Chapter 919: The Valley (3000-word supplement)

After witnessing the inheritance of the Five-Passage Temple, the sky had already grown dark.

Aaron arrived at a secluded spot, donned a Human Skin Mask, and then proceeded to a valley.

He pressed against a cliff wall covered in vines, revealing a mechanism.

After opening it, a tunnel appeared inside; walking several hundred paces further, there was unexpectedly a cave heaven of its own.

A chill struck him.

Within this valley, there was also a karst cave; even in summer, the interior was as cold as ice, carrying wisps of chill.

"Squeak, squeak!"

Imprisoned inside was a fair-faced scholar known as the 'Little Lust-Bug' Zhou Tong, a flower-plucking thief who had gained great notoriety in the pugilistic world in recent years.

"This new cultivation method of mine might be stronger than that of Wan Gu Zhenjun, but there is one trouble... proceeding step-by-step, refining the five viscera and six bowels one by one, is too time-consuming! Refining one heart-spirit alone might take ten or even several decades! And without reaching the Mysterious Light Realm, one's lifespan does not increase; any Essence Refining Outer Gang cultivator would be worn to death..."

Holding the Stomach Demon Gu, Aaron passed by a group of monkeys and went directly outside a cell.

In reality, he did not care about any divination arts of the Five-Passage Temple.

He looked at a golden snub-nosed monkey; the monkey was so frightened it curled into a ball, and he could not help but sigh again.

But when Aaron approached, they each acted as if dead, not making a single sound.

Seeing Aaron enter at this moment, neither the people nor the monkeys dared to make a noise, remaining as silent as cicadas in winter.

"The righteous path of this Daoist scripture should be to cultivate painstakingly by oneself, starting from any one of the five viscera and six bowels, following the principle of the Five Elements cycle, refining the spirit of each of the five viscera one by one, and then gathering them to break through!"

After all, most cultivators in this world possessed a trick or two of divination; even Shen Xuexing was able to calculate the final moment when Jin Daoren was about to finish refining the Mysterious Female Pearl before suddenly launching an attack!

If things went poorly, it might be some passing Sword Hero or Sword Immortal who discovered his illicit deeds and wanted to slay him, this Demon!

Gazing at this familiar-looking Gu insect, Aaron's expression could not help but be slightly complex.

The result was that this Zhou Tong was captured and locked directly in this place.

Over these hundreds of years, the bones of Essence Refining cultivators have likely turned to ash, right?

"No wonder many righteous experts, once their foundation is damaged, immediately seek reincarnation... it is truly impossible to continue..."

After all, although his vision was high, he still needed actual data to begin deducing the cultivation method.

"Although the Stomach Demon Gu is refined, it is not yet mature... it must be planted into the dantian of a Daoist practitioner to absorb True Qi, causing them to develop a ravenous appetite, never feeling satisfied, until they eventually devour their own fingers and limbs, and the Stomach Demon Gu breaks out of the body... only then is it considered complete, reaching the standard for refining the Six Viscera Gu."

In fact, with Aaron's Grandmaster-level insight, even though he did not know much about the Daoism of this world and only had one Daoist scripture from Shen Xuexing to use as reference, he vaguely felt that the approach of the "Ten Thousand Gu Book" was somewhat wrong, being too extreme.

If one wanted to refine the Gu, one would have to find eleven Innate demon monkeys!

Not to mention that these demon monkeys were even more precious than human Innate Martial Artists, even if one found them, it would be like poking a monkey's nest; was he not afraid of some Great Demon coming to fight for its life?

Zhou Tong had just arrived, his temper still fierce, and he cursed: "Attacking from the shadows, what kind of hero is that? If you have the guts, let me out... and fight your grandfather three hundred rounds..."

Aaron ignored him, directly carving a passage of incantations onto the wall, and shouted: "If you want to live, cultivate the Hundred Poisons True Qi as quickly as possible and become an Innate, otherwise... hehe..."

