All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 27 Cold Pool, Gu Stone (Please continue reading!)

"Erqing, come out."

Once She Quanyi disappeared from sight, Zhou Qing silently recited a prayer.

A palm-sized, bright green caterpillar appeared on Zhou Qing's shoulder.

"Are you sure there's no danger up there?" Zhou Qing asked.

"Puff puff!" The Green Silk Gu indicated that it would follow, and there was nothing to be afraid of.

The next moment, the Green Silk Gu shot out from his shoulder.

“Okay.” Zhou Qing nodded.

He followed the Green Silk Gu up the slope, and as he walked, he opened the gourd at his left waist and spilled out a little blackish-red liquid.

Zhou Qing doesn't have any photographic memory.

Moreover, the mountain was shrouded in fog, resulting in very low visibility.

Relying solely on memory, if you make a mistake in remembering a step, you might end up at the foot of the mountain.

He simply marked the way with venom, and when he returned, the Green Silk Gu would naturally guide him in the right direction.

After walking this road many times, I'll probably be able to remember it completely.

Zhou Qing climbed the gentle slope, and through the mist, the steep stone wall became visible.

Guided by the Green Silk Gu, Zhou Qing jogged along the way.

Soon, after passing through the lush vegetation, Zhou Qing saw a cave less than two meters in diameter.

The Green Silk Gu burrowed straight inside.

Zhou Qing followed him inside.

The further you go in, the wider the gaps in the cave become.

However, when they were halfway there, they came to a fork in the road with three paths: left, middle, and right.

The Green Silk Gu paused for a moment, and only after Zhou Qing arrived did it slip into the rightmost fork in the road.

After walking nearly a hundred meters down the rightmost fork in the road, Zhou Qing suddenly found himself in a wide-open space.

He appeared in a huge underground cavern.

It was pitch black all around, and the perceived temperature dropped sharply, as if we had suddenly gone from spring into late autumn.

Zhou Qing lit a tinderbox, dispelling the darkness around him.

"Pfft!"

The Green Silk Gu plunged into the darkness.

Zhou Qing followed, and what came into view was a deep pool. The emerald green water was bottomless, and a chill emanated from the pool.

"Hey!"

The Green Silk Gu stood by the pool and suddenly spat out silk threads, shooting them into the water.

The next moment, it retracted its silk thread and entangled itself around a bright yellow stone.

Upon seeing this, Zhou Qing took the stone, took a closer look, and his expression immediately changed.

"This is."

Inside the amber-like stone was a green, caterpillar-like creature about the size of a thumb, very similar to the Green Silk Gu from before.

You have obtained a new job advancement material – Gu Stone.

The Gu worm is dead and cannot be refined.

"Puff."

At this moment, the Green Silk Gu said there were more below.

“Keep looking, and you can eat them all!” Zhou Qing replied.

"Puff!!"

Upon hearing this, the Green Silk Gu became even more energetic and spat out silk threads once more.

However, a sudden change occurred.

As soon as its silk threads were released into the deep pool, the water began to bubble.

"thump!"

A powerful force struck, pulling the Green Silk Gu directly into the pool.

Zhou Qing's expression changed, and he reached out to grab it, but it was too late to catch the Green Silk Gu.

After a few breaths, the Green Silk Gu resurfaced on the surface of the water.

Zhou Qing circulated his qi and blood, and his palm turned ashen. He reached out and scooped it up.

The moment my hand touched the pool water, I felt an icy chill.

In such a short time, the Green Silk Gu's body was covered in frost.

"Puff puff!"

The Green Silk Gu trembled its somewhat stiff body and immediately complained to Zhou Qing.

"You mean there's another live Gu worm down there? It says this is its territory?!" Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

"Pfft—!" Two eyes the size of broad beans bulged out from the head of the Green Silk Gu, which nodded repeatedly in a human-like manner.

"This"

The water in this pool was so strange that Zhou Qing dared not go down into it.

"You're no match for me?" Zhou Qing asked.

