Chapter 9 - Stone King

With the best spiritual insect, he could immediately start creating his own best Gu recipe and refine the first top-quality Gu worm in his Gu cultivation career.

You know, there isn't a single top-quality Gu worm in the entire market, and owning a top-quality Gu worm is a great attraction for him.

This piece of Stone King has completely tempted him.

However, how to pick it up as a bargain requires careful consideration. Buying it directly is definitely not an option because he certainly doesn't have that many spiritual stones.

At this moment, he really thought of several ways to pick up bargains mentioned in the novel, but they require extreme conditions to cooperate, such as buying waste materials to pick up leaks, but someone must cooperate with him.

But can anyone really afford this Stone King? His eyes suddenly moved down, and when he saw the price of the Stone King, he suddenly had a toothache.

Goodness, a price of 10 million!

Why not just go and rob it? They're crazy about spiritual stones!

At a price of 10 million, he couldn't afford it even if he sold blood or kidneys.

"Shopkeeper, your price is unreasonable! Even if this Stone King can really produce top-grade spirit insects, isn't the price too high? You know, there is a very high failure rate in refining Gu!"

Long Xuan looked at a fat man with his hands behind his back next to the Stone King and asked in confusion.

This fat man was Qian Duoduo, and he was the shopkeeper in charge of this store.

Hearing this, the fat man forced a smile on his round face, turned his head and looked at the masked boy, and said with a smile: "You are an outsider, aren't you?"

"Who told you that the highest quality spiritual insects can only be produced from stones?"

"The principle of the birth of Gu worms is that groups of insects devour each other. In the insect world, the strong prey on the weak. Spiritual insects that feed on insects will naturally become Gu worms by chance if they eat too many insects in a short period of time."

"Although the number is small, naturally born Gu worms are definitely real."

"I will teach you a truth that only gambling stone masters know. Once Gu worms enter dormancy, the stone coat they form is often very thick."

"This Stone King definitely has the possibility of producing Gu worms, and any kind of Gu worm is possible."

"Once those Gu species on the list are produced, it is possible to sell them for hundreds of millions. My price of 10 million is already very low."

After taking another look at the Stone King, Long Xuan asked tentatively: "Then are there any activities, such as completing a game to give away this Stone King for free?"

Hearing Long Xuan's magical words, Qian Duoduo was stunned.

Give it away for free by playing games?

He thought he was an idiot. Which idiot would play a game and give away a Stone King worth 10 million? He really dared to think about it.

"Are you kidding me? Taking something worth 10 million as a game prize, are you crazy or am I crazy!" Qian Duoduo shouted madly.

"Your idea is a good way to gather popularity. It can be done, but the prize must not be so exaggerated."

"But there is a way to take this Stone King away without spirit stones, but no one can do it." Qian Duoduo suddenly said mysteriously.

"Oh? I would like to hear more about it." Hearing this, Long Xuan's eyes lit up and he immediately became energetic.

"The ability of the Gu worm can be deeply developed. Do you know this?" Qian Duoduo asked first.

Long Xuan shook his head. He was a small casual cultivator with no master or inheritance. No one taught him any knowledge. Each family was so precious that he couldn't even buy books. He could only rely on himself to explore everything. He didn't understand many common sense things in the Gu world.

Qian Duoduo showed an expression of "as expected" and patiently explained: "The biggest difference between humans and Gu is that humans are the most intelligent among all living things, while Gu worms are the least intelligent but have the power to kill humans in seconds. The two can be combined to complement each other."

"Human wisdom can make Gu worms exert more terrifying power."

"For example, the Fireball Gu, the ability of the Fireball Gu is to spit fireballs, but it has a low IQ and does not know how to adapt, so it can only spit fireballs continuously."

"But humans are smart. Humans can think divergently and make the fireballs bigger, turning it into a big fireball technique, or make the fireballs more, turning it into a group fireball technique."

"Invisibly, the Fireball Gu is equivalent to mastering two more abilities, and its combat effectiveness increases dramatically."

"There are many similar examples. Many ordinary Gu worms have become extremely terrifying existences in the hands of wise people, and their value has skyrocketed."

"It can be said that there are no useless Gu worms, only useless Gu cultivators. As long as your wisdom is high enough and your imagination is big enough, the abilities of the Gu worms will have unlimited possibilities."

"The vast majority of Gu worms have only one ability, while Gu cultivators with strong enough imaginations can develop a second ability, a third ability, or even a tenth ability for them."

"Did you see that bidding box?"

Qian Duoduo pointed to the wooden box next to the Stone King.

"My young lady got a top-grade nature-type Gu worm a while ago. Apart from the pupil-type Gu worm, the nature-type Gu worm is the most coveted Gu by Gu practitioners in this world."

"Natural-type Gu worms have no entity. They are a form of energy and are immune to most attacks. My young lady spent a lot of effort to catch it."

"It's a pity that the IQ of this light Gu worm is too low. Its ability is to control light, but it can only use lighting techniques."

"So my young lady is soliciting the wisdom of everyone here. Anyone who has an idea can write it down on paper and throw it into the bidding box."

"Whoever develops an ability that satisfies my young lady can win the bid and take the Stone King away."

Qian Duoduo looked at Long Xuan with a smile. He had said similar words to countless people. He liked to see the expressions of others who thought pie was about to fall from the sky.

Hearing this, Long Xuan's heart moved, but he quickly calmed down and asked hurriedly: "That's not right, how powerful the ability developed is to be considered a winner is completely without a standard."

"If she says it's a winner, then it's a winner. If she says it's not a winner, then it's not a winner. Isn't this just one person's opinion, and the final right of interpretation belongs to her."

"What if someone's idea impresses her, but she is reluctant to give away the Stone King and says she didn't win the bid?"

"In this case, wouldn't we all become suckers and be taken advantage of by her one by one? I believe that there are definitely more than one person who thinks like me."

"Haha, you are an outsider again, aren't you?" Qian Duoduo looked smiling, not annoyed at all, and explained again: "You are wrong in saying this. In fact, you are the only one in the world who has this idea."

"All the Gu cultivators in the world know that the Qian family members refine the Honesty Gu. The Honesty Gu has a very fatal weakness, that is, the host must be honest in doing things, otherwise, it will be backfired by the Honesty Gu."

"The smallest consequence is to leave a demon in the heart, and the cultivation will never make an inch of progress."

"However, there is a disadvantage and a benefit."

"It is precisely because the Honesty Gu has such disadvantages that all Gu practitioners in the world trust our Qian's Chamber of Commerce, and they will give priority to our Qian's Chamber of Commerce when purchasing cultivation resources."

"When selling valuables, they will also give priority to our Qian's Chamber of Commerce because Qian's merchants who possess the Honesty Gu must never kill customers by any means, even indirectly."

"That's why our Qian's Chamber of Commerce has grown bigger and bigger and become one of the largest chambers of commerce here."

"The constraints of the Honesty Gu are absolutely indispensable for the Qian's Chamber of Commerce to have the scale it has today."

"My Qian family has therefore established a clan rule that all managers must refine the Honesty Gu."

"So your worries are completely unnecessary. My young lady will never do anything against her will, not to mention that a mere 10 million is just a small amount of money in the eyes of my Qian's Chamber of Commerce, and it is even more not worth taking the risk."

"As long as the ability you develop for the light Gu worm is powerful enough, then this Stone King is yours. My Qian's Chamber of Commerce will keep its word."