Longevity begins with loose cultivation

Entering the worm nest, Lu Zhong saw the infected large honey worms, and the number piled up into mountains.

From the dissected corpse, it can be seen that the body of the worm is covered with white hyphae, and the body is stiff and long. Although it is not completely dead at the moment, it has completely lost its ability to move.

At this time, no matter how the queen worm ordered, she would not move.

At the same time, a milky white flower grows on the top of the head.

The scene in front of him made Lu Zhong couldn't help showing a strange look. After all, no matter how you look at this strange disease, it is like a big honey beetle being eroded and parasitized by fungi, and then turned into a "cordyceps".

According to the observations of the deacons, there are two stages in the onset of the strange disease.

The initial symptoms of any infected honey worms are ossification of the body. At this stage, the activity will gradually weaken, and mycelium will start to grow in the body. It has come to an end.

After the big honey worm dies, it will enter the second stage. At this time, the mycelium in the body will break out, squeeze out the last nutrient of the worm body, and then grow a small flower.

"Have you found relevant records?" Lu Zhong turned his head and looked at Su Caocao.

The latter shook his head, and replied respectfully: "Return to Master, the disciple has read all the classics in person, but has not found any relevant records."

"Then what is its function?" Lu Zhong pointed at the little flower.

Combining his previous life's management, he guessed that this "Cordyceps" plant should be useful, and in the field of vision of the Tianluo Secret Pupil Technique, the little flower exuded a very strong aura.

In terms of purity, it is no less than a third-order elixir.

It's just that there are fewer of them.

"Regarding this point, this disciple has ordered the alchemists in the Alchemy Hall to start urgent research, and it is expected that the results will be available soon." Su Caocao said.

Lu Zhong felt satisfied after hearing this.

It's good to have a sensible apprentice, so you don't have to worry about everything.

In this situation, if it were the protagonist of the novel, he would have to run around and work for a long time. How could he be so relaxed.

Back to the topic of strange diseases.

Although the final product of this disease looks like a useful spiritual creature for monks, it is tantamount to annihilation for the large honey beetle swarm.

If it is allowed to continue to spread, the result will inevitably end in the extinction of the swarm.

For Lu Zhong, this is absolutely unacceptable.

Regarding this point, according to Su Caocao's report, she and the deacon in charge of the insect nest have conducted investigations, but they have not found out the reason, and the appearance of the strange disease seems to have appeared out of thin air.

"It seems that I still have to do it myself." Lu Zhong thought calmly.

After understanding the situation, he urged Su Caocao and others to find a solution as soon as possible, but he didn't get angry, and he still had a calm expression.

Teach people to read it and feel that the city is deep.

Of course, none of those dereliction of duty monks should be dealt with.

All of them were thrown into the bitter mine.

That night, Lv Zhong came to the worm's nest without a trace.

With the help of the gray fog space, he began to look back at the scene.

According to the files submitted by the deacons, the strange illness first appeared half a month ago, but Lu Zhong combined his previous life experience to guess the real time of appearance, definitely before that.

All the way back.

Sure enough, the first case was three months ago.

Seeing the backtracking results, Lu Zhong overturned his previous guess.

Then he traced back the life of the sick beetle, and he figured out the origin of the strange disease.

Lu Zhong originally thought that the appearance of the strange disease was caused by external forces, not the ghosts of Changchun Valley, or the sneaky behavior of the Taoist side, but the truth was unexpected.

The mycelium actually comes from the giant honey bug itself.

According to observation, there is such mycelium in the body of every big honey worm.

"It's troublesome!" Lu Zhong frowned.

"What is the cause of the onset? This has never happened before. Could it be that the queen is about to break through to the fourth level? It seems... It seems that this possibility is not impossible."

After all, judging from the current situation, the queen worm did not show the slightest sign of illness.

Other large honey beetles in the swarm, whether they are soldier insects or worker insects, no matter whether isolation measures are taken or not, even isolation from the egg stage cannot prevent the disease.

"There is a high probability that the problem is here." Lu Zhong guessed.

With the help of scene backtracking, the cause of the disease was clarified.

Then the next thing will be easy to handle.

Under the astonished eyes of the disciples on duty, Lu Zhong appeared, and plucked a piece of "Cordyceps flower" while saying "The disciple has seen the ancestor".

He waved his hands casually to let the disciples get up.

Immediately, his figure flashed, and he teleported directly to the bottom of the insect nest, where the queen was.

"Master!"

"Ancestor!"

As the core of the insect swarm, the delivery room where the queen is located is undoubtedly the top priority of a series of protection, especially when strange diseases occur, which are likely to be caused by foreign enemies.

