Chapter 330: The Calamity Gu is Formed

330. Chapter 330: The Calamity Gu is Formed

Long Xuan adjusted his attire, finally stepped out from within the Heaven-Devouring World Toad, and gazed at the sky filled with thunder; his mood seemed to improve considerably.

"Did any Heavenly Phenomenon occur when I was creating the Cultivation Method?" Long Xuan asked the Flame Clone not far away.

"Once half a year ago, and once just now; two times in total."

"However, the dark clouds merged with the clouds already in the sky, attracting no one's attention," the Flame Clone said.

Long Xuan nodded, turned his head, and used the Heavenly Mechanism Eye to look toward the distant site where the Tribulation Gu was being refined.

Seeing that the progress at the Gu Refining ground was already approaching one hundred percent, Long Xuan's eyes lit up.

"Is the Calamity Gu finally about to be completed?"

Overjoyed, he hurriedly rushed over.

Arriving before the Five Elements Reversal Great Formation, Long Xuan discovered that all the Spirit Insects inside had long since been devoured clean by that Calamity Worm.

The Calamity Worm lay sleeping on the ground; at this moment, its color had changed from its original blue to purple, making it appear even more sharp and radiant.

Seeing that the Calamity Worm was on the verge of transforming into a Calamity Gu, Long Xuan did not leave, preparing to wait here patiently.

Three days later, Long Xuan held a purple scorpion in his palm, gazing at it with shining eyes, and rarely, he did not reach out to caress it with an inability to put it down.

That was correct; this purple scorpion was precisely the great Calamity Gu.

This scorpion form was entirely outlined by lightning, possessing no physical substance.

However, do not misunderstand; the form of the Calamity Gu is not a scorpion—it is the body of lightning itself, having no fixed form.

However, ever since swallowing a large quantity of Spirit Insects, its body could transform into any Spirit Insect it had devoured.

It could now become a snake flying back and forth, or a spider capable of spitting out lightning nets.

It just so happened that its current form was that of a scorpion.

"Since your entire body is purple, I shall name you Little Purple."

Seeing the Heaven-Devouring World Toad gazing at Little Purple with burning eyes, its appearance already showing it could not wait, Long Xuan directly tossed Little Purple into its mouth.

An existence like Little Purple absolutely belonged to the category of Heaven-Defying Treasures; once the Heaven-Devouring World Toad swallowed this Heaven-Defying Gu Worm, its volume would increase further.

Actually, with the Heaven-Devouring World Toad present, the Insect Breeding Bag on Long Xuan's person could basically be eliminated, as all Gu Worms could be placed directly inside its belly.

For Gu Worms, staying in the Floating Island environment of birdsong and fragrant flowers was far more comfortable than staying in the lightless Insect Breeding Bag.

However, in order to deceive others, Long Xuan still decided not to discard the Insect Breeding Bag at his waist.

Since the Calamity Gu had been successfully completed, it was time for Long Xuan to decide to create a Thunder Tribulation, allowing the Calamity Gu to complete its First Transformation.

Long Xuan could not wait to retrieve the materials for refining the Heaven-Defying Pill from the Heaven-Devouring World Toad's belly, then ran into the Five Elements Reversal Great Formation, deciding to refine the Heaven-Defying Pill immediately.

He could not wait to witness the scene of the Calamity Gu manipulating the Thunder Tribulation to slaughter in all directions.

However, since the Heavenly Phenomenon appeared in the outer space rather than the inner space, the Thunder Tribulation would surely also appear in the outside world, rather than within the world inside the Heaven-Devouring World Toad's belly.

Long Xuan needed to utilize the Thunder Tribulation to allow the Calamity Gu to complete its transformation, so he could only go out to the outside world to perform Alchemy.

Thus, although he had originally planned to go out and relax after finishing the creation of the Cultivation Method, he was now busy once again.

The Heaven-Defying Pill was a Fourth Grade Pill; Long Xuan was currently at the Spirit Sea Stage and needed to join forces with his five major clones to refine a pill beyond his level.

