What Long Xuan didn’t know was that shortly after he left, two unexpected visitors, a man and a woman, appeared on his Little Peak. They were observing the mountain's formations with curious eyes.
“What a large trapping formation, interesting! Interesting! Di Xin, are you interested in joining me to break through it?” the handsome man suggested, glancing at the woman beside him.
Di Xin observed the formation with a strange expression. The more she looked, the deeper her frown became, and her expression grew increasingly serious.
After a while, she shook her head and said earnestly, “No! This formation is very peculiar. It’s the first time I’ve seen such a strange formation, something I’ve never heard of before.”
“I can’t see through it, and any formation I can’t see through, I won’t enter.”
The man beside her chuckled lightly and said, “You know, this is the first time you’ve ever said something like that. This is the first formation you couldn’t see through.”
Di Xin shook her head and said, “Believe me, this formation isn’t as simple as you think. Before understanding its intricacies, I advise you not to act rashly.”
The man sneered and said dismissively, “Are you exaggerating? It’s just a formation with a large area because of the cement used as its base. Such a formation is hardly worth mentioning.”
“We’ve already uncovered the secret of the cement. Other than arming Earth Masters, it’s useless. Anyone using it for formations is courting death. This technique is utterly useless; we’ve wasted our time coming here.”
“How strong can a formation made with such garbage be? Watch me break it quickly!”
The man laughed confidently and flew into the formation.
Di Xin’s expression changed, but she didn’t stop him. It was good to have someone test the formation's details.
After seven days passed and the man still hadn’t emerged from the formation, Di Xin’s expression finally changed.
“Something’s wrong!”
If he hadn’t come out in seven days, he was likely in grave danger. This formation truly had something to it. Di Xin was startled, and her eyes showed fear. After glancing around, she finally left.
Shortly after Di Xin left, Long Xuan finally returned, and he had gained a lot.
In seven days, he had not only collected all the materials needed for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm Gu, but he had also gathered many other treasures, such as spiritual herbs that hadn’t been fully collected from the Herb garden and materials for the Five Elements Reversal Formation.
The current Five Elements Reversal Formation was still incomplete, merely a semi-finished product, and it was a fixed-position formation. He wanted to refine a portable formation disk for it.
This would require a significant expense, but he wasn’t in a hurry; he could take his time.
As soon as he entered his formation, he saw a corpse lying on the ground, its eyes wide open in despair, dead with unresolved grievances. It looked like it had suffocated in a swamp, dying in extreme pain.
Seeing this person, Long Xuan was taken aback.
Who is this?
He didn’t seem to be from the Long clan.
Since he wasn’t a Long clan Gu Master, it didn’t matter.
Trespassing and dying was his own fault, not worthy of sympathy.
Long Xuan took off the spatial ring from the man’s hand, and after checking its contents, his face lit up with joy.
After pondering for a while, Long Xuan thought that the nectar from the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree might cause her to evolve, so he favored her by placing her in the area where the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree grew.
Seeing the enormous Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, Bing Bing was thrilled, her eyes sparkling as she threw herself at the tree and began gathering nectar fervently.
After she collected all the nectar from the Fire Dragon Fruit Tree, she immediately turned it into honey and enjoyed a hearty meal, even burping contentedly afterward.
As Long Xuan expected, Bing Bing did not disappoint him. After a good sleep, she evolved, becoming stronger, and her stinger evolved with a new fire poison, which was incredibly troublesome.
The royal jelly she produced also became more delicious and even more miraculous, allowing other ice bees to undergo a evolution after consuming it.
But Bing Bing was just one insect and couldn’t produce much royal jelly, so she couldn’t meet the needs of the entire swarm. She could only select a small number of the strongest ice bees and grant them royal jelly, making them her royal guard.
Thus, Long Xuan now had a batch of second-grade spiritual honey. However, he still had more than he could consume; he couldn’t drink honey water every day, as he also had tea and wine to drink.
After much thought, he decided to brew wine with the second-grade spiritual honey.
The Wine Gu, Little White, is fond of drinking, so it’s not hard to guess that one of its evolution routes is probably related to drinking. It might undergo a evolution every time it drinks a peak-grade wine.
But it must be wine of extremely high quality—ordinary wine definitely won't do.
In other words, Little White needs a new wine recipe for each evolution.
Long Xuan found this highly probable, so he immediately decided to create a peak-grade wine recipe.
Since he had so much honey, he might as well create a honey wine. Little White could help him consume it, and with such a glutton around, no amount of honey wine would be enough. Once the honey wine was perfected, it might save him a significant amount of money...
Long Xuan's eyes brightened. It would take some time for the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm to evolve into a Gu, so he decided to use this time to research the wine recipe. The day the recipe is complete might just be the day the Heavenly Dream Dragon Silkworm completes its transformation.
With this in mind, Long Xuan was about to leave the herb garden and return to the pavilion to study the wine recipe, but suddenly he stopped in his tracks, his gaze falling on a furry creature.
It was a cute white rabbit, busily tossing spiritual herbs into a massive alchemy furnace, its eyes filled with seriousness, and its expression extremely focused.
Long Xuan slowly walked over and gently patted its head.
"Mm! Keep up the good work!"
He handed it a recipe and smiled, "If you can refine the spiritual pill in this recipe, you can keep it as your tuition fee for learning the recipe."
Long Xuan gave a mischievous grin, patted its fluffy head once more, and finally left.
The recipe was for the Spirit Surge Pill. Originally, he intended to permanently seal the recipe, but then he accidentally discovered a spiritual spring, leading to the large-scale cultivation of Spirit Surge Grass in his hands.
It would be a pity not to cultivate such a rare spiritual herb, which had long been extinct in this world. But after cultivating it, he realized he had no use for it.
After some thought, Long Xuan decided to refine it into Spirit Surge Pills and sell them under the identity of that mysterious alchemist. The persona he created was so successful that no one would dare to target him.
The most important thing was that he had run out of spirit stones and was in desperate need of a source of income, so he could only rely on this working rabbit to make money for him.
The Spirit Surge Pill is more valuable than most second-grade spiritual pills, and refining it is highly profitable, enough to bring him a fortune every day.