Moreover, he intends to take the Corpse Beetle King out of the Kunlun Origin Gate world and back to Mo City, so he needs to be able to control the Corpse Beetle King completely, make it 100% loyal to him, and never betray him.
“Gu Yu, you can form a contract with it. If it rebels against you, you can kill it with a single strand of your primordial spirit power, just like in our current state. If you die, I will die too, but it will be more cruel than what we are going through. At least you can’t kill me with your primordial spirit power.” Long Yuan guessed Gu Yu’s thoughts and spoke up.
"A contract?" Gu Yu was taken aback. Yes, a contract could guarantee 100% control and 100% loyalty and obedience, but he didn't know how to make this kind of contract! "Long Yuan, you know how to make this kind of contract?"
"As the head of the twelve dragon gods of the dragon race, how could I not know?" Long Yuan patted his chest and said when he heard Gu Yu's question.
"Teach it to me quickly. If I can control this guy, I can have an army of corpse beetles," Gu Yu said.
“Okay.” Long Yuan nodded, and then taught Gu Yu the method of master-servant contract.
"Corpse Beetle King, I'll give you a chance to submit to me." Having obtained the master-servant contract, Gu Yu immediately said to the Corpse Beetle King.
"Submit to you? Why should I submit to you?" The Corpse Beetle King was stunned when it heard Gu Yu's words.
“If you do not submit to me, I will kill you right now. I think even if your defense is amazing, you should not be able to withstand the attack power of a god-level being, right?” Gu Yu said, looking at the Corpse Turtle King.
"Then I will submit, what can you give me?" The Corpse Beetle King hesitated for a moment after hearing Gu Yu's words before asking.
"I can give you something fragrant, like this." Gu Yu reached out and took out the meat spirit mushroom. At this moment, it would be best if he could avoid using force. Thinking of the Corpse Beetle King's naivety, Gu Yu decided to rely on deception. As long as a master-servant contract was formed, the Corpse Beetle King would be powerless and would only obey his orders.
"It smells delicious." Upon seeing the meat-shaped Ganoderma lucidum, the Corpse Beetle King immediately sniffed it, and his saliva instantly flowed out.
"Here you go." Upon seeing the appearance of the Corpse Beetle King, Gu Yu immediately waved his hand and said.
"You can't attack me like that again." Seeing Gu Yu gesturing for it to pass, the Corpse Beetle King was about to come over, but it remembered how it had walked over the same way before and been slashed away by Gu Yu. And now, Ri Jiu was standing next to Gu Yu. If Ri Jiu suddenly slapped it with her energy as it walked over, that would be troublesome.
The two slaps Riju had just delivered left it feeling disoriented and its internal organs churning. If it received a few more, its brain and internal organs would likely be reduced to dust. Therefore, it was truly terrified.
"Don't worry, as long as you behave, I won't attack you," Gu Yu said.
"Alright then!" The Corpse Beetle King suddenly walked cautiously toward Gu Yu. As it reached out to take the Meat Spirit Mushroom, it looked at the Meat Spirit Mushroom and Gu Yu's hand holding the knife, afraid that Gu Yu would lie to it.
The Corpse Beetle King took the meat-shaped Ganoderma lucidum, took a few steps back, sniffed it again, then opened its mouth wide, bit off half of it, and began to eat it with a satisfied expression.
"It smells so good! I haven't eaten anything this delicious in ages." The Corpse Beetle King devoured the football-sized Ganoderma lucidum in just a few breaths, and now it was beaming with happiness.
Delicious? With this kind of eating method, you can still taste the flavor? Gu Yu, Ri Jiu, and Zhang Huangling exchanged glances and thought to themselves.
"Now that you've eaten the food, shouldn't you keep your promise?" Gu Yu asked the Corpse Beetle King.
"Uh! If I submit to you, can you give me this delicious food every day?" The Corpse Beetle King suddenly thought for a moment and asked. If it could be given this kind of thing every day, it would be willing to submit.
"This..." Gu Yu looked at the innocent-looking Corpse Beetle King. That was a fleshy Ganoderma lucidum that had been around for hundreds of years, a rare treasure in the healing world. Did you think it was just cabbage? You think I'd give it to you to eat every day? "No problem. If you submit to me, I can give it to you to eat every day."
