The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu-Chapter 472: The Method to Reinforce the Seal

Two quiet years passed.

Within the Demon Suppressing Pagoda, six of Long Xuan’s clones were seated around the edge of a bottomless well. Unknowingly, they had been sitting there for two full years.

Long Xuan had split his soul to multitask—one part focused on cultivation, while his main soul was immersed in the Soul Book Library, creating a new recipe for the Go Gu. The progress was promising.

Half a year ago, he had already broken through to the peak of the Spiritual Sea stage. The reason he hadn’t emerged yet was simply to stabilize his cultivation base.

In the Soul Book Library, Long Xuan stared at the thick book in his hand, disbelief flashing through his eyes.

Before entering seclusion, he had told Zhu Jiuge that if he could develop a new recipe for the Go Gu within two years, he would gift her a pill capable of summoning Life-Transformative Lightning.

Without a doubt, he intended to exploit Zhu Jiuge's heaven-defying luck, hoping to rely on her fortune to successfully complete the Go Gu recipe within the set time.

He knew the Doom Gu wouldn’t stand by idly—it would ensure its host obtained such a miraculous pill.

Of course, he didn't actually have a pill that could summon Life-Transformative Lightning. He made that promise as a ploy—an empty hand snaring a white wolf. If the Doom Gu truly wanted its host to get that pill, it would have to use its luck to help Long Xuan develop it successfully.

This move truly achieved two goals with one effort. It was clear he had thoroughly figured out how to manipulate the Doom Gu.

To his surprise, the Doom Gu was astonishingly effective. Over the next two years, while developing the new Gu recipe, every guess he made turned out correct. Everything went smoothly, and he really did succeed in inventing the new Go Gu recipe within the deadline.

Though he had anticipated success, Long Xuan still couldn’t help but click his tongue in amazement. This Doom Gu was absurdly powerful. One couldn’t even say whether its host was lucky or cursed.

Over the two years, under the pretense of closed-door cultivation, Long Xuan had become a complete hands-off shopkeeper. All business matters were left to Zhu Jiuge. He only had to periodically teleport the coffee produced in the belly of the Heaven-Devouring World's Toad to her through the Sou Gu House.

Thanks to her heaven-defying luck, their business prospered, amassing tremendous wealth.

Through bartering using various Coffee Gu insects, he had also nearly gathered all the ingredients needed for the new Go Gu recipe.

That meant he could officially begin refining the Go Gu today. The progress had been remarkably swift.

But with joy came concern. Just as he had predicted, the process of making coffee was far too simple to keep a secret for long. This world never lacked clever minds.

Now, countless factions had already reverse-engineered the coffee-making process, and Coffee Gu were beginning to flood the world.

In less than two years, Coffee Gu had bloomed across the lands, spreading to every corner of the world. They had become the most popular type of Gu, fervently pursued by every Gu cultivator.

Because coffee trees were previously deemed useless, no one had bothered to harvest them. As a result, they were abundant in the wild.

With easily obtainable ingredients and cheap refinement costs, there was no reason for Coffee Gu not to explode in popularity.

Now, forests swarmed with people frantically searching for coffee trees. The human masses had gone mad. It was only a matter of time before all wild coffee trees were harvested clean.

Under these conditions, the business of Long Xuan’s coffee shop inevitably suffered. Though it still turned a profit, it couldn’t possibly match its previous earnings.

Still, Long Xuan was content. The Go Gu recipe required materials worth seventy million. Gathering such an astronomical amount of resources spoke volumes about how much wealth he had accumulated over two years through selling Coffee Gu.

Without Coffee Gu, it would have been nearly impossible to gather everything in such a short time.

As he looked at the Gu recipe in his hand, as thick as a dictionary, Long Xuan sighed.

To create the recipe with such ease still felt unreal to him. Everything had gone too smoothly.

Just as he was putting the recipe away and preparing to refine the Go Gu, a sudden knock came from the door outside.

Finally, he opened his eyes, ending his cultivation state.

“How much longer are you going to stay in there? It’s been two years! Do you have any idea what I’ve been through during this time?!”

Hearing the voice of Zhu Jiuge from outside, Long Xuan rubbed his nose awkwardly, a rare trace of embarrassment appearing on his face.

He had gone off to cultivate, leaving her alone to handle the business. That was indeed rather irresponsible.

“So it’s Jiuge! Come in, come in! What wind brought you here today?”

Long Xuan opened the black stone door, smiling as he welcomed Zhu Jiuge inside.

It had been years since they last met. When he sensed her cultivation level, Long Xuan’s pupils suddenly contracted.

Good heavens—Zhu Jiuge was now at the early stage of Gu King. How did she cultivate like this? Even a rocket wouldn’t reach this speed.

While he had been feeling proud of reaching the peak of the Spiritual Sea stage in such a short time, this girl had already broken into the Gu King realm. How was he supposed to compete with that?

Comparison breeds despair. Next to Zhu Jiuge, Long Xuan felt utterly insignificant—had his life been a joke? Was the Doom Gu really that heaven-defying?

