Chapter 359: Great Strong Gu

359. Chapter 359: Great Strong Gu

"Who exactly are you? You say I am your most virtuous aspect, but I do not understand what you mean?"

The Little Medicine Boy forcibly suppressed the fear in his heart and asked.

"You do not need to understand; you only need to know that I am you, and you are me, and that is that."

"The virtuous aspect and the evil aspect cannot devour each other; I cannot devour you, nor can you devour me; we can only expel one party from the body, or both parties can share a single physique."

"Therefore, after we merge, you need not worry about dying; if I could truly have devoured you, I would not have expelled you from my body back then," the mysterious voice said again.

Upon hearing this, the Little Medicine Boy's face instantly changed; the term 'merge' was absolutely not a good word, and regardless of whether it constituted possession or not, if he truly merged with this demon, would he still be himself?

"Oh no!"

The Little Medicine Boy revealed a look of terror and hurriedly ran toward the outside.

"Hmph! Run? Do you think you can escape?"

As the voice fell, a black shadow swiftly flew up from the ground, and before the Little Medicine Boy could even push open the door, the shadow drilled into his body from behind his heart.

The Little Medicine Boy's hand reaching for the door finally froze; after a long while, he slowly revealed a bizarre smile.

"Hehe! A young body is indeed wonderful; after being trapped for so long, I can finally see the outside world again; you bunch of old bald donkeys, you had better wait for me!"

After the voice fell, he looked fiercely in a certain direction, then slowly closed his eyes and began to carefully probe the memories in the Little Medicine Boy's mind; not long after, the corner of his mouth curled up, revealing an expression of interest.

"Cockroach Gu? Interesting! Interesting!"

"As expected of my most virtuous aspect, perfectly inheriting my imagination; even a mere Lower Grade Gu Worm could be played with in so many ways by him."

"Transplanting all special organs under heaven into one's own body, not limited to parts from the Alien Race or powerful Divine Beasts, is truly a fine idea."

"Splicing together various powerful organs could indeed create an extremely terrifying monster."

The corner of his mouth curled up, and the more he thought about it, the stronger his interest grew.

"However, your courage is truly too small; possessing such a good idea yet daring not to use it."

"Moreover, the Cockroach Gu is merely a Lower Grade Gu Worm; transplanting ordinary organs is feasible, but transplanting powerful organs like the Seven Orifices Exquisite Heart Sword Bone would cause the flesh and blood to collapse inevitably."

"It seems I must utilize my own wisdom to create a Great Strong Gu; I really want to see how terrifying a monster spliced together from the strongest organs under heaven would be."

His words displayed immense confidence, as if creating a Gu Formula was effortless for him.

Suddenly, he turned his gaze toward the Sword Washing Pavilion, narrowed his eyes, and ambitiously murmured, "That place contains quite a few Sword Bones."

"A single Sword Bone might have limited strength, but if I were to replace all the bones in my entire body with Sword Bones, how terrifying would that become?"

Four months later, on the Main Island.

It was the season when flowers bloomed once again; the flower bushes on the island were colorful, releasing various heart-refreshing floral scents.

Swarms of bees danced among the flower bushes, happily gathering nectar, and occasionally a blue bee would drill into a flower, exposing half its rear end.

After the bees flew away, a Puppet would walk over, collect the Spirit Flower whose nectar had been fully gathered, and then replant it properly.

These mature Spirit Flowers were then delivered by the Puppets to a rabbit to refine the Ten Thousand Flower Pill.

The refined Ten Thousand Flower Pill was then delivered by the Puppets to Long Xuan.

This vast island was managed in an orderly fashion by this group of Puppets.

Although Long Xuan was not a Puppet Master and did not know how to manufacture Puppets,

he possessed the Repair Gu; by simply snapping off a part from a Puppet, the Repair Gu could restore it, conjuring a new Puppet out of thin air.

As time passed, the number of his Puppets would only grow increasingly massive; one could say that however many Split Souls he had in the future, he could have that many Puppets.

With so many Puppets, he could tend to even the largest Medicine Garden.

At this moment, Long Xuan was preparing to expand the area of his Medicine Garden once again.

He was gazing at a red fruit core, revealing an excited smile.

Today was not only a great harvest of Spirit Flowers, but a World Tree Fruit had also ripened.

This fruit was filled with fiery energy; the world within its seed must be a Fire Land, perfectly suitable for planting Spirit Medicines that can only grow in Fire Lands.

After removing the flesh, he held this World Tree Seed; before he could admire it for long, the World Tree Seed flew up from his hand and, under the control of the Heaven-Devouring World Toad, flew toward a far distance.

Long Xuan naturally knew what the Heaven-Devouring World Toad intended to do, so he quickly chased after the seed, revealing an excited gaze.

Just like the situation when the Wood Island appeared, after this seed flew a certain distance, its surface suddenly became covered with dense cracks and trembled continuously.

Immediately following a "Boom!" sound, the World Tree Seed suddenly exploded, and a huge island appeared out of thin air not far to the east of the Main Island.

By constructing a suspension bridge a hundred meters long on the east side of the Main Island, it could be completely connected to this Floating Island.

This was a Fire Floating Island filled with fiery energy; the soil above was fire-red, and the ground temperature was extremely high.

On the Fire Floating Island, fireballs occasionally darted about everywhere; within the underground Cave maze, fireballs also wandered throughout, like ghost fires, capable of moving in all directions, making it obvious at a glance that these were not ordinary Flames.

Long Xuan revealed a look of curiosity, quickly flew onto the Fire Floating Island, and prepared to study the function of the Fire Floating Island.

Every world within the World Tree Seeds possessed a special function, and surely this Fire Floating Island was no exception.

