"I plan to sell each fossil at a price of 10,000 spirit stones. Who is willing to come up first to draw the lottery?" Long Xuan suddenly shouted after scanning the faces of the people around him.
At this moment, everyone's expressions shifted. Just now, buying the fossils seemed foolish, but now, everyone was tempted.
The Stone King originally sold for 10 million, but now only 10,000 spirit stones could buy one-fiftieth of its parts. Although the current situation had basically confirmed that the gamble had failed, what if the spirit worm was really hiding in a fossil and had not been discovered? This was completely possible in theory.
The most important thing was that it was cheap. Even if the gamble was lost, the loss was completely affordable. And once the gamble won, with the appearance of this stone, it was possible to open a spirit worm of any value, and then it would be really profitable.
This was totally worth a gamble, a ten-thousand-dollar profit. Whoever didn't gamble would be considered stupid.
All the gamblers breathed quickly, showing greed, and their eyes seemed to want to eat people.
At this time, they finally realized that Long Xuan had obtained this Stone King at no cost, so he dared to sell it at a low price. He didn't need to feel bad. He would make money no matter how many spirit stones he sold. He was really a cunning kid.
Long Xuan was very satisfied with the expressions of the crowd. Sure enough, it was everyone's psychology to love to get a small bargain.
As long as the price was cheap enough, there would definitely be people who would be lucky and fooled. His plan was successful.
Qian Duoduo was stunned at this time. He had never thought that gambling on stones could be played like this.
In the past, everyone would directly cut the fossils into powder or pack them away. How could they cut a few knives and sell the remaining materials at a low price? There was no precedent in the past.
However, today he finally saw that gambling on stones could be played like this. It must be said that this trick is very good. It takes advantage of the gamblers' psychology of taking advantage of small gains and big gains. They are really willing to spend spirit stones to trade. Although it is not much, it is better than losing everything. What's more, Long Xuan didn't pay a single spirit stone today. As long as it is sold, it is profitable.
In the end, things went according to the script arranged by Long Xuan as expected. Dozens of fossils were snapped up, and everyone lost their minds. Dozens of fossils were snapped up in an instant. Only the smallest fist-sized fossil was left, and no one was interested. This fossil was too small, about the same size as a spirit insect, and the possibility of opening a spirit insect was infinitely close to zero, so no one was willing to take it.
Ten thousand spirit stones were only a small amount compared to the price of the Stone King, but in fact it was not a small amount for every poor casual cultivator. Ten thousand spirit stones were not worth betting on such a small stone at all; the price was too high. What's more, Long Xuan was a traitor. He actually sold all the stones of different sizes at the same price. If others bought a big one at the same price, but you bought a small one, it would make people feel unbalanced and feel that you were losing money. With this mentality, Long Xuan's small stone would not be sold.
So even if he begged others desperately, no one was willing to take it. They left one after another, cursing that he was crazy about spirit stones. Who would exchange ten thousand spirit stones for such a small stone? Whoever exchanged it was stupid.
In this way, this fossil containing the best spirit insect had to stay in Long Xuan's hands, and he couldn't give it away.
After returning home, Long Xuan picked up the fist-sized fossil, looked at it excitedly, and kept laughing.
"After all the planning, it finally fell into my hands. I wonder if this harvest can help me successfully create a top-grade Gu recipe."
Long Xuan gently stroked the stone, his eyes full of expectation. After playing with it for a while, he finally started to cut the stone.
The fossil was not big, so it didn't take him long at all. Not long after, he successfully took out something that looked like an eye.
The eyes also woke up at this moment, slowly opened their eyes, revealing an evil spirit, looking very ominous.
This world even has energy-shaped natural Gu worms, so what's so strange about the appearance of a spiritual worm that looks like an eye? Long Xuan didn't feel strange at all.
On the contrary, he was very excited. If you ask which type of blood-covenant Gu worms the Gu cultivators in this world like the most, then the natural Gu worms will rank second, and the first one is definitely the pupil Gu, which is also the rarest Gu in the current world.
Most of the internal Gu absorb the spiritual power or blood of the Gu cultivator, but the pupil Gu, although it is an internal Gu, absorbs the spiritual power of the Gu cultivator, forming a system of its own.
The pupil Gu feeds on the spiritual power and can perform all kinds of incredible illusions. Illusion is a means of hurting people that is more difficult to prevent than Gu. Gu cultivators who are proficient in illusions are often much stronger than ordinary Gu cultivators.
Each pupil insect carries a powerful illusion innately. Only pupil insects can perform the most heaven-defying illusions in this world, or only pupil insects can exert the strongest power. Therefore, pupil insects have such a transcendent status in this world.
Now that a pupil insect appears in front of him, how can Long Xuan not be excited? In the past, he did not dare to use too rare materials when creating his own Gu recipes. Many materials are hard to come by, or even rare in a hundred years. If you are unlucky, you will never see them in your lifetime.
If you can't find the materials, what's the use of researching the Gu recipes? So Long Xuan has always planned to create his own Gu recipes based on the rare materials he collected, instead of creating the Gu recipes and then looking for materials all over the world.
Now that he has rare materials, he can completely use this rare material as the main material to create a pupil Gu.
And Long Xuan has already decided in his heart which direction this pupil Gu should be studied.
He can't decide what kind of illusion each pupil Gu will carry, but he can still decide what basic abilities the pupil Gu will have.
He didn't care about other aspects, but this pupil Gu must have one ability, which is the ability of microscopic magnification that he had always thought about...
He hurriedly took out a pen and paper, quickly ran to the table and sat down, and began to create the second Gu recipe with great interest.
This eye is very likely to be an insect species that has long been extinct in ancient times, but Long Xuan can't even recognize all the existing insect species, so how can he recognize this long-extinct spiritual insect?
But this will not hinder him. Long Xuan has already discovered through research that this golden finger is based on the host's cognition, not on the names of insect species in this world.
He can even use modern Chinese characters to create a Gu recipe. The various microorganisms in this world have not been named yet, so he can give them any name, but the golden finger can completely recognize it.
Since I don't know what kind of insect this is, just name it casually, don't consider whether it sounds good or not, just call it the Eye in the Stone.
Anyway, the same thing is often called differently in different places. What if this insect is called differently at home?
Long Xuan quickly wrote the three words "Eye in the Stone" on the paper. As expected, the golden finger completely recognized it and immediately showed progress.
Long Xuan wrote with divine inspiration. He thought of an old saying in the countryside: cow eyes see people as big, while goose eyes see people as small.
That's why geese like to peck at people and chase people.
But cows see people as bigger than the cowshed, so they work hard without complaint and don't know how to resist when whipped.
Since cow eyes have the ability to magnify objects, Long Xuan would naturally think of cow eyes first.
The principle of Gu is that insects devour each other, and he doesn't know whether it will work to put in cow eyes that don't belong to insects.
But since there is a fault detector, why not give it a try? Anyway, it doesn't cost anything, and it will only waste a few seconds at most.
Long Xuan picked up the pen and wrote down the cow eyes, and the progress on the Gu recipe immediately increased slightly.
A smile appeared on Long Xuan's lips, and he knew he had succeeded.