Addicted to cultivating!
Fang Yuan stops in fear when snow silver primeval essence, much higher in quality than anything the liquor worm gave him, crashes at his aperture walls. He reduces the amount each time and slows the waves. After four hours the six percent of snow silver primeval essence is spent, and his rough stone walls already show a glimmer. He urges Bai Ning Bing to transfer another ten percent, and they cultivate all night. ch. 231
By morning he has risen from rank one upper stage to rank one peak stage and has never felt so comfortable, even in his previous life. Bai Ning Bing sees a further use for bone flesh unity Gu. Liquor worm raises only a small realm and a large realm must be broken on the Gu Master’s own essence, but bone flesh unity Gu lets another person’s essence do it. Fang Yuan judges Bai Gu mountain a complete success, worth it even had it cost him the heavenly essence treasure lotus. She sighs at how many great geniuses the world holds, since Grey Bone Scholar invented the Gu while only a rank four Gu Master. ch. 231
Two days after the first dual cultivation, Fang Yuan takes the hoe from the old lady in her field. The plan was to stay one night, but he now means to leave only after reaching rank two, with two to three years before the rock is discovered. Bai Ning Bing agrees, since rank two is a huge step up. The old lady wants them to stay forever, because they are diligent and honest. By day they farm with the strength of two boars and of a crocodile, and Fang Yuan spends every free hour cultivating. His aperture walls turn crystal clear, and rank two is a few days off. ch. 231
His estimate of bone flesh unity Gu rises above blood skull Gu and the treasure lotus, below only Spring Autumn Cicada. It is a low rank Gu that rank one or two Gu Masters can use, and a clan with enough resources can refine it easily. Useless to a loner, it is a divine weapon for clans, which can create Gu Masters in batches. In Bai Ning Bing’s phrase it could change the very structure of society. ch. 231
The night before, he had wanted to build a force of his own, as he did with the bloodwing demonic sect in his previous life. Forces aid cultivation only through rank five, since rank six turns mortal into immortal, and his knowledge lets him devour resources and reach it faster alone. After thinking until morning he drops the idea. Such a divine weapon would draw the greed of every large force, and Wu clan, first among the southern border clans, would not dare use it alone. He reckons large-scale use would need an alliance of at least Wu clan, Fei clan, Tie clan and Shang clan. Hunted from all sides, he would lose the foundation he built, so he affirms fighting alone. In his previous life Bai Sheng and Bai Hua became the righteous twin stars through bone flesh unity Gu, yet never used it to grow their clan and misled others into greatly underestimating it. ch. 231
He counts killing Bai Sheng and Bai Hua early at Bai Gu mountain a great accomplishment. They must have used the scroll’s own refinement method, which without his alteration makes the Gu much harder to define, and they may never have thought of a force. Head aching from so much thought, he plows on under the intense sun. He regrets lacking Gu that aid thinking, creative thinking Gu, intelligent heart Gu, tactful Gu and lightning thoughts Gu, and says even a bookworm would do. He expects to buy them only at Shang clan city. Once he has plowed half the small field, Bai Ning Bing starts helping of her own accord. At night the old lady serves them rough grains, not rice bag grass rice, and smiles mysteriously over good news to share. ch. 231