"Really?" Upon hearing Gu Yu's words, the Corpse Beetle King's eyes lit up. There really were dragon corpses here. He had heard from his elders that there used to be more than one, but as time passed, only one remained. It had long since run out of flesh, and because of the restrictions, they couldn't get out, which meant they hadn't eaten for a long time. Of course, sometimes when they were really desperate, they would eat a few of their own kind. If it weren't for the ability to absorb divine source power to sustain their lives, they would probably be extinct.
"Really." Gu Yu nodded and said that as long as he could trick the corpse beetle into making a contract with him, he would be in control of everything.
“Then I am willing to submit to you. From today onwards, you are the new Corpse Beetle King.” Upon hearing Gu Yu’s words, the Corpse Beetle King immediately spoke. Then, it gave an order to the other Corpse Beetle monsters, and all of them immediately bowed and scraped before Gu Yu, their expressions extremely respectful.
“I don’t need to become the new Corpse Beetle King, I just need to sign a contract,” Gu Yu said at this moment.
"A contract?" The Corpse Beetle King was taken aback. "What contract?"
"It's just a regular contract." Gu Yu was like a big bad wolf coaxing a little girl. "Think about it! As long as you sign the contract, you can eat that fragrant stuff every day. Oh, and besides that fragrant stuff, I also have this."
Gu Yu suddenly produced another large lump of meaty Tai Sui in his hand. Although the aroma of this thing was not as good as that of meaty Lingzhi, it looked very delicious.
"It smells so good, it looks delicious." The Corpse Beetle King licked his lips and looked longingly at the Meat Tai Sui.
“As long as you sign a contract with me, I will give this to you now,” Gu Yu said, looking at the Corpse Beetle King.
"What do you need me to do?" The Corpse Beetle King was completely preoccupied with the Flesh Tai Sui and didn't even think about what the contract was.
"Give me a drop of your blood," Gu Yu said to the Corpse Beetle King.
"Alright." The Corpse Beetle King immediately gave a drop of its own blood to Gu Yu.
"Do not resist, accept my primordial spirit power," Gu Yu said again. Then he also released a drop of his own blood, made a hand seal, and an ancient rune appeared. The two drops of blood immediately flew towards the ancient rune. Then Gu Yu injected a wisp of primordial spirit power into the rune, and the rune flew towards the Corpse Beetle King.
Looking at the ancient runes, the Corpse Beetle King was puzzled for a moment, but then it did not resist, letting the runes fly to its forehead and then disappear into its brow.
Suddenly, a force of confinement emanated from the Corpse Beetle King, causing its pupils to become dazed and confused. At this moment, Gu Yu discovered that he and the Corpse Beetle King had a connection of their primordial spirits.
Buzzing...
Streams of energy emanated from the forehead of the Corpse Beetle King, whose eyes grew increasingly dull before gradually regaining their clarity.
"Kneel down." At this moment, Gu Yu suddenly said to the Corpse Beetle King. After hearing Gu Yu's words, the Corpse Beetle King did not resist at all. It knelt down on the ground with a thud and knelt down in front of Gu Yu.
“Master,” said the Corpse Beetle King.
"What an amazing master-servant contract." Gu Yu murmured as he watched this scene. Who would have thought that such a simple rune could make the other party completely submissive to him, without the slightest resistance? Fortunately, this thing requires the other party to take the initiative to accept it. If the other party is unwilling, even if their cultivation level is lower than yours, it is impossible to complete.
This scene stunned Ri Jiu and Zhang Huangling. "That's a contract?"
"Tell your underlings to get out of the way," Gu Yu said. He was now quite certain that the restrictions here were no longer offensive; otherwise, these corpse beetles wouldn't be alive and would have been killed by the restrictions long ago.
"Yes, Master." Upon hearing Gu Yu's command, the Corpse Beetle King immediately ordered all the Corpse Beetle monsters to make way.
“There’s a restriction here. Once you enter, you can’t leave. We need to find the core of the restriction and break it,” Gu Yu said to Ri Jiu and Zhang Huangling.
