The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

A few hours later, Long Xuan stared at several sheets of paper on the table, lost in thought.

The ability of the Medicinal insect to mass-produce ten-thousand-year-old spiritual herbs is truly against the heavens. It is already so incredible, yet you still want to refine it into a Gu insect. The difficulty of such a task is unimaginable.

Such a heaven-defying ability must be limited by its materials.

After several days of research, Long Xuan discovered that the upper limit of the Medicinal Gu is terrifyingly high.

The upper limit of the Medicinal Gu could involve tens of millions of materials. Even if most of these materials overlap, studying such an extensive Gu recipe would consume an enormous amount of time.

Moreover, a considerable portion of these materials must already be extinct, without a doubt, making it almost impossible to research the full recipe of the Medicine Gu.

However, Long Xuan was not willing to give up. He knew that the same material could be applied to different Gu recipes. Why should he insist on studying the longest Gu recipe? He could completely choose the shortest one.

Although the Medicinal Gu refined by taking a step back wouldn't be perfect, it would be fine to reforge it once he reached the Spirit Realm. For now, it could be used as a temporary solution.

So, after noting down the Medicinal Gu on paper, Long Xuan started experimenting with a second set of materials.

You should know that when materials can be applied to multiple Gu recipes, the Golden Finger will show the longest recipe, but he could completely refine the Gu recipe by adding materials, gradually finding the recipe with the fewest materials.

Thus, as he tested the second set of materials one by one, the progress on the paper began to change in different ways.

Sometimes the progress would disappear, sometimes it would increase slightly, sometimes it would suddenly turn into four digits, and sometimes it would suddenly turn into five digits.

Long Xuan didn't dare to be greedy, as that wasn't something he could handle at his current level.

In the end, he chose a Gu recipe that required about ten thousand materials.

Actually, the number of materials could be reduced further, but the Gu recipe with ten thousand materials could still have some extinct materials.

But Long Xuan despised the Medicinal Gu that required too few materials, as it was too weak, and he didn't have the motivation to study it.

So he chose to aim a bit higher, and it wouldn't hurt to take a risk once in a while. If he failed, he could just switch to a Gu recipe with fewer materials. At most, it would cost him some time, which he could afford to lose.

With this in mind, Long Xuan discarded the other Gu recipes and chose the one with about ten thousand materials. He then began a retreat to focus on creating his own Medicinal Gu recipe.

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Meanwhile, on Dragon Island in the West Sea.

The final battle between the Long Clan and the Zhu and Song Clans had arrived.

The Gu Masters of both sides stood in rows, facing each other on a flat terrain.

However, this time, the West Sea Long Clan had the support of the Far West Long Clan, and their numbers did not show any disadvantage. Both sides had about ten thousand Gu Masters.

Finally, with a sound like a dragon's roar, the Long Clan’s morale soared, and they launched the first attack.

Each Gu Master of the Far West Long Clan took out a giant Earth master Gu from their insect pouch and mounted its back.

Just when the Gu Masters of the Zhu and Song Clans thought they would charge on these massive creatures, the Long Clan's actions took them by surprise. They were soon bewildered. 𝖗

Each Earth master spat out a massive earth ball that didn't match its body size and then hurled it forcefully into the sky.

Under normal circumstances, this kind of attack would be scoffed at, as projectile attacks fall too slowly and can be easily dodged by anyone.

But have you ever seen five thousand Earth masters throwing earth balls simultaneously?

The earth balls were so huge, and with five thousand of them launched at once, they covered the entire sky. When they crashed to the ground, they could achieve a seamless attack with no gaps.

Given the tight formation in large-scale battles, how could the Zhu and Song Clans' Gu Masters dodge when the sky was covered by these falling earth balls? In an instant, the faces of the Zhu and Song Clans' Gu Masters turned pale.

Seeing the sky suddenly darken, with one massive earth ball after another crashing down like meteorites, the Gu Masters of the Zhu and Song Clans turned pale and fled frantically, disregarding their formation.

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

“Boom!”

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The meteor-like earth balls crashed down like raindrops. Each time an earth ball hit the ground, it created a huge crater.

The ground shook as if an earthquake was happening, with deafening roars.

From time to time, some Gu Masters who couldn't dodge in time were struck by the earth balls, crushed into minced meat.

The scene descended into chaos, filled with screams, and the surviving Gu Masters, with pale faces, ran around in panic, their eyes full of terror.

Some Gu Masters with good luck found gaps to escape all the earth balls' attacks, and some, with great resistance, vomited blood but managed to survive this round of attacks.

However, who said Earth master could only throw one earth ball? Each Earth master spat out another earth ball before the ones in the sky even finished falling and launched a second round of bombardment, followed by a third…

Before long, the sky was filled with countless earth balls, impossible to count, making the scene look like the end of the world.

The land beneath the earthen sphere had completely darkened, no longer touched by a single ray of sunlight.

Countless meteors rained down continuously. Some were even ablaze, crashing into the ground and creating vast seas of fire, further constricting the space below where people could evade.

Under such a relentless bombardment, the earth trembled incessantly as if it was about to be shattered. The deafening noise completely drowned out the anguished cries of the Gu cultivators.

The Gu cultivators of the Zhu and Song clans met their doom on this day. In such an apocalyptic scene, they found no help from heaven or earth, and people died in droves.

The high-ranking members of the Zhu and Song families were pale-faced, utterly stunned by the bombardment.

