Chapter 87: Deep development of Gu worm abilities

However, Long Xuan had only sat for a short while before he returned to the medicine garden in Big Stone Village with a livid face, carrying the dung beetles. Even with his Treading Stars movement technique, it had wasted half a day of his time.

There was no help for it; Long Lao's place was simply a massive pit, bare and without a single array.

Therefore, nearby Long Clan Gu cultivators could sense what he was doing with their spiritual sense, and could also see what he was doing with their Evil Dragon Emperor Eyes.

What was the difference between this and bathing in public? He felt as if he had been stripped naked and was being watched by everyone.

Especially after learning that Long Lao had become a Third Grade Alchemist, powerful spiritual senses would sweep over from time to time, lingering on him for a moment, watching what he was doing openly, unscrupulously, intently, and without any concealment.

There were even creditors who came in person to disturb him. Without an array to block them, they were unimpeded in Long Lao's territory, acting recklessly as if they were in an empty land.

Long Xuan was thoroughly numb.

How could this be?

If he were to liver Gu formulas here, his secrets would be exposed. His Golden Finger was his greatest secret; how could he dare to stay in this place?

So, with a dark face, he ran away that very night.

Returning to his large medicine garden, he was finally completely safe, and he let out a long sigh of relief.

It was still quiet here; staying anywhere was not as safe as staying at home.

Long Xuan sat back in the small pavilion that was familiar to him, and suddenly, as if some kind of buff had been added, his thoughts flowed like a spring, and his inspiration exploded...

And so, ten days later, a low-grade Gu formula with only one hundred materials was born, and Long Xuan was ecstatic.

Immediately after, he spent less than half a day collecting the materials and threw them all into the cauldron. After repeatedly putting them in and pouring them out, observing the number of times progress appeared, Long Xuan quickly figured out that the success rate of this Gu formula was 12%.

A success rate of 12% was already quite good; very few Gu formulas had a success rate within one-tenth.

Success rate was also one of the standards for cost-effectiveness.

After Long Xuan marked the 12% success rate on the Gu formula, he waited calmly.

It was just a low-grade Gu worm, so it wouldn't take long to form, and there was no need to wait for half a year like top-grade Gu worms.

Actually, there were many other Gu formulas that used fewer materials; five dung beetles could form a Gu, and the cost was shockingly low.

But the meaning of cost-effectiveness was not "the cheaper the better"; it also needed to be strong while being cheap. If the thing you refined had very weak combat power, then what was the use even if it was cheaper?

The Gu worm refined from five dung beetles was too weak, simply not presentable. If the cost was cheap but the combat power was not strong, that was not called cost-effectiveness.

Long Xuan not only wanted to be cheap but also wanted to have astonishing combat power. It would be best if the combat power could exceed more than half of the Gu worms in this world. Although it was difficult, one had to have dreams. What if they came true?

Long Xuan liked to challenge the limits. He decided to do his best and push himself. He wanted to see if he could refine a Gu worm that surpassed the vast majority of those in this world with cheap materials.

After repeated research, Long Xuan finally concluded that one hundred materials was the optimal solution. Although the cost was slightly more expensive, it could maintain strength, and everyone could afford it. This was the optimal cost-effectiveness.

He also gave his newly created low-grade Gu formula a name: Earth Mover.

The Earth Mover was extremely cheap to produce, with one hundred materials costing less than ten spirit stones. Added to the success rate of a little over one-tenth, the cost price was at most one hundred spirit stones, ensuring that everyone could afford it.

What kind of combat power would a Gu worm with such a low production cost have? Long Xuan was looking forward to it.

Three days later, when the progress on the cauldron reached 100%, Long Xuan, who had been waiting for a long time, flew over, quickly opened the lid, and looked inside excitedly.

I saw a large earth-brown monster crawling out. It poked forward lightly with its forelimbs, piercing the cauldron, and then crawled out of the cauldron generously. It turned its head to glance at Long Xuan, and then continued to crawl forward.

