In my twilight years of cultivating, I became a Supreme Daoist of the Longevity Path

Chapter 34: 031: Cultivate the Golden Silkworm Gu, Practice in a Blessed Land_1 Chapter 34: 031: Cultivate the Golden Silkworm Gu, Practice in a Blessed Land_1 The method to refine the Golden Silkworm Gu is to separately collect a Golden Silkworm, a centipede, a small snake, a millipede, an ant, a poisonous bee, a cicada, and an earthworm—altogether twelve kinds of poisonous insects.

Along with the refiner’s own hair, they are dried and ground into powder, fed to the live Golden Silkworm, and placed before a Plague Tool, buried at an extremely spiritually energized crossroads.

After seventy-four cycles of forty-nine days, it is removed and stored in specially made censers, and the Golden Silkworm Gu comes into being.

This method of gu refining, is is recorded in detail in the Gu Refining Manual.

However, even with the Manual, Luo Bing failed to refine a Golden Silkworm Gu.

After more than a dozen tries, each ended in a failure.

At the end of the day, Luo Bing simply was not proficient in using various methods of gu refining.

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Chen Dengming was different.

While he had only recently broken through to become a cultivator, he had already immersed himself in the business of gu refining for decades when he was in the secular world.

Not only was he proficient in gu refining, but he was also familiar with the various minute changes of gu worms and able to adjust them at just the right moment.

This was all about experience.

It had nothing to do with his power level and was something Luo Bing lacked.

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At this moment.

Inside one of the Luo Family’s courtyard homes.

Chen Dengming was busy working with Xu Wei, grinding more than a dozen dead poisonous creatures into powder on one side and guiding Xu Wei on the nuances of the Gu Refining Secret on the other side.

To go to the ends of the earth for someone’s sake is to send the Buddha to the West (an idiom meaning to see things through to the end).

Tutoring Xu Wei in the secrets of the Gu Refining Secret, he hoped that Xu Wei could display some talents in this area.

If he could finally remain in the Luo Family because of this, it would be the best outcome, and his own troubles would naturally be resolved.

Of course, Chen Dengming had his own selfish reasons as well.

If Xu Wei could stay in the Luo Family, then he would have a trusted confidant within the Luo Family.

No matter the status or position of this confidant within the Luo Family, at least on some occasions, they will provide some help.

After all, the Luo Family was the overlord of the entire Loose Cultivators gathering place.

And he would spend a considerable time cultivating and surviving in this gathering place in the future.

Having this trusted person, Xu Wei, stay in the Luo Family would only be beneficial to him and cause no harm.

Xu Wei, who had struggled long and hard at the bottom of the ladder was not disappointing.

Although he was initially somewhat fearful of the horrifying poisonous creatures, he was able to grit his teeth and bear the discomfort to work alongside Chen Dengming.

Gradually, his hands also grew skilled.

Chen Dengming watched with satisfaction in his eyes and his heart.

He knew very well that, perhaps now somewhere, Miss Luo Family—Luo Bing was observing him from afar.

Perhaps she also noticed Xu Wei’s performance.

However, Xu Wei’s current performance was not remarkably good, but there’s a long way to go, and refining the Golden Silkworm Gu was not a task that could be completed within a day.

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After two sticks of incense had burned.

Twelve types of poisonous creatures had successfully been ground into powder.

Chen Dengming then called for Xi’er, and informed her of the requirements for the next step.

“The next step requires hair from our young miss.

I understand this, but why does it need essence blood?”

Upon hearing Chen Dengming’s, Xi’er frowned, looking displeased.

Chen Dengming smiled and explained, “The need for essence blood is a refinement method I have personally researched and explored.

It’s not recorded in the Gu Refining Manual, but this method can increase the success rate of refining the Gu.

Also, the Gu that is refined becomes more in sync with its owner’s spirit and mind.”

Xi’er frowned and said uncertainly, “Your own research?

Humph, you’re just an Outer Sect Primary Stage Cultivator.

You’re claiming you’re able to move beyond the Gu Refining Manual and research even better methods?”

Chen Dengming shrugged, “We can proceed without the essence blood, but I suspect that both opportunities will fail.”

The so-called first-rate individual doesn’t need instruction, the second-rate can get by with verbal instruction, while the third-rate needs to be taught with a rod.

Those who can learn by analogy are always a minority.

Whether it’s martial arts cultivation, dao cultivation, or Gu refining, it’s all the same.

Though he may not be talented in martial arts, he understood them quite well and eventually incorporated the strengths of hundreds of schools to create the Chen Clan Martial Arts Guidelines.

The same goes for Gu refining.

He is extremely perceptive, able to combine the Gu Refining Secret with the habits of numerous poisonous creatures to ponder and develop a ‘Blood-Refinement Method’ beyond the Gu Refining Secret.

These realizations and experiences are his own.

He had given the Gu Refining Manual to many Immortal Masters, but whether any of them could comprehend and realize any other methods of Gu refining beyond what’s in the Gu Refining Manual remained a mystery.

It is similar to a copy of The Art of War by Sun Tzu.

Some read it and understand nothing, while others who read it could apply it flexibly.

At this moment, Xi’er trembled as if she had heard a message.

She glanced at Chen Dengming and said, “The miss commanded that you can use your own hair and essence blood.

