There is no such thing as a free lunch.
Similarly, no weakling can get anything for free from Dao Chengyi, who considers himself a villain.
No matter how heartless or ruthless she may be, no matter how treacherous, cunning, selfish, or self-serving she may be, even if she is born with the true seed of the demonic path, in Dao Cheng's hands she can only enter the Gu Cauldron, be refined into Gu, and become his Gu material.
Mu Qing, who jumped into the lake to escape, was desperate and made a last-ditch effort. His only gamble was that Wen Xuan held some importance in Dao Chengyi's heart and wouldn't be captured by him personally. He also had some water-avoidance tools and his past swimming experience, which would allow him to evade capture.
Unfortunately, in the vast lake, in an area near the human dock where there were no large aquatic animals, a black-whiskered catfish appeared menacingly in front of Mu Qing, who thought he could escape, and swallowed him whole.
Regardless of her past sorrows and misery, everything was completely frozen in this bite. The Soul Gu and Wisdom Gu suspended her thoughts and perceptions, and the catfish swung its tail and headed into the distance.
Meanwhile, at the ferry, Wenxuan was on the verge of collapse, watching Daochengyi, who immediately embraced her and performed emergency hemostasis.
"I'm...I'm sorry, sir. I'm useless. I failed to protect the child. I'm so sorry..."
Love in this era is mostly pure, especially when people are certain of their feelings, they are devoted to each other. Dao Chengyi looked at Wenxuan, who was filled with sorrow, self-blame, and despair, and gently embraced her.
"It's alright, you'll have another chance in the future. Don't cry, or you'll hurt yourself even more."
"I don't blame you. We're still young, it'll be alright."
Feeling the dampness of her clothes, Dao Cheng was somewhat moved, but he still comforted her without showing any emotion, and then picked her up to go find a doctor.
As for the chaotic ferry crossing and the officials and Niu family members who came to maintain order, he was too lazy to deal with them and left them to Ma Yunlai.
Meanwhile, he was also maneuvering the black catfish, carrying Mu Qing along its path towards the Ling River, away from the area where Qingmang City was located.
And this farce that belonged to Feng Yuezhu came to a temporary end here, and the remaining ending was that Mu Qing woke up in an unknown cave, not knowing exactly when.
"Waaah!"
This cave is clearly man-made. What should have been a damp, messy cave full of moss, snakes, insects and bats is now spotless.
Each stalactite is polished to a very regular and neat shape, with a beautiful design that also conforms to a certain pattern, and various glowing fireflies dance in this place.
But the remaining scene terrified her, for five extremely terrifying venomous creatures—a green toad, a black snake, a blue centipede, a purple spider, and a gecko—resembling a low house, were entrenched in the five corners of the cave.
Looking further up, Mu Qing heard a buzzing sound. Looking up, he saw countless blood-red bees, each the size of a baby's fist, flying densely at the top of the cave.
"Waaaaah! Waaaah!"
Upon seeing the situation at the very top, Mu Qing was even more terrified, for the blood bees were swarming around the remains of bodies that had been drained of their life force.
Humans, beasts, birds, and insects, densely packed together at the top of the cave, were pierced and fixed by bright red, pulsating roots like blood vessels, while blood bees collected the blood and flesh from these remains.
"You're awake?"
"That's just right."
From deeper within the cave, a man in red wearing a bird-beak mask entered, followed by a robust, glossy black bear.
"Before everything begins, I must tell you that I regret I cannot hear your bitterness and grand plans for the future."
"And if you have the chance to see the judge after you go down, then tell him that you died because of the poison."
"Finally, this process is a bit painful, so you need to be patient."
The speaker was Dao Chengyi, and this place was where he first started working on the Blood and Flesh Gu. However, after the Woniu Mountain incident was completed, he moved there.
After Wanwo made progress, he remotely refined the entire blood pool into a three-stage Gu house, the Blood Nest. The outside was filled with various wooden Gu worms used for hunting and luring animals, while the inside was a huge blood battlefield created by combining more than a dozen types of Gu worms, including flesh Gu, blood Gu, blood bee Gu, He-transformation Gu, and puppet Gu.
It was used to help Dao Chengyi obtain resources from the mountains and monitor new Gu worms, since some of them were inconvenient to experiment with in the city.
Now, it's time to test the new third-stage human-beast burial gu. After all, he didn't raise such an ungrateful wretch just to be a pretty face or out of kindness.
The superfluous mysteries of origin, hatred, or talent—the Daoist Master has no interest in listening to nonsense. As for the origin of the Human-Beast Burial Gu, what is needed is to refine it using a beast as a cauldron.
However, that was the Gu Realm, where the Gu Dao naturally represented everything. While similar extraordinary powers certainly exist in the universe here, the Gu Dao is still in its infancy.
Dao Chengyi did not decide to follow traditional methods blindly. As someone who had received nine years of compulsory education, he deeply understood the importance of grasping the underlying principles and analyzing patterns.
The burial of humans and beasts is mainly used to assist in breakthroughs. Whether it's weakening the barriers of the void or improving the quality and quantity of vital energy, these are all directions worth exploring.
In terms of raw materials, how can a wild beast, a human, and some Gu worms produce this effect?
It's nothing more than the old methods of our ancestors: supplement what you lack, eat what you need. If a person's true essence is insufficient, then it can be taken from other sources; if a person's aptitude is insufficient, it can also be transferred from other sources.
This method also applies to the Blood Skull Gu, but instead of causing the deaths of humans and beasts, it's a permanent improvement. Therefore, if you want to refine it, try the approach together.
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