The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 312: Completion of the Repair Gu

After leaving Di Xin's private chambers, Long Xuan returned to his room and officially began implementing his plan for refining the Tribulation Gu.

At the same time, he casually managed to improve the recipe for the Face-Changing Gu, which didn’t take much of his time.

The materials required to refine the Face-Changing Gu were not rare. After taking another batch of resources from Di Xin, he had everything needed for the refinement.

However, the Face-Changing Gu no longer deserved its original name.

Now, the Gu could not only change faces but also transform entire appearances, so Long Xuan renamed it the Transformation Gu.

The Transformation Gu was undoubtedly a unique creation, with a far higher potential than the original Face-Changing Gu.

With this, all of his Gu insects had finally been upgraded to unique creations exclusive to him.

Long Xuan didn’t intend to refine just one Transformation Gu; he planned to refine many of them.

It had to be said that his Heavenly Demon Soul-Splitting Divine Technique was truly extraordinary.

While others needed a blood contract to control their Gu insects, his Soul Clones could directly control them. Since the control wasn’t based on a blood contract, he could manage many of the same type of Gu insect simultaneously. The number he could control might even reach hundreds or thousands.

For instance, in the Sky Island ruins, he was able to control twenty Earth Masters at once.

Using this method, he could give each of his clones a Transformation Gu, allowing all of them to disguise themselves perfectly.

When all his clones transformed into different people with varied appearances and physiques, no one would ever know they were his clones.

This ability shouldn’t be underestimated. By having his clones play different roles and cooperate with him to act in front of others, he could implement countless schemes and deceive many people.

He refined both the Transformation Gu and the Repair Gu at the same time.

All he needed was patience, as he threw himself fully into working on the Tribulation Gu recipe in the meantime.

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Four months passed in the blink of an eye.

Long Xuan held a black toad in his hands, stroking its back lovingly as though he couldn’t bear to let it go.

This was the Repair Gu, finally completed after four months of effort, just delivered to him by his Fire Clone.

At this moment, Long Xuan couldn’t focus on studying the Tribulation Gu recipe anymore. He quickly stopped what he was doing, rushed over, and immediately began examining the Repair Gu. His first action was to establish a blood contract with it.

Compared to its predecessor, the Repair Insect, the Repair Gu had not changed much in appearance. Both were entirely black, though the Gu’s body was now significantly larger.

Their abilities were also the same in nature, but the Repair Gu’s power was greatly enhanced.

Both the Repair Insect and the Repair Gu had a deep, bottomless black hole in their mouths. The end of this black hole was impossible to see.

This black hole appeared to be a unique spatial pathway leading to an unknown world. Although the Repair Gu itself was not large, the space within the black hole was vast and capable of swallowing anything.

Anything devoured by the black hole and then regurgitated by the Repair Gu would emerge completely renewed.

Old, worn items would be restored to their original state.

Broken objects would have their missing parts repaired.

This ability was practically heaven-defying and undeniably fascinating.

Long Xuan immediately began studying this incredible power with great enthusiasm.

He wanted to see just how much stronger the Repair Gu’s abilities were compared to its predecessor, the Repair Insect.

Long Xuan casually took out a piece of low-grade spirit stone from his storage ring. He crushed the spirit stone and threw one of the fragments into the mouth of the Repair Gu.

Not long after, the Repair Gu spat out a whole low-grade spirit stone. Long Xuan quickly caught it with sharp reflexes.

Examining the stone carefully, he found it identical to the one he had just crushed—as if it had been cast from the same mold. The low-grade spirit stone he crushed earlier had been split into ten fragments. If he were to feed all ten fragments into the Repair Gu, wouldn’t it produce ten whole spirit stones for him in no time?

Long Xuan’s breathing quickened. Such an ability was nothing short of defying the heavens.

Thinking further, he realized that with this ability, he could create numerous priceless treasures.

However, Long Xuan knew that the more heaven-defying an ability, the greater its limitations. It was too early to celebrate.

He began feeding various treasures into the mouth of the Repair Gu to test the limits of its abilities.

After an extended period of experimentation, Long Xuan had a clearer understanding of the Repair Gu's capabilities.

The Repair Gu, transformed from the Repair insect, could restore the majority of treasures in the Gu world—except for heaven-defying treasures exceeding the fourth grade.

The time required to repair treasures varied based on their grade.

For first-grade treasures, the repair was quick; for fourth-grade treasures, the process was significantly slower.

This aligned with natural laws, which Long Xuan had already anticipated.

Moreover, the Repair Gu was a living creature. It needed rest and couldn’t work non-stop 24 hours a day, nor could its ability be used indefinitely.

This also adhered to the natural order, and such limitations were reasonable.

However, the Repair Gu’s evaluation of a treasure’s value differed from human judgment.

Sometimes, a treasure deemed low-value by humans might be considered high-value by the Repair Gu, thus taking longer to repair. Conversely, a treasure considered highly valuable by humans might not hold the same value to the Repair Gu, allowing for a quicker repair.

Additionally, the time required for the Repair Gu to restore different types of treasures was unpredictable and couldn’t be calculated. The discretion was entirely up to the Repair Gu.

It would decide when to spit out the repaired treasure.

Being impatient was futile.

Sometimes, if the Gu decided to nap, you might have to wait a long time for your treasure to emerge.

For these reasons, while the Repair Gu could provide him with more treasures, it wasn’t a production machine, and the resources it could generate were very limited.

This meant that when he needed to refine Gu or pills in the future and collect large quantities of materials, he would still have to spend a great deal of time crafting treasures to trade with others.

Thinking of relying on the Repair Gu for a leisurely life was simply impossible.

This realization greatly disappointed Long Xuan.

He had initially thought that with the Repair Gu, he could stay at home every day without worrying about food or drink, leading a peaceful, retired life.

Now, his dream had burst like a bubble.

The Repair Gu’s ability was far from being so heaven-defying; it couldn’t instantly create mountains of wealth for him.

Perhaps a Repair Gu with the power to sustain such a lifestyle did exist, but only one requiring tens of millions of materials could achieve that. The current weakened version, which required just tens of thousands of materials, was simply too weak.

At this moment, the Repair Gu, having repaired too many items, appeared exhausted and refused to eat anything more that Long Xuan tried to feed it.

Long Xuan sighed inwardly. "Hard work leads to wealth. If I don’t push myself at this young age, how will I succeed? Only by enduring hardship can one rise above others. Without suffering, how can there be a brighter tomorrow?"

Seeing this lazy attitude from the Repair Gu, Long Xuan had no choice but to put it back into the insects-rearing bag to let it rest.