Ouyang Boxian walked through two long passages in succession with an anxious look on his face, and arrived at a cave on the second floor of the underground cave.
In the upper room of the cave's living room, a tall man stood.
However, he looked majestic and spoke without restraint. Behind him, a huge and colorful vortex appeared. The edge of the vortex was filled with light and fierce pressure.
"Ouyang, I have met Zhenren Zhao." Ouyang Boxian's eyes flashed, and he immediately bowed and saluted.
This tall man's name is Zhao Hongcen. He is also from the Zhao family in Nantian. He became a disciple of the Beast Control Sect in his early years and later cultivated the Golden Elixir.
Decades ago, the ancestor Qiongtian of the family came to Gu Shen Peak as a "guest". After Zhao Hongcen learned the news, he took the initiative to join him.
Since then, he has been taken over by Patriarch Qiongtian and is responsible for managing trivial matters such as chores and personnel assignments, saving Zhao Sheng a lot of effort.
In the eyes of outsiders, Zhao Hongcen's identity is the "confidant and close clan member" of Qiongtian Patriarch, and he also assumes the role of "big steward". It can be said that he has a high position and a promising future.
"Oh, it turns out to be Senior Nephew Ouyang. What do you want from me?" Seeing that Ouyang Boxian was quite sensible, Zhao Hongcen nodded slightly and asked directly without any greetings.
"It's nothing serious. It's just that my nephew has just entered the underground valley. He has nothing to do and feels idle, so he wants to ask the real person for a job!" Ouyang Boxian said with a flattering look.
"It doesn't matter, my nephew has just made great achievements, so there is no need to rush to get started. We will talk about other things after we are familiar with the experimental environment." Zhao Hongcen smiled gently and reassured.
After hearing this, Ouyang Boxian smiled and asked tentatively: "Sir, do you dare to ask about...the reward...?"
"Oh, that's it. You can go to Digu Dagong Hall to receive the reward." Zhao Hongcen said with a flash in his eyes.
Seeing this, Ouyang Boxian hurriedly bowed and thanked: "Thank you so much, Master, for your advice! If Master has anything to do in the future, my nephew is willing to help you."
"Haha, nephew, don't be like this. In the future, just work hard for the ancestor and complete the assigned tasks beautifully. I will not treat you badly. This is your identity card, take it! Don't worry.
Let's go." With a smile on his face, Zhao Hongcen reached out and patted Ouyang Boxian's shoulder. As he said this, he took out a silver talisman and stuffed it into his arms.
"Thank you, Master, for your advice. My nephew has resigned." Ouyang Boxian put away the token, bowed respectfully, and then walked backwards out of the living room.
Zhao Hongcen looked at this person's retreating figure and secretly shook his head, but he remembered this person.
Ouyang Boxian turned to the surface, and immediately called out a white crane with red eyes, and flew towards the Grand Hall on the crane.
After a while, the white crane flew to a misty slope and landed.
At the top of this slope, there is a small palace-like high-rise building. Waves of bright light rise from the eaves at the corners of the building, converging into a looming wall of light, covering the entire wooden building.
After Ouyang Boxian turned over and put down the white crane, he walked towards the Grand Hall.
After passing through the floating light barrier, Ou Ta came to a palace building at the front, raised his eyes and took a look, then stepped inside.
The furnishings in the hall are very simple. There are rows of shelves on both sides, filled with large and small jade boxes, and some are storage bags of different colors.
A huge jade wall stands in the center of the hall, and lines of aura runes emerge from the surface of the jade wall and then disappear.
At this time, there were nearly a hundred people sitting cross-legged under the jade bi, including young and old, men and women. They all looked at the jade bi with inscriptions on it, their eyes obsessed and fanatical.
Ouyang Boxian glanced at the crowd and immediately discovered that one-third of the people were actually wearing the same style of jade pendant around their waists.
"Alas, there are so many people from the Nantian Zhao family. When will I ever get ahead?" Ouyang Boxian's expression darkened, he murmured to himself, walked around the jade bi, and walked towards the jade case at the deepest part of the hall.
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At this time, a young boy with a bun in his head and a childish appearance was sitting behind the jade table. He was holding a bamboo tube in his hand and was looking inside with relish. A burst of crickets and insects could be heard coming from the bamboo.
Ouyang Boxian couldn't figure out what was going on for a while, and he didn't dare to speak rashly. He lowered his voice and coughed, then asked softly: "Ahem, I dare to ask..."
Half an hour later, Ouyang Boxian left the Dagong Hall in a daze. In addition to a storage bag in his arms, he also held a book tightly in his hand. The cover of the book could be faintly seen between his fingers.
Blood...soul are two vague words.
A few months later,
On this day, in front of the Digu Dagong Hall, heads were moving, and each disciple of the Beast Control Sect looked with burning eyes at Ouyang Boxian who was standing on the high platform.
Compared to before, Ouyang Boxian is now full of energy and glowing, as if he is a completely different person.
