The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

The Grand Elder spoke calmly, "How could I not understand what you're saying? But if I don't try it myself, how can I be at ease?"

"The most profitable business in this world is to control a teleportation formation, especially an interdomain teleportation formation. Just by collecting tolls, you can earn an endless amount of wealth."

"Building a teleportation formation is extremely difficult; there aren't many in the entire world. If our clan can master the technology to replace teleportation formation, our clan will soar to great heights. Becoming the strongest clan in the world wouldn’t be impossible!"

The Grand Elder's eyes gleamed with a fervent ambition, his expression full of desire.

The Second Elder sighed, "Sigh! You really dare to dream. The profits from a teleportation formation are indeed immense, but even if the Suo Gu truly has the ability to transport people over long distances, we won't be able to hold onto such vast wealth."

The Grand Elder turned to him and said seriously, "How could I not understand such a simple truth?"

"Our clan indeed cannot hold onto such a huge business, even if our strength were to expand a hundredfold."

"But we can share this business with those powerful relatives of ours. Even though we haven’t been in contact with those relatives for 800 years, the immense benefits would be enough to bring them back together."

"At that time, it will be the great revival of our clan!"

All the elders exchanged glances. Long Wanli showed a thoughtful expression, and after a while, he looked at the only female elder, the Fourth Elder, and said, "Long Lin, you have the most extensive knowledge in the clan."

"In your opinion, if we continue to study the Suo Gu, researching its different evolutionary paths, could it develop the ability to transport people over long distances?"

Long Lin quickly replied, "It’s entirely possible to induce any change in the Suo Gu through different evolutionary paths, including developing the ability to carry living beings."

"I can only say that the possibility of it developing the ability to transport people over long distances is there, but I can't estimate how likely it is. It could be one percent, or it could be one in ten thousand. It could succeed in a year, or it could take a hundred years."

The Third Elder nodded, "As long as there is a possibility, no matter how slim, it’s worth dedicating all our clan’s resources to in-depth research."

The Fifth Elder also nodded in agreement, "Exactly, once we develop the ability to transport living beings over long distances, the benefits will be enormous. It’s worth the gamble, even if we must dedicate all our clan's resources."

The Sixth Elder smiled, "Even if the Suo Gu cannot develop the ability to transport people, its current abilities alone are worth promoting throughout the clan."

"It’s no exaggeration to say that although the Suo Gu has little combat ability, its value far exceeds that of the Earth Master Gu, making it absolutely worthy of cultivation."

"If every Gu master in our clan had a Suo Gu, just running a message delivery service or a courier service would bring immense income to our clan."

"The income the Suo Gu would generate for our clan would far surpass that from the fossil mines."

"So, I suggest we quickly promote the Suo Gu throughout the clan. Let’s stick to our old method and organize a competition with amazing rewards to stimulate the clan members’ enthusiasm for refining the Suo Gu!"

"We’ll call this competition the House-Building Contest. There will be two categories: the first is to see whose Suo Gu can build the most beautiful house, a contest for the poorer faction since they don’t have many expensive materials for construction."

"The second category will consider the house's practicality, requiring a lot of expensive materials. Only wealthy Gu masters can afford to participate."

"To rapidly increase the number of Suo Gu, I suggest we enhance the reward mechanism. The champion should receive a contribution of 20 million, and the top 50 participants should also receive contribution rewards."

"I don’t believe that with such huge rewards, we won’t be able to get everyone in the clan to refine a Suo Gu."

Upon hearing this, all the elders nodded in agreement. Clearly, his proposal was unanimously approved.

"Let’s do it. We messed up the last Tug-of-War Tournament with the Earth Master; this time, we must hold the House-Building Contest properly and make it the most lively event of the year," the Seventh Elder nodded and said.

"Heh, you’ve said so much, but don’t forget the main task. We’re here to rate the new unique Gu recipe and determine how much contribution the creator should receive."

"I think you’ve all forgotten about it," the Eighth Elder chuckled, stroking his beard.

"Why bother rating it? Is there any need for that? Just give a contribution of one billion. I don’t think there will be any disputes," the Ninth Elder smiled.

At this moment, all the elders nodded again. Indeed, there was no need to go through the rating process, as it would just be a waste of time.

The value of the Suo Gu far exceeds a contribution of one billion; if not for the cap on long-term tasks, it would be worth two billion contributions.

The wealth that the Suo Gu will generate for the clan is unimaginable. From now on, the annual revenue of the Long family will at least double, possibly even more, and that’s without the ability to transport people.

The profits are enormous, and the contributions to the clan are too great; no reward is too high.

