Chapter 174: Shi Lin's Paradise
After making preparations, Shi Lin and Shi An checked everything carefully before entering Sunset Forest.
Sunset Forest is different from other spirit beast forests. Not only is it full of various poisonous spirit beasts, but the color of the trees here is also much darker than that of trees in other places.
The normal brown bark here is as black as ink, and the originally tender green leaves are dark green, even some purple, making it look unusually oppressive and deep, making people feel very uncomfortable.
Snakes, insects, rats, ants, toads, centipedes are everywhere, and even insects that are rarely seen outside can be found here easily.
"The environment here is very strange," Shi Lin said to Shi An beside him, glancing at the insects at his feet.
"Yes, young master, there are just too many insects here," Shi An said to Shi Lin.
The next second, Shi Lin and Shi An turned their heads at the same time, looked at each other, and their eyes were filled with joy.
This place is simply Shi Lin's paradise. All kinds of insects are everywhere, whether they are rare or not. The quantity completely meets Shi Lin's requirements for practicing Gu.
"Young Master, according to the map, there's a ravine two kilometers away, and in front of the ravine is a very flat open space. We just need to tidy it up a bit, and we can use it to attract insects." Shi An took out the map, examined it carefully, and then looked up at Shi Lin and said.
"Alright, let's set up camp there tonight and get going." Shi Lin waved to Shi An, then led Shi An into Sunset Forest.
Stepping on the soft soil, Shi Lin remained highly vigilant, because no one knew what might rush out from under their feet while walking in Sunset Forest.
It took Shi Lin and Shi An a full hour to walk the two-kilometer distance.
Sure enough, there was a flat mountain hollow in front of them. Although the hollow was not large, it was just the right size to fit two wooden houses. There was also a large area of gravel outside the hollow, where no plants lived.
"Brother An, check the surrounding environment. I'll set up camp right away. We'll rest here for today and capture some spirit beasts. Tomorrow morning, the two of us will go hunting spirit beasts again. The density of insect-type spirit beasts here is high. If the two of us work all night, it can basically last for a year and a half." As Shi Lin spoke, he handed the Gu insects in his hand to Shi An, and together they set them up around the area as a precaution.
"Yes, young master." Shi An nodded in response, and then took out the Gu worm he had contracted.
He turned around and went to investigate the situation nearby.
Shi An led these Gu worms to investigate the surrounding area.
Shi Lin then took out two small wooden houses and placed them in the mountain valley. He then took out a large amount of realgar powder and insect repellent powder and sprinkled them evenly around the camp to drive away spirit beasts and poisonous insects.
After all, Sunset Forest is inhabited by tiny, almost imperceptible animals, and these tiny animals are the most dangerous.
After doing all this, Shi Lin activated the copper armor gu to begin clearing the surrounding gravel ground, trying to create an open area that would be more convenient.
The valley is on the sunny side, so the surrounding area is very clean, and the insects are all hibernating underground.
Shi Lin reached out and summoned the Divine Wood King Cauldron. Then he began searching for insect-type spirit beasts around him. After suppressing them with the Divine Wood King Cauldron, he threw them into a small manor Gu.
A dozen minutes later, Shi An returned from a distance with several colorful little snakes hanging on his body.
Seeing Shi An's expression, Shi Lin was completely stunned.
"Brother An, what happened? You look so disheveled." Shi Lin asked Shi An with a puzzled expression.
"Sigh, young master, I wasn't paying attention to what was above me. When I was cutting the vines, a snake's nest fell from a tree and landed right on my head. If it weren't for the Copper Armor Gu, I'm afraid I would have been bitten to death," Shi An said helplessly.
After putting on the bronze armor, Shi An's movements became stiff, so he couldn't remove the small snakes from his body.
Shi Lin smiled and shook his head, then came to Shi An's side, used the Divine Wood King Cauldron to stun the small snakes, and then put them into the Small Manor Gu.
"Brother An, are there any other dangers around? The environment here seems pretty good," Shi Lin asked Shi An.
"Reporting to Young Master, we haven't found any trace of large spirit beasts around, but there are just too many ordinary small spirit beasts," Shi An said to Shi Lin, scratching his head.
Shi Lin didn't need to look to know that Shi An had just been tormented by those insects.
"Brother An, you don't need to work as hard as before today," Shi Lin said with a smile to Shi An.
