Black Moon was pleasantly surprised once Lo Jik set up a meeting with her after fulfilling all his consortly duties towards a few different women living in Hu Immortal Blessed Land. The past year within the blessed land had been extremely valuable to Black Moon as she cultivated her soul. However, like every other gu immortal, she also had to maintain a sense of balance in this growth. Soul could not be strengthened and refined endlessly. It would soon become a burden to the body.
Since she possessed one of the ten extreme aptitudes, Great Strength True Martial Physique, Black Moon obviously refined her soul using strength path gu worms. What did refining the soul through strength path imply? It was to carve the soul with strength path dao marks using strength path gu worms and getting rid of the impurities. In such a case, using soul path gu worms to strengthen the soul would lead to conflict between soul path dao marks of soul gu worms and strength path dao marks carved onto the soul.
And if Black Moon had used soul path gu worms to refine her soul and carved it with soul path dao marks, these dao marks would instead conflict with the strength path dao marks on her body!
This was the true reason why dual cultivation was so rare.
Fairy Mi Yao was still in the processing of comprehending a water and enslavement path compound killer move. This comprehension focused on trying to make water path and enslavement path dao marks complement and work with each other!
As for Black Moon's soul?
This is where Guts Gu displayed its profound advantage.
Even if Black Moon used strength path dao marks to refine her soul, the strength path dao marks on her soul did not conflict with Guts Gu! She could strengthen her soul with extreme efficiency while still cultivating strength path.
The underlying cause of this advantage was none other than the human path dao marks hosted inside Guts Gu.
Black Moon did not know of this but Lo Jik did—Human path had a great advantage of non-conflicting dao marks! Even now, Lo Jik's body was filled with strength and human path dao marks because he ascended twice. However, the dao marks of these two paths did not cause any negative impact on his body.
Where Black Moon truly encountered trouble was reaching the peak of a ten-thousand-man soul. Like Bai La, she was stuck and still deducing a killer move to refine her soul once it was strengthened past this stage.
Humans were born with ordinary souls called a one-man soul. Through strengthening the soul and refining it, they could advance their souls to a ten-man soul, hundred-man soul, thousand-man soul and beyond.
A thousand-man soul was the limit of most mortal gu masters, including soul path gu masters. It was because a gu master's body was inherently different from a gu immortal body until it was washed by the lump of unified qi.
At rank 6, Black Moon's body was sturdy enough to contain a stronger soul. However, once her soul stepped past the boundary of a ten-thousand-man soul and into the territory of a hundred-thousand-man soul, her soul refinement killer move would lose its value.
So, for the great duration of the past year, Black Moon was busy deducing such a killer move. Even if a mortal killer move, Black Moon was only a strength path gu immortal. Lo Jik suspected her attainment in strength path had not even reached the realm of a grandmaster, not to mention her soul path attainment.
Lo Jik knew of this because he and Black Moon discussed some of their gains during their cultivation. They were both vague about it, but Lo Jik deduced many secrets using his wisdom path attainment.
He momentarily closed his eyes and inspected his soul.
It was already a 130,000-man soul!
Around his soul was a sleek, multi-colored robe. It was like a silk garment around Lo Jik's strengthened soul. When he focused on it, he could actually see innumerable theft path dao-marks connected in an indescribably fashion to produce this wondrous effect. The density of the dao marks was astounding enough for Lo Jik to view them even without any specialized gu worm once he inspected his soul.
This was Thieving Heaven's rank 9 killer move—Divine Concealment!
And above all of this was a thin-grey laminate-like cover surrounding Lo Jik's soul. While thin and oily, it was extremely sturdy! This was the secondary effect of Lo Jik's cultivation, which involved utilizing Fake Soul Gu. Unlike Divine Concealment, Lo Jik couldn't view the human path dao marks on this defensive layer. Evidently, they were nowhere near close enough to Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's exquisite killer move.
'But the defensive strength of this fake soul has already reached the level beyond ordinary rank 5 soul path defensive gu worms. It can protect against most rank 5 killer moves unleashed by gu immortals. But this defensive layer will be nothing more than a thin layer of paper in front of a soul path offensive immortal gu worm.'
This defensive layer was only one aspect of his soul.
The current strength of his soul was already wondrous. His thoughts were fluid and stable. He could even disguise himself as a soul path gu immortal.
