Gu Daoist Master

Chapter 23 – Raising a Gu is like raising a mistress

The sun had already set.

The sunset glow was still burning in the sky. The mountains far away in the distance were covered in a thick layer of grey ash, gradually turning to black.

In the academy, a day’s class was over. The students walked out from the academy in groups of twos and threes.

“I’m really happy today, I learnt quite a few things. Especially how I got to learn how to use the Moonlight Gu.”

“The way the moonblade flies in the air looks so cool. It’s too bad that my talent isn’t enough, so in the future I can only be a logistics Gu Master, I won’t be able to go onto the battlefield.” The young teenagers happily chatted away.

A few of them called their friends over.

“Let’s go and eat, we can drink some rice wine while we’re at it, what do you think?”

“Sure, that’s not a bad suggestion.”

“You guys go on first, I need to go to the store beside the academy’s Gu room and buy a grass puppet. It will be easy to practice at home with it.”

Fang Yuan went to the Gu room alone.

The academy’s Gu room kept quite a few Rank one Gu worms. There were many types and variations, and Fang Yuan’s Moonlight Gu was taken freely from inside.

Once in a while the students would have a free chance to pick a Gu worm. If one wanted to get extra Gu, they would need to pay up.

In this short time Fang Yuan had no wish to refine any other Gu. He walked to the building beside the Gu room – it was a small store.

In the store there were seven students, each of them negotiating over the counter with the store owner for buying grass puppets.

“It’s you, junior.” The Rank one Gu Master responsible for the store was in his twenties. When he saw Fang Yuan, he automatically greeted him while bargaining with his customers.

Fang Yuan was taken by surprise, finding out that this Gu Master was Jiang Ya. It was the young Gu Master that had taught the hunters a lesson in the inn.

“Ah, it’s you senior.” Fang Yuan nodded his head, his face expressionless.

same time he threw Fang Yuan a friendly smile and asked, “Did junior brother come here to buy a grass puppet as well? If you want me to leave one for you, you just need

attitude towards mortals was arrogant, but towards people like Fang Yuan, he

he thought, this Jiang Ya really did know how to do business. The grass puppets were made with the Scarecrow Gu. Even after including the primeval essence that was put in,

fair. It should be first come

came early. If you want to do business you should know

here’s the primeval stones, give

heard that the store only had

quickly, seven satisfied

junior want to buy a grass puppet?” Jiang Ya laughed as he asked, “It seems like they were sold out, but actually there’s still the eighth puppet stowed away below the chest.

head and pulled out a piece of primeval stone,

eye, taking away the primeval stone and pulling open the counter drawer. Then he took out a paper bag, saying, “Ten pieces of moon orchid flower petals, not one

spot and found no mistake with it. Finally he left the small

have to be

Gu, and at the same time needs to

Gu is even more extensive and profound, because there are all kinds of Gu worms and their food are exceedingly strange. Some

flower petals. Meanwhile for the Liquor worm, it needs to

the flow of this world. It is not far away in the sky but very near at

is invisible and colourless, while in reality all living creatures are actually surviving and living in the waters of the

wine to live. However with this kind of second-rate wine the amount it needed to drink would increase, and it would need many jars everyday. After calculating, Fang Yuan decided it would be better to buy green bamboo wine straight away.

me a jar of green bamboo wine and make me a few good dishes. You don’t need to give me the change, just put it here first. At

he moved to the academy dormitories, he would always have a meal here when

Yuan to his seat. He took the cloth on top of his shoulder and gently wiped the table before

same time in his mind, “A piece of primeval stone can buy me ten pieces of flower petals. The Moonlight Gu consumed four pieces everyday. A jar of green bamboo wine costs two pieces of stones,

family of three only used up one piece of primeval stone. From the starting of refining the Gu until today, sixteen days had

first place reward. My primeval stone assets once reached up to forty-four pieces and a half. However in the early days of refining the Gu

of primeval stones inside. Each of these stones were

found that he really only had twenty pieces left. In other words if this continued on then Fang Yuan would only be able to go on for half a month with the remaining stones he had left. He was not like his peers – they had relatives and friends to help them out, especially with the case of students like Gu Yue Mo Bei and Gu Yue Chi Cheng

only think of a way

out three pieces of primeval stones as subsidy to every student. Looks like I would need

was just at the age where the body was growing. Without realizing it all the

Yuan lifted his feet and started

village. By convention they would always buy the green bamboo wine in our shop. Young sir loves our green bamboo wine and always buys a few jars every week, so the innkeeper ordered me to tell young sir about this matter. The green bamboo wine in our store has limited supply, so after

news, he frowned slightly. To know someone and tell apart the conversation, Fang Yuan had five hundred years of experience. The shop worker and the young Gu Master Jiang Ya spoke with similar meaning, however Fang Yuan could

needed a huge amount of green bamboo wine in the long run. If this inn ran out of stock then he would have to use huge amounts

would be suspicious. After thinking about it, Fang Yuan took out ten pieces of primeval stones and said, “Then I’ll buy another five jars.

sir.” The worker immediately accepted the primeval

special storage means, so Fang Yuan would only buy a bag every time. However the green bamboo wine could be kept for a very long time, thus