Chapter 92: The hardships of refining Gu and the deep hatred
Flying Flower Gu: Four-turn wooden path flying Gu. When used, a huge flower will appear at the Gu Master's feet, supporting the Gu Master to fly.
Ghost Face Gu: The fourth-turn soul path Gu can cause a huge impact on the soul.
These two Gu worms may not be particularly suitable, but they can improve Zhou Ming's strength in a short period of time.
In addition, there were some Gu insects that had not been exchanged for the main god's space before. Zhou Ming also came out one by one and bought them all. Then he sold a few third-level silver relic Gu that he had exchanged from the main god and used the Yuan Stone he had just spent.
I made money again and still have a huge surplus.
Seeing that there were no more Gu insects he needed, Zhou Ming left this shop and walked into the next shop.
Unfortunately, Zhou Ming could not find suitable Gu worms in this shop, so he bought a few Gu worms to sell to the Lord God and then continued to the next shop.
For several days, Zhou Ming wandered around the market and decisively bought the Gu insects when he saw them.
Unfortunately, level four Gu worms are still too rare. Except for the three that Zhou Ming met on the first day, Zhou Ming only bought three Gu worms suitable for his own use in the next five days.
Wooden Road Fourth Turn Defense Gu, Iron Shell Flower Gu.
The iron-shelled flower is a common plant in the Northern Plains. Its petals are as hard as steel and can resist attacks by predators.
There is also a common animal on the grassland called the pollen rabbit. It does not dig holes and lives in iron-shelled flowers.
Later, a Gu master developed a secret recipe and used iron-shelled flowers to refine Gu, and advanced it all the way to Rank 5. Because the material was not rare, it was a relatively common defensive Gu among Rank 4.
The other two are soul path Gu, namely the elusive Gu and the divine clearing Gu.
The fourth-level elusive and invisible Gu is an advanced version of the third-level, mobile Gu.
Shenqing Gu can keep the Gu master sane, and it was bought by Zhou Ming in order to eliminate the side effects of "Swallowing Souls and Refining Nerves".
Zhou Ming tried it and found that the Shenqing Gu could indeed suppress the influence of chaotic thoughts and keep him awake and rational.
But this is treating the symptoms rather than the root cause. He can't keep activating this Gu insect, so he can only use it as an emergency measure, or find other methods.
The Soul Dao is now prosperous. There are many Gu insects and there are many Gu masters cultivating the Soul Dao. Soul Dao Gu insects are much easier to sell than other Gu insects, so each store has sufficient supply and a wider range of choices.
'Alas, this market looks large in scale, but in fact the quality is not as good as the market near Zhou's house. There are too few high-level Gu.'
Unable to find a suitable Gu worm, Zhou Ming could only try to refine the Gu worm in his hand.
In the past few days, while he was buying Gu, he had also been purchasing Gu refining materials and Gu prescriptions.
Fortunately, although the fourth-level Gu was precious, the third-level Gu in Zhou Ming's hands were relatively common, and the Gu prescriptions were not rare, so Zhou Ming bought a few.
In a Gu refining room of the Chang family, Zhou Ming was refining Gu.
Iron Vine Gu floated in front of him, wrapped in a ball of green light.
"Frost Pink Flower Gu."
Zhou Ming stretched out his finger, and a Gu flew out and landed under the Iron Vine Gu. Roots, branches and leaves grew out, and a fist-sized pink flower bloomed above it, which just happened to fit the Iron Vine Gu into the center of the flower.
"With dust."
Zhou Ming took out another black clod of soil and gently twisted it over the pink flower. The fine soil crumbs fell down, quickly dyeing the pink to brown, and the green light inside also deepened.
"Come again, Qiu Shuangshui."
A crystal ladybug Gu flew out. It was completely transparent, as if it were made of crystal, and its belly was hollow. It was usually used by Gu masters to hold precious liquids.
Zhou Ming carefully poured out the autumn frost water from the crystal ladybug and slowly poured it onto the flower. It was like pouring concentrated sulfuric acid on the flower, white smoke evaporated, and a pungent smell filled the air.
"Oops!"
Zhou Ming secretly screamed in his heart, but before he could react, a slight explosion sound came from the white smoke, and the white smoke exploded.
A Gu insect fell from mid-air and was caught by Zhou Ming. It was the Iron Vine Gu, but it was in very bad condition and could not be activated for a short period of time.
"Failed again." Zhou Ming waved his hand to disperse the smoke, his expression not pretty.
"The money I have invested in this in the past few days is enough to buy a fourth-level Gu, but I have never succeeded even once. Refining Gu is so difficult!"
It can be said that the path of refining has always followed the development of the Gu world, and all Gu masters have refined Gu insects to some extent.
Zhou Ming's level of refining can only be described as appalling. His cultivation level has risen too fast. It has only been a year and a half since he became a Gu Master. One turn took up a year. Up to now, the number of times he has refined Gu is simply a handful.
countable.
Now I want to refine the fourth level Gu insect as soon as I get started, which is really a bit wishful thinking.
"You can't stop refining Gu. I have enough resources at my disposal. At worst, I have to accumulate experience again and again. Otherwise, I will never be able to improve my level of refining."
"You should also go and have a look at the market, maybe you can meet the Gu insects you need."
On the sixth day, Zhou Ming unexpectedly discovered the third-level Soul Purifying Gu, and immediately wiped out all the inventory in one go.
Purifying Soul Gu is a soul cultivation Gu. Its function is to remove impurities from the soul and purify the soul. However, if used excessively, it will also remove the essence from the soul.
