The Path of Immortality: Starts With Creating Water Bear Gu

Brewing the bitter wine would take some more time, requiring only patience. Bored, Long Xuan checked the cultivation results of his various clones over the years. He had assigned numerous tasks to his clones, such as reading books, body training, and enhancing their proficiency in spiritual techniques.

Their schedules were packed, with no days off. Now that he had some free time, it was naturally time to inspect their progress.

All their cultivation results were integrated within him, making it convenient to check. The results were standard in most aspects, but the clones had perfectly inherited his expertise in cultivating health-preserving techniques. The progress in the cultivation of the "Eternal Life Sutra" was impressive.

When Long Xuan discovered that his clones had already cultivated the "Eternal Life Sutra" to the fifteenth level, his smile broadened. This meant he had gained an additional six hundred years of life span compared to his peers.

At this moment, a bold idea struck him. He liked to be prepared for any eventuality. What if he encountered an opponent who was a whole major realm above him, someone from the Gu cultivation world, who wanted to kill him and seize his treasures? This was not mere paranoia but a theoretically possible scenario. In the Gu world, the strong killing the weak was a common occurrence.

Should he not develop a powerful forbidden technique, capable of threatening a Gu cultivator one major realm above him?

Long Xuan thought this idea was very necessary. Achieving it was not difficult; by sacrificing his life span, he could gain unimaginable power.

Moreover, he was particularly suited to learning such a forbidden technique. Others with shorter life spans would be courting death by using such a technique, but he was different. Having cultivated the "Eternal Life Sutra," he essentially had an endless life span, and using it a few times would have no impact on him.

This forbidden technique would be a perfect match for the "Eternal Life Sutra."

Feeling a surge of excitement, he quickly decided to go for it. He wanted to design a complementary forbidden technique for the "Eternal Life Sutra."

The forbidden technique would involve concentrating his life span into his palm, creating immense destructive power through an explosion. The more life span expended, the greater the destructive power. If the life span was sufficient, the attack's power would be limitless.

This technique was definitely powerful and seemed tailor-made for the "Eternal Life Sutra."

Anyone else practicing this forbidden technique would die, but only those who had cultivated the "Eternal Life Sutra" could safely practice it. It was an absolutely complementary spiritual technique.

It perfectly matched the characteristic of a complementary spiritual technique being usable only by oneself, with significant restrictions for others.

Long Xuan's eyes grew brighter. This technique was incredibly strong and could definitely serve as a trump card in battles against higher-level opponents.

He was very satisfied with this idea!

He had always been fair. Since the "Ten Absolute scripture" had complementary spiritual techniques, how could the "Eternal Life Sutra" lack one? He had to ensure balance and fairness, so he decided to proceed!

Creating a complementary spiritual technique for a health-preserving method, he could probably be considered the first person in history to do so!

He was indeed pioneering a new path in history.

He immediately took out pen and paper and began creating a terrifying forbidden technique that consumed life span as the cost.

Since this technique did not consume spiritual power, it shouldn't be called a spiritual technique. "Forbidden technique" was more fitting. A technique that kills its practitioner is indeed a forbidden technique, isn't it?

While he was creating the forbidden technique, his Fire Clone did not disappoint him and quickly bought the bitter herb fruit. Then, following the recipe for the bitter wine, it began brewing the wine in the courtyard.

The wine brewing method was entirely Long Xuan's creation. He had memorized all the steps, so he wasn't curious to watch. He continued hiding in his room, researching the forbidden technique.

Several months later, the bitter wine was finally brewed successfully. Using the distillation tools Long Xuan had made, the clone began distilling the bitter wine.

Long Xuan, still preoccupied with his forbidden technique research, didn't pay attention until the strong aroma of the distilled wine wafted into the room, making his nose twitch. Only then did he leave his chair and go outside to help the clone prepare to refine the wine Gu.

He had to participate in this step. Firstly, he was very interested in the process of refining Gu. Secondly, the clones, despite replicating everything from the main body, lacked his special golden finger. His avatars could not see the progress of all things.

Without his golden finger indicating right or wrong, he couldn't trust the clones with such an important task. If they messed it up, it would cost him a lot of spiritual stones.

By now, it was getting dark. Long Xuan moved all the jars of the four exquisite wines to a large wine vat in the courtyard.

Truth be told, the longer the wine aged, the better. But he didn't have the patience to wait, nor could he afford to.

The best wine aged for ten thousand years. Was he supposed to wait ten thousand years? Nothing is perfect in this world. Since the refinement of the wine Gu couldn't achieve perfection, there was no need to be overly demanding. He didn't have obsessive-compulsive disorder.

He poured jar after jar of distilled fine wine into the vat. Instantly, the aroma of the wine spread everywhere, attracting the curious gaze of the spirit bees and the chickens in the coop.

First, he poured in the sour wine, which was made from various spiritual fruits and was red in color.

Next was the sweet wine, which was yellow.

Then came the bitter wine, which was green.

Lastly, the spicy wine, which was white.

His wines not only used distillation techniques but also many modern brewing techniques, resulting in each type of wine being very clear, free of impurities.

Long Xuan poured numerous jars of wine into the vat until it was full. The four types of wine did not mix for some unknown reason, resembling the layered cocktails made by bartenders.

From bottom to top, the first layer was red, the second was yellow, the third was green, and the final layer was white.

Long Xuan marveled at this. What kind of wine Gu would be produced from multi-colored wine? He was secretly looking forward to it.

After filling the vat, he pulled out little white, who was still asleep in the insect-rearing bag, and threw him into the vat with a splash.

Awakened from sleep, little white flailed around in the wine like a drowning insect until it realized it was wine, and extremely high-quality wine at that. It had never tasted such delicious wine in its life.

It was extremely excited, opening its mouth wide to greedily drink the wine, swimming happily in the vat. Sometimes it swam in the yellow sweet wine, sometimes in the green bitter wine, and other times in the white spicy wine.

It enjoyed all the wines equally, finding this place to be heaven. Once it entered, it didn't want to leave.

Seeing the wine insect so thrilled, Long Xuan nodded in satisfaction. This was indeed the top-quality fine wine he had brewed. Even the insect loved it.

He slowly covered the vat, waiting for the wine insect to finish the wine and transform into a Gu insect.

No one in this world had ever brewed wine using distilled spirits. This was his innovation. He eagerly anticipated what changes would occur in the wine insect refined from distilled wine.

He didn't know how long it would take for the wine insect to transform into a Gu insect, so he sat by the vat, continuing to research his almost-completed forbidden technique while waiting for the wine Gu to emerge.

Another six months passed in a flash. Flowers bloomed and withered. Long Xuan had been waiting for so long that the flowers had almost withered. By this time, his forbidden technique had reached 50% completion, but the wine vat showed no signs of activity, stuck at 50% progress.

Long Xuan began to worry. This was taking far too long. Even when he refined the Eye of heavenly secret, it only took eighty-one days.

This wine Gu, however, had already taken half a year with no signs of progress, far exceeding the time taken to refine the Eye of heavenly secret.