Longevity Begins With Gu Refining

Chapter 100: Three Months Passed, Raising Eight Tigers Under My Command

Other than some problems with the circulation of spirit stones in the valley, there was nothing else to worry about.

Thankfully, the ten shops sent by Xuan Mang allowed him to earn some profits, he could barely support himself now.

April 21st.

Chen Qing called Jiang Miaoxian over, "Get Liu Guang to arrange for people to spread out and buy a batch of spirit seizing flowers, fifty thousand low grade spirit stones each."

Right now, he still had a lot of spirit stones, the snake butterfly needed too many spirit stones to advance.

Copper bone Gu, flesh Gu, iron skin butterfly, thunder butterfly, strength butterfly, and fire butterfly nurturing flowers did not require too many spirit stones, Chen Qing also had the intention to raise his cultivation.

Jiang Miaoxian did not ask Chen Qing about the origin of the spirit stones, in her eyes, an expert like Chen Qing should have a large amount of spirit stones, just that they were stored in various places.

Chen Qing was inconvenient in the past because he needed to hide his strength, but now, a portion of his strength was exposed, these spirit stones were only in line with his identity.

Jiang Miaoxian acknowledged and said, "Lord, recently, three foundation establishment clans in Xuan Bird tribe, Rain Life tribe, Black Feather tribe, and Stone Heart tribe have been gossiping about you."

Chen Qing asked, "You mean I am not foundation establishment now, but am enjoying the treatment of foundation establishment?"

Jiang Miaoxian nodded, "Recently, these three clans have sent people to our shops to cause trouble."

Chen Qing asked, "How is your control over qi Gu?"

Jiang Miaoxian said, "I have already reached rank four!"

Chen Qing continued to ask, "Do you have confidence in taking down those troublemakers?"

Jiang Miaoxian was full of confidence, her eyes shining brightly, "Not in the past, but now, with such a domineering Gu like qi Gu, I have confidence in taking them down!"

Chen Qing instructed, "Then take them down, don't kill them."

"They are family after all, we can't harm the harmony."

Jiang Miaoxian cupped her fists, "I understand."

It was Xuan Ping's idea to let him not have to pay tribute, he only needed to punish them slightly, Xuan Ping would settle the rest.

Sensing that there were some conflicts within Xuan Bird tribe, Chen Qing gathered eight of his personal guards and asked them to gather the warriors in the valley, leaving only twenty people with the highest cultivation to guard the valley.

Under Chen Qing's arrangement, the remaining thirty plus people joined his newly established Shadow Guards and spread out to gather information.

To him, it was the first time he had arrived at Black Bird Tribe, so it was more important for him to gather more information.

Know yourself and know your enemy, and you will never be defeated.

Xuan Ping settled it, but recently, she liked to come to his place to eat.

Chen Qing knew that Xuan Ping wanted to show her intimacy with him so that the other three families with Foundation Establishment cultivators would restrain themselves.

Fortunately, she did not come here for nothing. From time to time, she would give Chen Qing some pointers on his cultivation of Golden Muscles and Jade Bones.

The more Chen Qing cultivated the Golden Skin Jade Bone Technique, the more he felt the intricacies of it.

His muscles were now extremely elastic and could protect his abdomen and bones, isolating the huge force outside of his muscles. It was equivalent to an extremely strong shock absorber.

Xuan Ping's guard leader was a middle-aged man in his forties. He was Xuan Ping's uncle.

The original leader of Xuan Ping's tribe should have been her uncle, but ever since the Great Shaman married Xuan Ping's mother and gave birth to Xuan Ping, the tribe belonged to Xuan Ping.

This was the most common type of fusion in Nan Li.

There was basically no need to use force to suppress it, because after all, this was Xuan Ping's mother's tribe.

Xuan Ping's uncle was called Yuan Tianfang. He was an extremely carefree and forthright man. He was in the Qi Refinement Realm, but he didn't look down on Chen Qing.

He clearly knew that he might not be Chen Qing's opponent.

And because Chen Qing carried Xuan Ping back to Black Bird Tribe, he was extremely friendly to Chen Qing.

Early in the morning, Chen Qing and the eight others were practicing their swordsmanship in the depths of Iron Flow Valley. Suddenly, a fast horse came to report, "Lord Hu Kui, we found traces of demon beasts near the newly opened spiritual field."

Chen Qing turned his head and glanced at Jiang Yuhu, "Jiang Yuhu, go with him to take a look. When you find demon beasts, report to me!"

In less than six hours, Jiang Yuhu rode a mutated blood horse and reported, "Lord, it's a third level Qi Refinement Cat Demon."

Chen Qing frowned slightly. Cat demons were rare.

He immediately mounted the horse, "Let's go and take a look."

After running for fifteen miles, Chen Qing saw the cat demon. It was only the size of an adult mountain goat, and it was sitting on a green rock with five rats in front of it.

She picked one up and ate it in two or three bites.

Seeing Chen Qing and the others coming, she wasn't afraid. She just surrounded the rats in front of her.