He sneered several times and turned to leave, though he sighed inwardly.

"Stomach Demon Gu!"

After all, beasts have dull instincts and do not understand cultivation.

Only in a few sparse cells were some martial arts scoundrels Aaron had encountered imprisoned, but they were also half-human, half-ghost figures with long hair and beards.

Later, he came near Yuanjia City and wanted to take the purity of a Flower Courtesan without paying, but it just so happened that Aaron had already taken a fancy to her and had paid...

This was the precious experience Aaron had summarized after using his own knowledge and conducting many experiments.

At this moment, he directly opened a 'Gu-Sealing Jar' and took out a Gu insect shaped like a three-legged golden toad.

Inside the karst cave, there were also several tables and a row of bookshelves filled with bottles and jars; in the corner were several large urns, from which came various rustling sounds that made one's hair stand on end upon hearing them.

At this moment, he vaguely felt that even if he refined the Five Viscera and Six Bowels Gu, a 'calamity' would inevitably befall him.

Aaron had been refining Gu insects for twenty years and gradually understood one thing: 'This Five Viscera and Six Bowels Gu is indeed difficult to refine, and it harms the harmony of heaven, making it very easy to attract calamity...'

"To be safe... this place can be abandoned in a few years."

Aaron roughly estimated that if he wanted to proceed step-by-step and cultivate the Qi of his own five viscera and six bowels, it would take at least one or two hundred years of painstaking effort!

However, the righteous path's methods were inherently about building a solid foundation in this way.

These were jars for raising Gu insects; one did not know how many poisonous creatures were sealed inside, and after devouring each other, they were the most manic.

Aaron could not be bothered to pay attention to them and walked straight to a karst cave that was half-sunken into the rock wall.

"The human body is a great treasure; the so-called Five Viscera and Six Bowels Gu is nothing more than forcibly seizing the Five Elements Qi of others... how can it compare to what one refines oneself?"

Now, by combining the strengths of many schools, his divination arts were perhaps several times more powerful than that blind old Daoist.

In the karst cave, there were also quite a few man-made cages, in which many monkeys were imprisoned.

Immediately, the 'Stomach Demon Gu' of the three-legged golden toad twisted its body and crawled into Zhou Tong's mouth.

Before the words had faded, Aaron pointed a finger, causing Zhou Tong to collapse onto the ground with his mouth wide open, resembling a toad.

This three-legged golden toad landed on his hand and immediately dared not move, its eyes rolling back as if it had been frightened into a faint.

Not long after, this Little Lust-Bug lost his strength and could only continue to twist on the ground like a fat worm, wailing: "Grandfather, spare my life! Grandfather, spare my life!"

After all, Aaron carried the 'Golden Silkworm Gu' on his person; this Gu was the king of a hundred poisons and could make ten thousand Gu bow in submission.

And Aaron was skilled in spiritual divination and intuitive divination... and had also scavenged quite a few divination methods in the Great Qian Cultivation World.

Aaron even had quite a bit of trouble in the stage of refining kidney-water Qi because he had lost his primordial yang, requiring several times more effort and time than for other viscera, and the final quality was not even that good.

"That Wan Gu Zhenjun clearly had not failed to think of this method, but simply felt it was too time-consuming, and thus could only take the crooked path, seizing the visceral Qi of outsiders to supplement himself... such conduct is even more akin to the Demonic Dao."

Previously, wanting to use monkeys to replace humans was also somewhat whimsical.

'Refining Gu also has a failure rate; I failed several times when refining the Stomach Demon Gu before... and then finding a suitable host was another trouble.'

"Actually, being in the Demonic Dao is not bad; the Nine Great Demonic Legacies of this world are each direct transmissions of the Heavenly Demons Orthodox from beyond the Thirty-Three Heavens, and the future is very promising..."

The second update will be a bit later.

(End of chapter)