The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 216: Disaster Poison Gu

Recently, a major event occurred in the Western Lands: after such a long time, the Great Yin Dynasty finally found a method to counter the Suo Gu.

With the Long Clan losing the advantage of Suo Gu, this war has once again become unpredictable.

In fact, there are many ways to counter Suo Gu. Any method that can restrict teleportation formations can be used to restrict Suo Gu.

For example, the Long Clan used a space-forbidding formation in the Geng Metal vein, which prevented Suo Gu from teleporting. Other forces must also possess similar formations.

However, Suo Gu used by the Long Clan could teleport across the entire battlefield, while the array formations only affected a limited area. Suo Gu could simply teleport to the edge of the formation and escape.

Thus, in this war, space-forbidding formation had little effect on the Long Clan, who moved freely across the map.

There are also numerous Gu insects that can kill Suo Gu, but Suo Gu is a particularly slippery type of Gu insect that avoids confrontation with other Gu insects.

If things turn bad, Suo Gu would escape into the Void Realm, making it impossible to catch. So even though there are many methods to counter it, the Great Yin Dynasty had no way to effectively deal with it.

The Great Yin Dynasty invested years of nationwide effort into researching ways to restrain Suo Gu, but they never found an effective method. Instead, they suffered heavy losses from the ambushes of the Suo Gu army, losing supplies, and nearly having their teleportation formations destroyed.

Finally, the emperor of the Great Yin Dynasty lost his patience. Against the advice of his entire court, he chose to sacrifice a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred of his own, recklessly throwing a Realm Pearl into the spatial rift in this region.

The Realm Pearl is a powerful innate spiritual treasure, and it’s a rare treasure with space attributes.

Once the Realm Pearl explodes in a spatial rift, it triggers spatial turbulence, creating a massive spatial storm and chaotic currents that make the space highly unstable, preventing any further teleportation.

This method is used to restrict teleportation formations, and it’s equally effective against Suo Gu.

Now, neither teleportation formations nor Suo Gu huts can be used in the Western Lands. It's not that they can't be used at all, but anyone who tries to teleport now risks mysterious disappearance.

Yes, this method also restricted the Great Yin Dynasty itself, making their large teleportation formation that could transport over a hundred people unusable as well.

Moreover, spatial turbulence doesn't conveniently stay confined to just one region. Once it occurs, the affected area is vast and the effects last for a long time.

Not only the Western Lands and the Great Yin Dynasty were affected, but surrounding regions were also impacted to varying degrees. This was why the Great Yin Dynasty had hesitated to use this method for so long.

Otherwise, they would have provoked a large number of forces that rely on teleportation formations. Unless they were willing to spend vast amounts of resources to pacify these forces, the consequences would be unthinkable.

Using such a method would either turn the Great Yin Dynasty into an enemy of all sides, or leave their treasury depleted. It’s truly a strategy of sacrificing a thousand enemies at the cost of eight hundred allies—a last resort.

It seems the emperor of the Great Yin Dynasty was truly pushed to his limit by the Long Clan's Suo Gu, forcing him to take this drastic step.

Both the factions involved in the war and the surrounding forces watching from the sidelines were shocked by the emperor's madness.

Perhaps it’s because his lifespan is nearing its end, and he's running out of time. It’s no surprise for an old emperor, desperate for more years of life, to go to any lengths—even if it means dragging the entire empire to its grave.

The inability to use Suo Gu during this time is indeed a significant matter, especially for the Long Clan, as it is a fatal blow.

As a result, the Long Clan has been quiet recently, and Long Xuan’s missions have lessened.

With more free time, Long Xuan’s inspiration flowed, and he quickly mastered the second layer of the "Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art" and the "Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique". He immediately had his clones begin cultivating these new techniques.

Although his clones had only been cultivating the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art for a few years, a person's soul aptitude depends entirely on the strength of their innate soul.

