Chapter 100: White Jade Gu


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    In the blink of an eye, ten more days passed.


    Deep in the mountain, in the underground rock forest.


    Squeakkkkk!


    Tens of jade eye stone monkeys jumped in the air with blurred silhouettes.


    They continued to leap and attacked Fang Yuan aggressively.


    If it was like before, Fang Yuan would retreat without a doubt. But now, he stood on the spot with a cold


    expression, still like a rock.


    The stone monkeys mmed, scratched, and bit Fang Yuan’s body, but a crisp ‘ding ding’ sound could


    be heard, as if they were not attacking a person, but a sturdy jade pir.


    A bright white jade light covered the area as it attached itself to Fang Yuan’s body. This light, although


    it was thinner than the Jade Skin Gu’s jade green glow, it had more than twice of the defensive power.


    Jade Skin Gu’s defense can only handle up to sixteen monkeys’ simultaneous attack, but now Fang


    Yuan could face off against more than thirty monkeys alone.


    “On the arena, I could break Fang Zheng’s Jade Skin Gu’s defense with my bare fists, but if Fang


    Zheng used this White Jade Gu, even if I broke my wrist bone, I would not be able to prate his


    defenses.”


    Fang Yuan pondered while diverting a part of his thoughts towards his aperture sea.


    In the red steel primeval sea, the White Jade Gu sank to the bottom of the sea, constantly absorbing


    primeval essence. Its surface also emitted a faint white jade glow, like a lightbulb.


    Every time the stone monkeys attack Fang Yuan, the White Jade Gu’s surface which resembled an


    oval pebble would sh faintly.


    At the same time, Fang Yuan could feel a trace of his primeval essence being expended.


    “White Jade Gu’s defense is the same type as the Jade Skin Gu, they both require a continuous source


    of primeval essence. At the same time, the greater the intensity of the attack, the more primeval


    essence is expended.” Fang Yuan concluded in his heart.


    At the same time, he counterattacked.


    Punches and kicks kicked up a sandstorm. His strikes were simple, yet brutal and effective with an


    imposing aura.


    Although the White Boar Gu was gone, the strength it gave to Fang Yuan still remained in his body.


    Endless monkeys were hit by Fang Yuan. Some were kicked away, knocking on the stone pir; some


    were killed in midair, turning into stone and breaking into fragments when theynded on the ground.


    At the same time, with a flick of his wrist, Fang Yuan sent moondes flying around, like the scythe of


    the reaper, harvesting the lives of the stone monkeys.


    With the supply of red steel primeval essence, the Rank one Moonlight Gu could cause the greatest


    attack damage to the monkeys with every hit.


    Squeak squeak…


    The stone monkeys screamed in fright, retreating.


    Fang Yuan had exterminated the stone monkeys in a short moment of counterattack, with only five or


    six remaining.


    Fang Yuan killed another, and the remaining stone monkeys broke down, frantically running around


    and escaping deep into the stone forest.


    Fang Yuan did not chase these escapees, but continued forwards deeper into the stone forest.


    These days, he had been working hard to find the next clue for the inheritance. With continuous


    exploring, he had stepped foot on most of the areas around the stone forest, but did not find anything.


    He had a hunch, vaguely guessing the Flower Wine Monk’s idea. He felt that the next step of the


    inheritance was likely linked to the most central area of the stone forest.


    The deeper he got into the forest, therger the stone pirs were, and the more stone monkeys lived


    inside them.


    Fang Yuan walked as he observed — at the center of the stone forest, there was arge stone pir. Its


    circumference was wider than tens of men surrounding it and attempting to hug it.


    This stone pir was his objective.


    But, the deeper he got, therger the monkey gangs, and the higher the difficulty.


    Fang Yuan took a crucial step out and entered the alert zone of a group of monkeys.


    Squeak squeak squeak!


    The ck caves in the stone pir had emerging furious jade eye stone monkeys, and up to a hundred


    jumped in Fang Yuan’s direction.


    Fang Yuan ran for his life.


    Against so many monkeys, even with the White Jade Gu, he could not massacre them.


    The stone monkeys chased Fang Yuan for a while, then some started to abandon the chase and turned


    around, going back to their caves. Eventually, only thirty or so monkeys trailed after Fang Yuan.


    Fang Yuan seeing the time was right, turned around and fought.


    After a round of fighting, thest few monkeys ran and escaped, not even daring to return to their


    original caves.


    After a few rounds, Fang Yuan killed over a hundred stone monkeys. On the road there were traces of


    broken stones from the corpses of the stone monkeys.


    “Insufficient primeval essence.” Fang Yuan inspected his primeval sea and sighed, forced to stop in his


    tracks.


    If it was before, he would use his primeval stones to recover swiftly, but now, after fusing the White


    Jade Gu, he had a severeck of primeval stones, or rather his entire finance was on the brink of


    copsing.


    Fang Yuan picked up the jade rock eyeballs and stuffed them into his bag.


    “It should be at the bottom of the center of that rock pir. But to reach there, I have to open a path.”


    This feeling was getting more intense, Fang Yuan gave it onest look before opening the stone door


    and returning to the second secret room.


    At the corner of the hidden room, there were some items.


