REVEREND INSANITY
Chapter 106: Half of his life savings went to dust

Chapter 106: Half of his life savings became dust, only his vitality was left for good

Day later.

In the futon, Fang Yuan sat down cross-legged.

A white light the size of a large face was one arm away from his face, quietly floating.

Fang Yuan took out pieces after pieces of ancient stone from his money bag and threw them into a ball of light.

The white light contracted, but became sharper.

When it shrank to the size of a fist, the white light glared, and Fang Yuan could only narrow his eyes to observe it.

"Maybe the last piece ..." Fang Yuan toyed with the ancient stone in his hand, knowing that the critical moment was here.

He threw the ancient stone into the ball of light.

He could faintly see an ancient stone floating around a ball of light, like snow falling into boiling water, constantly melting.

A large amount of stone powder fell to the ground.

The ancient stone disappeared, and the ball of light exploded!

With a bam, the three Gu worms flew in three directions. One fell on the bed, while the other two flew to the wall, and then fell to the ground.

Fixing Moonglow Gu has failed!

Fang Yuan's heart sank. He quickly moved his finger, calling back his Gu worm.

Moonlight Gu and Little Light Gu hesitated towards Fang Yuan as they floated, slowly landing on his palm, but the other Little Light Gu did not respond.

It was lying on the ground, its milky white five-star-shaped body gradually disappearing into the air.

After a while, it completely disappeared without a trace remaining.

This is the price of the failed fusion — according to different smelting recipes, Gu worms may be injured as a result, or when unlucky, may even die.

Even with his rich experience, plus the fact that Fang Yuan could perform many tasks and had the right recipe, there was still a possibility of failure.

Fang Yuan was not upset, he had seen such an event many times. He had already done his best, and if the result still failed, it could only be attributed to luck.

“Fortunately, it's not the dead Moonlight Gu, it's Little Light Gu. I can buy another one from the store, easy to refill. If Moonlight Gu dies, it won't be easy to try to get another.” He had plenty of money now, even if one Little Light Gu died, he could buy another.

Next, he examined the remaining Moonlight Gu and Little Light Gu. On the surface of the second Gu, it was slightly dimmer than usual. This was the result of Gu being injured due to the fusion failure.

“Once the Gu worm is injured, the chances of successful fusion will drop drastically. I have to wait for them to recover before I keep trying.” Fang Yuan knew that hurrying did not bring success, and quickly defended both Gu.

He estimated the time, at least three days later he would be able to conduct the experiment again.

Cultivation does not end there.

Fang Yuan opened his right palm.

His left hand was pale, and on his palm, there was a green badge with a grass pattern, like a dark green tattoo.

Fang Yuan's mind moved, and the primordial essence in his hole began to move, like a pink mist flowing towards the badge on his left arm.

The green emblem was instantly turned on. From Fang Yuan's palm, the tip of the grass appeared, followed by the round leaves of nine dark green leaves, lastly followed by the jade green transparent stem. As for the roots, they were not exposed.

On his palm, the original dark green tattoo was gone, leaving only a trace of dark green lines. It represented a tangle of grass with Fang Yuan's palm.

It was a rank two grass Gu — Nine Leaf Vitality Grass.

Right now, Fang Yuan's palm was like a piece of land, and the Nine Leaves Vitality Grass grew on it, like a beautiful art made from jade carvings.

Fang Yuan stretched out a finger of his right hand and plucked the leaf.

With each strand of round leaves he picked up, Fang Yuan could feel a slight pain, like the feeling of pulling his hair.

After the nine pieces were plucked and placed beside the bed by Fang Yuan, there was only the empty trunk of the Nine Leaves Vitality Grass left in his palm.

Fang Yuan continued to spread out the primordial essence. A pink-colored second-rate primeval essence continued to rise from his palm like a cloud of mist, and covered the jade-green trunk.

The stem continued to absorb the primordial essence, and eventually buds began to grow from within the trunk.

These shoots are reddish green, small, delicate and very fragile, breaking upon contact.

Fang Yuan continued to use his ancient essence, and his buds grew larger, the color deepening. Eventually it grows into a piece of dark green color, a completely ripe leaf.

"I use 20% of my ancient essence." Fang Yuan examined the openings and concluded.

He only had 44% primordial essence in his sea, that meant he could only make two leaves of vitality at once.

After making another piece, Fang Yuan took out a piece of ancient stone and quickly recovered the primordial essence in his hole.

When the primordial essence rose to 40%, he nurtured the vitality leaves again.

Rinsing and repeating like this after half a day, he finally made the Nine Leaves Vitality Grass grow back into nine full leaves.

He did not pluck the leaves this time, but with a thought, stored the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass back into his left palm, turning it back into a green emblem.

He picked up the leaves he picked up and put them in a small bag, carrying them.

Of course, he took out the cost to make it, but excluding the cost, he still made a profit of around four hundred ancient stones.

Among all the family assets, the most valuable was undoubtedly this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass. Having it is the same as having a gold mine! And this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass also has the advantage of — easy to feed. It only requires water and sunlight to survive, so it costs almost nothing to raise it.

For Fang Yuan, he could hand over all the other family assets, but for this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, he would have to clasp it firmly in his hands!

