Chapter 130: Feeding the Fish

"Good! We have a deal! Give me the spirit soil now." Long Panpan smiled and threw a storage bag toward Long Xuan. However, what Long Xuan didn't notice was a flash of cunning in her eyes.

He happened to be carrying the medium-grade spirit soil on his body. After he loaded all the medium-grade spirit soil into the storage bag thrown by Long Panpan, he raised his head and discovered that she was actually faster than him, having already quickly packed up the stall.

Long Panpan threw a fish-raising bag filled with water toward Long Xuan, and then quickly snatched the storage bag filled with medium-grade spirit soil from his hand.

"The transaction is over. Neither of us should look for trouble afterward."

Saying this, she left quickly.

Long Xuan was stunned for a moment. He suddenly sensed that something seemed wrong. He hurriedly opened the fish-raising bag and discovered that the Golden Dragon Fish inside were only the thickness of a finger, and his nose was instantly crooked with anger.

Long Panpan had just said she wanted to eat Golden Dragon Fish at noon. He subconsciously thought the Golden Dragon Fish was very large, or at least enough for a plate.

As a result, what she wanted to eat was actually this small fish fry only the thickness of a finger. This size wasn't even enough for fried sauce, and not enough to fill the gaps between her teeth. Was she sure she wanted to eat this at noon? Even if she was losing weight, it couldn't be this kind of weight loss!

He had spent his whole life hunting geese only to be pecked by a goose. He was careless.

Fortunately, she hadn't done it too absolutely. There were five Golden Dragon Fish in the fish-raising bag, not two. Five Golden Dragon Fish would also reproduce faster.

After buying the fish fry, he started to go buy lamb cubs and calf cubs. Of course, he also had to trade for more of the large ones.

As for the variety, of course, it was mainly based on choosing the best-tasting ones.

He needed a large quantity, for which he didn't know how many beast-taming bags he traded for.

But soon he handed this arduous task to his clone to do, while he himself ran back to the mountain peak quickly. The Golden Dragon Fish were difficult to raise, and he was also afraid of delaying too long and the Golden Dragon Fish dying. He urgently needed to go back and put the Golden Dragon Fish into the spirit spring.

After returning to the spirit spring, Long Xuan immediately opened the fish-raising bag, poured all the finger-thick Golden Dragon Fish into the spirit spring, splashing a piece of water.

As soon as the Golden Dragon Fish entered the spirit spring, the appearance of being listless just now instantly became energetic, swimming happily in the spirit spring, full of activity.

It looked like they were very satisfied with their new home, and the degree of love even exceeded the place where they originally lived.

Long Xuan was stunned. It seemed he was already not needed. It seemed that putting the Golden Dragon Fish into the spirit spring would make them live, and he didn't need to go research the method of raising Golden Dragon Fish at all.

The only thing he needed to do was to research the fish feed that would make the Golden Dragon Fish grow the fastest as soon as possible, let them grow meat at the fastest speed, and strive to eat meaty and delicious Golden Dragon Fish next year.

The meat quality of the Golden Dragon Fish was similar to the legendary dragon meat. He couldn't wait to taste what it tasted like.

Long Xuan quickly walked to his insect-raising room, took a bag of spirit insects from inside, and returned to the spirit spring.

His medicine garden covered a vast area and produced an unknown number of spirit insects, all raised in the insect room. He picked some spirit insects that were not very expensive, preparing to use them to feed the fish.

But he couldn't research fish feed for the time being, but the fish would definitely eat insects, so he would first use the low-value spirit insects to cope with the emergency.

He squatted by the spirit spring, threw one insect after another into the spirit spring, and the sharp-eyed Golden Dragon Fish were instantly excited, all swimming over, frantically snatching the spirit insects falling into the water.

Instantly, water splashed everywhere, and the sound of splashing was continuous. The water was in chaos.

Long Xuan watched with interest like this. He could clearly have poured all the spirit insects in the insect breeding bag into the water at once, but he insisted on throwing them one by one, watching the group of fish snatching for an insect. This was the joy of feeding fish, and the fun in it was not enough for outsiders to know.

Just when he was feeding the fish to his heart's content, the insect breeding bag suddenly moved. He took out a letter from the insect breeding bag and looked at it, revealing a slight look of surprise. The house covered by the Straw Gu of Old Long could actually connect to the pyramid hut?

Although the material used for the pyramid hut covered by his Straw Gu before was not the most expensive, the level was far from comparable to a thatched cottage.

He put away the letter and finally threw all the spirit insects in the insect breeding bag into the water happily.

Now no one needed to snatch anymore. The five Golden Dragon Fish revealed excited gazes, frantically chasing the spirit insects falling into the water, just like eating a buffet, each could eat until full.

Since the appetite was so good, it looked like they wouldn't die living in the spirit spring. Long Xuan felt relieved and left the spirit spring, walking toward Old Long's Hong Yu Peak.

After finding that eye-catching thatched cottage on Hong Yu Peak, he walked in. No need to knock on the door, because there was no door at all.

Long Xuan truly didn't dare to imagine how much debt he owed. With the money-making speed of a third-grade alchemist, he still hadn't paid off the debt, and even the Straw Gu had to suffer with him.

Thinking of the Straw Gu, Long Xuan hurriedly looked at that Straw Gu in the thatched cottage. He saw that at some point, a house covered by third-grade waste pills appeared in the room. That Straw Gu was staying inside, revealing half a head to look out.

Unexpectedly, Old Long also had a brain-hole. He could actually think of using third-grade waste pills to cover a house for the Straw Gu, which could be considered turning waste into treasure.

