"Actually, the most powerful thing in this matter is Chi You's blood essence; everything else is secondary. However, this blood essence will be of great use in the future, so it won't be used here for the time being. You must guard this place well. This place was left behind by the demon god Chi You, and it possesses many unpredictable supernatural powers. However, the time is not yet ripe, so it cannot be used." Li Yang instructed Chi Zhen.
"Understood. Please rest assured, Holy Ancestor!" Chi Zhen said respectfully.
"I want to cultivate a Golden Cicada Gu Queen in the coming days, so I need a quiet room. Can you provide one?" Li Yang said seriously.
"What? The Golden Cicada Gu Queen?" Chi Zhen's jaw nearly dropped in shock. The Golden Cicada Gu Queen was a legendary Gu worm, the queen of all Gu worms. Once successfully cultivated, all other Gu worms in the world would follow her lead and fear her! Furthermore, it could secrete various magical and bizarre Gu worms according to its master's needs, used for killing, controlling people, and so on—its wonders were beyond words. It was even said that it could become a second spirit or clone of its master, but that was just a legend; no one had ever successfully cultivated it. However, it was said that the Demon God Chi You had once created the Golden Cicada Gu Queen, using it to roam the prehistoric world with extraordinary power. Unexpectedly, Li Yang also wanted to cultivate this thing. He himself also possessed a Gu worm, but it was a mere insignificant Gu worm on the Gu worm ranking list, at most used for some bewitching purposes, its power pitifully weak.
"Yes, yes, of course it's possible..." Chi Zhen stammered.
"Alright, go and prepare. I need to go into seclusion for a while!" Li Yang nodded and said.
"Yes!" Chi Zhen immediately went to prepare a quiet room.
Li Yang glanced at the blood pool. The level of a Gu worm is equal to the strength of its master; the higher the master's strength, the higher the level of the Gu worm cultivated. It could be said that Chi You cultivated his Gu worms using his own blood essence, which is why they possessed such powerful abilities. If Li Yang wanted to cultivate such a Gu worm, he would have to use Chi You's blood essence.
Of course, Chi You was just a great witch of the witch clan. If one could obtain the essence blood of the twelve ancestral witches, the Gu worms cultivated would be many times more powerful than the Golden Cicada Gu Queen. However, the twelve ancestral witches all perished in the ancient witch-demon war, which was so long ago that it is impossible to verify.
Therefore, Li Yang could only use Chi You's essence blood to nurture it. However, the fact that Chi You's essence blood could be used for nurturing already terrified countless people. After all, Chi You, as a great shaman, was a super powerful figure who roamed the prehistoric world and was under the protection of the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor in ancient times!
Li Yang carried a drop of Chi You's essence blood to a stone chamber next to his destination. The stone chamber was built underground, and after entering through the door, there was a descending staircase. Wisps of yin energy seeped into his body, but Li Yang could easily resist it by circulating his internal energy. It was clear that this underground chamber was not particularly magical; it was just an ordinary secret chamber.
After Li Yang went down, he naturally took Xiao Bai with him, while Chi Zhen immediately sealed the stone chamber and personally guarded the door.
After Li Yang sat down, he first regulated the various cultivation methods in his mind, including Qi cultivation, formations, talismans, weapon crafting, and various secret manuals for identifying rare herbs and precious crafting materials. He also had detailed records of various divine weapons from ancient times, and even recorded several extremely powerful formations. However, these required witchcraft to perform, and to perform them, one had to utilize the bloodline of the Dao Jiuli tribe. For example, the Twelve Heavenly Capital Demon Array required the supernatural powers of the Twelve Ancestral Witches. If one could truly craft a formation flag that surpassed the Twelve Ancestral Witches' array, its power would be so great that even the Yellow Emperor and the Yan Emperor would have to retreat.
Unfortunately, such things are almost legendary. Not to mention that any one of the Twelve Ancestral Witches is comparable to a saint, even Li Yang is only at the peak of the Innate Realm, which is equivalent to the Qi Refining stage. He is far from the Golden Core and Nascent Soul stages. These are things that can't even be thought of.
Chapter 774: The Six-Winged Golden Silkworm
Even Li Yang lacked confidence in refining the Golden Cicada Gu Queen. However, after organizing the array and refining method in his mind, Li Yang quickly set up a spirit-gathering array on the ground. The material he used was all Chi You's essence blood. After all, the energy contained in Chi You's essence blood was extremely powerful. Only by using the array set up with Chi You's essence blood did Li Yang have some confidence in refining the Golden Cicada Gu Queen.
If some cultivation masters saw Li Yang doing this, they would definitely be so frustrated that they would vomit blood and die, because Chi You's essence blood is an extremely nourishing sacred object, almost comparable to a celestial pill. A single drop of essence blood is more powerful than the energy of the seven-colored lotus that Xiao Bai absorbed back then. If one were to refine a single drop of such essence blood, it could increase one's power by decades or even hundreds of years.
