Chapter 28: Lunatic's reasoning

In a dark room a pair of eyes were glowing, it looks like a predetor was feasting on its prey. This pair of eyes belongs to Xun Shung, who was killing some gu master slaves for his next refinement. To stabilize the last step of refinement, he needed something which could hold ethereal objects. Qi path gu worms are the best choice but in Jia family, he didn't find any useful item. So he move on to the next choice, which was the aperture of a gu master, combined with human and heaven dao's profound mystery, a gu master's aperture is real and virtual at the same time and could hold ethereal things like primveal essence.

Xun Shung prepared the refinement materials and started the fire, one by one he successfully completed the steps. For using a gu master's aperture for holding the incomplete gu embryo it was really simple to do that. Taking man-beast life burial gu's refrence, Xun Shung simply make the slave gu master eat that incomplete gu. The fire started to burn from the gu master's inside. He waited for some time and after the ball completely stabilizes, he put the slave's entire body on fire and started to throw blood path gu worms to it. The room was filled with a bloody roasted stench. Xun Shung had to breath through special means in that environment.But even after successfully doing everything, the gu refinement failed. The backlash was enough to knock Xun Shung out.

Even after 6 years of refinement experience, he couldn't refine a rank 4 gu worm without much difficulty. These days in refining, he felt like he knew instinctively that what is the cause of failure of the refinement. If the refinement failed because of his mistake, not proper merging of materials or a natural failure.

After some rest, Xun Shung: "maybe my attainment is increasing in refinement, now after 6 years of refining this should be correct that Iam reaching at ordinary level."

After three days of rest, Xun Shung tried refining the gu worm again, even this time he failed miserably. But with this failure, he come to sense something, the blood path gu he is refining needs it's owner's body to stabilize itself. In the last stage of refining, the gu needs it's owner's blood while it was being refined inside the aperture.

Xun Shung was now nervous, he knew this time the risk is high, if he failes this time then not only his soul and body, but his aperture also have to share the burden of the backlash. For this refinement, he wants to prepare himself and the best idea for this was to observe someone else doing it. He flew to the slave market and also notified Jia Fu that he needs a refinement path slave this time. After searching for the entire day, he finally found one. The man he found was an old man, he and his family were war victims.

After refining this gu for 3 times, Xun Shung knew that usage of any types of enslavement gu worms will not going to help. So he made a deal with the old gu master that "if he refines a rank 4 gu for Xun Shung, then he will give his family 'compete freedom' even if he failes then also Xun Shung will do the same." The old man agreed, he happily started to prepare for the refinement, he was atleast quasi-master in refining. So Xun Shung asked him many things about refinement, his problems regarding how to increase mental focus, about the catalyst and stabilizing materials and techniques.

The old man started to refine the gu after 3 days of preparation and after completly understanding the recipe. The old man's refinement techniques were excellent, Xun Shung sit in front of him to learn and took refrence from it. Finally when the last step came, the old man used his entire focus and experience on it. But even then he also failed. With a Boom!! the refinement failed, the room was a mess and old man's condition was even worse. His mouth and nose were spouting blood non-stop. His hands were trembling but even then he turned his gaze towards Xun Shung and said with a weak voice, "hehehe!, the refinement failed naturally and Iam going to die but knowing that you will free my family is enough for me " saying so his last breath escaped his body.

Watching all this Xun Shung's face was indifferent, he started to walk towards the other room, where the old man's family resided. His mouth opened with a puzzled look on his face. He was thinking about the last words of the old man,

He came to the other room, there he saw a pair of eyes were watching him with ruthless gaze. Old man's son was furious about his father's death, he knew that Xun Shung is his mortal enemy from now on. Xun Shung also saw him and understood the meaning behind the old man's last word now.

Xun Shung: " We wanted freedom from varients and after taking that we killed them all. But that wasn't wrong, the wrong thing was to label the killing as a right thing to do. We need a justified reasoning to back up our cruel and evil deeds, just so that we can answer our inner self, just so that we can judge others on the same scale, just to feel accepted and not alone. So tell me, what is your excuse to kill me?" Xun Shung asked the old man's son.

The son was confused for sometimes, he couldn't prepare an answer towards this arrow, he now knew that killing itself is wrong, there's no way to justify it. Even if Xun Shung killed his father, then that doesn't mean that he could kill Xun Shung on this basis alone and if he do so, then there will be no difference between him and Xun Shung.

But even if he accepted that, even if he knew that, he wants to kill Xun Shung a hundred times more, there was a strange surge from inside his heart that was telling him to kill the man in front of him. After observing his eyes for sometime Xun Sung knew the decision he made.

Xun Shung: "Humans are greedy creature afterall, we just can't be satisfied with one thing for the rest of the life, we need new things, more harder obstacles to give a meaning to our existence. First freedom, then revenge, then what?"

"Cultivation is itself is a curse, freedom is just a perspective's delusion. True freedom is something else, it's the end of the tunnel and I promised your old man that I will give you all complete freedom and what's better than the freedom from this meaning less existence" hearing all this, the family members think they are dealing with a lunatic, they now knew what's awaiting for them.

With a lightning strike, Xun Shung killed all the family members ruthlessly.

"And Iam the most hypocritical and greedy of them all, no wait a minute Heavenly Court and Fang Yuan are there for the first place, hehehe!"

His franatic like eyes came to being normal. His mind was calm now, he knew that if he had left the family unchecked, the son will definitely come to take revenge, he knew that a otherworldly is always hated by the heavens, he couldn't leave any of the potential threat alive. He must kill them all or they will kill him in the future.

Thinking so, he prepared himself in the mind for the refinement, after many failures and observing the old man, he now has some confidence to refine the gu successfully. He prepared for the refinement immediately and started the refinement.

He sat cross legged and set up the fire, after some time, he threw refinement materials one by one, after the fire changed it's colour he put some gu worms in it and primeval stones after that. The gu started to take form, Xun Shung applied all his focus to keep it growing furthur, after the embryo was refined he swallow the gu. Immediately a translucent embryo, with fire burning around it was transferred to his aperture where the refinement continue. His forehead was sweating, his focus was on controlling the amount of blood inside the gu, as the gu was sucking on his blood by itself. After it sucked and completed its fill, Xun Shung started to having light concussions due to low blood amount. But he somehow managed to move ahead as he knew the most difficult step was over now. He then put the Primeval essence in the refinement, time after time he have to use primeval stones to replenish his supply.

After doing this process for an hour the gu finally started to take its shape and after half an hour finally the gu was in its final stage. At this time, Xun Shung's consciousness was hard to maintain, he put blood path gu worms one by one, after 10 minutes of burning from inside and adding gu worms to the fire, the gu worm was finally refined.

Rank 4- blood born gu was finally refined but Xun Shung was not in any condition to test it out, he lost consciousness just after that but he made a slight mistake to not clean up the mess inside his aperture and a light spark occurred inside, which damaged his gu worms but the damage was stopped by the Hope gu eventually.