"Piercing Blood Gu, as I imagined, has incredible power." Chen Wei holds a Gu that resembles a red wasp, measuring over three centimeters in size, with a stinger that would make anyone fear becoming its target.
It's been two months since Chen Wei and his team ended up having to fight Liu Wi for the first time, resulting in a significant threat to Chen Wei's life, which he narrowly avoided.
Of course, this experience alone wouldn't be enough for him to replicate the killer move "Wind that Pierces the Heavens" to the extent of transforming it into a Blood path Gu. However, during these two months, they ended up encountering each other several times in the war, some by coincidence and others in planned ways.
"In the end, every killer move is just an incomplete Gu recipe." This knowledge doesn't come from his own experiences or inspirations but are the direct opinions of the greatest expert in the Refinement Path that the Gu world has ever seen, the infamous Heaven Refining Demon Venerable.
Of course, the power of this Gu he created isn't at the level of the killer move's strength yet, nor does it have an effect entirely identical to "Wind that Pierces the Heavens," as Chen Wei merely used the Killer Move as inspiration and a mold for his own Gu, which has a similar effect.
"But I can try to replicate the Killer Move, and if I advance this Gu to rank 2, my Killer Move will become even stronger than the original." During these mere two months, Chen Wei's strength, both due to his increased battle experience and because he refined more Gu to rank 2, has been increasing at a rate that is shocking everyone, even Chen Wei himself.
"But all this development is only possible because apparently, the Heavens Will has stopped hating me." Initially, he found himself in various situations where Chen Wei was certain that the Heavens Will was trying to eliminate him for being an otherworldly demon. But recently, he hasn't found himself in any of those situations anymore.
In fact, it seems that every kind of danger or difficulty he faces is actually trying to nurture and help him become stronger instead of trying to kill him. Because of this fact, Chen Wei is extremely cautious, seeing this as a possible trap of the Heavens Will.
But if he could check his own luck, he would know that in the meantime, his luck has gone from a small pool of blood in the shape of a blade, which was constantly suppressed by a dazzling golden glow from the Heavens. But now, it's a scarlet skull made of blood, illuminated by a blood-red glow from the Heavens, which instead of repressing his luck, is actually strengthening it. Now, Chen Wei's luck is at a level that would probably suppress that of any common immortal, and the most terrifying thing is that it only shows signs of increasing.
If he knew about this change, he would be shocked to his soul, but he would also understand the reason for the change in his own situation regarding the Heavens Will. But for now, he had no way to assess his own luck, so his doubts about the change in Heavens Will's attitude won't be answered for the time being.
And along with his own increasingly rapid development, the same is happening with the Blood path in the He An clan, which is now becoming the path of choice for most rank 1 Gu masters seeking something cheap to buy, maintain, and strong in attack.
These Blood path Gu have even reached the other two clans through spies and Gu masters from the He An Clan who would do anything for money. This development doesn't make Chen Wei angry, as the more people use Blood path Gu, the better.
In fact, Chen Wei is doing everything he can to spread the fame and renown of the Blood path, going so far as to shout the names of his Killer Moves out loud to make them recognized and possible inspirations for those choosing the Blood path as their main one.
"I imagine that when I become an elder of the clan, using Blood path will really make its popularity explode." He knows that although a bunch of rank 1 Gu masters and young Gu masters who are ambitious and reckless are using the Blood path, most experts, except for the Bleeding Eyes Gu, which has become almost mandatory among Gu master teams, aren't changing from their main paths to Blood path.
It's not that they don't see the potential or don't understand the strength that the Blood path has, but they simply can't afford the cost of changing paths now. This cost doesn't refer to primeval stones but rather to the difficulty of recreating their combat system with the Blood path instead of their original paths, to which they are accustomed, in a narrow path with less than 10 rank 2 Gu existing, which would force them to be pioneers.
But still, most experts have plans regarding Blood path. This is to see if its creator Chen Wei can not only increase the overall strength and development of the path to an acceptable level for these experts but also see if he could reach the acclaimed level of elder still using the Blood path.
"Panda Blood Gu, whoever created it is truly talented." Chen Wei holds in his hand a Gu that was created by one of the members of the Xiong Mao clan. Although it's useless for Chen Wei, it made him very happy as it's making Blood path become more common and widespread, which in the future will help him use the experience and creations of others for his own benefit.
