The last leg before perfection

Cultivating as a C rank is hard man! It takes so fucking long without a liquor worm! Even with my optimisations, I can only barely reach a 65% talent! I have half a mind to just buy a liquor worm from my system and make a four Flavours liquor worm! Fang Yuan never got to use this Gu, because of Bai Ning Bing's help, but I can make the most of it and need it a lot!

My system sells those relic things for the highest price. Even if it was cheap I still wouldn't buy it! They freak me out!

How can something just increase your cultivation by an entire stage in a couple of seconds? There must be a drawback! Even The Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu has a drawback.

The literal image of the Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu is a double edged sword! I am not kidding! It has a black sword attached to a hilt and a white sword attached directly on the other side, making a perfect 180°.

This thing is, by definition, a double edged sword! It turn mortals into gods and gods into mortals!

Well, not literally. It is the most effective tool on really talented people like Bai Ning Bing, Fang Yuan and some other extremely lucky people.

Now this, this is a real godly tool! I went browsing through the shop and found the evolved form of Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu. It is called Fate Truly Flipped Upside Down Gu and this one costs 100 billion Gu points! The best part about it? Anyone can use it! It has absolutely no drawbacks!

Can you guess what it does? It flips your fucking cultivation! Basically, you can instantly go from mortal to god! Rank 1 initial to rank 9 peak and vice versa. Holy merry mother of god!

The description of this thing isn't as detailed as the others and just says "Flips the very existence of a being into its complete opposite." I assume it means mortal to immortal and vise versa by existence.

It sounds very weird, but it is an immortal version of Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu, so it should be a better version of it, therefore it reverses cultivation!

One simple command and the god standing in front of me will turn into a mortal with no cultivation! This is literally the most overpowered thing in existence!

It is, quite literally, a perfect main character backstory for a demon venerable, who suddenly became a rank 1 mortal again! The weirdest part? Someone has actually made this and used it at some point in time! Just the idea of someone using this is ludicrous.

This one is the same double edged sword, but it has green and violet blades. Quite interesting. Still, what the fuck is up with that price! 400 billion Gu points?! Even if we did each rank as an increment of power, we would still only get 10 to the power of 9, which is 1 billion.

A legendary Gu, that can create a second aperture, that can be cultivated, costs less than 1 million Gu points. What kind of ungodly price is this 400 billion?! If I ever get that Gu, I am definitely using it on Chun Jack. The Idea of a a guy, who can kill gods without a cultivation becoming rank 9 or maybe 10 sounds amazing! How many ranks are there?

Enough of me ranting, what have I been up to, you might ask? Well, I am currently holding the primeval elder Gu, which is smiling quite a bit. I have amassed a fortune of 400 thousand primeval stones, but the hype around my strength enhancement hall has died down and I have to pay taxes now!

The clan considers you an adult if you compete in the year end battle, so Age doesn't matter. I don't make any money anymore! The huge 20% income tax has worn me down and made me lose over 100K primeval stones!

My primeval elder Gu is somewhat unhappy, but the 100K, ach! My heart hurts! God I hate taxes! Nope, I am still ranting! This whole entry is going to be me complaining about high prices like a boomer!

Sigh. At least I have some good news! It is March now and Jia Fu has come to town! My cultivation has managed to climb it's way up to near upper rank as well and my Gu points are high and dry!

A couple more days and I will get that sweetass Crimson red essence in my aperture! Short version, one red steel relic Gu and I will be at the pinnacle of existence! Well, for Gu Yue clan at least. Rank 3 is a high rank okey?!

The wolf tide is soon to begin, so I gotta watch out for that. I am also going to Buy the liquor worm Jia Fu has and save it. I am <insert arbitrary percentage.exe> sure my cultivate will drop down to nothing if I use the Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu along with the stone aperture one.

Even with all the other boosts and bonuses, a liquor worm is a lot more useful. I will have the recovery speed of a ten extreme physique along with the Heavenly essence treasure lotus and the Liquor worm's help! My cultivation will skyrocket!

The most pressing matter right now is how will the clan deal with the dried up spirit spring and the Xiong clan. I have already submitted my report and it was very thorough.

Some other people have also been sent on scouting missions. As you know, I have my own team now! Well... Had. We had a healer, a supporter, a tank and even some guy with pretty high talent, who has a good eye.

