dognovel Chapter 367 King Gu Tianlong
Chapter 367 King Gu Tianlong
Last time we talked about Qingluo's reincarnation being Lan Ze, so how will Li Yi repay this debt of love between two lives? Let's read on.
Qu Xia helped her master feed all the silkworms, but Li Yi was still asleep. Qu Xia kicked the door open and shouted, "That's enough. You still want to sleep until noon! If you don't get up and work, you won't have lunch!"
Li Yi rubbed his eyes and said, "I am so weak, your husband, I can't carry anything on my shoulders or lift anything with my hands. What else do you want me to do?"
Qu Xia threw a large basket onto the bed and shouted, "Go to the back hills and dig bamboo shoots!"
"Bamboo shoots? I've never dug them before, I don't know how!"
"Find a way yourself. Without bamboo shoots, there will be no food to eat! What are you standing there for? Go!"
Li Yi walked out of the room with a basket, looking confused, wondering how to dig bamboo shoots.
Qu Xia thought that this guy was going to do something bad again, so she said sternly, "Let me tell you, my master only eats things from this mountain. Don't even think about flying back to Xijing to buy bamboo shoots. My master can tell by eating them!"
Li Yi cursed in his heart: Can she even taste the vegetables from the mountains? This old woman is quite picky!
So, Li Yi came to the back mountain and dug for a long time without finding any bamboo shoots. Just when he was worried, he suddenly saw the panda Wuwei coming to the bamboo forest with its big butt twisted. He thought: What is this guy doing here? Isn't he here to dig bamboo shoots? Hehehe! An evil idea came to his mind.
Li Yi secretly followed Wuwei and watched the descendant of the panda king dig out a winter bamboo shoot from the ground. As soon as Wuwei peeled off the skin, he heard a strange sound. He immediately looked up and looked around for a long time without finding anything unusual. He was about to continue eating the bamboo shoot, but when he looked down, the bamboo shoot was gone!
Wuwei searched around but couldn't find any, so he angrily looked for other bamboo shoots, but they were all taken away by Li Yi. Who wouldn't be angry? Wuwei roared, and the shock wave flattened a bamboo forest!
However, something unexpected happened. A giant centipede ten feet long suddenly emerged from the ground. It had a deep red head with four tentacles, two pairs of fangs and a pair of tentacles. There was a strange symbol on its forehead. Its body was pitch black and covered with talismans, and it had a thousand pairs of sickle-like legs.
The righteous energy in Li Yi's body gave a strong reaction, telling him that this was a poisonous insect specially refined by the Witchcraft Cult, and it possessed a strength close to the extraordinary realm.
Wuwei watched helplessly as the giant centipede straightened its upper body and its four tentacles swung up and down and left and right. The whole bear was terrified. Fortunately, the centipede had no eyes and had to lock onto its prey by smell, which gave Wuwei time to react. The giant panda ran away, but Wuwei, with four legs, was obviously not as fast as the centipede with legs all over its body.
At the moment when the centipede's mandibles stretched out towards the tailless creature, Li Yi took action. He turned the measuring ruler into a long stick and knocked the centipede to the ground directly. The centipede's hard shell really surprised him.
At this time, Granny Landie landed in front of Wuwei, looked at the centipede coldly and said, "This is the King Gu Tianlong of the Wu Gu Cult, and its whole body is poisonous! Let me join hands with you to deal with it!"
Li Yi stretched out his hand to stop it and said: "Senior, just help me set up the barrier and don't let it escape. I want to use it to test my immortal body!" After that, a brown-red energy burst out from his body, and he jumped towards Wang Gu Tianlong, waving the long stick transformed from the measuring ruler.
The long stick in the air was extended to ten feet, and with one move, the centipede was embedded in the ground. However, it used a move of turning rivers and seas to directly wrap around the stick, and rushed towards Li Yi along the long stick. The latter retracted the stick and turned it into a spear, holding the king Gu's jaws and lifting it up, then turned around and stabbed the centipede's abdomen with a backhand spear.
Most centipedes have armor on their backs, and their abdomen is considered a weak point, but this Wang Gu Tianlong is obviously not an ordinary centipede. Li Yi's shot failed to penetrate its armor and only knocked it back.