However, although Li Yang understood these things, unfortunately, his strength was too weak to withstand such powerful energy, so he could only do such a wasteful thing. After the formation was set up, Li Yang immediately stirred up the innate energy in his body to activate the formation. The seven drops of essence blood trembled slightly and shot out a faint blood-red thread towards the center. The seven drops of essence blood shot out seven threads, which met in the middle and then shot down to fix on a Gu jar. Instantly, a powerful spiritual energy rippled out and penetrated into the Gu jar. Inside the Gu jar was a nest of Gu worms specially selected by Chi Zhen. They were all top-level Gu worms, and they were then devoured and selected within the Gu jar.
After Chi You's essence blood was applied to the Gu Gu, the Gu Gu trembled and a piercing shriek came from it. The sound was extremely tricky, like a demonic sound that pierced the brain. Li Yang's head spun, but a cool energy burst out immediately. It was the strange energy contained in the Jiuli bloodline that suppressed the dizziness.
Li Yang immediately focused his mind and stared intently at the Gu jar. He thought to himself, "Such a powerful demonic sound! What kind of Gu worm is inside this Gu jar?" Ordinary Gu worms don't have such power. He had only asked Chi Zhen to prepare it and hadn't paid attention to what was inside before using it to refine the Gu jar.
Just as Li Yang was staring intently at the Gu jar, it suddenly trembled again and shattered into powder. A golden silkworm, about the size of a little fingernail, appeared on the ground. After that little worm appeared, there were no other Gu worms left in the jar. Li Yang was immediately shocked. Could it be that this worm ate the other worms? So fast? In the blink of an eye? He knew that sometimes poisonous insects would devour each other, sometimes taking up to a week, but this time, it was only in the blink of an eye. This little worm had killed the other poisonous insects. It was too abnormal!
The little insect seemed extremely excited as soon as it emerged. It immediately crawled to the spot where a few drops of Chi You's essence blood had gathered and enjoyed absorbing the power from the essence blood. The few drops of essence blood disappeared at a speed visible to the naked eye, completely devoured by this inconspicuous little insect.
Li Yang's jaw nearly dropped to the ground in shock. "Damn it!" he thought. "I couldn't even withstand a single drop of my essence blood. I might explode and die from the energy burst. If it weren't for using the energy of the blood pool to suppress and calm him, I might have exploded and died just from awakening my bloodline. But this little worm actually devoured seven drops."
What kind of insect is this?
"This...this is actually..." Little White in Li Yang's arms suddenly became shocked and excitedly cried out.
"What is it?" Li Yang asked, puzzled.
"I... I'm not sure either, it doesn't seem like it, but only something like that could have such abilities," Xiaobai said excitedly.
"What is that?" Li Yang asked, frowning, his eyes fixed on the little insect without moving.
However, right after those seven drops of Chi You's essence blood disappeared and were completely absorbed by the little insect, the little insect's whole body burst out with a dazzling blood light, and at the same time, it unleashed a terrifying aura. Li Yang squinted and circulated his internal energy with all his might, barely managing to keep his eyes on the little insect.
"It has grown wings?" Li Yang exclaimed in amazement, because the little insect had actually grown a pair of wings, as thin as cicada wings, transparent and shiny.
"It really is it! The Six-Winged Golden Silkworm!" Little White exclaimed in surprise.
"Six-winged Golden Silkworm!" Li Yang exclaimed in unison. He had also learned the name of the Six-winged Golden Silkworm from Chi You's memories. It was a ferocious creature from ancient times. A pair of Six-winged Golden Silkworms only laid eggs once every thousand years, and a larva hatched every five hundred years. The larva was almost identical to an ordinary silkworm, but its innate extraordinary nature gave it abilities that ordinary insects did not possess. It could devour almost any living thing, especially objects with special abilities, particularly blood, and could grow rapidly. After more than a hundred years, it would grow its first pair of wings, and then after another five hundred years, it would grow its second pair of wings. At this time, the Golden Silkworm would be a four-winged Golden Silkworm, and the four-winged Golden Silkworm would possess terrifying strength, comparable to the early stage of the Incarnation realm. The cultivation process of a cultivator is from Qi Refining into the Body to Core Formation, then Qi Refining into Spirit to Nascent Soul, then Spirit Refining into Emptiness, and the Nascent Soul becoming the Yang God. After having the Yang God, one begins the cultivation of Emptiness and Dao Integration, and then one reaches the realm of an Immortal.
After the Investiture of the Gods, all the great masters have perished. With the spiritual mountains, waters, and blessed lands of Earth almost completely destroyed, and now further polluted, the materials for refining talismans and magical treasures are extremely scarce. On Earth, a master at the Core Formation stage is considered a top-tier expert. The Four-Winged Golden Silkworm is a cultivator who has completely surpassed the Core Formation stage. How incredibly powerful must that be?
Once the six-winged golden silkworm reaches maturity, meaning its three pairs of wings have fully grown, it becomes even more terrifying. It can easily traverse the three realms, reaching the highest heavens and the deepest hells, possessing strength comparable to an immortal. It is incredibly ferocious, but not very intelligent. In ancient times, the adult silkworms were crippled by powerful beings, and the larvae were captured and raised as pets, making this mysterious creature almost extinct.
