Chapter 14 The Bewitching Incense Gu
Shi Lin, who was full of anticipation, finally heard the bell ring to signal the end of class.
However, Shi Lin did not rush out of the classroom immediately. After all, there were many people at this time, and if the venom sac of the Datura Serpent were ruptured, the students in the Academy would probably have to sleep for a while.
He waited quietly until everyone else left the classroom before taking out the snakeskin bag containing the venom sac of the Datura Serpent, standing up and walking towards the dormitory.
As for Tang San, although he didn't know what Shi Lin was up to, Tang San, who was full of secrets, wasn't very curious about Shi Lin.
Most of the students had already arrived at the cafeteria, so there weren't many people on the road. Shi Lin carefully carried the snakeskin bag and the poison sac back to his dormitory.
After Shi Lin hurried back to his dormitory, he slammed the door shut, placed the snakeskin bag on the table, and opened the window to ventilate the room.
After doing all that, Shi Lin took out a small toolbox from the drawer.
The toolbox contained many tools, mainly those frequently used in his previous life, all of which were crafted by blacksmiths in Notting City based on blueprints drawn by Shi Lin.
Shi Lin took out a small knife from inside, and then took out a glass and a glass jar from the box.
"Ready to go, let's get started!" Shi Lin waved his hand, then casually put on a thick cotton mask and thick gloves made of pigskin, since snake venom is quite dangerous.
Shi Lin carefully opened the snakeskin bag and squeezed out the venom sac inside.
As the venom sac was removed, a foul stench wafted out. It wasn't the smell of decay, but rather the smell of congealed snake blood—in short, it was extremely unpleasant.
Shi Lin carefully held the poison sac and placed it in a glass. With his other hand, which was gloved, he carefully picked up a small knife and used it to cut open the poison sac.
"puff!"
The toxins in the venom sac sprayed out in an instant. Luckily, the mouth of the glass was not large, otherwise it would have easily splashed everywhere.
To Shi Lin's surprise, the venom of the snake venom sac did not have a fishy smell; instead, it had a faint floral fragrance.
But before Shi Lin could even take a good sniff of the fragrance, he felt dizzy.
Fortunately, Shi Lin was wearing a mask; otherwise, the smell of the venom from the Datura Serpent's venom sac would have been enough to knock him unconscious.
Shi Lin knew that this thing was highly poisonous, so he silently quickened his movements, quickly summoned the Divine Wood King Cauldron, took out a white bamboo worm from the bamboo basket, and threw it into the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
Then, he carefully picked up the glass and poured the venom into the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
Shi Lin could only increase the dosage little by little to test the optimal ratio.
[Unknown Gu worm... Success rate of refinement: 30%]
[...40%]
[...50%]
After three attempts, when the success rate reached 50%, Shi Lin felt that this should be the limit of the success rate for first-tier Gu worms.
So Shi Lin put down the glass containing the venom and covered it with a book to prevent the venom from evaporating further.
Shi Lin pushed his hands forward, pouring all the soul power in his body into the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
Although Shi Lin's soul power level has not broken through, it is exceptionally pure under the blessing of the three wine Gu. Therefore, the soul power in Shi Lin's body is now fully sufficient to refine a first-order Gu worm.
As soul power was injected, the originally pale green venom suddenly transformed into something that refracted a rainbow of colors, just like asphalt.
Meanwhile, the white bamboo worms rolled around inside the Divine Wood King Cauldron, their snow-white skin rapidly corroded by the venom, leaving large patches of green pits and craters on their bodies.
Shi Lin could feel the pain just looking at it.
However, this is the practice of refining Gu poison, and there is no room for leniency.
Shi Lin sat in the chair, his eyes fixed intently on the boiling venom within the Divine Wood King Cauldron. He dared not even breathe, for fear that any small movement might cause the Gu refining process to fail.
In less than a minute, the venom in the Divine Wood King Cauldron had stopped boiling, and the bamboo worms that were previously visible were now nowhere to be seen.
As the venom slowly disappeared.
A blue Gu worm, about the thickness of a little finger, appeared at the bottom of the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
This Gu worm was entirely blue, with a thin layer of scales on its surface and a white, spike-like horn on its head.