Long Xuan's face turned black on the spot. That was all money! That cauldron was very expensive!

But looking at this behemoth in front of him, he didn't dare to approach it. This thing was truly too big, actually a head taller than a human. He was afraid that if he approached it rashly, he would be knocked and break a bone.

You must know that this was only its volume in its juvenile stage. What would happen when it reached adulthood? Heaven knows how huge it would become in the future. Maybe it could really have the strength to shake mountains.

Long Xuan couldn't help but mourn for the future Long Family. If this thing were popularized throughout the clan, one for each person, wouldn't the Long Family's soil be eaten up? Wouldn't the place where the Long Family was located become a basin?

However, just as he was thinking this evilly, he saw this big guy run into his medicine garden, eat a large piece of high-grade spirit soil in one bite, and dig a large pit in the ground.

Long Xuan was shocked on the spot.

"Damn it! That's high-grade spirit soil! You can't eat that! Shut your mouth quickly!"

Long Xuan was going crazy. He hurriedly ran over and risked blood-contracting it. He couldn't let it continue to wreak havoc, otherwise his medicine garden would be eaten up by this guy.

He spent a lot of effort stuffing this behemoth into his storage bag, finally found an empty space without valuable property, released it, and began to test its combat ability.

Long Xuan quickly figured out its ability. Because he changed the Earth Mover's eating habits and made it eat soil, it liked to push soil balls.

It seemed to be afraid of hunger, so it evolved a natural storage space in its oral cavity, which could store soil balls in its storage space. It could hold about dozens of them, carrying food and grass when going out, and it didn't have to worry about eating and drinking.

But was it useful to evolve this ability in a world full of soil? Long Xuan thought confusedly.

It seemed to be a little useful. It could store cannonballs to smash people. After all, there was no time to rub soil into soil balls during battle.

This was its ability, an auxiliary ability similar to a storage bag, an ability that couldn't be more ordinary.

However, this was normal. After all, it was a low-grade Gu worm. It was impossible to have a heaven-defying ability. It was already good to have a storage ability. How strong could you want a low-grade Gu worm to be?

But Long Xuan was still very disappointed. This did not meet his expectations, so he had to use his amazing brain hole to try to deeply develop this inconspicuous ability.

However, what was there to develop about a storage ability? Could it be that it could put its opponent into its storage bag?

Eh? This ability seemed to be quite good, a good means to trap the opponent's Gu worm. If it could even trap top-grade Gu worms, it would be a heaven-defying ability.

Long Xuan's eyes brightened, feeling that this method might really be feasible and could be studied.

He also thought that the dung beetle's greatest advantage was its great strength, so it would be best to exert its strength advantage, and let it knead the soil ball hard and throw it out to smash the enemy.

This thing could carry dozens of large soil balls with it, which was enough for the enemy to drink a pot, right? This thing's strength was exaggeratedly large. Being smashed by the soil ball it threw would definitely not be comfortable, and being smashed to death was not an exaggeration at all.

You must know that the ball pushed by the dung beetle was far larger than its own volume. Now that it had been refined into a Gu worm with a larger volume, the diameter of the soil ball was unknown.

If there were thousands of Earth Movers throwing soil balls at the enemy at the same time, think about it, there were soil balls with astonishing volume everywhere in the sky, just like meteorites falling from the sky. How terrifying would that lethality be?

Once the number of Earth Movers formed a scale and underwent strict training, it would be one artillery regiment after another, which could completely carry out carpet bombing on the enemy without leaving any gap for evasion.

Therefore, the war potential of the Earth Mover was very huge. Once popularized throughout the clan, its effect would be really not small, and it was extremely suitable for team battles.

Long Xuan continued to diverge his thinking. Besides being good at throwing attacks, shouldn't great strength also be good at melee combat? What's more, dung beetles all grew a pair of big knives, although this pair of big knives was not sharp, and he forgot to sharpen them.