"Well, he's still using the Blood path as a support instead of it being the main one, but it's still a bit of progress." The Gu's effect is to make the Gu master's blood more compatible with the Xiong Mao clan's main Gu, the Panda Strength Gu, making the Gu master able to unleash greater force when used together.
"There have also been some Gu masters from my clan who are starting to refine new Blood path Gu, but they're still taking the first steps too." Chen Wei already plans that when he becomes the clan leader, he will make the Blood path the clan's main path, besides he has changed his mind about leaving the clan and now plans to take them into his immortal aperture after becoming an immortal.
This change comes mainly from his own change of heart as well as his fear of how the Heavens Will can use the members of the He An clan to target him, which has diminished considerably, as there is nothing he can imagine that they can do to kill or harm him when he's an immortal and they are a bunch of mortals, no matter how many.
Moreover, they will be very important for a plan he has been formulating recently, well at least it's important that he leave some of his descendants in a dominant position in the southern border after his death, but that's a conversation for later. Now Chen Wei has to focus on refining more Gu to rank 2.
"So far, I've refined two more Severe Bleeding Gu, which have an incredible effect." The Gu's strength has excited Chen Wei, as just a mere small cut on the hand would be enough to make a rank 1 Gu master bleed to death in a few minutes, and if the cut was deep, this time wouldn't exceed a minute.
"But the best is the internal bleeding effect." The old Bleeding Gu caused a little internal bleeding, but nothing capable of causing serious damage and served more to
hinder the healing of the Gu master who was bleeding. However, the Severe Bleeding Gu causes such severe internal bleeding that the Gu master wouldn't even need to be cut to end up dying, of course, under the condition that no one heals him.
"Perhaps at rank 3 or 4, I'll be able to kill someone quickly with internal bleeding." In fact, all this thought about blood inside the body gave Chen Wei a great idea of how to use the Bleeding Stop Gu for attack instead of healing.
"Hmm, Fierce Leech Gu, this is definitely the most useful Rank 2 for me right now." It's because of it that during his fights, Chen Wei has almost never lacked primeval essence, as now that the Gu is rank 2, the Fierce Leech Gu generates rank 2 middle stage primeval essence after absorbing blood, of course, with the curse of needing more blood or of higher quality.
"But even for this Gu, I'm already imagining a way to create an attack-focused version of it." Chen Wei has noticed this for some time, but the Blood path probably has the most murderous intention of any other path of this era or any era, probably only rivaled by the Soul path and surpassed only by the Killing path.
"Honestly, after experiencing a bit of the power of the Blood Killer Gu, I completely understand why the Spectral Soul wanted to create this path so much." Chen Wei knows that although the Blood Killer is a Blood path Gu, it has a bit of the depth of the Killing path as well as the Human Path too.
The reason Chen Wei thinks this is that every time he kills someone with intention using the Blood path during all this time, the Blood Killer Gu is slightly upgraded to Rank 2. This effect is simply incredible.
Following this logic, as long as he kills enough, he could even reach Rank 9 with enough killing. "I've theorized about this a bit, but I wonder if Blood and Soul paths are two sides of the same coin to reach Killing path?" Even though he thinks this, he doesn't have strong conviction, as if this were the case, Spectral Soul would know it and would have cultivated the Blood path instead of the Food path as his secondary.
If Chen Wei made a list of which paths he would like to cultivate if he had to choose, Soul Path would be right below Blood path as the third and fourth place, with the first and second being Heaven and Human paths, which in Chen Wei's opinion are the strongest, and in fifth place comes Refinement, which he saw how powerful it can be in the right hands, like Fang Yuan's.
And although Chen Wei is not aware of it now, this Gu he called Blood Killer doesn't include just one or two of these paths but actually includes all of them!
Guys, you can basically see from the title but this will be the development with these 5 paths that I will make the protagonist follow to Rank 10, it is a possible eternal life ,since everything is theory since the novel was banned before this answer I decided to create my own, I hope you like it :)
Chen Wei finishes his self-reflections and experiments with his recently refined rank 2 Gu and steps out of his room after feeling the need for some fresh air to clear his mind.
He arrives at one of the windows of his house, which can be described more as a luxurious and splendid mansion than a simple house since it has almost 300 square meters of internal area, which in the He An clan where land is expensive and hard to obtain is very impressive.
From the window, he can see a training field filled with young people around his age, with the oldest being at most 20 years old. But what would impress people who see the scene is that all these young people are skillfully using Blood Path Gu of different varieties created by Chen Wei.
