Accumulation Immortal Gu was just the first of many in Lo Jik's list of goals. He spent a considerable amount of time and resources collecting materials and wished to quickly improve his strength and range of abilities. Refining immortal gu worms for rare and hidden paths such as luck, painting, theft, pill, and dream paths was still out of his current ability because he lacked too many crucial immortal materials. Dreamer Gu, however, was a human path gu worm. Lo Jik also acquired three Nightmare Demonic Colts and a massive dream path resource point! There was also the fact that he had a huge inventory of dream path mortal materials and several human path immortal materials. All this allowed him to successfully refine Dreamer Immortal Gu Worm, making it the second of his clones to reach an immortal status after Wine Drinker Immortal Gu Worm.
At this moment, Lo Jik refined two immortal gu worms one after another.
Second Aperture Immortal Gu, though not directly useful to Lo Jik, let him control a significant initiative in the future. He already had two apertures and understood its benefits. Using this immortal gu, Lo Jik stood to gain a third aperture. He could acquire the benefit of possessing another super-grade blessed land. Yet, he had always been hesitant about this issue. Nurturing a third aperture would completely shatter the balance in his life. No matter how he saw it, he would have to give something up in his current routine to attend to the third immortal aperture.
This decision had its own set of advantages and disadvantages. Perhaps, with time, he would refine a sufficient number of clones to delegate such tasks entirely to them. Right now, Lo Jik was firm in his decision of not using the Second Aperture Immortal Gu Worm.
But what about others?
The great era was approaching. Every gu immortal aware of this fact desired another source of strength, especially those rank 8 gu immortal monsters! They would massacre millions just to get their hands on Second Aperture Immortal Gu and raise another blessed land!
Lo Jik took out Divine Travel Immortal Gu and tossed it into the sea of ghostly blue flames. Refining Second Aperture Immortal Gu Worm was significantly easier for Lo Jik since he was refining an immortal gu worm using another immortal gu as the base material itself. The required number of materials and steps involved were lower than refining Accumulation and Dreamer Immortal Gu Worms.
Wine Drinker immortal clone stirred to activity the moment Lo Jik tossed Divine Travel Immortal Gu inside Undefeated Refinement Cauldron. Lo Jik didn't stop and started adding rank 5 Purple Crystal Relic Gu Worms into the fire, using it as a catalyst to refine the immortal gu. The recipe for Second Aperture Immortal Gu was quite expensive. Aside from several immortal materials, it required lifespan gu worms! Fortunately, Lo Jik now held a significant sum of these gu worms and used them when he saw fit.
*Gulp*
*Gulp*
*Gulp*
*Gulp*
Wine Drinker clone started gulping large mouthfuls of wine set before him. The fragrance of these wines could instantly leave many unwary gu masters drunk. The four vats contained four top-quality wines. A strange transformation took place within Wine Drinker clone as the sea of ghost fire burned and fluctuated intensely. Aura of two immortal gu, one from the cauldron and one from the clone emerged at once.
Lo Jik started tossing in a large number of immortal essence stones into the fire as it erupted with a bang. The ghost fire did not splash out of the cauldron, promptly contained by a mysterious force. Meanwhile, an immortal gu worm shot out of the cauldron—Second Aperture Immortal Gu Worm!
*Bam*
Wine drinker's body shook as the aura of another immortal gu worm condensed in his body.
Rank 6 Divine Travel Immortal Gu Worm!
The recipe to refine Divine Travel Immortal Gu Worm was mentioned in <
'Alas, I cannot make use of the method in the legends to refine Fixed Travel Immortal Gu Worm. Instead, the best way is still to use my immortal gu house. But I lack the crucial material—light of immemorial era. This material is long extinct. Spirit Affinity House has some stock of this material, but it is simply too expensive and eye-catching. Others would instantly deduce my intentions of trying to refine Fixed Travel Immortal Gu worm using Divine Travel Immortal Gu Worm.'
Lo Jik sighed softly and wiped the sweat off his brows. Fixed Travel Immortal Gu would certainly make things quite convenient. But he wasn't without options.
He still had other space path immortal gu worms such as Connect Space Immortal Gu.
Besides, Lo Jik was confident in using Divine Travel Immortal Gu to accomplish his needs.
"Aside from Lang Ya Blessed Land, there is still the matter of Pool of Wisdom and Sea of Wealth gu houses. These two are simply too outstanding. Again, adding Accumulation Immortal Gu would elevate their status and power to the level of an immortal gu house. My pace in deducing recipes and killer moves would increase exponentially if I choose to advance Pool of Wisdom, and there is a chance to acquire untold wealth by improving Sea of Wealth. But there is only one Accumulation Immortal Gu Worm."
