The Great Heroines’ Path to Immortality

Lu Zhi slowly finished her cultivation, stretched, and felt refreshed all over. Her cultivation had unexpectedly broken through in one go, taking her firmly into the seventh level of Qi Refining. But before she could enjoy her success for long, she noticed that the red spots on her body had multiplied!

After hesitating for a moment, Lu Zhi mustered her courage and used her spiritual sense to inspect her internal organs. She only needed one glance for her scalp to tingle and a chill to run through her body.

The rows upon rows of plump white worms made her wonder for an instant whether she was even still alive.

But Lu Zhi quickly suppressed the death wish rising in her heart. The brain-eating worms inside her did become abnormally restless whenever her cultivation advanced, as if they could break through her skin and crawl out at any moment. But the inside of her head was indeed perfectly clean.

Lu Zhi was deeply troubled. The higher her cultivation, the faster the brain-eating worms grew. But if she stopped cultivating, the gu insects would take over her body. What was she supposed to do?