Longevity Begins With Gu Refining

Chapter 9: Western Desert and the Pure Land of Thunder

"Absolute Beginning?"

Hearing Chen Qing's words, the two were slightly stunned and became vigilant.

Chen Qing began to speak casually. "As the first time we meet after I woke up from my slumber, I can give you a gift."

Chen Qing looked at the female cultivator. "You were asking about the cultivation of the strength gu, right?"

The female cultivator nodded. "My strength gu is about to transform into a butterfly. I'm discussing with the scholar about the possible materials needed to upgrade the strength gu."

Chen Qing leaned back slightly. I might not know anything if you asked about other things, but if you asked about this, I won't be sleepy anymore.

"Can I see it?"

The female cultivator didn't mind revealing her gu here. After all, they didn't know each other.

She opened her hand, and a strong red gu slowly raised its head on her palm.

Chen Qing looked at the gu:

[Mortal strength gu]

Quality: Rank 9

Lifespan: 24/81

Effect: Strength of nine bulls

Growth requirement: None

Growth progress: 100/100 (to be upgraded)

Upgrade requirement: Three drops of flood dragon blood

"You can try the flood dragon blood. Three drops are enough."

The female cultivator looked at Chen Qing in surprise. "So accurate?"

Chen Qing smiled and didn't speak.

He turned to look at the strong 'scholar'. "What about you?"

Although the scholar didn't know Chen Qing's background, the word 'Absolute Beginning' made him feel very mysterious.

He had never heard of this word before. It just made him feel inexplicably majestic.

Anyway, he just heard it. He opened his hand and a light blue spirit butterfly appeared. It was no longer the size of a soybean but the size of a cherry.

[Mortal lightning butterfly]

Quality: Rank 3

Lifespan: 56/130

Effect: Summon thunder and lightning, convert spiritual energy into lightning.

[Characteristics]: Lightning control, immunity to lightning to a certain extent, control lightning to a certain extent.

Growth requirement: Water essence

Growth progress: 0/100

Upgrade requirement: Unable to upgrade anymore

Chen Qing reached out and touched his chin. "Water essence."

After he finished speaking, he leaned back in his chair and didn't speak anymore.

Seeing that he didn't speak, the two started to talk.

The female cultivator replied: "Last time, the leader said that he might not return for another two months, I wonder if there will be any other members here"

The scholar said, "Red Lotus, can you get me a sword Gu? I can pay a high price."

The female cultivator was somewhat puzzled. "Where do you not have sword insects?"

The scholar nodded. "There's no harm in telling you this. In any case, we're too far away from each other. It's very likely that we'll never meet again in this lifetime."

"We have many Five Element Gu worms, but we don't have any Sword Gu."

Chen Qing thought to himself, It seems that the people at this Ghost Face Gathering really don't know who the others are. After all, from what they said, they seem to be very far away.

This scholar was most likely not from the same continent as them.

This woman's name was Red Lotus.

Red Lotus said, "It's not easy for us to get Sword Vermin."

When she said this, she glanced at Chen Qing. However, she realized that Chen Qing was still sitting there and had no intention of interrupting their conversation. Only then did she continue speaking.

"Generally speaking, Sword Insects are monopolized by the big sects. The better ones might cost 160 Spirit Stones each."

Chen Qing sat there without any change in his expression, but he was extremely shocked.

As for Sword Vermin, the better ones cost 160 Spirit Stones each?

What a joke!

Where did Red Lotus come from? Were the prices on her continent so ridiculous?

The scholar was silent for a moment. He sharply noticed that Red Lotus glanced at Chen Qing as if she was afraid that Chen Qing would expose her.

This meant that Sword Insects were definitely not worth this price. Unfortunately, that Tai Chu had not spoken since he mentioned the materials needed for their Gu worms. It was as if he was not interested in anything.

The scholar picked up his folding fan and lightly patted his hand. The price that Red Lotus mentioned was definitely a premium. However, it was really difficult to get Sword Insects on their continent.

Compared to the unknown dangers in the outside world, he was more willing to spend more Spirit Stones.

"Help me get one."

Red Lotus saw that the transaction was settled. "Alright, I'll keep an eye out for you. I'll have to rely on the connections of those sects. It might take some time."

The scholar cupped his hands and stood up. "Then, we'll meet again on the first day?"

Chen Qing saw that their conversation was over and did not hesitate any longer. He directly left.

"Today is the fifteenth. They were having a gathering when I came."

"Looks like they have two gatherings a month."

"Listening to their conversation, it seems that the space just now can be used to trade Gu worms and Spirit Stones."

"I hope that the Wild Dog Daoist they were talking about dies. That way, no one will know that I have this mask. I can attend the next gathering and see how they react."

"Anyway, it's dark then. No one will see who I am. The senior brother of Carefree Mountain and that Wild Dog Daoist only know that I'm a disciple of Carefree Mountain."

"If it succeeds, I might be able to start making money next time."

"It's not too much for me to charge some spirit stones for consulting on the cultivation of Gu worms, right?"

"It's the price they're discussing. It's worrying."

