Chapter 187: There exists one river of time, and the Spring Autumn Cicada acts as the crossing boat
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The Water Curtain Skyflower Gu was a Rank four Gu. Once used, it would turn into a giant spherical
water shield. The defensive strength of the shield was extremely good and it could even resist attacks
from Rank five Gu. However, it had a big weakness; it couldn’t be moved and couldn’t be stopped. The
water shield isted the inside and outside world, so even the owner couldn’t freely enter or exit. Thus,
this was used by many forces to protect their territories.
Fang Yuan was not familiar with Spring Autumn Cicada.
In his previous life, he died by the besiegement of the righteous path after just having seeded in
refining the Spring Autumn Cicada; he simply didn’t have the time to experiment with it. Also, Spring
Autumn Cicada wasn’t his vital Gu at the time and this characteristic hadn’t revealed itself.
In this life, his cultivation was still low, so he didn’t dare to randomly let out the Spring Autumn Cicada.
Spring Autumn Cicada was ssified as one of the most unusual Gu and was extremely mysterious.
The records of the insights and experiences of its users had never been spread.
Furthermore, once a Gu reaches Rank six and above, they be the only one of their type in the
whole world. If someone wanted to refine them, they would only have a probability of sess after the
previous Gu died, otherwise it was a hundred percent failure.
Thus, this led to Fang Yuan knowing about this characteristic only now.
“Rebirth isn’t an easy thing, the Spring and Autumn conceals disaster. Spring Autumn Cicada’s
recovery speed is increasing more and more, and even the cultivation speed of an A grade aptitude
with a sea of resources might not be able to match its speed. Their aperture will sooner orter explode
under the pressure of Spring Autumn Cicada!”
Fang Yuan clenched his teeth.
Rebirth was beautiful but possessing Spring Autumn Cicada was equivalent to having half a ten
extreme aptitude. It was like being under the execution post where you could be executed at any
moment!
“If I can’t let Spring Autumn Cicada out, then does that mean I can only use it to rebirth again?” Fang
Yuan’s frowns deepened.
This appeared to be the only way. A rebirth would mean Spring Autumn Cicada would enter a weak
state again, and at the same time, Fang Yuan could escape from this dangerous situation.
This situation seemed to be perfect, but it contained many problems and huge dangers.
First of all, there was no guarantee of the rebirth being sessful.
Fang Yuan had gone through rebirth once and he was only able to bring back his valuable experience.
He came to an understanding by integrating the Earth’s concept: The world is a three-dimensional
space and time is an axis connecting the past and present. Without time, space would be stationary.
The movements of every matter was a process, signifying the consumption of time.
There were no parallel dimensions in a world. Using the Spring Autumn Cicada to be reborn was to
step across from thetter half of the time axis (future) to some point in the first half (past).
However, Fang Yuan’s aged body in the ‘future’ didn’t exist in the ‘past’.
Due to the restrictions from the great dao of the world, his body couldn’t be brought over to the past,
and could only self-detonate. The energy from the self-detonation was a propulsion force and the
fragment of thews of time in Spring Autumn Cicada was like a lone boat which carried Fang Yuan’s
consciousness from ‘future’ to be reborn into the ‘past’.
Consciousness wasn’t a physical matter like a body. Strictly speaking, this ‘future’ consciousness too,
didn’t exist in the ‘past’.
The ingenuity was contained therein!
‘Future’ consciousness led to the Gu Master changing himself, and thereby influencing his
surroundings. This influence would gradually extend to the whole world; this was the butterfly effect.
When the butterfly effect took ce, the world would no longer be the same, causing the existence of
the ‘future’ consciousness to receive the approval of the great dao of the world.
Someone had said that history was like a long river, and a change in an event in the upstream would
completely change the downstream.
This mystical world of Gu was like the water in the long river. Almost everyone could only flow along
with the stream and go from upstream to downstream. Fang Yuan’s consciousness, however, went
against the stream, going from downstream to upstream by relying on Spring Autumn Cicada.
