Walking alone with a sword, slaying ghosts and gods

Chapter 32: The legendary poisonous insect, the poisonous golden silkworm
At night, inside Chixin Temple.

Lu Cheng didn't have the habit of asking for help without any reason, so after Tang Shi expressed his attitude, he agreed to the matter.

He took out a wooden box from his Qiankun bag, opened it and placed it in front of Tang Shi.

Inside the wooden box, a green demon pill was placed on a brocade, which was emitting a dense aura. The monks of the Gu God Cult were good at raising Gu, which was also a kind of demon beast. It was naturally beneficial to devour a demon pill of the same attribute.

This wood-attributed third-level demon pill was prepared by Lu Cheng over the past five years, and it cost him nine hundred and twenty spirit stones, which is not a small amount of money for a cultivator in the Foundation Establishment Stage.

Over the past five years, Lu Cheng had purchased a large piece of lightning-struck wood, a third-level wood-attributed demon pill, materials to assist in practicing magic, and various Taoist books through traveling merchants.

Even though he had obtained a lot of spirit stones and spiritual objects from the Li, Tu, Zou, and You families, they had been mostly used up after being spent continuously over the past five years.

But it is worth it as long as the resources are effectively converted into combat power. Lu Cheng is not a miser.

Lu Cheng did not take it out before Tang Shi agreed, but took it out after Tang Shi had clearly agreed to him.

This made Tang Shi slightly stunned.

Then, he looked at the demon pill and smiled:

"Compared to this demon pill, I care more about your intention in dating me, my dear brother."

"However, this demon pill is indeed helpful for my cultivation, so I will price it at 1,200 spirit stones. I will give it to you after I raise the money."

As he said that, Tang Shi closed the wooden box and put it away.

Then the two of them talked for a while, and then cast a spell to wake up the drunk Taoist children around them, and asked them to call people to clean up the courtyard and help the Chen brothers and sisters back to their own rooms.

Lu Cheng himself had a good alcohol tolerance. After sending Tang Shi and the Chen brothers and sisters to rest, he did not return to his room.

Instead, he moved to the back mountain of Chixin Temple, a relatively hidden cave in the forest.

When the Taoist temple was built, no expense was spared and the builders worked hard. The newly built Chixin Temple is much more magnificent and larger than the one back then.

This place is usually sparsely populated. After the temple master listed it as a forbidden area, the disciples of the Chixin Temple, who regarded it as a true immortal incarnated into the world, no one dared to approach here.

The entrance to the cave in the mountain was sealed with wooden fences, so it was windproof and rainproof. Lu Cheng pushed open the wooden fence and walked in. He saw many women wearing closed leather clothes, cleaning the place.

Because the breeding of Gu must be very clean, or in other words, all factors that may cause adverse mutations must be eliminated as much as possible.

"Guanzhu."

"Master Guanzhu."

As Lu Cheng walked in, the women in closed leather jackets all saluted him.

From time to time, He Lan, who was also dressed as a steward, came over and said:

"Master, the golden silkworm Gu is growing very well. Now its shell has completely hardened." There was excitement in his words.

Upon hearing this, Lu Cheng did not answer her, but walked quickly into the depths of the cave. There was a pit in the depths of the cave, which was densely packed with the remnants of various poisonous insects. In the center, a light golden poisonous insect with hideous spikes all over its body was crawling.

The golden silkworm Gu, a legendary poisonous insect in southern Xinjiang.

Before Lu Chengwei came to Ishihara County, the common people here would raise little ghosts and poisonous insects, hoping to gain magical powers and change their destiny.

There is a miasma river next to Ishihara County. As the name suggests, the miasma is diffuse. The miasma will only dissipate a little at noon when the sun is the strongest every day.

But even if the weather is good, few people dare to go fishing in the Zhanjiang River. Living things evolve naturally, and there are fish in the Zhanjiang River, which can even be eaten. Therefore, the fishermen who dare and can go fishing in the Zhanjiang River have much better living conditions than most local people.

