28 28- Gu have to be fed.
The night was descending, yet it was still brightly lit in the area.
An endless stream of pedestrians spilled into the area from the village. There were mortals as well as Gu Masters. The little children hopped around in high spirits, and the adults showed an expression of joy akin to celebrating a festival.
Liu Sang moved along with the crowd, walking alone.
The crowd was bustling with activity, groups of people either surrounding the stalls or endlessly pouring in and out of the entrance of the tents.
The surroundings were filled with the shouts of merchants hawking their wares.
"Come, come, take a look. Top notch Blue Sea Cloud tea brick, drinking this tea makes one as cheerful as a fairy! Even if it's not a person drinking, it can be used for feeding and raising tea Gu, it is a cheaply priced item for its value. One piece only costs five primeval stones!"
"Brute Force Longhorn Beetle Gu, a Gu Master who uses this Gu will be able to burst out with the strength of a cow. You can walk away, but don't regret it!"
"Intimate Grass, high quality Intimate Grass. Everyone look at this quality, it's as fresh as if a newly picked one. One catty for two pieces of primeval stones, very cheap price..."
He saw an ostrich pulling a handcart with two wheels. On the handcart was a heap of pastel green herbs. Every blade of grass was a meter in length, slender and long. Their average width was around that of a fingernail. On some of the pointed tips of the grass grew red heart-shaped flower buds.
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The Intimate Grass was one of a Gu worm's supplementary food type, its worth was stemmed from the fact that it could be used to pair up with a few other foods to feed a Gu worm.
Gu have to be fed.
A Gu Master refines Gu, uses Gu, and at the same time needs to raise Gu.
Refining a Gu is difficult; there is the risk of counterattack. Using a Gu is not easy; one needs a lot of practice. The knowledge of raising a Gu is even more extensive and profound, because there are all kinds of Gu worms and their food are exceedingly strange. Some need to swallow soil, some need starlight, some require tears and some feed on the clouds and air from the nine skies.
Just by taking Liu Sang's current Gu for example, the Qi-blade Gu requires Qi flower petals, two meals a day. In the morning and night one meal, every meal two pieces of flower petals.
Liu Sang calculated in his mind, "A piece of primeval stone can buy me ten pieces of flower petals. The Qi-blade Gu consumed four pieces everyday.I also have many other Gu worms."
It does not seem like much, but in reality this was very costly. The monthly living expenses for a mortal family of three only used up one piece of primeval stone.
He also needed to practice using Gu worms, which meant that the rate of consumption of primeval stones would increase.
To increase proficiency, one would need to practice many times. When too much primeval essence is consumed, primeval stones would have to be used as a supplement since the recovery rate is too slow.
The more high-end the Gu is, the greater the food consumption needed or the more precious and rare the food required would be, thus the more difficult it would be to keep. A normal level Rank two Gu worm would cost up to around one to two pieces of primeval stones a day.
It is good enough if the food is purchasable. There were some Gu that required food that was relatively difficult to find, some of it did not even circulate in the market.
In theory a Gu Master can refine an unlimited amount of Gu. As long as you can refine it, whether ten, a hundred or a thousand worms is possible. You can refine as many Gu as you wish to.
But in reality a Gu Master normally only had 4-5 Gu.
Why?
The biggest reason is because it is hard to afford.
The higher the grade of the worm, the more expensive it would cost to feed and raise. It often gave a Gu Master too many difficulties to cope with, making them have unceasing headaches over it.
To use the Qi-blade Gu to throw out a single Qi-blade attack, one would need to use up 10% of primeval essence. A C grade talent Gu Master could run out of primeval essence in their apertures after launching three to four attacks.
To raise so many Gu, wouldn't it be a waste if one couldn't use them anyway?
Thus in the Gu Master's cultivation there was a saying going around: Raising a Gu is like raising a mistress.
To keep a mistress you would need to buy food, clothes, a house etc. It is very expensive and the more you have the more costly it is; a normal man cannot afford it.
Even if you keep so many, a man's energy is limited; he cannot use them all. Would you raise them just to look at them?
When the rank of the Gu Master increases, so does the food standard of the Gu worm. Thus please refrain from seeing how a Gu Master has no limit to the number of refining Gu; in general a Gu Master only keeps around 4-5 Gu of his level.
If the number of Gu was raised higher, the Gu Master would go bankrupt!
Well that didn't apply to Liu Yang who had a lot of primeval stones, and had his own resources in order to feed many Rank 5 Gu worms.
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Anyway, let's get back to our original topic.
The Intimate Grass was one of a Gu worm's supplementary food type, its worth was stemmed from the fact that it could be used to pair up with a few other foods to feed a Gu worm.
For example, Liu Sang needed to give two pieces of flower petals every meal to the Qi-blade Gu when feeding it. If he mixed in a blade of Intimate Grass, the Qi-blade Gu would be full just from eating one petal.
The Intimate Grass only costs two pieces of primeval stones per catty, while the Qi flower petal cost a primeval stone for every ten pieces. With a simple calculation, one would know that mixing the Intimate Grass in to feed the Gu would be more cost-effective.
"I have 300 primeval stones that I obtained from skipping the first three stages of inheritance, and I also obtained many Gu worms but I still have trouble feeding them. Fortunately they are rank 1 Gu worms." Because he couldn't show Gu worms to the clan members, it was difficult to buy food for them because that would arouse some suspicion.
He also couldn't show that he had many many primeval stones because that would only lead to more suspicion.
But fortunately for Liu Sang, the food his Gu worms needed was on Feng Jing Mountain and wasn't scarce. Apparently the person who left the inheritance thought about the difficulty of feeding the Gu worms so he put his inheritance into this mountain which had many materials to feed the Gu worms in his inheritance.
The Intimate Grass stall was surrounded by a group of people. They were all either Gu Masters or students, holding primeval stones in their hands as they shouted and rushed to buy it.
Liu Sang only purchased a small amount of The Intimate Grass, then he moved his line of sight and continued walking deeper into the heart of the setup of temporary stores.
It was not that Liu Sang lacked the money to buy Intimate Grass, He just can't show he's rich. "Should I disguise in order to buy a larger quantity?"
"But there is a way to make me appear rich without arousing suspicion, but I hope I won't get caught because that would cause a lot of problems." Liu Sang sighed while looking at the Gu worm swimming in his Primeval Sea.
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● Author: I wonder if this chapter is boring for you, because it mostly talks about Liu Sang and feeding Gu worms.
