## Chapter 4: Flying Snake and Gu
Bob leaned against the observation window, gazing almost obsessively at the experimental subject inside the incubation chamber.
Inside the chamber, which was over ten square meters, mist hung thick, and a black shadow darted through the air. Occasionally, electric sparks flashed within the mist.
Bob fumbled with the switches, and inside the laboratory, the strong wind from the blower quickly dispersed the mist, revealing the black shadow's form.
It was a black snake, as dark as ink. Its body had grown from the thickness of chopsticks to the thickness of a thumb. Dense scales covered its entire body, showing no sign of injury. Electric sparks occasionally flickered across its ink-jade-like scales.
Most striking were the membranes spread out on either side of the black snake's body. With its membranous wings flapping, the black snake soared through the air like a mythical beast.
A flying snake! Bob's eyes were filled with fervor. This was simply a biological miracle.
The only snake in nature that had anything to do with flying was the Golden Flower Flying Snake from the jungles of Southeast Asia, which could leap between trees.
However, in reality, the Golden Flower Flying Snake didn't actually fly; it merely glided between branches, much like a flying squirrel.
But the black snake before him was truly flying by relying on its membranes.
"Tang..." Bob looked at the agile black snake swimming in mid-air and couldn't help but turn excitedly towards Tang Song.
"Hmm!"
As soon as Bob turned his head, his vision swam, and he fell heavily to the ground with a thud.
A black-grey spiritual radiance flickered at Tang Song's fingertips, like a candle flame.
The Minor Bewitchment Technique, one of the insignificant techniques from Heshan Dao. Originally, it was a low-level spell used by some disreputable unorthodox practitioners to bewitch innocent women. Unfortunately, in this world, a Minor Bewitchment Technique used by a petty flower thief actually consumed some of Tang Song's essence and qi.
A Land of Dharma Decline. Tang Song felt the loss of essence and qi within his body and sighed inwardly. He extinguished the spiritual radiance at his fingertips, casually grabbed Bob by the back of his collar, lifted him up, and placed him on a nearby rest chair.
So what if it's a Land of Dharma Decline? It seems I'm on the right path! Tang Song looked at the black snake, which resembled the mythical "Tengshe," and felt a surge of excitement in his heart.
His hypothesis was indeed correct. Technology and the Immortal Path could truly be combined. This Gu was a success!
Gu, according to legend, is made by placing a hundred insects in a vessel, letting them devour each other, and the one that eliminates all competitors and survives is the "Gu." In the scientific community, this is seen as a mysterious Eastern legend.
However, the black snake that Tang Song cultivated was a true Gu Insect. The cultivation method came from the mysterious Hundred Thousand Great Mountains and was a secret inheritance of a certain sect.
The Hundred Thousand Great Mountains here did not refer to the mountains of Yunnan and Guizhou in the Eastern Country, but rather the Hundred Thousand Great Mountains in the Jambudvīpa World.
Yes, the Jambudvīpa World. Tang Song was not from this world but was an unfortunate soul caught in a conflict.
The Jambudvīpa World was a high-level cultivation world where cultivators' power resided within themselves. Cultivating to the peak could allow them to pluck stars and seize the moon, achieving the path to longevity. Great Divine Ability users could even recreate earth, fire, wind, and water, rebuilding heaven and earth.
According to the scientific view of this universe, this would be the ability to restart the universe.
But that was not all. The legendary Ten Ancestors of the Daoist Sect and Five Emperors of the Demonic Sect in the Jambudvīpa World had even obtained Dao Fruit and transcended the Jambudvīpa Great Realm.
Of course, such realms were beyond the imagination of a small figure like Tang Song.
He was originally just a wandering soul from another world. By chance, he transmigrated into the body of a dying rogue cultivator.
A rogue cultivator, as the name suggests, is a cultivator with no background, no backing, and no sect. It's not that there weren't powerful great experts among rogue cultivators.
For example, the Nine Ancestors of the Unorthodox Path were all renowned grandmasters in the Jambudvīpa World, whom even the Buddhist and Daoist schools had to show some respect to. As for the one Tang Song possessed, he could barely manage two or three techniques, stronger than mortals but only to a limited extent.
For two years, Tang Song relied on a few minor techniques to get by in the mortal world, even managing to become a wealthy gentleman.
He acquired a substantial family fortune, married three or four concubines, and lived a rather comfortable life.
However, there was still a sense of unwillingness. He also wanted to find an opportunity to join a major Daoist cultivation sect and seek the path to longevity.
Unfortunately, the person he transmigrated into had neither aptitude nor fortune.
Some slightly famous sects wouldn't even look at him. Just as Tang Song was disheartened and planned to give up on cultivation and settle down in the mortal world, an accident occurred.
The sky collapsed! What kind of consequences would the clash of two Great Divine Ability users cause? The collapse of heaven and earth was no longer a metaphor.
The entire world truly shattered into several pieces. The entire Jambudvīpa World was crushed like soybeans in a millstone, turning into complete chaotic energy.
As for Tang Song, that unlucky fellow, he ceased to exist without feeling anything!
When he opened his eyes, he was looking at the ceiling of an apartment in Brooklyn.
World Imprint. This is the most fundamental, most origin substance of a world. All sentient beings in a world, from the moment of their birth, have an Imprint branded into the world's origin.
The reason Great Divine Ability users are not afraid of destroying a world is that they can intercept these Imprints from the world's origin, recreate heaven and earth, and restore the world to its original state.
As for Tang Song, that unlucky fellow, being an outsider with no origin information from the Jambudvīpa World, he was directly expelled.
However, the good news was that Tang Song did gain some benefits when the Jambudvīpa World was recreated.
Some cultivation knowledge imprinted upon the world.
Just as a person leaves their name and a wild goose leaves its cry, when the entire Jambudvīpa World restarted, some knowledge imprinted in the most hidden corners of the world was completely revealed before Tang Song.
The Tianhe True Method, a true inheritance of the Tianhe Sword Sect; the Black Water True Method and Sky Roc Traversing True Method, secret inheritances of the Demonic Sect; the True Scripture of the Inner Views of the Yellow Court from the Daoist school; the True Scripture of the Three Worlds of Reincarnation from the Buddhist school...
The method Tang Song used to refine Gu came from the Heshan Scripture of Heshan Dao. The founding ancestor of Heshan Dao was Ancestor Zha, one of the Nine Ancestors of the Unorthodox Path.
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Tang Song operated the computer, and one side wall of the incubation chamber slowly moved apart. Almost the instant a gap opened in the wall, a black shadow shot out like lightning, darting towards Tang Song.
"Mischievous!" Tang Song's eyes flashed. With a flick of his finger, a ball of green spiritual radiance flew out.
The green spiritual radiance met the black shadow. Water-like ripples shimmered within the spiritual radiance, eventually transforming into an insect-shaped inscribed script, which flew towards the black snake's head.
"Pfft!"
Seeing the inscribed script rushing towards it, a flicker of intelligence flashed in the black snake's cold pupils. Its membranes flapped, attempting to avoid the inscribed script.
However, before it could change direction, as the inscribed script emitted layers of green light, streaks of green spiritual radiance also appeared on the black snake's scales.
The black snake's body instantly stiffened. The green inscribed script directly sank into its head.
(End of Chapter)