"Pfft!" The Green Silk Gu immediately deflated, indicating that it couldn't win down below unless the Gu worm came out.

"Will this thing be useful to you?" Zhou Qing took out the Gu Stone.

"Pfft!" The Green Silk Gu indicated that it was effective, and there were quite a few in the pool.

"And what about this pool of water? Is it Jiuquan?" Zhou Qing asked again, smelling the faint, pungent odor on his hands that were wet with the pool water.

"Pfft?" The Green Silk Gu was a little confused. It felt that the water was useful, but it was not used to the coldness of the pool.

"What about that Gu worm? Is it also a Green Silk Gu like yours?"

"Pfft!"

The Green Silk Gu said that half of the other party's body was like its own, while the other half was white. It had no blood or toxins in its body, only pure alcohol.

"Is that so?" Zhou Qing's eyes flickered.

Recent events made him feel that Zhou Xian obtaining the Green Silk Gu was not an accident.

Even if you tell him that a Gu master raises Gu using human bodies, it doesn't seem like an impossible thing.

"So, if we have alcohol, could we use it to draw it out?"

Zhou Qing asked himself again.

"Pfft, pfft." The Green Silk Gu was somewhat uncertain.

Its memories of being inside Zhou Xian's body were already very vague. Before, it basically acted on instinct. It only became much smarter after coming into contact with the jade tablet.

As for itself, it is no longer interested in alcohol; it only likes the taste of toxins and blood.

"How about this, you ask it if you can make a deal to give us more Gu stones, and I'll bring it wine next time I come," Zhou Qing thought to himself.

"Puff puff!" The Green Silk Gu indicated that going down was a bit dangerous and was ready to pull it back with its silk threads at any time.

As it spoke, it spit out a silk thread, which wrapped around Zhou Qing's grayish-white palm, and then leaped into the pool.

After a dozen or so breaths, the silk thread in Zhou Qing's hand trembled slightly, and he quickly pulled the Green Silk Gu up with all his might.

At this moment, a layer of ice had formed on the surface of the Green Silk Gu. Zhou Qing put it in his pocket and warmed it for a while before it regained its temperature.

"Pfft!"

The Green Silk Gu indicates that the Gu worms below are too stupid, unlike it which is so intelligent, making them difficult to communicate with.

The Gu worm indicated that the Gu Stone could be taken, but it was forbidden to approach the pool water again.

Chi!
The Green Silk Gu spat out silk threads and retrieved seven Gu stones from the cold pool.

Unfortunately, all the Gu worms inside were already dead.

"That's all?!" Zhou Qing exclaimed when he saw the Green Silk Gu stop moving.
"Pfft, pfft, pfft."

After Zhou Qing collected the eight Gu stones, the Green Silk Gu indicated that there were many more below, but it couldn't reach the deeper parts, and there was also a corpse below.

"A corpse?!" Zhou Qing's expression changed.

Could he be a Gu Master?
"Down here"

Zhou Qing stared at the seemingly bottomless pool, at a loss for what to do.

"Today's harvest has been great enough."

Zhou Qing comforted herself.

He emptied the two gourds he had brought with him, filled them with water from the pool, and then got up and left without hesitation.

If we don't go down the mountain soon, it will get dark.

He would come again if given the chance.

Zhou Qing returned via the same route.

When they reached the halfway point, the area that was originally shrouded in fog was now covered by miasma.

If an ordinary mountain dweller were to inhale so much miasma, they would either fall seriously ill or die on the spot.

Even martial artists with strong qi and blood cannot stay there for long.

Zhou Qing, however, seemed oblivious, strolling leisurely through the miasma area and descending the mountain to return home.

After locking the silkworm house, he took out eight bright yellow Gu stones and two gourds filled with pool water.

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Shortly after Zhou Qing took out the Gu Stone, some of the golden silkworms that were spinning silk and forming cocoons suddenly showed unusual behavior.

The silkworms stopped spinning silk and crawled out of the square cluster.

And the silkworm cocoons that had already formed began to tremble.

"This is."

(End of this chapter)