Chapter 10: Storm of Wild Ideas

"Do you see that group of people holding paper and brushes, lost in deep thought? Look at how much they trust the Qian Clan Merchant Association."

Qian Duoduo pointed his chubby finger in a certain direction.

Long Xuan followed the gesture and indeed saw a crowd there holding paper and brushes; some sat on steps, others on fossils, each frowning in bitter contemplation or anxiously scratching ears and cheeks, looking as if driven mad, having no idea how many brain cells they had already killed.

If you don't have the intelligence, don't waste brain cells; intelligence is innate and cannot be forced.

Seeing so many people intending to submit bids, Long Xuan finally believed Qian Duoduo's words and set his mind at ease.

When it came to wild ideas, who in this world could compare to him? He dared to claim second place in this world, and no one would dare claim first; even in his past life, that era of an explosion of wild ideas, he prided himself on being first-class.

Full of confidence, Long Xuan excitedly took out paper and brush, preparing to unleash a storm of wild ideas and seize the title of Bid King in one fell swoop.

Watching Long Xuan's excited demeanor, Qian Duoduo chuckled inwardly; he had successfully fooled another one, young people these days were truly easy to deceive, for where in the world was there such a thing as a free lunch.

He had not told a single lie; the Honesty Gu indeed possessed an irresistible power of constraint.

However, he avoided the heavy and emphasized the light, deliberately omitting Qian Jinjin's criteria.

Qian Jinjin valued that Stone King highly; in her view, this Stone King might yield a Top-Grade Gu Worm, so only an ability equal in value to a Top-Grade Gu Worm presented before her would justify giving away the Stone King without loss.

In other words, her standard was to develop an Upper Grade Gu Worm into a combat level comparable to a Top-Grade Gu Worm; how could this possibly be achieved? Even if a god came, it could not be done.

This was destined to be a task no one could complete; whoever came should not expect to win the bid, as she was intentionally toying with people.

She had never intended to give away the Stone King; her standards were not something humans could meet, and in the end, she would surely sweep everyone away.

Qian Duoduo sighed again at his young lady's cunning; she was truly too deceitful, gaining everyone's wisdom for nothing without giving anything in return, which was simply trying to catch a wolf with bare hands.

Yet it strangely did not provoke everyone's dissatisfaction, making them willingly offer up their wild ideas without realizing it; this move was absolutely brilliant.

Qian Duoduo wore a sinister smile and, seeing Long Xuan standing dumbly in place lost in deep thought, added, "This bidding process lasts a total of one month; you arrived at an unfortunate time, as today happens to be the final day, with less than one double-hour remaining until the bidding ends, so I hope you can conceive a decent ability within such a short time."

With these words, Qian Duoduo turned and left to seek the next target; he would repeat the same speech to even more people, hoping that increasingly more individuals would come and obediently offer up their wild ideas.

At this moment, Long Xuan heard nothing outside his window, as his mind underwent an unprecedented storm of wild ideas.

He closed his eyes tightly; the first thing to determine was not to stray from the topic, for the Light Light Gu Insect's ability was controlling light, not just any ability related to the Light Attribute.

Therefore, abilities like Light Speed Kick, Light Speed Movement, and Elementalization need not be considered, as the Light Light Gu Insect could absolutely not accomplish them.

There were many abilities that could be derived from controlling light, and the first thing Long Xuan thought of was the Flashbang, which could blind human eyes; this was the simplest usage.

The reason human eyes can see all things is that light shines upon object surfaces, then enters the eyes after reflection and refraction.

If one controlled light so that it no longer underwent reflection, then human eyes would be plunged into darkness, seeing nothing at all.

Thus, controlling light was sufficient to develop an ability that caused opponents to lose their vision.

Extending this ability further, if one controlled the light shining upon oneself so that it no longer reflected, would that not create an additional ability to turn invisible?

If one controlled light reflected from objects a thousand li away to bend and enter one's own eyes, would that not allow seeing objects a thousand li away, thereby developing the Thousand-Mile Eye?

If one caused light shining on the earth's surface to cease reflecting, then the light would be absorbed by the ground, eventually becoming hotter and hotter, forming lethal high temperatures that turned the entire earth into a blazing furnace; this already fell within the category of a Forbidden Move.

If one artificially altered light's reflection, causing the reflected light to enter human eyes and create false visuals, such that an enemy was clearly on your left yet visually appeared on the right.

Such an ability would be truly terrifying; anyone encountering such an opponent would have a headache.

This was not even the most terrifying aspect; if the Light Light Gu Insect's Growth Level was high enough, could it not control the light over a region so that it no longer fell, turning that region into eternal night and placing all living beings there into endless darkness, thus giving rise to the Darkness Night Walking Technique?

Long Xuan's wild ideas could no longer be contained and continued to spread...

Light could be dispersed into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan (indigo), blue, and violet.

It could also be decomposed into ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, X-rays, Y-rays, and radio waves.

Infrared rays could accelerate human metabolism, promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue, reduce inflammation and pain, and even enable thermal imaging night vision.

Ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and Y-rays would cause cancer and a series of other harms to the human body; could one not then extract all harmful rays from light to develop an ability known as the Death Ray?

The uses of radio waves were too numerous to count...

Long Xuan's wild ideas were about to explode...

He soon thought again about developing the offensive power of light.

Not to mention lasers, let us speak of the principle of a convex lens burning paper.

A convex lens has the effect of refracting light, converging it onto a single point to generate the power to burn paper.

However, modern technology could not create excessively large convex lenses, so the converged light was limited, and the resulting destructive power was naturally negligible.

But the Light Light Gu Insect, which could control light, was different; it could completely converge as much light as desired without relying on any tools.

What terrifying destructive power would be generated if all light within a hundred li radius were converged onto a single point? Long Xuan did not even dare to imagine it.

It was no exaggeration to say that the offensive power of such an ability had no upper limit, because the light in this world was infinite.

When the converged light had no upper limit, the resulting destructive power would be Infinite Progress.

Under this world-destroying level of offensive power, even lasers were far incomparable, and there was not even a need to develop lasers.

With so many wild ideas, regarding the development of light-type abilities, even the Yellow Ape would be a junior before him; his wild ideas in this world were a dimensional strike.

He felt that casually selecting a few of these abilities would be sufficient to become the Bid King.

(End of Chapter)