Chapter 3: Far West Market
Long Xuan slowly put down the "Eternal Life Sutra" with a dazed look. Isn't the purpose of cultivation to achieve immortality? If the "Eternal Life Sutra" can really give him a lifespan of tens of millions of years, then he is equivalent to immortality, having achieved the ultimate goal of cultivation, and can lie down.
Of course, this is just his random thought. Even if an ordinary person without martial arts can achieve immortality, he may not live long.
After all, this is a world where martial arts are respected. The top priority should be to refine the first Gu.
As an entomologist in his previous life, he has a keen sense of smell for the fusion of Gu insects.
In his opinion, the fusion of genes is not necessarily the best combination of the strong. For example, the strongest tiger and lion on the surface of the earth are combined to produce a lion-tiger beast, which has a very weak comprehensive ability and low immunity and is extremely difficult to survive.
Although ants are weak, if they are fused with the genes of certain creatures, they will produce terrifying effects.
It is precisely because of the professional counterparts and the cost of conducting various taboo experiments that it is not difficult for him to create his own Gu recipe.
But considering the lack of funds for novices in the early stage, it is absolutely a luxury to refine a heaven-defying Gu worm at the beginning.
So the first Gu recipe he created was extremely cheap, but don’t underestimate the low cost. The Gu worm made from cheap materials is not necessarily weak.
His philosophy is that the combination of the strong may not make it stronger. Using the genes of some weak insects may have a very terrifying effect.
In the previous life, centipedes, venomous snakes, scorpions, spiders, and toads were not insects, but Miaojiang Gu Masters classified these five creatures as insects and used them to refine Gu.
It is the same in this world. These five creatures are not only classified as insects in this world, but also the five strongest insect species. They are called the Five Poisons by people in this world.
The Five Poisons are the strongest among insects, so most Gu practitioners use the Five Poisons to refine Gu.
Long Xuan has never heard of anyone using flies and caterpillars to refine Gu.
It’s not because flies and caterpillars are not insects, but because these two insects are too weak.
The reason why Long Xuan's Gu recipe is cheap is entirely because it uses those unpopular insects.
For example, cockroaches have weak combat power, but people in this world probably don't know that cockroaches are indestructible.
Cockroaches can withstand hundreds of times their own pressure without any injury, and will not die for several months without eating or drinking. They will not die even if their internal organs are damaged, and they can regenerate broken limbs. Even if their heads are cut off, they can still last for nine days.
In the previous life, an atomic bomb exploded in a place where people lived well, and all creatures died, except for cockroaches, which was simply outrageous.
Cockroaches are not strong in combat power, but this world has the setting of internal Gu. By parasitizing the Gu worm in the body and feeding it with blood and spiritual power, the Gu worm feeds back to the host with magical power, forming a symbiotic relationship, mutual benefit and complementarity.
So can humans obtain the immortal power of cockroaches through this method?
You must know that this world is a world with spiritual power, and all spiritual insects have spiritual power. The spiritual insect cockroaches in this world are far more terrifying than the cockroaches in the previous life. All data must be raised. Once the Gu is refined, the data will be further raised.
Immortality in this magical world may not be a fantasy.
So Long Xuan's first task when he came to this world was to study how to make humans immortal.
Considering that the abilities born from the devouring of various spiritual insects are uncontrollable and unpredictable.
So when Long Xuan created his own Gu recipe, he deliberately only wrote various types of cockroaches on it, so that the immortal genes of various types could be perfectly integrated.
He didn't think that such a Gu recipe would give birth to other abilities.
Now everything is ready, and only the east wind is missing. After a year of accumulation, he has accumulated a lot of spiritual medicines, and as long as he sells them, he can get the funds to refine the first Gu.
Long Xuan stood up excitedly, first walked into the medicine garden, pulled out all the spiritual medicines with 100% numbers and put them in the storage bag, and re-sown them, and then rushed out.
He planned to take the spiritual medicine to the nearby Jixifang Market to sell it, and he couldn't wait to try to refine the Gu today.
It is worth mentioning that killing people for treasures is prohibited in and near the Jixi Market. This is a rule that must be followed for a prosperous market, otherwise no one dares to show off their treasures in the market.
So as long as the materials traded are not too amazing, Long Xuan basically does not have to worry about killing people for treasures. This novice protection village is enough for him to develop safely for a period of time.
Dashi Village is very close to the market, and Long Xuan can reach it in half an hour.
