Chapter 265: Whereabouts of the Strange Gu

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Regarding the Ten Unique Gu, Lin Jing had conducted a detailed investigation during his time at the academy; these Ten Unique Gu were divided into ten different attributes: Metal, Wood, Water, Fire, Earth, Wind, Thunder, Yin, Yang, and Ice.

Originally, the Strange Gu of each attribute were kept and used by the holders of ten specific positions within the Gu God Sect.

However, with the passage of time and the deaths of these powerful Gu cultivators, these Strange Gu inevitably ended up scattered across various places.

Strange Gu with a reincarnation mechanism would not die along with the death of their Gu Master.

Although normally, even if these Strange Gu reincarnated, the Gu God Sect should have been able to recover them immediately—after all, the Strange Gu were creations of the Gu God Sect—but the utility of the Strange Gu was simply too powerful, attracting the attention of many experts.

Snatching the Strange Gu of the Gu God Sect had even become a trend.

The demonic sects might also be victims.

This led to the situation where, under the schemes of various forces, only four of the Gu God Sect’s Ten Unique Gu remained in their hands.

The Yang Gu, Thunder Gu, Wind Gu, and Ice Gu.

These four Strange Gu each had their own Legacy. Among them, the Ice Gu was controlled by successive generations of the Gu God Sect’s Ice-Fire Saintesses. However, because the previous generation’s Ice-Fire Saintess perished during internal strife within the Gu God Sect, the Ice Soul Gu was once again lost by the sect.

Ultimately, this Ice Soul Gu fell into Lin Jing’s hands.

“The metal-attribute Golden Light Gu was sealed within his own body by an eminent monk from the Western Desert. Trying to get a Strange Gu from the hands of the Buddhist Sect is difficult, difficult, difficult.”

“The wood-attribute Myriad Poison Gu is the one among the Ten Unique Gu that contains the most types of toxicity. It is currently kept in the Tongtian Pagoda for research on poison pills, making it even more impossible to obtain.”

“The water-attribute Fatal Gu was snatched by the Sea God Palace. The Sea God Palace is a Yao Beast force that split off from the ancient Dragon Palace; almost all marine Yao Beasts are gathered at the Sea God Palace. The fire-attribute Heavenly Flame Gu is in the hands of an expert from the Demon Subduing Division, an expert of the same generation as the Child Immortal—”

“The earth-attribute Stone Man Gu is in the City Lord’s Manor of Martial Emperor City. Using the Stone Man Gu, the City Lord’s Manor of Martial Emperor City even created a petrified terracotta army.”

“The Wind Gu and Thunder Gu are in the hands of the Gu God Sect’s Elders of Wind and Thunder, while the Yang Gu is in the hands of the Gu God Sect’s Sect Leader—”

“And the Yin God Gu is in the hands of a Void Profound Loose Cultivator, the Yin Mountain Old Hag. No wonder the Gu God Sect only keeps thinking about the Ice Soul Gu in my hands; mine is indeed the easiest to snatch back. The other experts holding Strange Gu almost all have Void Profound strength, and besides that, the forces behind them are also stronger than the Gu God Sect.”

Lin Jing recalled everything and realized that if it came down to force, the Yin God Gu in the Yin Mountain Old Hag’s hands might be relatively the easiest to obtain.

The monks of the Buddhist Sect have the protection of the Buddha Lord, who is in the Asking Dao stage.

The Tongtian Pagoda also has experts in the Asking Dao stage.

The same goes for the Sea God Palace.

Not to mention the Demon Subduing Division and Martial Emperor City.

Within the Gu God Sect, although the current Sect Leader is not in the Asking Dao stage, the previous generation’s Sect Leader did have Asking Dao strength. However, because he used his body to feed and worship the Gu God, he needed to remain in seclusion year-round to provide nutrients to the Gu God and rarely emerged.

Calculating carefully, only the Yin Mountain Old Hag has no Asking Dao protection behind her. However, she herself is not someone to be trifled with; her cultivation has reached the Void Profound Peak. In her youth, she was the Eldest Senior Sister of the Water Moon Immortal Island, the person with the highest natural talent in the Water Moon Immortal Island for ten thousand years. It is just unknown for what reason she eventually defected from the Water Moon Immortal Island.