Long Xuan, having lived two lives and possessing a double three-soul-seven-spirit, had soul aptitude far beyond the highest human limit.

This meant his soul cultivation speed far outpaced his body and spirit cultivation.

If Long Xuan’s Spiritual cultivation could be considered weak, then his soul cultivation was that of a genius—an unparalleled genius with soul aptitude surpassing even peak-grade.

Moreover, with five clones cultivating the Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art simultaneously, it was like multiplying the cultivation speed of an already monstrous talent by five.

So, his soul cultivation speed was frighteningly fast. In just a few years, he had fully mastered the first layer of the "Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Art" , and now it was time to cultivate the second layer.

As soon as he developed the second layer, his clones could take over.

As for the Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique, his clones could cultivate it concurrently. The 'Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique' allowed him to split his soul into countless fragments and take possession of people around him. However, dividing the soul into so many pieces naturally weakened each fragment’s soul power.

Therefore, cultivating the Heavenly Demon Soul Devouring Technique is unlikely to be effective against opponents of similar strength or those specializing in soul cultivation.

Although this move is defiant against the heavens, it mainly serves as a powerful ability for clearing weaker enemies, allowing him to ignore the encirclement of countless low-level cultivators, remain unafraid of mass combat tactics, and even charge in and out of the Ten Great Armies seven times over.

So, despite the fact that the strength of this move didn't surpass expectations, Long Xuan still planned to focus on cultivating it.

One day, the Fire Clone rushed over anxiously. Just as Long Xuan was about to ask what had happened, the clone threw a Insect Bag over to him.

Long Xuan was momentarily stunned. When he opened the Gu Insect Bag and looked inside, he was immediately shocked and hurriedly stood up.

"This is the Disaster Poison Gu? You finally refined it?"

Long Xuan was overjoyed and quickly took out a large, green-skinned toad that was sound asleep inside, hugging it with excitement.

The toad was quite large and heavy in his arms, but Long Xuan was smiling broadly, as if he were holding a treasure.

"By the way! What happened to the Ten Thousand Poison Bead?"

Suddenly remembering something, Long Xuan quickly raised his head and asked the Fire Clone.

"It ate it in one gulp. It’s now lodged in its throat, seemingly having transformed into its 'inner core'. All of its tyrannical poisonous spiritual power is stored within this core."

"The inner core can absorb toxins, release toxins, or even be spat out to attack enemies from a distance."

"However, the inner core and the Disaster Poison Gu are completely one entity—it’s a part of its body and must not be separated by too much distance. Otherwise, it will lose its vitality and spirit. Whether the inner core is damaged or lost, the Disaster Poison Gu's strength will be greatly diminished."

"The Ten Thousand Poison Bead has completely fused into its inner core. While this significantly enhances the Disaster Poison Gu's combat power, it also introduces a major weakness."

"If the inner core is destroyed by an enemy, the Disaster Poison Gu will essentially be crippled. The inner core created from the Ten Thousand Poison Bead cannot regenerate unless you find another Ten Thousand Poison Bead."

Upon hearing this, Long Xuan nodded, finally understanding the role that the Ten Thousand Poison Bead played in the refinement process of the Disaster Poison Gu.

He hadn’t expected that the Ten Thousand Poison Bead would exist in the form of an inner core within the Gu insect. It was indeed a peculiar refinement process.

After transforming into the inner core, the strength of the Ten Thousand Poison Pearl would only increase, and its power could never be worse than before.

However, the inner core's weakness was truly fatal. While it granted the Disaster Poison Gu tremendous combat power, it also became a vulnerability. It could be lost or targeted. Ye Xiu died precisely because of this weakness.

At this point, Long Xuan had made up his mind: he would ensure that, under no circumstances, would the Disaster Poison Gu ever spit out its inner core. As long as it didn’t expel the inner core, it would be invincible.

Overall, he was very satisfied with the Disaster Poison Gu and couldn’t resist stroking its smooth back. He had to admit, it was rather slippery.

