Walking on the path of...

Guts's performance even shocked me. The sword directly severed a thousand beast king with a defensive Gu on its own. I know it is designed to be strong enough to cut rank 4 Gu worms, but seeing a sword created by some random blacksmith in a backwards place like the Gu Yue clan cut through rank 3 beasts is amazing! Just remembering it feels intense.

Chun Jack was on the verge of death multiple time, I almost jumped in at one point and ruined the whole plan, but I trusted in my brother and held myself back. Guys is now completely trained and can cut any enemy we will have to face in the future. Not even a rank 4 Gu master will be able to have an easy time defeating my brother.

Once Guts's attainment level rises, it will even become string enough to kill rank 6 Gu worms or even higher! Speaking of attainment. "quasi-master attainment! I managed to succeed!"

Ever since my awakening ceremony I have been craving dream realms. My attainment levels are only master in refining and somewhat good at everything else, but I have already made up my mind on which paths I wish to cultivate.

I am obviously going to have 2 apertures, so I can pick 2 paths and the paths I have chosen are so obvious you can practically guess if you know even the most basic information about me. And these paths are... water path and fire path! Ya, I think those two paths will go well together. Think about it, two paths, which directly oppose one another and can destroy my body if I ever unbalance them. I don't see a single flaw in this plan!

All jokes aside, I am most definitely choosing luck path and wisdom path. I achieved quasi-master level attainment from the last dream realm I entered before Chun Jack finished Guts's education and came to meat me.

I am pretty compatible with wisdom path and wisdom and luck path are 2 of the 5 most sought out paths, with Luck occupying first and wisdom 4th. The order of the is as follows: luck, food, destruction, wisdom, human.

The human path will probably be replaced with dream path in the future, but I am pretty sure dream path doesn't exist yet, but there are only a couple hundred rank 1-4 dream path Gu worms, so IDK. I have some rank 1 dream path Gu worms I use to enter dream realms and deepen my attainment level, but I am not that dedicated to dream path.

Basically, my main aperture is going to be a luck path aperture and my secondary aperture will be a wisdom one. I originally wanted to cultivate food path in my first, but that was before I discovered luck path exists and changed my plans.

It's not that big of a problem for me. There is a Gu worm called fake vital cicada, which was designed to replace the vital Gu of Gu masters from rank 1-3 without harming them a single bit or destroying the vital Gu. The rank 4 and 5 versions don't exist, as they were probably too hard to deduce and kind of pointless. which rank 4 or 5 Gu master hasn't cultivated for a couple of decades? How can they not be clear on what path is most suited for them and what path to walk on yet?

If a rank 4 or 5 Gu master needs to change their vital Gu, then they have failed as a Gu master. Aslo, change of plans. I don't need an immortal second aperture Gu. I can use the rank 5 mortal second aperture Gu for myself.

I discovered a pretty interesting Immortal Gu worm. It's called Blooming Flower Immortal Gu and requires 10 billion portions of primeval essence to make Immortal essence. This Gu worm has the ability to turn primeval essence into green grape immortal essence, which I am assuming is the rank 1 equivalent of immortal essence based on how it is green and made by a rank 6 Gu worm.

The amount is quite a lot and is confusing for most people, so I decided to simplify it by using portions. A primeval stone is about 50 portions and a portion is equal to 1% of rank 1 initial stage essence. The whole 10 billion portions is quite a lot if you think about it. The most primeval essence a human can have in a single aperture is 8 million portions. If you have 2 apertures, then 16 million portions. That's a lot of primeval essence TBH, but the implications of this Gu worm are even more amazing.

This Gu can allow a mortal to possess immortal primeval essence and, from what I have learned in the academy, immortal essence is infinite primeval essence. No amount of use can decrease it, so even my brother, a bottom tier Gu master, can become invincible if he uses this Gu worm and accumulates his essence for long enough.

It can also take in primeval stones to help out. If you give it 10 billions portions worth of primeval stones, then it will condense an immortal essence stone instead of a bead of green grape immortal essence. I don't know the exact purchasing power of an immortal essence stone, so I am more interested in the green grape part of this Gu.

