Chapter 379: Chapter 375: Ancestor Grandma Bai

"Things in this world are never that simple. To use the blood of a Golden Silkworm Gu Snake to achieve eternal youth, you have to let it absorb the Essence Blood of one hundred people—and only after it reaches adulthood."

"And if you want to use its venom to create a cancer drug, you must find a living person to serve as a human vessel. You let the Golden Silkworm Gu bite them, and the venom filters through their body. The moment before the poison kills them, you have to slit the artery in their neck. Only then, once the venom is diluted by human blood and drawn out, can it be used."

Dr. Snake had spent his entire life wanting to use snake venom to save people. He had conducted countless studies and understood every venomous snake inside and out.

He sighed faintly. "Making a cancer drug is supposed to save a life, but if saving one life requires you to first kill another person, then what is the point?"

Whether for its blood or its venom, using the Golden Silkworm Gu required the sacrifice of many human lives. That was why this type of snake had never been part of Dr. Snake’s research.

It was undeniably a potential gold mine, but a murderous one. To get to the gold, you had to sacrifice countless human lives.

Tu Xiao’an now understood completely. This snake was truly evil. ’This is true medical ethics,’ he thought, moved. ’The heart of a man with the compassion of a Bodhisattva.’

He wanted to research things that were purely beneficial to humanity, not some Treasure Medicine that required you to harm someone before you could save another.

Tu Xiao’an couldn’t help but admire him for this. People always say that scientists are madmen who will stop at nothing to achieve their goals. Initially, he thought Chen Mo was like that, too.

But even amidst his fanaticism, he still held on to the light of his humanity.

Just then, Tu Xiao’an’s gaze fell on Dr. Snake’s ruined legs, and his eyes flickered.

"Doctor, this snake is insidious, but it exists now. I’m sure its owner must be well aware of its uses," Tu Xiao’an suddenly remarked.

"That’s also why I came here today. I want to know who is behind this snake and for what purpose. A Golden Silkworm Snake needs to be fed a great number of human lives to mature."

Tu Xiao’an shook his head and looked at the unconscious Yu Zitong. "I’m afraid we’ll have to wait until he wakes up to find out."

Chen Mo nodded, scrutinizing the Golden Silkworm Gu Snake and muttering to himself, "Golden Silkworm Snake, oh, Golden Silkworm Snake... I have such a love-hate relationship with you."

Dr. Snake had spent his life wanting to accomplish something great. He’d spent half of it working with venomous snakes, yet he never dared to get close to this one. He was afraid he wouldn’t be able to control his own ambition.

But now, this very snake had appeared right before his eyes.

Tu Xiao’an, who had sharp hearing, overheard him and rolled his eyes.

Tu Xiao’an and Dr. Snake chatted for about another hour.

COUGH COUGH...

The unconscious Yu Zitong slowly began to stir. His complexion had improved considerably, all thanks to Tu Xiao’an’s Snakeberry.

"I... I’m still alive?" he said weakly as he opened his eyes, his voice filled with disbelief.

Tu Xiao’an hurried over with a smile. "Master Yu, congratulations. You got your life back."

Yu Zitong looked at Tu Xiao’an, knowing it was he who had saved him. He tried to stand and offer his thanks, but his body wouldn’t let him. He broke into a series of coughs, looking as fragile as if a gust of wind could blow him over.

Tu Xiao’an told him not to move, his expression sympathetic as he took in his current state. Although he had managed to remove the Golden Silkworm Gu Snake, Yu Zitong was still rail-thin. That was now his reality.

Furthermore, the Golden Silkworm Gu Snake had drained a huge amount of Yu Zitong’s Life Force, inflicting devastating damage on his body.

In other words, even though his life had been saved for the moment, he definitely wouldn’t live much longer, unless he had access to a large quantity of Heavenly and Earthly Treasures to prolong his life.

"Aiyo, Master Tu, I am filled with regret! I should have listened to you! I never should have taken my cat back to the Bai Family. If I hadn’t returned to the Bai Family, I wouldn’t have fallen into such a miserable state!"