The Soul Purifying Gu from Ranks 1 to 5 are consumption Gu, so Zhou Ming bought all the Soul Purifying Gu here. But when Rank 6 is upgraded to Immortal Gu, it is no longer a consumption Gu and can be used continuously.
It's a pity that although Zhou Ming knows where the Soul Purifying Immortal Gu is, he can't get it at all now, and he can't use it if he gets it. It's better not to think about it at all.
Three days later, Zhou Ming failed several times in a row to refine the Gu. The materials in his hand were completely consumed, and even the third-level Iron Vine Gu died, which made Zhou Ming very angry.
After visiting the market again, without much valuable gain, Zhou Ming returned disappointed, only to see a drunk Chang Shanyin.
"Hey, Brother Chang, why do you drink like this during the day? This is not like you."
Seeing Chang Shanyin staggering towards him, Zhou Ming quickly stepped forward to hold him up to prevent him from tripping over.
"Brother, brother, I... I feel unhappy! Come with me... drink with me!"
Chang Shanyin held two wine bags in his hands and wandered towards Zhou Ming in a drunken manner.
Zhou Ming looked at it carefully for two seconds and found that Chang Shanyin's expression did not seem to be fake, so he took a wine bag and said: "Okay, I'm in a bad mood. I will sacrifice my life to accompany you today. Let's go, let's find a place to have a good drink."
It’s a pleasure.”
"Have a drink!" Chang Shanyin laughed loudly, summoned two wind wolves, climbed on the wolf's back with all his strength, and lay on the wolf's back to urge the wind wolf to run quickly.
Soon, two wind wolves humped the two of them to a deserted low hill. Chang Shanyin rolled over from the wolf's back and fell to the ground without getting up. He just lay on the grass and drank heavily.
Zhou Ming jumped off the wind wolf and sat next to Chang Shanyin. The wine bag in his hand had been tested with grass and willow Gu on the road, and there was no problem. Chang Shanyin had no reason to harm him, so he and Chang Shanyin silently drank wine and waited for him.
Take the initiative to speak.
Sure enough, after a while, Chang Shanyin turned over and sat up, smelling of alcohol and slurring his words: "Brother, do you have... a woman you like?"
Zhou Ming swallowed a sip of wine and said in a faint tone, "It happened before."
"Oh?" Chang Shanyin laughed, "I didn't expect... Brother, you are not very old, and you have... had a relationship before?"
Zhou Ming smiled and did not explain anything.
"Then brother...why did you say once? The woman you liked, you like, but you don't like it now?"
Zhou Ming shook his head: "It's not that I don't like it, it's just that I can't see him anymore."
"Oh..." Chang Shanyin suddenly realized, patted Zhou Ming on the shoulder, and sighed: "Brother, I know... our Beiyuan... is just like this, everyone is fighting to survive, to save their lives,
I don’t know when, just..."
Zhou Ming still smiled, just took a sip of wine, and let Chang Shanyin come up with an answer on his own.
"Brother, you have to listen to my advice. In this world... don't miss the woman you like! When you meet her, you must seize it! You must seize it! Don't wait until you lose it... and then regret it!"
"What about you, brother? If you know so well, why are you drinking here?" Zhou Ming asked.
Chang Shanyin was stunned, half-raised hand froze in the air, letting the wine flow down, watering the grass.
"Yes, that's right, brother, you are right!"
He stood up and said excitedly: "I love her, I want to get her! She is mine, no one can take it away! Hahahaha..."
He threw away the wine bag and rode on the wind wolf in great excitement, urging the wind wolf to run back to the family camp. He was so excited that he completely forgot about Zhou Ming's existence.
"..." Zhou Ming looked speechlessly at Chang Shanyin who was gradually going away. The way he was swaying and bumping on the wolf's back made people worry that he would fall and kill himself.
"He shouldn't want to rob Ni Xuetong, right?" Zhou Ming blinked and exclaimed.
"At this point in time, it's not yet time for Chang Biao and Ni Xuetong to get married. If Chang Shanyin takes action now, doesn't he bring everything forward?"
"Haha, wonderful, really wonderful."
Zhou Ming stepped onto the remaining wind wolf and walked back slowly.
When he rushed back to the Chang family's camp, he happened to see Chang Biao riding a group of hump wolves with a sad and angry face, rushing out of the camp in a furious manner.
After watching Chang Biao leave, Zhou Ming pulled over a patrolling Gu Master to ask.
Sure enough, as Zhou Ming thought, Chang Shanyin had just returned to the family, rushed directly into Ni Xuetong's Gu house, grabbed her on the back of the wolf and ran away, leaving the family camp directly.
Afterwards, Chang Biao hurried back after hearing about the incident. After learning the ins and outs of the incident, he immediately rushed out to look for the two of them.
But with the huge strength gap between him and Chang Shanyin, Zhou Ming has already seen his dismal results...
Chang Shanyin did not return to the camp that day, but the Chang family's reconnaissance Gu Master saw his wolf pack and Chang Biao who was following the wolf pack.
The next day, Chang Shanyin still did not return to the camp, and his wolves still did not leave the sight of the Chang family to detect Gu masters, hunting and patrolling around the family as usual.
On the third day, Chang Shanyin did not return.
On the fourth day, Chang Shanyin finally came back, riding on the back of a white-eyed wolf, holding Ni Xuetong, who had eyes as silky as silk and cheeks as red as clouds, in his arms. He was in high spirits and contented with himself.
Not long after, Chang Biao also came back.
Zhou Ming took a look, but only saw a despairing and soulless 'walking corpse'.
There was no more light in his eyes, and what was left was only bone-deep hatred.