Launching the Blood Dragon Battle Gu Research Plan
After the group returned to the Long Family Estate, they were greeted by cheers from all the clansmen. Everyone already knew that their Lineage had dealt a great blow to the Bai Clan, so everyone naturally showed excited smiles, and the entire Long Family was extremely lively.
As the key contributors to the Lineage's victory in the competition, the dozen or so geniuses were surrounded by everyone, showered with warmth and praise.
"Quiet!"
Long Yuanshan's authoritative voice rang out, finally quelling the commotion in the crowd. Overwhelmed by the patriarch's authority, the scene finally quieted down.
Looking at the dejected Long Yun, Long Yuanshan sighed heavily and said, "Take her away. Her Lineage will support her for the rest of her life. From now on, she doesn't need to do anything."
"Our clan has achieved a great victory today. Although we didn't obtain the entire Geng Metal Ore Vein, we've captured most of it, which is something worth celebrating. We'll hold a victory banquet starting tomorrow, a day of feasting and drinking. Everyone, you may now leave."
"Long Xuan, come with me."
Long Yuanshan was not in high spirits. After dismissing everyone, he left with Long Xuan.
Long Xuan thought for a moment and figured that the patriarch must have been looking for him about the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe.
Now that the tournament with the Bai Clan is over, and there's nothing to distract me, this matter should be put on the agenda as soon as possible.
Once this matter is put on the agenda, then my own Blade Gu should also be put on the agenda.
Long Xuan smiled and quickly followed the patriarch's footsteps.
After leading Long Xuan Long Yuanshan got straight to the point. "You've probably already guessed why I summoned you. Our clan has convened a meeting of elders and decided to officially launch the project to repair the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe."
"The Lineage will dedicate its entire resources to your research into the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe. Whatever materials you desire, the Lineage will spare no expense to satisfy your needs."
"However, you'll need to leave all your storage equipment outside during your research period. I hope you understand that this isn't something I can decide alone."
"Of course I understand." Long Xuan nodded and said, "That's only right. After all, researching Gu Recipe requires a massive amount of materials, and anyone would be prepared. Shall we begin now?"
Long Yuanshan said, "We can begin now. If you need any materials, just use the Thatch Gu' to send a message. The Thatch Gu' is the most concealed means of communication."
"Whatever you need or do, you only need to use the Thatch Gu' to send messages. You don't need to move around. Your daily necessities, including three meals a day, will be delivered to you on time. You don't need to be distracted by anything."
After saying that, Long Yuanshan tore off his Storage Bag and dumped a pile of stones on the ground, numbering at least several hundred.
"The main ingredient of the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe is the Supreme-grade Spirit Insect insect, the Divine Dragon Gu. The Divine Dragon Gu is a parasite born from the Lineage's Sacred Tree, the Divine Dragon Tree, and is extremely difficult to obtain."
"You absolutely must use your intelligence to research the Gu Recipe; you can't just try everything and guess blindly, or you won't have enough materials," Long Yuanshan reminded him again.
Looking at the stones scattered on the ground, each stone representing a progress level of a Supreme-grade Spirit Insect, Long Xuan's lips twitched incessantly.
Your family calls this "extremely difficult to obtain"? I think it's quite easy to get, isn't it? Does this family head have some misunderstanding about the meaning of "extremely difficult"?
Judging from his expression, Long Yuanshan knew what he was thinking, and said with a helpless wry smile, "The Divine Dragon Gu is indeed extremely difficult to obtain, but the time required to collect it is also considerable."
"Since the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe was ruined due to a lack of materials, the Divine Dragon Gu has been rendered useless."
"This also means that the Divine Dragon Gu will only continue to increase. After accumulating for countless tens of thousands of years, the number of Divine Dragon Gu will be enormous."
"This isn't all; I've only given you a small portion."
"The number of Divine Dragon Gu kept increasing, and these things are incredibly voracious, almost bankrupting the Lineage. Even if they're useless, they're still Supreme-grade Spirit Insect, and we can't bear to throw them away. Out of desperation, the Lineage had no choice but to put them in an extremely cold place and freeze them into fossils."
"After becoming fossils, they finally settled down and no longer needed to consume the Lineage's food."
Upon hearing this, Long Xuan's lips twitched twice again. He thought that since the Divine Dragon Gu were edible, he should freeze them all into fossils—that was too cruel! But it was indeed a good idea.
"So every time you experiment with a Gu Recipe, cut off a piece of fossil. Don't awaken them all at once; that's too wasteful of food."
"If we run out of these fossils, you can write to me again and ask for more. Even if the Lineage's entire stock is depleted, I can borrow a lot from other relatives."
"You stay here and study the Gu Recipe. I'll discuss the Black Moon City matter with the other elders. If you need anything, just use the Thatch Gu to send me a message."
Long Yuanshan finally left, leaving Long Xuan alone in the secret room, with stones scattered all over the ground, inside which a group of pitiful little creatures were sealed.
Long Xuan walked over and patted the top fossil, sighing inwardly. He hadn't expected that the main material needed to refine the Blood Dragon Battle Gu would be Supreme-grade Spirit Insect born from the Divine Dragon Tree.
Furthermore, after countless millennia of accumulation, the Western Land Long Family actually amassed a massive number of Divine Dragon Gu.
So, does that mean the four Divine Dragon Tree I planted will one day produce a bunch of adorable little creatures that I can eat?
