Although Daoran was very skeptical, Shenxiu couldn't hold it anymore at first, so he insisted on leaving.

But an agreement is an agreement, Shenxiu made this gesture, and Daoran had to leave with him.

Although the girl from the painting boat was very enthusiastic to stay, especially Dong Xiaowan, who kept looking at Dao Ran with complaining eyes, as if her heart had been taken away by him, but Dao Ran still walked very decisively, and she didn't even wait for the 1,000 taels of silver tickets to be delivered.

Pulling up Xiaoqing, who was in the state of "I still want to drink", the three of them hurriedly got off the painting boat.

When he returned to the shore, Shenxiu ran to a hidden corner where no one was visible, and said to Dao Ran very solemnly: "Master, I may have fallen into the Gu." ”

"What?" Daoran was a little surprised.

"I feel something wrong with my body, I may have been hit by Gu." Shenxiu said very seriously.

I tried to use the power of the spirit to sense, and I really found a very faint aura of living beings in Shenxiu's body.

The spirit is the spirit of the world.

As long as it is an animal, most of them are considered spiritual things, and Gu insects are naturally one of them.

So even if it's an egg, Dao Ran can sense it.

It's just that the breath of this worm egg is too weak.

Fortunately, Shenxiu is a cultivator, and there are almost no parasites on his body, if he were replaced by a beggar full of fleas, Dao Ran would definitely not be able to detect the faint breath of this insect egg.

The eggs stayed in Shenxiu's stomach at this time, smaller than sesame seeds, and they should have been accidentally swallowed when they were eating just now.

Combined with the resonance of Shenxiu and the oil lamp, Daoran estimated that when he went out to chat with the bustard, Dong Xiaowan fed Shenxiu something, and the eggs were hidden inside.

"This girl is ruthless enough." Daoran said.

"Master, what now?" Shenxiu asked a little anxiously.

"It's just a small problem."

Dao Ran stretched out his hand and slapped Shenxiu's chest, and the power of the Imperial Spirit was unleashed, immediately catalyzing the Gu worm in his stomach.

Shenxiu only felt a tingling pain in his body, but out of trust in Daoran, he decided to be a ninja. Soon a Gu worm, not much bigger than an ant, crawled out of his eyes, causing Shenxiu to shed a few tears.

Dao Ran controlled the insect to crawl into his palm and observed it carefully.

This insect is crystal clear throughout, like a delicate miniature carved artwork, much more beautiful than the centipede I've seen before.

This should be the key to the Thousand Lights River Formation, and it is precisely because of swallowing this insect that Shenxiu has a connection with the oil lamp.

"Shenxiu, Xiaoqing, you protect the Dharma for me."

After Dao Ran finished speaking, he made a very bold move.

He swallowed the Gu worm into his mouth, and then swallowed it.

It didn't take long for Dao Ran to feel the worm fall into his belly and hide safely in the corner. Even if Dao Ran let go of his control over the Gu worm in a short period of time, this insect still didn't do anything to harm Dao Ran.

This worm neither sucks blood nor eats meat, so it hides quietly in Dao Ran's body.

Daoran was not in a hurry, he sat cross-legged, closed his eyes and used the power of the spirit over and over again to strengthen his connection with this bug.

Seeing this, Shenxiu stood a little nervously beside Dao Ran, and his eyes kept looking around. He's still not very good at fighting, so he can only be an early warning radar.

Xiao Qing turned into a small snake with great skill, burrowed into Dao Ran's monk's robe, and wrapped it around his left arm. If anyone sneaks up on Dao Ran at this time, Xiaoqing will suddenly come out and bite the other party.

I don't know how long it took, when it was almost dawn, Dao Ran opened his eyes.

"I see! It's a wonderful design, but it doesn't make sense......" Daoran muttered to himself, then took out a copper coin and squeezed it hard.

This light and brittle copper coin was broken by Dao Ran's vajra finger force, and the spell attached to it took effect instantly.

Dao Ran didn't wait long, and Xuan Jizi appeared in the hidden corner by the Thousand Lights River.

"What are you looking for me to do? Don't ask about the weather tomorrow, the old lady can't figure it out. Xuan Jizi said dissatisfied.

Every time Dao Ran asks the hexagram, he asks about the weather, but Xuan Jizi is not allowed to calculate this kind of thing eight times out of ten, which makes her very angry, and she feels that Dao Ran is deliberately against herself, even if he counts the marriage, it is better than the weather.

It's a pity that the customer has to have the final say in the fortune telling, and he makes his own claim to help others tell fortunes, and if he calculates correctly, he can't increase his cultivation.

So recently, Xuanjizi's mood has been a little irritable, and he almost wants to change his career.

"Master Xuanji, are you familiar with the painting boat on the Thousand Lights River?" Daoran asked.

"Familiar, unfamiliar." Xuanjizi said ambiguously.

"Speak human words."

Dao Ran is also familiar with Xuanjizi, and he doesn't have the slightest scruples when he chats.

"Speaking of familiarity, because the Qiandeng River is where I grew up, I was sold to the painting boat at the age of four, until I was fifteen years old, when I was about to be sent to the Oiran Terrace to be sold at a price, my master took me as an apprentice, and then I left the Qiandeng River. So, I'm familiar with everything about the boat.

"But I know, what you want to ask about is not the painting boat, it's the formation on the river, right?" Xuan Jizi asked rhetorically.

Dao Ran nodded and said, "Yes, Qiqing Zhenren is also a disciple of the national teacher, you have lived on the Qiandeng River for so long, you should know something, right?" ”

"I really don't know, I was just a mortal when I was on the boat, and after I practiced, I never came to the Thousand Lights River again. Moreover, this formation was created by my senior brother after a lifetime of painstaking efforts, and even the master didn't quite understand the mystery. Xuan Jizi shook his head and said.

"Do you recognize it, then?" Dao Ran held the crystal clear Gu worm in the palm of his hand and showed it to Xuan Jizi.

"I recognize this, because of this Gu worm, I am also half a cultivator. Among the several disciples of the master, I have learned the most, this insect is the name I researched with Senior Brother Seven Feelings, it is called Seven Emotions Gu, and it grows by sucking people's emotions.

"Originally, I wanted to refine it to absorb the seven emotions and six desires, as long as the person in the Gu had any change in his thoughts, he could give the Gu worm nutrients. But we studied for a long time, and in the end, we could only absorb some strong mood swings, such as joy, anger, sadness, happiness, jealousy, and so on. ”

"Aren't you frightened?" Daoran asked.

"No, this emotion is too intense, and it is easy to kill the Gu worm directly, so when we cultivated it later, we deliberately used the talisman to seal the ability to suck fear. Wait, how do you know? Xuan Jizi asked strangely.

Even if an ordinary person finds the Seven Emotions Gu, it is impossible for them to know that this Gu worm does not eat fear, right?

Dao Ran didn't answer Xuan Jizi's question, he put away the Seven Emotions Gu first, and then said in a very serious tone, "I'll ask one last question." Is the method of refining Gu also able to be used on people? ”

"What did you say?" Xuan Jizi asked strangely.

"I mean, can you use people as Gu worms to refine? Have your master and brother ever studied this? Dao Ran asked again.

Xuan Jizi was silent for a moment, and then said with a wry smile: "You even know this, you are right, using the means of refining Gu to refine people is exactly what they have been studying." And I'm the first person Gu to be successfully refined."