Chapter 21: Corpse puppet

Gulp!

Gu Li Cheng swallowed hard and his brain finally clicked with understanding.

'How did uncle become so young?, how did Lin ju'er suddenly breakthrough to the foundation establishment realm like the young stars of those great clans, despite being at a young age?.

They became demon cultivators!, Do they want me to join them as family?... I'm very sure uncle might kill me right now, should I'

His eyes dilated and he became visibly pale, He tried thinking of what to do but nothing came up.

"What are you thinking? Brother Li Cheng... Father your scaring him!" Gu Linju finally chose to diffuse the situation.

Gu Lin Fang's eyes shined with delight, impressed he thought silently  'Good save!' while looking at the girl from the side.

He quickly withdrew the pressure and walked down the stairs.

Gu Linju then asked Li Cheng, "what do you think?".

Cold sweat rolled down the side of Gu Li Cheng's face as he hasn't recovered from the shock but Gu Linju continued while making sure not to slip up, "For our revenge, father used what Jianghu would call Evil methods to force our hidden bloodline.

When it worked...

That was how we decided that, the fastest way for our clan to become stronger is to use this method"

Gu Lin Ju continued to speak While they walked, Gu Lin Fang was once again impressed by the girl and couldn't hold back his smirk.

'Go on, continue spinning stuff, you would do well as a politician' with such thoughts, he used {Sensing} on Gu Li Cheng just to have an idea of what he could do with him.

This was a different way to use sensing, when he was using it on Pan yu Xing, he wanted to know his origin but this time he was trying to sense what he could use Li Cheng for.

[Gu Li Cheng:

NPC qualifications: Green Rank Elite

Age : 31

Cultivation: 9th stage of Foundation establishment realm.

Affiliation: Member of the Fallen Gu clan.

Reputation: Li Cheng, Blacksmith genius{Iron IV}

Summary: growing up, It has been noticed that Gu Li Cheng had great blacksmithing talent.

it's advisable to improve and use him in that direction.

Presently doubting life]

Reading these, Gu Lin Fang couldn't help smiling as he thought, 'So he's not a cultivation talent but a blacksmith genius, then he has nothing to do with this basement. Better to steer him in a different direction'.

He stopped his movement on the stairs and said, "Li Cheng, the reason I called you was to let you know that you will need to start producing weapons immediately.

Take these spirit stones, buy everything you need to work...ill get you a location to work from...".

Gu Lin Fang stretched out his hand to pass a pouch to Li Cheng.

The latter's expression paled, his brain began to wonder what he had done wrong.

Unable to come to a conclusion, He quickly fell to his knees, "Uncle, Uncle please forgive me! You know I don't like it. I want to grow stronger as well and help in our revenge!.

Look, look...I, I, l'm tired of being useless!.

Lin ju'er, please help me talk to uncle... I'm sorry!!"

Gu Linju was also distressed by the sudden changes but she felt she shouldn't just keep silent.

"Father..." She started but noticed how Gu Lin Fang narrowed his gaze, she didn't know what he was thinking.

On the other hand, Gu Lin Fang was thinking about something else. ' hold on, what if this evaluation changes after activating his bloodline, do I really have to follow the system's advise completely or is the system working it's way around my own actions?.

Maybe I'll just use him as the guinea pig'.

He looked at Gu Li Cheng who was now hugging his legs and suddenly found him pleasing to his eyes but...

'too soft' Gu Lin Fang frowned once again, "Gu! Li! Cheng!".

"..." Gu Li Cheng's actions froze.

"What do I always say about crying?, It seems there's a lot of water in your body.

Do we need to reduce it? Do I get a bucket?" He spoke in a mock contemplation and Gu Lin Ju couldn't help laughing.

"Get up, go and call Yu Xing over..."

Gu Linju was lost, "Yu Xing?..."

"..." Gu Li Cheng on the other hand, wore a pitiful expression and wished to continue begging.

Seeing this Gu Lin Fang clicked his tongue with slight irritation, "Don't give me that look, go and call him. Be sure I see you here in five minutes!".

The Two youngsters smiled upon his last sentence and Gu Li Cheng quickly ran off.

"Father..." Gu Linju tried to speak but Gu Lin Fang said, "don't worry, there has to be another way."

This, however, made Gu Linju confused but she chose to remain calm upon seeing her father lost in thought.

"Who is this Yu Xing?" She still asked, unable to hold back curious mind.

Gu Lin Fang paused and began to wonder what to answer with, surely Gu Linju would be able to feel the bloodline within Gu Yu Xing, though it's slightly weakened.

So he Couldn't call him a guest and Gu Yu Xing was someone he intends to groom into his right hand man due to his connections.

In the end he said, "Think of him as your cousin and adoptive brother.

He's the son of a friend".

"..." Gu Linju didn't know what to say but chose to stay quiet for now.

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Upon arriving in front of his cauldron, Gu Lin Fang removed the corpse from inside. He took note of how Gu Linju's breath stopped for a second but didn't make a sound.

He thought absentmindedly, 'Good girl, that's an improvement'.

He placed the corpse on the ground and touched it's skin to see if there was an improvement.

The manual never said anything about refining the corpse like poison pills but this was his first test to see if he could improvise or do things from his own belief.

The corpse's skin was now thick, he tried cutting it's arm open with a plain knife but failed to do so.

"Good" He finally says.

Gu Lin Ju was curious, she came closer and observed more. She noticed the corpse's finger and toenails became black.

"Why are his nails black, father?"

Gu Lin Fang looked at the places she talked about and couldn't help smiling, "don't touch that place, that is where all the poison gathered".

He brought out the remaining materials from the spatial ring and began working.

One of the magic beast cores, looked really black, like it had been removed from a tier 2 shadow beast. If you compared the Qi inside the core to a human's Qi, it would be a foundation establishment realm expert.

But everyone knows that, Magic beasts have always been stronger than humans. With this strength, the beast could fight an early stage human Auroras Core expert without much danger to itself.

Ideally, he would have used one of the tier 3 cores but he didn't want to gamble it on an experiment.

He picked up the core and gently placed it on the array he drew the other night. Once he did, it melted into the array with a blood red glow.

That was enough to let him know that it was a success, all the parts of the array chiseled onto the bones of the corpse had a black eerie glow on them.

Gu Lin Fang then filled the corpse with the yin infested earth that he had taken from the Pan mansion and before he was done, the part where the corpse had been cut open slowly closed up.

"Complete!" Gu Lin Fang says excitedly as he used sensing on it.

[Name: _______

Grade: Green --->Blue

Qi : 5000/8000 {Foundation establishment realm}

Durability: 1000/1000

Attack: 132-145

(2% Poison attack Bonus)

Defense: 60-124

(Upgradeable)

Bonus:

Yin corpse poison: As a zombie puppet, it has a 15% chance of poisoning the target with corpse poison.

CD time(15 secs)

Stealth (passive): due to the core attribute used, it has a passive of hiding it's presence. This effect disappears upon entering combat.

Physical resistance: due to days of refining, the corpse puppet has developed a certain resistance to cut or stab attacks.]

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'This... just to get a complete information, it took a lot of Qi.

But I actually succeeded in making changes...this is amazing, the system translates it into a weapon.

What are the probability of getting an effect from refining, did it have to do with my alchemy rank?

does this mean, wow, there are so much possibilities.

There's also the poison damage from refining, different from the normal corpse poison...hmm physical resistance'

His mind was filled with a lot as his daughter watched expectantly for the final verdict.

'Everything is complete, it's just to connect a part of my consciousness into the puppet.

But, I better have Li Cheng do the testing first.

I'll see how he does making puppets'.