Upon hearing Shi Lin's words, Shi An was stunned and looked at Shi Lin in confusion.
Shi Lin took out several bundles of cloth from his soul tool and placed them on the ground.
"These are the cheapest coarse cloths. After we lay them on the ground, if any insects get dizzy on them, we can just wrap them up with the coarse cloths, saving us the trouble of bending down to pick them up one by one," Shi Lin said with a smile to Shi An.
Upon hearing Shi Lin's words, Shi An's eyes lit up with excitement, as bending over to pick up insects was indeed exhausting.
"Come on, let's level the ground here first, and then spread out these cloths," Shi Lin said with a smile to Shi An.
Then, the two began to clear the gravel ground in front of them, trying to level the land as soon as possible and then spread coarse cloth on it.
After doing all this, Shi An returned to the wooden house.
Shi Lin then went to the center of the open space and summoned the Divine Wood King Cauldron, placing it on the ground.
Then, they took out a reduced dose of insect-attracting incense mixed with second-tier aphrodisiac.
After all, the insect density here is too high. If the full dose of insect-attracting incense is used, then a lot of insects will be attracted.
After lighting the incense, Shi Lin turned and ran, rushing into his little wooden house and quickly closing the door.
At this moment, Shi Lin and Shi An were both in the same room, since it would be safer for them to be together.
A wisp of green smoke drifted out from the Divine Wood King Cauldron and disappeared with a gentle breeze.
Before long, Shi An and Shi Lin, who were sitting in the room, heard the dense sound of flying sand and stones outside, as well as the buzzing of insects flapping their wings.
Shi Lin and Shi An quickly went to the window and peered out from the windowsill.
In an instant, countless snakes, insects, rats, and ants emerged from the ground and rushed madly toward the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
At this moment, the Divine Wood King Cauldron was already surrounded by a large number of insect-type spirit beasts, forming a sphere, and there were still countless insects flying towards it from all sides.
"Young Master, this scene is truly magnificent! No wonder it's Sunset Forest." Shi An stared wide-eyed at the scene before him in shock, and subconsciously said to Shi Lin.
Upon hearing Shi An's words, Shi Lin nervously swallowed.
The dosage of the sleeping potion I used was simply not enough for these spirit beasts.
Shi Lin pondered for a moment, then stood up, went to the table, and took out several packets of second-tier top-quality sleeping incense from his soul tool.
Next, Shi Lin used his second soul skill to draw a spatial rift on the table, then opened the rift, lit the sleeping incense, and threw it in.
The next second, these intoxicating fragrances appeared inside the Divine Wood King Cauldron.
Seeing the incense swirling inside the Divine Wood King Cauldron, Shi Lin breathed a sigh of relief.
If all else fails, Shi Lin will add more medicine! Shi Lin refused to believe that he couldn't deal with these insects after adding so much sleeping potion.
As the amount of incense increased, the insects that were still hovering in the air began to fall from the sky one by one.
Soon, the coarse cloth laid on the ground was covered with a layer of all kinds of insect-type spirit beasts.
As the dosage of the sleeping incense increased, most of the insects around them lay down. Seeing the unconscious insects outside the window, Shi Lin and Shi An finally felt relieved.
"Wait a little longer, let's go clean up the bugs. If we work hard for two days, we won't need to replenish the bugs for the next year or two," Shi Lin said with a smile to Shi An.
Nowadays, Shi Lin no longer uses ordinary insects to refine Gu worms; he uses spirit beasts to refine them all, and most of the ones he refines are now top-grade Gu worms.
There was no other way; as Shi Lin's skills in refining Gu worms improved, he became increasingly picky about the materials.
Therefore, Shi Lin needs a large number of insect-type spirit beasts, and this time it will basically meet Shi Lin's needs for one or two years.
Half an hour later, the incense and the insect-attracting incense had all burned out.
At this point, there were no more spirit beast insects standing outside; they were all lying on the coarse cloth platform, waiting for Shi Lin.
"Let's go, Brother An, let's go out and take a look." Shi Lin waved to Shi An, then put on his bronze armor and took the lead as he walked out of the room.
As soon as Shi Lin pushed open the door, he found a large pile of sleeping insects at the door. When he pushed the door open, the large pile of insects was crushed into a paste, and an indescribable pungent smell came out.
Shi Lin ignored the insects, immediately put on a mask, stepped on them, and walked outside.
