The sun had set.
The sunset glow was still burning in the sky. Looking at the mountains in the distance, they were covered with a thick layer of ash that was slowly turning black.
In the academy, the day's lessons had ended. The students walked out in twos and threes.
"Today was really a happy day, I learned a lot of things. Especially learning how to use the Moonlight Gu. "
"The moonblade flying in the air is so cool. Too bad I don't have enough talent. In the future, I can only be a logistics Gu Master and can't go to the battlefield. "The youths talked with great interest.
Some people called their friends.
"Let's go eat together and drink some rice wine. How about it?"
"Okay, that's a good suggestion."
"You guys go first. I have to go to the shop near the academy's Gu room to buy a grass puppet so I can practice at home."
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Fang Yuan came to the Gu room alone.
The academy's Gu room stored many Rank one Gu worms of various types. Fang Yuan's Moonlight Gu was chosen from there for free.
Every once in a while, the students would have a chance to get a Gu worm for free. If they wanted to get additional Gu worms, they had to pay.
Fang Yuan did not have the intention to refine other Gu worms in the short term. He walked to the shop next to the Gu room. It was a small shop.
There were seven students in the shop, bargaining with the shop owner for grass puppets.
"It's junior brother." The Rank one Gu Master in charge of the shop was in his twenties. After seeing Fang Yuan, he did his business and took the initiative to greet Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan was surprised. This Gu Master was Jiang Ya. The young Gu Master who taught the hunters in the inn a lesson.
"Oh, it's senior." Fang Yuan nodded, his face expressionless.
Jiang Ya took out a grass puppet from the counter behind him and handed it to a student who was buying it. He smiled at Fang Yuan in a friendly manner and asked, "Junior, are you here to buy grass puppets too? Do I need to save one for you? Only three Yuan stone. This thing sells very fast. Now there are only seven left. If you wait any longer, there will be no more stock. "
He had an arrogant attitude towards mortals, but towards Fang Yuan and the others, he was very friendly.
Fang Yuan shook his head, laughing in his heart. This Jiang Ya really knows how to do business. The grass puppet was made from the Grass Man Gu. Including the input of primeval essence, the cost was only one and a half Yuan stone.
"Senior, that's not very nice of you. First come, first served. Why should we leave it for him? "
"That's right, we've been here for a long time. You have to follow the rules when doing business. "
"Three pieces it is. You can have the Yuan stone and I'll have the puppet."
When the youths in the shop heard that there were only seven puppets left, they became anxious. They stopped bargaining and took out their Yuan stone to buy the puppets.
Soon, the seven of them left with satisfaction.
"Junior Brother, do you want to buy a grass puppet?" Jiang Ya asked with a smile. "They said that they were just sold out, but there is actually an eighth one. If Junior Brother doesn't buy it, then you'll miss a good opportunity. "
Fang Yuan had no interest in the grass puppet. He shook his head and took out a Yuan stone, putting it on the counter. "I want to buy ten moon orchid petals."
Jiang Ya stared blankly at Fang Yuan. He took away the Yuan stone and pulled open the drawer of the counter. He took out a paper bag. "Ten moon orchid petals, not one less. You can count them."
Fang Yuan checked it in person. Finding that there were no mistakes, he left the small shop.
Gu worms need to be fed.
Gu Masters refine and use Gu, and at the same time, they also need to raise Gu.
Refining Gu is difficult, and there is the danger of backlash. Using Gu is not easy, and requires a lot of practice. The knowledge of raising Gu is even more extensive and profound. Because there are all kinds of Gu worms, their food is also different.
Some need to swallow soil, some need starlight, some need to drink tears, and some need to absorb the clouds of the nine heavens.
Take the three Gu worms that Fang Yuan had now for example. The Moonlight Gu needs to swallow moon orchid petals twice a day, one in the morning and one in the evening, and each meal has two petals. As for the Liquor worm, it needs to drink wine. A jar of green bamboo wine can support it for four days. The Spring Autumn Cicada is even more peculiar. It can directly drink water from the River of Time to maintain its vitality.
The River of Time supports the operation of this world. It is not far away in the sky, but close at hand, flowing by everyone's side.
Every action of all living beings requires the impetus of time.
Time is like flowing water, passing by quickly. The River of Time is invisible and colorless, and all living beings actually live and exist in the river of time.
After buying this bag of moon orchid petals, Fang Yuan went to the inn to buy green bamboo wine.
The Liquor worm can also drink some wine and rice wine to survive. But once it is this kind of inferior wine, the amount it drinks is huge, and it needs a few jars every day. Fang Yuan calculated, it is better to buy green bamboo wine directly. Not only is it more cost-effective than buying inferior wine, it will also not arouse suspicion.
"Young master, you are here." The inn's waiter already knew Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan directly threw three pieces of Yuan stone to him, and said with familiarity, "Give me a jar of green bamboo wine, and give me a few good dishes. No need for change, put it here first, and at the end of the month we will settle it all together, any overpayment will be refunded, any shortfall will be made up. "
Although he no longer lives in the inn, but moved to the school dormitory. But every time he buys wine, he will eat here.
"Okay. Young master, please sit here, the wine and dishes will be ready soon. "The waiter responded and led Fang Yuan to a seat. He took out the rag on his shoulder, politely wiped the table and stools, and then left.
As the waiter said, the wine and dishes were quickly served.
Fang Yuan ate while calculating in his heart, "One Yuan stone can buy ten petals, and the Moonlight Gu consumes four every day. One jar of green bamboo wine is worth two Yuan stone, and can support the Liquor worm for four days. That is to say, just feeding these two Gu will consume nearly one Yuan stone every day. "
This may seem small, but it is actually very expensive. For a mortal family of three, a month's living expenses are only one Yuan stone.
