The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 310: Brainstorming the Next Gu Recipe

Seeing the ship, everyone turned pale, their faces filled with terror.

“Oh no! The Black Dragon Pirate Crew is here to rob us, and this time the Black Dragon Gu King himself is leading them. What do we do?”

“Damn it! This Black Dragon Pirate Crew is like a haunting ghost. We've wiped out batch after batch of them, yet they keep coming back!”

“We're heading toward the Central Lands. How could they have known we were here? This is like seeing a ghost!”

The deck was in chaos, with people panicking and losing their composure.

After all, the Black Dragon ship carried more than one Gu King. How could they not be scared?

Di Xin's expression turned grave. Without hesitation, she ran to the giant cannon, grabbed five peak-grade Spirit Stones, and decisively loaded them into the cannon chamber before firing a shot directly at the Black Dragon Ship.

“Boom!”

A cannonball with five distinct colors shot out. The mighty roar shook the entire Shenlong Ship violently.

From the Black Dragon Ship, a bald man flew out, shouting, “A petty trick!” He then struck the incoming cannonball with his palm. The Black Dragon Ship was enormous and slow to maneuver, making it impossible to dodge the cannonball. It had to be blocked manually.

Confident in his Gu King peak-level strength, the bald man paid no heed to the cannonball.

However, as his palm connected with it, his expression immediately changed. “This is bad,” he muttered inwardly.

He realized too late that this cannonball was no ordinary projectile. By the time he wanted to dodge, it was already impossible.

With a miserable cry, the cannonball’s impact sent him flying, his body and the cannonball crashing straight into the Black Dragon Ship.

The Black Dragon’s pupils shrank as he instinctively reached out to catch the flying bald man.

“Boom!!!”

The cannonball exploded with a deafening roar. The two men were caught in the full blast.

This was the fourth-tier power of the giant cannon, fueled by peak-grade Spirit Stones. This was the first time the cannon had ever fired a shell of this level.

A shell powered by peak-grade Spirit Stones was no trivial matter.

The massive Black Dragon Ship was pushed back several dozen feet by the explosion, sustaining severe damage.

Shrieks filled the ship as people clutched their bleeding ears, their faces twisted in pain. Countless pirates were killed outright by the sudden blast.

Even though the Shenlong Ship was far away, the shockwave from the explosion sent it skidding backward, its hull rocking violently.

But Di Xin wasn’t done. Her face still solemn, she loaded another five peak-grade Spirit Stones into the giant cannon and fired at the already-crippled Black Dragon Ship.

Boom!

She loaded another five peak-grade Spirit Stones and fired again. Then again, and again.

“Boom!”

“Boom!!”

“Boom!!!”

Three more deafening explosions followed. The massive Black Dragon Ship could no longer withstand the relentless cannon fire. It disintegrated, fragments flying in all directions.

What happened to the people onboard was anyone’s guess.

The ship was now engulfed in flames and thick black smoke, making it impossible to see anything clearly.

“Let’s go!”

“Hug the coastline!”

“Whether they’re dead or not, the ship is definitely going down. Without it, I refuse to believe they can fly across the Endless Sea.”

Di Xin sneered. At her command, the Shenlong Ship turned and began heading in another direction.

Onboard, everyone stared at her with wide eyes, completely stunned.

They secretly marveled: What a wealthy woman the captain admires! She tosses peak-grade Spirit Stones like they’re nothing.

The fourth-tier cannon fired four consecutive shots, and she didn’t even blink. How deep were her pockets?

Peak-grade Spirit Stones were so rare that finding even one in an entire mine was considered lucky. Yet she casually brought out twenty.

How unfathomable was her wealth?

The crew collectively swallowed their saliva.

“Who fired the cannon?!”

At this point, Long Xuan finally appeared, rushing out.

Seeing the wreckage in the distance, he froze in shock.

“It’s over. By the time you showed up, the cucumber and the vegetables were already cold.”

“The fourth-tier cannon performed admirably. The Black Dragon Ship couldn’t withstand it. You missed a good show.”

Di Xin smirked and glanced at Long Xuan. “By the way, I fired four shots in a row. Are you going to reimburse me?”

Long Xuan's scalp immediately tingled. Good heavens, twenty peak-grade Spirit Stones—she just threw them away like that? Did her family’s peak-grade Spirit Stones come for free? Such extravagance.

Peak-grade Spirit Stones were incredibly rare. At the moment, he didn’t even have a single one on him, let alone twenty. Where was he supposed to find twenty peak-grade Spirit Stones for her?

He silently mourned for the Black Dragon. That was four peak-grade Spirit Stone cannonballs! Who knew how it was doing now?

The Gu King might be able to dodge the cannonballs, but if it didn’t, and was struck directly by peak-grade Spirit Stone cannonballs, it would be gravely injured if not killed outright. Especially since Di Xin had just fired four consecutive shots.

The Black Dragon’s misfortune was running into such a wealthy woman.

Long Xuan sighed. In a barren region, a few hundreds of millions Spirit Stones might suffice to obtain a single peak-grade one. But in a larger region, even a billion Spirit Stones might not be enough.

