Chapter 93: Beautiful Insect Plan
Fang Shu paced in the room, full of ambition.
At the same time, he had been idle for too long and felt restless. He pondered in his mind: “Now I have a Third Calamity Gu Worm by my side, and that Dragon Seeking and Gold Touching Technique《》, although I haven’t fully analyzed it yet, I’ve already analyzed quite a bit.”
Now that he had grasped the essence of the Dragon Seeking and Gold Touching Technique, he could already look at graves and tombs for others, repair mausoleums and open coffins, making him half a Feng Shui Master.
Fang Shu felt that he could now explore the Qian Shan Mine for the third time, to seek the Hu family inheritance and the Gold Seeking Insect.
“Just in time for my remaining thirty percent cultivation. If I can get some Precious Medicine to help, it will make my cultivation even smoother.”
With his thoughts settled, Fang Shu immediately packed his luggage in the room and began preparing for the treasure hunt outside.
After a bout of busyness.
Because he had been in seclusion for a long time, he hadn’t met his Second Uncle Yu Le, so he didn’t just leave a note in the room and depart.
Fang Shu found his Second Uncle in the Du Gu Guan.
The uncle and nephew met happily and noisily, and the two ate good ingredients saved by the Second Uncle in the Dining Hall.
During the casual chat, Second Uncle Yu Le told Fang Shu all the big and small events that had happened in the dojo recently.
Among them were updates on the Dojo Master’s recent movements, the cultivation progress of disciples like Li Hou Er, and various matters from the Seven Fragrance Tower.
“That family from the Seven Fragrance Tower nearly lost everything. Luckily, they were just implicated. I heard they betrothed their only male in the family to a powerful figure in the town as a son-in-law, thus preserving their family business.”
Second Uncle Yu Le drank his wine, shaking his head and said:
“As for the other Merchant Association that hired the Luo brothers, it has been completely dismantled. Hey, our dojo’s waiters have recently gotten some luck; the food has improved a lot, and they’re eating with rosy faces.”
Fang Shu wasn’t too surprised to hear this.
Regarding the Luo brothers incident, the Dojo Master had already explicitly told him. If the Du Gu Guan showed no response, it would seem too weak and be looked down upon by people in the town.
However, from his Second Uncle’s mouth, he didn’t hear about other dojo matters, so it seemed the mastermind behind the Luo brothers incident hadn’t been caught yet.
Or perhaps it had been caught, but since only two Wilderness Immortal Cultivators died and no dojo disciples perished, that was the end of it.
After finishing the wine, Fang Shu chatted a few more words and planned to leave.
But suddenly, Second Uncle Yu Le lowered his voice and whispered:
“There’s one more thing, not yet clear, but Second Uncle will give you a heads-up.
That Qin Min in the dojo has been under house arrest until now; her three meals a day are delivered from the Dining Hall, and when she occasionally goes into seclusion, it’s delivered for two or three days for free.
But recently for seven days, no one has touched the food. The Manager went to ask a few days ago, and the Dojo Master said there’s no need to send it anymore. This person is probably in a major seclusion now.”
Hearing this news, Fang Shu’s eyes narrowed slightly.
“Such a long seclusion… is she trying to break through to the Third Calamity?” he thought to himself.
The more he thought about it, the more he felt it was eighty or ninety percent likely.
Qin Min’s cultivation progress had always been ahead of his. Now he had reached seventy percent of the Second Tribulation, and with her Spiritual Root and recent house arrest forcing arduous cultivation, logically she should have completed the Second Tribulation.
Realizing this, Fang Shu felt no envy or jealousy, but his mind tightened, aware that he was still behind her and needed to step up his efforts.
However, apart from adding some urgency, he put the matter behind him.
Fang Shu nodded to his Second Uncle, indicating he understood, then bid farewell and left, continuing with his plan to depart from the Du Gu Guan.
In the Marketplace, after disguising himself, Fang Shu circled around a few times and smoothly left the Marketplace.
But he didn’t head straight to the Qian Shan Mine; instead, he first went toward the Monster Market, circled around a big loop, and as night fell, he slipped into the Qian Shan Mine.
With the Breath-Holding Insect, Fang Shu passed through the monsters and Mine Slaves without incident and entered Mine Owner Cao’s territory.
Because this treasure-hunting spot wasn’t like last time’s abandoned Mine Vein, this Mine Vein had people appearing in the large and small Mine Tunnels from time to time.
This time, Fang Shu disguised himself as a Miner.
Because he had prior mining experience, and in places like the mine, aside from strict control on money entering the tunnels and slightly stricter management of Mine Slaves, there weren’t many other rules.
Fang Shu roamed in Mine Owner Cao’s area for several days straight, and no person or monster noticed anything amiss.
He even smeared his face black and got familiar with the food providers and wine sellers in the opponent’s mine.
He also learned from the Miners and Mine Slaves many true and false messages about mountain Precious Medicines and Gold Seeking Treasure Bugs.
After sorting through the information, Fang Shu felt even more excited.
So on this day.
He ventured deep into the Mine Vein, to a remote corner, and officially began his great insect-catching plan.
He gathered a pile of rubble to temporarily block the tunnel behind him and pasted a sound-dampening Talisman on it.
Then, golden, sand-like grains appeared in Fang Shu’s hand.
This was precisely the Gold Seeking Insect Feces obtained by the Dojo Master during his previous investigation here. This was also a Medicinal Herb, which the Dojo Master had given to Fang Shu along with it.
Fang Shu had kept this item in his room all along.
Now taking it out, it was time for the Insect Feces to come in handy.
Whoosh, Fang Shu scratched his head, and a Third Calamity Follower Bug flew out from his hair, circling in the Mine Tunnel.
Following Fang Shu’s order, the Follower Bug wobbled onto the Gold Seeking Insect Feces, flapping its wings and shaking, as if sniffing for food.
However, this time Fang Shu wasn’t using the Follower Bug’s tracking ability to slowly follow the Gold Seeking Insect’s traces deep in the intricate Mine Vein.
This area was too labyrinthine; even if he found traces of the Gold Seeking Insect, it would be hard to pinpoint it. After pinpointing, it might take over a month to figure out the bug’s habits for capture.
Fortunately, for this situation, Fang Shu had long devised a clever method.
He waited for the Follower Bug to familiarize itself with the Gold Seeking Insect’s scent, then took out various Medicinal Herbs and a small brush made specially from a rat’s whisker.
He first ground the Insect Feces into powder, mixed in many Medicinal Herbs to make a paste, and then carefully brushed it onto the Follower Bug stroke by stroke.
The remaining Insect Feces potion, he packed away for later use.
In the blink of an eye.
The originally plain Follower Bug instantly became golden and shiny, as if clad in armor.
In the dim tunnel, it even glowed with an ambiguous golden-red light, gently flashing like blinking eyes.
Moreover, its scent had completely become that of a Gold Seeking Insect, even more intense than plain Insect Feces.
With this move, Fang Shu had disguised the Follower Bug as a scented “Gold Seeking Insect,” and according to the book’s records, adorned it with red and green, makeup and powder, turning it into a “Treasure Bug” seeking a Spouse.
This “Beautiful Insect Plan” was his trump card for finding the Treasure Bug this time!
Next.
Fang Shu carried the Follower Bug, releasing it everywhere to wander, waiting for the real Gold Seeking Insect to come knocking, seeking to be an insect son-in-law or daughter-in-law.
Book push: Friend’s book《I Speedrun to Sainthood in the Martial Dao World》
