Chapter 108

How should this ability be developed if it is developed deeply?

What about passing information over long distances by tying notes to the Straw Gu?

If it can be used to pass information, can it also be used to carry out escort businesses, mail businesses, and logistics businesses?

If the house it builds is large enough, can humans crawl into its little house and also complete long-distance teleportation?

Can enemies be stuffed into the little house and teleported directly to a dangerous place?

With Long Xuan's wild imagination, he almost thought of several ways to develop this ability without even thinking.

His eyes rolled, revealing an excited light. In order to verify his wild imagination, he interfered with the Straw Gu's house building again and conducted various experiments on its abilities.

So, three days later, Long Xuan had roughly figured out the limits of the Straw Gu's abilities.

Through his research, all the little houses built by the Straw Gu are connected to a space called the Void Realm.

The Straw Gu can walk to little houses that are extremely far apart in the Reality Realm by entering the Void Realm.

This Void Realm already exists in reality and was not created by the Straw Gu.

All Straw Gu will also share a Void Realm and will also meet each other in the Void Realm.

The Void Realm is very large; it is a gray, misty world. Once a living creature enters a little house built by the Straw Gu, it will get lost in the Void Realm and will find it very difficult to come out again in this lifetime.

Therefore, the wild imagination of Gu cultivators achieving long-distance teleportation by entering the little houses is temporarily unfeasible.

However, inanimate objects can be carried by the Straw Gu. Long-distance object transport and long-distance mail delivery can all be done by the Straw Gu.

Using this ability, the Straw Gu can completely carry out escort businesses, mail businesses, logistics businesses, and even food delivery businesses. These are all quite profitable businesses.

Moreover, this ability is a good hand at passing information and intelligence and can be applied to information transmission work.

In front of a Straw Gu that teleports instantly, things like carrier pigeons and carrier insects can basically be eliminated.

Long Xuan took a deep breath. He knew too well how great the value of such an ability is. The clan would not know how much massive wealth it could earn from this.

It can be said that the Straw Gu is completely worth one hundred million in contributions, or even more. Unfortunately, the clan's capped contribution is one hundred million.

It's not a loss, though. Since the clan let him learn various non-transferable secrets of the clan for free, he will just treat it as returning the favor. What's more, his clan becoming strong only has benefits for him and no harm.

It really was "unintentionally planting a willow that grows into shade." He didn't expect that he clearly didn't want to earn one hundred million in contributions—otherwise, he would have to embroider another dragon on his body, which is quite painful—but he didn't expect that he wouldn't be able to avoid earning this one hundred million in contribution value. He smiled helplessly.

After putting away the Straw Gu and its two little houses, Long Xuan finally set off toward the Long Clan.

After becoming a Marrow Cleansing stage Gu cultivator, his speed when using Treading Stars was even faster. Previously, it took half a day to reach the Long Clan at full speed, but now he arrived in just one hour.

Just as he walked into the Long Clan's residence, Long Xuan discovered that the Long Clan was very lively at this moment, with noisy sounds everywhere. Coming early is not as good as coming at the right time; today just happens to be the day of the Earth Master Competition.

However, the competition was already more than halfway through at this moment and was now in its final stages. He had missed the registration time after all, and it was already too late to participate now.

Long Xuan became interested and was not in a hurry to submit the Straw Gu formula to the clan. He immediately walked toward the competition venue, preparing to go watch the fun.

The location of the Earth Master Competition was an open space on the edge of the clan. After Long Xuan arrived here, he discovered that the next competition had not yet started, so he found Long Qilin and walked toward Long Qilin's location, preparing to ask about the situation of the previous few competitions.

Seeing Long Qilin's worried look, Long Xuan knew that the previous few competitions had not gone smoothly and that he probably hadn't taken first place. Otherwise, someone whose mood was written all over his face could never have this expression.

"No way? Didn't I already give you the spirit soil from the Empress's tomb? That was medium-grade spirit soil. Could it be that your Earth Master still couldn't take first place after evolving into a Spirit Gu?"

Long Xuan walked over and asked in surprise.

After Long Qilin looked at him, he said helplessly, "The clan held this competition to stimulate more people to refine Earth Masters. How could they allow Spirit Gu to participate and destroy the game's balance?"

"Otherwise, if Spirit Gu could participate, wouldn't the Earth Masters of those clan elders that have already evolved into Strange Gu also be able to participate? Then there would be even less for us to do."

"The competition rules only allow Mortal Gu Earth Masters to participate, so I haven't let my Earth Master evolve yet."

"The Strongman Golden Cup and the Earth-pushing Ball Competition have already ended, and the championships were all swept by that Long Ziyan. My brother here has been suppressed by her again."

Long Xuan looked at him with sympathetic eyes. He didn't expect that he would still be the eternal second place this time. He would never be able to get rid of this curse, and he didn't know if it would leave any psychological trauma.

He patted Long Qilin on the shoulder and comforted him, "It doesn't matter. Victory and defeat are common in military affairs. Isn't there still a tug-of-war competition?"

"You will definitely be able to win the Earth Master tug-of-war competition. Everyone you know is a male Gu cultivator, while everyone she knows is a female Gu cultivator."

