52 Crushing Gu Yue Man Shi, creating Vitality Leaves

"Did you notice? Chi Yan's fire pellets seemed to be fusing into his fire snake."

"Yeah, I saw it. Some of the fire pellets were merging into the fire snake, and its dimmed down flames were immediately becoming more powerful."

"Is this method Chi Yan's trump card? Perhaps it's the reason why he overpowered Jiao San and Mo Ruogang earlier," someone guessed.

"This really is Chi Yan's method, how interesting," Qing Shu murmured among the crowd as well.

Next to Qing Shu, Fang Zheng also watched the match with a complicated expression. 'Chi Yan's strength is actually so high. As a junior he already challenged a few senior Gu Masters to a battle and won them. Against his fire snake, I'm afraid I would be able to hold out for more than twenty breaths. He really is strong.'

Mo Yan narrowed his eyes, her expression dim. 'This Chi Yan, just how can be so monstrous? He's the same age as little brother, but he's already a Rank 2 middle stage Gu Master and has such strength. It is like grandpa said, our Mo family will have a hard time in the future. It's good that I came to watch.'

Meanwhile Chi Shan's eyes shone with brilliance, 'Chi Yan's strength is even higher than I thought and he still hadn't used all his trump cards. If only his talent was A-grade, he would have surely been able to resist Bai Ning Bing.'

As the time passed, more and more Gu Masters gathered in the field. Following Chi Yan's match with Gu Yue Mo Hai, some of them noticed his tactic of using fire pellets to rapidly recover the strength of his fire snake.

But Chi Yan didn't mind that people realized it. It was a method that would be quickly discovered and leaked out, while it was actually difficult to defend against - even if someone knew about it, just what could they do?

It was only a simple method and not his trump card, but it surely increased his fame and got everyone's attention.

Chi Yan liked the direction that the discussions were going in anyway.

He scanned the crowd of Gu Masters and then extended his arm once again, calling out loudly, "Gu Yue Man Shi, I heard about you, you escaped from Bai Ning Bing like a coward and now use your defeat as a proof of glory. The rumors say that you're very strong, but are you really? In my eyes you're just a coward and a weakling. If you have the guts, then come up and fight me!"

The crowd went silent. Gu Yue Man Shi was very famous among Rank 2 Gu Masters and was certainly not a weakling!

Chi Yan was simply getting more and more arrogant!

But Chi Yan simply had no choice but to challenge more and more famous Gu Masters, because eventually people will begin admitting defeat, not willing to risk losing their Gu worms. Besides, Gu Yue Man Shi was someone that he wanted to crush, also possessing the valuable Monolith Gu.

Gu Yue Man Shi stepped out of the crowd with an indignant expression. His body was slightly short, but his arms and waist were thick. With a thick black beard, extending downwards from his cheeks to meet at his chin, his body emitted a strong aura of ferociousness.

Man Shi called out in a coarse and low voice, sending Chi Yan a cold glare, "Kid, you have too much guts. You said all this crap about me, do you think I wouldn't dare to fight you?"

"Then if you dare, bet your Monolith Gu and fight with me! I will bet my Fire Snake Gu. If you win, I will even bow down to you and apologize. Unless all of these rumors were false and you really are just a weakling, not even daring to fight a junior," Chi Yan mocked.

"Brat, you really don't know how to treat your seniors! Since you challenged me, I will make you take back your words!" Man Shi growled and began walking up the stage.

Man Shi was a prideful man, while his defeat against Bai Ning Bing was his greatest shame. He was the team leader of Man Shi's team, famous among Rank 2 Gu Masters of the clan, if he stepped back and declined Chi Yan's challenge after everything that Chi Yan said, his entire reputation would be ruined.

Furthermore, he might not feel fully confident when going against Bai Ning Bing again, but he didn't think that a little kid from his clan had a chance against him. He was confident.

Within the crowd Gu Yue Qing Shu let out a breath of cold air, saying, "Chi Yan actually challenged Gu Yue Man Shi…"

Fang Zheng raised his eyebrows and looked at Qing Shu. "Lord Qing Shu, who is Gu Yue Man Shi?"

Qing Shu replied, "Gu Yue Man Shi is stronger than Chi Yan's previous opponents and possesses the Monolith Gu, having incredible defense. He's also one of the few people that managed to escape from Bai Ning Bing alive."

"I heard a lot about Bai Ning Bing. Is he really that strong?" Fang Zheng asked, looking at Qing Shu innocently.

