Many questions await Zhou Ming's verification, and verification requires resources to be poured in.
If verification fails, he could lose all the hard-earned reward points, and even the primeval stones accumulated in the main world could be exhausted, leading to a double bankruptcy.
However, after some thought, Zhou Ming came up with a preliminary plan.
He never thought of giving up this great opportunity, even if the end result was not what he expected.
High returns naturally come with high risks, and Zhou Ming never lacked the courage to take a gamble, especially since he did not consider this to be a high-risk venture.
"Main God, I want to exchange for twenty Grassroot Gu!"
Zhou Ming exclaimed loudly.
[Exchange successful, 2000 reward points consumed.]
A beam of light fell, and within the beam of light, twenty Grassroot Gu floated in front of Zhou Ming.
The Gu obtained through the exchange at the Main God's location had no self-awareness, so Zhou Ming easily melted all twenty Grassroot Gu and stored them in his aperture.
After some thought, he exchanged for two Sword Qi Gu, which he also stored in his aperture.
Then, Zhou Ming began to build his own space.
During the recovery period after the explosion at the Chronos headquarters in the previous mission world, Yang Zhisheng and Yu Man told Zhou Ming a lot about the Main God's space.
Some of this information was provided by the Main God upon entering the space, such as how to construct the Main God's space; while some required the reincarnator to explore on their own, which provided Zhou Ming with great benefits, enabling him to avoid many detours and save a lot of reward points.
In an instant, in the empty Main God's space, buildings rose up one after another.
First, there was a two-story villa, followed by a storage room, tool room, research room, gym, small garden, swimming pool...
For that small garden, Zhou Ming spent another 100 reward points - soil, plants, water, microorganisms - the price of building a small ecological system.
Compared to other exchanges, this price was extremely reasonable.
After designing the buildings, it was time for infrastructure - electricity, water, furniture, appliances, household goods. Although these things could be generated for free, their use was strictly limited, such as not being able to take them out of the Main God's space, and extra charges were required for using the electricity here to charge one's modern devices.
Of course, there was no food among the free items, and food needed to be exchanged separately, with prices ranging from low to high and a wide variety of ingredients for reincarnators to choose from.
After completing all of this, Zhou Ming had a very comfortable living environment, of course, on the premise that he was the only one there.
Finally, Zhou Ming walked into the living room of the villa and took down a perpetual calendar clock from the wall.
He carefully examined the clock and set the time solemnly.
0 days, 0 hours, 0 minutes, 0 seconds!
He hung the perpetual calendar clock back on the wall and took out a mechanical watch from his pocket, adjusting the time to match the perpetual calendar clock. He wanted to calculate the time difference between the main god space and the Gu Realm.
This was a very important matter, directly affecting all of his future arrangements. Of course, he had consulted with the main god, but the main god had not given him any answers.
After completing all of this, Zhou Ming directly exited the main god space. The surrounding environment suddenly changed, and in the next moment, Zhou Ming was submerged in water.
"Damn it!"
Zhou Ming stood up abruptly, realizing that he had been taking a bath before entering the last mission world.
Dripping wet, he took off his wet clothes and used a towel to dry himself. "I miscalculated. Now I have to figure out how to dispose of these wet clothes."
Zhou Ming shook his head and smiled bitterly. After all, in the mission world, time passed by ten days in an instant, and his mind was focused on buying and selling Gu insects. He had even forgotten about this matter.
However, he quickly noticed another thing. "The water is cold, but it hasn't cooled completely yet. I left this world and came back again, and it's been about half an hour in between."
"I completed the world mission and returned to the main god space, where I stayed for about half an hour."
"Interesting, is the time spent in the mission world just an instant for the main world?"
He raised his wrist and saw that his watch was still ticking normally. Because he was worried that the laws of the world were different, he exchanged for a mechanical watch, which was driven by winding and gears, and it turned out to be useful.
"So..."
Zhou Ming was about to push open the window to look at the sky outside when suddenly a strange change occurred in his body.
A Gu insect was born naturally inside him!
"What?"
Zhou Ming's face was full of shock and surprise.