At this moment, Long Xuan was anything but calm.

“I truly didn’t expect you to break through to Gu King so quickly,” he said.

“By right, becoming a Gu King means graduation. Are you here to say goodbye, planning to leave now?” Long Xuan asked.

“I didn’t expect the bottleneck to Gu King to shatter so easily either,” Zhu Jiuge replied. “I hadn’t prepared any resources for the breakthrough.”

“My spiritual energy wasn’t even at the large completion stage. Under normal circumstances, the success rate of breaking through to Gu King would be less than one in ten thousand. But to my surprise, I succeeded on the very first try.”

“Now that I’ve become a Gu King, I have to graduate and leave the Holy Gu Academy. The academy’s graduation task assigned to me is to find a way to reinforce the seal beneath the Demon Suppressing Pagoda. I want you to come down and take a look with me.”

Upon hearing this, Long Xuan raised his eyebrows slightly and couldn't help but ask,

"You want me to go down with you—how can you be so sure that I can help you solve this problem?"

Zhu Jiuge immediately replied,

"I'm not sure whether you can solve the problem, or even whether you know anything about formations. I asked you to come purely on a whim—just taking a chance."

Hearing this, the corners of Long Xuan's mouth twitched involuntarily.

"Taking a chance," huh? She really did get lucky—he actually had a way to reinforce the seal.

This woman's luck was truly heaven-defying. Out of so many people she could have approached, the first one she picked happened to be the only person in the entire world capable of reinforcing the seal beneath the Demon Suppressing Pagoda.

His reinforcement method was simple: using the Eye of Heavenly Secret to inscribe microscopic formation patterns.

He planned to trace all the existing formation patterns below, then shrink them thousands or even tens of thousands of times and inscribe them onto the base of the formation below.

The material of the formation’s foundation was very special—strong enough to retain the effects of the shrunken formation patterns.

Of course, his cultivation realm was far too low. The formation patterns he could inscribe would only delay the monster’s escape—not solve the issue permanently.

Since quality was lacking, he planned to make up for it with quantity, using an overwhelming number of formation patterns to compensate for his lack of cultivation.

Although he couldn’t seal the monster permanently, he dared to say that within the entire Gu Realm, he was probably the only one who could even delay its escape.

He wasn’t sure exactly how long he could delay the monster once he reinforced the seal, but he was confident that before his ascension to the Spirit Realm, the creature would not be able to escape.

Once he ascended, if the creature wreaked havoc again, that would no longer be his concern. After all, by then he’d no longer be in this world, and no matter how much chaos the monster unleashed, it wouldn’t affect him.

It all depended on what realm he reached before the monster’s escape.

If he was still weak, he wouldn’t intervene—he had no intention of meddling in others’ affairs.

But if, before the monster broke free, he grew strong enough to slay it, then he wouldn’t mind lifting a finger to deal with it.

That was his plan.

Long Xuan curled his lips into a smile and said,

"I have to say once again—your luck is astonishing. You really did find the right person. To be honest, I do have a way to reinforce the seal below."

"However, my current cultivation is simply too low. The method I use can only delay the monster’s escape. Sooner or later, it will break free."

Hearing this, Zhu Jiuge lightly furrowed her brow. She wasn’t surprised that Long Xuan could reinforce the seal.

She had grown used to things going smoothly for her since childhood—she had never encountered real difficulty. She had already predicted that grabbing just anyone might solve the problem.

So she had mentally prepared herself and wasn’t surprised by what Long Xuan said.

"How long can your reinforcement delay the monster's escape?" Zhu Jiuge asked with a frown.

She wasn’t entirely satisfied that the problem couldn’t be solved permanently. But she also knew just how difficult it was to reinforce the seal beneath the Demon Suppressing Pagoda—even a delay might be the best possible outcome.

Long Xuan pondered for a moment. Accurately calculating how long the seal would last was truly difficult for him—he wasn’t a god. How could he pinpoint exactly when the monster would break free?

So, he could only dig into all his professional knowledge and provide a very rough estimate.

"Roughly between one hundred and three thousand years," Long Xuan said hesitantly.

"One hundred to three thousand years?" Zhu Jiuge’s voice suddenly rose. She stared at him speechlessly.

That was quite the range—from one hundred to three thousand years. That was practically saying nothing at all.

However, this still gave her two solid pieces of information:

1. Long Xuan must have been extremely cautious to give such a wide range.

2. While vague, the estimate wouldn't be wrong—it meant the monster definitely wouldn’t escape within a hundred years, but would absolutely escape within three thousand.

Zhu Jiuge narrowed her eyes.

A hundred years—that was more than enough time for her to ascend to the Spirit Realm. This number meant the monster would pose no threat to her.

What she didn’t know was whether, within the next three thousand years, she could grow strong enough to easily slay the monster.

If she could grow stronger than the monster before it broke free, then the crisis facing the Gu Realm could be resolved.

But if she failed to grow powerful enough by then, the entire Gu Realm would be doomed.

At this moment, she found herself thinking almost the exact same thing as Long Xuan.