The defense here has reached its peak, and it can no longer be described as "bronze wall and iron wall".

Therefore, at this moment, He Luo, who is the direct descendant of Yuanying, is leading three direct descendants of the Bihaizong to establish the foundation, and is on duty day and night.

When they saw Lu Zhong appearing, although they were surprised in their hearts, they still saluted one after another.

Nodding his head slightly, Lu Zhong asked them to stand up, and turned his gaze to the queen.

Maybe it's because it doesn't need to fight by itself. After breaking through to the third level, the worm's size has changed from its original size of a hundred feet. With the continuous improvement of its strength, it is now close to two hundred feet in size.

It looks like a lying jade mountain.

From its breath, it can be found that this worm has reached the peak of the third order, which is equivalent to the level of strength of the Immortal Cultivation False Infant Realm.

One step ahead is the catastrophe of crossing the transformation form.

"Could it be that it's really going to go through the catastrophe?" This speculation flashed through Lu Zhong's mind.

Walking slowly to the front of the queen, looking at the big bloody mouth the size of a house, he remained expressionless, while the queen let out low groans when she noticed her master's arrival.

It feels like a puppy trying to please Lu Zhong.

"Do you need this?"

He took out the Cordyceps flower and asked the queen.

Immediately, strong emotions erupted from the queen.

The huge body squirmed for a while, obviously wanting to pounce on him, but in the end he was still afraid of Lu Zhong's strength, and let out bursts of flattering whispers again.

Seeing this, Lu Zhong threw the Cordyceps flower into the Queen's mouth.

Immediately, the queen ate the little flower and let out a cry of joy.At the same time, its body also began to change, and it began to squirm and make thunderous sounds.

One... two... ten!
"Look, the queen has become smaller!" a deacon suddenly shouted.

Not only him, but all the monks present have discovered this situation.

Naturally, Lu Zhong had already discovered it.

As early as when he fed the first Cordyceps flower, he had been paying close attention to the queen, and he had keenly discovered the function of the Cordyceps flower.Moreover, the function of the Cordyceps flower obviously does not only make the queen smaller, but also strengthens its body.

"Give me an order to gather all the Cordyceps flowers and feed them to the queen." Lu Zhong ordered.

"Yes!" The disciples immediately took action upon hearing this.

Feeding in the blossoming Cordyceps flowers, the size of the queen shrunk even more, and soon she was only less than a hundred feet, but the momentum of shrinking did not decrease at all, and there was a faint tendency to speed up.

At the same time, those uninfected big honey worms flocked to the delivery room.

However, there are layers of magic circles separating them, and they are all blocked out.

"Let them in!" Lu Zhong said.

Judging from the current situation, the spread of strange diseases and the changes in the swarms are obviously caused by the advancement of the queen, so there is no need to block the big honey worms.

He wanted to see what would happen next.

At this time, Yu Feng'er also rushed over upon hearing the news, followed by Su Caocao.

Seeing the rapidly changing worm queen, Yu Feng'er looked surprised.

"Husband, what is it?"

"It's time to break through." Lu Zhong replied.

"Breakthrough, isn't that going to cross the catastrophe of transformation?" Hearing this, Yu Feng'er frowned, and her face was immediately covered with worry.According to the records in the classics, the catastrophe of the transformation of monsters is much more difficult than the catastrophe of cultivating immortals for six days.

Once the catastrophe fails, the Queen of Worms can only die.

"The swarm doesn't have a queen yet, my husband... why don't we let it stop breaking through?"

"That's a problem!" Only then did Lu Zhong realize that he was so busy paying attention to the changes in the queen that he forgot the most important point.

At this moment, there was a flash of light in his eyebrows, and he chuckled.

"Why, what's the matter?" Yu Feng'er was puzzled.

"Ma'am, it turns out that the greatest instinct of living beings is to reproduce!" Lu Zhong looked at the body of the Queen of Worms. At this moment, he had already used the Tianluo Secret Eye to discover that there was an extra life inside.

If there is no accident, it must be the new queen.

On the side, Yu Feng'er, whose cheeks were red and hot, followed her husband's line of sight to look at the queen, and finally realized that Lu Zhong was not teasing herself.

Seeing that no one noticed this episode, she pretended nothing happened and continued to watch the development of the situation.

Lu Zhong, who was the only one who discovered this, just smiled in his heart.

Soon, after swallowing a large number of Cordyceps flowers, the size of the insects shrank to ten feet, and this seemed to have reached the limit, and no matter how the disciples fed them, they did not continue to shrink.

At this moment, the Queen of Worms let out a burst of chirping.