"A restriction?" Zhang Huangling and Rijiu finally realized why Gu Yu hadn't run away from the Corpse Beetle King! It turned out he wasn't refusing to run, but rather unable to escape.
"Let's go!" Gu Yu said, and strode forward. The restriction was no longer offensive, so they had nothing to fear, since they had now subdued the corpse beetle monster.
The three walked a long way forward and came into view a huge dragon corpse. The dragon corpse was only a skeleton, with no flesh left. It was obviously eaten by the corpse beetle monsters.
Upon seeing the dragon corpse, Long Yuan instantly flew out of Gu Yu's body. He looked at the dragon corpse in front of him and pondered for a while, "He should have been a true god of the Molong clan in his previous life. The reason he was able to preserve his dragon body was because he did not go to watch the battle at that time, but hid in the restriction. However, he still died. He could have kept his body intact, but unfortunately, he was eaten by these despicable guys, leaving only his dragon bones."
At this moment, Long Yuan's eyes held a hint of killing intent as he looked at the Corpse Beetle King. If the dragon's body were intact, he could possess it and, relying on the divine source power here, Long Yuan would soon be able to recover to the strength of a true god. But all of this...
At this moment, Gu Yu paid no attention to the dragon corpse. His gaze swept around. This was the center of this area, and even the remains of the former owner of this place were here. Therefore, the core of the restriction was very likely to be here as well.
"Heavenly Connection Technique, Heavenly Eye Connection." Gu Yu's eyes immediately emitted golden light as he began to scan his surroundings.
He immediately noticed a ring on the dragon claw part of the dragon bone, which made Gu Yu pause in surprise. Could this be a storage ring?
Thinking of this, Gu Yu did not hesitate at all. He rushed towards the storage ring instantly. He knew that there was likely a treasure inside, the treasure of a true god of the dragon race. Moreover, the dragon race was the race that loved collecting the most, so it must be very valuable.
Gu Yu arrived in front of the dragon claw. The dragon corpse was so huge that a single dragon claw was equivalent to several Gu Yus.
Gu Yu reached out to take off the ring when suddenly a burst of energy was released from it.
Gu Yu's expression changed drastically. Just then, the Corpse Beetle King appeared in front of Gu Yu and released a power that blocked the power emanating from the ring.
However, its power was utterly insignificant in the face of the ring's power, and Gu Yu and the Corpse Beetle King were immediately blasted away.
Upon seeing this, Ri Jiu and Zhang Huangling rushed forward to check on Gu Yu's condition, while Long Yuan stopped being depressed and looked at the ring.
Cough cough cough…
At this moment, Gu Yu coughed up blood and his face turned deathly pale. "I'm fine, I just suffered some injuries," Gu Yu said, looking at Ri Jiu and Zhang Huangling who were rushing towards him.
Then Gu Yu's gaze fell upon the Corpse Beetle King. If the Corpse Beetle King hadn't stood in front of him, the power unleashed by the ring would have killed him. That attack was absolutely comparable to a strike from the early stage of the Emperor Realm. Thinking of this, Gu Yu's heart warmed. He had tricked the Corpse Beetle King into forming a master-servant contract with him to use the Corpse Beetle King; in his eyes, the Corpse Beetle King was nothing more than a tool.
But when the Corpse Beetle King shielded him from a fatal blow, his attitude towards the Corpse Beetle King changed, and his thoughts became different.
At this moment, the Corpse Beetle King was covered in dust and dirt, with a trace of blood hanging from the corner of its mouth. The ring's attack power had a strong penetrating force, which reduced the defensive power of its dragon scales.
"Corpse Beetle King, eat this." Gu Yu immediately took out a rare and precious healing herb and ten clusters of life essence, and handed them directly to the Corpse Beetle King.
"It smells delicious." Upon seeing the rare and precious herbs and the essence of life, the Corpse Beetle King immediately forgot his pain, took them directly, and began to eat them in large mouthfuls.
"Long Yuan, what's the deal with this ring?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan.
"It's a restriction. The core of the restriction is right here on this ring. It was too impulsive of you to grab it so rashly," Long Yuan said.
