All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 52 Species Purple Fire Ants

Zhou Qing went home first, then picked up a basket and went out of the yard.

"Aqing is so diligent!"

"That's right. I heard that Aqing has already broken through the barrier and become a martial artist. If she becomes a martial master in the future, then she'll be the master!"

"Master Wu?! Whoever follows Ah Qing will probably be able to enjoy a life of luxury every day."

"Aunt Li, don't you have a niece? Why don't you introduce her to Aqing?"

"In another hour, it will probably be completely dark. The mountains at night are not safe."

The people of Xin'an Lane couldn't help but sigh when they saw Zhou Qing still going up the mountain to pick mulberry leaves in the evening.

Seeing this, several women grabbed him and offered to arrange marriages for him.

However, Zhou Qing said he had no such intention and only wanted to practice martial arts properly.

Upon hearing this, everyone praised his ambition. They told him that if he ever became a martial arts master, he shouldn't forget his neighbors.

Zhou Qing readily agreed, but inwardly he was somewhat disdainful.

People are used to adding flowers to brocade, but how many will offer charcoal in the snow?

During those difficult times, only a handful of families were willing to lend him rice; others treated him like a plague god when he came to their door.

When he first decided to take care of his grandmother, some people laughed at him.

Now that he's doing better and better, he's trying to get involved.

The instinct to seek advantage and avoid harm is human nature, there's nothing more to say about it.

If things really get better in the future, Zhou Qing will choose to leave with his grandmother.

The courtyard and silkworm house can be given directly to Uncle Liang's family next door.

Zhou Qing arrived at the foot of Black Wind Mountain.

[To the north.]

The closer they were, the clearer their telepathic connection became.

“A leeward slope, huh?” Zhou Qing frowned slightly.

Heishan Town faces the south side of Heifeng Mountain, which is the windward slope.

The leeward slope is the north side of Black Wind Mountain, and Zhou Qing has to go around to get up the mountain.

Zhou Qing had a deep impression of the dark figure waving at him in the fog on the leeward slope last time.

"But I'm not the same person I was last time."

Zhou Qing breathed a sigh of relief.

However, just to be on the safe side, he went to the grove of fake persimmon trees at the foot of the mountain and took away three golden silkworms to serve as scouts.

A moment later, Zhou Qing ran up the steep North Mountain and arrived at the dense forest near the mountainside.

As evening approached, the fog thickened, the humidity increased, and the air became somewhat chilly, accompanied by gusts of mountain wind.

The area above the mountainside was covered by a large expanse of bright yellow miasma.

As the miasma slowly spread and moved, it seemed as if a terrifying demon was stretching in its sleep.

Zhou Qing released two golden silkworms to patrol, leaving the king of the golden silkworms behind.

"Pfft!"

At this moment, Erqing flew out from behind the slope in the dense forest.

Zhou Qing climbed up the slope and found a large tree, as thick as a person's embrace, lying in the bushes behind him. The trunk was rotten and hollow on both sides, and was densely covered with tiny insects the size of rice grains, similar to ants.

“This is a rove beetle? No, it’s missing its wings.” Zhou Qing’s gaze sharpened.

The insects here resemble ants in appearance, with black heads, filamentous antennae, and pale purple prothorax and abdomen, while the rove beetle's prothorax and abdomen are generally orange-red or orange-yellow, and it has a pair of wings.

The reason Zhou Qing remembers it so clearly is because when he was a child in his hometown, he killed several rove beetles.

That evening, the area where the rove beetle's body fluids had come into contact with the site of a severe infection, resulting in ulcers, pus discharge, and unbearable itching. He was immediately rushed to a major hospital for emergency treatment.

Of course, his situation is a particularly serious one.

The trauma this thing inflicted on him will haunt him for the rest of his life.

"Such a large number indicates a strong reproductive capacity."

Zhou Qing took out a long knife from the basket and slashed at the part of the tree trunk where the poisonous insects were most concentrated.

He cut the tree trunk open and stirred it inside with a knife.

In an instant, tens of thousands of poisonous insects crawled onto the blade, and even more insects gathered towards him.

"hiss!"

At this moment, a large, bright red centipede, more than a foot long, crawled out of the basket, came to Zhou Qing's feet, raised its upper body, and issued a warning.

However, the poisonous insects were not afraid of it at all.

As if provoked, Crimson Flame charged into the swarm of poisonous insects.

