Chapter 1588 The Secret of the Demonic Insect
Soul-searching is not a very complicated spell. Many cultivators know it, but there are many restrictions on its use. If it is not mastered well, the person whose soul is searched will be mentally damaged and become an idiot. Moreover, it must be used by a high-level cultivator on a low-level cultivator. If the difference between the two is not big, or the person whose mind is being cast is strong and fierce, the caster is likely to be backlashed, and then he will become an idiot. Therefore, if there is no absolute certainty, ordinary people rarely use it.
Qingyang also knows it, but he thinks this method is too cruel, so he rarely uses it. Now that he sees that Master Lingxu is unwilling to confess honestly, he uses it to scare him. Although the two are both Nascent Soul cultivators, Master Lingxu saw that Qingyang could defeat the Blood Demon Gu Mother with the strength of the middle stage of the Nascent Soul, and knew that the other party's true strength far exceeded his own, so there was no big problem in casting soul-searching on him. Master Lingxu is not afraid of death, but he is afraid of living a life worse than death. He used to be such a proud person. Thinking that if the soul search fails, he will become an idiot who knows nothing. He will be laughed at and bullied every day, but greeted with a smile. Just thinking about that makes his scalp numb.
Thinking of this, Master Lingxu gave up resistance and said, "Since you want to know about the Blood Demon Gu Mother so much, it doesn't matter if you tell you. Anyway, I don't know much..."
Then Master Lingxu honestly told Qingyang everything he knew about the Blood Demon Gu Mother. This Gu Mother is the secret of the Blood Demon Sect. There are even few records in the Blood Demon Sect's treasure book. It has always been passed down by word of mouth among the masters.
The Blood Demon Gu Mother is troublesome to raise, and it is extremely difficult to upgrade its level. It requires a high-level cultivator to endure great pain and willingly plant the Gu Mother on himself and raise it with his flesh and blood to succeed. Who would do such a thing? Only Lingxue Zhenren, knowing that he was about to die of his injuries and worried about his son's safety and the future of the Blood Demon Sect, took the initiative to plant the Gu on his body, but he didn't expect that before his son had time to use it, the mother Gu was snatched away by Qingyang.
It is precisely because the Blood Demon Gu is too powerful and too evil that high-level Blood Demon Gu is rare, and the higher the level of the Blood Demon Gu, the harder it is to produce Blood Demon Gu. Every time a Blood Demon Gu is produced, it must first use a spirit insect or underworld insect of the same level to mate with it, and then be eaten by it before there is a certain probability of producing a Blood Demon Gu. Sacrificing one can exchange for a Blood Demon Gu, and there is a possibility of failure. Let's not talk about the question of whether you are willing to sacrifice it, just getting a high-level spirit insect or underworld insect is not easy.
After listening to Master Lingxu's explanation, Qingyang finally understood the habits of the Blood Demon Gu. It was necessary to sacrifice other spiritual insects or underworld insects to obtain the Blood Demon Gu. No wonder the Tao family in Yongzhou easily took out many of them, while Master Lingxue only used one. The first and second level spiritual insects are much easier to find than the eighth and ninth level spiritual insects. Seeing that Master Lingxu was still honest, Qingyang did not embarrass him anymore, but threw him back to Elder Wusi and others to take care of him, and continued to study the mother of the Blood Demon Gu.
Speaking of spiritual insects or underworld insects, Qingyang had quite a few on him, including the entire colony of alcoholic bees, but the only one that could reach the Nascent Soul level was the alcoholic queen bee. However, the alcoholic queen bee had already awakened its spirit and transformed into a good helper for him in battle, so he was reluctant to give it to the mother of the Blood Demon Gu.
In addition, there is the corpse-eating mother worm. Qingyang got the corpse-eating mother worm from the desert ruins. At that time, in the misty cave, the corpse-eating mother worm gnawed the late-stage Nascent Soul Hun Su until only a skeleton was left. After Hun Su died, the corpse-eating mother worm was temporarily subdued by Qingyang.
Before Hun Su died, he said that the corpse-eating mother worm was also a very powerful underworld worm, but the mother worm had been sleeping for many years, and Qingyang had never used it. He didn't know how powerful it was. If he used it to mate with the blood demon Gu mother, he didn't know whether it was worth it.
After thinking for a long time, Qingyang felt that he still had to try it, because the blood demon Gu was too tempting. Not only was it a killing weapon, but it could also take other people's cultivation for his own use and improve his own cultivation. Ten years have passed since Qingyang broke through the Nascent Soul. Even with sufficient pills, he has not touched the threshold of the second level of the Nascent Soul. For Qingyang, who is used to quickly improving his cultivation, this is really a torment. Why not try other means? What if it succeeds?
Thinking of this, Qingyang took out the jade box containing the Blood Demon Gu Mother, opened the lid, and set up many restrictions outside, which broke the water drops outside the Gu Mother. After making all preparations, Qingyang took out a black stone, tore off the talisman outside, and threw it into the jade box.
The black stone was the cocoon formed by the corpse-eating mother worm. Now, more than 20 years have passed, and there has been no change at all. The Gu Mother seemed to have discovered the difference. She circled around the black cocoon with interest, releasing an unpleasant smell.
I don’t know how long it took, but the black cocoon finally reacted and began to tremble slightly in a certain rhythm. As the frequency of the tremor gradually increased, tiny cracks began to appear on the outside of the black cocoon. Then the cracks became more and more numerous and larger. Finally, with a click, the black cocoon completely split open, and a black worm crawled out of it.
Qingyang had already subdued the corpse-eating queen beetle long before she fell into a deep sleep. Now that the corpse-eating queen beetle had awakened, Qingyang immediately sensed her. However, this queen beetle was not very intelligent, so Qingyang could receive very little information. He could only feel that she was very excited at the moment.
The corpse-eating mother worm walked around the jade box, ate the scattered cocoon fragments, and then went straight to the mother worm of the blood demon Gu. The blood demon Gu mother worm, who had been very active before, suddenly became reserved at this time. Qingyang was anxious, so he used the method he asked from Master Lingxu to urge her. Then the two worms kept moving forward and backward in the jade box, kept contacting, and kept testing. After confirming that everything was correct, they began to mate.
Most of the spiritual insects and the dark insects are hermaphrodites, so mating is not a problem. Qingyang watched patiently from the side. The mating time of the two insects was not very long, and it was over in less than a cup of tea. Seeing the two tired insects separate, Qingyang was a little uneasy.
Master Lingxu had said before that after mating, the Gu mother would eat the corpse-eating mother worm, and the mother Gu's delivery was not 100% successful. If it was successful, he would get a blood demon Gu, which would give him an extra means of self-defense in the future, and he could even use it to improve his cultivation. But if he failed, the corpse-eating queen insect would be gone. Apart from the alcoholic queen bee in the Drunken Immortal Gourd that he was reluctant to use, he had no place to find a second Nascent Soul level insect.