Brainstorm

"See those people holding paper and pens, racking their brains? Look how much they trust the Qian Clan Merchant Association."

Qian Duoduo pointed his chubby finger in a certain direction.

Long Xuan followed his finger and looked over. Sure enough, a group of people there held paper and pens. Some sat on the steps, others on fossilized rocks, all of them frowning in deep thought. Some were so anxious they scratched at their ears and cheeks, looking nearly crazed. Who knew how many brain cells they had already killed?

If you did not have the IQ, then do not waste your brain cells. Intelligence was innate; it could not be forced.

Seeing so many people preparing to submit bids, Long Xuan finally believed Qian Duoduo and put his mind at ease.

When it came to wild ideas, who in this world could compare with him? If he dared call himself second, no one would dare call themselves first. Even in his previous life, in that world where imagination exploded in every direction, he had considered his own ideas first-rate.

Brimming with confidence, Long Xuan excitedly took out paper and pen, ready to unleash a brainstorm and seize the winning bid in one stroke.

Watching Long Xuan's excited expression, Qian Duoduo secretly laughed. He had successfully fooled another one. Young people these days were truly easy to deceive. Where in the world could pies possibly fall from the sky for free?

He had not told a single lie. The Integrity Gu truly possessed a binding power that people could not resist.

But he had played down the important parts, deliberately avoiding Qian Jinjin's standards.

Qian Jinjin valued that Stone King greatly. In her eyes, it might yield a supreme-grade Gu worm. Only if someone presented an ability with value equal to that of a supreme-grade Gu worm would she avoid taking a loss by giving away the Stone King.

In other words, her standard was to develop a High-Grade Gu Insect to combat strength comparable to a supreme-grade Gu worm. How could that possibly be done? Even if a god came, they could not accomplish it.

This was destined to be a task no one could complete. Whoever came would never win the bid. She was deliberately toying with people.

She had never intended to give away the Stone King. Her standards were simply not something humans could achieve. In the end, she would sweep them all aside.

Qian Duoduo once again marveled at his young mistress's cunning. She was truly too treacherous. Without paying anything at all, she had freeloaded on everyone's wisdom. This was practically catching white wolves with bare hands.

And yet it would not stir up anyone's resentment. She made them obediently hand over their ideas for free without even realizing it. This move was brilliant.

Qian Duoduo wore a crafty grin. Seeing Long Xuan standing there blankly, deep in thought, he added, "This tender lasts a total of one month. You came at an unfortunate time—today happens to be the final day. There is less than one shichen left before bidding ends. I hope you can come up with a decent ability in such a short time."

After saying that, Qian Duoduo turned and left to seek his next target. He needed to repeat the same words to more people. The more people came to obediently offer up their ideas, the happier he would be.

Meanwhile, Long Xuan shut out all worldly distractions. Within his mind, an unprecedented storm of imagination was raging.

With his eyes tightly closed, the first thing he had to establish was that he could not stray from the topic. The Glow Gu's ability was to control light. That did not mean it could accomplish every ability related to the light element.

Therefore, there was no need to think about abilities like lightspeed kicks, lightspeed movement, or elementalization. The Glow Gu could never achieve those.

There were many abilities that could be derived from controlling light. The first thing Long Xuan thought of was a flash grenade that could blind human eyes. This was the simplest application.

The reason human eyes could see all things was because light shone upon the surface of objects, then entered the eyes after reflection and refraction.

If controlled light no longer reflected, then human eyes would be plunged into darkness, unable to see anything.

Thus, controlling light was enough to develop an ability that robbed opponents of their vision.

Extending this ability further, if he controlled the light shining on himself so it no longer reflected, would that not create an additional ability for invisibility?

If he controlled the light reflected by an object a thousand miles away and bent it into his own eyes, would that not allow him to see things from a thousand miles away? Would that not develop Thousand-Mile Sight?

If he prevented the light shining upon the ground from reflecting, then the light would be absorbed by the earth, eventually making it hotter and hotter, forming lethal high temperatures and turning the entire land into a blazing furnace. This already fell within the realm of forbidden moves.

If he artificially altered light's reflection, would the reflected light entering people's eyes create false images? For example, the enemy was clearly on your left, yet you saw them on your right.

Such an ability would be truly terrifying. Anyone who encountered such an opponent would be left with a splitting headache.

And that was not even the most terrifying part. If the Glow Gu grew enough, could it control the light in an entire region and prevent it from falling, turning that region into eternal night and plunging all living beings within it into endless darkness? Would that not create the Dark Nightwalking Art?

Long Xuan's imagination could no longer be restrained as it continued to spread outward...

Light could be dispersed into red, orange, yellow, green, cyan, indigo, blue, and violet.

It could also be broken down into ultraviolet rays, infrared rays, X-rays, Y-rays, and radio waves.

Infrared rays could accelerate the body's metabolism, promote blood circulation, relieve fatigue, reduce inflammation and pain, and even allow thermal imaging night vision.

Ultraviolet rays, X-rays, and Y-rays could cause cancer and a whole series of other harms to the human body. Could he then extract all the harmful rays within light and develop an ability called Death Ray?

Radio waves had even more uses than could be counted...

Long Xuan felt like his imagination was about to explode...

He soon thought of offensive applications for light as well.

Leaving lasers aside, there was the principle of using a convex lens to burn paper.

A convex lens could refract light, gathering it at a single point and generating enough power to burn paper.

However, modern technology could not create overly large convex lenses. The amount of light they could gather was limited, so the destructive power they produced was naturally negligible.

But the Glow Gu, which could control light, was different. It could gather as much light as it wanted without relying on any tools at all.

What kind of terrifying destructive power would be produced if all the light within a hundred-li radius was gathered at one point? Long Xuan did not even dare imagine it.

Without the slightest exaggeration, this ability's attack power had no upper limit, because the light in this world was limitless.

When the light gathered together had no upper limit, the destructive power it created would be infinite.

Before such world-destroying attack power, even lasers would be far inferior. There would not even be any need to develop lasers.

With so many wild ideas, when it came to developing light-based abilities, even Huang Yuan would be nothing but a little brother before him. His imagination was a dimensionality-reduction strike in this world.

He felt that merely picking a few of these abilities at random would be enough to win the bid.