Li Yi's move completely angered the King Gu. It burrowed into the ground the moment it landed, and in the blink of an eye it came out from under Li Yi's feet. Its sneak attack was definitely ineffective, after all, the righteousness was constantly giving Li Yi hints. The moment the King Gu jumped out of the ground, Li Yi had already jumped into the air and thrust his spear straight forward.
But Wang Gu actually used a pair of tentacles to hold the tip of Li Yi's spear. The latter smiled slightly, then extended the tip of the spear and stabbed it directly into its mouthparts. Unexpectedly, Wang Gu opened his mouth and sprayed venom!
Seeing this, Li Yi immediately raised his spear to his face, using the force to dodge, but Wang Gu turned over and chased him directly to spray poison. The dark green poison wave corroded all the vegetation, and in an instant, the bamboo forest was turned into a barren land. After a moment, Wang Gu closed his mouth and raised his head, using his tentacles to feel the surrounding situation.
A palm wind dispelled the poisonous fog, and Li Yi said coldly: "It seems that this is your killer move, but I can't let you destroy Qinglong Mountain." After that, he stretched out his hand and took out the Panlong pen from the sack, turned it into the size of a bucket pen, and mobilized spiritual energy, Buddhist Dharma, and righteous energy to condense purple-gold ink at the tip of the pen.
Wang Gu seemed to have sensed the danger and wanted to escape underground. However, Li Yi had already picked up the pen and wrote the word "Ding". He pushed with his right hand, and the word "Ding" turned into a giant dragon with golden horns, golden fins, blue body and purple belly and pounced towards Wang Gu.
The blue dragon wrapped around the centipede, with its body arranged in the shape of a Chinese character "定", with the dragon's head located at the dot of the Chinese character. It then turned into purple-gold ink and soaked into the centipede's body, completely locking up the King Gu Tianlong. The tentacles on the centipede's head kept stirring, and its legs were also moving all over its body, but it could not move forward a single step.
Li Yi walked up to it and said coldly: "If I didn't want to keep your body intact, I could have torn you to pieces. It's a bargain for you!" After that, he punched the centipede on the head, and the brown-red Qi base accompanied by the purple thunder penetrated its body directly. But there was no scene of a centipede dying but not stiff. This Wang Gu Tianlong died completely.
Granny Landie was surprised and asked, "How did you do that even though you were poisoned by Wang Gu?"
Li Yi waved his hand and smiled, "It's just a little trick that's not worth mentioning. I would like to ask you how the King Gu of the Wu Gu Cult came to your Qinglong Mountain, and what is this King Gu?"
Granny Landie walked to the body of Wang Gu Tianlong, pointed at the mark on its forehead and said, "This talisman is the Wang Gu Seal. The so-called Wang Gu is..."
Wang Gu is actually a sacrifice to the Gu God. The Wu Gu Cult holds a sacrificial ceremony every ten years, but after the ceremony, a secret ceremony is held with only the high priest and seven elders participating.
All members and believers of the Wu Gu Cult had to participate in the grand sacrificial ceremony, the purpose of which was naturally to gather the power of faith. The small sacrificial ceremony was a ritual to condense the power of faith into souls and offer them to the Gu God to help it recover its soul. The King Gu was the carrier of the power of faith.
The high priest first used witchcraft to seal the power of faith in the body of the King Gu, then forcibly merged the King Gu's soul with the power of faith, and then sacrificed it to the Gu God's clone at the bottom of the Tiger Leaping Gorge. Each sacrifice required four King Gu, namely Tianlong (centipede), Tianteng (venomous snake), Tianxie (scorpion) and Tian?蟗 (spider).
The process of selecting, refining, feeding and sacrificing these four king Gu was personally completed by the grand elder of the Wu Gu Cult. No one else was allowed to interfere, and each process had a very strict procedure.
Let's talk about selecting insects first. As mentioned before, five insects are placed in a jar, and the one that survives is a Gu. This is only the condition for selecting Gu. The selection of King Gu is much more complicated than this. Take the King Gu Tianlong, which is the centipede, as an example. The preliminary selection is to put fifty centipedes in a jar for ten days. Only the centipede king that eats the other forty-nine centipedes is eligible to enter the re-selection.
One thing to note here is that the other 49 centipedes must be eaten. Not bitten to death or poisoned to death, but eaten! This is a huge difference. Not only must they be poisonous, but they must also be ruthless!
