All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 135 Refining the Golden Silkworm Gu, Wei Hongyu Returns (4000-word long chapter)
"Let's try it out with the Golden Silkworm Gu first."

Zhou Qing returned to his room in the backyard and took out the Wooden King Cauldron.

"Buzz!"

Two golden silkworm worms, each the size of a palm, flew out.

Originally, there were three mutated golden silkworms left, but one of them was injured in a previous battle by the fifth leader of the Golden Knife Stronghold, who had reached the peak of the Tendon Refining stage. It was then defeated in a new round of Gu worm battles and became food for the other golden silkworm Gu worms.

After a year of cultivation, the remaining two mutated golden silkworm worms have grown from the size of a thumb to the size of a palm, and their pale golden carapaces have turned bright yellow.

Aside from the change in appearance, the two mutated golden silkworm worms showed even more significant improvement in strength, and when they joined forces, they were capable of fighting against ordinary tendon-refining martial artists.

Unless it is a divine weapon, ordinary weapons cannot harm them in the slightest.

Zhou Qing's wooden king cauldron now contains over a thousand mature golden silkworm worms, all commanded by these two mutated golden silkworm worms.

The reason why no more golden silkworm worms were raised after a year was not because there were not enough larvae, but because they could not be raised.

The amount of food needed for thousands of golden silkworm worms exceeded Zhou Qing's imagination.

Moreover, if the Golden Silkworm Gu worm does not regularly consume poisonous insects and blood, it will degenerate, and there is even a risk of it turning on you.

Controlling thousands of Golden Silkworm Gu worms with just two mutated Golden Silkworm Gu worms is already the current limit.

Although there is no way to increase the quantity, the quality can be continuously improved. These thousands of golden silkworm worms have undergone a year of continuous selection and elimination, and each one is extremely fierce.

A thousand Golden Silkworm Gu worms could kill a martial artist who had refined tendons in an instant.

It seems that only martial artists at the Bone Refining Realm could possibly contend with him.

“The opening of the Yuan Aperture is just in time.” Zhou Qing stretched out his hands and caught two palm-sized mutated golden silkworm worms.

Compared to before, the two mutated golden silkworm worms no longer had that natural affinity for him; they were only bound by the pure blood refining technique.

If these two mutated golden silkworm gu worms continue to grow and break through from the first-grade high-quality to the first-grade high-quality, they will become two uncontrollable 'corpse worm gu kings'.

Zhou Qing gripped the two mutated golden silkworm worms in his hands and released his true essence from his primordial aperture.

Compared to true qi, true essence is incredibly solid, and it looked as if two blue-green orbs of light appeared in Zhou Qing's hands.

"Buzz!"

As true essence appeared, the two mutated golden silkworm worms seemed to sense a deadly threat and began to struggle violently, ignoring Zhou Qing's blood refining technique.

However, Zhou Qing's hands were like an indestructible pair of iron clamps, firmly restraining the two mutated golden silkworm worms.

"Kakakaka!!"

Seeing that they could not escape, the two mutated golden silkworm worms became ferocious, their sharp mouthparts biting directly at Zhou Qing's palm, their six pairs of claws slashing like sharp blades.

The true essence defense attached to Zhou Qing's palm was broken by the Golden Silkworm Gu worm. However, when facing Zhou Qing's pitch-black palm, its mouthparts and pincers, which had been invincible before, lost their sharpness and could only barely scratch white marks on Zhou Qing's palm.

Having broken through the Tendon Refining level, Zhou Qing cultivated the White Cloud Palm Technique to the third level, the Black Cloud level, making his palm the strongest defensive part of his entire body.

Moreover, he had also cultivated the Hundred Poisons Primordial Body, greatly increasing his physical defense.

At the same time, the binding force also dissipated the power of the two mutated golden silkworm worms.

Even so, the two mutated golden silkworm worms were still able to leave white marks on his palm, which shows how sharp their mouthparts and claws were.

Ordinary martial artists who have refined their tendons are no match for two mutated golden silkworm worms.

Zhou Qing slowly injected his true essence into the bodies of the two mutated golden silkworm worms.

The mutated golden silkworm worm, which was originally bright yellow, turned a faint blue-green color starting from its tail. This was the color of Zhou Qing's mixed true essence.

"Hi~!!"

The two golden silkworm worms became increasingly violent, struggling fiercely. Zhou Qing had no choice but to clench his fists tightly, relying on his immense strength to steadily suppress the two mutated golden silkworm worms.

As the true essence in the Yuanqiao (acupoint) was continuously depleted, the blue-green areas that appeared on the two mutated golden silkworm worms continued to extend towards their heads until they occupied their entire bodies.

The two mutated golden silkworm worms suddenly stopped struggling, and their previously ferocious appearance became extremely docile.

Zhou Qingsong released his hand.

"take off!"

"Twirl around!"

"Spiral Ascension!"

Under Zhou Qing's command, the two mutated golden silkworm worms performed various actions.

