Chapter Eighty-Seven: Refining the Toad

  Forget it, Huo Hai quietly followed the three-eyed toad, slowly moving away from where the tortoise was. Among the Gu insects, there were some special Gu insects that had been passed down for generations and were very famous.

  For example, the Golden Toad is one such. Huo Hai's refining of the Golden Toad was naturally effortless. The stronger and more special the toad or frog, the more powerful the refined Golden Toad would be.

  These three-eyed toads are naturally much more powerful than the toads that can be obtained on Earth. To say nothing of other things, just the highly toxic light emitted by their bodies would be more powerful than a sniper rifle if taken to Earth. Such formidable toads, if they couldn't be refined, wouldn't that be a joke? In fact, Huo Hai prefers to refine insect-type Gu worms even more.

  A group of three-eyed toads are hard to deal with, but if there's only one that's alone, it's a different story. A swarm of star wasps surround it and use their massive impact force to quickly leave the three-eyed toad dazed and confused.

  Taking advantage of the opportunity, Huo Hai quickly rushed up. The innermost was still reciting a very strange and desolate spell. As the spell was completed, Huo Hai casually pointed at the already dizzy three-eyed toad. Mysterious power instantly wrapped it up.

  Faced with this spell specifically targeting poison, the three-eyed toad, which was already in a bad state, had no resistance at all. Under the disparity of strength, it didn't even have the chance to react. Like this, it was enveloped by the mysterious power and slowly sank. On the surface, nothing seemed to have happened, but upon closer inspection of its eyes, one would find that there was not a hint of vitality in the three-eyed toad's gaze.

  "This toad is really disgusting." Huo Hai walked forward, lifted one of the toad's legs, and felt goosebumps all over his body. This was also why Huo Hai preferred to refine insects rather than these poisonous substances.

  Jinchanchui is a very famous gu insect in the previous life. This gu has great power, agile body shape, and extremely toxic venom. As long as it touches the human body, it will be poisoned. Some Jinchanchui can even directly spit out poisonous fog to harm people.

  The method of refining the Golden Toad Bug is not to let a large number of poisonous insects devour each other, but to use one as the mother bug, letting it swallow a large amount of poisonous insects, while coordinating with a large amount of medicine. Using this method, its own blood vessels are developed and enhanced, and it can also be said that it has undergone a mutation. After refining into the Golden Toad Bug, although it still looks like a toad,

  But in fact, it has become a Gu insect and is another kind of biology. In terms of biology, this golden toad Gu cannot produce offspring with other toads, so it's not a breed. These things, Huo Hai doesn't understand very well either.

  However, in refining the toad, Huo Hai had not studied a better way before and could only use this existing method to refine it.

  The poisonous insects were easy to handle, and with a single order from Huo Hai, the Star Gu and Xiao Jin set out together. Soon, a rustling sound came from the forest, and a large number of poisonous insects crawled out from the trees. In the Miga Mountains, there were many kinds of poisonous insects.

  Ordinary people would be frightened by so many poisonous insects, and even Ho Hai, the mastermind behind this, couldn't help but feel a chill run down his spine when he saw them gathered together. Some of these poisonous insects were even more toxic than the three-eyed toad. Shaking his head, Ho Hai suppressed this feeling of discomfort. To promote the art of insect manipulation, one cannot have a fearful heart towards insects.

  When he carefully selected the insects, Huo Hai finally arrived and his mood gradually calmed down. The insects were all motionless and allowed themselves to be picked, completely under his control. With such insects, was there still a need to be afraid?

  The Gu insect's intimidation effect on insects, especially poisonous ones, is indeed very great. Huo Hai sighed while selecting the types of insects he needed. The refining of Golden Toad Gu used the toxicity of these poisonous insects, combined with the highly toxic blood vessels to stimulate the toads. Then, using medicine to enhance this effect, while also ensuring the toad's life was preserved.

  The principle is very simple, but the medicinal properties and toxicity are the results of countless trials by numerous predecessors over thousands of years.

  Huò Hǎi didn't have that much time, so he wouldn't go try slowly. He had a better way - directly letting the poisonous insects touch different herbs, then having the poisonous insects' own feelings transmitted back through the Star Gu, and Huò Hǎi would know.

  After roughly identifying the herbs, I tried them out a bit and there wasn't much of a problem. Huo Hai's expression was somewhat regretful: "Really, if I had thought of this method earlier, I wouldn't have had to personally taste the medicinal properties myself."

  Huo Hai's sudden realization made him feel that his previous behavior of taking medicine was truly foolish. Of course, before the Gu insect transformed into a Ling bone, it did not have clear cognitive and expressive abilities. Even if he had thought of this method at that time, Huo Hai would have been absolutely unable to use it. He now had the principle and a simple selection method.

  Refining the Golden Toad Bug has become much easier. Based on the refining principle, Huo Hai quickly selects the insect and then prepares the herbal medicine. There is no jar here, it doesn't matter, just pound a hole in the ground to use as one. Saves time, no need to be so particular.