To become a Gu immortal, a human needs to face the wrath of heaven. I want to have 2 extreme physique apertures, so I don't think heaven is gonna like me much and I sure as hell am not going to submit to one of those stuck up clans! I would rather accumulate green grape immortal essence, some immortal Gu worms and defend my body from heaven's wrath on my own.

Short version, if I want to be a free Gu immortal I NEED this Gu worm! Now that you guys have the gist of my future cultivation path, then I will get back to the present.

I spent the last 5 hours of Guts's infancy to get to know him and make sure I can at least hold him without him destroying my Gu worms or the poor baby Dao marks on my body. I lost a lot of my healing and food psth Dao marks TBH and boy did that sucks, but now Guts allows me to use him.

"Holly shit is this heavy! How am I supposed to be precise with this thing in my hands?" Chun Jack game me a weird look that screamed "The fuck you mean this is too heavy? You're the one who designed it!" and, while I was indeed the person who designed it, I never intended to use Guts for surgery!

I used a paralyze body Gu on my brother, so he can't move now and he can't talk or move, all he can do is glare at me as I operate on his Dao marks. There was a meme in my old world about a patient hearing his doctor say something like "oops" before the anesthesia completely kicks in and boy is Chun Jack feeling that right now!

I'll add this small subject to my bookworm Gu, make sure to deduce a surgery path in the future. For now, I'll replace my vital Gu while Chun Jack is going under.

Luck path Gu worms number less than 5K in the entire catalogue of Gu worms I have. Luck path Gu worms that directly increase luck number lass than 20 as well, but the most compatible Gu worm for me is sagely luck Gu worm. It maxes out at rank 4, so I will have to deduce the rank 5 and above recipes on my own.

The premise of this Gu worm is a combination of luck and wisdom path. The projection of this Gu worm is like a knowledgeable man, whatever the hell that means.(Once again, this fucking Gu worm doesn't come with a manual!) I barely understood that much, so don't expect me to know anything else about it!

This Gu worm is of Luck path with extra compatibility for wisdom path, so it is perfect for me. The total cost of the two Gu worms is 1.2k Gu points and the entire procedure went as smoothly as water.

I put the rank 3 sagely luck Gu into a rank 3 fake vital cicada and the cicada directly replaced the physique nourishing Gu in my body. The physique nourishing Gu is still in my aperture and is going to keep nourishing my body. The only difference is now my first aperture is more suited for luck path and my knowledge luck has gone up.

There are a lot of different types of luck. As I mentioned, I know of less than 20. The ones I know are, knowledgeable man luck, emperor luck, life luck, wealth luck, calamity luck, death luck and etc. The ones I am most interested in are life luck, calamity luck and death luck. They are the weirdest ones, but I'll research them at a later date.

For now, my luck has gone up and I am a bit more confident in my ability to fix Chun Jack's body. I need to cut off all the strength path Dao marks on his body now, so later he can only summon the Strength-A-Ten-Thunder-Boar beast bundle Gu's phantom. This might be a rank 3 Phantom, but it has the strength of 3 rank 3 boar ohantoms into 1. The surgery path note is for later when I have to delete this rank phantom and change it for a rank 4 or 5 or 6 boar phantom. Also, I just now realized Beast Bundle Gu combines its refinement and use aspects it one action. Quite an interesting Gu worm. Actually, doesn't Bone restructuring Gu combine feeding and use? Same for Guts. Guts combines use and refinement into 1 action. Damn Chun Jack has 3 main tools and all of them are oddities!

Well, I'll finish the surgery now and update you guys on how Chun Jack is doing. after I am done. Describing how I struggle for a couple hour to wield Guts precisely doesn't sound that interesting in my opinion.

"Phew! My body is tired as hell! At least your body is completely free of Dao marks now!" It took me 3 whole hours to finish this! I really need to get started on that surgery path. My brother stood up and sighed "Kai Nem, I am grateful for what you have done, but couldn't you have just broken off a small blade from Guts and used it as a scalpel instead of using such a giant sword?"

Why the fuck didn't I think of that?! Never mind! I'll edit that part out. "That is a really good idea! I wish you could have told me beforehand! Doesn't matter anymore. Let's go and cash in my rank 2 recipe and get you a couple third watch Gu worms!"