“The Water Moon Immortal Island is located in the East Sea; it only accepts female Disciples and only practices water-based methods. The successive Island Lords have all been at the Asking Dao cultivation level. For this Yin Mountain Old Hag to be able to break away from the Water Moon Immortal Island and remain safe and sound, her strength is likely extremely terrifying.”

“That fellow, the Ice Soul Gu, has really given me a difficult problem. It wants to emulate Senior Divine Pine and devour its own kind? Keep dreaming.”

“However, if the shapeshifting research goes smoothly and gains the favor of the Yao Sovereign, there might be a chance to obtain other Strange Gu.” Lin Jing shook his head; unless he could get the Yao Sovereign to take action, the Ice Soul Gu could forget about this matter.

“It’s more reliable to find an ice-attribute Yao Beast with the Bloodline of a Yao Emperor to serve as its puppet.”

Next, to prepare for the Senior Sister’s Lightning Evasion Pills, the Pine Leaf Squirrel was once again sent by Lin Jing to synthesize Shapeshifting Grass.

Although what the Pine Leaf Squirrel currently wanted to do most was to transport all resources into the Five Elements Yao Core world, continue hoarding goods, and strengthen the Yao Core, a certain amount of synthesized Shapeshifting Grass still had to be prepared first.

As for the Dragon Carp, it was sent by Lin Jing to attempt the refining of fifth-grade Medicinal Pills, aiming for the Realm of a Fifth-Grade Pill Venerable.

Meanwhile, Lin Jing himself waited for the Pine Leaf Squirrel’s synthesized Shapeshifting Grass while flipping through the countless Alchemy books within the Crane Cauldron and learning the research results of the Crane Cauldron’s alchemists. He was deducing the process of how to refine the synthesized Shapeshifting Grass into pills so that it would also be effective for Advanced Yao Beasts.

Only being able to let small Qi Condensation and Foundation Establishment Yao Beasts transform into humans could not satisfy the Demon Court.

Only by allowing high-Realm Yao Beasts to also have the ability to transform into humans could the Yao Race Revival Plan be considered a success.

Two months later, the Senior Sister returned.

“I have fortunately fulfilled the mission and requested three Lightning Evasion Pills from the Ginseng Race. Although it’s a bit few, the Materials for refining Lightning Evasion Pills are also extremely rare for the Ginseng Race.”

“Three? That’s about enough,” Lin Jing said. “What price was paid?”},{

Xu Qingyao sighed and said, “A portion of the Alchemy notes for the Transformation Pill.”

“In ancient times, not only could Yao Beasts transform into humans, but the Flora Race could as well. However, the Flora Yao Race is only a very small part of the Yao Race. This Ginseng Race likely also became interested in the method of transformation. They knew that I am primarily responsible for researching the method of transformation through the Dao of Alchemy in the Demon Court, so they proposed exchanging the experimental notes of the Transformation Pill.”

“It doesn’t matter. Anyway, as of now, the only two types of Transformation Pills researched by the Crane Cauldron are one that causes Bloodline collapse if eaten—a poison—and one that causes Qi Deviation if eaten—a Demon Pill. Their value isn’t very high; their function is pretty much just to help others avoid the wrong paths. Next, it all depends on you; don’t let me down.”

“I will certainly not let you down, Senior Sister. However, the most important thing next is the Yao Beast that will undergo the tribulation!” Lin Jing mused, “Shapeshifting Grass sufficient to trigger a Shapeshifting Heavenly Tribulation, a Lightning Evasion Pill to help the one undergoing the tribulation reduce lightning damage… next, we also need a Foundation Establishment Yao Beast that inherently has some resistance to lightning and a powerful Physical Body.”

“Senior Sister, within the Demon Court, is there such a Yao Beast—”

Xu Qingyao fell into deep thought and said, “There are, naturally. However, even with the Lightning Evasion Pill, wanting a Foundation Establishment Stage Yao Beast to endure the Heavenly Tribulation head-on is not an easy task; it’s still a narrow escape from death.”

“Within the Demon Court, only some Prodigies of the great races barely meet this standard. However, failure means death, and they might not necessarily be willing to sacrifice themselves. While pursuing the revival of the Yao Race is indeed the primary goal of the Demon Court, those who are extremely fanatical about this goal are only a minority. Most Yao Beast races might not necessarily put themselves in a life-threatening situation for this goal.”