After watching Shi Lin walk out of the room, Shi An quickly put on a suit of bronze armor and followed Shi Lin out of the room.
The two carefully observed the situation, and then began to lift the coarse cloth spread on the ground and put the insects inside into a box specially used to store spirit beast insects.
This way you can pick up thousands of insects at once, which is very effortless.
Shi Lin and Shi An collected all the insects on the ground into the box in just half an hour.
Next, Shi Lin and Shi An laid out the cloth again, then took out twice the amount of sleeping incense and a normal dose of insect-attracting incense and lit them.
The two quickly returned to their room and began the next round of waiting.
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And so, Shi Lin and Shi An toiled from morning till night, repeatedly lighting incense and collecting insects, finally putting the last batch of spirit beasts attracted by the insect-attracting incense into the box.
By this time, there weren't many insects left on the coarse cloth. It seemed that thanks to Shi Lin's efforts, the surrounding insects had been mostly collected by Shi Lin and Shi An.
"Young Master, we should have dealt with all the insect-type spirit beasts around here. Should we leave Sunset Forest tonight and stay somewhere else? I'm a little uneasy." Shi An suddenly came to Shi Lin's side and whispered to him.
After hearing Shi An's words, Shi Lin thought about it briefly and then nodded vigorously.
In just one day, he captured about 70,000 to 80,000 insect-type spirit beasts, and the insect-attracting incense burned for almost a whole day. Shi Lin was also a little worried that the ten-thousand-year-old spirit beasts in other areas might be attracted by the insect-attracting incense.
Without further ado, Shi An packed his things, and Shi Lin put away the two small wooden houses.
The two had just finished cleaning up the campsite.
Suddenly, the earth began to tremble.
"Not good, run!" Shi Lin replied to Shi An, then took out the Wind-Riding Gu, sat on it, and rushed out.
Shi An was quick to act as well, taking out a Wind-Riding Gu and rushing out.
"boom!"
The next second, a scorpion tail as thick as an arm suddenly pierced out from the ground.
The stab mark was precisely where Shi Lin and his companion's cabin was located.
"Oh no, a ten-thousand-year-old spirit beast!" Shi Lin subconsciously turned around and glanced back, then said to Shi An in shock.
"Young Master, hurry! It's a Black Venomous Armored Scorpion, with a cultivation of 50,000 years. It's a dominant spirit beast in Sunset Forest!" Shi An hurriedly shouted to Shi Lin.
Shi Lin quickly turned around, then carried the Wind-Riding Gu and traversed through the forest.
The Black Venomous Scorpion did not continue charging towards Shi Lin. All insect-type spirit beasts share a common trait: they dislike pursuit and prefer to lie in wait and launch surprise attacks.
The Black Venomous Scorpion blinked its small eyes at Shi Lin and Shi An, who were now quite a distance away, and then began to dig with its eight thick legs.
Soon, the Black Venomous Scorpion burrowed underground, as if it had never been there at all.
Half an hour later, Shi Lin and Shi An had already traveled some distance from Sunset Forest. They stood under a large tree, panting heavily.
"Brother An, we've both driven over thirty kilometers, we should be alright now, right?" Shi Lin asked Shi An, panting heavily.
"It should be fine, young master. We didn't go too deep into the Sunset Forest just now," Shi An said to Shi Lin, panting.
"That's good. Let's not rest today. Let's change direction and enter Sunset Forest to absorb spirit rings. After we've absorbed the spirit rings, we'll return to Heaven Dou City immediately. This is too dangerous." Shi Lin said to Shi An with a serious expression.
"No, it's too dangerous to go into Sunset Forest at night. The Black Venomous Scorpion shouldn't have left Sunset Forest. We should be safe now." Shi An thought calmly for a moment, then said seriously to Shi Lin.
"Alright, let's have a meal first, rest here tonight, and hunt down the spirit beast as soon as possible tomorrow." Shi Lin took a deep breath to calm himself down.
I think what Shi An said makes a lot of sense.
Then, Shi Lin took out some hot food from his soul tool and started eating it in the wild.
They had been busy from morning till night, without eating or drinking anything. The sun had just set when they finally ate and rested.
Soon, the two of them had eaten and drunk their fill.
Shi Lin and his companion glanced at the map and then boarded a carriage to head towards the nearest city.
After all, no matter how fierce the Black Venomous Armored Scorpion is, it wouldn't dare to enter a human city.
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