The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 93: (2): Entering the Herb Garden

Long Xuan was shocked. Dead people aren’t scary, but what’s terrifying is not knowing how they died.

Is there some unknown creature here, or is it the effect of a trap formation?

Long Xuan didn’t understand, and without understanding, he didn’t dare to act rashly. Fear always stems from the unknown, and this herb garden was truly ominous.

The Gu cultivators of the Feng Clan couldn’t see what was here either; they only knew that the great terror here seemingly couldn’t leave the herb garden.

So, they came up with this insane method, intending to use human lives to collect the Spirit Surge Grass in the garden.

In their eyes, the lives of ordinary people were worthless. Even if it took one life to get one stalk of Spirit Surge Grass, it was worth it. As long as they had one stalk of Spirit Surge Grass, the family might gain another Gu cultivator in the Marrow Cleansing stage.

Their approach was sheer madness, but one had to admit, it was effective.

Even though countless mortals who rushed into the garden died, there were always some who succeeded.

At this moment, that Feng Clan Gu King already had ten stalks of Spirit Surge Grass in his hands, making him smile with satisfaction.

Everyone who saw this felt their scalp tingle, but no one stepped forward to criticize.

“No one knows what kind of terrifying thing it is that can kill people without a trace. I wonder if those Earth Master in heavy armor can withstand its attack.”

Long Yan looked worried. He wasn’t sure if his Earth Master could withstand the beheading attacks in the Herb garden.

If that thing could really cut through the defense of the Earth Master, his losses would be huge.

Although the cost of the Earth Master wasn’t high, the spiritual insect armor they wore was incredibly valuable.

He had spent all his savings to custom-make a set of insect armor for the Earth Masters, and now he didn’t know if he should take the risk.

He couldn’t help but look at Long Bao, hoping he would make the first move.

If Long Bao’s Earth Master went in and were fine, then it wouldn’t be too late for his own Earth Master to enter. How clever of him.

So he looked at Long Bao and said, “Hey! Weren’t you going to send your Earth Master in to fetch the grass? I won’t compete with you this time; you go first!”

Long Bao turned to look at him, then laughed angrily, “Now you’re being so considerate? You really take me for a fool?”

“You don’t dare to take the risk, so you want me to test the waters. Wishful thinking! Let me tell you, that’s not happening!”

“You’re older than me, so you should go first. That’s the principle; the elder always goes first. You go first!”

Long Yan laughed and said, “At home, the elder brother always lets the younger one go first. The older one must always yield to the younger. Don’t you understand that? Hurry up and go! Stop dawdling!”

Long Bao sneered, “I’m definitely not going first. If anyone goes first, it’ll be you. Or we could just play rock-paper-scissors, and the loser goes first!”

“Fine, we’ll play rock-paper-scissors. No one can back out!”

Seeing these two clowns arguing again, Long Xuan was speechless.

What started as a one-round game turned into a best-of-three, then a best-of-five, seemingly endless. Finally, a crisp voice interrupted them.

“Stop playing rock-paper-scissors. The Earth Master can’t withstand that thing’s attack. Whoever goes in first will die. You’d better give up this pointless argument and leave here as soon as possible.”

The two turned their heads toward the voice. The figure was masked, and while others might not know who it was, they knew very well that this was Long Ziyan, the number one genius of the Long Clan.

Her words carried a lot of weight.

“Do you know what’s in the herb garden?” Long Yan hesitated and walked over to ask in a low voice.

Long Ziyan glanced at a certain figure not far away, knowing he was listening, and then patiently explained, “That thing is ancient and rarely recorded. Few people in this world know about it.”

“I only learned about it from divine texts.”

Long Ziyan’s voice carried a hint of dread as she said, “It’s a powerful Gu species from the age of the gods, known as the Dream Butterfly Gu.”

“The Gu insects of that era were all extremely sinister. You probably can’t even imagine the abilities of the Dream Butterfly Gu.”