As he petted the smooth back of the Disaster Poison Gu, Long Xuan pondered the issue of its evolution.

He had already known the Disaster Poison Gu’s evolution method from the time he wrote the Gu refinement recipe.

The Disaster Poison Gu increases its maturity by devouring various poisons, and it undergoes transformations by consuming the most lethal poisons.

This concept had been included in the formula's description, and since the progress of its refinement hadn’t stalled, it meant his approach was feasible.

Now, all he needed to do was find the Disaster Poison Gu the deadliest poison, and it would immediately undergo evolution.

The Disaster Poison Gu's evolution process required a different type of poison for each stage, and it had to be the most toxic available.

This meant he would need to continually search for heaven-defying toxic substances, which was starting to give him a headache.

He had already been holed up in a secret chamber for years, constantly working himself to the bone, and he really didn’t want to keep doing this. Was there no shortcut to directly finding a poison that met the Disaster Poison Gu's evolution requirements?

Long Xuan’s expression turned contemplative. After a long pause, a sharp glint flashed in his eyes, and a plan came to mind.

The Western Land had no such heaven-defying poisons capable of meeting the Disaster Poison Gu’s evolution requirements.

The materials required for a heavenly-defying Gu insect like the Disaster Poison Gu weren’t easy to find, so the first thing he thought of was creating his own poison recipe. But time was of the essence.

Thus, he came up with a shortcut. This idea would allow him to create an extremely toxic substance without wasting too much time.

His plan was to utilize the magnification ability of the Eye Of Heavenly Secret’s and his powerful soul force to extract metallic elements.

In his previous life, 'polonium' was 100 billion times more toxic than cyanide—just 0.1 grams could kill 100 billion people.

'Plutonium' was 486 million times more toxic than arsenic, and five grams of it could wipe out the half of the entire human race.

The more Long Xuan thought about it, the brighter his eyes gleamed. These metallic elements from his previous life were invincible when it came to poison. How could this world's strongest poisons compare?

Even if they weren’t a perfect match, such toxic substances would be more than sufficient for the Disaster Poison Gu to undergo a evolution.

Why not let the Disaster Poison Gu devour these elemental toxins and complete its evolution?

The only question was whether he had the ability to synthesize these metallic elements. But it was certainly worth a try.

The synthesis principles for polonium and plutonium were publicly available online in his previous life, and he had come across them by chance. It’s just that in this world, without advanced technology, he wasn’t sure if using the abilities of various Gu insects could assist in synthesizing these two elements.

If he could succeed, the Disaster Poison Gu would truly become invincible.

Danger often comes from the unknown. The terrifying poisons from his previous life would be completely foreign to the people of this world—how could they know how to detoxify them? If anyone was hit by these poisons, their chances of survival would be incredibly slim.

A crazed smile appeared on Long Xuan's face, and he immediately decided to start researching these elemental toxins.

It seemed that the 'Soul Armor and the 'Water Bear Gu' could defend against those radioactive elements, so he didn’t even need to worry about the dangers of conducting such experiments. At worst, he could just let one of his clones handle it.

Polonium was more lethal than plutonium, so the evolution process should progress from easy to difficult. Thus, Long Xuan decided to research plutonium first.

At this moment, he was once again courting death, forgetting the last time when he insisted on distilling the Wine Gu's brew and nearly killed the Wine Gu in the process.

Excess leads to disaster. The Wine Gu, despite being immune to alcohol, almost died from overindulgence. The Disaster Poison Gu, while immune to poison, could it really avoid being poisoned to death?

He was truly pushing it to the limit, as if he didn’t fear accidentally poisoning the Disaster Poison Gu to death.

These elemental toxins weren’t ordinary poisons. They surpassed the realm of regular toxins, and no ordinary living creature could withstand them easily. He really was treating the Disaster Poison Gu like an omnipotent deity.