But in addition to the miasma, there are also a large number of Yin spirit poisonous insects in the Miasma River. If the locals do not raise ghosts and poisonous insects, they will die after a few trips to the Miasma River to fish. The mountains and forests near Ishihara County are in a similar situation.

Miasma, wild beasts, evil spirits, and poisonous insects can all kill people.

It is said that if you live by the mountain, you can eat the mountain; if you live by the water, you can eat the water. However, the situation in Ishihara County is that there are mountains and water but the people are so poor that they can hardly survive.

Then Taoist Lu Cheng came. He established the Chixin Temple, killed local tyrants, distributed land, developed water conservancy, emphasized education, and opened up trade routes.

After doing all these things one by one, Lu Cheng didn't need to do anything more. After learning about the harm of raising yin and raising poisonous insects from the children who were learning to read and write in the Chixin Temple, the locals spontaneously sent their little ghosts to the temple for salvation and sent the poisonous insects they raised to the temple for disposal.

There are very few evil spirit poisonous insects in the Zhanjiang River now, and since the opening of the trade route, all industries in Ishihara County have prospered, and people will not starve to death no matter what they do. Why do they have to go down to the river and compete with those evil spirits for food?

The little ghost was suppressed in the Chixin Temple for the purpose of salvation. It would not be a good idea to burn the poisonous insects sent in by the local people of Ishihara County in one go, as they were the result of the hard work of the local people.

In addition, Lu Cheng also learned some techniques of raising and dispersing poisonous insects from the books of Gu Master Ruan Cai. He simply used the back mountain to gather all the collected poisonous insects in a jar.

But even Lu Cheng had not anticipated that quantitative change would lead to qualitative change. After putting all of Ruan Cai's poisonous insects and the collected poisonous insects into a jar, these poisonous insects would eventually breed a legendary poisonous insect.

"Could it be that I am a genius in witchcraft?"

Thinking of this, Lu Cheng laughed at himself, and then a small green tripod suddenly appeared in his hand, the Jiuli Tripod. This treasure could be easily integrated into the body like the legendary natal magic weapon, and could be summoned at any time.

As its magic power pushed forward, the lid of the small green tripod opened and emitted a golden rainbow light, which collected all the poisonous golden silkworm Gu in the pit and the surviving Gu in the surrounding pits.

The next moment, the green tripod disappeared, and the poisonous golden silkworm Gu with its fangs bared fell into Lu Cheng's palm with a snap.

It tried hard to bite and sting Lu Cheng's palm, but every time a golden light bounced it away.

Unlike the extremely weak young fire dragon he had captured before, Lu Cheng could sense that he could drive this golden silkworm Gu to fight for him, but the time was very short and it would consume his own spiritual consciousness.

After biting for a while and realizing that it was indeed powerless against the huge monster in front of it, the golden silkworm Gu hesitated for a while, then crawled along the Taoist's arm all the way to Lu Cheng's shoulder and cheek. After determining the position, it pounced on and bit Lu Cheng's face fiercely.

But it was still blocked by a layer of golden light and could not hurt the Taoist at all.

"It's really fierce, you should come back."

As Lu Cheng's mind moved, the golden silkworm Gu turned into a golden light and merged into Lu Cheng's body, and was absorbed back into the Jiuli Ding.

After this intake, the ancient tripod that was slowly rotating in his body would have to rest for several years.

But Lu Cheng could sense that the golden silkworm Gu was placed in a world by it and was happily exploring it. It pounced on the back of a white rabbit and bit it to death.

It's not for eating, but the bloody smell makes the golden silkworm Gu happy and excited.

In the endless primordial world, all creatures in the frosty sky compete for freedom.

"The last bit of luck regarding Gu worms in this land has been taken away by me. From now on, Ishihara County will no longer need Gu worms."

As he spoke, Taoist Lu Cheng stretched out his arms, and a blazing magic fire burned on his slanted palms. The next moment, the Taoist threw the red magic fire into the pit, igniting the remnants of the dead poisonous insects, which quickly spread.

"Let's go. Ishihara will never need the Gu worm again."

Lu Cheng walked out of the cave and said this as he stopped the women who rushed in to put out the fire.

(End of this chapter)