Chapter 173

Seeing that the insect breeding bag was empty, the two Luo Zheng's faces changed drastically, and they shouted loudly in disbelief: "How is it possible? I clearly kept the insect breeding bag at my waist all the time. How could the Living Wood suddenly disappear? This is impossible?"

Luo Zheng was dumbfounded, reaching his hand into the insect breeding bag and searching crazily.

However, empty is empty. No matter how much he touched, he couldn't possibly touch the Living Wood out of thin air.

Luo Zheng's face gradually turned white.

Breaking off a piece of bark was definitely not a crime punishable by death for a prince.

But if you lost the Living Wood, then the fun would be big.

That was something the Great Yin Emperor was waiting to save his life with. If you lost it, the outcome you would face could be imagined. How could the Great Yin Emperor spare them? It was estimated that the Great Yin Emperor even had the heart to kill them.

Thinking of this, Luo Zheng's face turned whiter and whiter, his eyes revealing terror, no longer having the calm appearance of having everything under control just now.

He understood that the trouble was big, and the matter had already slipped out of his control.

He was already like this, let alone the more cowardly Luo Ye. At this time, his legs were trembling, he was shaking all over with fear, and his back was covered in cold sweat.

He immediately collapsed on the chair, his face pale, his eyes revealing despair. He understood what would happen once the Living Wood was lost.

"Stop looking!" Seeing Luo Zheng still searching for the Living Wood, Luo Yu said hatefully: "The aura of the Living Wood leaked out. No matter how carefully you guard it, it's impossible to keep it."

"You two Spirit Refining Stage Gu Cultivators, any Gu King who sneaks in can easily steal the Living Wood without you knowing."

"In front of a Gu King, what's the use of you being careful? Now the situation has gone!"

Luo Yu had an iron-blue face. Obviously, a Gu King had sneaked in. Even if the Living Wood disappeared bizarrely, he wouldn't feel strange.

He quickly checked the surroundings and found that the array had been broken into a big hole at some point, and his face turned black immediately.

Obviously, the person who stole the Living Wood was a person proficient in arrays. No, a Gu King proficient in arrays. This was the only clue he could find after checking the scene.

Just at this time, he suddenly detected several Gu King auras approaching. His face changed, and he hurriedly said: "Someone is about to check here. This place can't be hidden."

"Hurry, hurry and escape along the tunnel. The trouble is big. The Living Wood is clearly lost, but most people still think the Living Wood is in our hands. No matter how we explain it, I'm afraid no one will believe it."

Luo Yu hurriedly opened a tunnel under the bed. This tunnel was newly dug and not long.

Their house was chosen at the corner of the city wall. The tunnel couldn't be dug very long before it could be dug outside the city wall.

Luo Yu took the two princes and jumped into the tunnel quickly, then escaped.

He had just left when the door was kicked open violently.

After Yan Pojun rushed into the room and saw that there was no one inside, his mouth slowly curled up, revealing a cold smile.

He wasn't afraid that there was no one inside; he was afraid that there was someone inside. No one meant that the people who were hiding inside just now had a guilty conscience, so the Living Wood was likely on them.

After his soul power scanned the room, he soon discovered the tunnel under the bed. His right palm waved lightly, shaking the bed and the door panel of the tunnel to pieces, revealing a pitch-black big hole.

Yan Pojun's smile became even brighter: "Hurry and chase! Someone actually dared to privately dig a tunnel leading outside the city. This is obviously the act of a spy, wanting to open a passage for the enemy to enter the city. It's simply hateful! Such a wolf-hearted person must not be allowed to run away."

The group of Gu Kings showed looks of ecstasy, jumping into the secret tunnel one after another and disappearing.

At the same time, the Gu Kings who were searching other locations also discovered the abnormality here, rushed into this room one after another, and after seeing the obvious big hole in the room, they all laughed, and then jumped in without hesitation.

As for the two Spirit Sea Stage Gu Cultivators guarding in front of the courtyard, their heads had long since fallen to the ground, lying in a pool of blood.

