Chapter 147: Long Qian

"That's true. This person is simply a heaven-sent genius in creating Gu formulas. If our clan really intends to start this project, then this person is the only candidate."

Long Yuanshan kept tapping his fingers on the table, and the sound of 'da da' kept ringing in the room.

Finally, his fingers stopped, as if he had made up his mind. His eyes became firm, and he said in a deep voice, "Since he is the most suitable candidate, if we miss this opportunity, the failure rate of starting this project in the future will only be higher than today."

"Since that's the case, we cannot hesitate. We must gamble, even if we fail, it doesn't matter."

"If the resources are not enough, then we will borrow them. Our clan is about to possess most of the Geng Metal mine veins, and we have also opened a trade route to the Far West Region. Plus, we have the money-making machine that is the Straw Gu. Wealth will flow in continuously, and we will recover quickly."

"You go and ask him now to see how much confidence he has in modifying the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula."

"If he can succeed, I will reward him with 200 million contribution points, plus embroider a dragon for him!"

Long Yuanshan slapped a thick Gu formula onto the table and then pushed it to Long Qian.

Long Qian nodded, put away the Gu formula, and pushed the door open to walk out.

At the same time, in a clean pavilion, Long Xuan was studying this little thing that wasn't even as tall as his leg, touching the ten blades it grew, unable to put it down.

Not to mention, the natural blades were actually quite sharp. They could easily split the blades and swords of the mortal world, and the blade edges were smooth.

However, they were still far from being able to blow hair and break it. After all, it was still just a spirit insect, not a Gu worm.

Only after it ate a massive amount of spirit insects and turned into a Gu worm would its strength have a qualitative leap.

However, thinking about turning it into a Gu worm, Long Xuan's head started to ache.

This guy's Gu formula was very special. You could fill it in however you wanted; filling in one was fine, and filling in more made it stronger. However, the more materials, the lower the success rate.

If it were someone else, they would probably struggle for a long time over whether to seek stability or strength. Such things were hard to choose.

And with Long Xuan's ambition, of course, he wanted to fill it to the death. The more materials, the better. How many materials were there in this world? Then he would fill in that many materials.

Anyway, he had a golden finger. As long as he prepared one set of materials, he would definitely succeed in refining the Gu.

But in the Gu World, a world where spiritual energy was exhausted, most spirit insects had already gone extinct, making it impossible to realize his ambition.

And he didn't want to drag it out. He thought for a long time and finally decided to let Little Moon swallow hundreds of thousands of materials to make do for a while. After flying to the Spirit Realm, he would use some means to beat it back into a spirit insect and re-refine the Gu with more materials.

He didn't know if there was a way in this world to make Gu worms degenerate into spirit insects, but even if there wasn't, he had the ability to create one himself.

He had already seen it: as long as you could think of an ability, then no matter how bizarre or outrageous it was, it could be 100% realized in this world. It all depended on how high a price you were willing to pay.

However, even if he let it swallow hundreds of thousands of materials to make do for a while, that was still an astronomical figure. Without exposing those things that couldn't be exposed, he couldn't afford it even if he sold his blood and kidneys.

Tsk tsk, a Gu formula with hundreds of thousands of materials was simply terrifying.

Anyone who saw a Gu formula with this quantity of materials would be startled, right? This wasn't a Gu formula at all; it was clearly a book, a book with at least a million words. Even just reading it would take a very long time.

He had a complete headache now. How to earn so much wealth in a short time? This was truly a huge problem for him.

Why was this little thing so money-burning? Just kill me instead.

Just when he was having a headache, a knock on the door suddenly interrupted his thoughts.

"Long Xuan, are you asleep?"

Long Qian's voice came from outside the door.

He asked a rhetorical question. At this time, the light in the room was still on; how could the person inside be asleep?

"Not asleep. Senior, please come in!"

Long Xuan put away Little Moon, sat upright at the table, and looked toward the door.

Long Qian smiled, pushed the door open, and walked over to sit opposite Long Xuan.

"Senior, you visited late at night. I wonder what's the matter?" Long Xuan asked, puzzled.

"Hehe! It's late now, so I'll make a long story short. As the spiritual energy of heaven and earth in the Gu World becomes increasingly thin, a massive amount of spirit insect materials have gone extinct, causing many of our clan's Gu formulas to become unusable."

"So our clan is preparing to start a project, ready to replace all the extinct materials of the Dragon Blood Battle Gu with materials that still exist in this world."

"Is changing a Gu formula an easy task? It requires countless experiments to try and make mistakes, and the materials consumed are beyond imagination."

"The Dragon Blood Battle Gu is one of our clan's strongest exclusive Gu formulas. Once we successfully replace the extinct materials, our clan's overall combat power will have a qualitative leap, and it's not impossible to even become the number one powerhouse clan in the Western Lands."

"If you can successfully replace the extinct materials of the Dragon Blood Battle Gu, that would truly be a great merit for our clan. The clan will allocate 200 million contribution points as a reward, plus reward you with a Hidden Dragon tattoo."

"Take a look at this Gu formula. The extinct materials on the Gu formula have been circled. See how much confidence you have in replacing the circled materials."

Long Qian directly stated his purpose and pushed a Gu formula toward Long Xuan, his eyes revealing a look of expectation.

Long Xuan took the Gu formula in a daze, scanned it quickly, and his mouth couldn't help but twitch soon after.

Good fellow, the materials for this Gu formula actually reached 10,000 types. Your clan calls this a Gu formula? This is clearly a book, right?

When he was in the Far West Region, when had he ever seen a Gu formula with so many materials?