Lo Jik furrowed his brows and fell into a deep thought.
He needed to work hard and advance these two gu houses without using Accumulation Immortal Gu because it was too precious to be pushed into inflexible gu houses. Furthermore, Sea of Wealth mostly relied on Wealth Gu. The mortal Accumulation Gu Worms in this gu house were designed to keep the mortal Wealth Gu Worms from dissipating after a single use. He needed to find another way to increase the quality of this gu house.
Of course, the best method was to refine Wealth Immortal Gu!
However, Lo Jik did not have the necessary materials. As for Wisdom Immortal Gu? Forget it. He wasn't even close to deducing its recipe yet. There were some records about this immortal gu worm inside Long Hair inheritance, granting Lo Jik some much-needed insight. The better option for Lo Jik was to steadily refine all the clone gu worms. Immortal level clones were much more resourceful and could use any number of mortal gu worms with a single bead of immortal essence. This allowed them to more efficiently manage the blessed land and further research several recipes and killer moves. Being at immortal level, these clones would also contribute to Lo Jik's strength!
He could unleash them all at once and surround any tricky enemy, quickly dealing with them. He could even use these clones as a distraction when circumstances turn extremely dangerous and escape with his life.
Dreamer Gu was too important to be used in this manner, but what about Martial Artist clones and others?
'Actually… why don't I just refine clones with extreme physiques?' Lo Jik cupped his chin thoughtfully. Earlier, he did not refine clones such as Great Strength True Martial clone, because all of his clone gu worms already possessed 100% primeval essence capacity. Even the variant human clones displayed this effect because Lo Jik himself was a gu immortal with Great Strength True Martial Physique. The value of extreme clones was extremely low and did not mean much at the mortal realm.
But at immortal level?
It was no longer the game of primeval essence but dao marks!
Martial Artist and Monk Gu Worms were like Wine Drinker Gu Worm. Once advanced to rank 6, the clones produced by the two immortal gu worms will boast 9000 strength path dao marks each. Using False Transformation with either of these immortal gu worms would instantly propel the number of strength path dao marks on Lo Jik's body to 9000. Of course, he wouldn't carelessly mingle the dao marks of the immortal gu worm with the dao marks already present on his body. Just because the dao marks belonged to the same path did not imply they wouldn't conflict due to their differing nature and sources.
What about extreme clones?
Gu immortals with extreme physiques could dominate anyone in the same rank because of the greater number of dao marks on their bodies. Clones from such immortal gu worms would most certainly boast a sum of dao marks surpassing 9000 in number!
Suddenly, the idea of using False Transformation immortal killer move with these extreme clones was significantly more alluring.
To further follow this path, Lo Jik couldn't help but revisit one of the ideas he's had for quite a while now.
'There are extreme physiques for several paths. But… what about newer paths like dream, theft, luck, sword, illusion, and more? Sword path is known to be one of the strongest paths in terms of offensive capabilities, right up there with metal, blood, and a few others. There's also human path. We are all humans, but there has never been an extreme physique catering to human path. A blood path extreme physique sounds dangerous, too… but it is simply too appealing to ignore.'
Lo Jik's mouth dried slightly before he smiled wryly.
He couldn't help but look around.
Refining all these immortal gu worms and extreme physiques?
Unfortunately, he did not have the resources to accomplish this even with a grotto-heaven.
It had to be remembered that every immortal gu needed to be fed. The higher the rank of the gu worm, the greater the burden of feeding them. He was barely able to construct a few resource points to eventually feed his strength path set. How could he dream about feeding so many immortal gu worms?!
'The thing about feeding would be quite simple if I had an immortal level Sea of Wealth.' Lo Jik dreamt greedily. 'Ah! I simply need too many resources! There is also the fact that the materials needed to feed the immortal gu worm require the best environment to grow said materials. I have two blessed lands—strength and human path. The former is obviously more suited to raise strength path materials and the latter, fortunately, doesn't conflict with the materials of other paths and doesn't impede their growth. But the second blessed land is significantly smaller and cannot cater to the feeding requirements of all my immortal gu.'
'Immemorial Desolate Grotto-Heaven is also a formation path grotto-heaven. It is most suited for formation path gu worms and materials.'
Lo Jik's head hurt slightly thinking about all this. He had been refining immortal gu worm back-to-back, pushing himself to the limit. After some time, Lo Jik stopped with these thoughts and started cultivating his soul. Since he lacked materials, all he needed to do was plan around getting some.
