All-class Gu Immortal

Chapter 4 The Mysterious Gu Insects! The Silkworm Baby Sheds Its Skin!
After Zhang Dahai left the street, the neighbors came to the Zhou family's courtyard.

"Aqing, how could you agree to such a condition!"

"Yes, in this case, there's nothing we can do to help you!"

"I can't do anything about it." Zhou Qing shook his head helplessly and walked towards the silkworm house.

The moment he turned around, his face darkened.

Regardless of whether Zhou Xian borrowed money from Zhang Dahai, even if he did, he should have asked Zhou Xian for it back.

A month
Zhou Qing entered the silkworm room, and his expression changed drastically.

"That damn thing!"

On the wooden frame, all twenty silkworm baskets had fallen to the ground, which was littered with dead silkworms and wriggling silkworms.

Zhou Qing quickly stepped forward and carefully picked up the still-living silkworms and put them back into the winnowing basket.

Nearly half of the silkworms died.

That means more than 10,000 silkworms were lost.

Deceiving too much!

Zhou Qing's heart was bleeding, and she quickly replaced the surviving silkworms with fresh mulberry leaves.

"Um?!"

Suddenly, the Green Silk Gu in Zhou Qing's body reacted, showing signs of craving.

"You want to eat these silkworms?" Zhou Qing's expression changed slightly.

Soon, they received a positive answer from the Green Silk Gu.

“Okay! I’ll give it to you, but you can only eat the dead ones, you’re not allowed to eat the live ones!” Zhou Qing replied.

Whoosh!
With his approval, a thumb-sized, silkworm-like creature flew out of his body and landed among the pile of silkworm corpses on the ground.

In no time, the Green Silk Gu devoured more than 10,000 silkworm corpses.

At this moment, a line of text appeared in Zhou Qing's field of vision.

【Occupation: Gu Master】

[Refinement: Green Silk Gu]

[Progress: Growth Stage (108/800)]

[Effects: Transforms alcohol vapor, regulates blood and qi, and promotes the production of silkworm cocoons]

"It has gained the ability to spin silk."

The Green Silk Gu was still somewhat unsatisfied, but under Zhou Qing's mental command, it returned to his body.

He felt a warm current flowing through his body, and his body became slightly warm, which relieved his hunger considerably.

"Is this... Qi and Blood Regulation?"

Zhou Qing realized what was happening.

Unfortunately, he still had to rely on these silkworms to spin silk and sell it for money; otherwise, what would it matter if they were all eaten by the Green Silk Gu?

"Since you can become stronger just by eating, then I'll let you eat your fill!"

A murderous glint flashed in Zhou Qing's eyes. If they didn't eat silkworms, they could eat other things.

As soon as he finished speaking, the Green Silk Gu responded immediately, showing affection and submission.

Zhou Qing tried to communicate with the Green Silk Gu in her mind.

"If I feed you poison, can you release the poison?"

"Pfft, pfft." The sound of the Green Silk Gu echoed in Zhou Qing's mind, which meant it was a confirmation.

"Can it poison people?" Zhou Qing asked again.

"Puff puff puff." The Green Silk Gu indicated that it depended on the strength of the poison ingested, or on accumulating a sufficient quantity.

Zhou Qing's mind flashed with Zhang Dahai's face.

"Since you can puff so much, let's call you Puff?" Zhou Qing changed the subject.

"Pfft!" The Green Silk Gu resisted.

“Don’t like it? Then call me… My name is Zhou Qing, and you are a Qing Si Gu, both of which contain the character ‘Qing’ (green). How about I call you Er Qing?” Zhou Qing said again.

"Puff."

"Okay, let's call him Erqing."

Zhou Qing nodded.

Looking at the now much emptier silkworm basket, I felt a pang of regret.

Now he can carry back fewer mulberry leaves, but correspondingly, his income will also decrease.

"Erqing, let me see your silk-spinning ability!"

Zhou Qing silently recited the mantra and extended his right hand.

The emerald green, crystalline body of the Green Silk Gu appeared in the palm of his right hand.

All that could be seen was a pair of tiny black eyes, no bigger than grains of rice, protruding from the head of the Green Silk Gu, with a slit splitting open below the eyes.

"Whoosh!"

The next moment, a corner of the top of the wooden frame of the silkworm room, two meters away, was suddenly cut off.

