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.

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 things sell

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

made with the Scarecrow Gu. Even after including the primeval essence that

first

you want to do business you should

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

when they heard that the store only had seven puppets

quickly, seven satisfied teenagers

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

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

stone and pulling open the counter drawer. Then he took out a paper bag,

checked the goods on the spot and found no mistake with it. Finally he

have to

Gu, uses Gu, and at the same time

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 tears and some feed on the clouds and air from the nine

Meanwhile for the Liquor worm, it needs to drink wine. A jar of green bamboo wine could support it for four days. As for the Spring Autumn Cicada,

flow of this world. It is not far away in the sky but very near at hand, flowing by every person’s side. Every move made by every living creature requires the

is like flowing water, hurriedly gliding forward. The River of Time is invisible and colourless, while in reality all living creatures are

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

Yuan. Fang Yuan passed him three pieces of primeval stones directly, saying with a familiar ease, “Give me a jar of green bamboo wine and make me a few good dishes. You don’t need to give me the change, just

stayed at the inn right now ever since he moved to the

Yuan to his seat. He took the cloth on

jar of green bamboo wine costs two pieces

this was very costly. The monthly living expenses for a mortal family of three only used up one piece of primeval stone. From

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 I wasted six pieces and a half, then I used fourteen pieces and a half on feeding these Gu. My living expenses cost half a piece, and today I am probably

out his money pouch. He opened it and looked inside. The bag contained pieces of primeval stones inside. Each of these stones

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

could only think of

but every weekend the clan academy would give out three pieces of primeval stones as subsidy to every student. Looks like I would need to show off in

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

jar, Fang Yuan lifted his feet

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

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 naturally tell

a huge amount of green bamboo wine in the long run. If this inn ran out of stock then

him to drink several jars a day. After a while people 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. I will need you to carry them for me

worker immediately accepted the

would only buy a bag every time. However the