But if anyone was touched by the Earth Mover's big knife, who could withstand that giant force? Wouldn't they have broken bones in minutes? Long Xuan's eyes brightened again.

Thinking this way, the Earth Mover's combat power was really not bad. Of course, it was definitely far from being comparable to top-grade Gu worms, but it was not bad for mixing in low-end games. How did you want to develop a low-grade Gu worm? It was already the limit.

However, it was still not enough. Could the Earth Mover of the current level surpass most Gu worms in this world? It didn't seem to be enough, right?

Long Xuan frowned and pondered for a long time, feeling that the combat power of the Earth Mover at the current level was still a bit lacking, and it should be developed to the limit.

The Earth Mover was only strong in strength, and its shortcomings in other aspects were too serious, which was simply a fatal weakness.

For example, its body was too bulky and clumsy, and its agility was not enough, and its speed was not fast. In battle, it was a living target. What was the use of having great strength if it couldn't hit people?

And the problem of speed and agility seemed to be unsolvable. After all, the volume was there, and the speed attribute being affected was an inevitable result. How could the laws of nature be easily changed?

Since the speed was not enough, he could only pile up defense to death. Others hit me a hundred times without dying, and I only need to hit others once. This should be the most suitable combat route for the Earth Mover. A flash of light flashed in Long Xuan's eyes.

In fact, the Earth Mover's defense was not weak. After all, it was covered with a thick shell, but this level of defense was obviously far from enough to defend against the attacks of most Gu worms.

This also required Long Xuan to exert his brain hole and find a way to further improve its defense.

So three days later, a dung beetle covered in metal armor appeared.

Long Xuan patted the iron block on the Earth Mover and smiled with satisfaction.

Putting armor on a Gu worm, he really dared to think of it.

Who could have thought that one could even manufacture battle armor for Gu worms? It was simply a god-like idea, a lunatic's idea.

You must know that the volume of insects is generally small, and smallness is the commonality of all insect species and the characteristic of this type of creature. So how could such a small thing be wrapped in heavy metal? Is that appropriate?

Therefore, researching battle armor for insects is not a reliable thing, so this brain hole has never appeared in this world.

But Long Xuan's Earth Mover was unexpectedly very suitable for a custom-made set of spirit tool battle armor. On the one hand, its volume was large enough and its limbs were thick, with sufficient surface area to engrave tool patterns.

On the other hand, the Earth Mover's strength was astonishing, allowing it to drag battle armor weighing tons to fight without reducing its speed attribute.

Because of the fusion of giant genes, the Earth Mover was one of the few Gu worms that could wear battle armor-type spirit tools. By borrowing external force to improve combat power, the Earth Mover's upper limit would undoubtedly be raised to another level.

If it were a full set of spirit tool armor, all the attributes of the spirit tools would overlap, plus the Earth Mover's large volume allowed for enough tool patterns to be engraved, then there would be few forces that could break its defense.

Even more exaggeratedly, the array base could be fixed on a group of Earth Movers. At that time, a mobile great array would be formed, and the Earth Movers would become war fortresses, which was truly of great war significance.

Who wouldn't have a headache when facing a walking mountain-protecting great array?

Extreme defense plus extreme giant force, Long Xuan dare not imagine how terrifying this monster would be at that time.

Of course, wearing a full set of top-grade spirit tool armor was too wasteful and did not meet the standard of economy and affordability at all. Long Xuan's task was cost-effectiveness, extreme cost-effectiveness.

Most people couldn't afford spirit tools, so he absolutely couldn't use spirit tools, only iron tools, that is, the degree of iron for mortal farm tools.

Undoubtedly, the iron tools used by mortals were very cheap. Of course, the hardness could not be compared with spirit tools.

But if the hardness was not enough, then the thickness would make up for it. Anyway, the Earth Mover's strength was enough, so let it fight in heavy iron skin.

