Chapter 38 Tai Sui

[I have something good and I need help. 】

Zhou Qing was thinking about when to go to the county town, and Qingsi Gu asked him for help through telepathy.

"Exotic beasts and spirits? Spiritual herbs and precious medicines?"

Zhou Qing's eyes lit up.

He asked Qingsi Gu telepathically, but found that it did not respond.

Clearly busy.

Zhou Qing opened the cabinet in the corner of the silkworm room and took out a sheathed long knife. He bought it at the Shenbing Shop for three taels of silver. It was a very ordinary waist knife.

The knife is about three feet long, with a narrow blade and a short tail handle. It's a bit like the embroidered spring knife in the movie of the previous life.

Before a warrior can train his muscles, it will be difficult for him to resist the sword with his flesh and blood body.

You have to practice Baiyun Palm Technique to the Ziyun level before you can cut through ordinary swords with a pair of fleshy palms.

Although Zhou Qing was practicing palm skills, he still prepared weapons such as waist knives and boxing gloves.

In close combat, when the strength is about the same, it would be a big disadvantage to be empty-handed.

This waist knife is of average quality, but much better than a hatchet.

Zhou Qing put the long knife, jar, rope, sickle and other tools into the basket, then covered it with linen cloth, carried the basket and left the silkworm house.

"Grandma, I'm going up the mountain and I'll be back later. You can have dinner first."

Zhou Qing locked the silkworm room, shouted into the main room, and ran out of the yard quickly.

The sun was setting in the west, and gusts of mountain wind were blowing in the false persimmon forest. The grass and trees were rustling, but it couldn't take away the sultry heat.

"Buzz!"

The Golden Silkworm King, which had grown to the size of a palm, flapped its wings and flew down from the tree crown.

Zhou Qing stretched out his hand, and the Golden Silkworm King landed on the back of his hand and stopped.

"good."

After two months of asexual reproduction, six golden silkworms gave birth to more than 100,000 golden silkworms.

In the harsh environment of violent storms, scorching sun and heat, only one golden silkworm survived.

But these more than 10,000 golden silkworms are all extremely tenacious.

In the false persimmon forest near the foothills, one-fifth of the area can no longer support golden silkworms.

Because if they are allowed to eat again, the false persimmon leaves in that area will be eaten away. By then, as long as someone passes by, they will be able to find the existence of golden silkworms.

Generally speaking, the time for raising silkworms is from April to October. After that, the silkworms will have no mulberry leaves to eat.

The same goes for false persimmon trees.

It's August now.

By October, Zhou Qing could no longer raise silkworms.

But golden silkworms should be an exception.

After three months of optimization, the golden silkworm has now evolved into an omnivorous insect.

If there is other food, golden silkworms will also eat it.

"keep it up."

Zhou Qing gently patted the Golden Silkworm King's body.

[Refining: King of Golden Silkworms]

[Progress: Maturity (102/800)]

[Talents: Flying, spinning silk, asexual reproduction]

After three months of growth, the Golden Silkworm King has also entered the maturity stage, but no other talents have been born.

That is to say, the body size has become a little bigger, the flying speed has been a little faster, and the quality of silk has improved a little.

As an economic Gu insect, he is still very qualified and competent.

"Go back." Zhou Qing raised his hand and asked the Golden Silkworm King to return to the tree crown, and then quickly ran to the mountainside through his connection with the green silk Gu.

Facing the gradually thickening fog and miasma, Zhou Qing plunged into it.

You can't even see the road clearly inside.

But Zhou Qing was able to find the way up the mountain with his eyes closed.

During this time, whenever he had time every day, he would go to the Jiuxian Temple to offer incense and candles.

[Occupation: Mountain Keeper (Priesthood·Wine Master Envoy)]

[Skill: Worship God]

[Progress: Getting Started (1/800)]

[Effect: Respectful and pious people will be protected by the Brewmaster Grand Marshal. The damage caused to you by the miasma and evil wind on Black Wind Mountain is greatly reduced, and you can easily find your way up the mountain in the miasma. 】

After worshiping again and again, the [Mountain Guardian] priesthood was successfully activated.

Thanks to the effect of 'worshiping gods', Zhou Qing can still find the way to climb the mountain in the miasma even without the green silk Gu to guide him.

However, after the progress of worshiping gods reached the entry stage, it stopped growing.

Because Zhou Qing discovered that since the priesthood of [Mountain Keeper] was activated, he would sometimes dream of the Jiuxian in his sleep, as if urging him to go to the temple to make offerings.

At first, Zhou Qing would go up the mountain to burn incense the next day.

But after several times in a row, he became a little impatient.

Because 'worshiping gods' does not bring many benefits to him, even the green silk Gu can do it.

Although Zhou Qing respected the deeds of the wine master Li Wuji, it was nothing more than that and definitely had nothing to do with piety.

After several consecutive offerings, Zhou Qing found that the progress was no longer increasing, so he stopped paying attention to the Jiu Xian's 'dream entrustment'.

And the wine master no longer dreams.

Fortunately, the effect of the [Mountain Keeper] priesthood is still there and has no other impact on him.

So Zhou Qing just let it go.

In such a world, what is the use of worshiping gods?

People must rely on themselves.

If anyone in this world can really become his god, it should be himself.

Zhou Qing climbed the stone steps to the Jiuxian Temple, which led directly to the steep mountain road behind.

When passing by a steep cliff, Zhou Qing stopped and stood on the edge of the cliff looking down.

I saw Green Silk Gu lying on a large stone extending five meters below the cliff, its body tightly clinging to the stone, and the crystalline silk threads spitting out of its mouth extended into the mist-shrouded cliff.

