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.

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 three pieces of primeval stones. These

arrogant, but towards people like Fang Yuan, he was very kind and

secretly as 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, the final cost should not be more than one and a half primeval

It should be first come first serve, why leave

we all came early. If you want to do business you should know the

three pieces, here’s the primeval stones, give me

all worried when they heard that the store only had seven puppets left. They stopped trying to negotiate, and took out their

quickly, seven satisfied

puppet?” Jiang Ya laughed as he asked, “It seems like they were sold out, but actually there’s still the eighth puppet stowed away

head and pulled out a piece of primeval stone, putting it on the counter. “I want to buy ten moon orchid

He looked Fang Yuan deep in the 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

the goods on the spot and found

to be

Master refines Gu, uses Gu, and at the same time needs to raise

Gu is difficult; there is the risk of counterattack. Using a Gu is not easy; one needs a lot of practice. The knowledge of raising a Gu is even more extensive and profound, because there are all kinds of Gu worms and their food are exceedingly strange. Some need to swallow soil, some need starlight, some require

In the morning and night one meal, every meal two pieces of flower petals. Meanwhile for the Liquor worm, it needs to drink wine. A jar of green bamboo wine could

of Time supports the flow of this world. It is not far away in the sky but very

and colourless, while in reality all living creatures are actually surviving and living in the

also drink some turbid wine or rice wine to live. However with this kind of second-rate wine the amount it needed to drink would increase, and it would need

a familiar ease, “Give me a jar of green bamboo wine and make me a few good dishes. You don’t

though Fang Yuan no longer stayed at the inn right now ever since he moved to the academy dormitories, he would always have a meal here

The worker echoed, leading Fang Yuan to his seat. He took the cloth on top of his

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, and it can support the Liquor worm for four days. In other words just to raise and feed the two of these Gu, I would need to spend nearly

used up one piece of primeval stone. From the starting

also got the 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

bag contained pieces of primeval stones inside. Each of these stones were greyish white in colour, their shapes ellipsoid and the volumes equal, the size similar

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

think of a way

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

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

the sealed green bamboo wine jar, Fang Yuan lifted

sir, young sir.” The inn worker chased after him from behind and said, “Just to tell young sir something, but in less than a month the trading company will arrive to the 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 we sell it to the trading

The shop worker and the young Gu Master Jiang Ya spoke with similar meaning, however

and he needed a huge amount of green bamboo wine in the long run. If

a while people would be suspicious. After thinking about it, Fang Yuan took out ten pieces of primeval

young sir.” The worker immediately accepted the primeval

only last for five days without any special storage means, so Fang Yuan would only buy a bag every time.