The swarm of insects gathered in the delivery room swarmed in at this time, and when they rushed in front of the queen, they all raised their mouthparts and began to spew out streams of red liquid.

"It's spiritual honey mixed with insect blood!" Yu Feng'er said in surprise.

As the spiritual honey spurted out, the big honey bugs collapsed from exhaustion.However, the swarm continued to move forward, continuously spewing spiritual honey towards the queen, even if it was at the cost of their own lives.

Soon, a "palace" quietly took shape.

Seeing this, Lu Zhong finally understood the queen's intentions, and guessed in his heart: "So it's not an immediate breakthrough, but a 'cocooning' stage."

I don't know what it was that broke out of the cocoon in the end?
Seeing that the worm cocoons had formed and the worm swarm had calmed down, Lu Zhong issued an order, announcing that the worm nest would be the forbidden area of ​​the Bihai Sect from now on, and everyone would evacuate immediately.

And he himself is ready to protect himself.

"As a master, it's time to fulfill your obligations."

……

About the function of Cordyceps flower.

After the painstaking research of alchemists in the alchemy hall, the results came out soon.

According to the practice of cultivating immortals, this thing is defined as a kind of elixir, because the aura contained in the medicine is very pure, it is classified as a "third-tier elixir".

It was named "Cordyceps Immortals".

Unlike Shengling honey, which can improve one's cultivation, the Cordyceps fairy has a very good effect, just like what was shown on the Queen of Worms, it can purify and strengthen the physical body.

It is not an exaggeration to say that it is a "holy medicine for body refining".

With the help of the secret array of good fortune, Lu Zhong specially transformed a small bottle of spiritual liquid and tried it.He was pleasantly surprised to find that this spiritual liquid could make his semi-pure spiritual body continue to transform.

In addition, Cordyceps jelly has the effect of regenerating severed limbs.

During the Qi refining period, monks only need to take one flower to make the defective parts of the body grow.

Obviously, if these fairy caterpillar fungus were sold, a large number of spirit stones would be harvested. After all, spirit objects that can regenerate severed limbs have always been priceless in the world of cultivating immortals.

But Lu Zhong didn't plan to sell it.

He kept part of the fairy wormwood in the treasure house of the sect as the welfare of the disciples of the Bihai sect, part of it was given to Shui Ni and Yu Feng'er to strengthen their physical bodies, and he planned to keep the rest of the fairy wormwood for his own use.

The improvement of one's own strength is the most important.

As for Zongmen, it is just a tool for him to achieve this goal.

While guarding the worm queen, he took spiritual liquid to refine his body.

Time just passed by little by little.

In the blink of an eye, it was half a year.

The day of the coming of the Hall of Witches is getting closer and closer, and the situation in the Nanman has also begun to surge, and the shadow of the Middle-earth forces has appeared behind many events.

No need to think about it, they must be eyeing the "Palace of All Witches", this possible piece of fat.

On the occasion of the coming rain.

Lu Zhong is still retreating.

The psychic liquid refined from the Cordyceps celestiae had extraordinary effects, and it increased the progress of his pure spiritual body transformation by a large margin.

This brings about an overall improvement in physical fitness.

At this moment, he is stronger than Jiaolong in terms of physique.

However, just before the body breaks through, it is only the last step.

Depressing things happen.

Cordyceps flowers are used up.

Lu Zhong did the math, and found that even with those sent out, it was still not enough for the transformation of the pure spirit body, and there was still a huge gap.

"what is this?"

Shaking his head, he shifted his gaze to the cocoon.

According to the observations in the past few days, the transformation of the queen has almost been completed, and her aura has also reached its peak. It is expected that the day when she breaks out of the cocoon should be during this time.

At this moment, Lu Zhong narrowed his eyes slightly.

"Heh, there is really something to be robbed!"

The reason why he personally guards the Queen of Worms is that he is on guard against the possibility of powerful monsters or monks coming in response to the disaster.

Unexpectedly, this actually happened.

At this moment, a figure walked into the insect nest as if no one was around.

"If Master Dao hadn't seen it with his own eyes, I really wouldn't believe that a remote place like Nanman, which can be called a place where birds don't shit, would actually have jade worms!"

The fat monk dressed as a Taoist priest in a white Taoist robe thought to himself.

When he saw the pile of corpses inside the nest, his dark face was filled with shock, and he was speechless for a while.

"This, this, this! What do I see, the Queen Yuqiong is about to advance!"

The fat Taoist priest knows exactly what it means for a queen to be promoted.He couldn't help breathing quickly, and his eyeballs began to roll around, obviously planning something.

"Hmph, how can a barbarian take such a chance?"

This is obviously not worthy of virtue.

"It should be Daoist!"