All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 198 Heavenly Fire Centipede Hatching (Bonus Chapter for Silver Alliance)

"Let's carry him away." Wanqi Zongxuan found two clansmen to carry Wanqi Qingshi away, but found that the residual cold energy on his body was still quite astonishing.

"Let me lend a hand too." Seeing this, Zhou Qing stepped forward and placed his hand on Wan Qiqingshi's body, drawing back the remaining icy cold energy into his own body.

In fact, he had no grudge against Wanqi Qingshi. It was the other party who walked right into his trap and made an example of him. He really had no one to blame but himself.

Now that Wanqi Zongyuan is willing to give him a chance, Zhou Qing naturally has no objections.

As long as Wanqi Qingshi doesn't cause trouble afterward, he won't hold it against him anymore.

After withdrawing the icy chill, Zhou Qing stared longingly at Wanqi Zongyuan.

Wanqi Zongyuan realized what was happening and laughed, scolding, "You also go with Zongxuan to the storeroom to collect the Yuan Stones."

"Thank you, patriarch!"

Zhou Qing smiled broadly. Many of the Gu-refining techniques in "Ice Sky Strategy" require the use of Yuan Stones, but Zhou Qing had no idea what Yuan Stones looked like before. Now that he could obtain five hundred Yuan Stones at once, he could try to refine many Gu worms together.

He is now strong enough in terms of combat power, but his only support-type Gu worm is the wine worm.

Now he can try to cultivate some auxiliary Gu worms.

Today's battle with Wanqi Qingshi also reminded him that healing-type Gu worms are also very important.

You can do without it, but you can’t live without it.

Zhou Qing followed Wanqi Zongxuan away from the square outside the ancestral hall. At this moment, Miaoyin quickly caught up.

"Young Master Zongzheng is so amazing!" Miaoyin exclaimed with admiration. She had only known that Zhou Qing was amazing before, but after witnessing it firsthand, she had a concrete understanding of his abilities.

Although the Ice Spirit Clan reveres Gu Masters, there are also a few elders who are not Gu Masters, but rather Great Martial Masters at the Blood Exchange Realm.

The requirements for a Blood Exchange Realm Grand Martial Master to become an elder are even more stringent. However, Young Master Zongzheng is not yet nineteen years old. Based on his martial arts cultivation alone, he will become an elder sooner or later. Moreover, Young Master Zongzheng's Gu Master aptitude is by no means inferior.

Miaoyin was proud and arrogant, but she wasn't stupid.

At this moment, she felt that being chosen by the young master Zongzheng was a blessing from heaven, and naturally she had to take advantage of the fact that the young master Zongzheng only had her as his concubine and try her best to win his heart.

"Hmm." Zhou Qing nodded lightly.

Seeing that his expression was calm and his arrogance had vanished, Wanqi Zongxuan suddenly realized something and put on a thoughtful expression, clearly having figured out the crux of the matter.

The storehouse was located behind the ancestral hall, near the back mountain, built at the foot of the mountain, next to the house of Wanqi Zongxuan.

Miaoyin was not qualified to enter the storeroom, so she was left outside the stilted building, while Zhou Qing followed Wanqi Zongxuan and two Gu Masters up to the third floor.

Wanqi Zongxuan nodded to the two of them, "Just put the bluestone here, you can go back now."

"Yes." The two bowed and withdrew.

"You can wait here too."

Wanqi Zongxuan gestured for Zhou Qing to stay in the room.

"Yes," Zhou Qing replied.

Wanqi Zongxuan left the room and went up to the fourth floor.

A moment later, he returned to the room and saw Zhou Qing patiently waiting. He nodded to himself and took out a blue gecko that looked like it was carved from a tree branch from his pocket.

"This is a second-tier low-grade Gu worm, the Green Wood Gecko, which is synthesized by combining a first-tier high-grade Green Wood Gu and a first-tier top-grade Blood Soul Gecko."

