495: Chapter 495 The Gu Mother Recognizes Her Master

Su Mingyuan's consciousness was once again dragged into his Sea of Consciousness.

He was not unfamiliar with this feeling.

He had experienced it once before during the incident with the Evil Bone Skeleton.

Gritting his teeth, Su Mingyuan steadied his stance and opened his eyes.

He saw a huge butterfly flying above his head.

The butterfly's wings spanned fully dozens of meters, its entire body dark purple, and the wing surfaces were covered with twisted, writhing lines of spiritual power, looking like countless living blood vessels crawling across the wing membranes.

With every flap of the butterfly's wings, Su Mingyuan's Sea of Consciousness shook along with it, the mist at the bottom of his feet churned back and forth, and fine cracks at the edges made a cracking sound.

"Damn it, could this be the Divine Sense of the Gu Mother?"

Su Mingyuan's heart instantly sank to the bottom.

"How did she get into my Sea of Consciousness? Could she be trying to perform Possession on me?"

Su Mingyuan was not unfamiliar with the word Possession.

Not to mention how many times it was repeatedly written in the immortal cultivation novels he read in his past life, just the batch of immortal cultivation Jade Slips he brought back from the Skeleton World had explicit records of it.

When many powerful Cultivators reached the end of their Lifespan or had their Physical Bodies destroyed, they would find a body with outstanding Aptitude and talent, use their Divine Sense to invade its Sea of Consciousness, devour the other party's consciousness, and seize the other party's shell.

As for the person who underwent Possession, their Physical Body was still alive, but the Soul inside had already changed masters.

Thinking of this, Su Mingyuan felt a chill run down his back.

The Gu Mother was a Nascent Soul Stage Cultivator, while he was in the Foundation Establishment Stage Late Stage.

With this gap in cultivation, if she really wanted to perform Possession, it would be as simple as an elephant stepping on an ant.

He had to think of a way.

But the problem was, what way could he think of?

Battles in the Sea of Consciousness could not be solved with fists; this was a crushing disparity between Divine Senses, and the volume of his Divine Sense was not even a fraction of the Gu Mother's.

Before Su Mingyuan could come up with a plan, the butterfly had already moved.

The dark purple butterfly opened its mouth.

Then it took a bite at the edge of the Sea of Consciousness.

Su Mingyuan's brain felt like it had been struck by a heavy club, his vision went dark, and a heartbreaking pain exploded from the depths of his Sea of Consciousness.

Following closely after.

The butterfly chewed twice and took a second bite.

Su Mingyuan let out a muffled groan and dropped to one knee at the bottom of the Sea of Consciousness.

The third bite.

The fourth bite.

With every bite, Su Mingyuan's Sea of Consciousness shrank by a circle, and his consciousness grew even more blurred.

"No, if this keeps going, I'm done for."

Su Mingyuan's brain spun rapidly amidst the pain, but every thought that popped up was interrupted by the next wave of pain, making it impossible to think of a solution.

The butterfly took another bite.

This time it bit deeper, and Su Mingyuan's Sea of Consciousness had already shrunk to less than half of its original size.

His vision began to blur, everything in front of him was swaying, and he could not even clearly see the outline of the butterfly.

Three more bites, at most three bites, and his Sea of Consciousness would be completely devoured.

By then he would no longer be Su Mingyuan.

Su Mingyuan gritted his teeth so hard they clicked, a trace of blood seeping from the corner of his mouth.

Just as the butterfly opened its mouth to take another bite, it suddenly stopped.

Su Mingyuan initially thought he was seeing things and rubbed his eyes; the butterfly had indeed stopped.

He saw the dark purple butterfly slowly turn around, facing the deepest depths of Su Mingyuan's Sea of Consciousness.

The mist there was thickest, a hazy gray expanse where nothing could normally be seen clearly.

But now, the mist was dissipating.

Su Mingyuan also looked over following the butterfly's line of sight.

That Evil Bone Skeleton emerged, floating in mid-air.

But the butterfly's reaction was extremely exaggerated.

The moment it saw the skull, its entire body suddenly stiffened.

Then it let out a sharp scream.

Su Mingyuan's ears were left ringing from this scream.

The Gu Mother's voice followed into Su Mingyuan's ears, carrying an unbelievable tremor.

"The Evil Bone Skeleton?"

"How is this possible? How could the Evil Bone Skeleton appear in your Sea of Consciousness!"

The Gu Mother's tone shifted from shock to terror, and from terror into a nearly roaring unwillingness.