Suppressing his other thoughts, Chen Qing hid the bronze grimace mask in the depths of the cave abode before falling asleep on the bed.

Flying Cloud Stream, Green Lotus Sword Sect's territory, Western Desert.

In a cave on a cliff, a woman in red took off the grimace mask on her face and swallowed it.

It was raining cats and dogs outside. A black eagle with a wingspan of ten feet was shuttling through the storm. Hearing the woman's call, it flew down.

"Flood dragon blood?"

"There seems to be such a thing in the Demon Mansion."

"Let's try it. I don't know what it is anyway."

She leaped onto the black eagle's back and flew through the storm. After flying for four hours, dense Demon Qi gathered in the sky in front of her, covering the sky and the earth.

On the ground, there were piles of white bones everywhere. Among the piles of white bones, there was a huge dragon skeleton on the peak of the mountains.

Numerous crudely styled palaces stood on the gigantic dragon bones. Monsters flapped their skeletal wings as they flew in the sky.

The woman in red rode the black eagle to the foot of the mountain and walked towards a pavilion.

The pavilion only had a doorway without a door. It was white and only had two floors. Behind the pavilion, there was a white fox tail more than ten feet long swaying slowly.

Seeing the woman in red arrive, two huge teeth grew out of the doorway of the pavilion. The table inside shook.

A hollow voice came from the doorway. "I was wondering why the magpies were chirping. So it's Hu Yao."

"The foot of the mountain hasn't been peaceful recently. Those little tigers in your house are getting more and more dissatisfied with you."

The woman in red didn't say much. "Do you have flood dragon blood here?"

The doorway opened and closed. "That thing isn't cheap. What are you going to trade for it?"

Hu Yao pointed at the black eagle beside her. "How about it?"

Hearing Hu Yao's words, the black eagle clearly started to feel afraid. However, before it could react and fly away, the huge house leaped up. The door opened and swallowed it in an instant.

"Oh, this taste. Very good, very good."

The doorway opened again, but the black eagle was no longer in sight.

The doorway squeezed and spat out three tear-shaped red crystals. The red crystals fell to the ground and made the surrounding withered grass smoke. It was obvious that the temperature wasn't low.

Hu Yao picked up the three drops of flood dragon blood and swallowed them, then went down the mountain.

On the bones of the flood dragon tail, there was a huge yellow and black palace. The lanterns in the palace looked like two eyes.

In the open space outside the palace, three ferocious tigers were roaring. "Father, Big Sister is an outsider after all. You can't let her enjoy your treasures anymore!"

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"The Bull Demon's son likes sister a lot and is willing to pay a lot of money to buy sister!"

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Hearing this, the three tigers entered the palace, feeling wronged.

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Hu Yao asked: "But what about after I become an adult?"

The palace was silent, after a while, it said: "Here, without a Gu worm that can transform into a butterfly, you can't walk freely under the sky."

Hu Yao walked into the doorway and returned to her room. She was in her father's stomach. In Western Desert's land of demons, only an elder's stomach was safe.

How could it be so easy to transform into a butterfly?

She didn't have much savings left, but fortunately, she could earn some through the scholar's transaction.

She spat out three drops of flood dragon blood for the strength Gu to swallow.

As the strength Gu swallowed the three drops of flood dragon blood, she suddenly realized that her Gu worm wasn't moving anymore.

This …

Could it be true?

Six hours passed slowly, the bright red strength Gu suddenly moved. It spat out threads from its mouth and wrapped itself tightly, forming a red cocoon.

Was it transforming into a butterfly?

It really was three drops of flood dragon blood!

Although she had fed it a lot of materials, she couldn't deduce what the remaining materials were needed!

Moreover, that mysterious Absolute Beginning didn't know what she had fed it before!

There were hundreds of possible materials, how could he know what her strength Gu needed at a glance?

Who was he?

Not only was he familiar with the strength Gu, he was also familiar with the scholar's lightning butterfly, a Gu worm that she had never seen before.

The next day, when she showed the strength Gu that had already transformed into a butterfly in front of her father and three brothers, her three brothers didn't ask her to marry anymore, they only surrounded her and called her sister affectionately.

The huge palace door opened and closed. "You are different now."

Hu Yao leaned against one of her younger brothers. She remembered Absolute Beginning, who was always quiet and talked mysteriously. "Yeah, from now on, it's different."

Land of spirit treasure, Lightning Roll Pure Land.

Black clouds covered the sky. This place didn't see the sun all year round, there were only continuous thunderbolts falling from the sky and creating black pits on the ground.

The ground was blasted into black glass by the thunderbolts. In the middle of these black glass mountains, there was a pavilion made of bronze.

Inside the pavilion, there were countless rows of bookshelves. On top of the bookshelves were ancient books written with metal pages.

A scholar-like person put down an ancient book in his hand, "I really couldn't find any description of the name Absolute Beginning."

"This seems to be a Dao name that has never appeared before."

"Anyway, water spirit essence isn't expensive and is also within the range of possible materials. Let's apply for some in the name of researching ancient techniques."

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