The Green Wood Gu is not hard to find; all you need is the core of a hundred-year-old willow tree. However, the Blood Soul Gecko is difficult to refine; you need to find a highly poisonous Blood Jade Gecko and feed it Vitality Grass to remove the poison from its body and strengthen its vitality.

"As long as a Gu Master's severed limbs are removed within three days, they can regrow using the Green Wood Gecko."

Wanqi Zongxuan came to Wanqi Qingshi's side, and seemingly afraid that Zhou Qing wouldn't know, he explained it to himself.

"Squeak! Squeak!"

As Wanqi Zongxuan injected his true essence into the gecko's body, the gecko, which had been like an inanimate object, was instantly activated and transformed into a lively, emerald-green gecko.

Wanqi Zongyuan placed the emerald green gecko on the wound where Wanqi Qingshi's wrist was severed, and the emerald green gecko reluctantly crawled inside.

In just a few breaths, granulation tissue slowly grew from the muscles at the wound site. Even more astonishingly, the bones that had been frozen and necrotic by the icy cold energy also regained their vitality and continued to grow new bones.

First comes the scaphoid, lunate, and pisiform bones, then the metacarpals. Finally, the phalanges grow. Once all the bones in the hand have grown, the flesh and fascia begin to reattach and grow.

A complete hand regenerated in less than a hundred breaths, showing no signs of abnormality.

"Elder Zongxuan, where is that Green Wood Gecko?" Zhou Qing asked, noticing that the Green Wood Gecko's presence had disappeared from his senses.

“It has already become one with the flesh and blood of the blue stone. The Blue Wood Gecko can only be used once,” Wanqi Zongxuan replied.

"The clan leader is truly generous!" Zhou Qing couldn't help but exclaim, Wanqi Zongyuan is indeed very magnanimous.

To date, he only has one and a half second-tier Gu worms. The Ice Fiend Gu counts as one, and the unhatched Heavenly Fire Centipede only counts as half.

"This resolves the conflict between you and Qing Shi, and he certainly won't dare to cause you any more trouble in the future," Wanqi Zongxuan said calmly.

"The clan leader is indeed very thoughtful," Zhou Qing praised at the opportune moment.

Wanqi Zongxuan tossed him a leather pouch containing spirit stones, saying, "There are six hundred of them in here."

"Six hundred yuan?" Zhou Qing caught the leather bag Gu and was slightly taken aback.

“There are indeed some problems with the clan’s atmosphere. Although it’s not certain that you can change it, today’s events have served as a wake-up call for everyone. The extra hundred spirit stones are my personal reward to you; don’t make a fuss about it.” Wanqi Zongxuan nodded. “You can leave now, otherwise Qing Shi might cause trouble if he wakes up. His personality is like a rock in a latrine; we’ll have to give him some serious advice.”

"Thank you, Elder Zongxuan!" Zhou Qing said with a happy expression, bowed respectfully, and left the room.

As Zhou Qing went downstairs, he saw that the leather bag was full of six hundred spirit stones containing true essence fluctuations. He felt that the elders of Ice Cloud Mountain Village were really good to their juniors.

"Young Master Zongzheng." As soon as Zhou Qing stepped out of the storeroom, Miaoyin came to greet him.

"Miaoyin, the clan chief said that after the ancestral recognition ceremony, I will be able to move around freely. Can you take me around?" Zhou Qing nodded.

"Consider this your payment!"

As he spoke, he took out two Yuan Stones, each the size of a baby's fist, from the leather bag Gu and handed them to Miaoyin.

"Young Master Zongzheng, Miaoyin can't accept this!" Miaoyin's eyes lit up as she looked at the Yuan Stone in her hand, but she still forced herself to refuse. The Yuan Stone was too precious, and Young Master Zongzheng had just returned to the clan and probably didn't know how valuable it was.

"What's this? Just follow me and you'll have a good life from now on!" Zhou Qing stuffed the Yuan Stone into Miao Yin's arms.

"Thank you, Young Master Zongzheng!" Miaoyin was delighted to see his firm attitude and felt that he was very manly. She happily put away the spirit stones.