How could a Gu insect be born naturally inside his body?
He quickly immersed his mind into his aperture to check the newly appeared Gu insect. He saw that the Gu insect was a verdant color, shaped like a root, and was quietly floating in the bronze-colored true essence sea. It was a Gu insect that had been naturally refined by Zhou Ming.
At this moment, when Zhou Ming's mind touched the Gu insect, a piece of information was automatically transmitted to his consciousness.
[Wood Spirit Root Gu, Fourth Grade, can improve a Gu Master's aptitude, allowing a Grade C aptitude to upgrade to a Grade B aptitude.]
"How is this possible?"
Zhou Ming was even more shocked.
He was not shocked by the effect of this Gu insect. Although it was rare to have a Gu insect that could improve aptitude, he knew that there were many such Gu insects. For example, the Fifth Grade Wooden Boon Gu, which was also a wood-based Gu insect, could upgrade a Grade B aptitude to a Grade A aptitude, which was more effective than the Wood Spirit Root Gu.
He was shocked by two problems.
Firstly, he had directly obtained the information about this new Gu insect! Under normal circumstances, when Gu Masters obtained an unknown Gu insect that they couldn't find any information about, they could only activate the Gu insect themselves to understand its abilities. They would gradually understand the information of the Gu insect through repeated use and exploration.
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Where can someone directly inject information into their consciousness like that! This is not like exchanging information with the main god.
Secondly, it is obvious that this gu worm is refined by fusing with the wood spirit root inside him. But how could the wood spirit root inexplicably transform itself into a gu?
The laws contained within the wood spirit root do not belong to this world!
"Wait a minute! Maybe it's because the wood spirit root doesn't belong to this world..."
Subconsciously, Zhou Ming looked up at the sky, although all he saw was the ceiling, his thoughts opened up at this moment and suddenly took off.
Gu worms are a direct manifestation of the unique laws of this world. Immortal Gu carries a complete set of laws, while mortal gu carries incomplete fragments of laws.
There are also precedents in the Gu world for accommodating foreign laws - as far as he knows, the Supreme Elder of the Lin family in the Western Desert is also a transmigrator like him, and he has foreign sword dao marks on him!
Laws converge into dao marks, and the combination of dao marks materializes into gu worms. The amount of certain dao marks on a Gu Master's body determines their Gu Master genre and cultivation strength; this is the special feature of this world.
So, what do foreign laws mean for this world?
Thinking of this, Zhou Ming was excited again and licked his lips uncontrollably.
"If what I suspect is true, in the future, I will create many new gu worms with my own hands..."
At this moment, Zhou Ming felt that his dream of a bright future became even more real.
After thinking about it, he did not directly use this wood spirit root gu to upgrade his aptitude to Grade B. He still had one thing to test.
However, tonight will be the end of it.
In order to prepare for tomorrow's actions and gains, Zhou Ming decisively chose to rest early and conserve his energy.
The next day.
After waking up, Zhou Ming went directly to the family's store.
"Zhou Ming, why did you come so early?"
There was only one young man behind the counter in the store, and when he saw Zhou Ming, he warmly greeted him.
This person is called Zhou Lu, also a rank 1 Gu Master, but he has already reached the peak of first level and is only one step away from rank 2.
"Well, I want to sell gu worms." Zhou Ming said and took out a Sword Qi Gu.
"You...," upon seeing the Sword Qi Gu, Zhou Lu couldn't help but be stunned. "You want to sell it?"
"Mm," Zhou Ming nodded. "I can barely afford to keep it anymore."
"Well, that's good," Zhou Lu grinned. "I've been saying all along that instead of keeping these gu and thinking of the past, it's better to exchange them for primeval stones to improve your cultivation. If your parents saw you do this, they would be happy."
Zhou Lu had previously suggested that Zhou Ming sell both the Sword Qi Gu and Water Armor Gu, but Zhou Ming had refused, citing that he didn't want to sell his parents' relics.
He didn't really have a deep emotional attachment to his parents in this life, but the situation hadn't reached the point where he had to sell both gu yet.
