All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 20 The Golden Silkworm (Please continue reading!)

Zhou Qing was washing the bloodstains from his hands and clothes by the mountain stream, his head bowed. The jade tablet in his soul flickered with light as he checked the growth progress of the Green Silk Gu.

[Progress: Mature Stage (246/800)]

"The health and vitality of three people only increased by a little over two hundred points?"

Zhou Qing frowned slightly.

As the Green Silk Gu continues to grow, it requires more and more Qi and blood, which is insufficient for ordinary people.

It requires a martial artist who has broken through the barrier and whose blood and qi are abundant.

The first person that came to Zhou Qing's mind when she thought of this was Zhang Jian.

Zhang Dahai and Zhang Cheng died one after another at his hands. Although no one noticed, Zhang Jian, as a martial artist in the Skin Refining Realm, might not be reasonable.

"I just hope he doesn't bother me."

Zhou Qing took off his shirt and rubbed off the bloodstains.

Then, he draped his wet shirt over the basket behind him, exposing his upper body.

Zhou Qing looked down at himself. Compared to how thin he was just over half a month ago, he had gained some weight recently, but he still didn't have any obvious muscle definition.

"We still need to eat."

Zhou Qing sighed inwardly and picked up the basket.

At this moment, the thin strand of qi and blood in his chest had grown to the thickness of half a little finger.

At this rate, it will probably take another two months or so to break through and enter the Skin Refining Realm.

It's a bit slow.

Zhou Qing looked back towards the area above the halfway point on the mountain, where the morning mist was thick.

Further up, there was a bright yellow miasma spreading irregularly.

"We can't go down the mountain yet; today's task isn't finished."

Zhou Qing searched for poisonous insects along the mountainside.

He waited until nearly noon, when his clothes were starting to dry, before carrying a jar of poisonous insects down the mountain.

"Bah!"

As Zhou Qinggang reached the foot of the mountain and passed a grove of false persimmon trees, two thumb-sized green caterpillars suddenly fell from the treetops, which were over ten meters high, and landed directly in the bushes beside him.

"This is."

Zhou Qing approached to examine it, then picked up the caterpillar-like creature in front of him with his fingers.

The caterpillar-like creature in front of me was entirely emerald green, with a white linear pattern running down its back.

"Why does it look a bit like a silkworm?"

Zhou Qing frowned slightly. Apart from its color, the caterpillar-like creature in front of him was very similar to a silkworm, giving him a sense of déjà vu.

"Could it be a wild silkworm?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

There are many creatures in this world that existed in a previous life, but there are also many that did not exist in a previous life.

"Erqing, go up and see if there are any left up there."

Zhou Qing looked up at the fake persimmon tree, which was over ten meters tall, and gave instructions to the Green Silk Gu.

Whoosh!
The Green Silk Gu appeared on Zhou Qing's shoulder, spitting out a silk thread more than ten meters long, which pierced the top of the tree trunk. Then it retracted the silk thread and its body shot up.

A moment later, the Green Silk Gu used its silk threads to entangle more than a dozen green caterpillar creatures, which then fell to the ground.

"Are they really wild silkworms?"

Zhou Qing stepped forward and discovered several pale golden silkworm cocoons among the silk threads of the Green Silk Gu.

"The pale gold threads... don't they look a bit like amber silkworms?"

Zhou Qing recalled a type of silkworm from his previous life, except that the cocoons of the amber silkworm were generally golden yellow, a darker color.

However, the world is different now, so it's not surprising that silkworm varieties have changed.

"How many silkworm cocoons and golden silkworms are left on the tree?" Zhou Qing hurriedly asked Qing Si Gu, having already given these silkworms a name.

If this pale golden silk thread were used to make silk, its natural, aristocratic color alone would command a price several times higher than that of ordinary mulberry silk.

"Puff."

"Dozens of silkworm cocoons and golden silkworms?!"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

"Bring all the silkworm cocoons down here!"

"Pfft!"

Upon hearing this, the Green Silk Gu returned to the top of the tree trunk, used silk threads to lower silkworm cocoons one by one, then cut off pieces of fake persimmon leaves and placed them at the bottom of the basket before feeding the amber silkworms into the basket one by one.

"Good job!"

Zhou Qing's face lit up with joy.

Today was truly a fruitful day.

Zhou Qing took out a pale golden silkworm cocoon, found the end of the thread, and straightened the silk. "Such high toughness!"

Zhou Qing tried to pull the silkworm thread with all her might, but found that she couldn't break it.