    A small bag with hundreds of eyeball jades. Fang Yuan opened the bag and poured his loot in from


    today.


    The jade pearls collided with one another, emitting a crisp sound.


    There was another bag, and wild boar tusks were inside. But now Fang Yuan no longer needed to


    ughter wild boars.


    He used the White Boar Gu and the Jade Skin Gu to refine the White Jade Gu. The White Boar Gu had


    disappeared, and reduced his necessity for pork to 0.


    The new White Jade Gu was more like the Jade Skin Gu, it consumed jade rocks.


    Jade Skin Gu needed two liang of jade rocks every ten days. While the White Jade Gu needed eight


    liang of jade rocks every twenty days.


    Normally speaking, the higher the rank, the longer interval there is for each meal. Rank two Gu usually


    feed every half a month, while Rank three Gu feed every month, or longer.


    Of course, higher ranking Gu also consume more food. On average, the White Jade Gu consumed


    more in cost than the Jade Skin Gu and the White Boar Gubined.


    But to Fang Yuan, he had this rock forest and did notck jade rocks. At the same time he did not need


    pork, so he did not need to kill wild boars, thus this saved him a lot of trouble and a lot of time.


    Tying the little bag up, Fang Yuan picked up a bullskin water sack.


    Inside the water sack, there was golden honey wine inside. A few days ago, Fang Yuan had relied on


    the Jade Skin Gu and endured the bees’ attacks, and gathered enough honey wine.


    “I only have two and a half primeval stones left, it is time to go to the internal affairs hall and turn in the


    mission.”


    Fang Yuan kept the water sack well and returned to the tunnel, squeezing out of the rock crack and


    returning to the outside world.


    It was sunset now.


    The golden sunset of winter was in fact not cold, the weather bright and fair. The setting sun emerged


    withfortable rays of a red-orange colour, the exquisite sunlight passing through the crown of pine


    trees and shining onto the mountain floor.


    Walking alone, he headed towards the vige.


    Yet Fang Yuan did not go directly, but took a few reroutes to prevent the rock crack from being found


    out.


    Winter wind blew on his face, this was the smell of freedom.


    Back in the academy, he could only sneak out at night. Now that he was Rank two, he could move


    about freely in the day without any suspicion.


    More importantly, the death of sickly snake and the others allowed Fang Yuan to move alone with fewer


    restraints.


    The only thing is, Fang Yuan was now alone without any supporting group members. The following n


    mission which urs monthly, he had toplete one at least, and that would be difficult.


    Now, after the small beast horde, all the groups had regrouped. Fang Yuan had missed the chance.


    Because of his reputation, Fang Yuan was also ostracized by the Gu Masters. Joining other small


    groups was not going to be easy.


    “So what if I’m left out, the more I float around at the brink, the less attention is on me, and the more


    advantageous it is for me. As for the n mission, it is mandatory so I have to take it. But….”


    Thinking of this, Fang Yuan’s eyes shone with cold light, he had ns already.


    The n mandates that every Gu Master had to ept a mission every month, but did not force them


    toplete it.


    Being unable toplete the mission will result in falling evaluation. This was something no Gu Master


    wanted to see, thus they did their all toplete the missions.


    But to Fang Yuan, this evaluation was crap!


    Walking into the vige, there was an endless stream of people walking along the limestone paths of


    the streets.


    At this time, it is normally the peak period.


    Many Gu Mastersplete their missions with injuries and whatnot, returning to the vige. After


    working for a day, farmers drag their muddy feet and tired bodies, quietly moving along.


    In this world, living was not easy, it was full of pain and suffering.


    The setting sun slowly dropped below the mountain top, giving out thest ray of warm light. This light


    would be diminished by the unevenly criss-crossed branches of the withering trees, bing the


    fragments of time scattered upon the green jade walls of bamboo houses.


    “Oh no, my toy,” a girl cried out, chasing her spinning top among the crowd.


    The spinning top rolled to Fang Yuan’s feet, and the girl also hit Fang Yuan’s leg, falling on the ground.


    “Sorry, sorry! For offending lord Gu Master, please pardon us!” The little girl’s father hurried over. When


    he saw Fang Yuan’s clothing, his expression was white as paper, bringing the little girl and kneeling


    down, kowtowing to Fang Yuan.


    The girl cried out of shock, pearls of tears trailing down her white and rosy face.


    The walking mortals upon seeing this scene, turned away and avoided them like the gue.


    Some Gu Masters stared coldly, before turning away and leaving.


    “Stop crying, you troublemaker!” The father was frightened, angry and afraid, moving his hand to give


    her a p, but Fang Yuan grabbed his hand, not allowing any movement.


    “Just a small matter, no worries.” Fang Yuanughed lightly, touching the little girl’s head, softly


    consoling, “Don’t be afraid, it is okay.”


    The girl stopped crying, using her teary eyes to look at Fang Yuan, thinking this big brother was really


    gentle.


    “Thank you lord, thank you lord for your kindness!” The girl’s father was overjoyed, kowtowing to Fang


    Yuan without a break.


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    Fang Yuan continued forward.


    His rented house was not far away.


    And on the ground floor of that bamboo house, his uncle Gu Yue Dong Tu stood, staring at Fang Yuan


    who was still a distance away, evidently waiting for him.