2 Ch 2 - Mo Bei and Fang Yuan

Mo Bei woke up early in the morning. Immediately he shoved away the thin silk blanket and got up neatly. He opened the window and found that the spring rain had stopped. The mix of fragrance of the earth, trees and wild flowers greeted him.

He started thinking about the Gu World from what he had read in the novel.

"A river of time exists in this world. It supports the world's time flow and circulation."

"Humans are the greatest among thousands of creatures, Gu are the essence of heaven and earth."

"Gu comes in thousands of shapes and sizes of strange and mysterious variety – there are too many to count. Some Gu after being used once or even twice or thrice will completely dissipate. And some Gu can be reused again and again as long as it is not used over its limits."

"The most important thing is cultivation. The me right now has not even opened my Primeval Sea, hasn't stepped on the path to be a Gu Master. I'm just a mortal! I have to hurry and cultivate, and seize the opportunities with the best advantage from what I have read about in the novel."

He had to increase the level of his foundation as fast as possible. If he were slow, then figures like Fang Yuan would easily make use of him and after taking advantage of him, discard him. This would only lead to his death. He had to become strong enough to survive this cruel world.

He suddenly remembered a quote from the novel [ "The strong eat the weak, survival of the fittest; these have always been the rules of this world.  Everyone has self-ambitions, always struggling to grasp the opportunities. Among all the war and killing what is there not to be understood?" ]

"I wonder if the Fang Yuan right now is the one reborn using Spring autumn cicada after 500 years of his life or is it his 1st life?"

"My belief is that he has reborn after 500 years since there is no alternate timeline in the Gu World and only 1 timeline exist at a time."

"Then where was I in the previous timeline? Is this Heaven's will plot to bring Fang Yuan under control by using me, an otherworldly demon and I only exist in this timeline?"

"What should I do when I meet Fang Yuan? Do I prostrate in front of such a great character? No, I don't even know if he is the 500 year old demon or the Fang Yuan who is living his 1st life in the Gu world. If I did a weird action like that, he will be highly suspicious and might even think of getting rid of me."

"Should I provide him with any benefits? I wonder how can I even benefit him? Right now, I am not even an ant in front of his eyes. I also absolutely cannot tell him about some things like Heaven's will or otherwise disaster will fall upon both of us. However much I am afraid of him, he is still the person I respect the most. I want to see him defeat Heavenly Court and destroy the fate Gu as mentioned in the novel. It would be great if I can follow on adventures along with him. But will this even be possible without dying a hundred times? No. It will only stay as some wet dream of mine haha."

"If I can reach the cultivation of a Rank 3 Gu Master, I'd have the means to protect myself and leave the mountain along with Fang Yuan but that is an impractical thought. Fang Yuan is supposed to leave the Gu Yue clan with Bai Ning Bing. The future arcs only happen due to specific circumstances of their actions. I should not interfere much with the parts of the novel with which Fang Yuan interacts, otherwise it would lead to many butterfly effects and my knowledge of the future events in the novel will be rendered useless."

"Let's analyse the current situation. My cultivation grade will probably be of B Rank if what was mentioned in the novel remains the same and is not changed due to my arrival. I, being the sole male successor of Mo Family, have lots of family resources too. Hundreds or even thousands of times what Fang Yuan had when he was in Gu Yue Clan in the novel."

"As far as I can understand, the language here is also similar to what was used on earth and I can easily understand everyone so that won't be a barrier."

"If I can get a feel of this world better, it will improve my survivability chances a lot."

"Though, I definitely don't even dare to dream of becoming Venerable, I can try reaching the upper edges of the Gu master's world or even try to breakthrough to the Gu Immortal level. Currently, I lack both the experience and Perseverance to reach the point of Gu Immortal level though."

(AN : Heck, I am not even sure you will reach even Rank 5 with my perseverance lol)

"Luckily today is the day of Awakening Ceremony, I'll be able to start training as a Gu Master soon after."

Saying so to himself, he went out of the Mo Family manor heading towards the grounds of Awakening Ceremony.

On the way he bumped into many youths of similar age, all in groups of twos and threes, quite clearly heading to the same destination. He even recognized, one of them being Chi Chen.

"Look guys, those are the Fang brothers." His ears picked up the small cautious talk from one of the group. "The one walking in front is Fang Yuan, he's the Fang Yuan who created the poems," some of them emphasized.

Mo Bei's body instantly went numb at the mention of Fang Yuan. He was really going to meet Fang Yuan in person.

He was both very excited and fearful. If someday you are given a choice of meeting a person of your dreams - your role model, whom you could never even dream to meet, how would you feel? This was exact feeling Mo Bei had at the moment.

"Would he find something suspicious with me if I turn my face towards him? I will be unable to hide my excitement and fear from Fang Yuan if he's the 500 old reborn demon. What should I do? No, I don't need to worry since I am Mo Bei right now and a righteous member of Gu Yue clan. Fang Yuan wouldn't dare to do anything to me in the centre of Gu Yue clan. Also, there's no one here who understands him better than me. What am I even having such thoughts? I am too nervous!"

Suddenly another thought came to Mo Bei's mind. This was a sentence said by Fang Yuan in 3rd chapter of the novel,

[ "If someone tries to prevent his pursuit of Immortality, no matter who it is he will kill and live through it. The aspirations in his heart were too big, stepping onto this road was to be making the world your enemy, and it was destined to be alone, destined to kill." ]

'I will never go against this person.' Thinking so, Mo Bei turned his face around with the highest possible determination.