Unlike Black Moon, Lo Jik was a strength and soul path grandmaster! What more, his human path attainment was at great grandmaster. He was only restricted by the lack of immortal materials, else he would have already refined necessary human path immortal gu to further his soul at an even shocking pace.
Only after their initial discussion did Lo Jik reveal a product he had been working on for some time.
He took out a clump of golden fur, a patch of thick skin, a thick bone, a bucket of blood, and few other materials.
Black Moon's gaze flashed and she accepted the materials with great interest. Her eagerness only grew with time as she spent a long time and who knows how many investigation methods to appraise the goods before her.
Eventually, she tossed Lo Jik a look of thinly-veiled surprise.
Finally, she asked: "What are they called?"
Lo Jik smiled.
"Bandit Giants."
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"Oh, he's already creating commotions?" Bai La furrowed her brows as her divine sense approached Lo Jik's store. While it had been sufficient time since Lo Jik advanced rank 6, in reality, only little over two months had passed in the main continent. Because of his hand in ruining a great portion of Tian Ti Mountain, countless inconsolable gu masters surrounded the number one mountain of Central Continent and wailed to this day. They were all mortals and held Tian Ti Mountain in high cultural esteem.
The more people gathered around the mountain, the more pressure Spirit Affinity House suffered. The other nine ancient sects used this crowd to pressure Spirit Affinity House again. It was ironic. Back then, the other nine ancient sects wished to scheme against Spirit Affinity House and get rid of Lo Jik. They did not know which venerable inheritance he could help Spirit Affinity House obtain. But circumstances became clearer after his ascension. Ever ancient sect nurtured wisdom path gu immortals and it was easy to deduce the truth with so many clues out in the open.
Divine Concealment!
It was unexpectedly Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's inheritance!
What did it mean?
It meant Lo Jik was an otherworldly demon!
But the other nine ancient sects did not dare use this reason to suppress and find trouble with Spirit Affinity House.
Why?
Because Heavenly Court already acknowledged Lo Jik as a part of righteous force. How was it possible for Heavenly Court to not know the details of Spirit Affinity House's venerable inheritance? Heavenly Court surely knew of Lo Jik's status as an otherworldly demon and still appointed him as a member of the ten great ancient sects. The other nine subordinate ancient sects did not dare cause trouble because of this matter.
Bai La was sure that Lo Jik's otherworldly demon status was also known beyond the circles of the ten great ancient sects. Shang Clan paid attention to Lo Jik due to their earlier involvement in encircling Lo Jik. They even invested in the ambush using a rank 8 gu immortal's killer move before Love Gu thwarted their plans. Their wariness against Lo Jik was expected. As a super force, Shang Clan paid attention to the enmities they sowed and reaped. Now that Lo Jik's status experienced such a shift, they might even be planning on burying the matter by gifting him resources.
Now? They obtained another opportunity to suppress Spirit Affinity House, and it was due to Lo Jik himself! Tian Ti's foundation was damaged!
But Lo Jik also gave Spirit Affinity House a good solution.
He subdued an immemorial desolate beast!
Spirit Affinity House spread this information with great fervor while hiding their involvement and how they captured the immemorial beast. It was as if Lo Jik single-handedly tackled an immemorial desolate beast as a rank 6 gu immortal!
His name exploded through ever gu immortal circle. Treasure Yellow Heaven buzzed for months!
While Lo Jik's reputation soared, Spirit Affinity House used this event to subtly warn everyone and reminded them about the unreasonable strength that was the legendary rank 9 immortal gu—Love.
And it worked.
The crowd around Tian Ti thinned slightly.
As expected, a few gu immortals were also involved in attracting such a crowd to pressure and suppress Spirit Affinity House.
It was the best time for Lo Jik to keep his head low and appease Central Continent's gu master world by working hard and pouring resources over a few decades to replenish Tian Ti and repair it to its former glory.
That was what Heavenly Court commanded Lo Jik to do in the first place. He was tasked to regularly repair Tian Ti for the next fifty years. The result did not matter. As long as Lo Jik worked hard, Heavenly Court will be satisfied.
