Chapter 14: Worm in the Stone

"I plan to sell each fossil at a price of 10,000 spirit stones. Who is willing to come up first to draw the lottery?" Long Xuan suddenly shouted after scanning the faces of the people around him.

At this moment, everyone's expression was not calm. Just now, whoever bought it was a fool, but now everyone has become a fool.

There is no way, it is too cheap.

The stone king, which was originally priced at 10 million, can now exchange for one-fiftieth of its part with only 10,000 spirit stones.

Although the current situation has basically confirmed that the gamble has failed, it is not afraid of 10,000, but afraid of one, what if?

What if the spirit insect really hides in a fossil and is not discovered? This is completely possible in theory.

The most important thing is that it is cheap. Even if the gamble is lost, the loss is completely affordable.

And once the gamble is won, with the appearance of this stone, it is possible to open a spirit insect of any value, and then it will be really rich.

This is completely worth a gamble, a huge profit.

Whoever does not gamble is stupid.

All the gamblers were breathing rapidly, showing greed, and their eyes seemed to want to eat people.

At this time, they finally realized that Long Xuan had bought this stone king at no cost, so he dared to sell it at a low price. He didn't need to feel bad. He would make money no matter how many spirit stones he sold. He was really a cunning kid.

Long Xuan was very satisfied with the expressions of the crowd. Sure enough, everyone was greedy for small bargains.

As long as the price was cheap enough, there would definitely be people who would be lucky and fooled. His plan was successful.

Qian Duoduo was stunned at this time. He didn't expect that gambling on stones could be played like this.

In the past, everyone would directly cut the fossils into powder or pack them up and take them away. How could they cut a few knives and sell the remaining materials at a low price? There was no precedent in the past.

However, today he finally saw that gambling on stones could be played like this.

It must be said that this trick is very good. It takes advantage of the gamblers' psychology of taking advantage of small gains and likes to pick up bargains. They are really willing to spend spirit stones to trade.

Although the profit was not much, it was better than losing everything. Moreover, Long Xuan did not pay a single spiritual stone today, so as long as he sold it, he would make a profit.

As expected, things went according to the script arranged by Long Xuan.

Dozens of fossils were snapped up, and everyone lost their minds. Dozens of fossils were snapped up in an instant.

Only the smallest fist-sized fossil was left, and no one was interested.

This fossil was too small, about the same size as a spiritual insect, and the possibility of opening a spiritual insect was infinitely close to zero, so no one wanted it. Ten thousand spiritual stones were only a small amount compared to the price of the Stone King, but in fact it was not a small amount for every poor casual cultivator. Ten thousand spiritual stones were not worth betting on such a small stone at all, the price was too high.

Moreover, Long Xuan was treacherous, and he actually sold all stones of all sizes at the same price. If others bought a big one at the same price, but you bought a small one, it would make people feel unbalanced and feel that they were losing money. In this mentality, Long Xuan's small stone would not be sold at all.

So even if he desperately begged others, no one was willing to take it. They all left and cursed him for wanting the spirit stone so much. Who would exchange 10,000 spirit stones for such a small stone? Whoever did so would be a fool.

In this way, this fossil containing the best spirit insect had to stay in Long Xuan's hands. He couldn't give it away even if he wanted to.

After returning home, Long Xuan held up the fist-sized fossil, looked at it excitedly, and giggled non-stop.

"After all the tricks, it finally fell into my hands. I don't know if this harvest can help me successfully create a best Gu recipe."

Long Xuan gently stroked the stone, his eyes full of expectations.

After playing with it for a while, he finally started to cut the stone.

The fossil was not big, so it didn't take him long at all. Not long after, he successfully took out something that looked like an eye.

The eye also woke up at this moment, slowly opened his eyes, and revealed an evil spirit in his eyes, which looked very ominous.

This world even has natural Gu insects in the form of energy, so what's so strange about the appearance of a spirit insect that looks like an eye? Long Xuan was not surprised at all.

On the contrary, he was very excited. If we ask which type of blood-covenant Gu worms the Gu cultivators in this world like the most, then the natural Gu worms are ranked second, and the first is definitely the pupil Gu, which is also the rarest Gu in the current world.

Most of the internal Gu absorb the spiritual power or blood of the Gu cultivator, but the pupil Gu, although it is an internal Gu, absorbs the spiritual power of the Gu cultivator, forming a system of its own.

The pupil Gu feeds on the spiritual power and can perform all kinds of incredible illusions. Illusions are a means of hurting people that is more difficult to prevent than Gu. Gu cultivators who are proficient in illusions are often much stronger than ordinary Gu cultivators.

Each pupil Gu is born with a powerful illusion. Only the pupil Gu can perform the most heaven-defying illusion in this world, or only the pupil Gu can exert the strongest power, so the pupil Gu has such a transcendent status in this world.

Now a pupil worm appears in front of him, how can Long Xuan not be excited?

In the past, he didn't dare to use too rare materials when he created his own Gu recipes. Many materials are hard to come by, or even rare in a century. If you are unlucky, you may never see them in your lifetime.

If you can't find the materials, what's the point of researching the Gu recipes?

Therefore, Long Xuan had always planned to create his own Gu recipe based on the rare materials he collected, rather than searching for materials all over the world after creating the Gu recipe.

Now that he had the rare materials, he could completely use them as the main materials to create a pupil Gu.

And Long Xuan had already decided in which direction this pupil Gu should be studied.

He could not decide what kind of illusion each pupil Gu would carry, but he could still decide what basic abilities the pupil Gu would have.

He did not care about other aspects, but this pupil Gu must have one ability, which was the microscopic magnification ability he had always been thinking about...

He hurriedly took out a pen and paper, quickly ran to the table and sat down, and began to create the second Gu recipe with great interest.

This eye is likely to be an insect species that had long been extinct in ancient times, but Long Xuan could not even recognize all the existing insect species, so how could he recognize this long-extinct spirit insect.

But this would not hinder him. Long Xuan had already discovered through research that this golden finger was based on the host's cognition, not on the insect species name in this world.

He could even create his own Gu recipe using modern Chinese characters. The various microorganisms in this world have not been named yet, so he could just give them any name, and the golden finger could completely identify them.

Since he didn't know what kind of insect it was, he could just name it casually. He didn't need to consider whether it sounded good or not. He could just call it Stone Eye.

Anyway, the same thing is often called differently in different places. What if this insect is called differently in his own home?

Long Xuan quickly wrote the three words "Stone Eye" on the paper. As expected, the golden finger could completely identify it, and progress was immediately made.

Long Xuan wrote with divine power. He thought of an old saying in the countryside: cow eyes see people as big, goose eyes see people as small.

So geese like to peck people and like to chase people.

But cows see people as big as cowsheds, so they work hard and don't complain, and don't know how to resist when whipped.

Since cow eyes have the ability to magnify objects, Long Xuan would naturally think of cow eyes first.

The principle of Gu is that insects devour each other, and he doesn't know whether it will work if he puts cow eyes that don't belong to insects in.

But since there is a fault detector, why not give it a try? Anyway, it doesn't cost anything, and it will only waste a few seconds at most.

Long Xuan picked up the pen and wrote the bull's eye on it, and the progress on the Gu recipe also increased slightly immediately.

Long Xuan smiled, and he knew he had succeeded.