"She is invincible in individual strength, but the tug-of-war competition is not a one-person game. Individual strength cannot affect the victory of a team event. You will definitely win this round."

Long Qilin smiled bitterly, shook his head, and said, "I'm afraid you don't know yet, right? An accident happened in the tug-of-war competition."

"The power generated by the tug-of-war of ten Earth Masters on one side is simply too massive. The clan doesn't have any rope that can withstand their power."

"Just now, all the ropes snapped completely. Even using iron chains was useless. The tug-of-war competition can't continue at all now, and the clan's high-level officials haven't discussed a result even now."

"If things go wrong, this competition might be scrapped. Where would I still have any hope of winning against her?"

Hearing this, Long Xuan was stunned. It seems he came to watch for nothing; he didn't catch a single competition.

"It doesn't matter. Isn't this kind of competition going to be held again next year? Just win it back next year. By the way, I have been in seclusion to break through to the Marrow Cleansing stage during this period, and my information is blocked. How did the various clans resolve what happened in the ancient tomb last time?"

Long Xuan changed the subject at the right time and asked the question he cared about most.

This is a question he must clarify.

After submitting the Straw Gu formula and receiving the one hundred million contribution value, he must immediately start arranging the Five Elements Reversal Great Array.

If it is very chaotic outside at this time, a war might break out, and even an alien clan might attack. Then he must not run around outside during this period, and the matter of arranging the Five Elements Reversal Great Array can only be delayed.

Long Qilin shook his head and said, "I don't know too well either. Information transmission is simply too slow."

"I only know that the clans that sent Gu King avatars into the ancient tomb chose to default on their debts even when the evidence was conclusive, refusing to admit it, refusing to apologize, and refusing to compensate."

"Because there were three parties that violated the rules, the three parties united together to form a three-on-three, so they don't have to fear anyone."

"And although our clan only sent the avatar of a Marrow Cleansing stage Gu cultivator inside, strictly speaking, it also counted as a violation, so we don't dare to stand in line randomly at this time and maintain a neutral attitude."

"Because our clan is neutral, the outside is currently a three-to-three tie. The Miao Clan Ancestor's own grandson died, and he absolutely cannot let it go, so it is very chaotic outside at this time, with constant small-scale conflicts."

"But our clan is currently a neutral force, so our territory is in a state of peace, and no war has occurred. We can safely hold various competitions."

Long Qilin suddenly revealed a sinister smile: "Hehe! The other six clans are constantly having conflicts and constantly consuming their strength, while our clan can preserve our strength and develop steadily."

"After this matter, our clan can further narrow the gap with the strongest clans and even surpass them."

Hearing this, Long Xuan had to sigh that the Long Clan is truly too cunning. The various clans outside are almost in chaos, but the Long Clan is hiding on the side watching, and even has the leisure to hold various competitions. And yet, this chaotic battle between the various clans was provoked by his Long Clan.

However, Long Xuan was relieved because of this. Since the flames of war didn't burn to the Long Clan's sphere of influence, he didn't have to worry about encountering any accidents when he went out to arrange the Five Elements Reversal Great Array.

Since the tug-of-war competition is very likely to be unable to continue, Long Xuan had no interest in watching the fun here.

After chatting with Long Qilin casually for a few more sentences, he found an excuse to say goodbye. Taking advantage of the time when everyone was watching the competition, he immediately walked toward the Long Clan's Task Hall.

At this moment, basically no one could be seen in the Task Hall. Long Xuan took advantage of no one noticing him, threw the insect-raising bag containing the Straw Gu and the Straw Gu formula into the box under that long-term task, and then left immediately, acting as if nothing had happened.

Now he just needs to wait patiently.

Half a month later, Council Hall.

At this moment, the atmosphere in the Council Hall is very strange. A group of old men is actually concentrating on watching an insect build a house, all of them looking spirited and watching with great relish.

I don't know what is so good about an insect building a house that made them watch so fascinatedly and forget to eat and sleep. They have been in the Council Hall for I don't know how long, just watching the insect build a house for several days like this.

Among them, the Great Elder is the most obsessed. His wide-open eyes are already bloodshot at this moment. He suddenly took out a tree branch emitting life energy from his storage bag with his aged hand, and then smiled and sent it to the insect.

After the insect saw this tree branch, its eyes lit up instantly, revealing an extremely excited expression. It hurriedly snatched this tree branch with thick life energy and then thought about where this tree branch should be placed in its new home.

Seeing this scene, everyone was shocked.

Long Wanli said out loud, "This is a branch of the Earth-grade spirit medicine Life Ancient Tree. You actually use it to build a house for it? Are you not living anymore?"

Everyone gasped at his crazy move and looked at him in confusion. Has he become obsessed with watching the insect build a house?

The Second Elder sighed at this time and sighed, "Are you still not giving up? After our countless experiments, the Straw Gu's house cannot teleport living creatures. The idea of using it to replace the teleportation array is very difficult to realize."

"House-building technology concerns the stability of entering the Void Realm, while the building materials of the house concern the distance of teleportation. No matter how high the level of the building materials is, it is impossible to make it possess the ability to carry living creatures."

(End of chapter)