Unexpectedly, he encountered one at this time. Li Yang felt like he had struck gold, having such good luck one after another.
"Not good..." Li Yang suddenly exclaimed. It turned out that after the golden silkworm that had grown its first pair of wings absorbed the essence blood, it suddenly grew larger and larger. From the size of his little fingernail, it suddenly grew to a foot in size. Its pair of wings fluttered like a giant butterfly, or like a fan.
Chapter 775: The Second Primordial Spirit and Crisis
Its eyes flashed with golden light, and a chilling, majestic aura slowly emanated from it, sending a shiver down Li Yang's spine. "Not good..." Li Yang and Xiao Bai cried out simultaneously. Without further hesitation, Li Yang unleashed his full power, his blood wings bursting forth as he immediately used a soul-capturing technique from the insidious methods inherited from Chi You, striking the golden silkworm's head.
"grumble--"
Another piercing scream pierced the brain like a demonic sound, but this time it was many times more powerful than the last. Li Yang had already used all his strength, but an unbearable pain still surged through his brain, causing him to let out a violent cry. "Damn, it's too powerful! This power is terrifying! If I hadn't had the quick thinking to immediately use the Soul-Seizing Technique to capture the Golden Silkworm's soul and obliterate it, this Golden Silkworm would definitely have devoured me the moment it woke up. Damn, I'm definitely no match for it!"
"If I hadn't caught them off guard, and if the Golden Silkworm hadn't been so incredibly stupid, I would have been in grave danger!" Li Yang wiped the cold sweat from his forehead; his head still throbbed, and he felt nauseous. The Golden Silkworm had only let out a sharp cry the moment its soul vanished, yet it possessed such power. If it had any higher intelligence, wouldn't it have wreaked havoc on the world?
"That was close! I didn't expect there to still be something like that. Did you just use a soul-capturing technique?" Xiao Bai asked in amazement from Li Yang's arms.
"Yes. It was my first time using it, so I was a bit rusty! I almost messed up!" Li Yang said, still shaken.
"If you hadn't immediately used the Soul-Seizing Technique, I probably would have been injured too!" Xiaobai said in alarm. Although the two-winged golden silkworm was not as powerful as it, it was small, extremely ferocious, and could fly, allowing it to traverse space. Xiaobai would have to pay a price to deal with it.
"Damn, I never expected that refining Gu worms would result in such an ancient divine worm. Forget about the Gu worms, I won't refine them. But getting something like this is far more powerful than the Golden Silkworm Gu Queen. If I refine it into my second primordial spirit, it can shield me from deadly attacks in life-or-death situations. It's practically a second life, so worthwhile!" Li Yang thought to himself.
"The so-called second primordial spirit is a wondrous technique of ancient immortals, invented to evade the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation. It requires special magical artifacts and special methods for refinement. The artifact contains a trace of the original body's divine will, which can be controlled by the original body. At the same time, the artifact used to refine the second primordial spirit is of extremely high quality, absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth faster than the original body, possessing a stronger physique, and greater magical power than the original body. When the Nine Heavens Thunder Tribulation arrives, the original body hides while the second primordial spirit rushes forward to intercept it. If it survives, all the better; if it fails and is destroyed, only the second primordial spirit remains unharmed. It is truly an extremely powerful technique. And since Chi You knew this, Li Yang naturally knows it too!"
However, the materials required for the magical artifacts used to refine a second primordial spirit are extremely strict and precious. Over thousands of years, very few people have successfully refined a second primordial spirit. Only the powerful figures of the Jie and Chan sects during the primordial era of the Investiture of the Gods have succeeded. No one has succeeded at any other time. Once successfully refined, one becomes a person of extraordinary abilities, possessing great supernatural powers, and unstoppable in the world.
Therefore, Li Yang only had such a preliminary idea, especially on an Earth where spiritual energy was scarce and spiritual treasures were almost completely destroyed. There was still a long way to go before he could refine his second primordial spirit!
However, Li Yang had to admit he was incredibly lucky. Chi You's legacy included a method for refining a second primordial spirit—a unique technique of their Wu tribe. This involved erasing the consciousness of a powerful, ferocious beast and then using secret methods to refine it into a second primordial spirit. This method was perfectly suited to Li Yang's current situation. However, this technique had a major drawback: the more powerful the beast, the harder it was to subdue. Even if subdued, the body would suffer severe damage, which was detrimental to the second primordial spirit.
However, Li Yang was incredibly lucky. Not only did he encounter the larva of a six-winged golden silkworm, but it was also a strange insect with extremely low intelligence. Even the adults were quite unintelligent, let alone the larvae. This is why Li Yang, at such a low cultivation level, was able to completely and unexpectedly erase the consciousness of the six-winged golden silkworm, which already possessed two wings. Otherwise, if its intelligence had been high, even with a surprise attack, Li Yang would have been countered and wouldn't have succeeded so easily.