Eternal Life from the Golden Needle Technique

Chapter 398: Chapter 395: Results

Time flew by.

In the blink of an eye, another half a month had passed.

During this half-month, Shen Changchuan spent most of his time focused on combining and improving the Beast Taming Secret Technique and Gu Techniques.

Analyzing, deconstructing, reassembling...

To be honest,

creating or modifying a Secret Technique was no easy task.

To succeed,

one had to be a person of dazzling, exceptional talent!

The difficulty was comparable to Newton discovering the formula for universal gravitation in his previous life.

If Shen Changchuan had to rely solely on his own intellect, it would have been an utterly impossible feat!

But thankfully,

he had a cheat!

Ever since the Divine Seed he had condensed evolved due to his accumulated resources,

Shen Changchuan had discovered another Trait of the corresponding Cultivation Experience within the Perfection Traits on his progress bar panel!

The so-called ”experience” within the Perfection Traits,

was actually understanding!

An understanding of that type of Magic!

After cultivating enough Magic of a certain type to Perfection,

the reason he could learn the next similar Magic in a short time,

and instantly raise its progress to forty or fifty percent, was because he had accumulated enough understanding of the corresponding Magic System!

And this understanding,

naturally gave Shen Changchuan the confidence to modify the Secret Technique!

The Shen Changchuan of today,

with the blessing of his progress bar panel,

not only comprehended all Magic below Tier Two, but also possessed an understanding of various magical principles that was unattainable for ordinary people!

Because of this,

after half a month of hard work,

he had already achieved preliminary results.

By using the framework of the Beast Taming Secret Technique and combining it with the control Techniques from Gu Techniques,

he had already created a rough framework.

Next,

he just needed to fill in the details.

Of course,

during this half-month, Shen Changchuan hadn’t spent all his time in secluded Cultivation in his cave abode, modifying the Secret Technique.

He hadn’t cut off contact with the outside world.

He simply hung a ”secluded cultivation” sign at the entrance of his cave abode to decline visitors,

and instructed the page outside to tell anyone who came by that he was deep in thought, contemplating an Exorcism Secret Skill.

If there was something important,

they were to inform him then.

For example, when Poisoned Cultivators in critical condition returned from the front lines,

he never refused to go and treat them.

It was just that whenever he appeared in the recovery courtyard, a large number of grateful, recovered Poisoned Cultivators would come forward to thank him, and even offer him gifts.

This was precisely why Shen Changchuan had hung the ”secluded cultivation” sign high on his cave abode’s entrance.

Otherwise,

the threshold to his cave abode would likely have been worn down by all the cured Poisoned Cultivators,

and how could he have been in any mood to think about improving the Beast Taming Secret Technique?

It was worth mentioning,

that during this half-month,

not many Poisoned Cultivators had come back from the front lines.

It seemed that because the Broken Soul Mountain front was quite far away and the fighting was fierce, news from here hadn’t reached them yet.

As a result, only the most severely afflicted Poisoned Cultivators, those who could barely walk, returned for treatment.

But this was also a good thing.

Shen Changchuan helped the dozen or so Poisoned Cultivators with their Gu Exorcising without expending much effort at all.

He even took the opportunity,

to experiment with his improved Beast Taming Secret Technique...

No,

it should be called the Gu-controlling Secret Technique now.

Having suitable ”test subjects” allowed Shen Changchuan to further accelerate his improvements.

Although the current Gu-controlling Secret Technique was still just a framework,

it was basically developed enough for other Cultivators to try cultivating and using it to control and even communicate with Gu Insects.

’The Gu-controlling Secret Technique can be improved gradually. Next up is the Gu Insect problem.’

’I can only raise centipedes. I don’t have much experience with large-scale breeding of other Gu Insects, and letting them devour each other might not even produce a Poisonous Insect King. A single misstep could mean wasting years of hard work just to figure things out.’

’Raising other kinds of Poisonous Insect Kings is really not worth it. I have at least three years of solid experience raising them from centipedes, so there shouldn’t be any issues.’

’Mm, I should be able to start preparations now. I can ask Elder Gu to mobilize some manpower to build breeding houses in advance.’

’Half a month has passed, so my message should have already reached Dawan Village long ago. In another ten days or so, Grandfather and the experienced Cultivators from the village should be arriving. It’ll be perfect. We can start breeding as soon as they get here...’

After another trip out to exorcise the Gu from a severely injured Poisoned Cultivator who had recently returned from the front lines, Shen Changchuan walked back toward his temporary cave abode, mulling things over in his mind.

Everything was proceeding in an orderly fashion.

As long as he finished improving the Secret Technique and raised a few Poisonous Insect Kings similar to Xiaojin, he could hand them over directly. Then he could let others handle the Gu Exorcising for the Poisoned Cultivators on the front lines, extricating himself from the matter to do his own thing.

Moreover,

this Secret Technique,

might even be able to change the battlefield situation on the front lines to some extent!

’It’s a shame, though. The Gu-controlling Secret Technique, adapted from the Beast Taming Secret Technique, can control larger Gu Insects, but it has no effect whatsoever on the microbial kind.’

’It’s a good thing the penicillin extracted from the orange mold actually has some effect. Otherwise, those sixty-odd people would have just been left to die.’

Thinking of the sixty-odd people who had been infected with the invisible, microbial Gu Insects,

Shen Changchuan sighed.

Although the crudely extracted penicillin was useful,

the mortality rate was not low.

In the end, out of the sixty-eight Cultivators infected with the microbial Gu Insects, only forty-three survived.

A mortality rate of around thirty percent.

That wasn’t low at all!

It was vastly higher than the mortality rate for Exorcising Gu with a controlled Gu Insect!

But there was nothing Shen Changchuan could do.

His method of using Xiaojin for Gu Exorcising was an unorthodox treatment he’d stumbled upon by a stroke of luck.

It could only treat Gu Insects visible to the naked eye.

As for the Domain of microbial Gu Insects,

it really wasn’t his area of expertise.

Besides,

so many High Level Alchemists and Soul Emergence Late Stage Cultivators hadn’t been able to find a solution.

Shen Changchuan didn’t believe he could succeed just by spending time on it.

’I guess this is how it has to be.’

’We can only leave it to fate.’

’Or perhaps I could make a suggestion. Have those physicians cultivate a stronger strain of penicillin mold and further purify the penicillin.’

’As for anything more, I’m powerless to help.’

Shen Changchuan shook his head.

He could only set the matter aside for now.

He returned to his temporary cave abode and continued to improve the Gu-controlling Secret Technique.

At the same time, however,

he also began contacting City Lord Gu Xuanqing, asking him to dispatch a group of people to build some houses in a shady location according to his specifications.

In addition to that,

he also made occasional trips to the market,

to see if there were any unusual Gu Insects or Gu Dao Secret Techniques he could buy for research.

Time passed slowly by.

「In the blink of an eye, another half a month passed.」