The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Chapter 373: Alloy Formula

Long Xuan immediately raised his hand and said, "I’ll take this blueprint."

"I have the alchemy recipe for a third-grade Blood Soul Pill. This pill can temporarily boost combat power at the cost of burning blood and soul. Do you need this recipe?"

He had a substantial collection of pill recipes. Besides those he created himself, he had also looted many from Master Sun and Master Wei. The Blood Soul Pill recipe was one of Master Wei’s prized collections.

Hearing someone was interested in her incomplete artifact blueprint, the beautiful alchemist looked pleasantly surprised.

She had thought her incomplete blueprint might go unsold. To her surprise, someone was genuinely interested in it.

With delight, she said, "I don’t have the Blood Soul Pill recipe, so I’m willing to trade."

With that, she used her soul power to send her blueprint to Long Xuan. In turn, Long Xuan sent her the Blood Soul Pill recipe using his soul power. The trade was completed swiftly.

The trading continued. After the beautiful alchemist traded her blueprint, she brought out several high-grade spiritual artifacts. This time, they didn’t go unnoticed, and they were quickly snapped up.

After she stepped down, a white-haired alchemist soon took the stage.

Time passed second by second, but Long Xuan did not come across any more treasures that moved him. Other than the treasures he obtained at the beginning of the event, he gained nothing further, leaving him somewhat disappointed.When the trading event reached its intermission, Long Xuan got up and left.

He planned to let his clone take over for him. With plenty of time before the Alchemy Competition began, there would surely be more trading events. Long Xuan decided his clone could attend those, freeing up his main body for more critical work.

Having arrived early, Long Xuan found many vacant rooms in the guesthouses of Phoenix Heaven City. He casually picked a room and checked in. He then began a closed-door retreat, intending to study the alloy formulas before the Alchemy Competition began.

Three Months Later

On the main island, Long Xuan looked at the three alloy formulas in his hands, his expression tinged with pride.

He couldn’t help but feel satisfied. These three alloy formulas were groundbreaking:

- The first formula, using first-grade metals, could create the hardest first-grade alloy. He named it Mysterious Gold.

- The second formula, using second-grade metals, could create the hardest second-grade alloy. He named it Earth Gold.

- The third formula, using third-grade metals, could create the hardest third-grade alloy. He named it Heaven Gold.

These alloys surpassed the hardness of all same-grade metals in this world. What an achievement!

Not only could these alloys enhance Gold-Eating Insect, but they also had tremendous applications in artifact forging, formation, and puppet crafting.

Once these three alloy formulas were revealed, they would revolutionize the artifact forging world, elevating spiritual artifacts across the board.

The alloys were not just the hardest in their grades; they were also inexpensive and could be mass-produced.

If these alloys were widely adopted in this world, the impact would be unimaginable.

Artifact Forging: A significant leap in the quality and durability of spiritual artifacts.

Formation: Formation would gain enhanced strength and power.

Puppet Crafting: Puppets would achieve unprecedented resilience and effectiveness.

The entire world will undergo earth-shaking changes.

It’s no exaggeration to say that these three pieces of paper alone are enough to throw the world into chaos. At that time, many designs for artifacts, formation blueprints, and puppet schematics far exceeding the power of this era would emerge like bamboo shoots after a spring rain.

Once these groundbreaking creations appear, they will significantly enhance the strength of the entire human race by more than just one level.

At this moment, Long Xuan's breathing became slightly rapid—this kind of achievement was nothing short of immeasurable merit.

He took out a small bottle containing two Gold-Eating Gu from his Insect Bag, his eyes blazing with anticipation.

These two Gold-Eating Gu had undergone noticeable changes; their bodies had grown considerably larger. Clearly, they had consumed an unknown number of high-quality items in his care.

One of the unique abilities of the Gold-Eating Gu is their capability to devour any metal, regardless of its hardness.

However, to devour the hardest metals in this world, they must start by consuming lower-grade metals and progress gradually. They cannot initially consume the highest-tier twelfth-grade metals.

Thus, the evolutionary path of the Gold-Eating Gu follows the route of devouring the hardest metals.

After consuming first-grade black gold, the Gold-Eating Gu can be strengthened to the level of peak-grade Gu. Upon devouring second-grade earth gold, they can complete their first evolution. By consuming third-grade heaven gold, they achieve their second evolution, and so on.

Moreover, due to the high starting point set by consuming alloys, their subsequent evolution can only proceed by devouring the hardest alloy metals, as the known metals in this world are no longer sufficient.

This requires Long Xuan to create a higher-grade alloy formula every time the Gold-Eating Gu need to evolve.

In the past few months, the frequent trading fairs in the city allowed him to easily collect materials for black gold and earth gold with the help of his clone, and he successfully forged these two alloys.

Currently, the two Gold-Eating Gu have completed their first evolution. However, since the heaven gold formula has just been developed and the materials have not yet been collected, their second evolution will take some more time.

Fortunately, alloy formulas generally require inexpensive materials. Collecting the ingredients for forging heaven gold shouldn’t take too long.

For now, there’s no rush. Long Xuan smiled and tossed the two Gold-Eating Gu into a field filled with metal blocks.

The moment they landed, their eyes gleamed with excitement. They immediately crawled over and began devouring the metals voraciously, producing harsh, piercing screeches of metal being scraped.

Their biting ability was impressive. These metals were all second-grade earth gold, yet the Gu’s teeth remained undamaged.

All this earth gold had been created by puppets, sparing Long Xuan the effort of wasting time on such tasks.

When the heaven gold is successfully forged, he will not only have third-grade metals but also use them to upgrade the armor of his puppets. At that time, these puppets might become one of his powerful trump cards.

Long Xuan’s eyes revealed a thoughtful expression. The more he pondered, the more excited he became. Finally, he left the space within the Heaven-Devouring World Toad and returned to the outside world.

Today was the start of the elimination round for the Alchemy Competition. He had almost lost track of time.

Given his level of alchemy, his main body didn’t need to participate at all. His clone's alchemy skills were more than enough to help him advance through the elimination rounds.

It’s no exaggeration to say that the clone could take him all the way to the finals while his main body stayed home to rest.

However, after reviewing the competition rules, he immediately abandoned this idea.

The competition follows a points-based system. After each round, a large panel of judges scores the participants, with a perfect score of 100. Contestants who fail to meet the passing score are eliminated.

Although many participants win each round, their scores vary, and the accumulated scores carry over to subsequent rounds.

The final rankings are determined based on the total scores.

Under such rules, Long Xuan wouldn’t dare rely on his clone to deal with the competition carelessly. He must give it his all in every round, striving for the highest score.

Any hidden cards he has in alchemy must be revealed if necessary. He cannot afford to hold back.

Falling behind the Feng Clan’s alchemists in score could lead to unimaginable consequences.

Long Xuan had a premonition that by unleashing his full potential in the Alchemy Competition, he would undoubtedly be the center of attention, stealing the spotlight from everyone.

It couldn’t be helped...