Chapter 799 Ice Silkworm
"How about we forget about our bet? It was just a joke anyway." Li Xuan said to Dugu Chong.
"Are you kidding me? I, Dugu Chong, keep my word. If I can't catch the Ice Silkworm Gu King for you, I, Dugu Chong, will be your apprentice." Dugu Chong blew his beard and glared.
Li Xuan smiled and said, "I've seen your abilities before. If there was only one Ice Silkworm Gu King, you would definitely be able to catch it. But now there are two, which is unexpected. Even if we draw, no one loses and no one wins. Isn't that fair?"
"No, a man's word is worth a thousand gold. If I can't catch the Ice Silkworm, I will acknowledge you as my master and I will never break my promise." Having said this, Dugu Chong turned to look at Zhou Wen and said, "If Li Xuan is my master, then Zhou Wen, you are my uncle. It's not too much to ask for your uncle to teach me a few skills, right?"
Zhou Wen stared at Dugu Chong in amazement. He couldn't believe that this guy was from the Dugu family, one of the six heroic families that dominated the southern region. He was too shameless.
"Okay, has this been your idea from the beginning?" Li Xuan was also stunned after hearing this, and then he realized that he seemed to have been fooled.
Dugu Chong chuckled and said, "My principle as a person is to be practical above all else. So what if I acknowledge you as my master? You still need me to teach you how to raise Gu. In name, you are my master, but in reality, I am still your master. It's just a title, it doesn't matter. If Zhou Wen can teach me how to raise phoenixes, I'll even call you Master, not just Uncle."
Zhou Wen and Li Xuan were stunned. It was the first time they had seen someone like Dugu Chong, and it was really an eye-opener for them.
"I really don't know how to raise a phoenix. This silly bird insisted on following me. I don't usually pay much attention to it. It eats whatever is available. I can't teach you." Zhou Wen said.
Dugu Chong immediately shook his head and said, "No, no, I've already read about the phoenix's habits and eating habits in ancient books. If I had a phoenix, I'd know how to feed it myself. I don't need you to teach me."
"Then why are you still learning from me? You won't ask me to help you find another phoenix, right? I don't have that kind of ability." Zhou Wen asked doubtfully.
"I know how to be afraid, but I don't have a phoenix. I just want to learn from you how to make the phoenix willingly follow me." Dugu Chong said.
"I've already said it, this silly bird is willing to follow me naturally. There's no trick. Maybe it's just that it has good character." Zhou Wen said.
"What Lao Zhou said is right. When the three of us encountered the bird together, only Lao Zhou was chosen." Li Xuan also said.
"Everything in this world has cause and effect. It's impossible for there to be no cause. If there's no cause, it only means that you haven't discovered it yet. It could be that the Qi Jue you're practicing is special, or that you possess a hidden special physique, or that something in you attracts it. In any case, there must be a reason, and that's what I need to know."
Dugu Chong said a few serious words before he said to Zhou Wen with a playful smile: "Anyway, there is a high probability that I will not be able to catch the ice silkworm this time. From now on, you are my Uncle Zhou. If you like to teach me, then teach me. If you don't like to teach me, then let me learn by myself..."
Zhou Wen didn't want to talk to Dugu Chong anymore, so he turned to Li Xuan and said, "I'll help you catch the Ice Silkworm Gu King tomorrow, but after you catch it, you have to lend it to me for two days."
"Borrow? How?" Dugu Chong curled his lips and said, "This thing called Gu, once it recognizes its owner, it cannot change. How can you return it after you borrow it?"
"I don't want the Ice Silkworm Gu King to recognize me as its master. I just want to borrow it to do one thing. I will return it to you after I'm done." Zhou Wen said.
"Of course there's no problem. Not to mention borrowing, you can even take it directly." Li Xuan said with a smile.
Dugu Chong, listening from the side, was a little unhappy: "If you want to use the Phoenix myth to catch the Ice Silkworm Gu King, I advise you not to go. The Phoenix bird may be powerful, but you are only a juvenile. The Ice Silkworm Gu King will not be afraid of it. If you are not careful, you may kill the Phoenix bird instead. That would be a huge loss."
"Let's go to the place tomorrow and see for ourselves." Zhou Wen also knew that the Ice Silkworm Gu King would definitely not be easy to catch, but the people from the Xiao family would also go to catch the Ice Silkworm Gu King tomorrow, and this was the opportunity he wanted.
He wanted to snatch the Ice Silkworm Gu King from the Xiao family, and then use the Ice Silkworm Gu King to exchange for the Gu Girl.
If Xiao Tianfang is not a fool, he will definitely exchange two Ice Silkworm Gu Kings for a Gu Manli who may take his life.
After all, he had originally planned to erase the Gu girl's consciousness. At that time, the Gu girl Gu Manli's ability would be greatly reduced, and she might not even be as powerful as an ice silkworm. In comparison, everyone knows what to choose.
"Okay, tomorrow I'll see how you catch the Ice Silkworm Gu King. If you can catch it, I, Dugu Chong, will immediately become your apprentice." Dugu Chong said, obviously he was not optimistic about Zhou Wen.
"Come on, there's no sense of accomplishment in being your master." Li Xuan said.
"You can't say that. You may not feel a sense of accomplishment now, but if you walk in the South District and meet someone from the Dugu family who says he is my, Dugu Chong's, master, it would be so impressive and prestigious, and you wouldn't feel a sense of lack of accomplishment anymore." Dugu Chong said with a smile.
Zhou Wen and Li Xuan both looked at him with disdain. With his personality, I wonder how many masters and uncles he must have recognized outside. It would be strange if the Dugu family would acknowledge him.
Before dawn the next day, Zhou Wen woke up Li Xuan and Dugu Chong and asked them to go to where the Ice Silkworm Gu King was.
He had heard Xiao Tianfang and Xiao Liuqi talking before and knew that the Xiao family would go there at this time. If they went later, the Xiao family might have succeeded.
It would not be good to go too early. If they went before the Xiao family arrived, they would have captured the Ice Silkworm King Gu. Then the Xiao family would not know that the Ice Silkworm King Gu was in Zhou Wen's hands.
Although Dugu Chong was a little confused and didn't know why Zhou Wen had to go so early, he still took the two of them to Yinfeng Ridge.
When they arrived at the place, they found that someone was already fighting with the Ice Silkworm Gu King. The two people leading the battle were Xiao Liuqi and Xiao Tianfang.
In front of Xiao Tianfang, there was a silkworm as big as an American football, with an ice-blue body crawling on the ground. Wherever the silkworm crawled, the ground was immediately covered with frost, which showed how low the temperature of its body was.
"No wonder Dugu Chong said that the bird might not be able to restrain the ice silkworm. With such ice power, the bird's phoenix flame will definitely have much less effect on it." Zhou Wen thought to himself.
Xiao Liuqi discovered Zhou Wen and the others. When he saw Dugu Chong, his expression changed slightly. He was obviously afraid that Dugu Chong would come to snatch the Ice Silkworm Gu King.
I took some medicine and rested for half a day, but my eyes still feel uncomfortable. I owe two more chapters today. Together with the previous four chapters, I owe a total of six chapters. Don't worry, even if I change it to three chapters in the future, I will finish the owed chapters first and then revise them. Before I finish, I will still write five chapters a day.
(End of this chapter)
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