Blood Pool Anomaly
Next, Song Wen began to attempt to evolve the second Black Armor Gu.
Given that the first Black Armor Gu was male, Song Wen found a female Gu Worm among the Black-Bellied Armor Gu at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer and fed it with White Bone Worm Crystals.
After consuming over seventy crystals, the female Gu Worm also spun a cocoon.
Looking at the more than thirty Black-Bellied Beetle Gu flying around in the cave abode, Song Wen was somewhat troubled. With the Black Armor Gu, these Black-Bellied Beetle Gu were not very useful.
Although they had made great contributions to Song Wen, keeping them required a large amount of Spirit Stone every day.
Once the rabbit is caught, the hunting dog is cooked; once the millstone has been used, the donkey is discarded!
Immediately, Song Wen crushed the Black-Bellied Beetle Gu one by one, leaving only a male and a female at the Qi Refining Fifth Layer as backup in case of emergency.
The corpses of the Black-Bellied Beetle Gu were not wasted; they were all fed to the Black Armor Gu by Song Wen.
In this way, Song Wen only had one Black Armor Gu, two Black-Bellied Armor Gu, two Ordinary Beetle Gu, and one Gu Worm in a cocoon.
Half a month later, the Gu Worm emerged from its cocoon, Song Wen obtained a female Black Armor Gu.
A month later, the female Black Armor Gu began to lay eggs, producing a total of two eggs.
After being nurtured in the Gu Cauldron for a month, the Gu eggs began to hatch. Two tiny larvae with black spots all over their backs crawled out.
Twenty days later, the two larvae began to spin cocoons.
Half a month later, they emerged from their cocoons, and two new Black Armor Gu were born.
The newly born Black Armor Gu, like the Black-Bellied Armor Gu that evolved from it, is at the eighth level of Qi Refinement.
After observing the Black Armor Gu for some time, Song Wen came to a conclusion.
Only when the Black Armor Gu has just emerged from its cocoon does it have a large appetite and requires a lot of spiritual materials. After that, its appetite will be much smaller, but each Black Armor Gu still needs to consume spiritual materials worth five Spirit Stone every day. In addition, it also needs to devour a drop of Essence Blood every day.
Not everyone can afford to raise them.
Looking at the four Black Armor Gu in front of him, Song Wen was somewhat perplexed.
Should they continue to cultivate more Black Armor Gu, or try their best to improve their strength? If their strength can advance to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer as soon as possible, then Song Wen will be able to face Qi Refinement cultivators without worry in the future.
After careful consideration, Song Wen decided to increase the number of Black Armor Gu to eight and then try his best to improve their strength.
Each of the eight Black Armor Gu consumes over a thousand Spirit Stone per month, equivalent to the value of nine bottles of Essence Blood. Song Wen steals Essence Blood from the Corpse Dissection Cave and sells it, earning enough Spirit Stone to support them.
While cultivating the Gu Worm, Song Wen never neglected his cultivation.
While cultivating the Soul-Banishing Technique, he discovered something very strange: during his trip to the Ancient Battlefield, he devoured the complete souls of four cultivators. Later, he went to the market and bought the souls of three more cultivators.
After devouring these complete souls, his cultivation speed of the <Soul-Banishing Technique> greatly increased, and his mental strength is now faintly about to rise to the Qi Refining Ninth Layer.
This discovery greatly excited Song Wen. In order to reach the Qi Refining Ninth Layer as soon as possible, he went to the market to buy cultivator souls several times. However, this added another expense to his already huge expenditure.
During his trip to the Ancient Battlefield, Song Wen discovered that he possessed a powerful physical body but lacked a matching combat Cultivation Method. Therefore, he went to the Transmission Hall and selected a close- Cultivation Method, <Netherworld Claw>.
This is a claw technique based on a powerful physical body, combined with intense Sha Qi, which is perfect for Song Wen to cultivate.
To cultivate the Netherworld Claw, one needs to consume a spiritual material called Gengjin Stone, absorbing its golden essence to temper one's hands, making them incomparably sharp and indestructible.
Once the <Netherworld Claw> is cultivated to a certain level, it can produce claw-like energy similar to Sword Qi, which is extremely sharp and unparalleled.
This made Song Wen's demand for Spirit Stone even greater.
That day.
