18 Refining method

The sun had almost stood upright in the blue noon sky, several white clouds seemed to float around to decorate it. Some birds seem to be flying and seem to wake up late so that they are still looking for food.

In an inn near the end of the village, this building looks like it has been standing for a long time, but due to the maintenance done properly it still looks good and proper to run business.

In front of this building, several people were seen passing by to take care of their respective activities.

Fang Yuan chose this place to spend the night, when he arrived at this place, the night was almost over. So he finally fell asleep and woke up when it was almost noon.

Fang Yuan walked towards his new home that had been provided by the clan leader.

On his way home, he found several people looking up at him and whispering.

"Is that him? He's Gu Yue Fang Yuan?"

"How could he do that? Isn't he a C grade talent? "

Today the bulletin about the first one who refined a Gu was published.

Actually this bulletin was published yesterday, but because yesterday there was a meeting to discuss the future of this clan, that was fang zheng's issue. The academy elder decided to make it public today.

Many cynical looks were staring at Fang Yuan, but he just ignored them.

Fang Yuan arrived at the gate of his house, the guard on duty greeted Fang Yuan.

He was a mortal, he was neither lean nor muscular, he was just an ordinary person who was given the task of guarding this gate, not to protect it from attacks.

"Good morning, young master Fang Yuan."

Fang Yuan only nodded his head slightly.

The guard opened the gate, but he still felt that Fang Yuan really looked like the rumors he had heard.

'He really is like a doll, his gaze is empty and there is almost no expression on his face!'

But it was a good thing according to the guard, if the owner of the house he was guarding was a jerk. Maybe the job will become more difficult.

He saw Fang Yuan enter the house.

Inside the house, Fang Yuan was greeted again by Li Wei and Lu Hua.

"Welcome, young master Fang Yuan..."

"Let me help to clean your body, young master!"

After greeting, Li Wei stole a line starting from Lu Hua.

Lu Hua seemed indifferent, she knew who Fang Yuan was, he was not a man who was easy to seduce.

'Hum! Look at this little girl, she still doesn't understand anything about men.' Lu Hua looked down on Li Wei.

Fang Yuan ignored them and continued walking past them.

"Bring water for bathing to my room later."

That was the only word Fang Yuan gave, he headed straight to his room.

There was a dispute between who would bring water to Fang Yuan, but in the end it was Lu Hua who won.

But Lu Hua didn't get any victory, after she brought water for Fang Yuan, she was immediately kicked out.

After cleaning his body and changing his clothes. Fang Yuan sat on the bed.

This bed is more luxurious than the previous one. When he sat down, he didn't feel any discomfort.

Fang Yuan was able to focus more on this.

"Well, last night I already refine Liquor worm. so this time maybe i can start to refine other Gu worms now!"

After careful consideration, Fang Yuan chose to refine Water Snake Gu. Although he can't use it right now, he wants to try exploring this Gu with his own method. 

He then takes out the Water Snake Gu and starts to refine it. Fang Yuan controlled his Primeval Essence flawlessly then he immediately surrounded the Water Snake Gu and locked it in a ball made of Primeval Essence.

Fang Yuan had taken Negative Qi from the graves before he came to his home.

The Water Snake Gu is quite strong, because it was Rank two and was higher than Fang Yuan who was in Rank one.

For a normal Gu Master refining Gu with the same Rank of themself is quite hard, it will take them a lot of effort and time.

The first time Fang Yuan tried to use his technique, he attacked the Water Snake Gu from various directions and the intensity of its power also increased over time.

Because of its Rank, the effect only half of the original when he used it to Rank one Gu. But the method that Fang Yuan found was extremely helpful for refining Gu.

Feeling that his technique was not working on full potential, Fang Yuan carried out his plan to use negative Qi.

Small Qi Gu came out from his aperture and flew towards the ball made of primeval essence as Fang Yuan will. He tried to separate it from the Liquor worm, but it was nearby.

Fang Yuan started releasing Negative Qi cautiously. Small Qi Gu's only function was to absorb, store and exhale, it couldn't control which direction the Qi was emitting out.

But Fang Yuan had almost mastered the way to use this method and was able to control the Qi that came out from Small Qi Gu quite well. But that's still not enough, because it is very dangerous.