Even if it couldn't compare to a top-grade spirit tool set, it could greatly enhance the Earth Mover's combat power. It could be said that the cost-effectiveness was very high.

As for the stronger top-grade spirit tool set and the mobile mountain-protecting great array, that could only be left to rich Gu cultivators to develop. He was taking care of both the low-end market and the high-end market.

Long Xuan nodded with satisfaction. He felt that this time it was really almost the limit.

The Earth Mover at the current level could at least kill half of the Gu worms in this world. This was still a very conservative statement, a very humble statement by Long Xuan.

Although the Earth Mover was still far from being an opponent of top-grade Gu worms, Long Xuan considered that he couldn't pick out many Gu worms with higher cost-effectiveness than the Earth Mover. You must know that his Earth Mover could play tricks by borrowing external objects.

In terms of cost-effectiveness alone, Long Xuan was conceited that his Earth Mover could definitely rank in the forefront of this world.

He decided to use this work to hand in the task.

Long Xuan revealed a look of satisfaction, twisted his sore neck, and continued to take a pen to supplement his Gu formula.

He had to write down the brain holes he thought of on the Gu formula. This could increase the upper limit of the Gu formula and indirectly increase the value of the Gu formula. Otherwise, those old guys with low brain holes might not use it.

For example, the artillery regiment tactics, this is a very deep study. It is not just gathering together and bombing randomly. It is very difficult to cover artillery shells without gaps. If he were not a transmigrator, he really didn't believe anyone could understand artillery technology.

Finally, there was the metamorphosis route of the Gu worm. He almost forgot to write it, so he hurriedly added it.

Due to the tight time, he only found two metamorphosis routes for the Earth Mover for the time being.

Before, when the Earth Mover ate spirit soil, there were signs of metamorphosis, but because Long Xuan stopped it in time, the amount was not enough, so the metamorphosis failed.

But Long Xuan was enough to summarize that the Earth Mover would metamorphose once every time it ate a kind of spirit soil. What changes would occur after metamorphosis was unknown.

The second metamorphosis route was naturally eating shit.

Long Xuan found that his attempt to change the dung beetle's hobby of eating shit failed. It couldn't be said to be a failure. It could only be said that the current Earth Mover indeed had the habit of eating soil, but it didn't completely stop eating shit.

It now eats soil when it encounters soil, and eats shit when it encounters shit.

Therefore, it ate Brother Chicken's chicken manure, and there were signs of metamorphosis. It was just that the amount Brother Chicken pulled was too small, which also led to its metamorphosis failure.

So Long Xuan quickly summarized that the Earth Mover would metamorphose after eating the feces pulled by spirit beasts, but the amount might be very large.

Maybe the strength after the Earth Mover's metamorphosis would also be related to the breed of the spirit beast to which the feces belonged. Divine beast feces might be the best choice.

Feces were everywhere in the forest. This could be considered very economical and affordable, completely in line with the standard of cost-effectiveness, high quality and low price.

So after these two accidents, Long Xuan quickly figured out the two metamorphosis routes of the Earth Mover.

He was not sure which metamorphosis route was stronger.

But presumably, the route of eating spirit soil would be stronger, because divine beast feces could not be found in this world, and spirit soil was more expensive.

But there were disadvantages. That was, the later it went, the harder it was to metamorphose.

As the number of metamorphoses increased, the Earth Mover's requirements for spirit soil would definitely become higher and higher. In the end, it would definitely have to eat top-grade spirit soil, or even the legendary heavenly soil, which was not so easy to find.

Which metamorphosis route to choose depended entirely on personal choice.

After Long Xuan wrote down the two metamorphosis routes of the Earth Mover, he folded the paper and then quickly set off for the Long Family.

With the speed of Treading Stars, he arrived in less than half a day. After arriving at the Long Family, he walked to the Task Hall for the first time. He secretly stuffed the insect breeding bag containing the Earth Mover and the Gu formula into the submission box, and then went back to wait with peace of mind.