However, since he had only just broken through recently, the difficulty of refining such a Heaven-Defying Pill beyond one's level was indeed not small.

Long Xuan could not help but feel somewhat nervous in his heart at this moment.

The materials required to refine the Heaven-Defying Pill were truly too rare; from Di Xin, he had only managed to collect one set.

This meant he had only one chance at Alchemy; once he failed, even with the Repair Gu, it would take a massive amount of time to refine pills again, which would truly drag out the pace too much.

There were still many things he needed to do; having just broken through, every Gu Worm needed time to be upgraded, and he absolutely did not want to waste too much time on the Heaven-Defying Pill.

Long Xuan took out six Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons, placed them on the ground, and under the control of his will, they gradually grew larger.

The reason there could be six Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons was naturally due to the merit of the Repair Gu.

The Devil-Swallowing Cauldron was not such a Heaven-Defying treasure, so the Repair Gu repairing the other five Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons did not waste much time.

When the six Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons had grown to a certain volume, he slowly closed his eyes, adjusting himself to the best state.

At this time, all the other major clones had already entered the Barrier of the Five Elements Reversal Great Formation, each sitting before a Devil-Swallowing Cauldron.

The positions where the five major clones sat connected to form a regular pentagon, while Long Xuan remained in the center, surrounded tightly by the five clones.

After a long while, Long Xuan finally opened his eyes and softly shouted, "Begin!"

All the major clones immediately sprang into action, grabbing Spirit Medicine and throwing it into their respective Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons.

In order to maximize the success rate of Alchemy to the greatest extent, Long Xuan had already refined the quantities of various Spirit Medicines to the extreme.

After bringing the scale from his Past Life into this world, his usage quantities for Spirit Medicine had become precise to the gram.

The amount of each type of Spirit Medicine thrown into the cauldrons was neither one gram more nor one gram less.

After throwing approximately ten thousand kinds of rare Fourth Grade Spirit Medicine into the six Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons, six clusters of ice-blue flames rose beneath the six Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons.

The Ice Cold Divine Flame released very cold chill, yet when burning beneath the cauldrons, the cauldrons themselves became hot.

When the temperature inside the Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons rose to a certain degree, all the major clones sprang into action once again, beginning to refine the Spirit Medicine in their respective Alchemy Furnaces.

Having learned the "Heavenly Demon Disintegration Divine Art," each clone could split their soul, and each split soul only needed to control a few stalks of Spirit Medicine, greatly increasing the efficiency of refining Spirit Medicine.

There was absolutely no need to be like other Alchemists, who, when refining pills, had to throw Spirit Medicine into the Alchemy Furnace stalk by stalk, consuming both time and effort.

When Long Xuan refined pills, regardless of how many Spirit Medicines were on the Pill Formula, he only needed to throw them all into the Alchemy Furnace in one go; simple and crude, thus his speed of Alchemy was extremely, extremely fast.

If other Alchemists saw him refining pills in this manner, they would probably be scared silly.

When all the major clones had finished refining all the Spirit Medicine within their respective pill furnaces, they used Soul Power to lift the lids of the Alchemy Furnaces, then controlled the already refined Spirit Medicine Essence to fly out.

The Spirit Medicine Essence from the five Devil-Swallowing Cauldrons flew out together, then accurately and without error fell into the main furnace controlled by Long Xuan at the center.

The five major clones quickly stood up, walked over rapidly to sit surrounding the main furnace, and each used powerful Soul Power to probe into the furnace, controlling the Spirit Medicine Essence inside to undergo the final fusion, then condensing into a Finished Pill.

Although Long Xuan's method of Alchemy greatly increased efficiency, after all, there were truly too many Spirit Medicines—a full ten thousand stalks.

Even with the assistance of five major clones and countless split souls, this single process still took a full day's time.

During this time, Long Xuan ate nothing and drank nothing, focusing his entire mind on manipulating the fusion of the Spirit Medicine inside the cauldron.

Until the night of the second day, the Spirit Medicine Essence inside the Devil Swallowing Cauldron finally finished fusing, slowly beginning to condense into a Finished Pill, then slowly solidifying.