He wouldn’t dare offer to reimburse something like this, so he quickly turned to the surrounding crew members and said,

“Protecting the Shenlong ship is a collective responsibility, and everyone should contribute. It’s not fair for one person to bear all the costs.”

“If she really used twenty peak-grade Spirit Stones just now, we should all chip in to reimburse her.”

“But I just came out of the cabin earlier and didn’t see her take out any peak-grade Spirit Stones. Did any of you see her?”

The moment Long Xuan finished speaking, the crew members immediately shook their heads like rattles.

You must be joking! Peak-grade Spirit Stones were far beyond their means. How could they dare to tell the truth now?

“No! Didn’t see it! I’ve never seen her take out any peak-grade Spirit Stones!”

“Wasn’t she holding a low-grade Spirit Stone earlier? I didn’t see it clearly!”

“Me neither! Did she even fire any cannons? I didn’t notice!”

The crew started chattering, each offering false testimony.

At this moment, Long Xuan pulled out his Integrity Gu. Seeing that the Integrity Gu didn’t light up, he turned to Di Xin with a puzzled expression.

Di Xin gave him a fierce glare. She never expected this shameless man to actually reimburse her. How dare he bring out the Integrity Gu? Did that thing even have credibility anymore? That Gu was just as shameless as its owner!

The attack by the Black Dragon ship was just a minor interlude. After it was over, Long Xuan returned to his cabin and took out a mysterious fruit. As he gazed at it, his expression grew complicated.

It was for this very fruit that he had left his home and clan behind.

But he never expected that once he left, there would be no going back.

Whether it was the repair Insect in his body or the secrets revealed during his battle with Jun Zaitian, neither allowed him to return to the Long clan.

As the Long Alliance grew stronger, the Far West Long clan was no longer the dominant force among the many Long clans.

Carrying such a priceless treasure back home wouldn’t bring safety—it would only attract greater peril.

The Heaven-Mending Fruit, capable of enhancing innate talent, had cost him dearly.

Currently, he had several of these fruits, but he hadn’t eaten even one.

After all, one person could only consume a single Heaven-Mending Fruit in a lifetime. Long Xuan planned to refine the fruit into a Spirit Pill to maximize its effects.

The medicinal power of a Spirit Pill would far surpass that of the raw fruit, providing much greater benefits. However, doing so would require a massive investment of time to create an entirely new pill recipe.

A pill capable of enhancing talent was undoubtedly a heaven-defying creation and would not be easy to develop.

Long Xuan had a premonition: the moment he successfully created such a pill, it would surely attract heavenly tribulation.

In this world, heaven-defying pills often summoned heavenly tribulations. If a pill to enhance talent didn’t qualify as heaven-defying, then what would?

But dealing with heavenly tribulation was far beyond his abilities.

What if, after all the effort of refining the pill, he ended up getting struck dead by lightning?

This dilemma was why he had yet to begin creating the pill recipe.

He was torn. Should he consume the Heaven-Mending Fruit directly, or take the risk to maximize its effects by refining it?

Staring at the fruit for a long time, he finally decided: rather than endlessly hesitating, why not create a Gu that could devour heavenly tribulation?

This way, the issue of heavenly tribulation would be resolved, and he could refine the Spirit Pill with peace of mind.

Once the idea took root, he couldn’t stop himself and immediately began drafting a plan.

On the paper, he wrote:

Tribulation Gu

Main Ingredient: Tribulation Insect

Description: A powerful Gu that feeds on heavenly tribulation. This elemental Gu’s body takes the form of lightning, rendering it immune to all physical attacks.

The Thunder Tribulation List includes ten types of tribulation lightning. The Tribulation Gu evolves by consuming them one by one:

- Consuming the tenth-ranked Extinguishing Lightning completes its first evolution, granting mastery over this tribulation.

- Consuming the ninth-ranked Rebirth Lightning completes its second evolution, granting mastery over this tribulation.

And so on.

The Tribulation Gu’s evolution path involves collecting all ten types of tribulation lightning. Once the Gu unites them, it achieves perfection and gains power capable of destroying the heavens and earth.

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Long Xuan stopped writing, his breath quickening. This Gu could unleash the devastating force of heavenly tribulation. What creature could possibly withstand such an attack?

Even if the Tribulation Gu only wielded the weakest Extinguishing Lightning, it would be enough to obliterate most beings.

Heavenly tribulation, even in its weakest form, was not something ordinary creatures could endure.

However, the Tribulation Gu’s weakness was also obvious: its evolution was painstakingly slow.

Each evolution required it to consume a type of tribulation lightning—but heavenly tribulation wasn’t something one could encounter easily.

This meant he would need to continue creating heaven-defying pill recipe.

For the Gu’s first evolution, he would need to develop a recipe capable of summoning the tenth-ranked Extinguishing Lightning.

For its second evolution, he would need a recipe to summon the ninth-ranked Rebirth Lightning.

And so on, each step more challenging than the last.

In total, he would need to create ten heaven-defying pill recipe, enough to make Long Xuan feel an ache in his soul just thinking about it.