But there were hidden undercurrents around Spirit Affinity House. Bai La knew that first supreme elder had already decided to secretly step in and help Lo Jik completely repair Tian Ti. The sect wanted to perform this task to utmost perfection because they could not afford to lose Heavenly Court's favor during this turbulent time.
But what was Lo Jik doing?
Bai La moved ahead to observe just that.
There were already hundreds of streams of divine sense floating around Lo Jik's store, constantly communicating with him. Bai La first observed the material Lo Jik was selling. It was a collection of several body parts, organs, blood, and such. But each material inspired a surprising intensity of treasure light within Treasure Yellow Heaven.
She instantly understood and felt shocked.
'Extinct materials. And I haven't seen this kind of material before…'
That wasn't surprising. Bai La was a metal path gu immortal. Even if her vision and foundation was broad, she did not know about many extinct and ancient materials. Meanwhile, the streams of divine sense included several refinement path experts who made it their business to learn about every single material known to mankind.
There were already several streams of divine sense communicating with each other.
"This… could this truly be…"
"No, of course it's not materials from that legendary species. Look… all the materials are mortal."
"Such refinement path attainment."
"He can already modify materials to this extent?"
Bai La grew even more curious and contacted Lo Jik before hearing him explain earnestly. The shock in her heart deepened. She had known Lo Jik for a considerable time and instantly recalled the time when Lo Jik approached her with a business idea. That time, she took interest in the young talent and led his impression with her feet.
'To think he actually had some concrete plans to achieve this…' Bai La thinned her lips, greatly disappointed in herself. She had only heard Lo Jik's proposal with thin interest and focused more on the disciple himself. Now, she couldn't help but curse her impatience.
Couldn't she have gained her hot stress reliever and a great business opportunity had she only listened to Lo Jik more carefully?!
A divine sense erupted with outrage at this moment.
"What? You actually dare sell merely five hundred eyes for one immortal essence stone? This is daylight robbery!"
Everyone instantly watched the show with great interest.
Lo Jik also focused on this troublemaker and smile gently. He began speaking, not restraining his voice and letting everyone into communication.
"Sir, this is my own creation by researching countless ancient strength path recipes to refine Bandit Monkeys into a whole new species, Bandit Giants! Because of my research, every part of this Bandit Giant is an impeccable strength path material that can replace extinct strength path materials."
The voice immediately countered.
"Hmph! So you say. But how can we believe you? You want us to modify already extinct recipes just to include your material? Hehe, do you think we are foolish enough to fall for your schemes?" It continued with great excitement as if unfolding Lo Jik's deep scheme. Bai La focused on this divine sense before nearly cursing his nine generations aloud. This person was none other than Faceless Transformation Immortal! "You expect us to believe that your Bandit Giants are top-rate strength path material. On what basis?"
Bai La and other fell silent. These were legitimate questions. Lo Jik's material was not like Shi Lei's Stone Monkey Fur. In fact, Lo Jik incorporated his research of Stone Monkey Fur into Giant Bandits. That's why their golden fur, though silken in appearance, had properties closer to rock and were extremely tough! Still, his was a new material, while Shi Lei's was a true extinct material.
One was unknown, and the other was known.
Lo Jik snorted coldly at those words.
"Your demands are inappropriate, Sir Faceless Transformation. What do you want? Do you want me to reveal my modified recipes?"
"Yes!" Faceless Transformation demanded shamelessly, making Bai La burn with fury internally. She vowed to strip his flesh and tendons if he ever landed in her hand… even when she'd already pegged the man before.
Right at this moment, another stream of divine sense directly ignored Faceless Transformation and transacted with Lo Jik. In an instant, half his inventory was gone while he earned twenty immortal essence stone.
The swiftness of this transaction was shocking as the stream of divine sense laughed and left as quickly as it appeared.
Every gu immortal in the scene was instantly shocked.
What?
Then they felt suspicious.
Could it be Lo Jik's doing? Did he plant a buyer to shake their thoughts?
As if stirred by the first buyer, another shocking buyer appeared.
"I'll take the rest, hehe. I can't wait and make a loss."
Lo Jik earned another twenty immortal essence stone as his store was emptied out, leaving other streams of divine sense dazed.
Even Faceless Transformation was speechless.
He instantly accused.
"Tricks! These are tricks!"
