Chapter 113

Just as Long Xuan was preparing to hand over the second layer of the "Purgatory True Demon Art" to his clones to practice, he suddenly felt something in his heart and used Treading Stars to run down the mountain.

The semi-finished Five Elements Reversal Great Formation had been successfully set up by his clones after one year; he had already moved in here a few months ago, but there were simply too many things in the medicine garden, and moving house would take some time.

He had just sensed that someone had accidentally entered the Magic Cube Formation on the perimeter; he didn't know who the visitor was, so he prepared to go and see immediately.

Not long after, Long Xuan dragged the listless Long Lie out of the Magic Cube Formation, placed him on the ground, and looked at him helplessly.

At this time, Long Lie was panting heavily, looking terrified, his eyes full of horror.

"What kind of formation is that? One moment I entered a magma environment, the next I entered an ice mountain environment, and then I entered an ocean environment; I swam until I was exhausted in the sea and almost drowned!"

Long Lie panted heavily, his spirit somewhat broken.

He had just been tortured to the point of madness by that kind of maze; different worlds kept switching, and no matter how he walked, he would end up in a world he had walked through before.

Each world seemed to appear randomly in various positions, without any pattern; even if he left a mark on every road, this road would be shuffled again, and every once in a while, it would be re-spliced, making it impossible for him to find the way back.

He could only wander around like a headless fly; he was completely on the verge of being driven crazy by this kind of bizarre formation.

This was not only mental torture but also physical torture; each world was simply too real, and one world was more cruel than the next, with the environment being extremely harsh and extremely difficult to survive in.

One moment it was hot as hell, the next it was cold as hell; he could truly feel that this was definitely not a simple illusion, and if he jumped into the magma, he would really die.

Trapped in this huge maze, he wouldn't wait until the day he starved to death; it wouldn't be long before he was tortured to death by various cruel environments.

He had just been tortured to the edge of collapse and hadn't recovered yet.

"It's just a formation I cobbled together; sorry for the scare. Why didn't you notify me when you came? If I wasn't home, and you rashly broke into the trapping formation and couldn't get out, no one would save you." Long Xuan gave him a look of annoyance.

He was also fortunate that he had successfully deduced the second layer of the "Purgatory True Demon Art" and came out of seclusion; otherwise, who knows how long this Long Lie would have been trapped, and it was even possible he could have been trapped to death.

"A formation you cobbled together?" Long Lie widened his eyes and looked at him in extreme shock: "Do you know how much land area so many worlds need? The coverage area of this formation is simply too large, and the number of formation bases required is unimaginably high."

"Where did you get so many materials? Even if the clan used the power of the entire clan, it would be impossible to set up a formation with such a wide land area; you absolutely couldn't have so many resources. How on earth did you do it!"

Long Xuan certainly wouldn't tell him that he could draw small array patterns, allowing one portion of materials to be used as a hundred, which was why he could set up such a wide-ranging formation at a very small cost.

This was epoch-making technology, and it could not be told no matter what, not even to the closest people.

So he could only spout nonsense: "It's nothing; I just discovered a very cheap material. I call this material cement. Cement mixed with spirit stone powder can be used to manufacture formation bases with a very large area."

"The larger the formation base, the more array patterns can be carved; the more array patterns, the larger the formation range naturally becomes."

"So don't look at the fact that the formation I set up covers such a wide area; in fact, the cost is not high at all. The formation bases made of cement are also extremely fragile and can't be brought to the table at all; it's garbage technology, not worth mentioning."

Long Xuan's words were, of course, deceiving him. Using the cement from his previous life mixed with spirit stone powder could indeed be made into formation bases; this was also a brainwave he had in a flash.

But soon he abandoned this idea because cement couldn't replace his Heavenly Mechanism Eye, as cement was simply too brittle, and the hardness of cement couldn't even rank in the top ten thousand in this world.

Once cement was used as a formation base, the formation would be extremely fragile and could be directly broken by brute force.

Therefore, although cement technology could carve a massive amount of array patterns and achieve the same effect as the Magic Cube Formation, the formation bases were simply too fragile; it was impossible to defend against a Gu King, and it might not even be able to defend against a Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivator.

Once cement was used to make a mountain-protecting formation, that was just asking for death.

So cement technology couldn't be brought to the table in this world at all; it belonged to the crooked path and had no value to be developed.

It was also useless to use it as building material for the Straw Gu; the material grade was too low, and insects wouldn't use it, let alone Gu cultivators. Gu cultivators all used spirit wood as building material; high-quality spirit wood was much higher-grade and much harder than cement, and mortals couldn't even cut it with an axe.

But cement wasn't completely useless.

The Five Elements Reversal Great Formation was right next to the Long family, and everyone could see it and see the extraordinary aspects of this formation. So if anyone came to ask, he was prepared to use this cement thing to fob them off, making them think that this formation was only extraordinary on the surface, but in fact, it was just a paper tiger, not needing too much attention.

Long Xuan didn't want Long Lie to continue to entangle himself in this topic, so before he had time to ask, he immediately changed the subject and asked: "What are you doing here? If you have something to say, just say it!"

Remembering the business, Long Lie suddenly sighed and said: "Don't mention it; I'm out of luck. I refined the Wine Gu thirty times, and all of them failed, so I came here this time to trade with you for some more spicy wine. I really can't give up just like that."

Hearing this, Long Xuan couldn't help but widen his eyes; refining the Wine Gu thirty times, and all of them failed? Just how bad was his luck! Was the feng shui of his ancestral tomb bad? How could his face be so dark?

