[Ding!]
[System Notification: Hidden Achievement Unlocked - Matriarch's Fall.]
[Reward processing complete. Distributing spoils of conquest...]
And just like that, a series of glowing prompts materialized in the air in front of him. And a cheeky grin appeared on his face.
[Reward 1: 1000 Low-Grade Spirit Crystals]
[Reward 2: 'Bone-Softening' Weak Poison Potion x1]
[Reward 3: Silent Sting Poison Needles x6]
[Reward 4: Nine-Leaf Bloodclot Herb (Life-Saving) x1]
[Reward 5: Basic Spatial Pouch x1]
And just like that out of thin air, a faint shimmer of spatial energy distorted in front of him and a small, unassuming grey leather pouch dropped directly into Gu Fan's outstretched hand.
"So this is a Spatial Pouch..." Gu Fan juggled the pouch in his palms as he looked genuinely impressed, "It might just be basic, but this should do."
In the Gu Clan, only elders and few of the core prospects like Gu Chen had the luxury of having spatial rings.
A spatial ring usually had a small storage space inside of it depending on the grade of the artefact. but the basic Spatial rings that the Gu Clan used had about 10 metre cube of space.
So, even a basic Spatial Pouch that Gu fan got was worth a small fortune.
Gu Fan quickly sent a thread of his conscious into the pouch, inspecting the space inside. The space inside the pouch was completely empty at this point. But it space inside was much more than just 10 metre cube. It was like a big room that Gu fan could fill as he looted the Gu Clan and the others.
Gu Fan after inspecting the pouch for a while tossed it inside his inventory and turned his attention to the other rewards.
Next he had a pile of one thousand Low-Grade Spirit Crystals.
Just for context, a lowly servant like Xiao Mei earned maybe two crystals a month.
Even the haughty Second Young Master who wants him dead only got a monthly allowance of two hundred Spirit Crystals.
One thousand crystals was an astronomical sum for someone who had literally been sleeping on dirty straw yesterday. It was enough to buy a small house outside the clan.
Now, apart from the crystals he had a small, murky green vial. It was the Bone-Softening Poison. It was rated as 'weak,' but for a Body Tempering cultivator, if he slipped that into someone's drink, he could turn their bones to jelly in seconds.
It was a very potent weapon he had in his hands to use against his enemies.
Next there were six jet-black needles, thin as hairs and gleaming with a deadly purple hue. Perfect for a silent assassination.
And at last, but not the least there was a jade box with the Nine-Leaf Bloodclot Herb.
"A life-saving herb," Gu Fan muttered, pulling the jade box out for a second just to smell the dense, earthy vitality rolling off the leaves.
If his heart was pierced or an arm severed, chewing this herb would forcefully stitch his flesh back together and pull him back from the gates of hell.
"This System really knows how to spoil a villain." Gu Fan grinned as he stored the jade box back into the inventory.
Right now he was not in a very bad spot if we don't want to call it the "Sweet Spot", yet.
He had the most powerful woman in the clan as his shield.
He had just earned a fortune.
He had enough resources to fight his way out of a life or death situation, a few life-saving trump cards, and his Ancient Venom Physique was completely stabilized after absorbing a massive 60,000 Yin Spirit Qi from a 3rd Stage Origin Realm expert.
For the first time since transmigrating into this doomed cannon fodder's body, Gu Fan did not feel like dying.
For the first time it felt like things were gong his way.
He picked up his ragged clothes and took and took a deep, relaxed breath, ready to plan his next move. Using his memories of the story, he could steal Gu Chen's fortuitous encounters, but even so, he had to plan things out thoroughly.
But just then the system chimed inside his head.
[DING!]
Gu Fan blinked. "Huh?"
[System Notification: Host has accumulated 60,000 Yin Cultivation Units]
[Yin-Yang Conversion Complete. Massive influx of pure Spirit Qi detected in Host's dantian.]
[Capacity Exceeded. Initiating forced breakthrough to 3rd Stage of Body Tempering realm...]
Gu Fan's triumphant smile instantly froze.
'Wait!'
'Forced breakthrough?'
But before he could even ask the system to stop, a terrifying, explosive heat detonated right in the centre of his stomach.
The raw, unfiltered Spirit Qi violently expanded inside his dantian, trying to tear its way through his blocked, crippled meridians.
[Commencing breakthrough to the 3rd Stage of the Body Tempering Realm.]
[Warning: Ancient Venom Physique breakthrough process is highly destructive. Reconstructing muscles and bone marrow.]
[Pain Tolerance Protocol: Offline.]
Black, venomous sludge suddenly erupted from his pores, sizzling as it hit the dirt floor.
His muscles violently spasmed, tearing and knitting back together at blinding speed. The sound of his own bones cracking and elongating echoed sickeningly in the quiet shed.
Gu Fan fell to his knees, clutching his stomach as his eyes crossed.
The memory of the agonizing torture from his first awakening rushed back to him.
Breakthrough in this body wasn't easy like those guys who sat in a peaceful, cross-legged meditation session and opened their eyes when they had succeeded.
For him it was like being thrown into a blender.
"Wait, System, let me at least find a stick to bite on..."
CRACK!
His jaw instantly dislocated.
Gu Fan fell face first on the stone floor as the cool, calculating villain persona instantly shattered into a million pieces.
"Fckkkk yyyuuuu systmmmm..."