……

Ten days later.

Long Xuan was sleeping comfortably in his bed when he was dragged up by the overly enthusiastic Long Qilin.

This was already the I-don't-know-how-many-th time he had been disturbed from his beautiful dream by Long Qilin.

He was already numb. Speaking of which, it was strange. You said Long Qilin was a Marrow Cleansing Stage Gu cultivator, while he was a Spirit Gathering Stage Gu cultivator. The two were not people of the same world. Could they play together?

But Long Qilin just entangled him. Xiaoqiong Peak had no array to block him. He could enter if he wanted to, and leave if he wanted to. He took this place as his home, which made Long Xuan helpless. He really had no way to deal with this person.

However, there were benefits. He used to liver Gu formulas often, which led to irregular work and rest time. Now he was often woken up by him to go to the Long Clan canteen for breakfast.

He had breakfast on time. To be honest, the breakfast made by the Long Clan canteen was really good, and it was worth him getting up early.

At this time, on the way to the canteen, Long Xuan yawned and said helplessly: "What is the matter with finding me this time? I won't go to the Gu Battle Arena. My Gu worms are too trash, really not presentable."

Long Qilin, who was walking side by side with him, turned his head and looked at him with a mysterious smile: "It is precisely because you don't have good Gu worms that I came to find you."

"I tell you a good news. My Long Clan has researched another awesome unique Gu formula. This unique Gu formula is powerful enough to become the signboard of my clan. The clan intends to promote it throughout the clan."

"Now the whole clan is crazy about it, and everyone is discussing this matter. Many Long Clan Gu cultivators are scrambling to exchange for the new Gu formula, and there is already a trend of becoming a trend."

Long Qilin suddenly leaned into Long Xuan's ear and said excitedly: "Take my advice, before this Gu formula rises in contribution points, exchange it as soon as possible."

"Believe in my vision, the Long Clan's new unique Gu formula is very strong, strong far beyond your imagination. After exchanging it, it will definitely make your strength soar by a large margin. At that time, you can go to the Gu Battle Arena!"

Hearing this, Long Xuan's eyes lit up immediately, and he quickly woke up. His sleepy eyes disappeared without a trace.

He immediately thought of the Earth Mover Gu formula he had submitted to the clan not long ago. He felt that the new unique Gu formula in Long Qilin's mouth was likely his Earth Mover.

Speaking of which, ten days ago, after he submitted the Gu formula and the Earth Mover to the clan, there was no movement, just like a stone sinking into the sea.

In a hurry, he had to use the far-sight ability of the Tianji Eye to watch, and found that all the high-level members of the clan were excitedly testing the Earth Mover.

Evaluating the value of a Gu worm naturally requires various tests. He could understand this.

But those old guys were too slow to do things. Strength had to be tested, speed had to be tested, defense had to be tested, bite force had to be tested, and even the amount of food had to be tested. They also had to fight with various Gu worms.

In short, everything had to be tested. Clearly, things that could be completed in an hour were dragged on for several days without finishing, which led to his contribution points not coming down until now. He was really convinced.

What kind of work efficiency is this? It made him wait until the flowers were about to wither.

Today, he finally heard the news. Since this matter was spread so fiercely throughout the clan, it showed that the response was not bad, and the clan already had the intention to popularize it throughout the clan.

And as long as the Gu formula met the standard of full-clan promotion, the contribution points given could not be low.

Long Xuan was excited. He planned to listen to what outsiders thought of the Earth Mover, so he pretended to be surprised and said very shocked: "What? The Long Clan has actually produced a new unique Gu formula?"

"Which genius researched this Gu formula? The cost-effectiveness can reach the level of full-clan promotion. It is too awesome! This person is truly a heaven-defying genius. His comprehension is rare in ancient and modern times, and he can be called a monster."

"Tell me quickly, how strong is this new Gu species?" Long Xuan praised himself fiercely, and then asked shamelessly.