With this, the Long family will soar to great heights, and it is only a matter of time before they become the number one clan in the Far West.

All the elders’ faces were flushed, showing excited smiles.

The next day, an incredibly lucrative House-Building Contest was officially announced by the Long family. The news spread rapidly throughout the clan, and everyone was thrilled, their eyes turning red with excitement.

The champion’s reward was an astonishing 20 million contributions, an amount that even a normal person wouldn’t earn after decades of hard work.

In the face of such a huge reward, everyone went crazy, rushing to the Treasure Pavilion at an astonishing speed to exchange the new unique Gu recipe as quickly as possible.

Among them, Long Qilin’s eyes were the reddest. He was the first to rush into the Treasure Pavilion and exchange the Suo Gu recipe immediately.

He seemed to have forgotten his previous defeats and even harbored the delusion of beating Long Ziyan once. He still had delusions of winning the championship, becoming more determined with each setback.

On this day, the Suo Gu recipe spread at an astonishing rate to every member of the Long family.

After obtaining this new unique Gu recipe, everyone showed great interest in this gu insect that loved building houses.

Soon, house-building became a trend in the Long family, and watching Gu build houses became a hobby for all the Long family’s Gu masters.

Everyone brought out their rare materials for the Gu insect to use as building materials, eagerly watching them create one unique house after another, showing great enthusiasm.

It was as if watching the gu build houses had become an addiction; many people were obsessed, even offering precious materials to the Gu like the Grand Elder had done, which was simply insane.

In a courtyard.

"You’re crazy! This is madness!" Long Xuan exclaimed.

What appeared before him was a small house made entirely of high-grade spirit stones. The house was built from various colored high-grade spirit stones, reflecting a rainbow of colors under the sunlight, looking incredibly beautiful.

At this moment, the exquisite little house was more than halfway done, and a Suo Gu was excitedly placing high-grade spirit stones of different attributes to fill the gaps in the house.

Clearly, it was very satisfied with the high-quality materials, even showing a smile.

Long Xuan was stunned. Was Long Qilin crazy? How dare he use high-grade spirit stones as building materials for the Suo Gu?

High-grade spirit stones were extremely rare, even Long Xuan didn’t have many.

Yet Long Qilin dared to extravagantly use them to build a house for the Suo Gu; this was pure madness.

The cost of this tiny house alone was estimated to be worth several million low-grade spirit stones, possibly even over a billion. Long Xuan’s scalp tingled.

Insane! They’ve all gone insane!

Long Qilin’s eyes were bloodshot, as if he hadn’t slept for several nights. He was probably too excited watching the Suo Gu build the house, staying up several nights in a row.

He looked crazed, licking his lips excitedly, "Hehe! A house made entirely of high-grade spirit stones, let’s see who can compete with me in this House-Building Contest?"

"I want to see how Long Ziyan can fight me this time. My creation will definitely win first place."

Long Xuan quickly took a few steps back, distancing himself from the madman. Long Qilin was clearly not in his right mind.

Seeing Long Qilin’s somewhat obsessed state, Long Xuan sighed. Could a house made of high-grade spirit stones win first place?

As far as he knew, even his senior sister had gone crazy, excitedly gathering a bunch of Hundred-Year Cold Ice Essence from who knows where, using it to build an ice house for the Suo Gu, which was insanely expensive.

High-grade spirit stones were precious, but could they compare to Hundred-Year Cold Ice Essence?

Long Xuan silently mourned for him.

In recent days, he discovered that many people had gone mad. Through his Eye of Heavenly Secret, he saw people using fourth-grade spirit cores to build houses, some using Earth-grade spirit trees, and someone even used refined black iron to construct a house...

They were all crazy, one after another.

Compared to them, Long Qilin’s small house made of high-grade spirit stones was like a minor effort compared to major feats, wasn’t it? He was still dreaming of winning first place—he’d struggle to even make the top three.

He should just stick to the poor man's competition; trying to compete in the high-end bracket was a lost cause. There were just too many lunatics in this family.

Long Xuan didn’t dare to tell him the harsh reality and finally stepped towards an ancient pavilion in the courtyard.

This pavilion was the residence of the family head, Long Wanli, which is why he was able to see the already deranged Long Qilin here.

Today, the family head had summoned him. As expected, the long-delayed contribution points must have finally been released.

Long Xuan was a bit excited and rushed over immediately.

"Knock, knock!"

Long Xuan knocked on the door, and a dignified voice promptly responded from within.

"Come in! That fool is indeed crazy, don’t bother with him!"

It seemed the family head had overheard the conversation that just took place in the courtyard. Long Xuan took a deep breath and boldly pushed the door open to enter.