In a blink of an eye, two months had passed. When the man appeared again, he found that Lin Dan was sitting in a cave pounding medicine. Yu Yeying didn't dare to be alone with Zhou Nan, so she followed him out. At this time, she was curled up beside her, handing her a portion of medicinal materials from time to time.
The man took a pinch of the powder and sniffed it, then raised his eyebrows and asked, "Is this insect-attracting powder?"
If a sorcerer wants to make poison, he must first catch insects. This insect-attracting powder is a kind of medicinal powder. After being sprinkled into a copper furnace and ignited, its strong fragrance can attract poisonous insects nearby, hence the name. The man had also studied witchcraft, so he naturally knew how to prepare insect-attracting powder, but Lin Dan's formula was different from all the ones he knew.
He had lived for hundreds of years and was sealed for hundreds of years. When he reappeared in the world, the outside world was completely different from before. Technology had advanced and the country was prosperous, but the Xuanmen sect was getting weaker and weaker with each generation and had already entered the Dharma Ending Age. Lin Dan began to practice in such an environment. The inheritance she received was incomplete, so how could she embark on the correct path of cultivation? Thinking of this, the man chuckled and shook his head, but said nothing. Since Lin Dan was too lazy to pay attention to him, why should he help her solve her problems? Let's see what she can come up with on her own.
When the man disappeared, Lin Dan didn't miss him at all, so when he suddenly appeared, she was naturally not moved. Without even glancing at the other person, she ground all the herbs into powder according to the proportions, poured in her own blood, and rubbed them into small pills.
Yu Yeying wanted to help her rub the medicine, but she refused, so she had to hug her knees and shrink into the corner.
Lin Dan was afraid that she would have wild thoughts and think that he disliked her, so he gave the refined poisonous insect to her for safekeeping. Yu Yeying was very afraid of these insects at first, but now she can hold them in her hands and play with them non-stop, and even shows an expression of fondness. These are all Lin Dan’s treasures. If Lin Dan likes them, she naturally likes them too. She didn't want to explore Lin Dan's identity, nor was she curious about what she was doing. Insects were scary, but they were no scarier than human hearts.
Lin Dan rolled up ten pills and put them into a small porcelain bottle, then handed them to Yu Yeying as usual. Yu Yeying immediately held the bottle tightly in her hand, as if she was afraid that someone would snatch it away.
Lin Dan took out another batch of medicinal herbs and pounded them into powder.
The man looked at her quietly, his eyebrows raised higher and higher. He could smell that this batch of medicinal materials should also be an insect-attracting powder, because several of the main ingredients in it have the effect of attracting poisonous insects, but the auxiliary ingredients are different from the previous ones. In other words, this little girl Lin Dan prepared two new insect-attracting powders. It is not yet known whether they are effective or not, but she is very creative. She is studying the heritage left by her ancestors, but is also trying to blaze a new path that is unique to her.
Let’s not talk about other things for now, just this character is extremely extraordinary. The man looked at Lin Dan with an increasingly focused gaze, and his emotionless, cold eyes actually revealed a hint of admiration.
Lin Dan was not disturbed at all by the man and the ghost around him. After rubbing the insect-attracting powder, he began to prepare the venom. The first step in refining Gu is to catch the insects, the second step is to cultivate them, the third step is to tame them, and the fourth step is to drive and raise them. Cultivation is the most basic and important step. In this link, the sorcerer must feed the insect with venom and his own blood. The more intense the effect of the venom and the more abundant the energy of the blood, the stronger the cultivated insect will be.
At this point, Lin Dan could completely abandon the inheritance and rely on his intuition to prepare the venom.
A large part of the book on witchcraft is devoted to the use of herbs and poisons. This was exactly the part she was best at, so she learned very quickly, almost instantly, and could improve the prescriptions left by her ancestors with just a snap of the finger. In that scroll of notes, there was only one recipe for insect-attracting powder, but she invented dozens of them. There were dozens of recipes for venom, and in her hands, she could easily mix thousands of them. Her brain was like a treasure trove, providing her with an endless supply of pharmacological knowledge.
She put juices of different colors and several herbs into the pot and boiled them over low heat. A strong and pungent smell instantly spread in the cave, making people suffocate.
The man was a ghost after all, and had a strong ability to resist stench. He just frowned and squatted down, carefully identifying the composition of the poison. Yu Yeying is a human being, but she was able to sit quietly beside Lin Dan, with no sign of pain on her face, as if her nose had long since stopped working.
The venom began to boil. Lin Dan picked up a small wooden stick at random and stirred it. There was a "hissing" sound, and the part of the stick that was immersed in the venom melted instantly, leaving only a little charred mark. Lin Dan didn't even frown. He rummaged in his schoolbag for a while and took out another iron rod.
Yu Yeying looked at her quietly, with a calm expression, and didn't ask any more questions.
Lin Dan put the iron rod into the pot, but it only lasted five seconds longer than the wooden stick. Fortunately, this pot was left by Lin Dan’s ancestors. It seemed to be made of the shell of some insect and could hold the most potent poison in the world. Otherwise, Lin Dan would not be able to find a suitable tool.