This time, he no longer found these Divine Dragon Gu cute. If they were to actually be born naturally within the Divine Dragon Tree, he would definitely use his Divine Ice Flame to freeze them into fossils.
With limited resources, how can we support a bunch of freeloaders?
And those high-quality Spirit Insect collected from the Medicine Garden are currently being raised in my insect chamber, which is consuming far too much food. When I get back, I'll definitely use the Divine Ice Flame to freeze them all into fossils.
In fact, the teleportation portal between the Western Land Long Family and the Far West Long Family had already been set up, and people from both sides had already begun visiting each other's portals. He could return at any time, and instantly at that.
They were talking on the way just now, Long Qilin, Long Panpan, Long Yan, and Long Bao are planning to teleport back today.
As for the promise by the Western Land Long Family to reward them with Geng Metal, there's no need to rush it.
After all, the Geng Metal Ore Vein is not yet in our hands, and it will take time to mobilize a large number of mortals to mine it; the journey alone will take some time.
They were too lazy to wait, and also missed home, so they decided to go back today.
At this point, only Long Xuan and Long Ziyan remained.
Long Xuan needs to study the Gu Recipe for the Blood Dragon Battle Gu and cannot leave in the short term. The Silvermoon Mantis also needs to learn swordsmanship here; it can only improve its swordsmanship by constantly sparring with its fellow creatures here.
Although this secret chamber is a bit far from the Scripture Repository Tower, it doesn't matter. He had already used the Origin Realm to copy the Scripture Repository Tower and stored the copied Illusion Realm world in the Eye of Heavenly Secrets. Even if it's far away, he can enter it offline.
The only drawback is probably the inability to update synchronously. Once there are new changes or a new book is added to the Scripture Repository Tower, it's impossible to synchronize the Illusion Realm space. You can only go to the vicinity of the Scripture Repository Tower to download and update it when you have time.
As for why Long Ziyan stayed, it was naturally because she also needed to learn Swordsmanship here. The Silvermoon Mantis she had acquired for free also needed to learn knife skills here. These were the things that made her unable to leave.
She needs a huge amount of time to refine this Blade Gu, so she won't be able to leave anytime soon.
Long Xuan couldn't help but wonder how many materials and quantities of the Blade Gu she planned to refine.
But considering that she strives for perfection even in building her Thatch Gu House, she probably wouldn't only refine five hundred pieces of materials for the Blade Gu, would she? That's not like her.
Long Xuan took out the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe that Long Qian had given him and finally began to study it seriously.
Creating Gu Recipe is difficult, but is replacing a small portion of the ingredients in the Gu Recipe difficult? For him, it's not difficult at all.
He only needs to find similar materials for this kind of thing, which is a hundred times less work than creating his own Gu Recipe.
This deal was incredibly easy; he didn't need to put in much effort to obtain the massive amount of materials needed to refine the Blade Gu. He made a killing this time, and even now, a faint smile still lingers on his face.
A month later, Long Xuan put down the Gu Recipe in his hand, a slight smile appearing on his lips. The mission went as smoothly as expected. In just one month, he replaced all the extinct materials in the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe with the materials that still existed.
However, the new Gu Recipe contains a hundred more ingredients than the original Gu Recipe, and he doesn't know whether it's stronger or weaker.
Don't assume that Gu Recipe more materials is necessarily better than Gu Recipe fewer materials; that's definitely not an absolute rule.
So far, the quantity of all his supreme-grade Gu worm materials is less than that of the Blood Dragon Battle Gu, but he doesn't really believe that his supreme-grade Gu worm are weaker than the Blood Dragon Battle Gu.
The strength of Gu Insect comes not only from its innate qualities, but also from how the Gu cultivator develops and uses it. A powerful transformation path can even defy fate.
Moreover, the failure rate varies for each type of Gu Recipe, and the cost of Gu Recipe with more materials may not necessarily be higher than the cost of Gu Recipe with fewer materials.
After Long Xuan tidied up and put away the Gu Recipe, he suddenly had nothing to do.
He had successfully improved the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe, but he dared not hand it over now.
Because the timeframe is simply too short, and the Gu Recipe containing tens of thousands of materials is a massive undertaking. If you complete the task in just one month, who would believe it? It's hard to guarantee that people won't have their suspicions.
It's normal that it would take him at least a few years to complete the task with great difficulty.
It is absolutely impossible for a normal person to replace the missing materials in the Dragon Blood Battle Gu Recipe in just one month.
Most importantly, the longer it drags on, the more evidence of embezzlement will be collected; that's the key point.
If he leaves now, how will he embezzle funds? How will he gather the materials to forge the Blade Gu? He hasn't had enough of staying here yet.
Every day, a large amount of materials are being delivered into this huge secret chamber. The Gu Recipe is complete, which means all the materials are essentially going into his pocket.
By this time, there were countless Insect-Rearing Pouch Insect-Rearing Pouch on the ground, each containing a different kind of Spirit Insect.
To prevent one Spirit Insect from being eaten by Spirit Insect, each Insect-Rearing Pouch contains only one Spirit Insect, which results in Insect-Rearing Pouch being scattered everywhere.
However, taking so many Spirit Insect out would be extremely difficult. After much thought, Long Xuan decided not to risk taking the Spirit Insect resources out and instead simply refine the Blade Gu here.
I will only go out once the Blade Gu is successfully refined.