"You actually failed all thirty Gu refining opportunities? Are you kidding me? Are you sure you didn't drink the wine yourself and then blame it on the Wine Worm?"

Long Xuan looked at him with suspicion, expressing deep doubt.

Hearing this, Long Lie was so angry that he blew his beard: "Good boy! How dare you talk about me like that? Am I that kind of person? It's true that I love to drink, but I have never delayed business; how dare you look at me like that!"

Long Xuan's words really broke his defenses; he swore that he had only drunk three jars.

"Alright, alright! I misunderstood you. I'll give you another twenty portions of materials; you collect the things on this for me."

Long Xuan threw a slip of paper to Long Lie.

After such a long time of research, he had already researched a transformation route for the Dragon Gu, and this transformation route was very regular.

The dragon horns are like a deer, the head is like a camel, the eyes are like a rabbit, the neck is like a snake, the belly is like a clam, the scales are like a fish, the claws are like an eagle, the palms are like a tiger, and the ears are like an ox.

The first transformation of the Dragon Gu requires the second-tier beast king materials of these nine types of spirit beasts.

The second transformation of the Dragon Gu requires the third-tier beast king materials of these nine types of spirit beasts.

The third transformation of the Dragon Gu requires the fourth-tier beast king materials of these nine types of spirit beasts.

And so on.

Every transformation of the Dragon Gu requires these nine types of materials.

The Ten Thousand Mountains had just experienced a beast tide not long ago, and second-tier spirit beasts were not particularly rare spirit beasts; Long Lie, a Spirit Sea stage Gu cultivator, presumably had the ability to collect these nine types of materials.

Long Xuan was also too lazy to run errands to collect these materials; since Long Lie came to trade for spirit wine this time, he might as well leave the task of collecting these materials to him.

Long Lie took the slip of paper and looked at the materials on it, unable to help but twitch his mouth; he actually wanted nine types of beast king materials in one go, and the price of those things was not cheap.

To be honest, in his view, the value of these nine types of beast king materials was higher, and he was a little bit at a loss in this transaction.

But thinking that the reason he was able to get rich overnight was all thanks to Long Xuan, he didn't intend to care so much.

"Alright! Leave it all to me. I am a participant in the beast tide and know where these nine types of materials are. As long as I pay a certain price, it's not difficult to collect them all."

"However, you have to pay half the deposit first; my Wine Worm is in urgent need of spirit wine and can't wait too long." Long Lie said after putting away the slip of paper.

Long Xuan nodded and took out jars of wine from his storage bag and placed them on the ground; Little White used this stuff to increase its growth level, so his storage bag always had stock.

Seeing the wine jars on the ground, Long Lie's eyes lit up, his nose sniffed, his throat moved, and he resisted the urge to drink another three jars, taking a huge wine jar out of his insect breeding bag and placing it on the ground.

Long Xuan looked into the jar and found a small red snake curled up at the bottom of the jar, and the wine in the jar was only a little bit left, which would probably be drunk up by it soon.

And once the Wine Worm drank all the wine in the jar, the wine supply would be cut off, but if it hadn't turned into a Wine Gu, then all previous efforts would be completely wasted.

The method of refining the Wine Gu was different from the conventional Gu refining method; under normal circumstances, if other Top-Grade Spirit Insects failed to refine Gu, they would be completely wasted, and at most they could be refined three more times.

But refining the Wine Gu was different; the Gu refining process of the Wine Gu was another system.

Because the Wine Worm could keep drinking wine, as long as there was still wine in the jar, you could keep refilling it until it turned into a Gu insect.

So as long as there was enough wine, the Wine Worm would turn into a Gu one day sooner or later.

This was also the reason why Long Lie could come to him even though he had failed to refine Gu thirty times.

At this time, the wine in the jar had completely bottomed out; Long Lie didn't dare to delay, hurriedly picked up a jar of wine, opened the lid, and poured all the wine into the jar.

After one jar of wine was poured out, soon it was the second jar, the third jar...

"Buddha bless! Buddha bless! This old man is willing to use Long Ao's shrinkage of one inch in exchange for one success in becoming a Gu!"

Long Lie put his hands together, looking pious, and bowed to pray to heaven.

Long Xuan was stunned; good fellow, this is too ruthless, right? Actually using Long Ao to sacrifice to heaven, directly shrinking by one inch, wouldn't that shrink to nothing?

"Is this how you usually refine Gu?" Long Xuan turned his head to look at him and asked, bewildered.

"Hehe! This is the Sacrifice Friend Technique I created myself; it works every time. As long as you sacrifice a good friend to heaven, the success rate will inevitably increase by several percent. If one doesn't succeed, sacrifice the second one. Sacrifice all good friends once, and you will always succeed once, hehe." Long Lie revealed a sinister smile.

Long Xuan shivered; whoever became Long Lie's good friend was truly unlucky for eight lifetimes. I don't know what they would think if they knew that Long Lie sacrificed them to heaven every time he refined Gu.

Of course, he didn't believe in the so-called Sacrifice Friend Technique; otherwise, Long Lie would have succeeded in refining the Wine Gu long ago, and wouldn't have been so unlucky as to fail thirty times.

The reason he was able to succeed before was probably because he had too many good friends, and sacrificing fifty good friends would always lead to one success.

He subconsciously used his Golden Finger ability to look at the wine jar; alright, no progress appeared. Long Lie's face was as dark as ever; this set of metaphysics was simply unreliable.

(End of chapter)