27 Future's Blueprint
Blood! That's the first thing anyone would notice seeing the carnage happening in a once peaceful and vibrant clearing of Longhua Shan Mountain, now painted red with various bodies on the ground.
These bodies belong solely to gu masters, with the majority in a deplorable state, with very few still managing to cling to life by a hair's breadth.
And outside this battlefield of life or death is another smaller group of gu masters wearing characteristic dark azure clothing of the He An clan, observing the battle while conversing among themselves.
"Enslavement Path is truly frightening, especially when combined with your Blood path," Chen Ming speaks with a certain level of animation, as this battle force is in his brother's hands, but he is also dismayed at the possibility of their enemies being able to develop something similar.
"I doubt even we would be able to withstand such a force," Zen Fu says, but still keeps most of his attention on the battlefield as he needs to concentrate on the thorn barrier he created to trap their dying enemies like flies.
"Blood Creature Family Gu, just as I imagined, the effect is incredible against low-ranking gu masters!" Chen Wei is now using the recently advanced version of the rank 1 Blood Creature Gu, the rank 2 Blood Creature Family Gu, which not only has greater combat capability, allowing the bloody creatures to reach a strength comparable to rank 2 peak stage if they consume enough blood.
But they also come in larger numbers, with each Gu generating twelve bloody creatures that function basically like a family, obeying the strongest creature in their family.
This is a great advantage for the gu master controlling the bloody creatures, as it only requires a fraction of mental energy compared to what he would have to expend if he had to control each bloody creature individually.
This was a feature he created, drawing inspiration from the blood bats that appear in the first volume of the novel, and which it is said Fang Yuan used in his past life, which was quite easy considering they were also blood path gu beasts.
"My ability in Enslavement Path is still too low. With such an advantage, it still takes me half an hour to kill them. It's quite pathetic," Chen Wei is now using an army of sixty bloody creatures, most of which are at rank 1 peak stage, with eight of them at initial stage and two at rank 2 middle stage in terms of combat strength, as they, of course, did not have cultivation levels.
The allies of the team look at Chen Wei with a complicated look because this group they ambushed and Chen Wei is massacring is a group of medium strength from the Xiong Mao Clan, and even so, Chen Wei managed to kill them in mere half an hour, but somehow in his eyes, this is too long!
"Shit! Shit! Why don't these damn beasts die?!" The only remaining gu master screams in despair after seeing yet another of the bloody creatures he wounded take a bit of blood and become unscathed again as if it had never been injured.
"Argh!!!" But before he could do anything about his own indignation, he feels a bite on his ribs and knows it was one of these blood creatures that not only do not become more wounded and weaker but are actually becoming stronger.
"There's nothing a mere rank 1 peak stage gu master can do against this..." Chen Wei sighs as he looks at the group leader of the Xiong Mao Clan gu masters, who had a rank 2 initial stage cultivation but was quickly killed when he had to fight ten rank 2 beasts.
In fact, the only reason this gu master is still alive is that after killing their leader, Chen Wei no longer used the rank 2 beasts to fight; instead, he focused on using these gu masters as dummies for his Enslavement Path practice.
"Unfortunately, the consumption of primeval essence is still quite high," Chen Wei inspects his aperture and sees his middle stage primeval essence reserves have already halved, even with the use of the Fierce Leech Gu.
"Well, you alone killed a group of medium strength from the Xiong Mao Clan and only spent half of your rank 2 initial stage primeval essence!" Tai Pi speaks with a look of consternation, as for him, this is an achievement that, if done by him, would become the greatest honor of his life, which he would always tell his descendants.
But Chen Wei did this act, which is extremely impressive in Tai Pi's eyes, only to test the strength of his new creation, and he could still do all this from a tranquil position without having to put his life at risk.
"This kind of gu will probably be the most important after I finally become the clan leader!" The position of clan leader of the He An Clan is Chen Wei's first major life goal, and just as the time Fang Yuan spent in the Shang Clan will be the trampoline that will allow him to rise to the heavens.
In fact, a large part of cultivation at the mortal level has already been planned by Chen Wei, with countless contingency plans for any kind of situation he might encounter, whether realistic or not, because to him, even if the chance of something happening is zero, it is still worth preparing for if one day it actually happens.
