Chapter 162 Substitute Gourd

Author: A Box of Tieguanyin

Chapter 162 Substitute Gourd

"Seven gourd babies! Unfortunately, I am not grandpa!"

Xu Mu walked to the gourd vine, stretched out his fingers, and squeezed out drops of bright red blood from his fingers, which continued to fall on the roots of the gourd vine.

Gudonggudong!

The gourd vine seemed to be alive, constantly squirming and absorbing Xu Mu's blood, and then transferred it to the seven gourds.

The seven gourds also began to emit little bits of light from their original darkness, making them look magical and extraordinary.

Xu Mu dripped hundreds of drops of blood until one of the red gourds, which was the largest and closest to the root, suddenly fell from the vine.

Xu Mu, who was well prepared, stretched out his hand to catch it, looked up and down, with a hint of joy in his eyes.

"I hope you won't disappoint me!"

Xu Mu returned to the practice room with the red gourd.

He first took the elixir, closed his eyes and regulated his breathing to recover the lost energy, and then he opened his eyes and looked carefully at the red-skinned gourd in his hand.

The whole gourd is more than half a person tall. It is as red as red sand, with a small top and a big bottom. Its appearance is the same as that of an ordinary gourd.

Xu Mu stroked it up and down. The material was as cold as jade.

Xu Mu did not open it immediately, but first took out a three-foot-long white ice jade coffin, and then popped it out with one finger.

Bang!

Click!

The two voices merged together, and the next moment, the entire red-skinned gourd shattered inch by inch, revealing the scene inside.

Unlike ordinary gourds that are full of melon pulp and seeds, this gourd actually has a person lying inside.

A child of five or six years old!

The pink and jade carvings are carved, and the small eyes are tightly closed.

If you look carefully, you will find that this child is very similar to Xu Mu.

"The substitute gourd is indeed magical!"

The moment he saw the child, even Xu Mu couldn't help but marvel.

Although he had heard about it when he bought it, he wasn't sure until he actually saw it.

The reason why he planted this kind of gourd was to make a clone.

From now on, the main body stays at home, safe and worry-free, while the clone goes out on his behalf to collect the resources and materials he wants.

This is Xu Mu's future plan.

In order to find a suitable clone, he has spent a lot of effort in the past few years. Paper figures, puppets, refined corpses, living corpses, Gu insects, etc. all have various shortcomings. Fortunately, he finally got this so-called clone.

The gourd vine is a mutation of the three divine vines.

In order to cultivate this gourd vine, he had to put in half a catty of blood every day. Ordinary practitioners couldn't resist it. It was only he who dared to do this because he had a deep foundation.

Fortunately, hard work paid off and the training was finally successful.

However, we still have to try to see if it can be as magical as what the other party said.

Xu Mu lifted the child up and put it into the white cold jade coffin. Then he closed his eyes and concentrated, his hands quickly performed one magic formula after another, and he muttered words.

I don't know how long it took, but a little golden man jumped out of Xu Mu's head and jumped onto the child's body.

Then the little man lay down and gradually merged into the child's body.

Half a month passed in the blink of an eye. On this day, Xu Mu and the child opened their eyes at the same time.

“This feels really amazing!”

The two spoke at the same time, their voices and expressions were almost exactly the same, except that one was older and the other was younger.

After some attempts, I found that this clone was not perfect.

First of all, he has no cultivation at all and needs to practice bit by bit. The other is that his soul is incomplete, which makes his cultivation progress extremely slow.

"No wonder it's so cheap!"

This substitute gourd looked magical, but in fact it was just a seventh-level spiritual plant. If it was really too expensive, he couldn't afford it, let alone keep it.

So it is reasonable to have this shortcoming.

For other practitioners, limited by these two shortcomings, the clone is completely useless.

Because if you don’t cultivate to the same level, you won’t be able to help at all.

But only they themselves know how difficult it is to train a person from scratch to the same state as themselves.

The cost is too high, and it is not as cost-effective as making puppets and refining corpses. Coupled with the limitations of spiritual thoughts, it is destined that the clone will not achieve anything.

It's a pity to throw it away, it's useless to keep it.

So it’s useless!

But for Xu Mu, it is not a big problem.

Who told him to have a system?

No matter how talented he is, can he still be worse than his body?

Unlike those who have cultivated the golden elixir and achieved super-level achievements, and their talents have been strengthened and improved many times, they can definitely be ranked at the forefront at the same level.

So with the system in place, nothing is a problem.

After Xu Mu figured everything out, he controlled Xu Da to leave the house and enter the city.

Because it was the first clone, Xu Mu directly named him Xu Da to save trouble.

This is the first time Xu Mu has visited his own city from the perspective of a child. In the past, he would only scan it with his spiritual mind.

There were people coming and going on the streets, and I don’t know how much more lively it was than when I first arrived.

According to Si Tan'er, with the completion of the defense formation, the population of Fang City began to increase rapidly, and with the subsequent promulgation of various laws and regulations, the population entered a stage of skyrocketing.

Although less than ten years have passed, the population has increased to more than 30,000 people, exceeding Baihefang City's peak period.

If Xu Mu hadn't intended to let Si Tan'er control it later, the population might have been even larger.

The reason why they are allowed to control the population is simply to avoid being in the limelight.

After all, this place is still nominally the territory of the Liyang Sect, and they are subject to the management of the Liyang Sect. If they perform too well, they will be easily targeted.

Unless Xu Mu takes action when the time comes, it will cause endless trouble.

Of course, Xu Mu will not stop there, but will enter a more secretive way of development.

Referred to as underground forces!

This aspect falls under the management of Chifeiyan.

With the support of a large number of spirit stones, the number of people has long expanded to thousands, and has spread almost to the entire Tianhe Sect area.

Xu Mu can obtain the most detailed information on all forces in the Tianhe Sect at the first time.

Because Xu Mu is strong enough, he can even directly seize the Tianhe Sect's position.

Of course, it may take hundreds of years to achieve that level of strength.

The most important role of this force now is to sell foundation-building pills.

It is precisely with the huge wealth resold from both sides that Xu Mu can support everyone's cultivation and the development of his own power.

However, Baihefang City has long been self-sufficient, and even has a large surplus that can be used to improve the city's heritage.

"Hey! Child! Which family are you from? Go back quickly!"

A group of patrolling guards saw Xu Mu's clone walking around alone on the street and couldn't help but stop him and shouted.

"oh!"

Xu Mu responded, but then looked at the clothes of several guards.

Although the entire set of protective armor is only of the first level, it is superior in that it has comprehensive defense and almost no blind spots. The second-level halberd in the hand is used for close combat and can also be used as a messenger.

Just adding these two together would cost 500 low-grade spiritual stones.

As for their cultivation, they were all in the middle stage of Qi training, and only the leading team leader was in the late stage of Qi training.

This kind of equipment and cultivation level is almost as good as the guards of Liyang City, and it is definitely unique among many cities.

There are a total of fifty such patrol teams in the entire city, patrolling 12 hours a day non-stop to ensure order in the entire city.

From this point, we can also see how wealthy Baihefang City is.

It is precisely with these well-equipped patrol teams that Baihefang City can ensure a stable environment and develop rapidly.

There are patrol teams not only inside Fang City, but also in the outer shantytowns. There are more patrol teams than inside, a full one hundred.
To be continued...