The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 116: The Working Rabbit

What Long Xuan didn’t know was that shortly after he left, two unexpected visitors, a man and a woman, appeared on his Little Peak. They were observing the mountain's formations with curious eyes.

“What a large trapping formation, interesting! Interesting! Di Xin, are you interested in joining me to break through it?” the handsome man suggested, glancing at the woman beside him.

Di Xin observed the formation with a strange expression. The more she looked, the deeper her frown became, and her expression grew increasingly serious.

After a while, she shook her head and said earnestly, “No! This formation is very peculiar. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a strange formation, something I’ve never heard of before.”

“I can’t see through it, and any formation I can’t see through, I won’t enter.”

The man beside her chuckled lightly and said, “You know, this is the first time you’ve ever said something like that. This is the first formation you couldn’t see through.”

Di Xin shook her head and said, “Believe me, this formation isn’t as simple as you think. Before understanding its intricacies, I advise you not to act rashly.”

The man sneered and said dismissively, “Are you exaggerating? It’s just a formation with a large area because of the cement used as its base. Such a formation is hardly worth mentioning.”

“We’ve already uncovered the secret of the cement. Other than arming Earth Masters, it’s useless. Anyone using it for formations is courting death. This technique is utterly useless; we’ve wasted our time coming here.”

“How strong can a formation made with such garbage be? Watch me break it quickly!”

The man laughed confidently and flew into the formation.

Di Xin’s expression changed, but she didn’t stop him. It was good to have someone test the formation's details.

After seven days passed and the man still hadn’t emerged from the formation, Di Xin’s expression finally changed.

“Something’s wrong!”

If he hadn’t come out in seven days, he was likely in grave danger. This formation truly had something to it. Di Xin was startled, and her eyes showed fear. After glancing around, she finally left.

Shortly after Di Xin left, Long Xuan finally returned, and he had gained a lot.

In seven days, he had not only collected all the materials needed for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu, but he had also gathered many other treasures, such as spiritual herbs that hadn’t been fully collected from the Herb garden and materials for the Five Elements Reversal Formation.

The current Five Elements Reversal Formation was still incomplete, merely a semi-finished product, and it was a fixed-position formation. He wanted to refine a portable formation disk for it.

This would require a significant expense, but he wasn’t in a hurry; he could take his time.

As soon as he entered his formation, he saw a corpse lying on the ground, its eyes wide open in despair, dead with unresolved grievances. It looked like it had suffocated in a swamp, dying in extreme pain.

Seeing this person, Long Xuan was taken aback.

Who is this?

He didn’t seem to be from the Long clan.

Since he wasn’t a Long clan Gu Master, it didn’t matter.

Trespassing and dying was his own fault, not worthy of sympathy.

Long Xuan took off the spatial ring from the man’s hand, and after checking its contents, his face lit up with joy.

Well, well, this guy turned out to be a formation master, and the ring contained a large amount of formation materials, many of which Long Xuan needed. This was indeed a fat haul.

Long Xuan happily accepted the spatial ring, then burned the corpse to ashes before finally heading to the mountaintop.

At the mountaintop, in a high and cold place, Long Xuan took out a large cauldron and began placing various silkworm-type spiritual insects from his insect raising bag into it.

The materials included not only spiritual insects but also some non-insect materials, such as certain leaves that silkworms loved to eat. When refining silkworm-type Gu, various leaves could actually be used as materials.

Long Xuan’s luck was good this time. As soon as he put all the materials in, progress appeared above the cauldron.

Amazing! It succeeded in one go. This was the first time he had succeeded on the first try in all his Gu refining attempts, and his luck this time was truly extraordinary.

Long Xuan smiled, closed the cauldron lid, and left.

Refining a peak-grade Gu insect would take a long time, so there was no need to wait around.

In a good mood, he walked into the herb garden. Due to the presence of a spiritual spring, the spiritual energy concentration in the core area of the formation had greatly increased, and even the air was fresh. The spiritual herbs in this environment were growing well, maturing much faster.

There were countless high-grade spiritual insects born from these high-quality spiritual herbs. The clones collected the high-quality ones, but they couldn’t compete with Brother Chicken, who had eaten a considerable portion of them.

As a result, Brother Chicken had grown fat and strong from all the supplements. It had changed significantly after consuming so many good things, and it had already advanced to a second-grade spiritual beast. It looked majestic, with bright, sharp eyes. Even when Long Xuan tried to steal its eggs, it wasn’t easy.

If not for Long Xuan’s speed in star-stepping, he might not have been able to outrun this second-grade spiritual beast.

Since its eggs were now second-grade spiritual eggs, which would be even more nourishing when made into tea eggs, Long Xuan turned a blind eye to its habit of stealing spiritual insects.

After all, the herb garden was large enough that it couldn’t eat everything even if it tried.