"Then why didn't you say so earlier?" Gu Yu said immediately after hearing Long Yuan's words. Wasn't this just hindsight? Besides, who would have thought that the ring was the core of the restriction? And it even had offensive capabilities. But it was also his own fault for being careless. He didn't know why, but it seemed like his IQ had dropped recently.
“I didn’t even notice this thing before,” Long Yuan said. “This is going to be difficult. This ring is quite powerful, and it’s almost impossible for us to remove it.”
Hearing Long Yuan's words, Gu Yu frowned. Indeed, none of them could withstand such an attack. But if they didn't get the ring, how could they break the restriction? How could they get out?
“Master, don’t even think about that thing. My parents died because of it.” The Corpse Beetle King said at this moment.
"Oh!" Gu Yu nodded upon hearing the Corpse Beetle King's words. "Don't your parents have dragon scales?"
"No." The Corpse Beetle King shook his head. "I had a sudden idea and stuck the dragon scales on my body. I didn't expect that, slowly, the dragon scales would become one with me."
"A sudden inspiration." Gu Yu looked at the Corpse Beetle King. It seemed that this guy was also blessed with good fortune. So many corpse beetles had not thought of this, but the Corpse Beetle King had. What else could this be but good fortune?
“If you had inserted ordinary dragon scales into his body, you wouldn’t have gotten the benefits you have now. You inserted his reverse scale and even ate his heart, didn’t you?” Long Yuan then turned his gaze to the Corpse Beetle King.
"Yes." The Corpse Beetle King thought for a moment and replied, "At that time, there was no flesh left on the corpse, and there were only one part with dragon scales. Those things were extremely hard, and none of us could remove them, not even my parents."
But I smelled a wonderful fragrance inside, so I kept trying. One day, I noticed I had become much stronger, so I started plucking the dragon scales again. After what seemed like an eternity, I finally managed to pull one off, and inside I saw a heart. I immediately ate it. With that, I became even stronger, and horns even grew. Looking at the dragon scales, I thought, "These things are so hard; if they were stuck in my body, wouldn't I be invincible?" So I started plucking them off piece by piece and inserting them into my body. Unexpectedly, they grew into my body and became part of me.
The Corpse Beetle King explained, which made Gu Yu and the others marvel at how lucky this guy was, because he had smelled a fragrance.
"Long Yuan, if I unleash the God-Slaying Array and unleash a strike with the power of a War God, can I shatter this ring and break the restriction?" Gu Yu asked Long Yuan at this moment, as their immediate priority was to get out.
"It should be possible." Long Yuan thought for a moment and gave a not-so-definite answer. "This restriction has been worn down by the passage of time and is almost gone. If we use a fierce attack, we might be able to destroy the core and break the restriction."
"Let me rest for a while." Gu Yu was injured by the ring earlier and hasn't had time to heal yet.
"Something's strange!" While Gu Yu was healing, Zhang Huangling floated in the air, looking at the dragon bones in front of him, and his brows furrowed.
"What's strange about it?" Long Yuan asked after hearing Zhang Huangling's words.
“Senior, you said that logically, a great catastrophe should have occurred back then. Look at his posture, he clearly looks like he’s trying to escape, he’s in a panic, but it also seems like he’s in a hurry to take something with him, it seems to be that ring.” Zhang Huangling observed and thought at the same time.
“You’re right.” Upon hearing Zhang Huangling’s words, Long Yuan also began to observe the posture of the dragon bone in front of him, and even the scene from that time appeared in his dragon eyes.
At that time, the world was in turmoil, with gods and demons fighting fiercely. The sky collapsed and the earth cracked, and terrifying energy shockwaves swept out instantly. The owner of the dragon bone also sensed the danger and prepared to run away. However, he suddenly remembered his treasures, so he rushed into the place and began to collect them. Just as he finished collecting the treasures and was about to escape, it was too late. The energy shockwaves swept over his body in an instant, and he collapsed to the ground.
"You greedy dragon." Long Yuan suddenly looked indignant. This guy could have run away back then. He was too close to the Source Gate. If he had sensed the danger, he would have had a great chance of escaping with his True God cultivation. That chance was at least 80%. But this guy couldn't bear to part with his treasures, and that's why he lost his life.
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