"Ahem, everyone, line up and come one by one! As long as you can come up with the Gu worms that meet the conditions, I, Ouyang Boxian, promise to make you come back satisfied."
"Senior Brother Ouyang, you have become prosperous today, but you can't forget about our group of brothers! Why don't you let those from Baiyu Peak go and redeem them first!" someone in the crowd shouted.
As soon as he finished speaking, someone immediately yelled: "Hey, why should you from Baiyu Peak be allowed to exchange first? We at Gu Shenfeng are experts at playing Gu, so we must be allowed to exchange first."
"That's right, this is our Gu cultivator's business, not yours and a bunch of other birds and beasts' shit."
As soon as these words were spoken, it was like poking a hornet's nest. The other four disciples of the Beast Control Sect were furious and wanted to fight against the Gu cultivator immediately!
When Ouyang Boxian saw that something bad was about to happen, he immediately secretly moved his Dantian, opened his mouth and shouted loudly, suppressing everyone: "Shut up!"
Everyone was instantly shocked, and there was silence in the square.
Ouyang Boxian glanced at everyone with sharp eyes, and suddenly waved his hand, and saw an apricot-yellow scroll flying into the air, and spread out completely in the blink of an eye.
Everyone looked at the scroll in unison, only to see insects of all sizes painted on the scroll. There were as many as a hundred species, all of them lifelike and vivid.
Ouyang Boxian pointed at the scroll and said loudly: "As long as there is something on this, Dagong Hall will accept it, and there is no limit to the quantity. The price of each kind of Gu insect is clearly marked, so no one can bully you! Everyone is satisfied!"
"
“Satisfied, very satisfied!”
"Uncle Ouyang, please stop holding it and start quickly! Brothers and sisters can't wait."
"Quick, I have more than twenty kinds of Gu insects here that meet the requirements. Let me come first."
"I also have the tenth-ranked Grimace. Why should I let you come first?"
"...I have a septicemia demon...ranked...ranked third!"
"What? The third-ranked septic blood demon Li can be exchanged for a gold-forming elixir! Brother, please lend me a step to speak."
"Humph, I don't!"
…
Because of a Gu search list, not only did everyone in the Beast Control Sect become restless and excited, they rushed to tell each other, but even the Southern Xinjiang Immortal Cultivation Circle soon learned of the matter.
For a time, countless immortal cultivators in southern Xinjiang carried bags of Gu worms and headed towards the Gu God Peak with great joy in the hope of getting rich harvests.
At this time, it can be seen how wealthy the Nantian Zhao family is.
No matter how many people come to exchange, they all accept it, and there is no haggling, which is extremely refreshing.
As a result, in just two years, all the more than 100 kinds of Gu insects that Zhao Sheng needed were collected.
Regarding the "disorderly spending" of the Sixteenth Patriarch, it is inevitable that there will be a lot of criticism within the Zhao family. It is clear that the family has countless people who can be dispatched at will, so why should outsiders earn the bonuses?
However, the ancestor of Qiongtian ignored the "public opinion" at all and insisted on going his own way and wasted a large amount of the family's spiritual stones and cultivation resources.
There were also a few elders from the Taishang clan of the Zhao family who had some opinions on this matter, but as soon as the ancestor let it out, all the clan elders immediately had no other ideas.
As time goes by, Digu gradually changes from the peak of popularity to deserted again.
Seven or eight years later, only a handful of disciples who participated in the "gu seed cultivation experiment" were left in the valley, and less than half of them were from the Nantian Zhao family.
In the southeast of the valley, deep inside a massive bluestone fortress.
The rosy-faced Ouyang Boxian looked at the scene behind the crystal window and said in a hoarse voice: "Record, the result of the twenty-eighth mating between the septicemia demon Li and the big male scale mosquito: the demon Li successfully conceived for the first time and gave birth half a month later.
The eggs are full... In the second month and seventh day, the mosquito eggs hatch, and there are two or three living ones, with red and black spots all over the shape, a pair of wing membranes... the female parent of the snout... the toxicity is unknown...
…”
"Record... The successful mating of the seven-step poisonous fly and the red-eyed Tushita... named: Blood Fly No. 1, matures for two months, and reproduces at an alarming rate... infects humans and animals with its tentacles, with seven-star infectivity, and will not cause death!"
"...all the third generation of Yaoli alien species died."
"...the white-bellied nail fly has successfully mutated... its life expectancy is two years, its reproductive level is nine stars, and it is listed as a candidate."
"There is reproductive isolation between the two-headed tiger beetle and the black-armored gray ox, and the hybridization failed!"
"...The spotted fly and the green hair fly successfully mated...the offspring lost the ability to reproduce and the experiment failed!"
Over the past seven or eight years, Ouyang Boxian has gone from being extremely excited about being entrusted with important responsibilities to now looking numb and depressed.
Anyone who manages the Gu insect hybridization experiment day after day, watching a bunch of bugs continue to mate and reproduce in front of their eyes day after day, until they are humanely destroyed, will become what Ouyang Boxian is like today.