When he made changes in the upstream, there would also be changes in the downstream. But the river
was still the same river; the world of Gu Masters was still the world of Gu Masters. It was just that
history had turned into another corner, bringing another possibility to the equation.
This analogy could be easily understood.
However, Spring Autumn Cicada hadn’t recoveredpletely. It was like a leaky, worn-out boat right
now.
Fang Yuan’s cultivation was also only Rank three initial stage. There would be an unimaginable
difference between the propulsion force of his self-detonation now from the self-detonation of his Rank
six cultivation in his previous life. With such a minute force, he simply wouldn’t be able to push the
Spring Autumn Cicada, let alone flow against the long river of time.
“I probably won’t seed by trying to rebirth through self-detonation. Who is to say that the broken
boat won’t be stranded in the long river? And if that happens, my consciousness and memories will be
ruthlessly washed away by time. To raise the probability of sess, it would be best to wait until the
aperture is pushed to the limits, stall for time as much as possible and let Spring Autumn Cicada
recover more, decreasing the holes in the worn-out boat. At the same time, increasing my cultivation
will provide higher propulsive force to go against the stream, after self-detonation.” Fang Yuan heaved
a long sigh.
This change in the Spring Autumn Cicada was beyond his anticipation. But with his ever cautious
nature, he had a n ready.
The blood bat group was nearing. Fang Yuan, however, had his attention in his aperture.
Yellow-green rays of light flooded his aperture. His white silver primeval sea was as still as a mirror
under the majestic aura of Spring Autumn Cicada, but there were dangerous cracks in the light
membrane of his aperture.
All the other Gu had been suppressed down to the depths of the sea by Spring Autumn Cicada’s aura.
Fang Yuan sent his will and a Gu slowly flew towards the surface of the sea, resisting the pressure.
This Gu appeared like a square dice; it was gray and very firm.
This was one of the Gu that Fang Yuan had plundered from Bai Ning Bing.
It was a one-time use Gu, and would disappear once used. But its effects were extraordinary, and once
used it wouldpletely extract all the strength and potential in a Gu Master’s aperture and instantly
raise a Gu Master’s cultivation to the peak stage of the same rank.
“Stone Aperture Gu, explode.”
Fang Yuan willed it; the Stone Aperture Gu immediately exploded, changing into grey powders just like
the smoke from a cigarette, and pervaded the primeval sea.
The aperture’s walls were originally a light membrane, but once this grey powder touched it, the light
immediately dimmed down. The powder stuck to the light membrane and the light membrane gradually
thickened, experiencing a qualitative change from light to stony.
After several seconds, Fang Yuan’s aperture walls had thickened by several times and changed into a
heavy, sturdy stone aperture.
The yellow-green radiance of Spring Autumn Cicada still fluctuated continuously, but the aperture could
now support its pressure.
Fang Yuan was at Rank three initial stage with light silver primeval essence, and his primeval sea
shone with light silver light. But right now, his cultivation experienced a sudden rise, leaping from Rank
three initial stage to Rank three peak stage, possessing snow silver primeval essence!
“Using the Stone Aperture Gu means cutting off one’s advancement route and using up all the potential
within the aperture; it will be very difficult to step to Rank four. But, my cultivation has increased and the
aperture has turned into stone walls, which is multiple times thicker and firmer than before, and will be
able to support the pressure from Spring Autumn Cicada for the time being! Using the Stone Aperture
Gu should have been Bai Ning Bing’s response to the limits of Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique.
Unfortunately, the Ten Extreme Aptitudes are much more troublesome than the Spring Autumn Cicada.
Their potential is endless and even by turning one’s aperture into stone, the aperture walls will quickly
recover.”
At this second, the dewing blood bat group pounced in for the kill.
Fang Yuan gave a cold snort, then took out his Chainsaw Golden Centipede and killed as he retreated.