When the Negative Qi came into contact with Water Snake Gu, some part of the Qi was rejected, some was just passing the Gu just like water with stone on its way, and the last one was absorbed into the Gu.

'It's a success' Fang Yuan felt happy that his idea actually worked.

But his expression immediately changed, because some of the Qi that was absorbed by Water Snake Gu was damaging the Gu.

In the end the Negative Qi was a collection of several types of Qi that Fang Yuan collected by random.

He only filters out a few other Qis and impurities. He did not completely succeed in filtering out the Qi that generated negative emotions.

But this actually was a good thing, with this he can understand more kinds of Qi, he slows down his refining speed and observes the Qis that come in contact with Water Snake Gu.

He finds which kind of Qi that are actually absorbed by the Gu and weaken them without damaging them, then the Qi that get absorbed and weaken the Gu while damaging them, also the Qi that is absorbed and only damaging, and the last one is that doesn't get absorbed.

and finally he out of Negative Qi, but the refining process only half the way. Fang Yuan is only able to refine ⅓ of Water Snake Gu.

This speed itself was amazing for Fang Yuan to achieve. If this is seen by other Gu Master of The Gu Yue clan, they will think that Fang Yuan is some kind of monster.

But the Gu is getting some damage because of unwanted Qi, Fang Yuan uses Small Qi Gu to pull out this Qi. but some problems occurred, the first one is that this unwanted Qi is actually dissolved into the Gu and the second one is the Qi that Fang Yuan is able to pull out.

He wanted to continue refining Gu but his primeval essence and Negative Qi is already depleted.

The only way right now is to go to the graveyard and collect some useful Qi that he already knows that will not harm the Gu and continue refining other Gu worms.

But if he goes to the graveyard then back to his home to refining Gu worms, it will not be an effective way. it will consume a lot of energy and time.

There will also be a problem if Fang Yuan refines Qi close to the graveyard, first was it not safe because other people will think 'What is he doing there ?', Fang Yuan doesn't want to attract a problem. The second way he will be vulnerable to whatever is coming to him.

Refining Gu needs a lot of concentration, so it will not be a wise decision if he chooses to refine Gu there.

Thinking about this only made Fang Yuan feel inconvenient. He then chose another option, because refining the Gu worms could still be done quietly over time, but now he wanted to start a new experiment.

This experiment was aimed at using Small Qi Gu in order to make it easier for the Fang Yuan to control the Qi released by Small Qi Gu to be absorbed easily by the Gu that Fang Yuan wanted to refine.

In the refining process earlier, he found Qi that could be useful and helped is tossed out while Qi that was not needed and did not help him flew towards the Gu that was being refined by him.

Fang Yuan thought about this carefully, but instead of an idea or intuition to solve this problem, he felt drowsy instead. The sleep that he had previously done was not enough according to his body, even now his mind felt sleepy.

"I can continue this experiment later in the afternoon or evening, but for now it's better if I let my body rest as well as my mind. Anything that is rushed will only make the end result bad. " 

Fang Yuan decided to stop practicing just now.

The sky had turned black, cold air began to permeate every corner of Fang Yuan's room, the moonlight also replaced the sunlight.

Fang Yuan was lost in his own thoughts.

He continued thinking of an idea to make Small Qi Gu's use even more effective.

He can use his knowledge and experiences to generate initiatives. Looking at the use of Gu from a different point of view. Then he gets an intuition while watching Small Qi Gu.

Fang Yuan started the plan that came from his intuition .

On Fang Yuan's hand, Small Qi Gu was sucking the surrounding Qi.

Yin Qi and Cold Qi nearly filled every gap of Small Qi Gu.

Fang Yuan started using the function to release the stored Qi.

A pale blue wind came out from all directions of the Gu and then Fang Yuan tried to control this wind that flew out.

He focused his output Qi on Small Qi Gu's right end, after a while. The stored Qi is depleted.

Fang Yuan filled it again and started the experiment once again.

After successfully focusing the output of the Qi on Small Qi Gu's right end.

Fang Yuan did the same with the Qi-absorbing process, he focused this on the left end of the Gu.

After understanding how to do it, Fang Yuan continued his experiments.

He absorbed Qi on the left end and released Qi on the right end. At first it was very difficult.

