Earthworkers Move the Grand Formation
After his outburst, Long Lie left, laughing maniacally. With him gone, Little Poverty Peak of Long Xuan finally fell silent.
Since Old Long's mountain peak is called Red Jade Peak, he can only transfer the name Little Poverty Peak to this mountain.
The area around this mountain is indeed very poor; there's nothing there, it's barren, and to outsiders it's certainly considered Little Poverty Peak.
After returning to the highest point of Little Poverty Peak, Long Xuan felt lonely at the top and sat in the pavilion to continue working on the Gu Recipe. His life had always been simple and unpretentious, and although it was monotonous, he was happy with it.
Half a year passed in the blink of an eye. On a stormy night, Long Xuan wrote the words "Long Xuan ◎" on a piece of paper. He had finally completed the Gu formula he named "Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe".
At this moment, the progress displayed on the Gu Recipe was [100%], and he was so excited that he could hardly contain himself when he saw this number.
It was really tough. He spent an unknown amount of time working on it, and the number of ingredients for this Gu Recipe was as high as seven thousand, which was terrifying. If it weren't for the fact that a considerable portion of the ingredients were duplicates, he might have had to work on it for even longer.
But after countless days and nights of tireless effort, he finally completed this long and complicated Gu Recipe, and a triumphant smile appeared on his face.
As a newly born Gu species, he, as its founder, had the right to name it, so he named this Gu species Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm).
There are two reasons for calling it Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm. First, this Gu Recipe was inspired by Dragon Silkworm Gu and also borrowed a lot of content from Dragon Silkworm Gu Recipe, including similar refining methods, so he chose the word "dragon".
Because of such an exaggerated idea, which could only be conceived in a daydream and could only be realized in a dream, he added the word "dream" to it, and thus named this new Gu species the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm.
He didn't know just how powerful the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm was, since he hadn't started refining the Gu yet.
However, this was a Gu Recipe he created based on a specific theme. The abilities that the Gu Insect would possess were already fixed in the Gu Recipe. Therefore, the abilities that the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm would have after becoming a Gu would definitely be those exaggerated abilities that he had written in the Gu Recipe.
The abilities of the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm are already known; the only question is their strength.
Long Xuan is now impatient to refine the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm. He is extremely anxious, and even waiting for one more day is agonizing.
Now all he needs to do is gather the materials.
Gu Recipe containing a full seven thousand ingredients would naturally be incredibly expensive once all the ingredients are gathered; under normal circumstances, collecting them all would be extremely difficult.
But Long Xuan is no ordinary person; he no longer has to worry about the materials needed for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm.
Speaking of this, we must mention something: anyone who isn't blind can tell that the magic Long Family Rubik's Cube Grand Formation he set up is extraordinary; its enormous size alone is enough to demonstrate its remarkable nature.
Flame Clone always managed to fool him by using the excuse that the Cement was garbage.
Upon hearing about the limitations of using Cement as the Formation Base, many people showed little interest and concluded that the Rubik's Cube Grand Formation set up by Long Xuan was a paper tiger, easily defeated in a direct assault.
Therefore, many people didn't take such a large formation seriously, and it didn't cause any trouble.
However, to everyone's surprise, the family head took this matter very seriously and immediately came to offer 100 million in contribution points in exchange for his Cement Technology.
And so, to Long Xuan's bewildered expression, another dragon appeared on his body.
This dragon signifies that his invention is enough to benefit the Long Family for generations to come. Only those who make truly enormous contributions to the Lineage are bestowed with the Hidden Dragon Tattoo as a reward. Such an honor is something even the Long Family's ancestor did not receive.
Therefore, Long Xuan no longer needs to worry about collecting materials for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm. With such a large contribution, what supreme-grade Gu worm can't he refine?
But he is still in a daze, completely unable to imagine that Cement Technology could be worth so much.
In his view, Cement Technology is completely beneath the notice of the world.
You want to use it to build houses? Sorry, this world has far more Spirit Wood as building material, a hundred times better than Cement. Do you really expect cultivators to live in Cement buildings?
You want to use it as the Formation Base? Sorry, Cement is too brittle. An array made of Cement can't stop the Gu King, let alone a Gu cultivator at the Spiritual Sea Stage.
In his view, anyone who dared to use Cement to set up a formation was courting death.
If Lineage dares to use Cement to build Mountain-Protecting Formation, it will become a sieve, and no one can defend against it; even thieves will be overjoyed.
So Long Xuan was truly puzzled. Could Cement, which he considered worthless, really have such a significant effect?
Out of curiosity, he immediately ran to the Long Family, partly to see how Long Family used Cement, and partly to spend his 100 million contribution.
Not only do they need to collect all the materials for refining the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm in one go, but they also need to collect other useful resources along the way.
Upon arriving at the Long Family Long Family and seeing their use of Cement, Long Xuan was stunned. He finally admitted that he hadn't thought things through thoroughly enough.
What he saw was a group of the Long Family Gu cultivators happily making armor for the Earthworker using reinforced Cement. The armor was covered with dense Formation Inscription, and everyone was full of energy, their eyes brimming with excitement.