However, things were different now. This Sword Qi Gu was exchanged from the main god, and Zhou Ming had decided to accumulate as many primeval stones as possible. There was no gu on his body that he couldn't sell.
Saying that he couldn't afford to keep it was just an excuse to sell it.
Seeing that Zhou Ming had made his decision, Zhou Lu no longer wasted words and quickly collected the Sword Qi Gu. Soon after, he walked out with a small cloth bag in his hand.
"As we agreed before, 850 primeval stones," Zhou Lu handed the bag to Zhou Ming and said with a hint of envy in his tone. "These primeval stones are enough for you to cultivate to the second level."
"Thanks," Zhou Ming smiled calmly.
This Sword Qi Gu was not particularly rare. If sold outside, it would typically fetch 800 primeval stones without much room for negotiation.
After all, it was the family's store, and there was always some preferential treatment for clan members.
With the primeval stones in hand, Zhou Ming did not stay and left the clan alone to head towards a market near the clan.
The natural environment in the Northern Plains meant that most clans were not fixed in one place and had a high degree of mobility.
Sometimes, when several major tribes converged, they would spontaneously form a market to buy and sell various goods, which would then disperse as each tribe left.
However, there were also many tribes that stayed for long periods of time because of their favorable living environment, and around these tribes, fixed markets would form.
Zhou family had occupied Warm Pool Valley for over twenty years, and near the Zhou family, there were several other tribes such as the He family, the Miao family, the Yu family, and other tribes that occasionally passed by. As a result, several markets of varying sizes had formed.
The one Zhou Ming went to was the nearest market to Warm Pool Valley, which could be said to have been established under the protection of the Zhou family.
For Zhou family members, the market was relatively safe, and they didn't have to worry about being robbed or having their possessions forcibly taken.
"Come and take a look, we have a great big-stomached horse here!"
"Here are some fragrant and sweet jade melons, everyone who tries them loves them!"
"Hey, come and take a look at our drinks, they're sweet and refreshing, and you won't forget the taste!"
As soon as you step into this market, all kinds of vendors' calls fill your ears, and various goods are displayed on each small stall, the quantity is numerous and dazzling.
Zhou Ming walked through the crowded small stalls and shoulder-to-shoulder crowds, seemingly uninterested in everything around him, and walked directly into the central area of the market.
The outskirts of the market are basically for ordinary people selling goods that are also used by ordinary people.
This central area is the place for Gu Masters, and most of the people coming and going are Gu Masters. Although they are in the same market as the outskirts, it feels like two different worlds.
Zhou Ming found a relatively large shop and sold five of his grassroots Gu.
"Grassroots Gu, 260 primeval stones each, five for a total of 1300 primeval stones."
A shop assistant who was also a rank 1 Gu Master handed over two bags of primeval stones to Zhou Ming with a look of surprise and envy.
It's not strange for a rank 1 Gu Master to sell a rank 1 Gu worm, but it's rare to sell five at once.
There are very few rank 1 Gu Masters who have more than one thousand primeval stones on them. Zhou Ming made a profit of 1300 primeval stones in one go, which made the shop assistant naturally envious.
Why did Zhou Ming exchange a large number of rank 1 grassroots Gu from the main god? The reason is here.
Exchanging grassroots Gu from the main god only requires 100 reward points, while exchanging sword qi Gu requires 400 reward points.
However, in the shop, one grassroots Gu can be sold for 260 primeval stones, while a sword qi Gu can only be sold for 800 primeval stones.
In other words, in the main god's space, the reward points required to exchange one sword qi Gu are enough to exchange four grassroots Gu.
But in the Gu world, four grassroots Gu can be sold for 1040 primeval stones, which is more valuable than one sword qi Gu.
Why only exchange 20?
Because Zhou Ming is only a rank 1 Gu Master, and he plans to sell the 20 grassroots Gu in four shops, five in each shop, which won't attract too much attention.
If he bought too many, it would inevitably arouse suspicion. How could a rank 1 Gu Master sell so many Gu worms at once?
As for exchanging sword qi Gu, it's purely to make a small profit through family channels.