"Whether or not one has opened their primordial aperture makes a world of difference!"

Zhou Qing sighed inwardly and reached out to catch the two mutated golden silkworm worms.

The next moment, the two mutated golden silkworm worms vanished from his palm and appeared in the Yuan Aperture above his dantian.

Two golden silkworm worms hovered in the lake formed by true essence.

The refined Gu worms can be stored in the Yuanqiao (a point on the body's core) and can be released at any time, making them difficult for enemies to defend against.

Unfortunately, at this point, the true essence 'lake' in Zhou Qingyuan's aperture had almost dried up.

Refining the two mutated golden silkworm worms almost exhausted the true essence that Zhou Qing had just converted.

"Absolute control comes at a price."

Now, with just a thought, he can control the two mutated golden silkworms to carry out any of his commands, even if it means they kill each other.

However, the refined Gu worms require his true essence to activate.

Simply put, without true essence, one cannot use Gu worms in battle.

However, this should be the default rule for Gu Masters.

The higher the level of the Gu worm, the stronger its ferocity and wildness. Without refining it, it is impossible to control it like an extension of one's own arm.

"It seems I need to keep some pills on hand to restore my true essence. I wonder what Gu Masters use to restore their true essence. Luckily, I still have the wine worms."

Zhou Qing took out the red apricot wine and tilted his head back to drink a large gulp.

The wine worms in his dantian were replenished and quickly began to inhale and exhale true qi. The true qi lake in Zhou Qingyuan's aperture slowly accumulated and the water level gradually rose.

He is currently cultivating internal energy, but what he has cultivated is still true qi. It needs to be transformed by the wine worms to liquefy true qi into true essence.

Apart from this, the only way to directly transform true essence is through the circulation of Qi throughout the body, absorbing the power of heaven and earth.

However, with his current physical strength, it's not enough.

"Having mastered the two mutated golden silkworm worms, we've resolved the future troubles. Once my true essence recovers, I can begin to subdue the corpse worm worm king."

Zhou Qing felt a headache coming on just thinking about the Corpse Worm King.

If two mutated golden silkworm worms are this difficult to subdue, then the corpse worm king will be even more difficult.

To subdue the Corpse Worm King, we must return to Black Wind Mountain and rely on divine power to suppress it.

【Occupation: Mountain God (Black Wind Mountain)】

[Divine Power: Rank 9 (68750/100000)]

After a year of dissemination, tens of thousands of people in the Black Wind Mountain area now worship the Black Wind Mountain God.

On average, it can bring Zhou Qing several thousand points of divine power every month.

Zhou Qing did not focus on this.

As the number of people worshipping the Black Wind Mountain God increased, it attracted the attention of the imperial court. Some time ago, Xiao Kang, a Grand Martial Master of the Blood Transformation Realm and a military officer in the Demon Suppression Division, personally went to Black Wind Mountain to investigate. Only after confirming that the worship of the Black Wind Mountain God was unrelated to the Witch God Cult did he refrain from taking further action.

Clearly, the imperial court allowed deities to spread their beliefs, but the scale of this activity had to be limited.

Zhou Qing didn't want to clash with the imperial court before he had enough power.

The power of the clergy comes easily, and it is also easy to lose.

At the foot of Black Wind Mountain, there is a small temple built spontaneously by the mountain people. If the temple is demolished, Zhou Qing's source of divine power will be greatly reduced.

The incense offerings that mountain dwellers make in their own homes are not pure enough for them to receive.

However, Zhou Qing himself possesses three main professions: [Gu Master], [Martial Artist], and [Mountain God]. Now, all three professions are progressing simultaneously, and he has not become stronger by relying on any one of them.

With just the [Gu Master] profession, once the true essence is used up, no matter how many Gu worms there are, they will all perish.

Currently, the strongest Golden Silkworm Gu and Corpse Gu King in his possession require true essence to control in order for them to truly obey.

Other Gu worms are not yet able to pose a fatal threat to martial artists at the Bone Refining Realm.

As for the [Martial Artist] profession, he is currently only at the Tendon Refining Realm, and is still a little short of the Perfection of Tendon Changing. Although he is an absolute top expert within the Tendon Refining level, he would still have a hard time against a Bone Refining Realm martial artist.

The final [Mountain God] class, with its current divine power, can contend with a Bone Refining Realm martial artist, but cannot leave the Black Wind Mountain area.

Occupation: Silkworm farmer

[Craftsmanship: Silkworm rearing and mulberry harvesting]

[Progress: Masterful (541/800)]

The other profession, "Silkworm Raiser," allows one to gain experience points by cultivating Golden Silkworm Gu worms, since these worms also mutate from Golden Silkworms. However, once one's silkworm raising skills reach a highly proficient level, the rate of experience gain becomes extremely slow.

With the added benefits of the four professions, Zhou Qing was able to achieve a level of strength that many geniuses could not reach even after ten years of cultivation, all within just two years of training.

