Chapter 162 Substitute Gourd

"Seven gourd babies! Unfortunately, I am not grandpa!"

Xu Mu walked to the gourd vine, stretched out his fingers, squeezed out drops of bright red blood from his fingers, and kept falling on the roots of the gourd vine.

Gudonggudong!

The gourd vine seemed to be alive, constantly squirming and absorbing Xu Mu's blood, and then transferred it to the seven gourds.

The seven gourds also began to emit little bits of light from their original darkness, making them look magical and extraordinary.

Xu Mu dripped hundreds of drops of blood until one of the red gourds, which was the largest and closest to the root, suddenly fell off the vine.

Xu Mu, who was well prepared, stretched out his hand to catch it, looked up and down, with a hint of joy in his eyes.

"I hope you won't disappoint me!"

Xu Mu returned to the practice room with the red gourd.

He first took the elixir, closed his eyes and adjusted his breath to recover the lost energy, and then he opened his eyes and looked carefully at the red-skinned gourd in his hand.

The whole gourd is more than half a person tall. It is as red as red sand, with a small top and a big bottom. Its appearance is the same as that of an ordinary gourd.

Xu Mu stroked it up and down. The material was as cold as jade.

Xu Mu did not open it immediately, but first took out a three-foot-long white ice jade coffin, and then popped it out with one finger.

Bang!

Click!

The two voices merged together, and the next moment, the entire red-skinned gourd shattered inch by inch, revealing the scene inside.

Unlike ordinary gourds that are full of melon pulp and seeds, this gourd actually has a person lying inside.

A child of five or six years old!

The pink and jade carvings are carved, and the small eyes are tightly closed.

If you look carefully, you will find that this child is very similar to Xu Mu.

"The substitute gourd is indeed magical!"

The moment he saw the child, even Xu Mu couldn't help but marvel.

Although he had heard about it when he bought it, he wasn't sure until he actually saw it.

The reason why he planted this kind of gourd was to make a clone.

From now on, the main body stays at home, safe and worry-free, while the clone goes out to collect the resources and materials he wants on his behalf.

This is Xu Mu's future plan.

In order to find a suitable clone, he has spent a lot of effort in the past few years. Paper figures, puppets, refined corpses, living corpses, Gu worms, etc. all have various shortcomings. Fortunately, he finally got this so-called clone. There are calabash vines that have mutated from the three divine vines.

In order to cultivate this gourd vine, he had to put in half a catty of blood every day. Ordinary practitioners couldn't resist it. It was only he who dared to do this because he had a deep foundation.

Fortunately, hard work paid off and the training was finally successful.

However, we still have to try to see if it can be as magical as what the other party said.

Xu Mu lifted the child up and put it into the white cold jade coffin. Then he closed his eyes and concentrated, his hands quickly performed one magic formula after another, and he muttered words.

I don't know how long it took, but a little golden man jumped out of Xu Mu's head and jumped onto the child's body.

Then the little man lay down and gradually merged into the child's body.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Xu Mu and the child opened their eyes at the same time.

"This feels really amazing!"

They both spoke at the same time, and their voices and expressions were almost exactly the same, except that one was older and the other was younger.

After some attempts, it was discovered that this clone was not flawless.

First of all, he has no cultivation at all and needs to practice bit by bit. The other is that his soul is incomplete, which makes his cultivation progress extremely slow.

"No wonder it's so cheap!"

This substitute gourd looked magical, but it was actually just a seventh-level spiritual plant. If it was really too expensive, he couldn't afford it, let alone keep it.

So it is reasonable to have this shortcoming.

For other practitioners, limited by these two shortcomings, the clone is completely useless.

Because if you don’t cultivate to the same level, you won’t be able to help at all.

But only they themselves know how difficult it is to train a person from scratch to the same state as themselves.

The cost is too high, and it is not as cost-effective as making puppets and refining corpses. Coupled with the limitations of spiritual thoughts, it is destined that the clone will not achieve anything.

It is a pity to throw away, but it is useless to keep it.

So it’s useless!

But for Xu Mu, it is not a big problem.

Who told him to have a system!

No matter how talented he is, can he still be worse than his body?

Unlike those who have cultivated the golden elixir and achieved super-level achievements, their talents have been strengthened and improved many times, and they can definitely be ranked at the forefront at the same level.