Qing Shu used a gentle look as he told Fang Zheng, "Bai Ning Bing is undoubtedly the Qing Mao Mountain's number one genius. Fang Zheng, listen well. You are still young, and have A-grade talent, you might be able to surpass Chi Yan and Bai Ning Bing in the future, but before you fully grow up, avoid direct conflicts with Bai Ning Bing…"

In the arena, after Chi Yan used much more time to replenish his primeval essence than he really needed, his fight against Gu Yue Man Shi began.

"Are you ready?" Chi Yan asked.

"Ready," Man Shi growled in a low voice.

Upon hearing this word, without waiting even a millisecond longer, Chi Yan broke into a sprint out of the spot and started dashing straight at Man Shi. As he ran, he puffed out a wave of fire out of his nostril and started forming his fire snake, causing it to grow from a necklace size to a five meter length first.

Man Shi's eyes opened wide at this sight. 'What the fuck, attacking so suddenly?!'

Upon seeing that, Man Shi activated his Monolith Gu. His body shone with a deep gray light and soon his skin turned into rock skin.

Chi Yan rapidly closed the distance and then sent the fire snake pouncing straight at Man Shi, while Man Shi began to bravely charge straight at the fire snake.

Although Monolith Gu increased one's weight by a lot, decreasing their speed, the defense from Monolith Gu was definitely incredible. Man Shi was betting on this fact and aimed to break through the fire snake in one shot.

Chi Yan's previous opponents all made this mistake of engaging the fire snake in a drawn-out fight, but Man Shi saw through Chi Yan's trick of using fire pellets to sustain the strength of the fire snake.

Man Shi ran into the snake with his stone fist raised high, thinking in his heart, 'I only need to break through the fire snake with one powerful attack. Once I do that, the fight is over. The Fire Cloak Gu that Chi Yan owns is not very strong against physical attacks.'

The fire snake collided with Man Shi's thick rock-covered body. Man Shi made some progress at first, walking into the stream of fire, but then simply Chi Yan sent a large influx of primeval essence into the Fire Snake Gu, using his full strength, and sent out many fire pellets at it.

Immediately, the fire snake burst out with power and overwhelmed Man Shi, drilling with strength into Man Shi's chest like a pressure gun.

Man Shi was pushed backwards by the fire snake as if it was a waterfall made of fire that was pushing him back. The rock armor on the front of his body melted and crackled, and just a moment later, Man Shi was flung away by the Fire Snake just like all of Chi Yan's previous opponents.

Man Shi's heavy armored body, with a large hole at his chest area, was pushed away for a small distance after crashing with the Fire Snake.

He groaned in pain as he clutched his charred exposed chest.

The match was over in just a few breaths of time. Man Shi ran straight into the fire snake and then was defeated just a moment later.

At this time the Gu Masters' excited and intrigued expressions still lingered on their faces for a while, before they finally turned into dumbfounded ones.

"Eeeh? Gu Yue Man Shi lost, just like that?"

"Man Shi's Monolith Gu was actually broken in just two breaths of time, am I seeing things?"

Apart from those who were stunned by Man Shi's defeat, there were also those who praised Chi Yan's strength.

"Chi Yan's fire snake is really strong. It actually crushed Man Shi's Monolith Gu so easily, incredible!" even Gu Yue Qing Shu praised, looking at Chi Yan with interest and admiration.

After all the rumors that Qing Shu had heard, from the start he was honestly far more interested in Chi Yan rather than Fang Zheng. But Fang Zheng was the A-grade talent recruited by the clan leader faction after all, having higher potential, so he naturally focused on nurturing him in accordance with Gu Yue Bo's wish.

Fang Zheng bit his lips at the side, feeling ashamed. When compared to Chi Yan, not only was his cultivation still at Rank 2 initial stage, but he didn't have any achievements yet at all and his strength was also lower.

Fang Zheng squeezed his fist, cheering for himself in his heart, 'I have already defeated my brother and had stepped out of his shadow. Now I must work hard, and not disappoint the Lord clan leader and Lord Qing Shu. Chi Yan is already so strong, I must work harder!'

In the arena, Chi Yan sighed as he looked at the setting sun, 'It's already getting late today and after my fight with Man Shi people will begin to have more courage to decline my challenge to not risk losing their Gu Worms. I have already earned a few Gu worms and also accomplished my goal of crushing Gu Yue Man Shi, let's call it a day.'

Chi Yan looked at Gu Yue Man Shi who was lying on the ground, receiving healing. He walked toward him slowly and expressionlessly, saying, "Gu Yue Man Shi."

This attracted the Gu Master's attention and some of them quietened down.

Following Great Love's teachings, Chi Yan wanted to have someone under him who was not clearly connected to him, someone who could do things for him he couldn't openly do himself and someone that he could readily discard if needed - a pawn.