Now, apart from the Blood Transformation Realm Grand Martial Masters and the top experts at the Bone Refining Realm Perfection, he can disregard everyone else.

"Son."

Zhou Qing was drinking red apricot wine when the voice of a maid came from the courtyard outside the room.

"What's the matter?"

"Someone from the yamen has come and requests that you go to the Demon Suppression Division, young master."

"Ah."

Zhou Qing put away the wine gourd and opened the door.

A pretty young girl stood in the courtyard. She was dressed in a light blue robe and a white gauze skirt, with her hair tied up in a bun, looking like a maid. Her slender figure and chubby baby face made her look exceptionally cute.

It was Qiu Xue, one of the two maids in the house.

"Go ahead." Zhou Qing waved to Qiu Xue, signaling her to go first, and then returned to his room to change into his uniform.

"Yes," Qiu Xue said somewhat dejectedly. It was rare for her to dress up so specially, but the young master didn't even glance at her.

Zhou Qing changed into his police uniform and headed straight for the inner city, arriving at the side hall on the third floor.

Yao Xuewei, who is usually very busy, was seen leaning leisurely against the window, not wearing her work clothes, but a white fitted robe.

"I've met my lord."

Zhou Qing bowed respectfully.

"You've come." Yao Xuewei turned around, a rare smile appearing on her face. She looked much the same as before, her demeanor becoming much gentler.

"What is this, sir?" Zhou Qing asked, puzzled.

"I'm leaving." Yao Xuewei nodded.

"Go? Where to?" Zhou Qing was taken aback.

"Preparations for breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm are complete. I'm going back to my family in Zhongzhou for seclusion," Yao Xuewei explained.

"Then I wish you a safe journey and a successful mission, my lord."

Zhou Qing smiled and cupped his hands in greeting.

"Do you know that Zhongzhou is thousands of miles away from the Southern Frontier, separated by mountains and lakes? I might not be able to come back." Yao Xuewei lowered her eyes and said softly, "If you are willing, you can come to Zhongzhou with me. There are more opportunities there, and you may be able to break through to the Blood Exchange Realm in the future."

"My lord." Zhou Qing reacted, looking at Yao Xuewei's bright and beautiful face, his heart beat faster.

"My relatives, friends, and sect are here; I cannot leave."

Although Zhou Qing also longed for the martial arts holy land of Zhongzhou, he had finally established a foothold in the Southern Frontier and could not possibly give up everything to go to Zhongzhou.

"Hmm." Yao Xuewei pursed her lips after receiving the answer. "In that case, until we meet again."

"Take care, my lord! Once I break through to the Blood Exchange Realm, if I travel to the Central Region, I will definitely visit you."

Zhou Qing was also a little reluctant to part ways, after all, they had spent more than a year together, and Yao Xuewei had taken good care of him.

Once she leaves, I'll be able to leave the Demon Suppression Division.

"You seem quite confident." Yao Xuewei shook her head and chuckled. Breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm in the Southern Frontier is much more difficult than in the Central Plains. Although Zhou Qing has a chance to break through, it's only a hope.

"If you don't even have this much confidence, how can you have the nerve to visit the esteemed elder in the future?" Zhou Qing said with a smile.

He was a little unsure before, but now that he has opened his Yuan Aperture and greatly increased his strength, as long as he gains the upper hand in the upcoming battle, breaking through to the Blood Exchange Realm is a sure thing.

"Although I'm leaving, I have some good news to tell you in advance." Yao Xuewei didn't continue on this topic, but brought up another matter.

Zhou Qing asked, "What good news?"

"Your senior sister wrote to me that she has recovered from her injuries and will be secretly returning to Black Mountain Town soon."

Yao Xuewei said.

"What?! Senior Sister is back?" Zhou Qing's face lit up with joy. With a Blood Exchange Realm expert in charge, many things would be much easier.

"She told me to keep this a secret, so don't let it slip out." Yao Xuewei looked at Zhou Qing with a half-smile.

"Understood!" Zhou Qing replied hastily.

"Go."

"what?"

"You can leave now." Yao Xuewei pursed her lips.

Zhou Qing was taken aback, then clasped his hands in a fist and said, "Take care, my lord!"

After speaking, Zhou Qing withdrew from the side hall.

"Take care." Yao Xuewei's calm voice rang out from the side hall.

Zhou Qing walked out of the Demon Suppression Division branch and turned to look at the tall building behind him.

Since Yao Xuewei is leaving and Wei Hongyu has returned, there is no need for him to stay in the Demon Suppression Division any longer.

Without the protection of this boss, I certainly wouldn't be able to perform my tasks so lazily as I am now.

Zhou Qing went to Baicaotang and used the remaining thousand taels of silver to buy three 'Minor Rejuvenation Pills' that could assist in the cultivation of true qi.

He returned home and spent a day refining the medicinal power of one of the small pills.

With the replenishment of true qi, the true essence in the primordial aperture rapidly increases.

(End of this chapter)