She quickly stirred the bubbling venom, then threw the half iron stick aside, removed the firewood, and waited for the venom to cool.
The man originally didn't take this clear-colored venom seriously, but after seeing its power, he was filled with surprise. Its corrosiveness alone is so strong, so one can imagine how toxic it is. If this venom is used to breed Gu worms, the result will be...
The man shook his head, his eyes full of interest. It had only been two months since they last met, but the little girl had grown to a point where he could take notice of her. If she had been born a thousand years earlier and lived in the same era as him, and had learned more complete witchcraft techniques, she might have become his greatest rival.
What a pity, what a pity... The man sighed and urged: "The insect-attracting powder and venom are ready, why don't you try their effects?" He couldn't wait to see what the little girl had learned in two months.
Lin Dan turned a deaf ear to his words and began to clean up the various tools in an orderly manner: wipe the medicine bowl clean; tie up the unused medicinal materials into categories and put them into the sheepskin bag; use a small stick wrapped with a cloth strip to insert into the mouth of the extra small porcelain bottle and stir it...
Her movements were neither hurried nor leisurely, which made the man's eagerness seem even more evident.
The man was amused by Lin Dan, and taking advantage of the fact that Yu Yeying couldn't see him, he stretched out his arms and held Lin Dan in his arms. He put his handsome face very close to her and blew into her ears. His deep and rich laughter could captivate any woman's soul.
But Lin Dan was not among these women. She waved her hand beside her ear as if to shoo away a fly, dispersing the man's vague figure. The man, who had recondensed his body, laughed softly, as if he had encountered something interesting.
"Ye Ying, I'm going to start catching insects. You go stay up there." Lin Dan said, pointing to a stone platform in the cave.
"Okay." Yu Yeying climbed onto the platform and looked at Lin Dan quietly.
Lin Dan waited until she was seated firmly before throwing a pill into the copper furnace and lighting it. Wisps of green smoke rose into the sky and spread out. A rustling sound came from outside the silent cave. Countless poisonous insects rolled in like a tide, then split into several groups and drilled into the copper furnace to start a fight.
The man had also made Gu before, so he should have been accustomed to this kind of scene, but at this moment he couldn't help but raise his eyebrows. Only then did he realize that the poisonous insects that Lin Dan had attracted were actually all ants, without any other creatures. How was this possible? All kinds of poisonous insects should come to smell the fragrance of the insect-attracting powder.
Lin Dan didn't find it strange at all. After the fight was over, he put the only remaining black ant into a small porcelain bottle and threw another pill into the copper furnace. The insects attracted this time were all centipedes, which were refined into a snow-white Gu.
She threw another pill, which attracted nearby scorpions and transformed it into a blood-red Gu. This was repeated twice, and a golden toad and a red spider were refined respectively, thus collecting all five kinds of poisonous insects.
It was only then that the man saw a clue and couldn't help but clap his hands and said, "Genius, what a genius! Your insect attracting powder is classified into different categories, unlike the ancient insect attracting powder, which can only attract poisonous creatures indiscriminately. This way, you can catch whatever insect you want to refine, without having to search all over the mountains and plains for it."
He was able to fully understand the inheritance in just two months and even create his own witchcraft. Even though he was optimistic about Lin Dan, he couldn't help but feel shocked. This little girl is amazing. Once she leaves this mountain and goes to the outside world, she will definitely cause a stir.
Yu Yeying witnessed these strange sights with her own eyes, but there was no trace of fear on her face. Lin Dan is very strange and powerful at the same time, which only makes her feel more secure and will not become a reason for her to alienate or even leave Lin Dan. No matter what Lin Dan wants to do, she will support him to the end.
"Lin Dan, can I come down now?" she asked eagerly.
"Come down." Lin Dan waved and said, "Take out the Gu I gave you a few days ago."
"Okay." Yu Yeying quickly jumped off the stone platform, ran to Lin Dan, took out the small porcelain bottle from the backpack, and placed it neatly on the ground.
Lin Dan poured cooled venom into dozens of poisonous insects, then dripped his own blood into them, letting them continue fighting. Refining Gu is actually very simple. To put it simply, it is just about selecting the best from the best. Gather different kinds of poisonous insects together, let them survive the fittest, select the strongest ones, and then let them decide the final winner. In the constant selection, elimination, elimination, and selection, the Gu that survives hundreds or even thousands of rounds of fighting can be called the Gu King.
Although the poisonous insect that Lin Dan is going to refine now has not reached the level of the King of Gu, it is not bad either. Two months was still too short for her.
The clear venom was slowly contaminated by the blood and limbs of various poisonous insects, becoming turbid. There were constant hissing and gnawing sounds coming from the pot, which made one's scalp tingle. After about half an hour, this brutal fight finally came to an end. A colorful scorpion slowly crawled out of the venom, with the poisonous needle at the end of its tail shaking constantly and flashing cold light.
The man looked stunned, then chuckled, "Five-color Gu? The first time you refined the King Gu, you actually made a five-color Gu?" He thought he had overestimated Lin Dan, but in the end he found that he had underestimated her after all.
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