Chapter 215

After half a year of hard work, Long Xuan's Calamity Poison Gu Formula was finally completed.

His current soul strength was only equivalent to slowing down the flow of time by three times, but one must never think that the speed at which he worked on the Gu Formula could only be increased by three times.

On one hand, as he created more Gu Formulas himself, mastered more knowledge, and had more sufficient experience, the speed of creating Gu Formulas would naturally become faster and faster.

On the other hand, in the Soul Study, the paper on the table was illusory. Since the paper could be transformed, the words on it could naturally also be transformed.

He only needed to move his mind, and a piece of handwriting would instantly appear on the paper, saving pure manual writing. That was simply too time-saving, and the speed of working on the Gu Formula would naturally be greatly improved.

Therefore, the speed of completing the Gu Formula in this half year could already be considered slow. If it weren't for the fact that he was often disturbed by things that interrupted his train of thought, his speed could have been even faster.

At this time, he was no longer stationed at the Secret Silver Mine Vein; he had already returned to Black Stone City. After all, letting a fifth-ranked monster like him guard a mine was a bit of a waste of talent, so he was quickly transferred back.

After returning to Black Stone City, he worked on the Gu Formula on one hand, and sent clones to collect the materials on the Gu Formula everywhere on the other.

The materials he could write on the Gu Formula were definitely things that existed in this world, it was just that many materials were rare and very difficult to collect.

Fortunately, Straw Gu Huts were everywhere in the Long Clan now. After so many years of development by the Long Clan, Straw Gu Huts had already been distributed in all major regions.

Thus, insect species from other regions that couldn't be collected in the past could now be easily collected, only needing to pay a negligible contribution.

After opening up these resource channels, the insect species Long Xuan could choose from were more than ten times greater. Such a massive number of insect species was enough to support him in researching a ten-thousand-level Gu Formula.

However, the number of spirit insects used in a ten-thousand-level Gu Formula was not only large, but the overall quality was also very high. It actually even used a pile of top-grade spirit insects. Long Xuan was completely numb.

The two hundred million contribution he earned last time was simply not enough, so he had to hand over the Lifespan Gu Formula that was effective on people as well.

As a result, all the Long Clan high-level officials went crazy immediately. One must know that there were three Long Clan Ancestors in the Western Lands whose lifespans were originally coming to an end. Last time, their idea of targeting the Living Wood failed, and now after dragging it out for so long, they were about to kick the bucket. As a result, with the sudden appearance of the Lifespan Gu, they started jumping around again; their waists didn't ache, their legs didn't hurt, and they were smiling happily all day long.

These few Ancestors were suddenly granted extended lives, which was no different from the Long Clan having newly broken through to a few Gu Kings. It could be said that the appearance of the Lifespan Gu was simply a timely rain for the clan and for those few dying Ancestors.

And with the appearance of the Lifespan Gu, the number of Gu Kings the Long Clan would possess in the future would far exceed the past.

The increase in the lifespan of all the clan's Gu Kings meant that more Gu Kings would exist at the same time within a period, which was simply too great an improvement for the clan's luck.

Long Xuan was directly rewarded with two hundred million contribution by the excited Long Clan high-level officials, and then a fierce and domineering black dragon was tattooed on his back.

After Long Lao learned the news that he had finally researched the Lifespan Gu Formula, he unsurprisingly shed tears of an old man, drank several jars of wine that night, and sat in front of Long Hongyu's grave for a long time.

It is worth mentioning that under the arrangement of that old schemer Long Yuanshan, those three Gu King Ancestors who had already eaten the Lifespan Gu had already died of old age and entered their coffins.

He prepared to let a few Ancestors fake their deaths, and then hide these three Gu King-level Ancestors to use as surprise troops.

In this war of uncertain fate, hiding three Gu Kings would definitely have great use, perhaps even allowing the Long Clan to avoid a crisis of clan extermination.

Just like that, Long Xuan obtained a massive amount of contribution by handing over the Lifespan Gu Formula, and through the resource channels opened up by the Long Clan in all major regions, he exchanged his massive contribution for a massive amount of rare spirit insects.

The experimental materials he greedily took from the Western Lands Long Clan last time were simply too many, and they still hadn't been used up even now. Combining the two, he finally managed to gather the materials for refining the Calamity Poison Gu, which made him heave a long sigh of relief.

However, what gave him a headache at this time was that he had too many dragon tattoos on his body now, so many that there was simply no place left to draw them.

The Earth Mover Beetle, Straw Gu, cement, Dragon Blood Battle Gu, and two types of Lifespan Gu all made an extra dragon appear on his body. Six fierce evil dragons crawled all over his body, and there was absolutely no space left.

Where could one get so many tattoos? He was very distressed.

After Long Xuan waited for the last batch of materials sent by the Yan clone, he immediately began to refine Gu.

He first used a Straw Gu Hut to teleport himself to a valley full of poisonous gas. The valley was basically concave and was a natural Gu refining venue.

It wasn't that he didn't want to refine Gu at home, it was entirely because the number of spirit insects in the Gu Formula was simply too massive, and there was simply no massive vessel to contain them.

Refining this level of Gu worm could only use a valley basin as a vessel, use heaven and earth as a vessel, or even use a city as a vessel. Cities with city walls were also concave and were suitable Gu refining vessels, and were also the favorites of Demon Cultivators refining Gu.

Because refining the Calamity Poison Gu was best done in terrain full of poisonous gas and miasma, he chose the Gu refining location here after careful selection.

Although this place was far away from Black Stone City, there was natural poisonous gas everywhere here, which was a forbidden zone for humans, and very few people would run here, so Long Xuan boldly decided to refine Gu here.