Zhou Ming picked up the two bags of primeval stones and shook them in his hand, then pushed them back in front of the shop assistant.
"I want to buy some more Gu worms, can you recommend some to me?"
Originally, Zhou Ming only had a little over 100 primeval stones, and even after selling the Sword Qi Gu, he only made less than 1,000 primeval stones. But now, his net worth has soared to over 2,300, which for a rank 1 Gu Master can be considered a fortune.
However, before he could even enjoy the money, he spent it all again.
When he walked out of the shop, he only had a little over ten primeval stones left on him. In their place, he had acquired a rank 2 Vine Armor Gu (800 primeval stones), a rank 2 Restore Essence Fruit Gu (a disposable Gu, 160 primeval stones), a rank 1 Leaf Blade Gu (330 primeval stones), a rank 1 Grass Shoes Gu (290 primeval stones), a rank 1 Straw Hat Gu (310 primeval stones), a rank 1 Raincoat Gu (300 primeval stones), a rank 1 Mist Grass Gu (a consumable Gu, 50 primeval stones), and a rank 1 Smoke Bomb Gu (a disposable Gu, 50 primeval stones).
A total of eight Gu!
And that was just the beginning. He then went to three other shops he had been eyeing and sold all of the rank 1 Gu he had in batches, replacing them with various other types of Gu.
In the end, Zhou Ming had six rank 2 Gu, three of which were disposable. He also had twelve rank 1 Gu, six of which were consumable.
After that, Zhou Ming didn't stop for a moment and headed straight back to his clan.
It wasn't until he returned to his small room that he finally breathed a sigh of relief.
He took out the mechanical watch and placed it on the table, then chose to go to the main god space.
In the next moment, Zhou Ming disappeared.
The scenery changed, and he found himself in the living room of the small villa in the main god space.
Zhou Ming eagerly looked up at the perpetual calendar hanging on the wall, but the next moment, he froze.
0 days, 0 hours, 1 minute, and 27 seconds!
It was the same time as when he left the main god space!
This meant that while he was in the main god space, time in the main world had stood still!
"Why is it like this?"
Obviously, while in the main god space, time in the main world was supposed to be passing by!
This was another problem that he couldn't figure out for the time being.
Zhou Ming shook his head and walked out of the villa, taking out the Gu one by one on the small square in front of it.
The voice of the main god constantly echoed in his ear.
[Submitting the 'Leaf Blade Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 200 reward points.]
[Submitting the 'Grass Shoes Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 200 reward points.]
[Submitting the 'Vine Armor Gu,' which is not in the main god's exchange sequence, earns 800 reward points.]
...
The mechanical and grand sound that echoed through Zhou Ming's ears was so pleasant, as if it were a heavenly melody.
"Indeed, in the main god's exchange sequence, the prices for the same number of gu insects are the same! Even for one-time use gu insects!"
"I did it! Next, as long as..."
[Submitting "Entangling Vine Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]
[Submitting "Mist Grass Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]
[Submitting "Blinding Leaf Gu", this item is not in the main god's exchange sequence, receive 110 reward points.]
The sudden consecutive prompts from the main god interrupted Zhou Ming's thoughts and froze his smile on his face.
"What's going on?"
He quickly searched for these three gu insects and found that their exchange prices in the main god's system were also 100 reward points, the same as other rank 1 gu insects, with no difference.
"Why are the reward points different for submitting gu insects with the same exchange price? What is the difference between these three gu insects and other gu insects?"
Zhou Ming frowned and started to ponder.
These three gu insects were commonly used gu insects, some were cheap and some were expensive, and they were all wood attribute gu insects like other rank 1 gu insects. It didn't make sense that other gu insects could receive 200 reward points while they could only receive 110 reward points.
Suddenly, he had a bright idea.
"Could it be the quantity?"
He had submitted a total of twelve rank 1 gu insects this time, plus the grassroots gu insect from last time, which was a total of thirteen rank 1 gu insects.
Deducting those three, there are exactly ten left.
If the main god lowered the submission price of the Gu after he submitted ten rank 1 Gu, why did the main god do this?