So with the system in place, everything is no problem.

After Xu Mu figured everything out, he controlled Xu Da to leave the house and enter the city.

Because it was the first clone, Xu Mu directly named him Xu Da to save trouble.

This is the first time Xu Mu has visited his own city from the perspective of a child. In the past, he would only scan it with his spiritual mind.

There were people coming and going on the streets, and it was much more lively than when I first arrived.

According to Si Tan'er, with the completion of the defense formation, the population of Fang City began to increase rapidly, and with the subsequent promulgation of various laws and regulations, the population entered a stage of skyrocketing.

Although less than ten years have passed, the population has increased to more than 30,000 people, exceeding Baihefang City's peak period.

If Xu Mu hadn't intended to let Si Tan'er control it later, the population might have been even larger.

The reason why they are allowed to control the population is simply to avoid being in the limelight.

After all, this place is still nominally the territory of Liyang Sect. They are subject to the management of Liyang Sect. If they perform too outstandingly, they will be easily targeted.

Unless Xu Mu takes action when the time comes, it will cause endless trouble.

Of course, Xu Mu will not stop there, but will enter a more secretive way of development.

Referred to as underground forces!

This aspect falls under the management of Chi Feiyan.

With the support of a large number of spirit stones, the number of people has long expanded to thousands, and has spread almost to the entire Tianhe Sect area.

Xu Mu can obtain the most detailed information about all the forces in Tianhe Sect at the first time.

Because Xu Mu is strong enough, he can even directly seize the Tianhe Sect's position.

Of course, it may take hundreds of years to have that kind of strength.

The most important role of this force now is to sell Foundation Establishment Pills.

It is precisely with the huge wealth resold from both sides that Xu Mu can support everyone's cultivation and the development of his own power.

However, Baihefang City has long been self-sufficient, and even has a large surplus that can be used to improve the city's foundation.

"Hey! Kid! Which family are you from? Go back quickly!"

A group of patrolling guards saw Xu Mu's clone walking around alone on the street and couldn't help but stop him and shouted.

"oh!"

Xu Mu responded, but then looked at the clothes of several guards.

Although the entire set of protective armor is only of the first level, it is superior in that it has complete defense with almost no blind spots. The second-level halberd in his hand can be used for close combat or as a messenger.

Just adding these two together would cost five hundred low-grade spiritual stones.

As for their cultivation, they were all in the middle stage of Qi training, and only the leading team leader was in the late stage of Qi training.

This kind of equipment and cultivation is almost as good as the guards of Liyang City, and it is definitely unique among many cities.

There are a total of fifty such patrol teams in the entire city, patrolling continuously twelve hours a day to ensure order in the entire city.

From this point, we can also see how wealthy Baihefang City is.

It is precisely with these well-equipped patrol teams that Baihefang City can ensure a stable environment and develop rapidly.

There are patrol teams not only inside Fang City, but also in the outer shantytowns. There are more patrol teams than inside, a full hundred.

However, these one hundred teams are militia in nature. Fangshi will not provide resources and equipment, but will exempt them from rent and provide some management personnel.

It is precisely because of the existence of these one hundred teams that the shantytowns in Baihefang City have changed drastically compared to before. They are no longer as precarious as before and have a good living and business environment.

Now it has become very prosperous, and in terms of liveliness, it is not much worse than inside Fangshi.

In addition, there are various policies, such as ultra-low taxes, no bullying of customers and merchants, fair enforcement by managers, clear rewards and punishments, etc., which are also important factors in promoting prosperity.

All of this was naturally the work of Xu Mu, who took over various management policies from his previous life and modified them according to local conditions.

In fact, these are not complicated, even an ordinary person can think of them.

The reason for achieving good results is that Xu Mu has financial resources and military force.

Under the watchful eye of the guard, Xu Mu entered a nearby alley, turned around and ran out from another place, heading towards Muqiao Lane where he used to live.

All the once dilapidated houses have been repaired, and the streets are paved neatly and cleanly, with no trace of their original appearance at all.

However, Xu Mu knew that Ye Yingying and the others secretly rented the original house, and occasionally brought a few little ones to stay there for a few days.

Today, they happen to be here.

"Who are you? Why are you sneaking around in front of my house?"

Four little guys of five or six years old blocked Xu Mu's path.