"It looks like this little guy is a high-grade Gu worm!" Shi Lin's eyes lit up as he looked at the Gu worm in the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
[Gu Insect: Bewitching Incense Gu]
[Level: Tier 1]
[Quality: Top Grade]
[Functions: 1. Injects soul power to release a potent and extremely potent sleeping fragrance; 2. Every ten days, the Gu worm can shed a single scale. The scale, when ground into powder and burned, can cause a person to fall into a coma]
[Introduction: Due to the potent toxicity of the materials used in its preparation, the resulting Gu worms are also highly effective. They are among the most powerful first-tier Gu worms, crafted with skillful techniques and of exceptional quality.]
[Note: It was like a dream, a whiff of fragrance that brought me to Yelang.]
"It's a pity there's no space left to contract the Bewitching Incense Gu, but the scales of the Bewitching Incense Gu are still materials for making bewitching incense! Although it's a bit troublesome, the effect is not bad." Shi Lin looked at the Bewitching Incense Gu in the Divine Wood King Cauldron with great interest and nodded in satisfaction.
The food of the Bewitching Incense Gu is fragrant wood.
Shi Lin has quite a few of these things in his dormitory; basically, all the wood has a certain fragrance.
The Douluo Continent is never short of old trees, after all, they use big trees to test the effects of soul skills at the drop of a hat, and there are at least fifty or a hundred big trees that have died at the hands of the protagonist group.
Shi Lin thought for a moment, picked up a wooden pen holder from the table, and smashed it on the ground, breaking it into pieces.
This pen holder is made of pear wood, which is also a type of fragrant wood, and can be used to feed the Bewitching Incense Gu.
Once I've rested, I must buy plenty of fragrant wood in Notting City to feed the Bewitching Incense Gu.
Then, Shi Lin took out a glass jar and placed it on the table.
Shi Lin carefully reached his hand into the Divine Wood King Cauldron and gently pinched the Bewitching Incense Gu.
The scales on the surface of the Bewitching Incense Gu's body are very slippery and also very hard.
The moment the Bewitching Incense Gu was taken out of the Divine Wood King Cauldron, a faint floral fragrance wafted out.
The fragrance was soothing and made him feel very relaxed, but before he knew it, Shi Lin felt weak in his limbs and dizzy.
"Good heavens... this is a sleeping potion?" Shi Lin shook his head violently, forcing himself to wake up.
However, at this moment, Shi Lin suddenly discovered that after smelling the incense, the soul power in his body had become more active.
In other words, although the fragrance emitted by the Bewitching Incense Gu is a bewitching fragrance, it can be used to assist in cultivation!
"I never expected that the fragrance of this bewitching incense could aid in cultivation." Shi Lin excitedly mobilized the soul power within his body and said with a smile.
The fragrance emanating from the Bewitching Incense Gu can aid in cultivation; this is indeed an unexpected delight!
Shi Lin put the Bewitching Incense Gu into the glass jar, then picked up a piece of wood shavings and threw it into the jar.
"The remaining toxins can be used to refine three more Gu worms, Heavenly spirits and Earthly spirits! We must produce a few more!" Shi Lin looked at the remaining complete venom sac and the venom sac that only contained half of the venom, and clasped his hands together in prayer.
However, Shi Lin did not immediately refine a second Bewitching Incense Gu. Instead, he returned to his bed, sat cross-legged, closed his eyes, and began to recover his soul power.
After all that fuss, the afternoon classes had already started, but Shi Lin had no desire to attend them at all.
"Forget it, let them run away. They can't say anything of value anyway." Shi Lin shook his head helplessly.
Half an hour later, Shi Lin's soul power had been fully restored, so he prepared to refine the next Gu worm.
Two hours later.
Shi Lin's glass jar now contains a high-grade Bewitching Incense Gu and a mid-grade Bewitching Incense Gu.
The success rate of refining three Bewitching Incense Gu from two poison sacs is already quite high, even though one of them is only of medium grade.
Shi Lin then threw some more wood chips into the glass jar and left it there.
[end of the chapter]