The best and most stable method of acquiring materials was through Treasure Yellow Heaven. Lo Jik only needed to create something of great value. He planned on creating a business for Pacifying Soul Soup by refining Rank 6 Bewitching Wine Immortal Gu Worm. But even this won't be enough. Some materials, for instance the light of immemorial era, were simply too rare and jealously guarded by the super forces. So, Lo Jik could only rely on other means.
Thankfully, he could look up to his predecessors.
Back then, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable slipped past every defense in the gu world and stole what he needed, leaving everyone helpless. He could even steal immortal gu worms, a feat that was yet to be replicated with similar ease by the theft path gu immortals of the current generation.
Snatching immortal gu worm was extremely dangerous and challenging. It could be destroyed with a thought. But this limitation could not obstruct the demon venerable.
Thinking about this, Lo Jik summoned an individual. She had an alluring face and lean yet curvaceous body. A look could stir a man's wild thoughts and desires.
She was Xin Cheng—a Thieving Heaven's remnant will thoroughly butt-fucked by Love Gu before being further exploited by Lo Jik.
"What is it?" She inquired and blinked curiously. She was still just as intelligent and sharp as before, but Lo Jik's human path methods were simply too much for a specter with no gu worms to resist. She had long been subdued and spent her time deducing and researching theft path. Her progress was even quicker than Lo Jik's theft path clone—Thief Gu Worm.
There were two reasons for that. First, Lo Jik lent her a Thief Gu. Clones acted like true humans. Their thoughts were swift. As a heavenly specter, Xin Cheng lacked a body and could not think well-enough. So, Lo Jik designed a killer move for her to create a clone and take over it temporarily to use other theft path gu worms. Xin Cheng's productivity skyrocketed as a result since she gained a temporary body to accommodate her soul.
However, seeing her only made Lo Jik sigh for a moment. He couldn't help but recall Chen Jiu. She was one individual whom Lo Jik truly wanted to help recover and learn from—the secrets of dual cultivation. It was truly a pity. Love Gu was strong, but it did not follow Lo Jik's will. It was an even greater uncertainty than Lo Jik's existence!
"I wanted to discuss our results," Lo Jik informed with a smile. He would occasionally share everything he knew about theft path and also learn from Xin Cheng. They would supplant each other and also help inspire one another with more interesting ideas. It was a virtuous cycle benefiting both of them.
Xin Cheng nodded and sat across Lo Jik with a short smile.
"Hmm. I've made quite a few improvements. Your Pool of Wisdom might just be a mortal gu house, but it is simply too valuable. In fact, its mortal nature assures that it can be reproduced and shared with others." She paused and closed her eyes, recalling the sheer fluidity of her thoughts and how quickly she got over her bottlenecks when deducing theft path. A pleased smile stretched on her face. Xin Cheng was quite a relaxed and modest woman. She would often leave her guard down around Lo Jik due to his killer move affecting her mindset. "The greatest result this time was combining Spaceless Bubble with that formation I recommended earlier to manipulate traces of Divine Concealment on your body. You wanted something like this, yes?"
Lo Jik nodded.
Using dream path against Lang Ya Blessed Land was only one of the methods. In reality, he lacked dream path immortal gu worms and couldn't make the best use of this path against truly dangerous monsters. Earlier, Lo Jik couldn't even affect Immemorial Black Heaven Swallowing Snake using dream path because its body had too many qi and dark path dao marks. The faint number of dream path dao marks in Lo Jik's dream path methods could not get past the initial conflict of these dao marks and affect the snake. Using one dream path immortal gu would have instantly changed the result.
Now, Lo Jik possessed both Dreamer Immortal Gu and Accumulation Immortal Gu. He could use False Transformation to masquerade as a dream path immortal gu worm while adding Accumulation Immortal Gu in his killer moves to elevate their effects to the level of an immortal killer move. This was a qualitative change!
But it was best to prepare many other methods.
Lo Jik's other idea was to rely on theft path.
He nodded at Xin Cheng's words, slightly pleased.
"You already have a result? I also deduced a similar method. Let's share and learn from our differences."
Xin Cheng also felt eager and shared her idea.
Spaceless Bubble was a space path movement killer move created by Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable. It was one of his true inheritances.
Lo Jik also possessed Divine Concealment.
Earlier, when Xin Cheng was still independent, she deduced a method of using a formation to extract the effects of Divine Concealment. That way, she could act on her own whenever the formation was active. She was truly sincere and hoped to achieve a good partnership with Lo Jik. Alas, it was Lo Jik who stabbed her in the back.
Her current idea was still similar.
Divine Concealment was the peak of theft path killer move. It was a killer move that remained perpetually active without needing any immortal essence, hiding others from wisdom path deductions. Xin Cheng deduced a formation combining Spaceless Bubble immortal killer move with her earlier idea, creating a new space path formation boasting theft path effects. Lo Jik could teleport to another location using this formation without alerting others.
