Chapter 703

Zhi, zhi, zhi!

Losing the Long Qi, the golden-armored insect shrieked incessantly.

Liang Qu cut his finger with the Green Wolf, pulled the Time Insect open with one hand, and carved a "Chuan" character symbol on its back.

The faint blood light disappeared.

"Ugh!"

Liang Qu's mouth and nose bled, he was dizzy, and feeling the Time Insect struggling, he subconsciously gripped it in his hand to prevent it from escaping.

The second attempt at control failed.

Not only did it fail, but the backlash was not small.

"Cocooning once didn't change the Time Insect's attributes much."

Liang Qu wiped away the nosebleed, and double images appeared before his eyes.

After cocooning once, the Time Insect's mental power grew much higher than its combat power, and he felt nothing at the first failure.

"I have to find something to hold it. Third Prince, Bai Awei, watch it!"

The little Xiao Xiao Shenlong spat out the Mirage Tiger, firmly grabbing the Time Insect.

"Senior brother, is there any material better than this? Something that can withstand biting?"

After dinner.

Liang Qu carried the cracked jade bamboo tube and found Lu Gang, who had just returned from the Heavenly Craftsman.

Lu Gang took the bamboo tube and looked at it from front to back.

"Bitten by an insect?"

"Senior brother has sharp eyes."

"It's not hard to recognize. Thirty or forty-year-old jade bamboo is mostly used to hold poisonous insects. To be bitten like this, what a powerful insect..." Lu Gang rubbed the dense gaps on the edge of the bamboo tube with his fingertips, guessed the situation at the time, and thought for a moment, "It wasn't too easy to bite. You just need to go buy a jade seed bamboo that is over two hundred years old. It won't be able to bite it. It shouldn't be hard to find in the capital. The Heavenly Bo Chamber of Commerce should have it."

"Got it!" Liang Qu looked up, "Long Yao, Long Li, I'm going out, have someone clean up the quiet room!"

"Understood!"

The quiet room of a practitioner is always inevitable to experience devastation.

About half an hour before and after.

Large pieces of trash were swept out of the quiet room, and brand-new meditation cushions and tables and chairs were moved in.

Liang Qu ran to the Heavenly Bo Chamber of Commerce, squandered more than 1,500 taels, and a brand-new large jade bamboo tube was produced.

Worried that it was too small and the Time Insect wouldn't be comfortable, he specifically asked for an extra-large one, as thick as an ordinary person's thigh.

Touching the more than 50,000 taels in his pocket again, after the water-marsh essence was insufficient, the money was also becoming increasingly scarce...

Eh~

Difficult, difficult, difficult.

Two months have passed, the big beaver's boat model at home should be finished, and I will ask Toad Boss to exchange for some good things another day.

The Mermaid Clan has received their dividends, and it's time to pay some "rent."

Peng, peng, peng!

In the newly cleaned quiet room, Long Yao lit a new incense burner, Long Li brought a candlestick, the bamboo tube swayed and vibrated violently, the Time Insect rushed back and forth, but couldn't get out at all, and everything returned to its original appearance.

Long Li looked at the bamboo tube: "Elder is raising insects again?"

"What do you mean by 'again'?"

Long Yao counted on her fingers: "Fat insect, Bai Awei, plus this one, aren't there three?"

Bai Awei clicked its mouthparts.

The little Xiao Xiao Shenlong was unconvinced, stepped with its four feet, hurriedly flew up, swam two circles, and flicked its tail.

Long Yao reached out to pinch its dragon horns.

The little Xiao Xiao Shenlong raised its claws to protect them, hurriedly ran away, and spat water at the two of them.

"Insects have infinite wonderful uses and cannot be underestimated. Maybe one day they will turn into dragons like the Third Prince, and then their role will be great..."

Before the words fell.

The movement in the bamboo tube disappeared.

Long Yao and Long Li left tactfully.

Liang Qu shook it gently, opened the lid, and a touch of brilliant golden light dazzled his eyes.

The whole Time Insect spat out a large golden silk cocoon to wrap its whole body, hung on the bamboo lid, and slept soundly.

Exactly the same as when he first saw it.

He still remembered the keeper saying that the Time Insect usually slept in a cocoon, year after year, occasionally waking up to eat a little jade dew, without seeing any growth.

"The cocoon is crucial to the Time Insect. The silk it spits out itself is only used as a substitute and cannot evolve and grow?" Liang Qu guessed, raised his hand, and scraped the golden thread with the tip of the Green Wolf knife.

