Chapter 867 - 459: This Gu Insect Can’t Be Removed Yet!

Chapter 867: Chapter 459: This Gu Insect Can’t Be Removed Yet!

Inside the Elixir Skin Workshop.

The reaction furnace and pipes at the end of the production line all started to shake violently with a loud "vrrr vrrr vrrr"!

And in the very last bronze water tank, bubbles also began to "glug glug glug" up to the surface!

A few foxes gathered around, sometimes looking at the water tank, sometimes raising their heads to look at the pixel plantain leaf. Even though the yellow and green pixels on the leaf still formed a smiling fox face, they were all nervous.

"Ying?"

"Ao?"

Does shipping out product make this big a racket?

Bai Mo came over quietly with White Earrings, rubbed Nut Claw’s head, and patted Sugar Beans’ neck.

"No need to worry.

"Under normal circumstances, it shouldn’t be this noisy.

"This is probably because the Dragon Snake Grass, Golden Round Pear, and Octagonal Honey Peaches—these three ingredients aren’t mature enough, which caused bubbles to form inside the line...

"If this were in the Ancient Immortal Dynasty, and the master workers in charge of the line were skilled enough, they could adjust the controls to vent out those bubbles and get the line running smoothly again."

Master workers?

The foxes looked at each other, then at their Master, then at their Fox Claws.

"Ying?"

"Ao?"

How are we supposed to operate this?

Do they count as master workers?

Feels like they totally don’t understand any of it?

Bai Mo shook his head with a smile.

"Don’t be afraid. On Fox Mountain, we have our own master workers."

The vibration ran along the entire line, from near to far!

Not only the reaction furnace and pipes on the end; the valves and pipes upstream on the line were gradually pulled into it, rumbling and shaking "vrrr vrrr vrrr", "boom boom boom" as well!

The bronze slots at different points upstream on the line also started "glug glug" bubbling like crazy!

And the plant roots or Vine Silk that were tied to the pipes, probing into the valves, probing into the tanks, also began to tremble, began gathering information, began transmitting it to the Ghost Eye, which then sent it back to the Ghost Eye Machine Room!

...

Far away on Fox Mountain, inside the Ghost Eye Machine Room, the clumps of Ghost Eye suddenly started quivering, squirming, shivering! With a swishing sound, they began frantically drinking Hundred Flowers Juice, having suddenly received an enormous task, performing tens of millions of calculations in this brief moment!

...

Elixir Skin Workshop.

The foxes stared wide-eyed as the plant-controlled valves twisted back and forth with a sharp shua shua shua!

The plant-controlled pipes made the water flow shift and change, the sound of running water rising and falling!

The plant-controlled retractable exhaust vents were "chh chh chh" spraying out jets of steam!

Across the entire production line, there were only plants, no one operating anything.

Yet all those valves, pipes, membranes, vents... were as if one experienced master worker after another were coordinating with perfect tacit understanding, working at high speed, working with precision!

Gradually, the noise in the workshop died down, the exhaust vents released less steam, and the whole line returned to the normal "splash splish" of flowing water.

In the finished-product tank at the very end of the line, a five-colored thin film the size of a lotus leaf floated up!

"Ying ying ying!"

"Ao ao ao!"

The foxes all ran forward and saw a second sheet of film float up, then a third... each one blooming in a swirl of many colors, each one lotus-leaf-sized, each one a perfect circle!

Mianmian Fruit stretched out a Fox Claw, nodding as it counted—each one counted, one toe bent down.

"Ying, ying, ying..."

When the left Fox Claw wasn’t enough, it stretched out the right one.

In the end, two claws, ten toes, just enough to count them all.

It grinned, then turned to look at its Master.

"Ying ying ying?"

The other foxes all looked over too.

Producing ten in one run—does that count as a success?

Bai Mo smiled and examined the Danpi with his Divine Sense.

Each piece of Danpi, lotus-leaf-sized, actually had many layers.

The overall quality was just so-so... after all, the quality of the ingredients was what it was.

But...

"This output is already very high.

"None of the ingredients we put in were wasted.

"Ingredients for ten sets of Danpi refined into exactly ten sets of Danpi. It worked!

"Fox Mountain’s Elixir Skin Workshop—its very first trial run—was a complete Perfection!"

The foxes’ brows opened and their eyes lit up; they were already bouncing and hopping, starting to dance around the tank!

"Ying ying ying!"

"Ao ao ao!"

"Ying ying ying!"

...Fox Mountain had achieved another major breakthrough—it truly had its own Danpi production line now!

...

Splash splish...

It was the sound of suitcase wheels rolling over the floor of the train station.

Tap, tap, tap...

It was the hurried footsteps of travelers.

The sky of early morning was already bright.

Most of the lights in the train station had been turned off.

Hong Xiaoyun pulled her suitcase all the way out of the train station, crossed to the little noodle shop across the road, sat down, ordered a bowl of oil-splashed noodles, and started "slurp slurp" shoveling them into her mouth.

As she ate, she explained to her Master:

"Don’t worry, Master. When I’m about to leave later, I’ll pack up a serving for you."

In her dream, Marquis Qing Yue laughed and scolded her.

"Is that all your Master amounts to in your heart? Just drooling over this one bowl of oil-splashed noodles?"

The customer beside her eating noodles was watching short videos; he was a middle-aged man of about fifty, and his phone volume was cranked to the maximum.

"...Some mining sites, during extraction, are too fixated on quick results, too impatient, so the extraction is incomplete, and they even create massive waste in the process...

"If you cultivate carefully and thoroughly, over five years you can extract a hundred thousand jin of iron ore...

"If you go for quick gains, in one year you can extract fifty thousand jin of iron ore..."