After the silkworms at home ate the Green Silk Gu's poop, although the silkworms' silk became more resilient, it could still break if you used a lot of force. But this time, even when he used all his strength, he couldn't break the silkworm in front of him.

"The intensity is also very high!"

Next, Zhou Qing tried to cut the silk with a sickle, which required seven or eight consecutive slides to cut the silk.

Although his scythe wasn't very sharp, the silk's toughness and strength should be enough to make gauntlets and inner armor.

"If we let the Green Silk Gu devour the Golden Silk Silkworm, and then let the Golden Silk Silkworm eat its excrement, evolving like a silkworm, the toughness and strength of the silk should be even better!"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

Both of their life-or-death battles so far have been fought primarily through surprise attacks.

If it were a head-on confrontation, there's no guarantee that one wouldn't get hurt.

In this kind of world, the competition for resources will inevitably become more intense as you go up in society, and fighting with others is a given.

We must have means to protect ourselves and plan ahead.

"The silk from ordinary golden silkworms is sold, while the silk from evolved silkworms is kept for personal use."

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing immediately directed the Green Silk Gu to get to work.

"Erqing, look again! Pick more leaves from the false persimmon tree."

"Pfft, pfft!" The Green Silk Gu knew that no meal was free, so it worked very hard, its sharp silk threads cutting off the leaves of the fake persimmon tree.

Zhou Qing stood under the tree collecting leaves from the false persimmon tree and putting them into a basket.

Once the nearby trees had been almost harvested, the Green Silk Gu ran off to a distant place to search for Golden Silkworms and silkworm cocoons.

In a short while, more than two hundred pale golden silkworm cocoons and more than four hundred golden silkworms appeared in Zhou Qing's basket.

The reason there are so few is because there are many ants on the tree attacking the silkworms.

"Damn it!"

Zhou Qing frowned deeply.

"Pfft!" Sensing Zhou Qing's displeasure, the Green Silk Gu immediately launched a massacre of the ants on the tree.

Once all the ants on the dozen or so nearby trees had been eliminated, Zhou Qing stopped the use of the Green Silk Gu.

Anyway, there are six or seven hundred silkworm cocoons and golden silkworms in the basket, which is enough for breeding.

Zhou Qing let the Green Silk Gu return to his body, then carried a basket of fake persimmon leaves down the mountain.

"Grandma, I'm back."

When Zhou Qing returned home, his grandmother was sitting on a small stool in the yard, sewing cloth shoes with multiple layers of soles.

"Aqing is back." When the old woman saw Zhou Qing carrying a full basket of leaves, she put down her cloth shoes to go and greet her.

Zhou Qing avoided the area, went into the silkworm room on the right side of the main house, took out a few empty silkworm baskets, put the silkworms on them, and covered them with a layer of relatively dry fake persimmon leaves.

Next, place the golden silkworm cocoons into the square cluster and wait for the silkworm pupae to emerge from the cocoons, mate, and lay eggs.

"Aqing, dinner's ready! I steamed some white flour buns."

At that moment, the old woman's voice rang out from the main house.

"They're here!" Zhou Qing closed the doors and windows of the silkworm room and went into the main room.

On the square table, a pottery jar contained a plate of braised rooster, and next to it, a large bowl was piled with steaming white steamed buns.

Zhou Qing's appetite was whetted. He didn't care about the heat and picked up a steamed bun and stuffed it into his mouth. Then he picked up a chicken leg and put it into the old lady's bowl, and then he started sucking on the chicken head.

"It's so fragrant!"

"Grandma, with your skills, you could easily open a restaurant!"

Zhou Qing gave a thumbs up.

"Eat more!" The old woman smiled kindly on her wrinkled face.

At this moment, Zhou Qing noticed that the silk reeling machine behind the old woman had been cleaned.

"Grandma, you know how to weave, can you make boxing gloves?" Zhou Qing asked.

"I've made quite a few clothes, but I've never made gloves, though I can give it a try." The old woman nodded.

"That's great. I'll have to trouble Grandma to make me some boxing gloves later," Zhou Qing said seriously.

"I just hope you don't think I'm useless as an old woman," the old woman joked.

"How could that be?" Zhou Qing said with a smile, and put another chicken wing on the old lady's plate.

A month has passed quietly.

Having been in this world for over two months, with her grandmother by her side, Zhou Qing felt for the first time that time had flown by.

With someone to share the household chores, he can focus more on earning money and practicing martial arts.

And so, he spent the most fulfilling month of his life.

PS: Chapter 2 is still at 8 PM.

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