In this desolate place, setting up an array and placing a clone to watch over it was enough to be foolproof.

Long Xuan wasn't even afraid of the poison of the Ten Thousand Poison Bead, let alone the poison here. He boldly walked in and placed the Ten Thousand Poison Bead directly in the center of the valley.

Then he and a crowd of clones opened one insect breeding bag after another and threw all the poisonous insects inside into the valley.

That's right, the spirit insects in the insect breeding bags were without exception all poisonous insects, all kinds of poisonous insects, one more poisonous than the other, and individual varieties could directly corrode a hole in the earth.

It was precisely because this Gu Formula only used poisonous insects that Long Xuan directly excluded more than half of the spirit insects, which was also one of the reasons why the Calamity Poison Gu Formula was researched so quickly.

To tell the truth, he didn't know the refining principle of the Calamity Poison Gu, nor did he know what role that Ten Thousand Poison Bead would play in this process; he didn't understand it at all.

The Gu Formula was guessed by him; how would he know what use that Ten Thousand Poison Bead had in the Gu refining process?

He only needed to throw the Ten Thousand Poison Bead into the Gu refining venue according to the requirements. As for the process, he didn't need to know; he only needed to know the result.

All he had to do was wait with peace of mind.

Still following the steps of refining the Blade Gu last time, he froze all the poisonous insects and, after about thirty-plus attempts, finally saw the large progress bar above the venue.

He revealed a smile and snapped his fingers lightly. All the poisonous insects instantly woke up, then looked at the surrounding poisonous insects with fierce eyes, and instantly began to kill each other. The battle scene was so exciting.

Among them, a poisonous toad covered in blue veins was particularly fierce, eating one after another, one after another. This place simply became its buffet. Whether it was an upper-grade Gu worm or a top-grade Gu worm, there was actually no enemy that could withstand a single blow.

But there were always stronger ones among the strong. It was soon swallowed in one gulp by a poisonous toad that had devoured more poisonous insects and was larger in size. And this toad soon encountered an opponent; this was actually a poisonous snake with a huge body, spitting out a long tongue and biting at it in one gulp.

The scene was simply chaotic.

This was Gu refining: you eat me, I eat you, and finally only the strongest one is left.

Because this last one devoured too many poisonous insects, it concentrated the toxicity of all the poisonous insects in its body. It would transform into a more terrifying existence and become the king of insects, also known as Gu.

After Long Xuan watched with interest for a while, he finally turned and left.

Looking at the progress, the time for the Calamity Poison Gu to become Gu was probably a bit long, requiring at least more than a year. He didn't dare to wait here.

This waiting time would probably be very long, so he prepared to take advantage of this time to research the second layer of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art".

The second layer of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" was much more difficult and complex than the first layer, requiring more time.

At the same time, the second supporting soul technique of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" was also a time killer, similarly requiring a massive amount of time to research.

However, with the Soul Study as a time cheat, he believed that whether it was the second layer of the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art" or the time-consuming "Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique", he could accomplish them within two years.

The time spent working on cultivation methods always passed very quickly. Under high concentration, a year and a half passed in a flash.

With so much time passing, the war had not yet ended. The Western Lands had completely become a meat grinder. The number of Gu Cultivators who died in this battle was countless, and all forces suffered heavy casualties and were severely damaged.

Before the war, the Western Lands had after all been washed in blood by Shi Haojun once. Whether it was low-realm Gu Cultivators or high-realm Gu Cultivators, too many had died, and it would take a long time to recover their vitality.

With the Great Yin Dynasty attacking at this time, the various forces in the Western Lands naturally had to fall into a disadvantage.

Therefore, in the early stages of the war, only the Long Clan side could gain an advantage. On other battlefields, the Western Lands side was at a clear disadvantage. After all, the Great Yin Dynasty had too many body cultivators, and the number of Gu Cultivators in the Great Yin Dynasty was not less than in the Western Lands. How could the Western Lands be their opponent?

In the end, no one knew what means City Lord Yan Pojun used, but he actually dragged forces from many barren lands like the Far West Region and the West Sea into this war. Through the Straw Gu Huts, Gu Cultivators from these distant forces could instantly appear on the Western Lands battlefield.

With the support of many allies, the Western Lands side was finally able to barely hold back the decline and began to contend with the Great Yin Dynasty.

However, even though the outside world had already turned upside down, Long Xuan still went his own way, turning a deaf ear to things outside the window, and only focused on working on his cultivation methods.

Once a war broke out and the clan assigned him tasks, he handed all tasks to his clones, while he himself was lazy and slippery, avoiding the war and hiding to secretly work on his cultivation methods.

However, his clones were also powerful enough. No matter what task they executed, they had never failed, and at the same time, they earned him a massive amount of contribution.

It wasn't that there hadn't been extremely dangerous tasks. Once, the Yan clone had to face Yu Chao, who was ranked third on the Great Yin Dynasty's Tianjiao List.

After all, Long Xuan didn't give him any top-grade Gu worms. That battle was extremely difficult for him. Under the siege of Yu Chao's various top-grade Gu worms, he was in constant danger and almost lost his life.

In the end, he could only flee in a panic, and Yu Chao chased after him relentlessly after laughing wildly.

One should not chase a desperate enemy. After chasing for a distance, he crashed into an ambush set by the other four clones. In the end, Yu Chao was beaten to death by the five clones in a five-on-one fight.

Yu Chao's death once again made Long Xuan's fame soar, and his ranking rose again, becoming the third-ranked monster on the Western Lands Monster List. For a time, his fame was loud, and his momentum was unmatched.

(End of this chapter)