A day later.
On the bed, Fang Yuan sat cross-legged.
A huge ball of white light floated an arm's length away from his face, quietly floating in mid-air.
Fang Yuan took out pieces of Yuan stone from his money bag and threw them into the ball of light.
The white light slowly shrunk, but became more and more dazzling.
When it shrunk to the size of a fist, the white light became blinding, causing Fang Yuan to squint his eyes to observe.
"This should be the last one." Fang Yuan held the Yuan stone in his hand, knowing it was a crucial moment.
He threw the Yuan stone into the ball of light.
Vaguely, the Yuan stone could be seen floating in the ball of light, like ice falling into boiling water, continuously melting.
Large amounts of stone powder fell down.
The Yuan stone completely disappeared, and the ball of light suddenly exploded!
With a soft sound, the three Gu worms shot out in three different directions. One fell on the bed, while the other two hit the wall and fell to the floor.
The fusion of the Moonlight Gu failed!
Fang Yuan's heart sank. He quickly hooked his finger and recalled the Gu worms.
The Moonlight Gu and the Little Light Gu swayed and floated up, slowly flying into his hand. But the remaining Little Light Gu did not respond.
It lay quietly on the floor, its milky white star-shaped body beginning to gradually dissipate into the air.
In a few breaths' time, it completely dissipated, leaving no trace behind.
This was the price of a fusion failure — depending on the fusion recipe, the Gu worm would be injured. When luck was bad. The Gu worm would die immediately.
Even with Fang Yuan's rich experience, single-mindedness, and the correct recipe, there was still a chance of failure.
Fang Yuan was not discouraged, he had seen this kind of thing many times. He had done his best, but still failed. That could only be attributed to luck.
"But fortunately. If it wasn't for the Moonlight Gu dying, the Little Light Gu dying, I could still buy it from the shop. It's easy to replenish. If the Moonlight Gu dies, I can't easily replenish it. "He was quite rich now, losing a Little Light Gu. He could just buy it again.
Next, Fang Yuan checked the Moonlight Gu and the remaining Little Light Gu. On the surface of the two Gu, there was no light. This was a sign that the refinement had failed and the Gu worm itself was damaged.
"Once the Gu worm is injured, the success rate of the fusion will decrease. It's better to wait for these two Gu worms to recover before continuing the fusion. "Fang Yuan knew that haste makes waste, so he kept the two Gu worms.
He estimated that it would take at least three days before he could start the fusion again.
The cultivation was not over yet.
Fang Yuan opened his right hand.
His left hand was fair, and his palm was white. There was a green imprint of a blade of grass, which looked like a dark green tattoo.
With a thought, the primeval essence in Fang Yuan's aperture flowed out like a faint red mist into the imprint along his arm.
The green mark immediately came to life. The tip of the grass emerged from Fang Yuan's palm, followed by nine jade-green round leaves, and finally the translucent stem of the grass. As for the roots that looked like ginseng roots, they were not exposed.
On his palm, the dark green tattoo had already disappeared. Only traces of dark green lines were left. It represented the grass root, intersecting with Fang Yuan's palm lines.
It was the Rank two grass Gu — Nine Leaf Vitality Grass.
At this moment, Fang Yuan's palm was like a piece of land, and the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass was growing on it, like an exquisite piece of art carved from jade.
Fang Yuan stretched out his right hand and plucked the blades of grass.
Every time he plucked a blade of grass, Fang Yuan would feel a slight pain, like a strand of hair being plucked.
After the nine leaves were plucked, Fang Yuan placed them on the bed, and the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass in his palm was left with a bare stem.
Fang Yuan continued to activate his primeval essence. Faint red Rank two primeval essence continuously rose from his palm, like a mist, wrapping around the green stem.
The stem continued to absorb the primeval essence, and gradually, a tender sprout emerged from the bottom of the stem.
This tender sprout was pinkish-green in color, delicate and small, and extremely fragile, breaking with a pinch.
Fang Yuan continued to activate his primeval essence, and the tender sprout gradually grew bigger, its color also becoming darker. Finally, it grew into a dark green, fully matured leaf.
"Twenty percent primeval essence was consumed." Fang Yuan inspected his aperture and concluded.
He only had 44 percent primeval essence, which meant that he could only grow two vitality grass leaves in one go.
After growing one more, Fang Yuan held a Yuan stone and quickly recovered the primeval essence in his aperture.
When his primeval essence sea rose to 40 percent, he continued to grow vitality grass leaves.
Repeating this cycle for half a day, the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass was once again filled with nine blades of grass.
He no longer plucked the leaves, and with a thought, the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass returned to his left palm, turning into a green mark.
He stored the nine vitality leaves in a small bag and kept it close to his body.
One vitality leaf was a Rank one Gu worm, and each leaf could be sold for fifty Yuan stone. That is to say, just these nine leaves Gu could allow Fang Yuan to earn four hundred and fifty Yuan stone.
Of course, Fang Yuan had a cost to grow them. But even if he did not count these costs, Fang Yuan had earned over four hundred Yuan stone!
Among all the family properties, the most valuable one was the Nine Leaves Vitality Grass. Controlling it was equivalent to controlling a gold mine! Moreover, this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass had an advantage, it was easy to feed. It only needed water and sunlight to survive, thus there was almost no cost to feed it.
To Fang Yuan, he could give up all the family assets, but this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, he had to hold it firmly in his hands!