During the re-selection, ten centipede kings are placed in the altar for one day. Only the one that has eaten the other nine centipede kings is eligible to enter the final selection. The final selection is to seal the five re-selected centipedes in the altar for one hour. Only those who have eaten the other four can become the parents of the King Gu!
What is chosen is not the King Gu, but the King Gu's parents! Such a centipede king is a male and a female, and they form a pair! The born baby centipedes are placed in a jar with their parents. Within ten days, the one who can eat all of his parents and brothers and sisters is the King Gu Tianlong!
Therefore, it would take at least a year or two to select the insects! After selecting the King Gu Tianlong, it would be refined immediately, which was a more complicated process. The elder would use his own blood to carve a spell on the King Gu, and use his mental power to urge the King Gu to mutate according to his wishes.
This mutation is not only about growing up, but also about the transformation of various parts of the body. In a sense, this is the direction that the Gu God Grass is looking for to evolve. The Gu God clone in the Tiger Gorge Abyss is not a complete body. After all, it has been struck by the Heavenly Dao many times and is already in tatters.
If the Gu God wants to be resurrected, he needs to transform into a pupa to reshape his body and soul, and the mutations of various King Gu are his adjustments to his new body. It can also be said that he is the most ambitious demon god who is always trying to break through himself.
When the Gu God is satisfied with the results of the mutation, it will enter the final stage of feeding, which is divided into two parts: insect feeding and human feeding:
The so-called insect breeding is to feed other insects to the King Gu. Not only the best and most poisonous insects should be used, but in order to maintain the nature of the King Gu, the Great Elder also drives the insects to besiege and fight against the King Gu when feeding. These insects are all trained adults. Every year, there will be the death of the King Gu and the insect training process, and then it starts all over again.
Human feeding is to feed the King Gu with human blood and spiritual power. All the prisoners punished by the Wu Gu Cult will become the King Gu's food. Of course, these people were originally well fed and well provided. When the King Gu eats, they will be given weapons and then thrown into the King Gu's lair.
Granny Landie looked at Wang Gu Tianlong in front of her and shook her head, saying, "Recently, some villagers came to me and asked if Wuwei had gone mad again. Many people's livestock had been eaten. At first I thought it was Wuwei who did it, but now it seems that this guy must have done it."
"Attacked livestock? Didn't it hurt anyone?"
Granny Lan Die looked at Li Yi and said seriously, "I know what you are planning. Our Tiancan Sect was originally separated from the Wu Gu Sect. The Wu Gu technique has a long history. Wu means a person who knows everything, and Gu means the most poisonous insect. The combination of the two makes the power even stronger.
In ancient times, every tribe had wizards and sorcerers. At first, sorcerers were more like doctors who treated illnesses, but as time went by, sorcery also changed. People who mastered both skills founded the witchcraft cult together.
Lei Zu, who founded our Tiancan Sect, was also one of the founders of Wu Gu Cult, so do you think I will help you deal with Wu Gu Cult? Tian Dao does want to eradicate Wu Gu Cult, but you should know what it really wants to deal with! Do you understand what I mean?"
Granny Landie was telling Li Yi not to be one-size-fits-all. The fact that the art of witchcraft had been passed down for thousands of years showed that there was nothing wrong with him. The principle of natural selection and the survival of the fittest was correct.
But the line between good and evil is not so clear sometimes. The simplest truth is that if carnivores do not kill, how can they survive? So whether killing is right or wrong cannot be defined in a simple sentence.
Li Yi bowed and said, "I understand. I will make a decision after I have a deeper understanding of the Wu Gu Cult. I plan to ask the villagers around Qinglong Mountain to see how much damage the King Gu has caused."
Grandma Landie nodded.
Li Yi strung the king Gu with a measuring ruler and put it into a sack. He also handed the three winter bamboo shoots that Wuwei had dug to Granny Landie and left. Qu Xia came and saw only Li Yi's back as he walked away. She was very unhappy.
Grandma Landie comforted her, "He has his mission, so just ignore him. He dug these winter bamboo shoots for you, and he even peeled them."
Wuwei roared when he saw the three winter bamboo shoots and ran towards the direction where Li Yi left.
"What happened to Wuwei?"
"Don't worry about it. Your natal silkworm has already spun a cocoon. No wonder you are in such a hurry to come back. I will guard the gate for you during this period. You can concentrate on your cultivation."