Of course, this type of Nine Leaf Vitality Grass was not owned by Fang Yuan alone. In the village, the others were also holding onto this grass Gu.

In fact, there were five Gu of the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass that belonged to the collective that belonged to the clan. Every day there was a special Master Gu whose mission was to create leaves of vitality in large quantities.

To Fang Yuan, this was a good thing.

If he alone possessed the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, the clan would definitely attack and purchase this Gu grass by force. Just like how Gu Yue Qing Shu represented the clan and came to buy her Liquor worm.

The valuable Gu like the Liquor worm, the White Black Pig Gu and the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, the clan higher-ups all wanted to control it and make it useful for the entire clan.

Three days later.

The light ball under Fang Yuan's supervision suddenly exploded, and a new Gu worm floated in the air slowly.

It was lustrous and translucent, bent like a crescent moon, resembling a piece of water blue crystal. In short, it was like Moonlight Gu whose size had been doubled.

However it was not Moonlight Gu, but a higher ranked second Moonglow Gu.

This time, Fang Yuan's fusion was successful.

Moonglow Gu was made by combining Moonlight Gu and two Little Light Gu. A Little Light Gu can increase the strength of the moonblade by 100%, but two Little Light Gu still increase its strength by 100%, this boost is not an additive.

But the enhanced Moonglow Gu Rank two, his attack power reached three times that of Moonlight Gu!

In fact, there were many different recipes for refining Moonlight Gu, and it had many paths of progress.

Fang Yuan took this path to increase the power of the moonblade attack to its limit. The attack range remained unchanged, still having a range of ten meters.

There is a — route using Moonlight Gu and Stone Scar Gu to fuse, the result is Moon Scar Gu. Its attack power remained unchanged, but its range doubled, reaching twenty meters.

There was another common route, which used Moonlight Gu with Whirlwind Gu to fuse, creating Moonwhirl Gu. Using it, the moonblade changed from blue to green, and at the same time its attack trajectory became curved. Gu Yue Qing Shu took this path.

As for Gu Yue Fang Zheng, he used Moonlight Gu and Jade Skin Gu to create Moon Raiment. This was a rare route and had the upper limit of Rank five, becoming Moonlight Treasure King Gu.

However, having a rank five recipe did not mean it was definitely possible to make a rank five Gu worm.

Many Rank five Gu Masters did not have a single rank five Gu at their disposal.

What caused this awkward situation was not the lack of ingredients, but the success rate.

Fusion Gu is not a 100% success rate%. The higher the rank of the Gu worm you are trying to refine, the lower the success rate. In his previous life, Fang Yuan's Autumn Spring Cricket had a success rate of less than 1%, and failed many times. Sometimes, he was lucky and fewer Gu worms died; other times, all Gu worms died together.

To refine a Rank six Autumn Spring Cricket, it required all rank five Gu worms. After this Gu worm died, all of Fang Yuan's hard work and accumulation would become smoke, becoming an illusion.

Fang Yuan failed many times and started many times, fusing together once again and collecting Gu worms and special ingredients again. Eventually, he caused too much commotion and incited public outrage, causing the will of the people to become disordered, and many deaths formed a sea of blood and floating corpses.

He was lucky, as he finally succeeded and obtained the Autumn Spring Cricket.

But once he got this Gu Rank six, all the true cultivators who had been eyeing his Gu all along came to attack, and even before he got the chance to get used to Gu, he was, he killed himself.

Thousands of millions of years, it was because of this disgusting failure rate that caused many high-ranking Master Gu to waste their efforts, and return to the starting point.

The only way is to slightly curb this failure rate.

And that is -

Vital Gu's.

No matter the result of fusion, failure or success, the vital Gu never died. At most it's hurt.

Wh why?

Many people guessed that it was because the vital Gu was Master Gu's first worm and related to Master Gu's life, forming mystical connections and connections.

As long as the Gu Master was alive, if Gu's vital fusion failed, at most it would almost die.

Of course, the other Gu worms used in fusion had the possibility of death.

Even so, a portion of Master Gu's results and work could be preserved and collected.

The vital Gu was Master Gu's luck and greatest setback. Whatever Gu is vital, it can affect the development path of Master Gu. On the contrary, Master Gu had also discovered new recipes aggressively to increase their vital Gu levels.

Some rank two and Rank three trash recipes, to Gu Masters, it worsened their future prospects.

When Fang Yuan discovered that the Spring Autumn Cricket had become his vital Gu, why was he so happy?

Here's why.

The Autumn Spring Cricket was an extremely rare Gu worm, allowing others to be reborn, it was a heaven-defying ability. No matter how it was refined, it would not die. If this was Fang Yuan's previous life where the Spring Autumn Cricket was not his vital Gu, if he continued to refine, it would potentially die.

Spring Autumn Cicada was ranked sixth, something that many Master Gu would never be able to accomplish in their entire lifetime. A large number of Master Gu did not even possess a rank six recipe, and were still searching desperately!

The Spring Autumn Cicada, although it could not be used to its fullest by Fang Yuan at the moment, was still his greatest treasure. The legacy of the Flower Wine Monk compared to this, was the difference between heaven and earth.