Even if you have a group of people at your disposal, so what if you earn a lot of spiritual stones and pills!
On the one hand, you can't get out of the valley, and on the other hand, you can't have unlimited glory. There's no point in being a killer of Gu plague!
Ouyang Boxian has long regretted why he was so obsessed with joining.
Now that he knows too many secrets, he can't retreat even if he wants to. He can only work hard and be a good tool man.
Just when Ouyang Boxian was filled with regrets, Zhao Sheng and Jin Canzi sat opposite each other in a closed metal hall at the Digu underground testing site, both of them with a bit of excitement on their faces.
"Haha, the newly cultivated four-winged Aedes mosquito has lived up to expectations. It has inherited the septicemia infectivity of the female parent and has the super reproductive capacity of the male parent. It also naturally carries a nest of blood plague bacteria in its body, so it can be regarded as a
An excellent source of infection.
According to my ancestor, the four-winged Aedes mosquito is more suitable as a nest for the blood plague Gu than the white-eyed blood fly."
Zhao Sheng's eyes flashed and he said with a smile: "It's too early to choose which one to build the Gu nest at this time. Brother Dao is the great master of the Gu path, and cultivating the Gu seeds requires a lot of effort from Brother Dao. I'd like to thank you in advance."
Jin Canzi waved his hand in an old-fashioned way: "Hey, why are you saying such unreasonable things! Instead, I would like to thank fellow Taoist friends for bringing me a lot of inspiration. In recent years, I feel like I have been helped by a god, and I have disappeared.
The long-standing gay love is back again, haha!”
When Zhao Sheng saw this, he smiled and said: "Thanks to Brother Dao's help, I have initially cultivated six types of blood plague cells that generally meet the requirements. However, the characteristics of the six alienated cells are not yet stable. Next I will
We will use these six types of blast bacteria as a blueprint to continue directional differentiation culture. However... there is an urgent shortage of test personnel and a batch needs to be added."
When Jin Canzi heard this, he moved his hands for a moment, and then said with profound meaning: "We have captured all the Li Xiu Demon Dao demons in the world in southern Xinjiang, and the rest have all escaped. If Brother Zhao
Don’t mind it, Yanzhou can send a large number of prisoners, but the price is high!”
"My hands are itchy recently, and I want to start refining a few furnaces of elixirs——"
Before he finished speaking, Jin Canzi interrupted excitedly: "Okay, how about you make a furnace of Yuanying Dan? Just one. Not to mention thousands of people, even millions of criminal prisoners. Ancestor
I can get it for you too."
After hearing this, Zhao Sheng nodded and said thoughtfully: "It is not a bad idea to refine the Yuanying Pill, but I am missing a Bingpedi Heart Lotus, two copies of Nine Flowers Moon Dew and eight coins of Wan Zai Kong Qing."
Upon hearing this, Jin Canzi patted his chest without thinking, "I'm all out!"
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After a while, Zhao Sheng said goodbye to Jin Canzi, transformed into Xuan Guang, and flew back to the cave.
As soon as he closed the stone door of the cave, his figure flashed and disappeared from the place in an instant.
Zhao Sheng moved nine times in a row and came to a cave three thousand miles away in the middle of the mountain.
In the hall deep in the cave, a fat old man with a rich body and a blessed face was sitting. This man was none other than Zhao Fuji, the fourteenth ancestor of the Zhao family and the great master of Lingnong.
On Zhao Fuji's left hand side, Zhao Xian and Zhao Gudu's uncle and nephew were sitting at attention. When they saw the ancestor Qiongtian appeared, they immediately stood up and saluted.
Zhao Sheng ordered the two of them to refrain from courtesy, then said hello to Zhao Fuji, and then sat down with a golden sword.
After a few words of greeting, Zhao Fuji said with a hint of worry: "According to your instructions, my family has already designated an island in the south. This island is surrounded by the sea and is far away from the Central Continent. There are many creatures on the island.
There is also a first-order spiritual vein. In addition, a million people were relocated half a year ago. Everything is ready, just waiting for you to start."
"Very good!" Zhao Sheng nodded with satisfaction, and seeing that Zhao Fuji couldn't bear it, he tried to persuade him: "I know you can't bear it, Fuzu, but in order to completely eliminate the Blood God and for the safety of this world, some sacrifices are indispensable.
If necessary, even my life can be sacrificed. What’s more, it’s just a test, and death is not certain.”
"Oh, that's the truth! It's just that I'm afraid of harming Tianhe." Zhao Fuji sighed and said.
"Haha, Fu Zu might as well use the Qi Reading Technique to check my luck." Zhao Sheng smiled with a slightly complacent expression.
oh?
When Zhao Fuji heard this, his heart moved. He immediately recited the mantra silently and focused his spiritual thoughts on his eyes.
After a breath, his eyes glowed with colorful divine light, and he suddenly looked above Zhao Sheng's head.
Well!
The next second, Zhao Fuji groaned, his eyes closed sharply, and two lines of tears fell from the corners of his eyes.