Afterwards, Miaoyin led Zhou Qing on a tour of Bingyun Mountain Village for most of the day.

Except for areas where he couldn't enter freely, we took him to most other areas.

The village gate is located due south, and not far from the gate is the winding 'Niangwu Creek'.

To the due north is the back mountain, which is the residence of the clan chief. As for the elders, they mostly live on the mountain to the due west.

As for the area directly east of Bingyun Mountain Village, the forests there are teeming with low-level poisonous insects, making it a popular hunting and breeding ground for first-tier Gu masters and ordinary clansmen.

The ordinary people in Bingyun Mountain Village mainly make a living by hunting and herding, and secondly by farming. Terraced fields have been built on the mountains near the village, where crops such as rice are grown.

As darkness fell, Miaoyin led Zhou Qing into a dense forest to the east of the mountain stronghold. Suddenly, they heard a suppressed sound from the bushes ahead.

“This is…” Zhou Qing stopped, listened intently, and his expression instantly became strange.

“There is a natural hot spring over there, and many tribespeople go there to bathe. Sometimes, some people can’t help themselves and get into trouble near the hot spring.” Miaoyin’s face flushed, and her voice grew softer and softer.

"Oh~" Zhou Qing suddenly realized, not expecting these people to be so good at having fun.

"Would Young Master Zongzheng like to soak in the hot springs?" Miaoyin asked softly, her eyes sparkling.

Zhou Qing took a deep breath and looked at Miao Yin's charming face. She wasn't exactly a stunning beauty, but her voice was exceptional, incredibly alluring, and made one's heart itch. However, Zhou Qing didn't forget his business and shook his head.

"Next time."

"Yes," Miaoyin lowered her head.

After it got completely dark, Zhou Qing returned to his residence.

Since he has already acknowledged his ancestors and returned to his clan, he can no longer live in the back mountain.

Wanqi Zongyuan arranged a new place for him to stay, located in an elegant bamboo forest on the east side of the mountain stronghold. There weren't many neighbors nearby, which suited Zhou Qing's taste perfectly.

Upon returning to her residence, the servants had already cleaned the house. After Miaoyin made the bed, Zhou Qing dismissed her.

Then, he dumped several hundred spirit stones onto the bed.

"With these spirit stones, the Heavenly Fire Centipede eggs should hatch soon, and maybe we can even make further progress!" At this moment, Xuanzhu's voice rang in Zhou Qing's mind.

"That's wonderful!" Zhou Qing smiled broadly and immediately took out the Heavenly Fire Centipede Egg, causing the temperature in the entire room to rise instantly.

However, there was no one nearby, so no one noticed the strange phenomenon.

Although everything seems to be going well right now, Zhou Qing still prefers to be in control of everything.

Hatching the Heavenly Fire Centipede sooner will give us another trump card.

He held the Yuan Stone in his hand, and a gentle stream of true essence formed a connection with his body. He could absorb the true essence within it whenever he wanted.

"It has no attributes."

Zhou Qing discovered that the true essence within the Yuan Stones seemed to have no attribute distinctions, and although the quantity was small, the quality was very high.

He pressed the Yuan Stone close to the crystal formed from the Heavenly Fire Centipede egg, and soon, an invisible suction force emerged from the crystal.

In a short while, the Yuan Stone changed its appearance drastically, turning into an ordinary stone, and all the true essence inside was absorbed.

Zhou Qing then added more Yuan Stones.

In just three days, Zhou Qing used up more than four hundred spirit stones.

The eggs of the Heavenly Fire Centipede had also hatched ahead of schedule.

You have acquired a new Gu worm – the Heavenly Fire Centipede.

[Rank: Mid-grade, Tier 2]

[Heavenly Fire Centipede: A mutated Golden-backed Centipede that evolved into the Corpse Venom Centipede. It absorbed fire-attribute true essence and spiritual seeds, completing the process of yin giving rise to yang, and thus evolved. It needs to be fed with spirit stones and fire-attribute spiritual items.]

[Effect: Heavenly True Fire, Rebirth from the Ashes]

(End of this chapter)