Horrifying Blood Ritual

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"You know what's magical about luck in this world?" Chen Wei says calmly as he walks leisurely toward Yu Fu, ignoring his desperate struggle. "Luck is a mysterious and ethereal force that permeates all living beings."

"Please! I can be useful to you, I swear! You'll need a guide, right? I can do that perfectly!" Yu Fu cries, tears streaming down his face as he desperately tries to break the ropes binding him.

But he knows this effort is futile because no matter how hard he tries or how desperately he fights, nothing affects the ropes tightly binding his arms and legs.

"Fate is a deep sea, always stable and eternal with a Heavenly decree..." Chen Wei speaks now that he is face to face with Yu Fu, just a few steps away. "...luck is a fierce flowing river, always changing and alternating between positive and negative variations."

"I beg you! I'll do anything you command, but please let me live!" Yu Fu screams incessantly to the deaf ears of Chen Wei, who simply places the cauldron on the ground, unfazed by his desperate cries.

"And just like rivers, small tributaries feed and strengthen the Great River with their own waters until they disappear completely, remaining only as small parts of an ever-growing giant river," Chen Wei says while using a fish-cutting knife to make a cut on the palm of his hand.

Yu Fu, witnessing all this, feels horrified beyond belief, as it is something more profane and horrifying than the cursed acts of Demonic Path cultivators he heard about in stories. And the worst part is that he is the helpless victim in all of this.

"For everything in nature, the rule is big fish eat small fish...." Chen Wei speaks calmly as his blood drips steadily into the cauldron, like a never-ending source. "...just as great luck suppresses and uses small luck, employing the world's injustice to eliminate it's deficits and increase it's surpluses."

Yu Fu, hearing all this, neither has the time nor the will to try to comprehend the profound meaning Chen Wei intends to convey with his words. The only thing he thinks about in despair is the pain he will feel when that knife cuts into his flesh.

"I swear I can be more useful to you alive! You don't need to do this, please!!" Yu Fu starts shouting again as Chen Wei stops pouring his blood into the cauldron and walks toward him.

But there is nothing he can do as Chen Wei easily holds him down, preventing his movement and leaving him helpless, unable to do anything but futilely resist as Chen Wei forcefully inserts a metal funnel into his mouth.

"The best thing about luck is its cyclical nature, for after every tribulation or difficulty caused by bad luck, the Heavens must be just in rewarding me with good luck." Yu Fu just cries helplessly, seeing the cruel look on Chen Wei's face as he begins pouring the boiling blood into the funnel.

None of his attempts to resist or close his mouth to prevent the boiling blood from entering his throat have any effect as he can only watch everything happen, feeling endless helplessness.

"Argh!! Argh! Ahhhh!!" Yu Fu screams incessantly, producing piercing and desperate cries as the boiling blood flows down his throat, burning everything in its path.

He tastes the pungent, nauseating blood of a carnivorous and filthy animal, it tastes like sewer water with a high concentration of iron, burning everything in its path and going directly to Yu Fu's heart.

In his heart, the putrid blood heats to such an absurd point that it makes his previous state feel cold, even heating the ambient temperature around him as if Yu Fu were a walking furnace.

Amidst all this, Yu Fu, who believed before that the greatest pain he could feel was when his arm was broken or if Chen Wei went ahead and actually castrated him, now sees he was completely wrong. Even the pain of having his dick cut out does not compare to the agony he feels now.

"Arghh...." Yu Fu murmurs weakly, unable to make more than small sounds, his body having given up the fight.

From his eyes fall tears of black blood with a foul smell that spreads around as the tears flow like an endless fountain. In a few moments, this bleeding spreads to all his body's orifices, creating a horrific image straight out of a horror story.

"Blood Orchids, Cannibal Fish, and Pears from a Scarlet Tree... do you know how lucky you fishermen were to find all these Gu materials of the blood path?" Chen Wei speaks calmly, looking at Yu Fu, whose face displays an empty and painful expression.

"For this, you probably used all the luck of your lives and the next ones..." Chen Wei realizes that all the boiling blood in the cauldron has been poured into Yu Fu's mouth, leaving only the boar tusk, now scarlet red with strange black markings. "...and in the end, it was all because my luck suppressed yours, using your positive variables to replenish my Gu-related deficits."

"This is how luck works, be it good or bad. The most important thing is what you do with it." Chen Wei takes the boar tusk in one hand and throws the cauldron to the ground.

He slowly brings the boar tusk closer to Yu Fu's heart, who cannot react as his internal injuries and burns from the boiling blood make him a dead man walking.