"It appearing in your Sea of Consciousness means that it has already recognized a master. It has recognized a master!"

The butterfly hovered back and forth in mid-air, its wings shaking violently.

"Damn it! Damn it! How could it recognize a master! Even Daoist Wan Shi of the Soul Transformation Stage failed to make the Evil Bone Skeleton recognize a master throughout his entire life! You piece of trash in the Foundation Establishment Stage, how on earth did you do it!"

Su Mingyuan stood in place, his expression a bit dazed.

Recognizing a master?

What recognizing a master?

He did know that the Evil Bone Skeleton was in his Sea of Consciousness; he had seen it after waking up from his last coma.

But he had always thought that thing was just lingering here and refusing to leave, never having thought about the matter of recognizing a master.

"Su Mingyuan! Just how did you make it recognize a master?"

The Gu Mother's voice came over again, "What method on earth did you use! Speak!"

Su Mingyuan's mouth twitched.

"If you ask me, who should I ask?"

He meant those words from the bottom of his heart.

He really didn't know.

The Gu Mother obviously didn't believe it.

The butterfly abruptly pulled back its wings, its entire body pressing toward Su Mingyuan as the lines of spiritual power on the wing surfaces turned into dozens of sharp spikes aimed at the core of his Sea of Consciousness.

"Tell me, and I will spare your life."

"If you don't, I will swallow your Sea of Consciousness along with the skull."

Looking at the shivering butterfly in front of him that was still putting up a stubborn front, Su Mingyuan suddenly felt an indescribable sensation in his heart.

The Gu Mother was just putting on a bluff.

He wasn't sure, but he felt that way.

Because although the Gu Mother kept saying she would devour him, her wings kept trembling, and her body didn't lean forward any further.

She was scared.

Before Su Mingyuan could figure this out, a muffled sound suddenly came from the depths of the Sea of Consciousness behind him.

He saw the Evil Bone Skeleton growing crazily in size.

Ten meters, one hundred meters, two hundred meters, three hundred meters.

It finally stopped at a height of five hundred meters.

The upper half of the entire Sea of Consciousness was completely occupied by it.

In front of it, the butterfly was like a mosquito parked in front of a basketball.

Within the two empty eye sockets of the skull, two dark red flames lit up, aiming directly at the butterfly.

The Gu Mother had never been this scared in her entire life.

She wasn't scared when crossing the Heavenly Tribulation.

She wasn't scared when falling from the Upper Realm.

At this moment, she was afraid.

Her entire insect body shook like a sieve.

At the same time, the skull opened its mouth.

Then it bit down fiercely.

The Gu Mother desperately dodged, her butterfly wings flapping frantically, and all the lines of spiritual power shot backward in an attempt to bounce herself away from the skull's mouth.

She barely managed to dodge the first bite.

But she didn't escape the second bite.

Giving her no time to catch her breath at all, the skull closed and opened its mouth, chasing after the butterfly and taking another bite.

Its teeth bit down on the butterfly's left wing, tearing off a large piece of wing membrane along with the lines of spiritual power, and the Gu Mother's miserable screams resounded through the entire Sea of Consciousness.

Dragging its mutilated left wing, the butterfly flew crazily toward the edge of the Sea of Consciousness.

The skull rotated the flames in its eye sockets, and without seeming to move much, it appeared right in front of the butterfly the next instant.

Another bite.

Half of its right wing was also shattered.

The Gu Mother's miserable screams changed pitch, shifting from sharp to hoarse, filled entirely with despair and terror.

When she ran left, the skull waited on the left.

When she fled right, the skull blocked the right.

When she burrowed downward, the skull's mouth was already opened wide below.

No matter which corner of the Sea of Consciousness she fled to, the skull would arrive instantly as if it had eyes, and then fiercely bite down.

Every single bite carried away a piece of the butterfly.

Su Mingyuan stood in the center of the Sea of Consciousness, tilting his head back to watch this scene with his mouth half open, too shocked to utter a single word.

This scene, how should he put it.

It looked a bit like watching a cat play with a mouse.

Finally, the Gu Mother caved in.

The voice came out from the butterfly's mutilated body, completely different from its previous arrogant tone.

"I... I am willing to recognize a master."

The voice was trembling, every single word shaking.

"I am willing to recognize you as my master, to take your orders from now on, without any disloyalty."

Su Mingyuan stood frozen in place, his brain buzzing with a hum.

Wait.

What is going on?

The Gu Mother who had opened her mouth to devour his Sea of Consciousness just a few minutes ago now wanted to recognize him as her master?