Of course, this Nine Leaf Vitality Grass Gu was not just owned by Fang Yuan alone. In the village, there were also several people who had this grass Gu.
There were even five Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, which were the family's collective assets. Every day, there were specialized logistics Gu Masters carrying out production tasks, taking turns to grow large amounts of vitality leaves.
To Fang Yuan, this was a good thing.
If he was the only one with the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass. Then the clan would definitely act and purchase this grass Gu. Just like how Guyue Qing Shu represented the clan to purchase his Liquor worm.
Rare Gu worms like the Liquor worm, Black and White Boar Gu, Nine Leaf Vitality Grass, the higher-ups of the clan hoped to control them, to serve the entire clan.
Three days later.
A ball of light suddenly exploded under Fang Yuan's gaze, and a brand new Gu worm floated in the air.
It was crystal clear. It was curved like a moon, like a blue crystal. In short, it was the Moonlight Gu. The form after its body was enlarged by one fold.
But it was not the Moonlight Gu, but a higher grade, the Rank two Moonglow Gu.
This time. Fang Yuan succeeded in the fusion.
The Moonglow Gu was refined from a Moonlight Gu and two Little Light Gu. One Little Light Gu could increase the moonblade's attack power by one fold. Two Little Light Gu would still increase it by one fold, and this increase could not be stacked.
But the Rank two Moonglow Gu's attack power was three times that of the Moonlight Gu!
Actually, there were many fusion recipes for the Moonlight Gu, and there were also many advancement routes.
The route that Fang Yuan took was to increase the moonblade's attack power to the maximum. The moonblade's attack range was still ten meters, and did not increase.
There was one route. It was to use the Moonlight Gu and Scar Stone Gu to fuse. The fused Moonlight Scar Gu's attack power did not change, but the attack range would double, reaching twenty meters.
There was another common route, and that was to use the Moonlight Gu and Whirlwind Gu to fuse. To refine the Moonwhirl Gu. Once used, the moonblade would turn from blue to green, and at the same time, the attack would change from a straight line to a curved line. Guyue Qing Shu took this route.
As for Guyue Fangzheng, he used the Moonlight Gu and Jade Skin Gu to fuse to refine the Moon Raiment. This was a relatively rare route, and the highest it could reach was Rank five. Complete the treasure Moonlight King Gu.
However, having a Rank five recipe did not mean that one would definitely be able to refine a Rank five Gu.
Many Rank five Gu Masters did not even have a single Rank five Gu on them.
The biggest reason for this awkward situation was not the lack of materials, but the success rate.
Fusing Gu was not a hundred percent success rate. The higher the level of the Gu, the lower the success rate. In Fang Yuan's previous life, when he refined the Spring Autumn Cicada, the success rate was less than one percent, and he failed countless times. Sometimes, he was lucky, and fewer Gu died. Sometimes, he was unlucky, and all his Gu died.
To refine a Rank six Spring Autumn Cicada, he needed Rank five Gu. Once these Gu died, it was as if all the hard work that Fang Yuan had put in would be for naught, turning into bubbles and vanishing.
Fang Yuan failed again and again, and had to start all over again, refine again and again, collecting Gu worms and special materials. In the end, he caused a huge commotion, causing the heavens to be angry and the people to be disheartened, and corpses floated in the sea of blood.
His luck was good, and he succeeded in the refinement, obtaining the Spring Autumn Cicada.
But once he got this Rank six Gu, he was attacked by the righteous people who had been coveting it, and before he could even warm up the treasure, he self-destructed.
For thousands of years, it was this terrible failure rate that caused countless high ranked Gu Masters to fail at the last moment, and return to their original state.
There was only one way to slightly restrain this failure rate.
That was —
Vital Gu.
No matter if the fusion result was a success or failure. A Gu Master's vital Gu would not die, at most it would be injured.
Why was it like this?
Many people guessed that it was because the vital Gu was a Gu Master's first Gu worm, and was intertwined with the Gu Master's life, forming a mysterious life connection.
As long as the Gu Master was still alive, after the vital Gu failed the fusion, it would at most be in a dying state.
Of course, the other Gu worms that were fused with the vital Gu still had the possibility of dying.
But even so, a portion of the Gu Master's results could be preserved and accumulated.
The vital Gu was a Gu Master's greatest wealth and reliance. What the vital Gu was, would greatly affect the Gu Master's development. Conversely, the Gu Master would also actively search for and discover recipes to raise the level of the vital Gu.
Some Rank two, Rank three low level recipes, to the Gu Master, would instead reduce their development prospects.
When Fang Yuan found out that the Spring Autumn Cicada had become his vital Gu, why was he so happy?
The reason was this.
The Spring Autumn Cicada was a rare and precious Gu worm, able to revive people, and its ability was heaven-defying. No matter how it was refined, it would not die. If it was in Fang Yuan's previous life, the Spring Autumn Cicada was not his vital Gu, and if he continued to refine it, there would be the danger of dying.
The Spring Autumn Cicada reaching Rank six was already an achievement that most Gu Masters could not reach in their lifetime. Many Gu Masters did not even have a Rank six recipe, and were bitterly searching for it!
Although the Spring Autumn Cicada could not be used to its full potential, it was his greatest treasure. The Flower Wine Monk's strength inheritance, compared to it, was like the difference between heaven and earth.
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