The middle-aged man slurped his noodles while gnawing on a pig’s trotter, frowning as he reflected on the copy in that short video.

"So the idea is... the mine is like this pig’s trotter, you’ve gotta gnaw it slowly to get it clean. If you eat too fast, you can’t get it clean, right?"

Hong Xiaoyun ate her noodles, frowning slightly.

Is there really such a saying?

Suddenly, her brows knitted, and a muffled groan came from her throat.

Turned out it was her heart, twisting with a faint pain.

What’s going on?

She ate that piece of blood tofu and now it’s reacting?

In her mind, the Ancient Immortal let out a sigh.

"Inside that piece of blood tofu you ate, there is a Gu Insect.

"After it enters your body, it’s going to mine you like a mine, digging out all of your Prince Bloodline."

Hong Xiaoyun paused for a moment mid-noodle, listening as she kept slurping and eating.

This really was the first time she learned she actually had Prince Bloodline?

Wasn’t that supposed to be something super lofty and noble, how did it end up on her?

In her dream, the Marquis continued explaining.

"This Gu Insect can sense your geographic location.

"If it’s somewhere that gives it a sense of security, it’ll stay in your body and slowly extract your bloodline, slowly eat away at your bloodline.

"But if it’s somewhere that scares it, it’ll get greedy and shortsighted, drain the pond to catch the fish, rev up to full power, and in the shortest time eat away as much of your bloodline as it can, then leave!"

Hong Xiaoyun half-understood, half-didn’t, sweat starting to bead on her forehead as she ate.

She really could kind of feel that something in her body was being drawn out.

"M–Master... then what... do we do now..."

Her voice trembled as she was about to beg her master to help her, to take this Gu Insect out!

Just then a delivery guy came in holding a small plastic bag.

"Who ordered delivery?"

Hong Xiaoyun hurriedly looked up.

"Me me me!"

She put down her chopsticks and stepped forward. Under the increasingly strange gaze of the noodle shop owner, she hurried to explain.

"Boss, don’t get the wrong idea, what I ordered isn’t food!

"I wouldn’t order someone else’s delivery in your shop."

She took a cardboard box out of the plastic bag, then opened the box and pulled out a magnet.

"I ordered from a hardware store—this!"

The noodle shop owner’s expression finally softened a bit.

Hong Xiaoyun sat back down, and in her mind she heard her Ancient Immortal Master instructing her.

"Inside your fleece jacket, the little pocket at your chest—put the magnet in there!

"Flip the magnet over!

"Yes, good.

"Now, does your heart still hurt?"

Hong Xiaoyun tucked the magnet into place and zipped up the pocket of her jacket.

The heavy magnet pressed against her chest, not very comfortable.

But it did feel like her heart didn’t hurt anymore?

No wonder Master told her to buy a magnet ahead of time—so it was for this!

"Master, did the magnet kill that Gu Insect?

"Am I safe now?"

In her mind, Marquis Qing Yue’s voice sounded a bit awkward.

"Uh... that Gu Insect, it locates its geographic coordinates by relying on the geomagnetic field.

"It just sensed the direction of the geomagnetic field and figured out it was in West State, so it got scared, wanted to drain the pond and catch the fish, eat away your bloodline at the fastest speed, that’s why your heart hurt.

"This magnet disrupted the geomagnetic field around you, it’s confused now and actually no longer scared.

"But it’s not dead. Now it’s relaxed again, working with care and precision, slowly mining your bloodline, eating away your bloodline!

"Is your Master amazing or not?

"Are you happy?"

Hong Xiaoyun pouted, her face almost buried in her noodle bowl as she ate, on the verge of tears, so happy she was about to cry.

Marquis Qing Yue also sensed the awkwardness.

"Uh... this... can’t be helped. Master will help you expel this Gu Insect from your body, but definitely not right now!

"If you want to save the tens of thousands of people in Yishui, you have to do it this way.

"Eat up, Xiaoyun’Er.

"Once you’re done, there’s more to do!"

Hong Xiaoyun thought for a moment, wiped her eyes, and nodded hard, then went back to shoveling the oil-splashed noodles into her mouth. Slurp slurp slurp—in no time at all, she polished off the big bowl.

Scared or not, when it comes to saving the world, how can you not pay some price?

She stood up, just about to scan the code to pay and leave, when she suddenly remembered Master hadn’t eaten either.

"Boss, help me pack another order of oil-splashed noodles. Add cured pork, extra chili oil, extra cilantro and scallions."

In her mind came the Marquis’s laughter.

"Hehe, Xiaoyun’Er has a good heart, still remembers what flavor Master likes?

"Tell the boss to hurry up!

"Once you’ve got the noodles, hop in a cab and head straight to Bai Mo Pharmaceutical Factory!"

...

Whoosh...

Howling gales swept past outside the roof of the dormitory hall.

Inside the pitch-dark hall, the fox disciples had, as usual, split up into little circles, some bragging and chatting, some sparring and practicing fist techniques and Sword moves.

Night Cat’s Eye was surrounded by a group of senior and junior brothers, recounting its experiences in the Elixir Skin Workshop!

"Whee whee whee... awooo awooo awooo..."

...It was precisely because it personally oiled the valve with its own Fox Claw that, at the critical final moment, the valve could spin "swish swish swish" that fast!

Not far away, Sugar Beans was standing with chest puffed out, thumping his chest as he told the brothers about his story of maintaining valve flaps in the workshop!

"Hey."

In the center of the hall, on the bed platform, Bai Mo was, for the first time, receiving proper Danpi.

Right now he lay there gazing up at the sky, seeing layers of Danpi in midair, light and translucent, drifting on the wind, quivering gently.