Waste pills were of no use to humans, but after all, the energy was sufficient. Using them to make building materials for bugs was truly a good choice.

However, using third-grade waste pills as building materials could only be considered medium-grade building materials, barely in the middle reaches of the houses of the Straw Gu clan. This ethnic group was truly too rolled now.

After noticing Long Xuan come in, Old Long turned his head to look at him and said: "I already said clearly in the letter what I wanted you for. The clan entrusted me to refine the Xuan Long Pill."

"The difficulty of refining the Xuan Long Pill is extremely great, and you have a keen sense of smell in controlling the heat, so I need your assistance."

Long Xuan had no look of surprise. He had already known that the clan wanted to cultivate a second Gu King, and letting Old Long refine the realm-breaking pill was a high-probability thing.

To tell the truth, Old Long was an alchemy genius, just not a peerless genius. He had the ability to challenge the Xuan Long Pill, but the first time his hands were raw, he would definitely consume a massive amount of materials.

However, the clan had likely already prepared the psychological preparation to refine a large amount of materials. At this time, I don't know how many third-grade spirit medicines were piled up in the room.

"How much confidence do you have?" Long Xuan asked.

"Hard to say. Alchemy is all about how many materials there are. As long as there are enough materials, then sooner or later you will be able to refine it. It depends on how much resources the clan is willing to invest," Old Long pondered for a moment and said.

"Time is urgent. Let's refine the pill first. The first time refining the pill will definitely fail. No need to have any psychological pressure. Focus on accumulating experience."

Saying this, Old Long took out a huge alchemy furnace and placed it on the ground, and at the same time threw a pill formula toward Long Xuan.

Long Xuan caught it with quick hands and eyes, and scanned the pill formula at the fastest speed.

The Xuan Long Pill needed a full 1,200 portions of materials. Needless to say, refining the Xuan Long Pill must be extremely time-consuming.

However, this was also normal. This was a rare third-grade pill formula, belonging to high-grade spirit pills. How could it be refined in an extremely short time?

The higher the grade of the spirit pill, the longer the time required for refining. This was the common sense of heaven and earth.

However, this pill output was a bit contrary to common sense. With so many materials entering the furnace, it would only produce one pill. This was truly too little, right?

One had to know that alchemy would also produce waste pills, so there was a pill output rate.

In the case of only producing one spirit pill, it was truly too likely to be a waste pill. This was no different from alchemy failure, which disguisedly increased the failure rate of refining the Xuan Long Pill.

Long Xuan couldn't help but frown and ask: "With so many spirit medicines entering the furnace, it only produces one spirit pill. This is a bit contrary to the law of conservation of mass, right?"

Old Long looked at him and said: "Where did you hear such a sentence, the law of conservation of mass? I have never heard of it in all these years. According to this statement, can the Giant Transformation Technique not exist?"

"You have to know that alchemy is the process of removing impurities and taking the essence. The essence is already very few, and refining high-grade spirit pills also requires taking the essence of the essence. Most of the essence will be burned away, and the remaining essence of the essence is naturally very few."

"It's already not bad to be able to concentrate into one spirit pill. How many do you want? Produce a few hundred in one furnace and create a few hundred Gu Kings for the clan?"

Hearing this, Long Xuan realized something and finally understood the truth. That is to say, the tenth-grade spirit pill in the future might need to use tens of thousands of materials, but the pill output could only be a few. Reasonable, absolutely reasonable.

He looked at the description of the Xuan Long Pill in the pill formula again and found that the Xuan Long Pill only had a 10% breakthrough rate. If a Gu cultivator of the Long Clan bloodline swallowed the Xuan Long Pill, there would be a 20% breakthrough rate.

However, even if it was a 20% breakthrough rate, it was truly too little, right?

He still remembered that swallowing the Spirit Charging Grass raw also had a 20% breakthrough rate, but in Old Long's view, it was not enough to make the Ten Absolute Body break through.

Now the breakthrough rate of the Xuan Long Pill was also 20%. That is to say, after he became a Spirit Sea stage peak Gu cultivator in the future, it was highly likely that the Xuan Long Pill would also be useless to him.

He had originally been very excited when he came over after receiving Long Lao's message to assist in refining the Xuan Long Pill, thinking he could get a free ride on a very impressive pill formula.

Now it seemed he had gotten a free ride on nothing; the Xuan Long Pill was completely useless to him, and after becoming a peak Spirit Sea Stage Gu Cultivator, he would most likely still need to create his own pill formula with a higher breakthrough rate. It seemed he was destined to go further and further down the path of self-creation.

After he simply read the Xuan Long Pill formula once, he started the work of assisting Old Long in refining the Xuan Long Pill.

He was very interested in participating in refining third-grade spirit pills, understanding the process of refining high-grade spirit pills in advance, and treating it as accumulating experience in advance. When he stepped into the threshold of a third-grade alchemist, he would also get twice the result with half the effort.

Not long after, a loud bang came from the alchemy furnace, the explosion sound was deafening, and a large amount of black smoke instantly flew out of the alchemy furnace. The old and the young were coughing continuously in the black smoke.

That Straw Gu hurriedly closed the doors and windows tightly, blocking the black smoke outside.

"What's going on? Where did the problem go wrong?"

"Cough cough! Don't know? Maybe your hands shook! Didn't you say that the first time refining the pill will definitely fail, no need to be nervous?"

Obviously, Old Long had no experience in refining the Xuan Long Pill and was also exploring on his own. The things Long Xuan could learn from him were limited.

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