Long Qilin was very satisfied with Long Xuan's shocked expression and said excitedly: "The new unique Gu formula is more than strong? It is simply strong without boundaries!"

"The name of the new Gu species is Earth Mover. I tell you, the Earth Mover is only a juvenile body and is already half a head taller than a human. Heaven knows how big it will be after it matures!"

"You must know that smallness is the commonality of insect species. Most insects are very small. When have I ever seen such a big Gu worm? I have simply seen such a big Gu worm for the first time in my life."

"Once such a huge guy is put into the battlefield, it is a war behemoth, a killing machine. It can step on a large area just by moving its feet. Once something reaches a certain level, it is difficult to be weak."

"I don't know which talent thought of the idea, actually thinking of putting heavy iron armor on this big guy."

"You said that is not playing tricks? Which Gu worm fights in iron skin? How can the Gu worm fighting against it fight?"

"It happens that this guy's strength is also surprisingly large. It can wear very thick metal to the battlefield. Even if the metal weight is 30 times its body weight, it will not have the slightest impact on it."

"Even top-grade Gu worms don't want to break through such thick metal. Once its big knife shoots over, it can shoot top-grade Gu worms into meat mud. You said this is exaggerated? This is bullying insects!"

"The most exaggerated thing is that it is cheap, really too cheap, and it eats cheaply. Even the metamorphosis path is surprisingly cheap. This is no different from free. The poor party strongly recommends it. I strongly suggest that you also refine such a Gu worm. It is really too fragrant!"

"Now the Earth Mover has become a must-choose Gu worm for Long Clan Gu cultivators. In the future, everyone will have one. Whoever doesn't refine it will suffer."

Long Qilin was very excited, talking eloquently, dancing, and frantically boasting about the Earth Mover's combat power.

The more he boasted, the more comfortable Long Xuan felt. Hearing that everyone would have an Earth Mover, his smile became even brighter. He knew that once the Gu worm reached this standard, the rewarded contribution points would not be less than 10 million.

"Are you sure everyone will have an Earth Mover? Including you, a genius with a very rich family background, will also refine such a low-grade Gu worm?" Long Xuan suddenly interrupted and asked.

"Of course!" Long Qilin smiled: "I now have eight Gu worm quotas. Even if I am rich, it is impossible to refine eight top-grade Gu worms. I still need many low-quality Gu worms to make up the number."

"And although this Earth Mover is a low-grade Gu worm, both its strength and defense are too commendable. Such a large body size is scary just to take out. It can boost morale and is very suitable for the front row."

"So I must refine the Earth Mover. It has already been refined now. I called you out today just to let you see my big baby."

"It is currently collecting soil balls to enrich the storage space. I will call it over now to let you open your eyes."

Long Qilin had the intention to show off. He whistled proudly. In the distance, a dung beetle about the height of a person pushed a ball and ran over, and the speed was still very fast.

There were many people watching on the road, pointing at it. But why were they all covering their noses?

Long Xuan's expression changed greatly, and he suddenly thought of something. Could that ball be...

He widened his eyes instantly, horrified.

Bad! Although the Earth Mover was changed to the habit of eating soil by him, it didn't mean that it didn't eat shit. It now eats soil when it encounters soil, and eats shit when it encounters shit.

He just remembered that he forgot to write this sentence in the Gu formula. This is bad! Something big is going to happen!

Seeing that the dung ball, which was taller than a person, was about to approach, and he could already smell the stench coming to his face, Long Xuan was scared pale and turned around and ran.

You must know that at this time, the two were not far from the entrance of the canteen. This is good. The stench drifted into the canteen along with the doors and windows, and also drifted into the mouths of people eating.

"Wow..."

"Ugh..."

As expected, a sound of vomiting sounded in the canteen. The Long Clan Gu cultivators who were eating in the canteen all vomited and retched. The whole canteen instantly became a mess, and the scolding continued.

(End of chapter) ===== CHAPTER 88 =====