, able to paralyze Man Wu’s body in an instant and then penetrate his heart.

As long as the owner of the corpse worm gives an order, the worm will entirely occupy Man Wu’s heart with corpse energy.

By then, Man Wu would likely become a puppet.

This control over the puppet is akin to the control gu worms have over corpses.

It shares a certain similarity with Qianji Sect’s control over puppets.

However, this control over the physical body through corpse worms requires the presence of residual consciousness.

Which means, Man Wu cannot completely die yet.

The corpse worm controls Man Wu’s consciousness to control his body.

In this state, it’s similar to a false death.

However, Man Wu still needs to consume food to maintain his strength and power.

"Was it the work of that corpse cultivator?"

With a bit of thought, Ye Guichen thought of that white-clad corpse cultivator earlier.

But he couldn’t quite make sense of why that white-clad corpse cultivator did this.

Moreover, even if he revealed the truth now, he feared no one would believe him; surely they would more likely see him as the one who released the corpse worm.

"This is a stalemate!"

Ye Guichen appeared calm on the surface, but his mind was swiftly calculating.

A moment later, Ye Guichen formed a plan.

Without revealing any hint of his plan.

If the other party truly wanted to kill Man Wu, he would have long been dead.

But now Man Wu is only being controlled, not dead.

This implies the other party likely intends to turn Man Wu into a puppet.

If that’s the case, why not turn this situation to his advantage?