Chapter Fifty-two: Refining Gu, Success
"It's an honor to have someone like Mr. Gu living in my small city, I'm thrilled! If Mr. Gu needs anything, just let me know, and I'll take care of it. In the entire empire, I may not be anyone important, but in this city, what I say goes. As soon as Gu Yun said he wanted to stay here for a while, Mu Rongyong immediately got excited, thinking about how he could keep Gu Yun from leaving. After all, a medical cultivator like him wouldn't normally stay in a small county like this. People at his level usually become imperial physicians or discuss and refine their skills with other medical cultivators at the Medical God Temple. At their level, not much can move them except for advancements in their cultivation. So, you can imagine how excited Mu Rongyong was when Gu Yun said he wanted to stay."
Looking at Murong Yong's appearance, Gu Yun smiled faintly, not thinking that his identity as a doctor was still so popular. It seemed that it could really save him a lot of trouble. However, Gu Yun didn't have the mood to bother with Murong Yong now, he was eager to see today's harvest. He told Murong Yong that he was feeling a bit tired from treating patients and needed to rest for a while, then returned to his residence amidst Murong Yong's thousand thanks.
As soon as he returned to the house, after exchanging greetings with the two women, Gu Yun hastily took out the small jade bottle. Looking through the bottle at the golden light inside that was moving about wildly, even with Gu Yun's composure, he still felt a little excited. This was the Golden Silk Wasp, also known as the King of Wasps, and he hadn't expected to encounter it himself. He really didn't know if Murong Yong was lucky or unlucky, able to come across this rare thing that only appeared once in a thousand years, but coming across him was definitely Murong's good fortune - not everyone would recognize the Golden Silk Wasp. Gu Yun had only learned of its existence through the poisonous manual his master had given him, which was divided into three parts: poison, wasp, and curse, each part recording many kinds of ordinary, rare, and scarce poisonous substances.
Gu technique is a method of controlling humans or other living beings through the use of Gu insects. To cultivate Gu technique, one must first find a mother Gu and refine it into their own innate blood Gu. Then, they can divide the innate blood Gu to produce child Gu larvae, which are then implanted into the body of the target being through various means. The child Gu will grow into an adult in the host's body, at which point the person possessing the mother Gu can control the host's actions through the child Gu. Even if it means making them commit suicide, they will do so without hesitation. However, the cultivation level of the controlled person cannot be too much higher than that of the controller, or else the host will immediately refine the child Gu. In such a case, the cultivator of Gu technique may suffer light or heavy injuries, or even death. Despite this, Gu technique is still considered an evil art in the cultivation world, and its practitioners are hunted down by other cultivators. After all, silently controlling someone's life and death is something that even cultivators find difficult to accept.
The Golden Silk Gu is the number one mother Gu in the Gu world, known as the "Gu King". No one knows its origin, but to those who cultivate Gu techniques, it is a treasure. Ordinary Gu can only split into one or several child Gu to control others, while the Golden Silk Gu can infinitely split into child Gu, like controlling several people at once, which is terrifying. Moreover, the Golden Silk Gu has some advantages that other Gu cannot match, such as short growth time and strong concealment. Other Gu take several hours to grow into adult Gu, but the Golden Silk Gu only takes a few breaths. Ordinary Gu are at least the size of a grain of rice, but the Golden Silk Gu's child Gu is as thin as a hair and extremely fast. Even if cultivators discover the existence of the Golden Silk Gu, if they can't avoid its lightning-fast speed, they will be controlled in just a few breaths. With so many overbearing characteristics, it's no exaggeration to say that it's the treasure of Gu cultivators.
It's just that the Golden Silk Spider is too hard to find, and no one knows its origin, so there aren't many people who have actually owned one. But every single person who has owned it has been a powerful figure for a time. Gu Yun couldn't help but feel that his luck was really good, being able to encounter a newly born Golden Silk Spider here. As soon as he took a look at Mu Rong Yu's son's situation, he discovered the existence of the Golden Silk Spider, and it wasn't even someone else's offspring, but an immature mother spider. This discovery almost made Gu Yun jump up in excitement. However, trying to catch this young spider was still a bit difficult, of course, if one didn't consider Mu Rong Yu's son's life, then the difficulty wouldn't be much. If that were the case, Mu Rong Yu would probably be the first to fight with him to the death, so in the end, Gu Yun thought of that treatment method and asked for Mu Rong Yu's help to catch the Golden Silk Spider. Otherwise, it would still be a bit difficult for him to catch alone.