“The Dream Butterfly Gu is a dream-based Gu insect, with a body that takes the form of a dream. You can see it in dreams, but not in reality.”

“That means no matter what method you use, you won’t be able to see it. There’s no way to defend against its sneak attack.”

“And since the Dream Butterfly Gu is in the form of a dream, it has no physical body and can be immune to almost all attacks in reality, whether physical or non-physical.”

“You can only see this Gu insect in dreams, and only in dreams can you hurt it.”

“The problem is, would you dare sleep in this place? Even if you dared, could you be sure you could defeat them in your dreams?”

Hearing this, not only were Long Yan and Long Bao shocked, but Long Xuan, who had been eavesdropping, was also shocked, feeling his scalp tingle with fear.

Visible in dreams but invisible in reality, and immune to almost all attacks in reality.

It can attack you, but no matter what you do, you can’t hit it.

Damn, it’s like it’s cheating!

This Gu insect is ridiculously unfair!

How can anyone fight this? This thing is probably unbeatable.

Seeing their shocked expressions, Long Ziyan continued, “The Dream Butterfly Gu not only has powerful physical attacks, but remember, it’s in the form of a dream and can attack people’s dreams—you can think of it as attacking the mental world.”

“So, in front of the Dream Butterfly Gu, it doesn’t matter how high you stack your Earth Masters’ physical defense; their attacks are spiritual.”

Upon hearing this, they were all shocked again. In front of this Gu insect, everyone was as fragile as paper, and all defenses were useless.

Is it really this exaggerated? Long Xuan thought to himself.

He showed an extremely serious expression. This was the most difficult Gu insect he had ever encountered in his life as a Gu cultivator, bar none.

Faced with such an unreasonable Gu insect, even he felt helpless, unable to think of any way to kill them.

At this point, Long Yan and Long Bao had completely given up any thoughts about the Spirit Surge Grass. They had already decided to leave, and this decision was firm—nothing could stop them.

They were truly scared of this Gu insect.

Long Yan sighed heavily and then casually asked, “Since the Dream Butterfly Gu is so difficult to deal with, why did you come here?”

He couldn’t help but be curious. Long Ziyan had already reached the Marrow Cleansing stage, so Spirit Surge Grass was useless to her.

Logically, she shouldn’t have come here under any circumstances, so her reason for being here was intriguing.

Long Ziyan glanced at Long Xuan and then quickly looked away, casually saying, “It’s nothing. I just heard there was a rabbit here that looked really cute, so I came out of curiosity to take a look.”

“Now that I’ve seen the rabbit, it’s time for me to leave!”

Upon hearing this, Long Yan and Long Bao were stunned. What a powerful reason. To come all this way just for a cute rabbit—wasn’t Long Ziyan being too willful?

“What? Aren’t you planning to leave with me? Are you still clinging to the Spirit Surge Grass?”

Just as Long Ziyan turned around, she noticed Long Xuan had no intention of following. She frowned and asked.

Long Xuan was thinking, if the Dream Butterfly Gu is visible in dreams and invisible in reality, capable of killing without a trace, could the main body see its progress?

If the Dream Butterfly Gu had a visible progress bar above its head, the main body could accurately determine the location of every Dream Butterfly Gu and avoid them.

As long as he could see the Dream Butterfly Gu, collecting Spirit Surge Grass in the herb garden would be a simple task.

After all, the Dream Butterfly Gu was confined to the garden and couldn’t leave. Even if it were alarmed, he could still escape easily.

Thinking this, Long Xuan became excited. The decision to come in person was indeed correct; his cheat ability could really neutralize the dangers in the herb garden.

The Dream Butterfly Gu was indeed terrifying, but as long as he avoided its location, he had nothing to fear.

For others, the Dream Butterfly Gu might be a nightmare, but for him, it might not be a threat at all.

In that case, the Spirit Surge Grass in the herb garden would already be as good as his. He could easily get it; this place would be his private garden.

So how could he possibly leave with Long Ziyan?