Since refining the Gu until now, it has been sixteen days. Just raising the Gu cost Fang Yuan 14.5 Yuan stones.
"I got the Flower Wine Inheritance, took away Fangzheng's bag of Yuan stones, and got the first prize. My Yuan stone assets were as high as 44.5 Yuan stones. But refining the Gu used 6.5 Yuan stones, feeding it took 14.5 Yuan stones, and half a Yuan stone for living expenses. Now I should be left with 20 Yuan stones. "
Fang Yuan took out his money bag and opened it. The bag was filled with pieces of Yuan stone.
These Yuan stones were grayish-white in color, each oval, the same volume, and the size of a duck's egg.
Counting, there were really only 20 Yuan stones left.
That is to say, without any income, the Yuan stone Fang Yuan had left was only enough for him to last for half a month. He was not like other people of the same age, who more or less had friends and relatives to help them. Especially students like Guyue Mobei and Guyue Cheng, there was no shortage of Yuan stone.
And Fang Yuan could only think of a way himself.
"Uncle and Aunt have already cut off my living expenses, but every weekend, the family academy will give out three Yuan stone as a subsidy to the students. Looks like I should perform well in the moonblade assessment three days later, and get the ten Yuan stone as a reward. "Fang Yuan chewed on his food as he thought.
At his age, his body was growing. Unknowingly, all the food had fallen into his stomach.
Picking up the unopened green bamboo wine, Fang Yuan lifted his feet and walked out of the inn.
"Young master, young master." The shop assistant behind him chased after him, "Let me tell young master something, in less than a month, there will be a caravan coming to the village. According to the usual practice, they will buy our green bamboo wine. Young master loves green bamboo wine, and will buy a few jars every week. The shopkeeper instructed me to tell young master about this. Our green bamboo wine is limited, and after selling it to the caravan, I'm afraid there won't be much left. "
"Is that so?" Fang Yuan heard this and frowned slightly.
Fang Yuan had five hundred years of experience in reading people and deciphering words. The shop assistant and the young Gu Master Jiang Ya said similar things, but Fang Yuan could naturally tell that Jiang Ya was lying, and the shop assistant was telling the truth.
This was a bit troublesome. Fang Yuan needed to feed the Liquor worm, and in the long run, the amount of green bamboo wine needed was very large.
If this inn was out of stock, he was afraid that in the future he would have to use a lot of inferior wine to feed the Liquor worm.
He could not drink several jars of wine in a day, and after a long time, it would arouse suspicion.
After thinking for a while, Fang Yuan took out ten Yuan stone, "Then buy another five jars and let me take them. Come with me to the academy dormitory."
"Yes, young master." The shop assistant quickly took the Yuan stone.
If there was no storage method, the moon orchid petals could only be stored for five days, so Fang Yuan only bought one bag at a time. But green bamboo wine could be stored for a long time, so there was no problem in this aspect.
A few shop assistants followed Fang Yuan into the academy dormitory, placed the wine jars under the bed, and left.
Looking at the suddenly deflated money bag in his hand, Fang Yuan sighed.
Refining Gu was hard, and raising Gu was not easy.
This was because he had five hundred years of experience from his previous life. He did not need to practice using Gu worms, which meant that the consumption of primeval essence was reduced, and this saved him a lot of expenses.
Like the people around him, to practice using the Moonlight Gu, they had to consume primeval essence. To increase proficiency, they had to practice a few times. The consumption of primeval essence was too high, and the recovery was too slow, so they could only use Yuan stone to replenish. Buying a grass puppet would cost three primeval stones. This was all money.
"Luckily my Spring Autumn Cicada consumes time, and not other food. Otherwise, I would have gone bankrupt long ago, and could not afford it. "Fang Yuan felt very lucky.
The higher the level of Gu worm, the larger the appetite, or the rarer the food, the harder it was to raise. A Rank two ordinary Gu worm would consume one to two primeval stones a day.
It was still good to be able to buy food. Some Gu worm's food was especially hard to find, and the market simply did not have such goods.
Just like the Spring Autumn Cicada's food was time, which was even more precious.
As the saying goes, an inch of gold cannot buy an inch of time.
No matter how much money you have, can you buy time?
You can't!
In theory, there was no limit to the number of Gu a Gu Master could refine. As long as you could refine, ten, a hundred, or even a thousand would do. You could refine however many Gu you wanted to refine.
But in fact, a Gu Master usually only had four or five Gu worms.
Why?
The biggest reason was that they could not afford to raise them.
The higher the rank of the Gu worm, the more expensive it was to feed it. This often caused Gu Masters to be strapped for cash, giving them a headache.
Another reason was that they could not afford to use it.
Activating the Moonlight Gu, one moonblade attack would consume 10% of primeval essence. A C grade Gu Master could only launch three to four attacks, and the primeval essence in his aperture would be used up.
No matter how many Gu worms you raised, if you could not use them, wouldn't it all be a waste?
Thus, there was a saying in Gu Master cultivation.
Raising Gu was like raising a mistress.
To raise a mistress, one had to buy food, clothes, a house and so on. It was very expensive, and raising too many would cost too much. Normal people could not afford it.
Even if they could raise so many, a man's energy was limited, and he could not afford it. Was he going to raise it for nothing?
The Gu Master's realm increased, but the Gu worm's food standard also increased. Thus, don't think that Gu Masters had no limit to the number of Gu they could refine. Most Gu Masters would only raise four or five Gu worms of the same rank.
If the number was any higher, the Gu Master would go bankrupt!
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