It was like a taut metal wire, with a crisp trembling sound. Collecting it would definitely be a good material for refining weapons.

"In the future, if I get other water-attribute and wood-attribute Long Qi, I don't know if it can cocoon again..."

Life-Generating Creation looks like a combination of water, wood, spring, and autumn in the description, and logically it can be added.

Maybe after adding it, the condensation of the seed of creation can be faster.

"I have said all that needs to be said."

Dong!

The customary opening remarks, Instructor Wei struck the gong and drum.

Examinees went on stage one after another, stimulating their blood energy, moving and lifting the bronze pillars, and the blood energy rose up.

"Why did you leave so hurriedly yesterday? I originally wanted to invite you to drink." Meng Meng Qiang arranged the Feathered Forest Guards and gathered around Liang Qu to chat in his spare time, "Why, is there a beautiful wife waiting at home?"

"What nonsense are you talking about?" Liang Qu confirmed that it was correct and handed the roster back to the examinee, "Cultivation. I just planted the supernatural seed the day before yesterday and need to consolidate my realm."

"You planted a supernatural seed?"

"Thanks to the Dragon Whisker Great Elixir."

"Tsk, tsk, tsk, I heard about it. You didn't blink when you spent 200,000. You kid are quite rich. You can't save it just by relying on your salary. What kind of good business are you doing?"

"Blood and sweat money, fished out of the Jianghuai Great Marsh piece by piece."

"One should look at a person with new eyes after three days of separation. It will definitely be easier for you to deal with Haruhan now."

"I can cultivate, and others are not wooden people. By the way, has the Northern Court mission left yet?"

"No, they are eating and drinking in the Court of State Ceremonial."

"Haven't left yet?" Liang Qu was surprised, "It's been more than a month since the New Year, right? If they rush back, won't it be April or May?"

Meng Meng Qiang laughed: "They want to leave, but the imperial court has to let them. They are holding back the return gifts and keeping people."

"What do you mean?"

"Do you remember I told you that the Northern Court has had heavy snow for years, and maybe they will go south to plunder?"

Liang Qu's thoughts turned.

"Hostages?"

"Pretty much. If their Northern Court people go south, we will kill the mission, which will be logical, and we don't have to worry about our reputation."

"If the Northern Court had concerns, they wouldn't have sent people, right? Or did they leave a second hand?"

"Who knows, better than nothing. If we can kill one, we will kill one. We definitely can't suffer a loss. If you don't come to mess with me, I won't go to mess with you. In short, I guess we have to wait until the weather warms up this year before we let people leave."

The world is always changing every moment. Taking advantage of the fact that the Flowing Gold Sea is still there, find an opportunity to pave the road early.

Liang Qu thought secretly.

Dong!

A loud noise.

The surprise of the whole venue was like a tidal wave.

Liang Qu looked up and found that it was the C-number team, and someone had carried the dragon pillar.

"The first one this year." Meng Meng Qiang exclaimed.

"Hoo, hoo!"

The young man was tall, the pores all over his body opened, and sweat poured out, soaking his clothes in an instant. On a cold day, his whole body was like being wrapped in a layer of white mist, steaming continuously.

Seeing Liang Qu's gaze, the young man raised his hand in a salute.

Liang Qu nodded slightly.

The young man grinned.

Anyone who can lift the dragon pillar has infinite strength, and their ranking will not be bad. The top three are naturally higher in focus, and holding two of the top rankings inside, there will definitely be a place in the Twenty-Eight Mansions, without exception, unless they withdraw from the exam halfway.

Countless examinees were envious.

Liang Qu is too far away, but the dragon pillar is right in front of them.

Straight to the sky, just waiting for people to come.

"Next, Zhao Tong!"

For several consecutive days, the martial examination selection finally came to an end. The old and young in the whole city discussed it enthusiastically, before and after meals, before and after sleep, in alleys, teahouses, and barbershops, from Instructor Liang lifting five pillars on the first day to the hot favorites for the top of the martial examination.

There were three people who lifted the dragon pillar.

One also appeared in the team where Liang Qu and Instructor Wei were, a natural martial bone.

Ordinary people cultivate, mostly practicing horizontal refining, eating good medicine to increase blood energy, maybe they can reach the tiger pillar or even the elephant pillar, but going further up, it is impossible without martial bones, and they must be martial bones good at wrestling.

And it was almost the second day after the competition ended.

The treasure ship was delivered.

(End of chapter)