Looking at the golden silkworm in the jade bottle, Gu Yun's mouth corner floated a hint of a smile. Since the golden silkworm has been captured now, it should be refined as soon as possible. Otherwise, when it grows into an adult insect, the difficulty will increase greatly.
As he pondered the method of refining his Benming Blood Gu in his mind, Gu Yun immediately made a decision. There are two methods for refining Benming Blood Gu, one is to directly feed it with one's own essence blood, and when the larvae grow up, they can be used. This feeding method is simple and easy to operate, and the success rate is also relatively high. However, the drawback is that after the Gu insect matures, it must continue to feed on its own essence blood without interruption, otherwise, it will happen to counterattack its master. It's worth noting that essence blood is extremely precious for cultivators, spiritual power can disappear, and after a period of bitter practice, it will come back, but essence blood takes a long time to condense into a single drop. This feeding method is not something ordinary people can bear, and the Blood Gu fed by this method is also difficult to control, and there is often a risk of counterattack.
Another way is to completely erase the mother Gu's spiritual intelligence and then divide one's own primordial spirit into a thread to enter the mother Gu's body to replace its spiritual intelligence. In this way, the mother Gu can be thoroughly controlled and can be considered as one of his own magical treasures. However, the disadvantage of this method is that it is too easy to fail. The mother Gu's spiritual intelligence is like human thought, you want to erase her thoughts without harming her life, which is still very difficult to do. Moreover, since it is refined with one's own primordial spirit, if the mother Gu suffers damage, its master will also suffer damage.
So, many people still choose to use the first method to refine the mother Gu, after all, that method is easier to succeed, and the danger is not so high. The second method is completely opposite, not only has a high failure rate, but also the released child Gu will be refined by others, if the mother Gu is harmed, then one's own life will not be good either. At the same time, the rarity of the mother Gu is also one of the reasons why most people choose to use the first method to refine it, the mother Gu is not a common insect that can be found easily, if one's moral character is not good, even after searching for ten or eight years, they may not find one.
Although so, Gu Yun still chose to use the second method to refine this Golden Silk Spider. With Gu Yun's powerful yuan soul and divine sense, he had great confidence in successfully refining it. Moreover, the poisonous scripture given by his master for refining the Mother Spider was different from the ordinary ones, with a much higher success rate. He didn't want to refine a Mother Spider that would easily backlash against him, which would be pointless.
Taking a deep breath, Gu Yun decided to refine the Golden Silk Bee now. Following the method in the Poison Classic, Gu Yun first forced out a drop of pure blood. Looking at the pure blood floating in front of him, Gu Yun's face also showed a hint of heartache. Although he had more pure blood than other cultivators due to his cultivation of the Nine Turns Golden Body Technique and the Returning Spring True Qi, he still felt some heartache. He dripped this drop of pure blood into the small jade bottle, and the Golden Silk Bee that was struggling inside immediately rushed towards the dropped pure blood, greedily absorbing the spiritual energy within it. In just a few breaths' time, the drop of pure blood Gu Yun had dripped down had already disappeared, and the Golden Silk Bee's length had changed from about one inch to now one centimeter long. The golden color on its body became even more intense, but also finer and smaller, which was also a characteristic of the Golden Silk Bee - the more it grew, the longer and thinner it became.
Looking at the now calm Golden Silk Wasp, Gu Yun smiled faintly. The method in the Toxic Scripture was indeed effective. After absorbing the essence and blood of its mother, the wasp would become much calmer than usual. This was the perfect opportunity to refine it. Without hesitation, Gu Yun removed the seal from the mouth of the jade bottle and gently coaxed out the Golden Silk Wasp. As he looked at the motionless wasp floating in mid-air, Gu Yun's hands flew swiftly, casting a series of hand seals. With a low shout of "Seal!", a thin beam of white light slowly emerged from the wasp's body, following Gu Yun's hand seals, and hovered before him. Looking at the strand of Golden Silk Wasp's spiritual energy in front of him, Gu Yun waved his hand, and it dispersed into the air. The Golden Silk Wasp remained motionless, but Gu Yun's divine sense could still probe its internal vitality. A hint of a smile appeared on Gu Yun's lips - he had succeeded. Next, a small golden light emerged from Gu Yun's forehead, gradually growing larger until it reached the size of a soybean. The golden light transformed into a tiny golden figure that looked exactly like Gu Yun. The little golden man turned his head and looked around before suddenly darting into the Golden Silk Wasp's body with a whoosh. In an instant, the previously motionless wasp sprang to life, transforming into a golden light that whirled around Gu Yun at incredible speed, leaving him somewhat astonished.