The missions we do are mostly high-risk-higher-reward ones. The dumbasses constantly get overshadowed by my mortal brother and they all feel jealousy towards him.

And guess what? Those idiots actually plotted against my brother! What the fuck is wrong with them?! We were scouting a wolf den and one of the idiots secretly shot a moonblade at where my brother's sword, which was lodged in a tree.

Chun Jack has a combined weight of 375KG. He cannot stand on a tree branch for too long or it will break. He came up with the idea of stabbing his sword into a tree and standing on the sword. I helped fine tune the physics aspect of his strategy and made sure his body weight would not bend the sword and now he can do it so well only small disfigurement happens to the sword.

The dumbasses shot a moonblade in such a way, that the sword would become dislodged and he would fall to the ground. That is exactly what happened and me and my brother had to fight our way through an encirclement of over a thousand wolves and battle a thousand wolf King!

Since then, I have been going solo with Chun Jack and haven't recruited a single person. Gu masters are really arrogant. Like, they think my brother is strong because I have him the strength of 2 boars.

Gu masters think only Gu worms can make a person strong and putting in effort to train your body is too time consuming and pointless.

The benefit of training your body in a natural way is huge. The muscles become tougher and more refined. A human's foundation is their body. My brother has a sturdy foundation and can even summon a boar beast phantom at will.

The moment I get him the strength-a-ten-boar beast bundle Gu, his strength will soar so high even I might get overshadowed. Even I am tempted to do that, but I am holding back.

A boar's strength Gu gives about 1/2 of a human's strength. So I will basically have the strength of 6 human's and 10 boars, aka 10 humans. Quite the force to be reckoned with!

I really hope my Physique Nourishing Gu can keep up with this progression, or else my body's strength will stagnate too much. I need to do more training and make sure my strength grows.

The body, health, physique and etc nourishing Gus have 1 effect, nourishing a Human's body Number one: the nourishing effect, which can be boosted by primeval essence. This allows me to break through my body's natural cap of 4 human strength and reach 6, with a potential for 10.

Chun Jack's strength is also capped at 4 and he needs to let his body grow in order to become stronger. Either that or use a fuckton of beast strength Gu worms.

The only way to lift the limit and let my body progress is upgrading my vital Gu to the rank 4 version of physique nourishing Gu.

The problem is refining my vital Gu to rank 4 will cost me about 6k Gu points. The prices skyrocket after rank 3 and boy do I hate that!

At least Jia Fu can help. He has just comes into Gu Yue clan city and he brought that huge tree with him. It is full of Gu worms worth a lot of money and I will be buying most of them!

The first day auctions ended with me buying out the place for prices just above the others. I even bought the clensing Gu Chi Cheng really needs. I also went gambling and the days passed as I gained Gu points. Fang Yuan only got the red steel relic Gu and I took everything else!

I bought out the house and spent a total of 200K primeval stones on everything! The final result? I got a red boar strength Gu and a black boar strength Gu for my collection. I also kept the second liquor worm and the healing Gu nine vitality grass, which is rank 2.

Fang Yuan got what he wanted and so did I! Jia Fu even called for me and asked me to slow down on my shopping, but I said I was going to donate them to the clan and he let the matter go after giving me his token. Fang Yuan also got the token, so he can't come crying to me about it!

The total amount of money I made from all the gambling and shopping is 3638 Gu points! And with that, the Fate Flipped Upside Down Gu has been purchased and I even bought the beast bundle along with 10 different rank 2 boar strength Gu worms and every other Gu I will need.

Here is the result of my shopping spree. 1) I will turn into a rank 1 initial stage cultivator with 100% talent, probably 2) my brother will get his strength-a-ten-boar beast bundle Gu, which is now a rank 3 version 3) overall strength of the party has gone up massively! 4) Guts will evolve into a living weapon 5) my shop's merchandise has now doubled 6) I have 3.2k Gu points left to buy shit with!

The only thing I am waiting for is for the Gu Yue clan to start the war and request my "donation", So I can evolve my rank 3 Physique Nourishing Gu into a rank 4 perpetual motion Gu! Things are turning up my way and soon I will reach the pinnacle of my growth stage!