"Whatever, noisy fellow." Lo Jik rolled his eyes before addressing everyone. "Everyone, don't leave yet. There is another thing I wish to share. Please take note of my exact word. I am sharing this achievement with the entire world and not selling it."
"Most gu immortals in Central Continent know me as Fickle Consort Immortal. But in reality, I am not fickle at all. Ever since I started cultivating strength path, I felt its weakness first-hand. Materials, expenses, and extinction of a great many materials and disappearances of recipes led to its decline."
"But I'm not satisfied!"
"I was inspired to achieve a change when I ascended as rank 6 gu immortal! Please, allow me to share this result with everyone. I apologize in advance for making a fool of myself. But this is simply too important for strength path's glory and survival to be guarded jealously."
"I had to share it."
Everyone instantly felt interested. Lo Jik's words had some weight. His materials were already out of stock, revealing their intense attraction to a few wealthy gu immortals. Whether these transactions were a fake or not had yet to be confirmed.
"Such big words," Faceless continued sowing discord and doubt. "You are a mere junior, the culprit behind Tian Ti Mountain's current state. Hehe, you're a shame to us righteous gu immortals. But you actually have the nerve of saying your actions will benefit the gu world?"
Several streams of divine senses felt shocked while growing guarded. Bai La secretly gnashed her teeth.
She was responsible for Lo Jik's current plight. Of course, there was not a trace of guilt in her heart. Instead, she wanted to erupt on this shameless Faceless… even when she did erupt on him with different intentions.
"I hope sir will remember these words once I reveal my creation." Lo Jik laughed coldly.
"Do you think I'm afraid?" Faceless Transformation's stance was tough. "I'll eat my sandals if you can actually produce something valuable. Ah, pardon me—if you can produce a gift for the entirety of strength path—"
Faceless Transformation stopped speaking as Lo Jik sent out a parchment. The parchment was ordinary, and the ink on its surface was also simple. However, brilliant light blossomed around this piece of parchment!
The light glowed sharply before dimming instantly.
Why did the value of parchment instantly fall?
The gu immortals knew the reason.
It meant Lo Jik released something extremely valuable. It instantly attracted treasure light in Treasure Yellow Heaven. But Lo Jik did not hold anything back. The value of this treasure could not be retained because it was suddenly spread openly. A treasure was no treasure if it was in everyone's hand.
As such, the value of this parchment… this recipe plummeted in an instant.
Bai La's features were truly covered in shock as she also observed the recipe.
She could not believe herself.
Lo Jik…
What the fuck was he doing?!
This was far from keeping his head low.
He was attracting too much attention… no.
He was demanding the world's attention with this one move. This action was akin to Lo Jik shouting at every super force and gu immortal, daring them to look at him.
Look.
How bright I am!
How shiny I am!
How juicy my dick is—well, that was more of Bai La's personal interpretation but it was all the same.
"This… this…"
Faceless Transformation's divine sense shook.
Earlier, one of the two streams of divine sense that purchased half of Lo Jik's good initially was none other than Black Moon. She agreed to this tactic and helped Lo Jik out in exchange for a discount later on. She never expected another divine sense to quickly snatch the rest of the goods. She suspected it was either Bai La or someone else, like Feng Jin Huang. But in reality, that stream of divine sense was Old Man Desolate.
Black Moon returned using other divine sense, just in time to see this recipe. Her eyes shined brilliantly.
"Rank 1 Ten-Battles Champion Gu."
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Alternate Title: Refining materials is easy with attainment; Unstoppable growth; Sex trait and attainment equals busted Lo Jik; Bai La: I will fuck Faceless up *Lo Jik: Weird… why does my ass hurts?*; Emerging in glory; Lo Jik AF: Look, my juicy dick! *Bai La accidentally in another dream realm, watching said dick near her face*; Planting buyers; Creating a commotion; The schemes; Lo Jik is the problem as well as the solution; Lo Jik and Faceless cursing each others' ancestors *First Gen Gu Yue getting verbally abused TWICE for no reason at all*; Bandit Giant's debut; A new discovery; Sharing strength path result; Lo Jik's one true limitation: Immortal materials *Bai La exists to rectify it with constant silver achievements*; Viva La Bai La; Bai La fully converted by the Rizz Man; R-Rizz Man? *Author: Yea, cause you Rizz, man.*
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