They had gathered too closely together, and under the relentless shelling of the five artillery regiments from the Far West Long Clan, less than half of them had survived.

When the sky finally allowed a sliver of sunlight to shine through and the massive meteors no longer blocked the light, the ground shook violently once more, accompanied by a series of rumblings.

The Long Clan’s Earth Master Cavalry charged at the stunned survivors.

Each Earth Master was covered in a cement-made insect armor, with a vast surface area sufficient to inscribe numerous formations.

Each Earth Master was equivalent to a mobile formation base. A thousand Earth Masters could piece together a protective mountain formation, and a mobile one at that.

In this way, the surviving Gu cultivators of the Zhu and Song clans, although not moving, inexplicably triggered the killing formation of the protective mountain array.

Soon, various lightning bolts and fireballs fell from the sky, and the killing formation of the protective mountain array ruthlessly slaughtered the Gu cultivators who had intruded into the formation.

How many Gu cultivators could withstand the attack of the protective mountain array?

Once again, the Gu cultivators of the Zhu and Song clans fell in swathes, and soon the ground was covered with corpses, with rivers of blood flowing.

Even Gu cultivators of the Spiritual Sea stage were scattered to the winds by the protective mountain array, with high-level Gu cultivators suffering heavy losses within moments.

The senior members of the Zhu and Song clans were enraged, their eyes red with fury.

Using a protective mountain formation in a field battle—who fights like this? This underhanded fighting style was something they had never seen before.

It was just too despicable. How were they supposed to fight back?

“Retreat! Retreat immediately!”

The patriarch of the Zhu and Song clans shouted at the top of his lungs. However, before they could even speak, the Gu cultivators from both sides had already been defeated in a landslide and were desperately fleeing for their lives. There was no need for further instructions.

By this time, the allied forces of the two families had completely lost their fighting spirit and will to fight, collapsing at the mere touch of the Long Clan’s Gu cultivators.

The Long Clan won this war without shedding a single drop of blood. It was a miracle.

The Gu cultivators from the West Sea Long Clan were stunned, all of them wide-eyed, staring at the scene in disbelief, mouths agape.

Defeating the allied forces of the Zhu and Song families so effortlessly was simply unbelievable.

“It seems like there’s no more work for us, huh?”

The patriarch of the West Sea Long Clan gazed ahead in a daze, giving a bitter smile.

“We really were unnecessary here. Having just their clan was enough. What kind of Gu insect is that? A so-called low-grade Gu insect? You call that a low-grade Gu insect?”

The Grand Elder of the West Sea Long Clan stared blankly at the massive creatures, muttering in a daze.

“What a monstrous Gu insect! What kind of low-grade Gu insect is this? Has Heaven gone blind to classify such a ridiculous Gu insect as low-grade?”

The Third Elder of the West Sea Long Clan shouted in disbelief, completely shocked by the scene.

This battle overturned their understanding. The Earth Master’s combat strategy was simply unimaginable—summoning meteors from the sky and wielding the protective mountain formation to attack. He had never seen such a warfare method before. Who could withstand such a combo?

If the Zhu and Song families didn’t lose, it would be a miracle. Even if it were them in their place, they would have been defeated even more miserably.

All the senior members of the West Sea Long Clan displayed expressions of extreme seriousness, looking at the Far West Long Clan’s Gu cultivators with different eyes.

In this battle, the Earth Masters had slain everyone in sight. The Earth Master Cavalry had achieved remarkable results in their first battle, shocking even the Far West Long Clan’s Gu cultivators, let alone the onlookers. All the forces paying attention to this war were alarmed.

This battle marked the rise to fame of the Earth Masters, who became a terrifying presence that all forces feared.

The newly emerged powerful Earth Master Gu species began to be widely known, and its creator was increasingly sought after.

However, it was not until many years later that people learned that this famous Gu was created by a genius youth who was merely at the Spirit Gathering stage at the time. But that’s a story for another time.

At this moment, Long Xuan was still unaware that the Earth Masters would ignite the entire world like a blazing fire through this battle. The instigator, who almost exterminated the Zhu and Song families, was quietly refining Gu formulas in a small pavilion.

This time, the process of refining the Gu recipe went unexpectedly smoothly because the caterpillar was just too weak. Any low-grade spirit insect could easily devour it.

How could a Gu recipe allow the primary insect to be devoured? So, all insect species stronger than the caterpillar were essentially eliminated.

Yet, the caterpillar was at the bottom of the insect hierarchy. Almost every insect was stronger than it, so after such elimination, there weren’t many options left to include in the Gu recipe.

As a result, after going through the process of elimination, Long Xuan didn’t have many insect species left to choose from, naturally saving a lot of time.

Moreover, although the medicinal Gu recipe required ten thousand materials, there were so many repeated materials that the actual variety used could barely amount to a thousand.

Thus, Long Xuan took only half a year to develop the heaven-defying medicinal Gu formula.

He brushed off the non-existent dust on the Gu recipe, revealing an extremely proud smile.

“Heh, because the number of the Ten Supreme Spirit Insects is unique under Heaven, no one has ever been able to develop a Gu recipe using them as primary materials.”

“Only me! Only I, Long Xuan, have broken what no one before me could and created a Gu recipe using the Ten Supreme Spiritual Insects as the primary materials! Who else?”

Long Xuan was brimming with confidence, letting out an immensely proud laugh.

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