"Meow Meow won't give the rats to you!"

It was a very young voice. It sounded like a cute girl.

Chen Qing was amused. He urged his horse forward.

Meow Meow glared, "Why are you looking at me like that?"

Chen Qing smiled, "Where's your master?"

Meow Meow said, "It snowed six years ago. He fell asleep. Meow Meow couldn't wake him up."

She had just gained sentience!

Chen Qing said, "This is my territory."

Meow Meow looked at Chen Qing curiously. She held the five rats in her mouth and came to him, "Then Meow Meow will give you rats to eat."

Chen Qing said, "I don't want your rats. Come home with me. When you can't catch rats, I'll give you fish."

Meow Meow raised her head proudly, "Meow Meow can always catch rats!"

Chen Qing smiled, "Then do you want to eat fish?"

Meow Meow licked her lips, "You want to give me fish?"

"What do you want Meow Meow to do?

I won't let you touch me. "

Chen Qing said, "You can catch rats in my territory. Just don't hurt people."

This cat's brain was completely different from Chen Qing's, "Meow, then can you help Meow Meow fight a bear?"

Chen Qing asked, "A bear?"

Meow Meow couldn't forget her rats. She held the five rats in her mouth and led the way.

Chen Qing followed the Cat Demon for fifteen miles. She pointed at a cave, "A big black bear is stealing Meow Meow's rats!"

Chen Qing urged his horse forward. Meat Gu needed bear paws, and this place wasn't far from his base. He turned his head, "Jiang Yuhu, Jiang Shanhu, go and bring that bear demon out."

After a while, Chen Qing heard a rumbling sound coming from the cave. Jiang Yuhu and Jiang Shanhu came out carrying a big black bear weighing three to four thousand kilograms.

Jiang Yu Hu was slightly embarrassed: "Lord, this black bear is only qi refinement stage five, it could not withstand our sword."

Chen Qing smiled: "No matter, send the bear paw to me. As for the rest, you can go back and distribute them to the people in the valley."

"Meow Meow, big bear is also dead, come back with me now."

Meow Meow followed them from afar. After a while, as if she was sure Chen Qing would not harm her, she boldly jumped on Chen Qing's horse: "Meow Meow also wants to ride big horse!"

Chen Qing laughed involuntarily, this was interesting, but it was also good to stay and catch rats.

Sometimes, some newly formed rat demons might not have much battle strength, but they were extremely troublesome. Taking in a cat demon and raising it in the tribe was also a problem solved.

Bringing Meow Meow around the tribe, he let most people know that she was raised by the tribe to prevent them from killing demons on a whim. Only then did Chen Qing return to the pavilion.

One had to say, a large tribe like Xuan Bird tribe was usually much quieter than Carefree mountain.

This was the benefit of being strong. With the great shaman as a deterrent, Xuan Bird tribe's strength was not weak, they had many foundation establishment cultivators.

Very few small forces or heretic cultivators came to provoke them. Chen Qing was happy to be at ease, he cultivated daily, nurtured manpower, nurtured Gu worms, and listened to the reports from his subordinates.

Although they had some internal conflicts, they were very small, they controlled the scope of their conflicts to not kill anyone.

This was more of a mutual test.

In the blink of an eye, three months had passed. During this period of time, Chen Qing finally had some peace, he could be considered to have settled down.

This period of time could be said to be the most peaceful period of Chen Qing's life since he came to the cultivation world.

Flesh Gu butterfly transformation, it was already rank five butterfly transformation, it did not have any new characteristics.

Flesh Gu's strength was in itself to increase one's reaction speed. Chen Qing could clearly feel that his current sword attack speed was more than two times faster than before.

Iron skin Gu advanced to rank nine, it gained a new characteristic: [Bronze blood]. Wherever the bronze blood flowed, it could slowly heal the injuries of the bronze body.

Bronze bone Gu butterfly transformation, it was now rank four butterfly transformation, its characteristic was [Bone surge], it expended the body's life force to increase its ability to produce blood.

Chen Qing was overjoyed that it had formed an inexplicable connection with the Bronze Blood.

According to Chen Qing's estimation, with the support of three high quality Gu worms, even if Xuan Ping used all her strength, she might not be stronger than him.

The Fire Gu's transformation into a butterfly allowed him to swallow fire, but to Chen Qing who already had the Snake Gu, it did not have much meaning.

Lightning Gu Transforms into Butterfly Nine Transformations. It had an additional characteristic, [Cloud Summoning]. It could summon a thundercloud every three days.

Strength Gu Transforms into Butterfly Nine Revolutions, but it only extended the duration of two times the strength for a short period of time, extending the duration to thirty breaths.

The Great Kui Sword could be said to have been truly perfected, and there was nothing left to cultivate.

Recently, Ji Ru had been engrossed in the Sword Scripture and did not seek Chen Qing's guidance much. In the past three months, she had only contributed 120,000 spirit stones to Chen Qing.