The special function of the Fire Floating Island was not complex; Long Xuan merely used his Soul Power to sense those fireballs and recognized them as precious Spirit Fires.

These Spirit Fires varied in size and strength; here there were Lower Grade Spirit Fires, Middle Grade Spirit Fires, Upper Grade Spirit Fires, and even Top Grade Spirit Fires.

The island contained the most Lower Grade Spirit Fires, while the strongest Top Grade Spirit Fires were few; however, the strength of the Top Grade Spirit Fires was merely a hair weaker than his Ice Cold Divine Flame.

It was not difficult to see that this place seemed to be a land for nurturing fire.

Not only could Spirit Fires be born here, but Spirit Fires placed here could also be nourished, gradually growing stronger as time passed.

After he placed his Ice Cold Divine Flame and Sunset Divine Flame here, he discovered that both flames were very active in this location and showed a clear trend of becoming stronger, which further confirmed his speculation.

Long Xuan was overjoyed; this was truly a wonderful function and completely a timely rain for him.

Originally, he had been headache-ing over how to repair the damaged Fire Seed of the Sunset Divine Flame; the Repair Gu certainly could not repair treasures like Heavenly Fire, and until now he had no clue.

Now he no longer needed to worry; it was truly a case of getting exactly what was lacking; just as he had swallowed the Heavenly Fire and was wondering how to repair it, the item needed to repair the Heavenly Fire had arrived.

As long as he placed the Sunset Divine Flame on this Fire Floating Island, the Sunset Divine Flame would sooner or later recover to its peak state; although this process would likely be very long, he was in no hurry at all.

The Fire Floating Island could not only nurture fires but also cultivate Spirit Medicine that could only be grown in Fire Land terrain, and the growth speed of Fire Attribute Spirit Medicine here would increase dramatically.

This was also an excellent ability for him; Spirit Medicine with special requirements for growth terrain could not be cultivated otherwise, and even possessing Superior Spirit Earth would not allow one to grow those Spirit Medicine with special terrain requirements.

Naturally, Spirit Medicine that could never appear in human Medicine Gardens were extremely rare, and such rarity meant their market prices were astronomical.

If his Medicine Garden could cultivate this type of Spirit Medicine, it would be enough for him to make a small fortune.

Planting medicine was a minor matter; the Spirit Fire on the Fire Floating Island was what mattered most.

Although he already possessed Heavenly Fire, making those Spirit Fire on the floating island useless to him, he could still sell them for money.

The Spirit Fire on the island seemed to regenerate infinitely, turning it into a golden chicken that laid golden eggs.

Which groups found Spirit Fire fatally attractive? Naturally, it was the Alchemists and Artifact Refiners.

The upcoming Alchemy Competition would gather countless Alchemists, and with so many wealthy and noble Alchemists converging, a large-scale trading fair was bound to emerge.

If he sold these Spirit Fire at the trading fair, even an endless supply would be snatched up by the massive crowd of Alchemists, making him immensely wealthy. A smile slowly curled the corners of Long Xuan's mouth.

"Next, I should massively collect seeds of Spirit Medicine that can only grow in Fire Land; the trading fair at the Alchemy Competition is a perfect opportunity, as every Alchemist carries large quantities of Spirit Medicine and seeds."

After murmuring softly, Long Xuan finally stepped out of the space within the Heaven-Devouring World Toad's body.

He prepared to check how far they had traveled; ever since his Clone broke through to Spirit Sea Mid Stage and recovered from his injuries a month ago, he had immediately set off toward the Sword Washing Pavilion of the Yan Ting Empire.

Ever since acquiring the Heaven-Devouring World Toad, no matter where he went, the creature served as his mount; often, he would merely enter secluded cultivation for a while, and upon opening his eyes, he would have already arrived at his destination.

Now that the Heaven-Devouring World Toad had traveled for a month, given its speed, they had likely already entered the heartland of the Yan Ting Empire and were perhaps not far from the location of the Sword Washing Pavilion.

At this moment, the Heaven-Devouring World Toad happened to detect something; it stopped, gazed forward, and revealed a look of vigilance.

After Long Xuan emerged, he immediately saw a dilapidated small town ahead.

The small town was filled with collapsed houses, some of which were engulfed in raging fires. Corpses littered the ground everywhere, each one drained of all Spiritual Power.

Blood flowed across the streets yet had not dried, and the bloody scent in the air remained pungent, suggesting this tragedy had not occurred long ago.

At this moment, there was not a single living person left in the entire small town.

Long Xuan frowned slightly; which Great Demon Cultivator had massacred this town?

Since there were no survivors left in the small town, Long Xuan quickly walked inside.

He certainly did not intend to investigate who the culprit was; he was not that bored.

Long Xuan intended to loot the corpses; with so many bodies, so many houses, and many Hidden Chambers, if he searched carefully enough, he estimated he could pick up quite a few valuable treasures.

With this mindset, Long Xuan quickened his pace and entered the small town.

However, while his reasoning was correct, the culprit this time was somewhat unusual; this perpetrator had searched with exceptional thoroughness. Despite the numerous corpses and houses, the culprit had truly managed to miss not a single treasure.

Even the deeply hidden various Secret Chambers had been found by him without exception, and he had dug three feet into the earth to strip them of all treasures.

After using his Perspective Eye combined with powerful Soul Power to quickly scan the entire small town, Long Xuan did not find even half a Spirit Stone; even many worthless items had been taken away, leaving him completely stunned.

Who exactly had acted so cleanly, leaving not even a drop of soup behind, searching even more thoroughly than a Little Medicine Boy? (End of Chapter)