"Puff!"

Seeing Zhou Qing coming, Qingsi Gu suddenly became excited.

【There are good things! 】

Seeing this, Zhou Qing put down the basket, took out the rope, and tied one end of the rope to the big tree next to the tree that was as thick as two people's arms, and tied the other end around his waist.

Then, he took out a pair of pale gold gloves from his arms and put them on his hands.

He carried a long knife at his waist and climbed down the cliff along the rope.

Zhou Qing stepped on the soft moss on the cliff, his foot slipped, and he stepped on nothing.

clang!

However, he didn't panic at all. He took out the long knife from his waist with his left hand and stabbed it into the cliff wall, stabilizing his body.

During this period of time, Qingsi Gu would notify him whenever he found something good.

This is not the first time that we have collected herbs on steep cliffs.

Zhou Qing grasped the rope tightly, found a foothold, pulled out the long knife, and landed steadily on the big rock.

【help me! 】

Green Silk Gu urged.

Zhou Qing grabbed the silk thread it spit out, wrapped it around his hand, and then pulled it up hard.

Suddenly, a strong force came from below the silk thread, confronting Zhou Qing's power.

"What a strength!"

Zhou Qing stabilized his body, gritted his teeth, and used all his strength.

At this time, a large red centipede nearly a foot long poked its head out from above the cliff.

"Chi Yan, come help!"

Zhou Qing shouted upward.

Whoosh!

When Chi Yan heard this, he jumped down from the big rock below. Hundreds of feet trembled in the mountain wind. At first glance, they looked like countless pairs of red wings.

"Go down and see what this thing is!"

Zhou Qing ordered.

Chi Yan shook his body, hesitating a little.

Then, under Zhou Qing's serious gaze, he still followed the thread of the green silk Gu and slipped out.

Buzz!

After a moment, the silk thread shook suddenly, and a strong force came.

Zhou Qing and Qingsi Gu worked hard together, and their bodies suddenly fell back.

A piece of black flesh the size of a human brain was tightly entangled with silk threads and pulled up.

"This is?!"

Zhou Qing couldn't help but change his expression when he looked at the strange piece of flesh struggling and squirming among the threads.

"Bang bang!"

Suddenly, the thread broke.

Black pieces of meat flew high into the sky.

Then it quickly fell and struck towards Zhou Qing's face.

Looking at the squirming piece of meat, Zhou Qing felt a chill in his heart. While retreating, he drew his sword and chopped it away.

"Pfft!"

Wherever the long knife passed, the black piece of meat was split into two pieces like tofu and fell down the cliff.

Without Zhou Qing's reminder, the green silk Gu spit out silk thread and wrapped it around the piece of meat.

Unexpectedly, the larger piece of black flesh on the right shrank in mid-air, avoiding the blow.

Seeing this, Green Silk Gu immediately changed direction, wrapped around the piece of black flesh the size of a pair of fists, and hung it up with silk thread.

"Um?!"

In just a few breaths, the black piece of meat that had just been hung up turned white at a speed visible to the naked eye.

Not only that, this piece of meat was actually alive, squirming slowly like a caterpillar.

If he hadn't been entangled in the threads of the green silk Gu, he would have climbed to the edge of the big rock.

"Why are they so similar?"

Looking at the piece of snow-white flesh the size of a pair of fists in front of him, Zhou Qing's expression changed slightly.

If the snow-white meat in front of him were cut into slices, at first glance, it would look almost exactly the same as the meat meal he bought at the martial arts school.

At this time, Chi Yan climbed up along the cliff and stopped at Zhou Qing's feet, facing the meat on the ground, salivating.

[Highly poisonous, I want to eat it. 】

Qingsi Gu also expressed his thoughts.

"Is this thing highly poisonous?" Zhou Qing's expression changed slightly.

Could it be that the meat he ate in the martial arts hall was this kind of thing.

Recalling the strange appearance of the piece of meat just now, Zhou Qing thought of a living medicinal material - Tai Sui.

However, the normal Tai Sui was not as outrageous as before and actually attacked him consciously.

"That Tai Sui plant has obviously reached the level of strange beasts and spirits, and has developed spiritual intelligence."

Thinking of this, Zhou Qing asked quickly.

"Er Qing, can you still find that Tai Sui plant?"

【gone. 】

"What a pity." Zhou Qing sighed secretly.

Even the Green Silk Gu is said to be extremely poisonous Tai Sui, and it should be considered a treasure for warriors who practice poison skills.

Due to the green silk Gu's invulnerability to all poisons, ordinary toxins have limited effect on Zhou Qing, so he rarely uses poisonous water to strengthen his body.

He is now focusing on strengthening Qi and blood.

This Tai Sui meat is so similar to the meat meal in martial arts schools, it should also be able to strengthen Qi and blood.

But Zhou Qing didn't dare to try it.

"I will put away this meat first and distribute it later."

Zhou Qing picked up Tai Sui meat through his boxing gloves.

As soon as the pale golden glove came into contact with Tai Sui's flesh, it quickly turned pitch black and started to smoke.

Zhou Qing put down the Tai Sui meat and saw a black patch in the middle of the glove, and the silk had some signs of shrinkage and corrosion.

"It seems that the quality of this golden silkworm silk is higher than I imagined!"

Zhou Qing marveled at the power of the mutated golden silkworm. The silk could actually resist the erosion of the poison.

"Puff." Although Qingsi Gu wanted to eat Tai Sui meat, he still chose to obey his orders.

Zhou Qing climbed up the cliff.