Chapter 81: Golden Bee Gu

“Ah?!”
I jumped in fright and flicked my hand.
The little bug flew up and circled in mid-air.
At the same time, my perspective moved at high speed along with it, and I saw the figures of myself, Xiao Qing, and Bai Yue.

“Is this… is my perspective synchronized with the bug’s?” I asked in astonishment, quickly realizing what had happened.

“Mm, this is a Golden Bee Gu.”
“If you concentrate, you can see your surroundings through its perspective.”
“With the shared vision of this Golden Bee Gu, you can see other people’s test papers during an exam and just copy them,” Bai Yue said.

“Huh?”
I originally thought she would pull out some miraculous method to make me smarter and memorize a large amount of knowledge.
I never expected her method was to have me cheat using a bug.

But on second thought, this bug was so tiny, probably only one or two millimeters long.
If my vision hadn’t been greatly enhanced after becoming a ghost-hybrid, I probably wouldn’t even have noticed it.
It was perfect for cheating.

Moreover, using it for cheating was an understatement.
Using this Golden Bee Gu to spy and eavesdrop would be just as easy.
Its size allowed it to pass through almost any obstacle, unless it was truly hermetically sealed.
This was practically a master tool for stealing secrets.

Just now, when Bai Yue said this bug sold for over a hundred thousand in her family, I was a bit skeptical.
Now that I think about it, a hundred thousand is actually cheap.
Even if she asked for a million, someone would still want it.

And I didn’t miss the fact that this bug’s name was Golden Bee Gu.
I asked, “Is this the legendary Gu insect?”

Bai Yue didn’t answer my question. Instead, she frowned and looked at the Gu insect in mid-air.
Xiao Qing responded, “Yes! Xiao Yue is from a Gu Master family in the Southern Borderlands.”
“She has been immersed in her family’s traditions since she was a child.”
“Her Gu arts can accomplish all sorts of incredible things.”
“For Brother Xiao to get one of her Gu insects, your luck is just too good.”

Xiao Qing seemed to have never seen Bai Yue give a Gu insect to someone else before.
In her excitement, she even blurted out her habitual name for me.
Fortunately, Bai Yue was looking at the Golden Bee Gu in mid-air and didn’t notice what she said.

At this moment, Xiao Qing also realized her slip of the tongue.
She quickly covered her mouth and looked at Bai Yue, only to find that she was also distracted.
She quickly asked, “Xiao Yue, what are you looking at?”

“Impossible, why did this Golden Bee Gu evolve?”
“I clearly didn’t cultivate it to this level,” Bai Yue raised her hand, and the Golden Bee Gu obediently landed on the back of her hand.
She carefully observed the tiny bee.

“Wait a minute, you just said you sold it to me, but you actually still have control over this Golden Bee Gu,” I complained.

I had felt it just now.
Ever since the Golden Bee Gu drank my blood, it had established a faint connection with me.
As long as I sent a little bit of consciousness over, I could control the Golden Bee Gu to fly in a certain direction.

But as soon as Bai Yue raised her hand, the Golden Bee Gu completely ignored all my commands and obediently flew to her hand.
She clearly still had a higher level of control over the Gu insect.

“This is a Gu insect that I cultivated, of course I wouldn’t easily break the connection.”
“Besides, I always have to keep a failsafe.”
“If nothing unexpected happens, it will always be yours, I won’t touch it,” Bai Yue said.

“So you’re touching it now, which means something unexpected has happened?” I looked at Bai Yue and said.
It was better to find out about any problems early on; I didn’t want to buy a defective product.

“Mm, the Golden Bee Gu actually evolved.”
“Originally, this was just a second-grade Gu insect, but it actually evolved into a fourth-grade Gu insect,” Bai Yue said in disbelief.

“Amazing, it skipped two grades.”
“By the way, what’s the highest grade?” I asked with interest.

“The highest grade is nine.”
“But ninth-grade Gu insects have rarely appeared in history.”
“It’s hard to say if any still exist in modern times.”
“Even daring to cultivate an eighth-grade Gu insect is an extremely immoral and dangerous act,” Bai Yue said.

So it was the opposite of official rankings, with first-grade being the weakest and ninth-grade being the strongest.
I wondered what kind of heaven-defying, terrifying existence this so-called ninth-grade Gu insect was, that even an eighth-grade one could be called immoral.

“No! That’s not what I was talking about.”
“Do you have any idea how difficult it is to raise a Gu insect by one grade?”
It was rare for Bai Yue, who always spoke slowly, to speak so quickly, but her voice was still soft and cute.

“I don’t know, how hard is it?” I asked, as a matter of course.
Beside me, Xiao Qing covered her head with her hands.

“To cultivate a third-grade Gu insect, you need to put a hundred second-grade Gu insects in a jar and let them kill each other.”
“After about a year, the last remaining Gu insect, having absorbed the life force of all the other insects, will become a third-grade Gu insect.”
“And a fourth-grade Gu insect requires a hundred third-grade Gu insects to kill each other,” Bai Yue explained.

“That’s really troublesome and difficult.”
“Are there any other methods of cultivation?” I asked.

“There are, for example, finding some malicious ghosts with extremely strong resentful energy for them to devour, or feeding them stronger Gu insects from other people, and there are some secret methods for forced growth… No! You’ve changed the subject again!” Bai Yue looked at me, puffing her cheeks.

Xiao Qing was already trying to hold back her laughter.
I had also noticed that this little girl had a one-track mind and was easily led astray, and she also liked to get lost in her own world.

“In short, raising a Gu insect by one grade is extremely difficult, no matter which method you use, no less difficult than having them kill each other.”
“But you just made it jump two grades.”
“How did you do it?” Bai Yue looked at me and asked.

“I don’t know,” I spread my hands innocently.
“This is the first time I’ve even seen Gu arts today.”
“I just asked you how Gu insects are graded.”
“How could I possibly know a method to upgrade a Gu insect?”

“I must have missed something.”
“What did the Golden Bee Gu do just now?”
“Ah! Right! It drank your blood.”
“What’s the deal with your blood?” Bai Yue finally came to her senses.

The Golden Bee Gu drinking blood was just an act of acknowledging a master.
Just now, Bai Yue hadn’t connected the blood-drinking with the upgrade.
But besides that, the Golden Bee Gu had done nothing else.
It upgraded right after drinking the blood.
Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, however improbable, must be the truth.
Besides, there was hardly anything to eliminate.

“I have a Hidden Yin Physique,” I had no choice but to tell the truth.
Mo Qingyan and Xiao Qing already knew anyway, so it didn’t matter if one more person, Bai Yue, knew.

“Wait a minute, Hidden Yin Physique?”
“How is that possible!”
“Isn’t that a physique that only men have?” Bai Yue looked at me in shock.
It seemed she had also heard of this extremely rare physique.

I nodded, thinking about what the Feng Shui shop owner had said.
Ghosts would pursue the blood of someone with a Hidden Yin Physique.
Could it be that Gu insects could also benefit from the blood of a Hidden Yin Physique?

“Xiao Yue, does the blood of a Hidden Yin Physique really have such a great effect?” Xiao Qing also asked.
Although she knew I had a Hidden Yin Physique, she didn’t know what my blood could do.

“Of course.”
“It’s said that demons and ghosts flock to those with a Hidden Yin Physique.”
“I never expected it to have such a great effect on Gu insects as well.”
“I don’t want the thirty thousand yuan anymore.”
“Give me a tube of your blood,” Bai Yue said.