This scene, of course, is not unexpected at all, as even those elite rank 2 Gu masters can see the great potential of the Blood Path. How could Chen Wei's grandfather and father, who have more knowledge about the Blood Path than all these elite Gu masters combined, not know about its potential and explore it?
Much of this comes from the fact that Chen Wei always shares his discoveries and knowledge in the Blood Path with his grandfather, who after seeing that the power of the Blood Path not only remained but increased at rank 2, decided firmly to change the main path of the family from Water Path, like the rest of the clan, to the new Blood Path.
His grandfather even works with him to refine a rank 3 Blood Path Gu for himsef, which would be called Blood Rain Gu, which would allow his grandfather to modify his killer move to one that he and Chen Wei have been working on based on his grandfather's famous killer move.
Mortal Killer Move - Raging Bloodstorm
And as his grandfather intends to call the modified Killer move with the qualities of the Blood Path. But of course, this is only an objective that they still have a long way to go, mainly due to the difficulty of refining now that they have reached rank 3.
Of course, Chen Wei's refining abilities are incredible for his age and experience, already making his grandfather praise him for hours while murmuring about how great his potential is. But he is still far from his grandfather's level, who is an extremely experienced and talented rank 3 Gu master.
But even his grandfather has to be careful in refining a new rank 3 Gu, especially when this Gu comes from a new path that has been unexplored until now.
This applies to everyone, not just in the He An clan but throughout the Longhua Shan mountain and gu world, as far as Chen Wei can tell from his research, even the best publicly recognized Gu master refiner among the three clans must still have a common attainment in Refinement path. In fact, among the three clans, there must be no one with Master attainment in any path from what Chen Wei saw.
"Ah, Master attainment is only the first step, but it's still so difficult to achieve for us mere mortals," Chen Wei looks at the young people who don't stop their Gu training, lost in deep thought, as he has recently had the feeling of finally reaching Quasi-Master attainment in Blood Path!!
He doesn't know how to describe the feeling, and how he knows this, but it's as if an instinct within him simply told him so, and his real-life experiences only confirm this feeling.
And although Quasi-Master attainment doesn't sound impressive, and Chen Wei knows that compared to the monsters of this world, it's nothing, but compared to the mortal world, and especially to the three clans of the Longhua Shan mountain, it's an unprecedented achievement.
Having witnessed it personally, he is sure that his grandfather has Quasi-master attainment in Water path, and according to his own grandfather, there is only one elder who compares to him. In addition, his grandfather described the old leader of the Clan as much more skilled than himself and the current leader of the Clan as being at comparable levels.
And if we extrapolate that the same must be true for the other clans, except for the factor of the old Clan leader, there would be at most ten Quasi-masters in a mountain with hundreds of thousands of people.
Which is already a spectacular rate by mortal world standards since most Gu masters will never even reach rank 2, much less have time to think about what attainment is and how important it is.
"Young master, did you call for my presence?" Chen Wei is taken out of his thoughts by a young Gu master of his age who has a worried expression, afraid of having annoyed Chen Wei since he hadn't noticed that Chen Wei was lost in deep thought before he arrived and interrupted him.
"Ah, Ma Fei, good to see you. I was indeed waiting for you," Chen Wei speaks calmly, without a hint of anger for being taken out of his thoughts. "Here, I need you to have this new Gu that I developed." Chen Wei hands him a Gu in the form of a small white spider with small red spots on its body.
"Thank you, young master. I will do my best to help you with your new creation," Ma Fei quickly takes the Gu without hesitation, but inside he is extremely nervous about using this Gu since he has never seen it before, knows nothing about its effect, much less its risks.
"This is the Wolf Blood Gu. It has the ability to make a Gu master more compatible with wolf strength type Gu, thus releasing greater strength" Ma Fei looks at the Gu with a look of shock and reverence, as if he were holding a sacred Gu for which he would be willing to fight for his life to keep.
"Young master, I thank you from the bottom of my heart for this gift. I swear I will not disappoint you." He kneels before Chen Wei with reverence since this Gu could be considered a major breakthrough that could even change the face of the Strength path in the mortal world of the southern frontier.
This is the reason Chen Wei called the Gu master who created this Gu truly talented since it is basically a great innovation for the Strength path that helps solve one of the major problems of the path, which is the Gu master's inability to release all the strength of the animal they have.
Of course, this Gu does not completely solve this problem and is only a viable solution for the low levels of the mortal world, but 98% of Gu masters are at the low levels of the mortal world. So if this type of animal blood Gu spreads, it will become extremely popular, since even in this era the Strength path is still the most common among low-level Gu masters.
