Chapter 273

In the room, Bai Ning Bing presses her palms to Fang Yuan’s back while bone flesh unity Gu turns her primeval essence into his. At rank two peak stage, he hurls the snow silver primeval essence at his crystal aperture walls. The rank two breakthrough on Qing Mao mountain barely succeeded after three to four days with primeval stones, and his first rank three attempt needed man-beast life burial Gu. Now his aptitude is A grade ninety percent and Bai Ning Bing helps. ^{ch. 273}

The walls crack and shatter, a white light wall replaces them, and light silver primeval essence rises from the sea. Fang Yuan reaches rank three initial stage in six hours. Alone he would need at least twenty four hours. ^{ch. 273}

Checking his aperture, he finds the bone spear Gu and spiral bone spear Gu sold, over half his deep red essence left, and Bai Ning Bing still injecting hers. Heavenly essence treasure lotus, which yields fifty primeval stones a day, demonic blood skull Gu, primeval elder Gu and clearing heat Gu lie in the sea. On his body sit bone flesh unity Gu, blood moon Gu, tusita flower, breath concealment Gu and jumping grass Gu. Flesh-bone Gu has been returned to Bai Ning Bing. Plunder Gu died of hunger on the caravan journey. ^{ch. 273}

He keeps heavenly essence treasure lotus, though without the recipe to refine it further its use will be negligible at rank four. Blood skull Gu is useless to him, for nurturing descendants costs too much time, but as a blood sea ancestor inheritance it could be swapped for a good Gu from the treasure realm. That realm is the foundation of Shang clan, so he must plan carefully. He will definitely keep Spring Autumn Cicada, primeval elder Gu and bone flesh unity Gu. Blood moon Gu is easy to raise but weak in attack and cannot join a set. Tusita flower is to be changed, breath concealment Gu exposed and jumping grass Gu removed. He also means to buy strength, investigative and movement Gu and, now that Shang clan trusts him, to try a gambling den. ^{ch. 273}

The Gu on him were gathered one by one, so they form no set. At Shang clan city he means to assemble a Gu worm set within two to three years and create his own battle style. Next come the Three Kings Inheritance and the righteous demonic battle at Yi Tian mountain, where weak fighters become cannon fodder and his rebirth advantage could win great benefits if he qualifies. ^{ch. 273}

In the study room, Wei Yang kneels to clan leader Shang Yan Fei, who tells him to relax. Shang Yan Fei credits Wei Yang for his rise to clan leader, and Wei Yang declines the credit. Shang Yan Fei says a good leader needs his men, and Wei Yang senses a deeper meaning he cannot grasp. Shang Yan Fei first took Bai Ning Bing for a girl posing as a boy, and Doctor Su Shou now reports that Bai Ning Bing asked about Yin Yang rotation Gu, so a hidden story seems to exist. Which sex Bai Ning Bing is no longer matters. What matters is whether Bai Ning Bing and Fang Zheng will work for Shang clan, and Wei Yang is dismissed. ^{ch. 273}

Alone, Shang Yan Fei weighs the pair: they snatched the inheritance from Bai clan and escorted Shang Xin Ci back, showing brains and brawn. The report puts them at rank three before twenty, which he counts as great talent. Repaying kindness shows proper character, and as successors of two clans they carry righteousness from birth. He wants to recruit them for Shang Xin Ci, not for himself. ^{ch. 273}

He turns into a pillar of flame and reappears on a huge walkway of tall stone pillars and white-silver brick, walking it to a giant red door over thirty meters tall, carved with a huge sleeping face. He tells Living Treasure Door to stop pretending to sleep, and the face opens its eyes and complains that Little Fei Fei has grown up and is not cute anymore. Shang Yan Fei answers that he has come to exchange for treasure. ^{ch. 273}