For Chi Yan, Gu Yue Man Shi was insignificant just like most other Gu Masters in the Gu Yue village, but Chi Yan knew what kind of person Man Shi was thanks to the novel and felt that he could be a useful pawn, having some value.

Man Shi looked up at Chi Yan, gritting his teeth.

Chi Yan looked down, speaking in disdain, "So in the end you are just a weakling and escaping from Bai Ning Bing was just a fluke. But I will not bully a Senior. Without the Monolith Gu you would really be useless and have no combat strength, so all you need to do is pass me one thousand five hundred primeval stones and you can keep your precious Monolith Gu."

Looking up at Chi Yan, Man Shi felt tremendous grief and anger, opened his mouth but did not speak, because he really wanted to take Chi Yan's offer. He didn't want to lose his Monolith Gu.

"What, why aren't you thanking me?" Chi Yan asked coldly, his blue eyes eerily looking down on Gu Yue Man Shi.

Man Shi's expression froze.

Just what sort of pair of eyes was that?

If it was full of killing intent, Man Shi would not be afraid. However, this pair of eyes was filled with indifference.

This indifference was like arrogance towards reality, the disdain toward him as a human being.

'This pair of eyes, this pair of eyes…' Man Shi's eyes shrunk into pin-size as the deepest memory in his heart played.

Chi Yan's pair of deep blue eyes reminded him of another pair of azure blue eyes, the nightmare of his life!

Two years ago, at night in the bamboo forest.

A young man in white clothing trampled him under his feet and similarly looked at him with indifference.

"Damn it, god damn it! If I had refined the Monolith Gu, how could you break my defense?" Death was impending. Man Shi screamed with his life, full of indignance.

"Oh? In that case, I shall not kill you." The white-clothed young man's lips curled, revealing a smile full of interest, "Go back to the village and cultivate harder. Refine the Monolith Gu and let's have a match again. Hehehe, I hope that in the future, you can bring a tint of excitement to my life."

Saying so, the young man lifted his feet, sparing him.

Man Shi breathed roughly, lying on the ground, not expecting this turn of events. He stared at this white-clothed young man in shock.

The young man looked at him like an ant, saying indifferently, "Why aren't you scramming?"

Man Shi's body shook as he hurriedly got up and made his escape.

This white-clothed young man was none other than Bai village's number one genius, Bai Ning Bing. Back then, he was only Rank 2, but could already kill Rank 3 clan elders!

Man Shi escaping from Bai Ning Bing and preserving his life caused his fame to shoot up.

Through the two years, Bai Ning Bing's facial expression had become a blur in his memories, and he could only remember those eyes.

Eyes that looked at the common life, the world with indifference. The high and mighty iris, hiding an unbelievable pride that mortals cannot comprehend.

To think...

To think!

To think that in his own village, he could see a similar pair of eyes!

At this moment, Man Shi's heart was filled with terror, the indignance and anger in his heart dissipating without a drop of resistance left.

Chi Yan closely observed Man Shi's facial expression and saw that his objective was achieved. He said indifferently, "Whatever. Sell one of your Gu worms and then pass me the primeval stones in the next few days and I'll allow you to keep your precious Monolith Gu."

After speaking, Chi Yan turned away and then looked at the crowd. He called out, "Thank you for watching, but the show is over."

…

Several hours later.

Chi Yan laid in his bed, gently caressing the sexy bodies of his slim and beautiful girlfriends, a fond and peaceful expression on his face. His three girlfriends laid around him, cuddling closely and quietly after the wild activities they had together a while ago.

After the Gu battles ended, various people immediately approached Chi Yan to congratulate him, including his small team, his girlfriends and even Gu Yue Qing Shu.

Chi Suo and the bunch invited him out for drinks, but Chi Yan declined them and invited his girlfriends over instead.

At that time Chi Yan couldn't help but see how incredibly turned on and horny his girls were, and were giving him wild 'I really want you to fuck me right now' looks. He also felt very turned on upon seeing their expressions and felt that it would be a shame to pass on this chance.

And indeed, they had some incredible, incredible sex that night.

'Having sex with a girl you actually find incredibly attractive is great, having sex with a girl incredibly attractive who's super super into you is even better, doing it with three is even better than that, but doing it at a time when all of you are wildly turned due to the circumstances is just on another level,' Chi Yan's heart thought as he lightly squeezed Wei Yanyu's small and tight bubble butt, feeling it in his hand.

For a normal person this kind of life was simply too difficult to abandon.

Chi Yan had his ambitions beyond that and was determined to achieve much more in this life, but he still felt that perhaps if not for Fang Yuan's existence in this world and this pressure he might have gotten quite complacent, not working as hard as he truly could.