In an instant, a series of crisp, crackling sounds rang out. Crimson Flame's body moved like a bulldozer, crushing a swarm of poisonous insects with just a few flips. Hundreds of its legs, like sharp knives, slithered and reaped the lives of a large number of poisonous insects.

But these poisonous insects were completely unfazed. They attacked Crimson Flame almost by stepping over the corpses of their companions.

"hiss--!"

As a swarm of poisonous insects charged forward, a "crunching" sound emanated from Crimson Flame's body.

Zhou Qing stared intently, and couldn't help but feel surprised.

These venomous insects are not strong individually, but they are extremely ferocious.

Its mouthparts bit into the carapace and legs of the Crimson Flame, snapping them off.

But countless venomous insects relentlessly bit at the same spot, and Crimson Flame was finally breached. Cracks appeared on the edge of its carapace, and several of its legs were bitten off.

In pain, Crimson Flame spat out a bluish-black venom.

As soon as these venomous insects come into contact with the venom, their entire bodies begin to hiss and smoke, turning into pus within moments.

However, Crimson Flame's venom was limited, and it gradually lost ground.

If they cannot escape, it is only a matter of time before they are killed and devoured by these poisonous insects.

"Erqing, help your little brother." Zhou Qing pursed his lips at Erqing, who was standing to the side.

"Pfft!"

The Green Silk Gu immediately flew down, its thumb-sized body rapidly expanding in mid-air into a green caterpillar over a foot long.

It curled its body into a ball, and the fur on its back stood up like steel needles.

Click click click.
Erqing rolled into the swarm of poisonous insects, circling around Chiyan like a wheel, crushing a large number of insects to death.

Taking advantage of this gap, Chi Yan escaped the encirclement and scrambled to Zhou Qing's back, his previous arrogance gone.

"That's enough, leave a little bit."

Zhou Qing spoke up.

Erqing immediately launched himself forward and jumped onto a tree trunk to the side.

At this moment, the ground was covered with a dense mass of dead poisonous insects.

"Buzz!"

The King of Golden Silkworms flew out from Zhou Qing's sleeve and landed in the pile of insect corpses.

However, it didn't start eating right away, but instead faced Erqing, as if seeking its opinion.

"I really can't tell the difference between the king and the queen." Zhou Qing shook his head inwardly.

Of the Gu worms on his body, only Erqing possessed extremely high intelligence, and only Chiyan was slightly smarter.

The King of Golden Silkworms is clearly a Gu worm, yet he's still a complete idiot.

"Pfft, pfft." Erqing asked Zhou Qing for his opinion, clearly looking down on these poisonous insects.

"It's your decision," Zhou Qing nodded.

"Pfft!"

Erqing raised his head, and Chiyan and the King of Golden Silkworms immediately rushed into the pile of poisonous insect corpses and began to eat.

At this moment, Zhou Qing used his knife to pry open the tree trunk, revealing a hole in the ground. A continuous stream of poisonous insects crawled out of the hole, including a species that was extremely similar to the two-toothed spiny ant.

"Could it be that there are beings similar to queen ants down there as well?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up, and he understood why these poisonous insects were fighting so desperately.

"Erqing".

Zhou Qing simply called out, and Er Qing immediately crawled into the hole.

In a short while, it pulled out a much larger poisonous insect with its silk thread. Its upper body was the shape of a normal ant, while its abdomen was as big as a thumb.

A large number of poisonous insects tried to come to the rescue of the 'Queen Ant', but they were no match for Zhou Qing.

At this moment, following the method recorded in the Gu Refining Manual, Zhou Qing dripped a drop of blood onto the 'Queen Ant's' body.

The next moment, a magical scene happened.

His blood actually seeped directly into the 'Queen Ant's' body.

You've acquired a new mutant species—the Purple Fire Ant Queen.

[Purple Fire Ant Queen: A hybrid species formed from the cross between red imported fire ants and purple-waisted insects, possessing the potential to become a Gu worm.]

"Good job!"

Zhou Qing was generous with his praise for Erqing; its seven days of hard work had finally paid off.

As the Purple Fire Ant Queen absorbed Zhou Qing's blood, a faint connection appeared in Zhou Qing's heart.

However, he seems unable to control the Queen Purple Fire Ant now.

However, once he had Erqing release the queen ant, the other purple fire ants did not gather around him.

"It seems that as long as we continue to feed the queen ant, we can control the infighting among the ant colonies through the queen ant."

Half a month passed quietly, and Zhou Qing, who had worked hard, also reaped the rewards.

(End of this chapter)