Good heavens, they're going to make the Earthworker carry a set of Formation Base to create a mobile array! Isn't this exactly the kind of extravagant idea I came up with for the Earthworker? I never expected the Lineage to actually adopt it.
At this moment, he finally realized that what a Lineage needs most is always the most cost-effective thing, not how powerful it is.
Cement is simply too cost-effective.
Previously, developing a gameplay mechanic where Earthworker carry formations on their backs was extremely expensive; without money, it was impossible to play, and most people had to give up on this idea.
But now that we have cheap Cement, the tactic of having Earthworker carry battle formations on their backs can be used on a large scale.
A formation made of Cement is hardly up to par and can hardly stop experts above the Spiritual Sea Stage. But who told you that setting up a formation necessarily means you can stop experts above the Spiritual Sea Stage?
In a large-scale melee, having the power to threaten a Gu cultivator in the Marrow Cleansing Stage is sufficient.
Cement may be useless to him, but that doesn't mean it's useless to others.
Originally, Earthworker only had some brute strength and were mediocre in other aspects. Now, however, each Earthworker has a formation on their back. If the formation they have on their back is Killing Formation, then the Earthworker will have the ability to set fires and thunder.
Good heavens, a bunch of mobile artillery emplacements! How many artillery regiments could that form? Once deployed on the battlefield, they would be a nightmare for any enemy.
If the Earthworker carries Illusion Formation, then this Earthworker will also have the ability to cast illusion Illusion Technique.
Isn't this cheating? It's outrageous!
How can those High-Grade Gu Insect possibly compete now? You have to understand that the Earthworker is just a cheap Low-Grade Gu Insect.
This only represents an increase in individual combat power. What if there were enough Earthworker, collectively carrying an Peerless Vicious Formation as they moved around?
Just imagining this scene made Long Xuan shudder involuntarily. What kind of freak could invent such a terrifying Gu Insect? This was seriously exceeding the limits!
He finally understood why his Cement Technology was worth a hundred million.
It is no exaggeration to say that with the advent of Cement Technology, the overall combat power of the Long Family has more than doubled instantly, and the strength of the Long Family is rising at a visible speed.
Is a contribution of one hundred million a lot? Not at all, Long Xuan thought to himself.
At this moment, all members of the Long Family were making Cement armor. Many people were designing the armor styles and then putting the finished armor on their Earthworker. Everyone was working enthusiastically.
The atmosphere in the entire Long Family is completely different now, as if they have entered a state of war preparedness, with a tense and murderous aura filling the air.
The Long Family has tens of thousands of Gu cultivators, each with a Earthworker; just imagine the scene.
The Long Family simply didn't have enough array masters to take care of such a large number of Earthworker, so they spent Spirit Stone to hire many array masters to help.
Long Xuan casually glanced at the group of array masters, then his pupils suddenly contracted as he spotted a very familiar face. Who else could this familiar face be but Di Xin?
Although this woman has disguised herself, she can't fool his eyes.
She actually managed to sneak in too? Long Xuan was taken aback; he was quite wary of this woman.
The woman was currently stroking a huge Earthworker's armor with her hand, her eyes sparkling with interest.
Is she also interested in Cement Technology? Long Xuan's eyes darted around, unable to figure out her purpose in infiltrating the Long Family.
But Long Xuan was too lazy to bother with those other matters. He just wanted to gather the materials as quickly as possible and then run back to refine the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm. Nothing was more important than this.
After the Bai Clan's intention in using Cement Technology, Long Xuan satisfied his curiosity. Contribution Token worth one hundred million to Flame Clone, ordering him to collect the materials for the Gu Recipe from the Long Family, and then ran towards the market.
The treasures in the Long Family's Treasure Repository are limited; it's impossible for it to have every kind of treasure, and it's not that coincidentally it possesses all the materials listed in the Gu Recipe.
Although the Long Family Long Family very wealthy, he could only collect most of the materials there; he still had to go to the market to obtain the remaining materials.
In the market alone, the Qian Clan Merchant Association was enough for him to collect most of the materials.
However, building a Vicious Formation that could block the Gu King was too expensive. He didn't have many Spirit Stone left, and besides, not every treasure could be exchanged for Spirit Stone.
After thinking it over, he finally decided to impersonate the mysterious Alchemist who had already appeared at the Qian Clan Merchant Association once.
This mysterious Alchemist was portrayed very successfully. The Qian Clan Merchant Association of Commerce now believed that he had an extremely powerful master behind him, someone they absolutely could not afford to offend.
Over the years, that working rabbit has refined mountains of elixirs for him for free, and they are all high-level elixirs. Elixirs are also valuable items, which should be enough to replace the remaining materials.
Therefore, Long Xuan decided to split up with his Flame Clone. The Flame Clone would use his enormous contribution to empty the Treasure Repository, while Long Xuan himself would head to the Qian Clan Merchant Association to collect the remaining materials.
If he couldn't gather all the remaining materials from the Qian Clan Merchant Association, he would have to delay for a few more days and stay in the market longer.