At this time the smallest Wei Yanyu was laying on top of Chi Yan chest, snuggling into his chest, covered in sticky fluids in various places. He kissed her cheek and rolled her over, "Off you go, girl. I have to prepare the Vitality Leaves."

The three girls watched as Chi Yan got up from bed, put on his underwear and sat down at a desk nearby. They also stood up and came over to watch from behind Chi Yan's back.

"Chi Yan, are you going to use the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass?" Shen Guang asked. 

"Yeah," Chi Yan said.

"Oh." It would actually be the first time that they would see Chi Yan use the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass.

On top of Chi Yan's left palm there was now a green insignia with a grass pattern, like a dark-green tattoo.

Chi Yan's thoughts moved and the primeval essence in his Aperture began to move, like light red fog flowing towards the insignia on his hand.

The green insignia was instantly brought alive. From Chi Yan's palm, the tip of the grass emerged, followed by the round leaves of nine dark green leaves, lastly followed by the jade green transparent stem. As for the roots, they were not exposed.

On his palm, the original dark green tattoo was gone, only leaving behind traces of dark green lines. It represented the intertwining of the grass with Chi Yan's palm.

Right now, Chi Yan's palm was like a piece of land, and a Nine Leaf Vitality Grass was growing on top of it, like the exquisite art made of jade stone carvings.

The three girls, still naked, watched in fascination as Chi Yan stretched out his right hand's finger and plucked the leaves one by one.

With every piece of round leaf that he plucked, Chi Yan could feel a slight pain himself, like the feeling of pulling out his hair.

After the nine pieces were plucked and placed at desk by Chi Yan, there was only the bare stem of the Nine Leaf Vitality Grass left on his palm.

"That easy?" Wei Yanyu asked with a look of surprise. Just like that Chi Yan produced nine Vitality Leaves by simply plucking them, which was nine hundred primeval stones!

Chi Yan looked at her and explained, "I have already fully grown the nine leaves before, so I only needed to pluck them. To grow each Vitality Leaf it requires 20% of Rank 2 initial stage primeval essence."

Chi Yan then deployed his primeval essence. Scarlet red colored primeval essence of a Rank 2 middle stage Gu Master continued to rise from his palm like a cloud of mist, and covered the jade green stem of Nine Life Vitality Grass Gu.

The stem continued to absorb the primeval essence, and eventually a bud started to grow from deep within the stem. This budding was pinkish green, small, delicate and very fragile, breaking upon contact.

Chi Yan continued to use his primeval essence, and the bud grew bigger, its color deepening. Eventually it grew into a piece of dark green color, a completely mature leaf.

He said, "10% of my Rank 2 middle stage primeval essence was used up which means I can create seven leaves in one go, almost eight."

Chi Yan then created six more pieces and plucked them all. Naturally, he could easily create 9 all at once, but he had to pretend to have a 78% Aptitude.

Fifteen pieces of Vitality Leaves laid on Chi Yan's desk.

Vitality Leaf is a Rank 1 consumable type healing Gu, produced by the Rank 2 Nine-Leaf Vitality Grass Gu.

It has an immediate therapeutic effect at the level of a Rank 1 Life Breath Grass Gu, but has two downsides: it is consumed upon use and after healing the wounds the other Vitality Leaves will have no healing effect for one hour.

However, despite these flaws it is a very sought-after Gu worm. It is easy to refine, heals instantly and is almost free to nurture, as it only needs to be fed water and sunlight. It is the most popular treatment method for Rank 2 Gu Masters. 

In each group there is usually one healing Gu Master, but if multiple team members are injured at the same time, how can a healing Gu Master take care of them all? What if the healing Gu Master dies first or if he is separated from the team? 

Therefore Gu Masters often prepare their own means of treatment and the Vitality Leaf is the best and most basic one. Basically, Gu Masters who go out of the village will always have one or two pieces. 

The living environment in this world is very harsh. How can Gu Masters who go out to perform tasks not get injured?

Thus the demand for Vitality Leaves always exists and using the Nine-Leaf Vitality Grass Gu is an incredible business tightly controlled by the few clan elders in power.

Right now the Vitality Leaves readily sold by Chi Yan for a lower price were selling like hot cakes and there seemed to be no end to the demand.

Chi Yan then created one more Vitality Leaf and placed all of them into a bag, pushing the bag closer toward the girls, and said, "Here's sixteen more Vitality Leaves. Thank you so much for selling these for me. I'm sorry that I'm so stingy with you right now even though I'm so rich, but I really need to save a lot of primeval stones to buy and refine Gu."

The three girls smiled at Chi Yan.

"It's alright, we don't mind," Kong Lian said,

"Right, we want to help," Shen Guang added.

Chi Yan smiled as he stood up and hugged the trio. "Thank you girls."