Talented without Virtue
Hu Mei Er lies against Li Xian’s chest and presses him to move against the black and white twin demons, who offended her. Li Xian is a short, fat rank four upper stage Gu Master who rarely fights and makes a living as an unscrupulous merchant. He pleads that the twins are two rank four Gu Masters and he is one man. She lowers the demand to dealing with little beast king Fang Zheng and leaving Bai Ning Bing alone for now. Li Xian agrees, but puts it off until after the three kings inheritance, which opens in a day or two. Hu Mei Er leaves. ch. 344
Alone in his cave, Li Xian drops the lust from his face. He sneers at her bid to use him against little beast king; he has ways to handle the twins, but he never does unprofitable business. He judges Fang Zheng meticulous behind a boorish front, and his challenges to three demonic Gu Masters in a row before the inheritance a premeditated plan. Every Gu Master on San Cha mountain is watching the inheritance, so none will risk a bloodbath with this lunatic. ch. 344
Li Xian has felt some fear of little beast king since Fang Yuan broke his word and seized the moment to kill Xue San Si, known as Sky Tiger. The righteous path rates talent and virtue in four grades. Under the demonic path, he judges that the dangerous type is talent without virtue, because virtue only binds the others. Fang Yuan has outstanding aptitude and the battle talent to cross realms. Tyrant Heng Mei, Fei Li and Xue San Si all had higher cultivation and died in his hands. He also did well in business at Shang clan city, and within a few years he gathered a formidable set of Gu worms. He has no morality, abandoning Hu Mei Er, smashing his enemies into minced meat and deceiving Xue San Si before everyone without guilt. ch. 344
Li Xian is deeply aware that the righteous path would exclude, banish or imprison such a man. In the demonic path he is like a tiger entering the mountain, and with decent luck he will definitely have great accomplishments. Li Xian sighs that he should have killed him early and that it is too late now. Only the four rank four peak stage Gu Masters like Kong Ri Tian and Long Qing Tian could kill him, and Li Xian cannot command them. They keep each other in balance with their eyes on the inheritance. ch. 344
Li Xian decides to build a cooperative relationship with Fang Yuan instead of offending him. Killing Xue San Si has offended her godfather Century Boy, a rank four upper stage Gu Master refining Gu in seclusion, and Li Xian is sure he will appear when the inheritance opens. Li Xian expects him to find trouble for the twins. He will befriend Fang Yuan in secret, watch the outcome from the sidelines and then wait for an opportunity to make a move. Whatever happens, he loses little. ch. 344
Fang Yuan cultivates diligently even on the mountain. Nine eyes liquor worm has raised his light gold primeval essence by a small realm into bright golden primeval essence. It is an enormous help in battle and one main reason he killed three rank four middle stage Gu Masters in a row. He knows that many people hate and fear him now, but he walks the demonic path, where individual strength can stand above a group, unlike on Earth. With two days left before the inheritance opens, he plans to refine charging crash Gu. ch. 344
