Chapter 155

After the group returned to the Long Clan residence, they were greeted by the cheers of all their clansmen. Everyone already knew the news of their clan's major defeat of the Bai Clan, so everyone naturally wore excited smiles, and the entire Long Clan was extremely lively.

As the great heroes who won the competition for the clan, the dozen or so geniuses were surrounded by everyone, being asked after and praised incessantly.

"Quiet!"

Long Yuanshan's majestic voice rang out, suppressing the commotion in the crowd. Awed by the Family Head's majesty, the scene finally quieted down.

Looking at the dejected Long Yun, Long Yuanshan sighed heavily and said, "Take her away. Her remaining life will be provided for by the clan. From now on, she doesn't need to do anything."

"Today, our clan has won a great victory. Although we didn't get the entire Geng Metal mine vein, we did get the majority of it, which is worth celebrating. Starting tomorrow, we will hold a victory banquet, eat and drink for a day. Everyone, withdraw now."

"Long Xuan, come with me."

Long Yuanshan was not in high spirits. After dismissing everyone, he took Long Xuan away.

Long Xuan thought for a moment and felt that the Family Head was likely looking for him regarding the research on the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula.

Now that the arena competition with the Bai Clan was over and there were no distractions, this matter should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.

Once this matter was on the agenda, his Blade Gu should also be put on the agenda.

Long Xuan smiled and quickened his pace to follow the Family Head.

After Long Yuanshan brought Long Xuan into a hidden secret chamber, he got straight to the point: "You have probably guessed why I called you here. Our clan held an Elder Council meeting and decided to officially launch the project to repair the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula."

"The clan will use all its strength to support your research on the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula. No matter what materials you want, the clan will satisfy you at all costs."

"But during your research, you need to leave all your storage equipment outside. I hope you can understand; this is not something I can decide alone."

"Naturally, I understand," Long Xuan nodded. "It is only right. After all, researching a Gu formula requires consuming massive amounts of materials. Anyone would take precautions. Shall we start now?"

Long Yuanshan said, "You can start now. If you need any materials, just send a message using a Straw Gu. The Straw Gu is the most hidden communication channel."

"No matter what you do or what you need, just send a message with a Straw Gu. You don't need to move anywhere. Daily necessities, including three meals a day, will be delivered to you on time. You don't need to be distracted by anything."

After saying this, Long Yuanshan took off his own storage bag and dumped a pile of stones on the ground; there were at least several hundred of them.

"The main material for the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula is the top-grade spirit insect, the Divine Dragon Insect. The Divine Dragon Insect is a parasite born from the clan's holy tree, the Divine Dragon Wood, and is extremely difficult to obtain."

"You must use your own intelligence to research the Gu formula; you absolutely cannot guess blindly. The materials won't be enough," Long Yuanshan reminded him again.

Looking at the ground full of stones, each with a progress level belonging to a top-grade spirit insect, Long Xuan's mouth twitched incessantly.

Your family calls this "extremely difficult to obtain"? I think it's quite easy to obtain, right? Does this Family Head have some misunderstanding of the words "extremely difficult"?

Seeing his expression, Long Yuanshan knew what he was thinking and smiled helplessly: "The Divine Dragon Insect is truly extremely difficult to obtain, but it can't withstand the long collection time."

"Ever since the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula was scrapped due to the lack of materials, the Divine Dragon Insect has had no use."

"This has led to the Divine Dragon Insect only increasing in number. After accumulating for who knows how many tens of thousands of years, the Divine Dragon Insect has accumulated to a massive quantity."

"This is not all; I only took out a small portion for you."

"The Divine Dragon Insect keeps increasing, but this thing is a huge eater. It was about to eat the clan into bankruptcy. Even if it's useless, it's still a top-grade spirit insect, and we couldn't bear to throw it away. Out of helplessness, the clan could only place them in an extremely cold place and freeze them all into fossils."

"After becoming fossils, they finally quieted down and no longer consume the clan's food."

Upon hearing this, Long Xuan's mouth twitched again. Disliking that the Divine Dragon Insects were big eaters, they took them out to freeze them into fossils—this is too ruthless, right? But this is indeed a good method.

"So, every time you experiment with the Gu formula, cut off a piece of fossil. Don't let them all wake up at once; it's too wasteful of food."

"If these fossils are used up, write me a letter to ask for more. Even if the clan's inventory is exhausted, I can borrow quite a few from other relatives."

"You research the Gu formula here first. I will go discuss the Black Moon City matter with the other elders. If you have anything, send me a message via Straw Gu."

Long Yuanshan finally left, leaving Long Xuan alone in the secret chamber, along with the ground full of stones, inside which a group of "poor little things" were sealed.

Long Xuan walked over and patted the fossil on top, feeling emotional. He didn't expect that the main material needed to refine the Dragon Blood Battle Gu was actually a top-grade spirit insect born from the Divine Dragon Wood.

And the Western Lands Long Clan, after who knows how many tens of thousands of years of accumulation, had actually accumulated a massive amount of Divine Dragon Insects.

In this way, will the four Divine Dragon Trees he planted also give birth to a group of "big-eating cuties" in the future?