However, this method had one limitation.
This formation had one main formation and one sub-formation. Lo Jik wanted to sneak inside Lang Ya Blessed Land without alerting the land spirit and steal immortal gu, resources, materials, and other extremely attractive item listed in Long Hair True Inheritance! In fact, the last item was Lo Jik's first priority. Its value even surpassed immortal gu worms in a sense. How could Lo Jik construct a sub-formation inside Lang Ya Blessed Land before using this formation?
But this formation was not useless.
"Divine Concealment is amazing…" Lo Jik muttered. "It's a self-recovering killer move. Others tried deducing about me using wisdom path method. This caused the theft path dao marks on my soul to fluctuate and expend slightly. However, these dao marks recovered on their own. The speed of recovery of this killer move is also outstanding and surpasses the rate of expenditure! I wonder how Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable achieved that…"
"Perhaps I'll find out the truth once I reach my main body's attainment and strength." Xin Cheng shrugged. "But it sounds like my method isn't appropriate for your plan. Of course, I could deduce something even more suitable if you described your needs."
Lo Jik smiled and shook his head.
"Maybe once you're a gu immortal. But your idea is insightful. Divine Concealment can be used as a supreme theft path material in formations and even killer moves. After all, what is a killer move if not a manipulation of dao marks? Ordinarily, such dao marks would be consumed. Such is the difference between dao marks in immortal materials and dao marks making up the fragments of great dao in immortal gu worms. The latter doesn't dissipate until the immortal gu worm's destruction. Divine Concealment is a killer move that has the advantage of self-recovery and can be used in coordination with other killer moves. The expended theft path dao marks will also recover swiftly."
"My deduced method also included Spaceless Bubble but it fused the two killer moves."
Xin Cheng's eyelids twitched as she sat straighter.
"You combined these two killer moves? One is space path and the other is theft path. The theft path dao marks in Divine Concealment are extremely overbearing! Don't tell me you consulted a space path great expert."
Lo Jik snickered and shook his head.
He IS the space path great expert. Constructing compound killer moves was only a matter of time.
Xin Cheng studied his method before exclaiming in shock.
"This method… you actually de-constructed an immortal gu into an immortal killer move! Amazing… amazing… this has incredible refinement path profundity and works well with space and theft paths. Instead of causing a backlash through the conflicts of dao marks, it actually uses Divine Concealment to power the movement killer move."
She couldn't help but look up and observed Lo Jik before praising concisely.
"Impressive."
Lo Jik only smiled lightly.
"This method still has several issues or I would have started practicing this killer move. It involves two space path immortal gu worm. Your formation inspired me to adjust this killer move further. I can now apply Divine Concealment in the killer move to ease the burden of using this killer move with Love Gu—"
*Swish*
Lo Jik suddenly felt something amiss before his eyes widened in horror. He felt nearly 3000 immortal essence stones in his first blessed land disappearing as Love Gu on his shoulder let out a bright light.
A halo emerged atop the surprised Xin Cheng before raining down glowing golden feathers.
The feathers touched Xin Cheng and Lo Jik felt his connection with Thief Gu and Xin Cheng disappearing!
He nearly acted to capture Xin Cheng, fearing the worst case scenario, only to find the woman darting forward and nearly slamming herself onto him.
He twitched.
'Oh, no…'
Xin Cheng's hands wrapped around his waist and a warm breath tickled his neck.
'Oh, fuck no!'
A pair of lips hungrily sealed his own as Lo Jik nearly reached out and crushed the immortal gu worm on his shoulder!
'Not this mind-control bullshit again!'
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Alternate Title: Love Gu: Oh, you think I'm fat? Here, take this venerable love slave! *Lo Jik crying: I said burden! Dao marks! Not fat!*; Lo Jik's worst nightmare: Saimin propoganda; Love Gu is really the best pimp out there; Nina af: B-Baka! I'm not fat! Ecchi beam go!; Immortal gu worms everywhere; A demon venerable's feat; … now, a demon venerable's feet; Refining four immortal gu worms back-to-back; Monstrous 100% success rate; Consulting Xin Cheng; Master of compound killer moves; Value of mortal gu houses; Extreme benefits of Accumulation Immortal Gu House; Poor Xin Cheng; Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable catching stray… cum shots?; Value of Divine Concealment; Peak of theft path; Issue of immortal materials; Snatching initiative and lips; Love Gu raining feathers and harem waifus; Love Gu af: I now pronounce you, mating like rabbits *showers Xin Cheng with a halo and feathers*;
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