At this moment, three colorful pills of seven colors had already formed inside the Devil Swallowing Cauldron.

The three colorful pills floated in the center of the Devil Swallowing Cauldron, emitting brilliant colored light.

Even though Long Xuan's eyes could not see, he could perceive through his Soul Power that these three colorful pills were extremely bright.

A smile slowly curved at the corner of his mouth.

However, just at this moment, a deafening sound suddenly came from the sky.

His smile instantly froze, and he hurriedly raised his head to look at the sky.

He saw that he didn't know when, the sky had already filled with dense black clouds.

These black clouds were very different; thunder exploded within the clouds, and Thunder Snakes danced wildly across the cloud surfaces.

Yet the Lightning released by these cloud layers was actually red, with each mass of black clouds wrapped in dense red Thunder.

Therefore, this patch of black clouds was highly distinctive and would never be confused with the black clouds above the Thunder Swamp.

At this time, where were the original black clouds above the Thunder Swamp? The original black clouds had long been crushed and swallowed by this patch of Calamity Cloud.

How could ordinary black clouds compete with a Calamity Cloud?

The dense black clouds above the Thunder Swamp, which had completely blocked the sunlight, were swallowed clean by the Calamity Cloud in an instant.

With the original black clouds gone, sunlight finally shot down from the sky, yet the sky had already turned entirely red, even the sun appearing red.

Outside, it simply looked like a scene of doomsday, as if some terrifying disaster were about to descend.

The entire sky was brewing a power that made one's heart palpitate, ready to descend at any moment.

Seeing this terrifying scene, Long Xuan's face instantly turned pale.

At this time, the three Heaven-Defying Pills inside the pill furnace had not yet fully become Finished Pills; how could he let go and leave?

At this point, he finally understood clearly: the time the Heavenly Tribulation appeared was not after the pill was finished, but when it was about to be finished.

Because the meaning of the Heavenly Tribulation's birth was to erase Heaven-defying things from this world; the Heavenly Dao did not allow anyone to defy Heaven.

Most Heaven-defying Pills were already destroyed by the Heavenly Tribulation before they could become Finished Pills.

But if you could forcibly endure the Heavenly Tribulation, then that would be the moment the pill was finished.

In other words, there was no way to dodge this Heavenly Tribulation; unless you did not want the Heaven-Defying Pill, you had to sit still and let the Thunder strike you.

"Damn it! This is a rhythm that will kill people!"

At this moment, Long Xuan was completely unsettled; he hurriedly pulled the Heaven-Devouring World Toad out of his Insect Breeding Bag.

Then he quickly reached his hand into its mouth and took out that Calamity Gu.

"Guard me! Whether I can survive next depends entirely on you; you absolutely must not drop the ball on me!"

At this moment, Long Xuan's mood was tense to the extreme; that was a Thunder Tribulation, red Thunder, representing the Life-Extinguishing Thunder ranked tenth on the Lightning Tribulation List.

The Life-Extinguishing Thunder was an existence that could easily split dead even a Gu King; how could a tiny Gu Cultivator at the Spirit Sea Early Stage contend with it?

The Life-Extinguishing Thunder would descend in thirty-six strikes; even if he suffered just one hit, he would turn to ash and vanish, and even the Water Bear Gu could not save him.

Although the Calamity Gu was known as capable of swallowing the Thunder Tribulation and possessing extremely high resistance to it.

But it was currently far too weak, having never undergone a single Transformation; it was a Mortal Gu equal in rank to a Gu Cultivator at the Qi Refining stage.

Whether it could actually resist a Thunder Tribulation capable of splitting dead even a Gu King, Long Xuan truly had no confidence in his heart at all.

At this moment, he had already made up his mind: once the Calamity Gu's situation looked bad and it clearly could not endure the subsequent Thunder Tribulation.

Then he would turn and run; he would want neither the Heaven-Defying Pill nor the Calamity Gu.

As long as the green hills remain, there will be no lack of firewood... (End of Chapter)