  Just studying the medicinal herbs took up another whole day for Huo Hai. Huo Hai didn't even bother with Tian Hai, directly lighting a torch and placing it beside him to illuminate his work. Anyway, there were Xing Huang protecting them, so he didn't have to worry about the torch attracting anything.

  "Go down." With a single order from Huo Hai, the three-eyed toad that had been controlled by Huo Hai's Controlling Spirit Spell jumped directly into the pit. Then, Huo Hai added the medicinal materials he had prepared for his own cultivation and threw them into the pit as well.

  A command in his heart, the star worms began to drive out the poisonous insects, letting them enter the holes on the ground. Under the control of the Kontrol spell, the three-eyed toad had no idea whether these poisonous insects were edible or not, and whether eating them would be harmful. Nor did he think about whether he wanted to eat anything, under Ho Hai's command, the three-eyed toad directly stuck out his tongue and began to swallow the poisonous insects on the ground.

  Under the intimidation of the star worms, the poisonous insects did not dare to resist at all. This hole on the ground, even if it didn't have a lid, still wouldn't be effective, and that's because these star worms needed to keep controlling the scene here.

  After eating several poisonous insects, the three-eyed toad indeed began to have an adverse reaction. They were all highly toxic things, and eating too many of them would be enough to kill the three-eyed toad itself. Even with its strong resistance to poison, it was no exception.

  Huo Hai's eyebrows furrowed, and his heart stirred as he controlled the toad, starting to feed it corresponding medicinal materials. Next, with a swift and fierce gesture, he accelerated the transformation speed of the three-eyed toad while alleviating its symptoms, then ordered the three-eyed toad to continue eating.

  Normally, refining the Golden Toad requires a lot of time to alleviate the toxic outbursts. At the same time, it is also a means to make the medicinal properties work perfectly. But Huo Hai doesn't care at all, anyway, he doesn't want a Golden Toad for himself either. Refining one is just to deal with the Dry Land Turtle and let himself vent his anger. He didn't even carefully select the refining materials.

  To speed things up, Huo Hai directly used his own spiritual power to relieve the situation, allowing Jin Chan Jue to massively devour poisonous insects and medicine. Later on, he even had to use his spiritual power to help San Yan Chan Jue digest, lest it eat too much and burst its stomach.

  These three-eyed toads are not Gu worms, nor do they have the terrifying mouth of a star Gu. From nightfall until midnight, Huo Hai was busy. The three-eyed toads kept changing, and throughout the entire refining process, Huo Hai could see clearly.

  The three-eyed toad continued to send out painful and unbearable signals, but its connection with Huo Hai was not very close, and Huo Hai was not affected too much. By midnight, a large number of cracks had appeared on the three-eyed toad's body. Underneath the cracks, golden light was visible. In some places, the skin had even fallen off, revealing the golden skin inside.

  "It's really strange, why do so many of these Gu insects turn golden, do they have a special affection for gold and IU?" Huo Hai muttered to himself. He remembered that among the famous Gu insects, there were indeed many golden-yellow ones.

  Just like Little Gold, he used the traditional method of refining Gu to refine his first Gu worm, which was also gold in color. Even on Xiaodie's body, after being controlled, golden patterns appeared.

  Huò Hǎi didn't know whether all insects revered gold or if this refining method would naturally produce such a strange effect. He shook his head, thinking that there was no need to think about it too much. The three-eyed toad had already consumed the medicinal materials and poisonous insects, and its subsequent transformation would depend on itself. Huò Hǎi simply poured in a large amount of spiritual energy to accelerate its evolution.

  After that, Huo Hai returned to his tent alone and began to rest. The situation around him was enough for the Star Puppets to watch. Time slowly passed, and when Huo Hai recovered again, the sun had already risen from the horizon.

  "Huh, the change was so quick." Huo Hai came to the side of the pit and looked at the three-eyed toad inside. Without the continuous increase in spiritual power from the controlling spell, it had naturally disappeared. At this time, the three-eyed toad was sending a friendly message to Huo Hai.

  The three-eyed toad, at this point, can no longer be considered a three-eyed toad. The warts on its body have disappeared along with the shedding of its outer skin. It looks like the entire three-eyed toad has shrunk by one circle, and its whole body skin has turned golden. It seems like a giant golden frog. However, the aura emanating from its body has become exceptionally powerful.

  Above the head, the originally emerald green eyeballs have become very rare. Instead, red has increased a lot, as if it's going to replace the green. The red aura is constantly devouring the green aura.

  The three-eyed toad's own eyes had also completely turned golden. Golden eyeballs, this was the manifestation of the Golden Toad, and Huo Hai didn't show any surprise. "A three-eyed Golden Toad, I've never heard of such a thing before."

  Huo Hai felt a surge of pride in his heart, this was after all a special Gu worm that he had refined himself. If he were to bring it back and let his grandmother see it, he wondered if she would be shocked. Unfortunately, the Golden Silkworm Gu had not yet fully transformed.

  Collect one, thank you.