These Spirit Stones were probably only enough to buy materials for the Serpent Butterfly.

What made Chen Qing the most unhappy was that Ji Ru did not come over with the sword to ask if it was suitable or not. This made Chen Qing a little depressed.

But thinking of Ji Ru's family background, she probably had many experts in her family. Chen Qing was also helpless.

Xu Yaofeng finally advanced his Light Butterfly to Dao Integration second rank, but he received a mission from the higher-ups and was not around recently.

On the other hand, Hu Yao was cultivating the Dragon Tiger Constellation with all her might, rushing about for Gu worms.

Of course, she did not neglect the Light Butterfly, but she was in the Wilderness and the speed of finding materials was far slower than others. She was only Rank Eight.

Unfortunately, her expenses were too high recently and she could not afford the expensive consultation fee for the Light Butterfly's Dao Integration.

Murong Lang's situation was similar to Hu Yao's. Although he became a Dao Master and raised his offerings, he still needed time to accumulate. The Light Butterfly was already Rank Nine, but he did not have enough Spirit Stones to inquire about the method of Dao Integration.

Currently, he was working hard to get Spirit Stones.

Sitting in the pavilion, Chen Qing picked up the last ten Spirit Seizing Flowers. "These are the last ten Spirit Seizing Flowers. If I still can't open the ninth meridian, it means that the medicinal power of the Spirit Seizing Flowers is not enough to support me to open the ninth meridian."

Eating the flowers one by one, Chen Qing felt the medicinal power and abundant spirituality in his body and began to break through with all his might!

Controlling the Spirit Qi to attack the ninth meridian endlessly, Chen Qing was extremely serious at this moment, no longer looking at the chest full of Spirit Seizing Flowers.

Two hours later, Chen Qing opened his eyes in disappointment. "I didn't expect it to be so difficult to break through to Qi Refinement Level Nine!"

"It should be because I broke through too quickly and did not put in the effort to consolidate my foundation. My foundation is not stable enough."

"Fortunately, I've already opened the eighth meridian completely and only the final bottleneck is left."

"Next, I just have to wait or look for opportunities to see if I can find any precious medicine with stronger medicinal properties."

"I shouldn't have eaten the Vermilion Fruit directly back then. I should have saved it for now."

He walked to the window and sighed. "Cultivation is indeed difficult. It's not easy to seek longevity."

"Even someone as talented as me is stuck at the bottleneck of Qi Refinement Level Eight."

He stood at a high place and looked around. It was quiet, only Jiang Yuhu's house was still lit.

Strangely enough, Jiang Yuhu's Sword Butterfly was the fastest to transform. However, his Thunder Gu had yet to transform even after the other seven people's Sword Gu and Thunder Gu had transformed.

The reason was simple. His Thunder Gu's Rank Eight advancement requirement was to meditate under thunderclouds.

This kind of ridiculous advancement requirement required the right timing and was naturally extremely difficult.

Only when Chen Qing's Thunder Gu reached Rank Nine did he have the opportunity to advance his Thunder Gu. Thus, his speed slowed down.

And now, Jiang Yuhu's Thunder Gu should be about to transform.

Chen Qing smiled and slapped the railing. "These fools!"

Shaking his head, Chen Qing returned to his bed and fell into a deep sleep.

Jiang Yuhu was extremely nervous at this moment. Almost all the places in the house that could be lit were lit up.

A jade plate was placed in front of him and on the jade plate were large amounts of spirit stones and cocooned Thunder Gu.

Jiang Shanhu's group of seven surrounded him. Jiang Shanhu said: "There are still two days before the tribe gathering. Yuhu, can you do it?"

Jiang Yuhu said: "My Thunder Gu had already formed its cocoon yesterday. It should be soon today. Soon, it will definitely transform into a butterfly soon!"

Jiang Shanhu laughed heartily: "Back then, your Sword Butterfly was the first to transform into a butterfly and made us all jealous. Now that your Thunder Gu is the last to transform into a butterfly, it can be considered an eye for an eye."

Jiang Dahu said: "Now, among the eight of us, any one of us can receive three strikes from Lord. Only you can only receive one strike from Lord. In the tribe gathering three days later, don't embarrass Lord!"

Jiang Yuhu said furiously: "Isn't that because my Thunder Gu has yet to transform into a butterfly!"

Right at this moment, Jiang Yuhu's heart suddenly throbbed. He ignored the surrounding brothers' sarcasm and looked at the jade plate.

A wing drilled out of it. The silver white cocoon broke open and the Thunder Butterfly slowly drilled out.

"Butterfly transformation succeeded, butterfly transformation succeeded!"

Jiang Yuhu laughed heartily: "Success, success!"

Looking at the Thunder Butterfly standing on the spirit stone and gradually spreading its wings, amidst the sparks of lightning, Jiang Yuhu felt that he had caught up to his brothers again.

Jiang Shanhu immediately turned around and went out, carrying a jar of wine. "Old Five, get the tavern to send a roasted deer over. Let's start the feast!"

(End of this chapter)