Is it because he didn't want him to continue to take advantage of the main god, or is ten rank 1 Gu enough for the main god?
"It's a pity that only seven rank 2 Gu have been submitted cumulatively. To verify whether it's related to ten Gu, I'll have to wait until next time."
Zhou Ming felt a little regretful in his heart, but his hands didn't stop. He took out the wooden spirit root Gu and wanted to submit it.
However, this time, the main god didn't give Zhou Ming a chance and didn't show any intention of reclaiming the wood spirit root Gu.
"Why did the other Gu reclaim, but this Gu didn't?"
Zhou Ming's brow furrowed tighter, and he sat down on the stone steps at the edge of the small square, lost in thought.
Suddenly, his eyes lit up and an answer exploded in his mind, causing him to blurt out, "The laws! The laws of the Gu world!"
Why does the main god want Gu?
If you think from the perspective of the main god wanting to obtain the laws of the Gu world, everything makes more sense.
The Gu itself is a manifestation of the laws, and obtaining the Gu is obtaining the laws of the Gu world.
With the main god's ability, perhaps he can get a section of the laws and then analyze and replicate them, so Zhou Ming can exchange the Gu he submitted.
Therefore, the main god doesn't reclaim the wooden spirit root Gu because the wooden spirit root Gu is made from the wood spirit root, which is given by the system and not by the laws of the Gu world!
So, does the decrease in the price of Gu insects mean that the main god has increased its research on the laws of the Gu world and that new Gu insects are now of much less value to the main god?
Zhou Ming sighed. Instead of solving old problems, he found himself faced with more and more new problems.
"Since the main god doesn't collect these Gu insects..."
Zhou Ming looked at the wooden spirit root Gu in his hand and immediately activated it. The wood spirit root Gu transformed into a green light and merged into his body.
Boom!
In Zhou Ming's aperture, the previously calm and dead-sea-like bronze primeval essence sea suddenly surged with boundless waves, rolling and churning!
The waves were towering, and the undercurrents at the bottom of the sea were turbulent, erupting like volcanoes and constantly roaring.
In this catastrophic and intense transformation, the sea level was rapidly rising, and the primeval essence sea that originally occupied half of the aperture soon increased to fifty-one percent, fifty-two percent, fifty-three percent...
At the same time, the surging waves also continuously impacted the aperture stone membrane, shaking the already thin stone membrane that had been nurtured for a long time and causing cracks to form and expand until they covered the entire membrane. Finally, at a certain moment, it shattered completely.
Afterwards, countless fragments of the stone membrane dissolved in the sweeping primeval essence sea water, forming a misty crystalline substance that covered the entire aperture again.
The stone membrane disappeared, replaced by an even stronger crystal membrane.
Breakthrough!
At this moment, with his cultivation reaching the peak of the rank, the deep green primeval essence sea water color deepened, becoming a higher quality dark green.
The boundless waves gradually subsided, and finally, the primeval essence sea remained at sixty-seven percent, and Zhou Ming's aptitude had been upgraded to grade B.
"Great! Double happiness!" Zhou Ming opened his eyes and laughed heartily.
He was not far from reaching the peak of the rank 1. With the help of the upgrade in aptitude and the surging power of the primeval essence, his breakthrough was a foregone conclusion.
"No, it should be triple happiness." Looking at the number of reward points he now had, Zhou Ming's smile became even brighter.
In this large-scale Gu insect recovery, Zhou Ming gained a total of 7130 reward points, plus the remaining 4449 points from before (he received a total of 7050 points in the previous mission, gained 1000 points by submitting two Gu insects, spent 200 points on strengthening the wooden spirit root Gu, spent 500 points on strengthening the arc-shaped ballistic art, spent 2800 points on exchanging for grass shoes Gu and sword qi Gu, spent 100 points on exchanging for the main god's space ecosystem, and split one reward point into 1000 points for daily use, with the mechanical watch being exchanged from these 1000 points). His total reward points now amounted to 11,579.
"I can buy a lot of things with this."
Zhou Ming breathed a sigh of relief, walked back to his villa, threw himself on the sofa, and leisurely opened the exchange list.
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