Even all his top-grade Gu worms didn't use more than 10,000 materials. It was simply terrifying.

No need to think; just looking at the quantity of materials, Long Xuan already knew that this Gu formula must be extremely terrifying.

Could a Gu formula that made the Western Lands Long Clan so anxious to change not be terrifying?

The fact that they were willing to exhaust the power of the entire clan to change this Gu formula was enough to show how strong it was. Its importance was such that they wouldn't hesitate even if it meant bankruptcy.

"It's actually a Gu formula with 10,000 types of materials!" Long Xuan exclaimed.

"It's only 10,000 materials. Calm down! Calm down! This is already considered few in our clan."

Long Qian showed a look of pride and smiled, "Our clan also has a strongest exclusive Gu formula called 'Dragon Transformation Gu', which requires a full one million types of materials. That's what's truly terrifying."

"The Dragon Blood Battle Gu can semi-dragonize, making the human body grow dragon thorns, dragon tails, dragon scales, and many other physical characteristics related to dragons."

"Once a Long Clan Gu cultivator semi-dragonizes, they will possess the strength of a dragon and the defense of a dragon. Their combat power will be outrageously exaggerated. They can easily fight across ranks, killing those of the same rank like killing chickens. One person can chase after a group of people of the same rank."

"It is precisely because the Dragon Blood Battle Gu is too terrifying that it requires 10,000 materials to become a Gu."

"But the Dragon Blood Battle Gu is just a little brother in front of the Dragon Transformation Gu. The Dragon Blood Battle Gu can only semi-dragonize, while the Dragon Transformation Gu can make a Long Clan Gu cultivator fully dragonize, making a human completely transform into a divine dragon, possessing the exact same combat power as a divine dragon, or even stronger."

"Once a Long Clan Gu cultivator dragonizes, let alone killing those of the same rank, they are directly invincible in this realm. Whoever comes dies. No matter how many people of the same rank come, they all die."

"No matter how many ants there are, how can they contend with a divine dragon? This is true invincibility. Because the Dragon Transformation Gu is too over-the-top, it requires one million materials to limit it," Long Qian revealed a proud smile.

"However, the Dragon Transformation Gu eventually disappeared in the long river of history because of the large-scale extinction of materials, causing our clan to fall into a slump and completely lose the glory of our ancestors."

"If it is said that the extinct materials of the Dragon Blood Battle Gu might still be replaceable with other materials, the Dragon Transformation Gu can never reappear in the Gu World no matter what."

"Because refining the Dragon Transformation Gu requires precious dragon materials, and divine dragons have already been extinct for I don't know how many tens of thousands of years."

"There are no divine dragons in this world anymore, so the Dragon Transformation Gu formula can only become waste paper, with no possibility of ever restarting."

Long Qian showed a look of regret, lamenting to the extreme.

If those Gu formulas passed down by their ancestors could all be used again, including the complete version of the Evil Dragon True Eye, why would their Long Clan be huddled in this small place? They would have already slaughtered their way through the entire Gu World.

No matter if you are this clan or that clan, in front of Long Clan Gu cultivators, you would all have to kneel down.

Hearing this, Long Xuan's mouth couldn't help but twitch again. A Gu formula with 10,000 materials wasn't even the limit, and above that, there was actually a Gu formula with one million materials. This was too exaggerated, right? Which animal invented such a perverted Gu formula?

It was simply outrageous. No wonder it needed so many materials to limit it. No wonder the Long Clan was willing to pay any price to restart the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula. Because the Gu formula was too outrageous, the clan simply couldn't endure such temptation, and wouldn't hesitate to empty their family fortune to reproduce the glory of the Dragon Blood Battle Gu.

What kind of background did this Long Clan have? How could their exclusive Gu formulas be more outrageous than the last? How many more did he not know about?

He was also fortunate that even Heaven couldn't stand it anymore and let some of the materials for these heaven-defying Gu formulas go extinct, causing the clan's strongest exclusive Gu formulas to either be abridged versions or completely unusable. Otherwise, this world simply wouldn't be able to accommodate this clan.

Who could beat a combination of Dragon Transformation Gu and the complete version of the Evil Dragon True Eye? Long Xuan felt his scalp tingle and his whole body shiver just thinking about it. That kind of terrifying existence was too outrageous. Even he couldn't possibly be an opponent, Long Xuan couldn't help but click his tongue.

However, he soon became excited. It was truly a case of someone sending a pillow when he was sleepy.

He was just worrying about how to collect the hundreds of thousands of materials for refining the Blade Gu, and he didn't expect someone to send them to him obediently in the next second.

Researching Gu formulas didn't require consuming any materials. Wouldn't the materials the clan gave him for experiments all have to go into his own pocket?

The resources required to research Gu formulas were so massive that it was reasonable no matter how much he asked for.

And since it was an experimental Gu formula, naturally, he had to collect different types of insect species to experiment continuously. It wouldn't be excessive for him to ask for insect species of all kinds, right?

In this way, he only needed to sit still, and the clan would collect all the materials he needed for refining the Blade Gu for him?

Long Xuan's eyes flashed with a sharp light, and the more he thought about it, the more excited he became.

The matter was simply unbelievably simple. He didn't expect that the hundreds of thousands of materials that had stumped him could be collected so easily, making him feel like he was dreaming. There really was such a good thing as a pie falling from the sky.

His success rate in modifying the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula was 100%, and it was cost-free. How many materials the clan gave him, he would swallow that many. How could he not do such a great thing? It would be against heaven's law not to take the opportunity to be greedy.

He would do this deal. Only a fool wouldn't.

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