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"": "That night, the hook-shaped moon seemed capable of hooking a person's very soul.
Wind blew out through the gaps in the mountain, passing through the Mountain-Wind Gu Talisman Array on the Jade Tortoise Shell and carrying greater warmth over the nine Iron Vats.
Luo Bin stood silently before the only Iron Vat making any noise. His blue-black robes stirred in the wind, brushing against his body with faint snapping sounds.
Had he attained minor mastery of the Yin-Yang Arts?
The resulting change in his aura was especially apparent.
But only his appearance was composed. Luo Bin's heart was far from calm.
Over six thousand five hundred and sixty-one venomous creatures! What kind of gu would emerge after four rounds of refinement? Could it bring about a qualitative leap in his Gu Arts?
The Miao King had said that he would need ten years to refine a Shell-Devouring Gu!
Those ten years referred only to normal circumstances.
Now, he had first used the Hexagram Sign of the Mountain-Wind Gu to drive the gu worms with its underlying intent, then employed the Good Corpse Core, a supreme treasure of the Yin-Yang World. He had even strengthened the Mountain-Wind Gu with the Primordial Sixteen Trigrams.
None of these methods could fundamentally advance his mastery of the Gu Arts, but could they produce a corresponding effect on this single gu worm?
The more Luo Bin thought about it, the faster his heart beat.
A fierce gust blew out through the mountain gaps with a mournful howl.
The clanging from the Iron Vat reached its most frantic pitch in two months!
Suddenly, the wind died and the noise ceased.
A strange wisp of smoke rose from the top of the Iron Vat. Neither quite white nor quite gray,