And in these plans, if everything goes according to what he expects without any accidents that could radically change his plan, he plans to remain as the leader of the He An Clan on Longhua Shan Mountain as an example of a leader of the righteous path.
A just but stricter ruler who maintains order and discipline with an iron fist from a now Longhua Shan Mountain that was unified by him, thus allowing him to severely develop the Clan while not having the threat of a hostile clan on his doorstep.
As for the future of the other two clans, he plans to assimilate them by incapacitating all men of fighting age and turning them into servants of the He An Clan, and simply killing those who have a spirit too strong to surrender.
While the old ones who will only be a burden will all be exterminated efficiently and cleanly, and with those young and easily influenced children, they will be the main targets of propaganda and brainwashing to lose their old identities as members of the Xiong Mao and Feng Zhi clans and now consider themselves as legitimate gu masters of the He An Clan.
And lastly, the women will play an extremely important role, and that is to generate a new generation for the He An Clan. Of course, Chen Wei plans to encourage birth rates and increase the number of children among the free men and women who are members of the He An Clan.
But he intends to use the women of the other two clans to ensure that this birth rate increases at an alarming rate that could take the He An Clan from a medium-sized clan to a large one in at least 50 years.
He also plans to vigorously develop the economy and strength of the Gu Masters of the He An Clan so that they can have numerous rank 4 and rank 5 gu masters. Of course, Chen Wei plans to only allow extremely loyal people or those from his direct family to reach these cultivation levels.
Still, in Chen Wei's ideal world, in these 50 years, the He An Clan will be a famous and imposing gu master Clan that he can use to obtain the greatest number of benefits possible to aid in his cultivation beyond the development of Blood path.
Of course, during this time, Chen Wei will be increasing his attainment in the Blood path and other important paths as much as possible, as well as focusing as much as possible on maximizing his life experiences to obtain enough human qi to achieve a high-quality immortal aperture.
And a prosperous He An Clan will be of great help to him as it will allow him not only to develop the Blood path at a much faster rate than just one person, no matter how talented he is, could do.
Furthermore, several abilities of the Blood path may require the use of people who have a blood connection with himself, being that one of the reasons why Giant Sun left his descendants behind as he did.
Well, but this only concerns the mortal world for now, as after he succeeds in his immortal ascension, Chen Wei plans to switch to the demoniac path and go out through the southern border causing chaos as he kills and plunders indefinitely wherever he goes, leaving an endless trail of blood.
And it is at this moment that he will take inspiration from two future Venerables, namely Spectral Soul and Fang Yuan, who used killing and force to cause chaos at the southern border while plundering the Super Clans in broad daylight the way they wanted.
And one of the things that may be most important to his plan but at the same time is something he is not sure if already exists in this era.
That is the inheritance of Bai Gu that has not yet been inherited by the three kings and may still be at its peak, giving Chen Wei the opportunity to refine a legendary rank 6 gu called Second Aperture Gu, which can allow him to cultivate two paths besides having double the recovery speed of immortal essence as well as two immortal apertures.
Of course, from his knowledge of the novel, there are still more inheritances, but of those that are on the southern border and are easy to obtain, he can easily discover their location, and this is the only one, and even Chen Wei is not sure if it already exists or is yet to appear in the future.
"Argh! Argh!!" Chen Wei is snapped out of his thoughts by the Xiong Mao Clan gu master who has just given his last scream before dying, falling into a puddle of his own blood and urine.
"Ah, what a depressing end for a brave warrior!" Huang Be speaks while having a serious and stern look on his face as he stands still, his body seeming as solid and strong as a monolith.
"This is probably my last kill in some time..." Chen Wei murmurs quietly, as he has asked his grandfather and Chen Ming for some time away from the frontlines, as he plans to advance to Rank 2 Middle stage in no more than a month, since he is already in the fourth month of the year and at the slow pace his cultivation is going, he may only be able to advance to the middle stage in another four months.
His grandfather readily accepted his request, as did Chen Ming, as for both of them, Chen Wei's cultivation is very important, so this mission, which was more of a test for Chen Wei's new creation, will be the last one he will do until he reaches the middle stage of rank 2.