Fortunately, this tunnel was narrow, and with the Sky Canopy Gu’s defense and the Chainsaw Golden
Centipede’s wide body, Fang Yuan was able to block the blood bat group and stop them from
surrounding him.
This greatly reduced their threat.
For a moment, there were only continuous ringing sounds within the tunnel.
The sounds of Chainsaw Golden Centipede’s attacks and the sound of dewing blood bats smashing
into the white armor, quickly echoed through the tunnel walls and formed into a medley.
The primeval essence in Fang Yuan’s aperture continued to deplete rapidly.
There were close to a hundred blood bats, but without a Gu Master there to control them, there were a
lot of internal frictions between the bats and they couldn’t form a tacit cooperation. Thus, in reality,
Fang Yuan only needed to deal with 30-40 blood bats at the same time.
But even this number wasn’t something he could withstand, and he had to retreat while fighting back.
What was even more awkward was that even though he had leaped to Rank three peak stage, his
aperture still contained the initial stage light silver primeval essence. Just by relying on his C grade
aptitude, the self-production speed of snow silver primeval essence was way too slow. The current
situation also didn’t allow Fang Yuan to multitask and take out primeval stones to absorb natural
primeval essence.
Consuming primeval stones could quickly recover primeval essence, but this method wasn’t suitable in
a real battle.
Distracting oneself in a life and death battle was asking for humiliation; it was an extremely stupid move
and was akin to courting death. At the same time, the efficiency in absorbing natural primeval essence
at such a situation was also very low.
This way could only be used during normal cultivation, or to exploit short gaps in battles to quickly
recover primeval essence.
Luckily, Fang Yuan obtained a grass gu not long ago: Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus.
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Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus could produce primeval stones; it was very precious and rare. But in
fact, this effect was only an expression of its innate ability.
Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus was also called ‘portable spirit spring’ and its innate ability was to
produce natural primeval essence. The primeval essence would then condense together to form
primeval stones.
The Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus that Fang Yuan possessed was lying deep in his primeval sea;
it appeared like an extremely small spirit spring.
Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus’s recipe was created by Immortal Venerable Genesis Lotus.
Only the Gu Masters who have reached Rank nine were respected as venerables. For righteous path,
they were called Immortal Venerables; and for demonic path, they were called Demonic Venerables.
Immortal Venerable Genesis Lotus was also known as the the person with the fastest primeval essence
recovery speed since the ancient times. In this aspect, he was above other immortal venerables and
demonic venerables, and it was all because of the Essence Lotus!
Fang Yuan’s Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus was only a Rank three and he had just refined it, so it
was at its poorest level. But it was already providing a continuous supply of natural primeval essence to
Fang Yuan.
The moment this natural primeval essence appeared in Fang Yuan’s aperture, it would be automatically
refined and turned into snow silver primeval essence.
Supposedly if Fang Yuan absorbed primeval essence from primeval stones, he would still have to
divide a part of his mind. But this Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus was his Gu, so using it was as
simple and easy as moving his fingers!
Fang Yuan retreated while fighting, and with the assistance of Heavenly Essence Treasure Lotus, his
primeval essence recovery speed could already beparable with B grade aptitude Gu Masters.
“Kill!”
He gave a fierce shout before abruptly changing his battle style and charging into the blood bat group.
Chainsaw Golden Centipede exploded forth, and its silver sawtooth crazily rotated around, producing
screeching sounds as it cut down on a dewing blood bat hiding in the rear.
This blood bat appeared rather simr to other blood bats, albeit looking a bit more dominant. This was
the sole male bat in this blood bat group, and was refined by the first gen Gu Yue. By controlling it, one
could indirectly gain control of the whole blood bat group.
Fang Yuan had been secretly nning this attack after careful observation, and made this attack
appear unintentional. With the Gu Yue first head not present on the scene, this attack was very
effective.
The male bat died on the spot, twisting into a bloody pulp.
The remaining female bats immediately scattered!