Song Wen walked into the Corpse Dissection Cave as usual. Before he could go to Yuan Cheng to retrieve the corpse, he found that there were several disciples of the Law Enforcement Hall in the Corpse Dissection Cave.
One of them had very distinctive attire, somewhat resembling that of a rare array master within the sect.
They were scattered throughout the Corpse Dissection Cave, searching everywhere as if looking for something.
Song Wen entered Yuan Cheng's Cave, retrieving the body as he casually asked a question.
"Senior Brother Yuan, what are the enforcement teams doing at the Corpse Dissection Cave?"
Yuan Cheng glanced at the enforcement team members in the Corpse Dissection Cave, his expression somewhat sorrowful, and said.
"For some reason, the quality of the blood collected in the blood pool has decreased recently, resulting in half a percent less refined Essence Blood than usual."
"The sect is worried because there's a problem with the Blood-Gathering Formation in the Corpse Dissection Cave, causing a loss of Qi and Blood. They've come specifically to check it out."
As the steward of the Corpse Dissection Cave- Corpse Dissection Cave, Yuan Cheng would be implicated if problems arose there. Therefore, Yuan Cheng looked somewhat worried today.
Upon hearing this, Song Wen was momentarily at a loss for words. He had not expected that his recent frantic consumption of Blood Qi had already affected the quality of the blood in the blood pool and even attracted the attention of the sect.
In order to obtain enough Spirit Stone for his cultivation, he not only stole Essence Blood from his own decomposed corpse, but also opened his physical body to desperately absorb the Blood Qi dissipating in the air.
"Could it be that I absorbed the Blood Qi from the air, causing the Blood Qi in the blood pool to dissipate more rapidly, thus leading to a decrease in the blood Qi and Blood in the blood pool?"
Song Wen pondered to himself.
But then I thought about it again, and it didn't seem quite right.
I've been stealing Essence Blood from the Corpse Dissection Cave for quite some time now, and the blood in the blood pool had never caused any problems before. Why is there a sudden problem now?
Are there other people stealing blood from the blood pool?
Song Wen looked around at the busy corpse dissection workers.
Among these corpse exorcists, there are probably few kind souls.
As for how they stole the Essence Blood, well, everyone has their own fortuitous opportunity and secrets!
Song Wen silently recalled whether he had left any clues when selling Essence Blood recently.
After repeatedly confirming that he had always disguised himself when selling his Essence Blood and that it was impossible for anyone to recognize him, Song Wen finally felt relieved.
However, the thought that he still had twenty bottles of Essence Blood, worth nearly two thousand eight hundred Spirit Stone, hidden in his cave abode gave him a headache.
Given the current situation, it's definitely not advisable to sell large quantities of Essence Blood in the market.
If the Law Enforcement Hall can't find anything wrong in the Corpse Dissection Cave, it's hard to guarantee they won't investigate in the market.
"Do we really have to go to the market every day to sell a bottle of Essence Blood? That's too much trouble. Let's just save our money for now and wait until things calm down."
The enforcement team inspected the formation for a long time but found nothing wrong with it. So, they turned their attention to the corpse man and the steward Yuan Cheng.
With law enforcement officers monitoring the scene, Song Wen wasn't so reckless as to steal the Essence Blood right in front of them. Although they probably wouldn't notice, there was always a chance something might happen.
After dissecting the corpse, Song Wen returned to his cave abode.
Yuan Cheng wasn't so lucky; he was taken away by the enforcement team.
The next day, a new steward was appointed in the Corpse Dissection Cave, named Feng Deng, a male cultivator at the eighth level of Qi Refinement.
As for Yuan Cheng, Song Wen never saw him again.
Yuan Cheng, a cultivator at the Qi Refining Ninth Layer, willingly came to the Corpse Dissection Cave, a place shrouded in turbid energy, to work as a steward in order to earn Spirit Stone and buy Foundation Establishment.
He distributed corpses and collected bones and flesh every day, from which there was a considerable amount of profit to be made. After all, who would notice if a few bones and flesh were occasionally missing?
Those bones and flesh can fetch a good price, especially those of righteous cultivators.
Righteous cultivators like to eat the flesh of Demon Beast to aid their cultivation, and so do demonic cultivators, though they eat more than just Demon Beast flesh.