Mystic-Tier Dual-Sound Cicada
Over the past few days of refining Gu, he had earned quite a few Gu Refining Points. After buying a Yellow Gu Lotus Platform for the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion, he still had around 1,000 points left.
At the same time, the Gu Essential Essence in his qi sea had also increased considerably, enough for him to refine for several more days.
After putting the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion into the Yellow Gu Lotus Platform, he began examining a map of the surrounding area.
After studying it for quite a while, he found that the nearest mountain was still over twenty kilometers away. It was called Sunless Mountain.
"So far... I'll have to take a car."
Jiang Yiming checked the time. It was only a little past eight in the evening, so he headed out without hesitation.
He took a taxi to the foot of Sunless Mountain, arriving at just half past eight. Standing at the foot of the mountain, he looked up, but couldn't see the summit at all.
"This is much bigger than the last mountain. I should be able to catch them here for a while!"
Seeing no one around, Jiang Yiming summoned the Single-Horned Wandering Snake, then leaped onto its neck and gripped its half-meter-long horn with both hands.
"Up the mountain!"
At his command, the Single-Horned Wandering Snake suddenly twisted its body and slithered up the mountain like the wind, crushing the bushes beneath it.
Of Jiang Yiming's five Yellow-Rank Gu worms, it was the only one capable of carrying a person.
As the long snake roamed, it had no need for mountain paths. Wherever its heart desired to go, there was a road in its eyes.
After two hours of carefree roaming, Jiang Yiming had not only taken in the scenery for several hundred meters around, but also caught more than eight hundred Gu worms.
"That should be enough." He couldn't possibly catch every venomous creature on the mountain in one trip, so he ordered the Single-Horned Wandering Snake back down.
For a snake, going down the mountain was much faster than going up.
When it came to a sheer drop over ten meters high, it simply leaped down. Its tail was still hooked over the top when its head touched the ground.
Sitting on its neck was like riding a roller coaster. If Jiang Yiming didn't hold tightly to its horn, he could be thrown off at any moment.
In less than ten minutes, man and snake were down the mountain.
Although no one was at the foot of the mountain now, he still put the Single-Horned Wandering Snake into the Yellow Gu Lotus Platform to be safe.
After all, unlike Yulan, he still couldn't make his Gu worms invisible to ordinary people.
"I wonder if the System Store has a skill like that. If it does when the time comes, I'll definitely buy it!"
As Jiang Yiming walked toward the main road, he considered what he should buy in the future.
Once he reached the main road, he waited quite a while before a taxi finally came along.
Half an hour later, the taxi stopped near Rainbow Shopping Mall. Jiang Yiming got out and shut the door, then watched the taxi leave before heading toward the mall.
In the blink of an eye, the Red Tail Centipede destroyed all the surveillance cameras outside the mall.
To be on the safe side, Jiang Yiming had also put on a mask and sunglasses. Even if the cameras hadn't been destroyed, he wasn't worried about being recognized.
The glass door he had destroyed before had already been replaced with a new one. But that did no good at all.
Red Tail destroyed all the surveillance cameras inside the mall, while Ghost Face poisoned the security guard patrolling the third floor into unconsciousness. Then Jiang Yiming raised his foot and kicked the glass door to pieces once again.
This time, several cameras had been added in concealed spots around the underground supermarket. But that was nothing to the Red Tail Centipede, who found them all in a matter of minutes.
The meat in the refrigerated cases had also been restocked, making another easy meal for the Primordial Gu in the Gu Rearing Box.
Jiang Yiming stood guard at the entrance, letting the Gu worms feast inside.
He watched the meat in the freezers gradually dwindle. Everything was going as smoothly as last time.
Suddenly, at that moment, the thud of footsteps came from the end of the corridor.
Jiang Yiming adjusted his sunglasses and turned to look.
"I've been waiting for you for days." A familiar voice came from the shadows over there.
Jiang Yiming hurriedly put all the Primordial Gu, along with the meat they had gnawed on, into the Gu Rearing Box.
By then, the footsteps were drawing closer and closer. At last, a familiar figure emerged from the darkness—it was Yulan, just as expected!
"Strange. Just now I could still sense a strong Gu worm aura. How did it all suddenly disappear?" Her first words weren't to ask who he was.
Jiang Yiming leaned against the wall, turned sideways toward her. He neither fled nor spoke.
Yulan had heard his voice before; the moment he spoke, he would give himself away. As for why he didn't flee, one reason was that Yulan was blocking the exit, so he couldn't escape at all.
Of course, the most important reason was that his blood was boiling!
After days of burying himself in training, Jiang Yiming's strength had grown every day, but he had no way to put it to the test. He didn't even know what realm he was in now.
He had avoided her the previous two days because it was broad daylight and there were too many people around. Besides, he still had a lot of Gu Essential Essence he hadn't refined at the time, and his strength was insufficient.
Now, the impulse surging through his blood made him decide to fight!
"Why aren't you speaking?" Yulan stopped five meters in front of him. "In all my life, this is the first time anyone has ignored me! Let me see if you look down on me because you're so strong!"
Before her words had even faded, a cloud of white mist suddenly appeared in Yulan's hand, and a wingless cicada Gu crawled out of it.
This method of summoning was somewhat different from Jiang Yiming's.
[Dual-Sound Cicada: a Mystic-Tier Gu Worm that can produce two different sounds to attack enemies. One sound can capture the soul, and the other can pierce through.]
A Mystic-Tier Gu Worm!
With the Identify Gu at a Glance skill, Jiang Yiming quickly learned the cicada's background.
"Capturing the soul and piercing through... I wonder how powerful they are."
At that thought, Jiang Yiming summoned the Red Tail Centipede and the Ghost-Faced Spider, letting them crawl onto his shoulders, one on each side.
At the sight of the two Gu worms appearing out of thin air, Yulan was visibly taken aback.
For an ordinary Gu Master to draw a Gu worm out of their dantian's qi sea, they first had to use Gu Essence to create a primordial qi passage. Only then could the Gu worm in the qi sea crawl out through it.
The white mist in her hand just now had been a primordial qi passage leading to her dantian.
Jiang Yiming, on the other hand, had no primordial qi passage at all. The Gu simply appeared in front of him.
That feat of summoning Gu worms alone was enough to surprise her.
No matter what, I'll capture him first! Having made up her mind, Yulan charged straight at him.
In the blink of an eye, she was in front of Jiang Yiming, bringing with her a faint fragrant breeze.
Her speed was perfectly captured by the saying: still as a maiden, swift as a startled hare.
Jiang Yiming reacted quickly as well, instantly crossing his arms in a defensive stance.
Suddenly, Yulan tapped the ground with her toes and spun through the air like a fluttering butterfly. She nimbly circled to Jiang Yiming's left and kicked hard!
Jiang Yiming tried to turn and defend himself, but just then, a cicada's chirping suddenly sounded beside his ear. The shrill sound made him lose focus in an instant, and he completely forgot to move.
Fortunately, the Ghost-Faced Spider on his shoulder reacted, instantly spraying a Poison Web from its abdomen toward Yulan's face.
"Huh!" Puzzlement filled Yulan's face as she changed direction again, circling around the web to kick Jiang Yiming in the back.
At that moment, Jiang Yiming came to his senses and instantly summoned the Iron-Backed Black Scorpion, turning it into a shield behind him.
"Bang!"
After the clash, they each stepped back a few paces, putting some distance between them.