Yu Zitong began to weep with sorrow and despair, coughing between his sobs. He knew that even though his life had been saved, most of his lifespan was already gone.

It was safe to say the Gu Snake had devoured almost all of his remaining years.

"Master Yu, are you saying the Gu Snake inside you was the work of the Bai Family?" Tu Xiao’an had, in fact, already guessed as much.

’The Bai Family... first, they used Mutated Mosquitoes to drain people’s Essence Blood and create Blood Essence. Now, they’re using this sinister, evil snake to harm people.’

’They’re doing it to accelerate the snake’s growth, using people as living cauldrons.’

Yu Zitong nodded in despair. "The Bai Family’s Ancestor Grandma Bai coveted my Golden Pupils. She wanted me to sell them to her, but how could I possibly agree? In the end, they just seized them by force and then kicked me out of the Bai Family."

Tu Xiao’an watched him coolly. He had already described this exact scenario to Yu Zitong, but the man hadn’t taken his words seriously in the slightest. ’In a way,’ Tu Xiao’an thought, ’he brought this on himself.’

"This Grandma wants your cat, but I won’t take it for nothing. I’ll give you a snake in return."

Those words now echoed in Yu Zitong’s mind.

Now, he understood.

’Give me a snake? More like send me to my death!’

"But I never saw so much as a shadow of a snake the entire time. It was only after I left the Bai Family that I noticed something was wrong with my body," Yu Zitong said, bewildered as to how they had managed to plant a Gu Snake inside of him.

Dr. Snake explained, "A Gu Snake has a hundred ways to enter a person’s body without being noticed. Once it’s inside, death is a certainty."

Perhaps up until this point, no one who had a Gu Snake planted inside them had ever survived.

Even if Yu Zitong were to kneel and kowtow deeply to Tu Xiao’an, Tu Xiao’an would have fully deserved it.

Once a Gu Snake enters a human body, not even its own master can summon it back out. The only way it emerges is when the body has nothing left for it to consume—when it has become a withered corpse.

Probably only Tu Xiao’an possessed the skill to forcibly summon the Gu Snake out using his dominance ability.

"If this Gu Snake really is the work of a Bai Family member, then we’re in trouble." Dr. Snake frowned, worried that this wasn’t the only one in existence.

Only a fully mature Gu Snake was truly valuable; only its blood and venom could become a Treasure Medicine.

But raising a Gu Snake to maturity required the sacrifice of many human lives.

As a doctor dedicated to healing the sick and saving the dying, he couldn’t bear to witness such a thing.

"Master Yu, you mentioned the Bai Family’s Ancestor Grandma. Is she an old lady?"

’To be called ’Ancestor Grandma,’ she must be incredibly old.’

Yu Zitong shook his head. "This Ancestor Grandma seems to be the true person in charge of the Bai Family, but from her appearance, she doesn’t seem old at all. She looks like she’s not even forty."

An image of a beautiful, graceful woman with an enduring charm surfaced in his mind.

"Doctor, do you know much about the Bai Family? Do you have any idea what this Ancestor Grandma’s background is?"

The doctor shook his head. "Those hidden families have always been secretive. The outside world knows very little about them."

Tu Xiao’an mused, "An ’Ancestor Grandma’ who looks like she’s not even forty... Could she have drunk the blood of a Golden Silkworm Gu Snake?"

"Many hidden families resort to unknown, sinister methods to achieve their goals," Dr. Snake sighed. When it came to the Bai Family, he was powerless to get involved.

’If it’s really as I suspect, then that means the Bai Family must have a fully mature Golden Silkworm Gu Snake,’ Tu Xiao’an thought, his eyes lighting up.

Clearly, the Golden Silkworm Snake from Yu Zitong’s body was not yet mature; from the looks of it, it was still a long way off.

This was what made this type of Gu Snake so terrifying—it wasn’t even mature, yet it had already reached the Awakening Level.

’What would a truly mature Golden Silkworm Gu Snake be like?’ he wondered. He was very curious. The Bai Family’s Ancestor Grandma that Yu Zitong mentioned was also shrouded in mystery.