However, he had to protect the ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs and the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree. These treasures must be safeguarded; if they were to become infested with insects, he absolutely couldn’t let Brother Chicken eat them.

The insects born from these spiritual herbs would be peak-grade spiritual insects, and if Brother Chicken got to them first, that would be a disaster.

Especially the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, which was an Earth-grade spiritual herb with an infinite growth rate. If it became infested with insects, the resulting Gu insects would undoubtedly be extraordinary.

He had to keep a close eye on it, ensuring that Brother Chicken didn’t get there first.

Looking out over the fields of spiritual herbs, Long Xuan saw fields of ice bees flying joyfully among the flowers.

There were too many flower-type spiritual herbs in Long Xuan’s herb garden, and even the fruit trees could bloom. There was so much nectar that the bees couldn’t consume it all, so they kept reproducing in large numbers. Now, there were over ten thousand of them.

With such a scale, they had begun to form combat power and could become his battle companions.

Long Xuan nodded in satisfaction. The more people under his command, the more taxes he could collect. Now, he had more honey than he could drink, so he began to think about how to use the surplus honey.

Speaking of which, the Ice Bee Queen, Bing Bing, had also undergone a evolution. Like Gu insects, spiritual insects can only evolve with human assistance; they can’t do it on their own, probably because of their low intelligence.

Gu Masters would never invest too many resources in weak spiritual insects, so few spiritual insects in this world underwent evolution.

Only those with abundant resources would cultivate spiritual insects, but such people were rare.

Long Xuan planned to raise Bing Bing as a pet, so he intended to keep her evolving, which would also continuously improve the quality of the honey, giving him even more delicious honey to enjoy.

After pondering for a while, Long Xuan thought that the nectar from the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree might cause her to evolve, so he favored her by placing her in the area where the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree grew.

Seeing the enormous Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, Bing Bing was thrilled, her eyes sparkling as she threw herself at the tree and began gathering nectar fervently.

After she collected all the nectar from the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, she immediately turned it into honey and enjoyed a hearty meal, even burping contentedly afterward.

As Long Xuan expected, Bing Bing did not disappoint him. After a good sleep, she evolved, becoming stronger, and her stinger evolved with a new fire poison, which was incredibly troublesome.

The royal jelly she produced also became more delicious and even more miraculous, allowing other ice bees to undergo a evolution after consuming it.

But Bing Bing was just one insect and couldn’t produce much royal jelly, so she couldn’t meet the needs of the entire swarm. She could only select a small number of the strongest ice bees and grant them royal jelly, making them her royal guard.

Thus, Long Xuan now had a batch of second-grade spiritual honey. However, he still had more than he could consume; he couldn’t drink honey water every day, as he also had tea and wine to drink.

After much thought, he decided to brew wine with the second-grade spiritual honey.

The Wine Gu, Little White, is fond of drinking, so it’s not hard to guess that one of its evolution routes is probably related to drinking. It might undergo a evolution every time it drinks a peak-grade wine.

But it must be wine of extremely high quality—ordinary wine definitely won't do.

In other words, Little White needs a new wine recipe for each evolution.

Long Xuan found this highly probable, so he immediately decided to create a peak-grade wine recipe.

Since he had so much honey, he might as well create a honey wine. Little White could help him consume it, and with such a glutton around, no amount of honey wine would be enough. Once the honey wine was perfected, it might save him a significant amount of money...

Long Xuan's eyes brightened. It would take some time for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm to evolve into a Gu, so he decided to use this time to research the wine recipe. The day the recipe is complete might just be the day the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm completes its transformation.

With this in mind, Long Xuan was about to leave the herb garden and return to the pavilion to study the wine recipe, but suddenly he stopped in his tracks, his gaze falling on a furry creature.

It was a cute white rabbit, busily tossing spiritual herbs into a massive alchemy furnace, its eyes filled with seriousness, and its expression extremely focused.

Long Xuan slowly walked over and gently patted its head.

"Mm! Keep up the good work!"

He handed it a recipe and smiled, "If you can refine the spiritual pill in this recipe, you can keep it as your tuition fee for learning the recipe."

Long Xuan gave a mischievous grin, patted its fluffy head once more, and finally left.

The recipe was for the Spirit Surge Pill. Originally, he intended to permanently seal the recipe, but then he accidentally discovered a spiritual spring, leading to the large-scale cultivation of Spirit Surge Grass in his hands.

It would be a pity not to cultivate such a rare spiritual herb, which had long been extinct in this world. But after cultivating it, he realized he had no use for it.

After some thought, Long Xuan decided to refine it into Spirit Surge Pills and sell them under the identity of that mysterious alchemist. The persona he created was so successful that no one would dare to target him.

The most important thing was that he had run out of spirit stones and was in desperate need of a source of income, so he could only rely on this working rabbit to make money for him.

The Spirit Surge Pill is more valuable than most second-grade spiritual pills, and refining it is highly profitable, enough to bring him a fortune every day.