But remember, if it fails this time, the essence blood and hair to be used next will still be yours.

You only have these two chances.”

“Fairy Luo, she is quite cautious…”

Chen Dengming thought to himself, but didn’t seem bothered.

A cultivator’s essence blood is profoundly crucial.

It’s like an identification card in his previous life.

In the hands of those with ill intentions, a lot of mischief can be caused.

If someone he didn’t quite know asked to borrow his ID, he naturally wouldn’t lend it out easily.

“Master Chen, how about…

using mine?”

At the side, Xu Wei’s beautiful eyes blinked, extending her snow-white slender wrist from her sleeve, and looked at Chen Dengming.

She naturally knew the importance of the essence of blood, but she trusted Chen Dengming and did not want him to struggle at this critical moment.

Furthermore, she believed that even if there were any risks, she was ready to take them on.

Chen Dengming glanced at Xu Wei, smiled, and said, “No need, this is my first time attempting to refine the Golden Silkworm Gu.

It’s safer to use mine.”

After saying this, he fed a small portion of the ground poison powder mixed with his hair to the prepared Golden Silkworm.

The Golden Silkworm was only half a finger’s size, chubby, its skin was faint gold, and it had a sort of translucent body.

One could clearly see the fat and tiny blood vessels inside its body.

At this point, the Golden Silkworm didn’t even have sharp teeth.

Feeding it with ground powder of poison corpses at this stage, the Golden Silkworm could very well die immediately.

But Chen Dengming exercised the brilliant technique from the “Gu Refining Manual”.

A strand of delicate spiritual energy seeped into the Golden Silkworm’s body, like a precise surgical blade operating and assisting the Golden Silkworm in quickly refining and absorbing the poison powder.

In an instant, the originally pale golden Golden Silkworm swelled up, its whole body turned black-green, and its vitality was withering.

On the other side of the drum tower, Luo Bing’s cold eyes focused slightly, her gaze fixated on Chen Dengming and the Golden Silkworm.

Previously, she had failed at this step during refining more than a dozen times.

The Golden Silkworm was poisoned to death, wasting materials for no reason.

However, at this moment, she saw Chen Dengming bite his tongue, drop some of his blood essence onto the Golden Silkworm, and then seemingly cast some technique.

The Golden Silkworm actually calmed down.

She couldn’t help but knit her brows slightly.

“Could it be…

the key is actually the unique Gu refining method he created?”

In the courtyard, Chen Dengming gazed at the Golden Silkworm, which had regained its calm, though its aura was somewhat languishing, and heaved a sigh of relief.

He carefully picked up the Golden Silkworm and walked to the crossroads in the courtyard.

He placed the Plague God Statue, a pestilence magic artifact prepared by the Luo Family, toward the south.

Then he drew a simple, small Gu refining area on the ground and placed a low-grade spirit stone.

In a flash, a subtle and peculiar field of energy pervaded a small range, and strands of Gu poison aura seeped out of the Plague God Statue artifact.

Chen Dengming carefully placed the Golden Silkworm within this field.

The toxins and bloodstains on the Golden Silkworm’s body quickly turned transparent and it slowly fell asleep.

“Forty-nine days…

I hope that everything goes smoothly every day…”

Chen Dengming gave a faint smile, calmly looking at the status of the “Gu Refining Manual” in the display panel.

“The Gu Refining Manual”: (1/100)

When refining common Gus like the snake Gu, stone Gu, etc., the proficiency level of “The Gu Refining Manual” would always remain the same, no matter what.

At this moment, just after refining the Golden Silkworm Gu, a point of proficiency has been added.

In the following forty-nine days, he will come daily to nurse the Golden Silkworm.

During this time, a point of proficiency will steadily increase each day.

After the Golden Silkworm Gu is refined, another wave of proficiency will be added, which may break through the proficiency of “The Gu Refining Manual”.

This was also the reason why he was willing to refine the Golden Silkworm Gu for Fairy Luo.

Others provided materials and a refining space for him to practice.

It couldn’t get more comfortable.

Now, even the Golden Silkworm Gu might belong to him due to the blood refinement.

This was too good of a deal, but it was only a one-time opportunity.

He looked at Xu Wei standing beside him and said, “Next, I need to trouble you to frequently check the Golden Silkworm’s condition.

Use the methods I taught you to observe.

If any abnormal situation arises, you must notify me immediately.”

Xu Wei immediately bowed in acknowledgment, “Yes, Master Chen.”

Chen Dengming nodded in satisfaction and strode towards an open pavilion on the other side.

Indeed, his invitation for Xu Wei to come to the Luo Family was to resolve her difficulty.

Whether she can ultimately stay in the Luo Family, though, depends on her own fate and luck.

A beauty presents me with a golden knife, how could I repay her with a precious jade pendant?

Xu Wei owed him a favor, and this time he had repaid it.

For the next period of time, he would be living here.

To him, this was an event of fate since he arrived in the Cultivation World.

Compared to many cultivators in the congregation still fighting for a residence with good spiritual energy, the Luo Family, which possesses a level-one spirit vein, was heaven.

He had to seize every moment to cultivate here, striving to quickly reach the second level of Qi Cultivation.

In addition, he couldn’t neglect the practice of techniques such as the Fireball Technique and the Instrument Control Skill…

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