Although the market is very close to the village, it is his first time to come to this place. As soon as he entered here, he was shocked by the lively scene here.
There are casual cultivators sitting on the ground setting up stalls everywhere, with all kinds of treasures such as elixirs, spiritual insects, spiritual medicines, exercises, spiritual tools, mineral materials, and animal materials.
The stall owners argued with others until their faces were red and their necks were thick, and the noise of bargaining was everywhere.
In a region full of Gu cultivators, the most traded thing is naturally Gu insects. After Long Xuan entered here, he saw all kinds of Gu insects, which was an eye-opener.
There are many independent cultivators who have the recipe for Gu, but they never sell it. They just refine the Gu insects and put them on the stalls to make a living.
It is not only because all Gu cultivators have the concept of cherishing their own possessions. Once the Gu recipe is spread out, others will not only find ways to restrain it, but once more people refine it, it will also form a competitive force.
With Long Xuan's current wealth, it is not a problem to buy an ordinary Gu worm, but after thinking for a moment, he quickly gave up this idea.
It is better not to buy second-hand Gu worms, as they are easy to be tampered with. The Gu worms refined by yourself are the most tacit and loyal.
The more owners the Gu worm has handled, the more complicated its thoughts are, and it is easy to backfire on the owner.
So for the sake of his own life, it is better to create a Gu recipe and refine it yourself.
Long Xuan first found a chamber of commerce to sell all the spiritual medicines, earning a total of 307 low-grade spiritual stones, but he also spent a lot of money to buy the materials for the Gu recipe and ten Gu cups used for refining Gu.
Long Xuan did not expect that the price of a first-grade spiritual medicine would be so low. A full storage bag of spiritual medicine was only sold for 307 low-grade spiritual stones.
After asking around, he found out that low-grade spiritual medicines have no environmental restrictions and can be grown on a large scale. Basically, you can hire a group of mortals to grow as much as you want.
So first-grade spiritual medicines are now everywhere and are not worth anything at all.
Maybe he just secretly plucked all the spiritual medicines in the medicine garden and ran away, and Elder Long probably wouldn't feel bad.
After recognizing this reality, Long Xuan could only go to this bustling market with the remaining ten spiritual stones. I don't know what ten spiritual stones can buy.
The casual cultivators are poor, and there are basically no particularly valuable things on the stalls, but casual cultivators like to adventure deep in the mountains and forests, and the things they pick up are also varied, with everything. It is absolutely impossible to say that there are no good things at all.
Another biggest feature of casual cultivators is that they have little knowledge and don't know many treasures. There are often casual cultivators who take out valuable treasures and sell them at low prices, which gives others the opportunity to pick up bargains.
This also attracted the large clan Gu cultivators who liked to pick up bargains. They came here every day to try their luck, making this place a paradise for Taobao. Some people got rich here, while others were cheated and lost everything.
At this time, Long Xuan discovered another function of the golden finger.
He could see the progress of all the treasures on the stall.
Don't underestimate this ability, it can judge a lot of things.
For example, some things are probably fake if there is no progress, such as bullshit exercises and various residual prescriptions waiting for people to pick up bargains.
There is also black iron with a progress infinitely close to 100%. Long Xuan seriously suspects that once the progress of black iron reaches 100%, it will become black iron essence, and the value will be more than a hundred times higher.
Unfortunately, he can't even afford ordinary black iron now, so he can only give up helplessly.
The same is true for spirit stones. Once the progress of high-quality spirit stones approaches 100%, it is very likely that the transformation from high-quality spirit stones to top-quality spirit stones will occur.
Top-quality spirit stones are priceless treasures that are hard to come by in a century, and their value is inestimable.
As for those living things, let alone, for example, some spiritual insects have a progress of 15.0%, while some spiritual insects have a progress of 25.6800%, with a string of numbers after the decimal point.
This is easy to understand. The longer the maturity period of spiritual insects, the more decimal points are needed to improve the accuracy.
If you see a spiritual insect with a lot of decimal places, you must pay attention.
This spiritual insect must have a long lifespan, and the longer the lifespan, the more complicated the spiritual insect is. It can be said that the lifespan and strength of spiritual insects are completely positively correlated.
In this way, there are too many opportunities to pick up leaks. Although Long Xuan is a novice and doesn't know any treasures on the road, in terms of picking up leaks, no one here can compare to him.
Bees collect all nectar and pollen, but the yellow balls on their legs are pollen. Baidu said that there are too many sprayers who don't clear mines in advance.