Unfortunately, this Gu would never be useful for the immortal world because of the Conflicting Dao Marks that would not only cause the effect to fail but perhaps even be detrimental to the immortal Gu of the Strength path that uses it.
"This Gu is of the spent type, so after you use it, your blood will become permanently like this, so you must be sure to follow the Wolf Strength type Gu route," Chen Wei speaks, not wanting to see a capable and talented subordinate throw away his future because of a rash decision. "But the positive side is that it doesn't consume primal essence, besides, I will research a way to reverse the blood change, but still think well since I'm not sure of success in this research."
"Yes, young master, I will give my decision to you by tomorrow!!" Ma Fei says enthusiastically as he heads to his house to use the Gu since he has already decided to use it the moment Chen Wei mentioned its effect.
"This Gu has both Blood Path and Transformation effects. Ah, I really want to meet the creator of this Gu!" He knows that the creator of this Gu was the most powerful elder of the Xiong Mao clan, so the possibility of the two of them meeting to share knowledge is almost nil, which left Chen Wei quite disappointed.
Among the Venerables, the one Chen Wei most identified with after starting his Gu cultivation journey was Limitless Demon Venerable. He completely understands why he lived his whole life as a determined and unchanging Dao Seeker, as until now in his life in the Gu world, the moments he remembers most happily are not those he spent with his family or friends having fun, but those in which he made a new discovery that advanced his knowledge in Blood Path.
"Who knows what the future holds, for I swear one day I will also be at the level of these great legends of humanity," Chen Wei now looks to the heavens wondering what it will be like to see this world from above, seeing everything in the mortal world as small and insignificant while seeking his own Dao in this world.
But he is taken out of his thoughts by a heart-shaped Gu that is scarlet red, which is divided in half in his aperture that began to vibrate, indicating to him that he has received a message from Wang Mei, who has the other half of the Gu with her.
"Blood love Gu... "He feels embarrassed speaking the name of this Gu aloud. "Why did she have to give it that name..." This was a Gu he created to give as a present to Wang Mei after she went through the Awakening Ceremony, which was at the beginning of this year.
The Gu allows two people who have an emotional relationship to communicate, but it was necessary for both sides to have good feelings for the other party for the communication to work.
"She wants to meet... this time to learn how to better use her Gu," Chen Wei routinely meets with Wang Mei since they are engaged and their wedding will be at the end of the year, so they are expected to get closer to a certain point and it's not like Chen Wei doesn't enjoy spending time with her.
"Serene Water Gu is a good Gu for her, besides being one of the strongest rank 1 Gu of the water path that exist in the clan." Of course, this Gu was not picked by her in the clan's academy but was her father's personal gift who was willing to nurture his daughter with all his heart, as she showed an A grade talent of 80% primeval essence.
"I bet the leader is furious for losing his most talented daughter in a political marriage with me." Although she is his daughter, from the moment she marries Chen Wei, she will be a member of the Chen family, and because of the archaic and feudal customs of this world, even if they are strong, women still have a lower status than men who are in the same cultivation rank as them,so she will have to obey the orders of her husband who will be Chen Wei.
And at no point did it cross Chen Wei's mind that her having an A grade of 80% was strange since her father is the clan leader and also has an A grade talent just like her mother has a B grade talent, so it is expected that they would have at least one child with an A grade talent, that's what he thought since he doesn't know about the fact that she is an otherworldly demon just like him.
And the same goes for her father, who doesn't suspect anything while he is in a conflict of emotions, happy that his daughter has great talent but at the same time angry that she is publicly engaged to Chen Wei, and trying to forcibly separate this engagement could cause a great conflict in the clan that would be exploited by his enemies from the Xiong Mao and Feng Zhi clans to attack the He An clan.
"And the worst part is that the girl is hopelessly in love with this boy Chen!!" There are no words to describe how angry he is about this, especially when she voluntarily constantly meets with Chen Wei, and the clan leader cannot stop her since they are engaged.
And Wang Mei, well... she continues to live what to her is a dream from romances or fairy tales to think about the reason she came to this world or things like that.
But the thing that all three have in common is that they have no idea about the old monster who could make the world tremble with fear just by mentioning his name, who is helping Chen Wei and Wang Mei from the shadows while doing a feat that will be remembered forever in history as the greatest theft in history!!!
Guys, first chapter with more than 2k words, I'm very happy :)
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