This time, he no longer felt these Divine Dragon Insects were cute. Once they were truly born naturally in the Divine Dragon Wood, he would have to use the Cold Ice Divine Flame to freeze them into fossils.

His own family foundation is thin; how could he afford to raise a group of freeloaders?

And those high-quality spirit insects collected from the medicine garden are now being raised in his insect room, which is really too food-consuming. When he goes back, he must use the Cold Ice Divine Flame to freeze them all into fossils.

Speaking of which, the teleportation gate between the Western Lands Long Clan and the Extreme West Long Clan had long been set up, and people from both sides had already started visiting each other. He could go back at any time, and it would be instantaneous.

Just now, while talking on the road, Long Qilin, Long Panpan, Long Yan, and Long Bao were preparing to teleport back today.

As for the Geng Metal that the Western Lands Long Clan promised to reward them with, it couldn't be rushed for the time being.

After all, the Geng Metal mine vein was not in their hands yet, and it would take time to mobilize a massive amount of mortal labor to mine it. Just the journey alone would take some time.

They were too lazy to wait, and plus, they were homesick, so they prepared to go back today.

At this time, only Long Xuan and Long Ziyan remained.

Long Xuan needed to research the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula and couldn't leave in the short term. The Silver Moon Mantis also needed to learn blade techniques here; it could only improve its blade techniques by constantly sparring with its own kind here.

Although this secret chamber was a bit far from the Library Tower, it didn't matter. He had long since copied the Library Tower using his Original Realm and stored the copied illusion world in his Heavenly Mechanism Eye. Even if the distance was far, he could enter it offline.

The only drawback was that it couldn't be synchronized and updated. Once new changes appeared in the Library Tower or a new book was added, it couldn't be synchronized to his illusion space at all. He could only find time to run near the Library Tower to download updates.

As for the reason Long Ziyan stayed, it was naturally because she also needed to learn sword techniques here. The Silver Moon Mantis she "freeloaded" also needed to learn blade techniques here; these were all things that made her unable to move her feet.

She also needed a massive amount of time to refine this Blade Gu, so she couldn't leave in the short term.

It's just that he didn't know how many material quantities of Blade Gu she was prepared to refine, Long Xuan couldn't help but wonder curiously.

However, thinking that she even had to do her best when building a Straw Gu hut, she probably wouldn't just refine a 500-material quantity Blade Gu, right? That wasn't her personality.

Long Xuan took out the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula that Long Qian had given him and finally began to study it seriously.

Creating a Gu formula from scratch is difficult, but is it difficult to replace a small portion of the materials in a Gu formula? To him, it wasn't difficult at all.

For this kind of thing, he only needed to find similar materials, and the workload was a hundred times less than creating a Gu formula from scratch.

This business was truly too easy to do; it was effortless. He didn't need to spend much effort at all to easily obtain the massive amount of materials needed to refine the Blade Gu. This wave of profit was simply insane; even now, a faint smile still hung on his face.

So, a month later, Long Xuan put down the Gu formula in his hand, a faint smile appearing on the corner of his mouth. The task was as smooth as expected. He only spent one month replacing all the extinct materials in the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula with materials that still existed.

It's just that the number of materials was a hundred more than the original Gu formula; he didn't know if the new Gu formula had become stronger or weaker.

Don't ever think that a multi-material Gu formula is necessarily stronger than a low-material Gu formula; that is absolutely not an absolute thing.

So far, the material quantities of all his top-grade spirit insects were not as high as the Dragon Blood Battle Gu, but he really didn't think his top-grade spirit insects were weaker than the Dragon Blood Battle Gu.

The strength of a Gu worm comes not only from the innate, but also from how the Gu cultivator develops and uses it. Powerful evolution routes can also defy the heavens and change fate.

Moreover, the failure rate of each Gu formula is different; the cost of a multi-material Gu formula is not necessarily higher than the cost of a low-material Gu formula.

After Long Xuan organized and put away the Gu formula, he suddenly had nothing to do.

The Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula had been improved successfully, but he didn't dare to hand it in just like that now.

Because the time was truly too short. A Gu formula with ten thousand materials is a massive project. If you finish the task in one month, who would believe it? It's hard to guarantee that others won't suspect something.

He had to drag it out for a few years before "arduously" completing the task; that would be normal.

A normal person could never replace the lost materials in the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula in just one month.

The most important thing is that the longer he drags it out, the more materials he can embezzle; this is the most important thing.

If he went out now, how could he embezzle? How could he gather the materials for refining the Blade Gu? He hadn't stayed here long enough yet.

Now, a large amount of materials is sent into this huge secret chamber every day. The Gu formula is already done, which is equivalent to all the materials being sent into his own pocket.

At this time, there are countless insect-raising bags on the ground, and each insect-raising bag is filled with a type of spirit insect.

To avoid one type of spirit insect being eaten by another, almost only one type of spirit insect is put in each insect-raising bag, which also leads to insect-raising bags being everywhere here.

However, wanting to take so many spirit insects out is definitely a difficult task. After thinking it over, Long Xuan decided not to risk taking the spirit insect resources out and simply refined the Blade Gu here directly.

When the Blade Gu is successfully refined, he will go out.

(End of chapter)