Jiaozhou is mountainous with a hot and humid climate. According to the notes in the Dream River Notes of the Xin Su Dynasty, the sea can be seen if you travel three thousand li further south.
If we were to describe Lingmeng Mountain, where Zhang Erhe is located, it would be like the Yunnan-Myanmar region in Dao Chengyi's impression.
The area boasts a rich variety of plant species and a consistently hot and humid climate with very little cold. However, it is prone to floods and wildlife disasters, as the abundance of plants and mountains naturally leads to a greater number of animals.
The Xin Su Dynasty's sweeping operations here were limited, and the foreign races believed in the harmony between man and nature. To be precise, the foreign races were no match for those demons who had already gained power, and with Xin Su's relentless pressure, they became even more unrestrained.
High mountains, dense vegetation, swamps, poisonous insects, and demons formed a barrier to hinder the advance of the Heart Constellation Iron Cavalry, thus laying the foundation for the relatively stable rule of demarcation.
But precisely because of this, it was also a strategy employed by the Xin Su Dynasty to take over the entire Jiaozhou region without bloodshed.
"Blood cage rice is made by repeatedly combining local pig cages, grains, fire leaves, and blood gu. In addition to its original ability to catch flies and insects, it can also digest prey and be irrigated with blood and flesh. After ten days, it can produce half a liter of rice, and the juice can also be drunk."
The village where Zhang Erhe lived was called Longcun in the Xinsu dialect, but the original Sigang dialect was rarely spoken after the Xinsu army was deployed.
At this moment, he was wandering around the village wearing the official robes that the villagers had carefully embroidered, but in reality, he was introducing his achievements of the past few days to the eagle standing on his shoulder, Dao Chengyi.
For example, nowadays every household has plants with drooping, round bottle-shaped stems planted in front of their doors. Some of these bottle-shaped stems have leaves that look like lids, and they close up when an insect occasionally flies in.
Some bottles, their openings closed into one piece, bulging and blood-red all over, were cut open by villagers with stone sickles, revealing glistening, blood-red grains of rice inside.
Some villagers brought earthenware jars and placed them under the bottles. They used reeds or small bamboo tubes to extract the clear, fragrant liquid from the thick main stem. Some greedy children dipped their fingers in the liquid and put it in their mouths. Soon, they swayed and collapsed as if they were on drugs or drinking alcohol.
Seeing this, Dao Chengyi was also gratified. As expected of someone who, as a hunter, seized the true teachings in Woniu Mountain, and later managed to evade the government's pursuit until he received Dao Chengyi's help. In terms of Gu refining, Dao Chengyi had both ideas and abilities, and was much better than some people who refined useless Gu every day.
But the introduction didn't stop there. Next, Zhang Erhe walked step by step through this mountain village, built against the hillside, with its rope walkways and bamboo and wooden buildings nestled together, amidst the admiration of the other villagers.
Rice and sufficiently addictive drugs were the key to unlocking the door. With the help of the Gu formula repository set up by Dao Chengyi in the illusory aperture of his Bloodwing Blessed Land, Zhang Erhe refined the Foolish Gu of the Wise Path. It was a small worm that looked like a black stone and would parasitize the human brain.
Furthermore, it is not broken down and absorbed by the human body as a gift from the pharmacist. Instead, it increases with the ignorance in a person's mind, reducing their ability to think and making it easier for Zhang Erhe to control it.
The bloodletting treatment mentioned by the remaining villagers was also caused by witchcraft. Zhang Erhe's approach to treating illness was that the human body is a small system and the world is a large system, and under normal circumstances, they are in a normal balance.
However, sometimes disharmony occurs due to abnormal organisms, fungi, bacteria, viruses, or factors such as climate change and a decline in physical health.
Bloodletting therapy is just like that. Blood therapy involves taking the blood of the human body as the essence of the body. Every part of the human body needs the nourishment of fresh blood. Fresh blood is used to treat the disharmonious points that cause the disease by bloodletting or blood transfusion.
It is effective against various toxins, medicines, typhoid fever, miscellaneous diseases, and even tumor cells. However, Zhang Erhe usually uses bloodletting therapy to release the impurities and weaken and balance the body's systems.
This Gu worm isn't really worth mentioning, but unfortunately, it's infected with a human-made Gu. Normally, bleeding it out would be enough, but Zhang Erhe and the villagers believe in it, so the Gu can be effective.
Zhang Erhe's third treasure here is the Blood Salt Gu, a peculiar insect he discovered during his escape that can absorb saltwater and produce salt crystals.
Zhang Erhe fused and refined it with blood gu, jungle fungi, parasitic insects, and the Liao family's clan insects. The resulting blood salt, after being absorbed, would leave extremely tiny and barely visible basic particles that would accumulate in the brain of the person absorbing it.
These particles resonate with the Gu in Zhang Erhe's hand. Through Zhang Erhe's will, some information is transformed into signals by the particles and repeatedly echoes in the absorber's mind. This is the Blood Salt Slave Path.
This control is particularly evident in animals, since wild animals need salt more and their brains are less flexible.
Although the process is somewhat complicated due to the additional steps, in the future, Zhang Erhe may be able to directly research and develop the corresponding type of enslavement gu worms.
After observing the humans and dogs he kept in the back mountain, as well as the Blood Nest, a Gu house that was beginning to take shape, he was able to refine various Gu worms and raise them in a concentrated manner.
As Dao Chengyi's masterpiece of the Blood Nest, it is based on a variety of Gu insects and will spontaneously form an external disguise plant and an internal flesh and blood barrier after a certain event unfolds.
The internal structure automatically generates a network of meridians to absorb free vital energy from the air, greatly reducing the consumption and cultivation costs for Gu masters to refine Gu worms. The external plants, while possessing biological flesh and blood properties, also possess plant properties, allowing them to absorb and store sunlight to maintain the operation of the Gu house, while also storing the ability to conduct light wave detection and attacks.
The blood bees that live inside are the main force protecting the Gu House under normal circumstances. After various creatures are introduced, they can be replicated, bred, and controlled for combat. The Gu House itself is also a female that transforms into an external flesh and blood weapon for combat.
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