When he tries to refine Water Snake Gu, he only needs to control one function, that was release the Qi that was previously stored

But this time he had to focus on doing two functions, that was absorbing and releasing at the same time so on different ends of the Small Qi Gu.

when he had just started activating the second function while he was activating the first function, he succeeded at first, but failed immediately. But luckily Small Qi Gu wasn't injured, he stopped activation of this Gu right before something went wrong.

After several attempts, Fang Yuan was successful. Now in front of him, Small Qi Gu was releasing Qi at one end and absorbing at the other.

To earth people who see this, they will think that this is a magnet. The released Qi is absorbed by the other end.

This is the intuition that Fang Yuan received, he wants to control Qi with Small Qi Gu by creating two poles that will keep the Qi he wants under his control

This is using the concept of a magnet with Qi that looks like wind moving around like a magnetic field.

Fang Yuan didn't think of this at first, but somehow this idea just popped into his head when he watched Small Qi Gu in his aperture.

Once again Fang Yuan astonished by his own intuition that generated from Imagination Path.

then if he can gain intuition like before in the cave and now like this, what if he starts cultivating a Wisdom path that can also make an intuition for another path ?

"I wonder what will happen if I also cultivate the Wisdom Path. Am I going to be able to create an intuition that nobody ever thought before ? "

It is like a grand and vast road is awaiting for him, he just needs to take his time until he can walk on that road.

It was Fang Yuan's thought after succeeding the experiment, he was now using all his concentration to control Small Qi Gu to maintain his current state.

What Fang Yuan is doing now is absorbing and releasing, he hasn't stored Qi at all, it's like Small Qi Gu is just a tunnel.

In order to achieve the desired result, Fang Yuan also needs to be able to store the Qi that he wanted. not just absorbing and releasing Qi.

In this way Fang Yuan used Small Qi Gu to its full potential.

But it was not an easy thing, he failed several times when he tried to use the storage function. Then when he did it on his sixth try, Small Qi Gu was hit by a backlash due to Fang Yuan abnormal usage.

Fang Yuan also felt the backlash, he felt like his head was hit by a club and made him feel an intense pain, also his body gave him an extreme pain. Small Qi Gu was Fang Yuan Vital Gu, so if that Gu got some injuries, he would also feel it.

Small Qi Gu's only function is to absorb, store and release at different times. To perform two functions at the same time is already a limit for the Gu.

Now Fang Yuan trying to use three functions? What a maniac

If this Gu could speak, maybe it would ask Fang Yuan to kill it instead of making it do this job.

Fang Yuan stopped his experiment, he had to wait until Small Qi Gu was completely healed.

Small Qi Gu was the only one of its kind the Gu Yue clan had. If this clan still had more, maybe Fang Yuan would try all attempts to get this Gu.

Fang Yuan went out of his room to see the moon, he still wanted to cultivate the Moon path. He didn't know that this path actually already existed in the Gu world.

He sat on the veranda behind the house, he took a glance to see the old tree behind the house.

While on earth, Fang Yuan does not know about the existence of the Moon path, even though it is mentioned in the RI novel, maybe it is only in one chapter. So it's natural for him to forget.

"Gu Masters refine Gu, feed Gu, and use Gu that way they will be able to understand The Great Dao, by doing that their attainment level will increase. All paths are part of the way to understand the Dao, anyone can start any path they want, but it will be a difficult one. In order to do that, they are like walking through the darkness towards a goal that they don't even know about. "

Increasing attainment level means understanding Dao more from the point of view of that path. For existing paths this might be easy, but to start a new path, they must have a basic understanding and then try to connect it to reach The Great Dao.

Fang Yuan was closing his eyes, his mind did not think about anything at all, but the ideas of each other emerged, some were destroying each other, some connected and created more realistic ideas.

For Fang Yuan, the night was Wisdom Gu for him, he could forget the problem he had and let himself be carried away by the beautiful and lonely night. Fang Yuan was enjoying this moment of enlightenment so much, even though his face looked relieved and his doll-like face began to fade.

Li Wei and Lu Hua peeked at Fang Yuan from inside the house, they had been told not to make a fuss at night, even before starting to sit on the veranda, Fang Yuan already told them personally to not make a fuss.

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By Nefar-inn and Spyrakles