Long Xuan sneaked back to the Long Clan residence quietly. After returning to the room, he closed the doors and windows tightly, and only then did he breathe a sigh of relief. His tense nerves finally relaxed. Arriving here, he was considered 100% safe.

However, thinking that the Living Wood, which over a hundred Gu Kings didn't compete for, had fallen into the hands of a small Spirit Refining Stage Gu Cultivator like himself, Long Xuan was excited in his heart and couldn't help but be smug.

It's a pity that he was cautious by nature. Even if his residence was full of arrays that could isolate the aura of the Heaven-Grade Spirit Medicine, he didn't dare to take the Living Wood out to appreciate it at all and could only suppress his curiosity.

Better safe than sorry. What if the aura of the Heaven-Grade Spirit Medicine leaked out?

There is nothing absolute in this world. So what if there is an array to block the aura of the Heaven-Grade Spirit Medicine? Those two princes were confident that the array could isolate the aura of the Heaven-Grade Spirit Medicine, but what was the result?

Although the array around his residence was set up by Long Qian himself and was much stronger than the array in that bungalow, he must never let down his guard.

Even a rabbit could keenly perceive the aura of the Heaven-Grade Spirit Medicine in the array. Who could guarantee that a second creature similar to the rabbit wouldn't appear?

Long Xuan's suspicion was too heavy. Thinking of the existence of the rabbit, which was beyond common sense, he didn't dare to take the Living Wood out to appreciate it even more.

He hurriedly ordered the Straw Gu to transplant the Living Wood into his medicine garden, to plant it with superior spirit soil, to water it with spirit spring water, and he wouldn't worry about the Living Wood for a short time.

However, what Long Xuan didn't know was that the Straw Gu had transplanted the Living Wood into the superior spirit soil according to his instructions and watered it with spirit spring water every day, taking careful care of it.

However, it had peeled off the bark of the Living Wood to build a house, and that Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm had also flown over, eating the leaves of the Living Wood clean.

After all, there was no one to look after it. When there are no tigers in the mountains, the monkeys are the kings. The group of living things left in the medicine garden was unrestrained, lawless, and had completely let themselves go.

Even Brother Chicken, because there was no one to look after it, had rebelled, stealing and eating quite a few high-quality spirit insects while Long Xuan was not at home, eating until it was round and fat, and its volume was obviously a circle larger.

It was just that Long Xuan had established a master-servant blood contract with the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm and Brother Chicken, and the level of the servant could never be higher than the master. Otherwise, according to their way of eating, they would have already advanced.

Long Xuan still didn't know that the group of little things in his house had rebelled. If the Jade Rabbit Fairy saw this scene, she would probably be driven crazy.

She had to use the bark and leaves of the Living Wood for alchemy. She had begged Long Xuan for a long time before getting it, just waiting to open the furnace to refine the Longevity Pill after returning. As a result, she didn't pay attention and it was all ruined by others. She worked for a long time, but it was all for others.

Long Xuan knew nothing about everything in his medicine garden now. The long night was sleepless. Just having cleverly snatched the Living Wood from the hands of a group of Gu Kings, he couldn't sleep at all under the excitement.

Although the Living Wood was of little use to him, it was still of great use to his insects. The Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm fed on the leaves of high-grade spirit trees to improve the strength of its silk and even undergo transformation.

It could be said that the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm was a Gu worm that became stronger the more Heaven-Grade Spirit Trees it had.

Collecting various Earth-Grade and Heaven-Grade Spirit Trees was something he had already decided to do.

Just for the reason that it was useful to the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm, he couldn't calm down in front of the Living Wood.

Since he was excited and couldn't sleep, Long Xuan could only sit down and liver the Gu formula.

He opened the secret room in the room used to study the Dragon Blood Battle Gu formula and walked inside quickly.

Ignoring the insect breeding bags all over the floor, he sat at the table and chair, preparing to start studying the Gu formula.

He paused for a moment and finally took out the Longevity Gu fragmentary formula that Long Lao gave him today and placed it on the desktop, looking at it with burning eyes.

Tonight he was going to study the Longevity Gu formula.

The Longevity Gu was of little use to him. His original purpose for studying the Longevity Gu formula was to fulfill Long Lao's dream. This was something he hadn't completed in his entire life, and he didn't want Long Lao to have regrets.

