Growth
"Sigh, it's been 3 days, although I am many many miles away from the incident, if people come to investigate, I will not be spared. To survive such an ordeal was already highly lucky." Wei Ru had a dejected look on his face, although it was ordinary, his face had determination ingrained in it.
"I have to make the most of this life." He looked at all of his loot from the incident, although many things were a bit damaged and he left a lot of things back, he still had ~120,000 primeval essence stones worth.
"For now the main thing is reaching rank 3, afterwards, I will try to find some suitable gu then go into the Flowing Cloud city after changing my face.
He had always been wary, after a week of staying in a mountain, he would leave to another secluded place, "Those blood beasts had likely consumed most other creatures of these areas, that's why it's so safe."
It was quite surprising that he hadn't encountered any powerful creatures despite moving so much.
After a few months.
"I finally attained it, rank 3." He looked towards his surroundings, he used the rank 2 blood path gu that he had refined.
Shoom*
The gu spit out a blood ball and it went towards a tree, after reaching it, the tree was corroded and completely vanished after a while.
"Luckily this gu's food is blood, it was quite risky to test it out but after being attacked by a 'hundred' beast, he had used the gu and the beast died horrifically." He had a smile in his face, thinking of the food being so cheap.
"Now that I think about it, am I being manipulated by Heaven's will? It does seem likely since I have been too lucky after transmigrating." He had a thoughtful look on his face as his brows furrowed.
He went outside of his cave, he could see many mountains and the clouds as vast as countries, he even saw a monkey flying in the distance. "This truly is another world hum?" He relaxed, "even if I die, I won't have any regrets, after all, I have already died once."
_________________________ A few days later _______________________________________________________
He knew the implications of using the blood path, it's highly dangerous, he's treading in ice. "I have to get other gu worms, however, if I replace this gu worm, I will only have rank 1's, a rank 3 using rank 1's will be too weird, they might connect me to the incident." He knew, he had to look as ordinary as possible.
"It seems I can only refine the gu worms up a stage, the wind one is my vital gu so I can refine it first, that Zhao Fu had gathered the materials for a few tries to make me be in debt, if I still can't refine it, i'll have to cut my losses and go to the city." The reason I was trying to refine so desperately was, if a myriad beast found me, without movement, I would be dead.
I calmed down, I remembered the scene from when Fang Yuan was at the refinement convention. Only after memorizing the recipe would I continue.
I read the recipe for 3 days, completely focusing on it.
"Time to start refinement," it was the windiest day in a while, if it was windy I could save a lot of materials according to the recipe.
I first grinded the dead fig and stone apple, then gathered together the liver and eye of a 'hundred' beast and put those together.
...
"Now, to put the gu in, if I fail, at most I will be severely injured, I can't afford that. Luckily, I have the metal path gu that can shoulder the attack of rank 4."
I failed. I failed. I failed.
My eyes were bloodshot, "I can now understand fang yuan when he was trying to refine that gu in zombie alliance."
*Sigh
"I still have materials for 2 more tries, I will try them now."
I tried again and succeeded. I was like a gambler who finally got back enough value after putting in tremendous amounts of money.
"I can sell the rest of the materials in the city later."
I looked at the blood path gu with a wry smile, I put it in my aperture, "I have to be ready to destroy it at any moment."
I gathered up the less valuable of all the materials, still, together, they would be worth around 30,000 primeval stones.
"Taking all of these would surely connect me to the incident, I can only take the more common goods, the rest will be hidden away, if someone finds these or they get damaged, well ... I can only cut my losses." I had a resolute mentality.
I damaged my own face to make it unrecognizable before going to the city.
Some hours later
I stood at the gateway to the city.
A guard approached me with a warm smile, "You seem to be a rank 3 gu master, to enter the city you need to give 5 primeval essence stones."
I nodded, I handed him 8, "What are the recent things that have happened around this area?"
The guard, who was taller than me, now had a flattering smile, "Ah, sir, you see, there was a caravan that was attacked by blood path beasts, it seems that there is a blood inheritance, the Tie clan is investigating the scene but many demonic path gu masters are active right now. The highest I heard of is Blood demon, he received a blood path inheritance and is now a rank 4, he has evaded rank 5 Tie clan gu masters and is trying to get the inheritance."
I nodded, "good," before entering the city.
I decided to stay at a hotel or inn before selling the goods.
"I can't enter that area until the craze passes, if someone finds my loot then that's that, I am at the initial stage of rank 3, I only have 2 rank 2, as for the blood path gu, I have already destroyed it."
I tasted the foods and went around the city, memorizing it's layout to find the best deal.
A week later.
"I sold these materials and gained around 35,000 primeval stones, it seems that people are trying to get the blood path inheritance and buying up goods which made it go up by 5,000."
I nod, even though blood path inheritance will make you the enemy of the world, there are no shortage of desperate people.
I went to the Gu trading/buying center, it's the biggest in a million li area.
I stood outside the giant building, marveling at its size. It was almost the size of a medium hill, right in the middle of the city.
My face is shocked, "How much must it have cost?" I shake my head.
I went in and talked to a receptionist.
"Give me a list of rank 3 wood path gu worms." I had decided to enter the wood path!
Southern Border is the best place for Wood Path.