Zhou Qing looked surprised. He stepped forward and picked up the piece of wood that had fallen to the ground, only to find that the cut was very smooth.

Then he stood up and stared intently at the top of the wooden frame.

In the sunlight, only a thread much thinner than a hair could be barely seen sticking to the top of the wooden frame, and the end of the thread was connected to the mouth of the Green Silk Gu.

"Erqing, you're so strong?!"

"Pfft!" The Green Silk Gu was somewhat smug.

"Can I touch it?" Zhou Qing asked.

Then I received an affirmative answer.

He carefully touched the thread with his fingernail, and after finding it safe, he pulled it hard with his fingers. It was very resilient and did not break easily as it looked.

Then, he took a kitchen knife from the kitchen and gently cut it up and down without breaking the threads.

Then he began to exert force, and with great effort, he finally managed to cut the threads of the Green Silk Gu.

"Wouldn't it be wonderful if an inner armor could be woven from silk of this quality?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up, and his gaze toward the Green Silk Gu became increasingly intense.

At this moment, the Green Silk Gu expressed its unease, indicating that it was still in its growth stage and that spitting silk once or twice a day was already its limit.

"Don't worry, I won't do anything that kills the goose that lays the golden eggs!"

Zhou Qing extended his index finger and gently touched the plump, round body of the Green Silk Gu with the pad of his finger.

Since he started raising silkworms, his trypophobia has been cured.

Looking at these things now, they seem incredibly cute no matter how you look at them.

"If it can cut wood, it can slit a throat. And the thread is so thin, yet so strong; it's perfect for stabbing people."

Zhou Qing's gaze gradually deepened.

"Pfft~"

The Green Silk Gu's body twitched slightly.

Zhou Qing was startled, thinking he had been too rough.

"Whoosh!"

The Green Silk Gu leaped high from his hand and jumped into the silkworm winnowing basket.

The silkworms that were eating mulberry leaves suddenly stopped moving, as if they were dead.

As the Green Silk Gu wriggled, it actually produced a large clump of bright green feces.

Its weight was more than ten times its body size.

Soon, a fresh and elegant scent filled the silkworm rearing room, like the first breath of fresh air you take when you open the window in the morning.

rustle
The silkworms, which had stopped moving, suddenly rushed towards the cafeteria like a group of high school students who had just finished class.

The silkworms in the nearby winnowing baskets also began to gather towards the location of the green silkworm cake.

Even the silkworms on the next shelf were getting restless.

After the Green Silk Gu finished defecating, it returned to Zhou Qing's body and explained its behavior.

"You're saying this stuff is good for silkworms?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

He quickly grabbed a wooden shovel and distributed the Qing Si Gu's poop to each of the silkworms in the winnowing basket.

In just a few minutes, all the silkworms devoured the cake.

The silkworms that finished eating first actually started to molt.

"This is."

Zhou Qing's eyes widened.

These silkworms were originally in the fourth instar stage.

It will take another four or five days, and they will have to consume at least one or two thousand catties of mulberry leaves, before they can begin to molt, enter the fifth stage of silkworm development, and then spin silk.

Unexpectedly, after eating the excrement of the Green Silk Gu, it immediately began to shed its skin.

Under normal circumstances, they should be spinning silk by tonight at the latest.

Zhou Qing took down a pile of rectangular wooden boards from the shelf, with small compartments about three inches long on each board.

This is a tool specifically designed for silkworms to spin silk and form cocoons; it is called a square cluster.

He carefully placed the silkworms that had finished molting into the wooden cage.

In less than fifteen minutes, tens of thousands of silkworms began to spin silk.

"Is this the beginning?"

This joy of harvest can only be truly felt by those who have experienced a long period of cultivation and waiting.

On countless early mornings, before dawn, he would drink a bowl of thin porridge and then go up the mountain to pick mulberry leaves.

On countless nights after sunset, he would carry mulberry leaves down the mountain in the dark.

"It's getting better, it's getting better!"

PS: I've signed a contract! The editor is off work on the weekend, so I should be able to revise the status on Monday, and then I can update twice a day. The ancient setting is great! I can write however I want. This book will still follow the original outline of my previous book, hehehe (laughs). If you're reading this book, I hope you'll click on the latest chapter. Even just staying for 20 seconds counts as following the story, which is really important for a new author like me. Thank you!

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