But now he suddenly felt, was the Longevity Gu really useless to him? I'm afraid not necessarily.

Who was he? He was a cow person who was best at studying Gu formulas, always liked to study some rebellious things, always liked to walk a new path, and his brain hole could be said to be the first in the world.

So why did he have to study the traditional Longevity Gu step by step? He insisted on being rebellious, opening his brain hole, and studying a Longevity Gu that was incompatible with this world.

How else could the Longevity Gu exert the brain hole space? With Long Xuan's bottomless brain hole, he had an idea just by sitting there for a moment, and his eyes lit up soon.

He was thinking at this moment, what if the Longevity Gu was not only useful to people but also useful to Gu worms?

You know, low-grade spirit insects have a lifespan of more than ten years but less than a hundred years.

Medium-grade spirit insects have a lifespan of more than a hundred years but less than a thousand years.

High-grade spirit insects have a lifespan of more than a thousand years but less than ten thousand years.

Top-grade spirit insects have a lifespan of more than ten thousand years, with no cap.

The lifespan law of Gu worms is exactly the same as that of spirit insects.

Then can low-grade Gu worms be turned into medium-grade Gu worms by increasing the lifespan of Gu worms?

Thinking of this, Long Xuan's eyes became brighter and brighter, his eyes revealing excited light, and his breathing began to become rapid.

Good fellow, completely changing the quality of a Gu worm, this is a bit heaven-defying.

You know, his Straw Gu couldn't teleport people, but if it became a medium-grade Gu worm, maybe it would have the ability to carry people to teleport.

Not to mention anything else, just the reason that it was useful to the Straw Gu was enough to make Long Xuan couldn't wait to study this kind of Longevity Gu formula.

However, after simple excitement, he quickly calmed down again. It seemed that wasn't the case. The increase in Gu worm lifespan might not affect the quality.

Excluding special cases. The more powerful the creature, the longer the lifespan often is.

In most cases, the strength of a creature is positively correlated with its lifespan. This is the natural law of this world, and people also follow this law.

But this law is not a necessary relationship. How can the lifespan increased later change the already fixed genes?

So if he wants to make the Straw Gu a medium-grade Gu worm, he can only find a way to make this species have a lifespan of more than a hundred years congenitally, rather than relying on later adding a hundred years of lifespan.

Simply put, the congenital lifespan of Gu worms affects the quality, and the later lifespan does not affect the quality.

If you want to improve the quality of Gu worms by increasing lifespan, you can only start from the congenital lifespan, which means you have to change the genes of the species.

Long Xuan's eyes turned. In this way, his idea of studying a universal Longevity Gu was considered to have died in the womb.

People are people, Gu are Gu. If he wants the Straw Gu to increase its lifespan by a hundred years in congenital conditions, I'm afraid he needs to study another Longevity Gu separately.

And because the species are different, this Longevity Gu will only be useful to the Straw Gu and cannot be useful to other Gu species.

"Forget it, then create two kinds of Longevity Gu. Presumably, it won't waste much time."

Long Xuan was not discouraged, picked up his pen, and prepared to study the Longevity Gu useful to the Straw Gu first. The Longevity Gu useful to people should be put aside first, no hurry.

Letting the Straw Gu improve its quality and have the ability to carry living things to teleport is the top priority.

As long as he studies the ability of the Straw Gu to carry living things to teleport, then he can transfer all the spirit insects in this laboratory to his medicine garden far in the Far West Region.

Originally, it was not an easy thing for him to embezzle the experimental materials here, but if his Straw Gu possessed the ability to carry living things to teleport, then it would be easy for him to embezzle the spirit insect resources here.

And it was god-unaware and ghost-unaware, no one could detect it, simply perfect.

So studying the ability of the Straw Gu to carry living things to teleport is the top priority, and everything else must be put behind.

Looking at the countless insect breeding bags on the ground, Long Xuan's eyes revealed greed.

Such huge spirit insect resources were about to belong to him entirely. How could he not be excited? He was about to make a big fortune.

(End of chapter)