"This putrid and bloodthirsty beast was a great tribulation for me in the past but now proves to be a fortuitous encounter..." Chen Wei says as he slowly and deeply thrusts the boar tusk into Yu Fu's chest, piercing his heart. "...and now my rewards for killing this beast are my main materials for this refinement!"

"Blood directly from the heart of a bloodthirsty, putrid beast is the best refinement material, after all..." Chen Wei stops thrusting the tusk into Yu Fu's chest and just looks at it, shining with a dark and ominous light. "...along with the heart of someone who betrayed his own blood and people... truly, luck paves the way for those who know how to seize it."

"Human nature makes us wise and endlessly curious beings..." Chen Wei speaks while looking into Yu Fu's dead eyes, his body only sitting because of Chen Wei's support. "...I thank you from the bottom of my heart for satisfying my boundless curiosity with my new understanding of the Dao after taking your life!"

Chen Wei looks at Yu Fu, who has long been dead, but still maintains his last expression of horror and pain etched on his face, now covered with foul, sticky black blood.

Of course, to Chen Wei's eyes, this is nothing significant, even though many with weak stomachs would be horrified by this image and vomit from the nauseating, unbearable smell of the black blood.

But for him, these are just minor details when the only thing that matters at this moment is the boar tusk that is rapidly melting into a black liquid, condensing into the form of a small insect.

"Gu is the essence of Heaven and Earth..." Chen Wei says while looking at the Gu, which takes the form of a black dung beetle with three large horns, one behind the other, on its large head. "...isn't this essentially the Dao?"

"In refinement, when materials reach their death or destruction..." Chen Wei says while extending his hand to place the dung beetle in his palm. "...only at this moment of death or destruction, be it fierce beast, plant, or lifeless object, does its essence synchronize with the Dao, creating the essence of its marks in this world, which is Gu!"

"Ahh, but I have only comprehended a shallow surface of this deep and boundless sea..." Chen Wei says while using his rich, gold-colored primeval essence of Rank 4 to activate the simple Rank 1 Gu. "...but one step at a time, for now."

Chen Wei looks at the dung beetle, which has already entered his primeval aperture and is swimming alone in the almost infinite sea of rich golden primeval essence, which is like a first-class residence for it.

"Although it is only a Rank 1 Gu, it must have peak strength of this rank despite consuming quite a bit of primeval essence..." Chen Wei extends his hand and waves his arm. "...but 20% of Rank 1 initial stage primeval essence is nothing to me at this moment."

In an instant, a blade similar to a liquid whip of putrid black blood cuts the body in half with the ease of a hot knife through butter. As he expected, it is top tier in strength for Rank 1, and it demonstrates even greater power being used by a Rank 4 Gu Master.

Chen Wei quickly inspects his aperture for any possible abnormalities but sees that the Rotting Blood Gu is as before, swimming happily in the sea of primeval essence, which hasn't decreased by even 1% despite using this Gu, which is to be expected since it is still Rank 1.

"Who would have thought that one day this would be my vital Gu..." Chen Wei murmurs, walking to Yu Fu's body while lost in thoughts about the time he created this Gu when he was still with Kuang Luo To.

"I wonder what that damned toad is doing now or what his reason was for all of this..." Chen Wei inspects Yu Fu's bisected body, its flesh rotten and burned, and blood blackened from the Gu refinement. "...he would probably be laughing that stupid laugh of his, saying how this Rotting Blood Gu suits me as my vital, hehehe."

Chen Wei looks contemplatively at the young man's body beneath his feet, like a scene out of a horror film, but for him now, it is a great delight as it will solve his Gu's feeding problem before it even begins.

"But I suppose for this moment, it is the most appropriate Gu due to its great attack power and ease of feeding..." Chen Wei waves his hand, and the Rotting Blood Gu flies to the pool of putrid blood soaking the ground.

For a normal human, this is a disgusting sight, but for the Gu, it is a first-class banquet all to itself, which under Chen Wei's control, eats nonstop until it is stuffed.

"Now I need to eliminate the possible witnesses, which are the other fishermen..." Chen Wei walks calmly to the riverbank and looks south while waiting for the fishermen to arrive.

"It would also be great to discover where this supposed Lu Tai found the Blood Orchids, as they could be greatly valuable to me..." Chen Wei sits on the riverbank, his thoughts turning to his urgent need for Blood Path materials.

Of course, this could be resolved by collecting blood, the main material for most Blood Path Gu, but the problem would be the low quality of mortal blood, which would force him to kill a large number of them to compensate for the lack of Gu materials.

This doesn't even account for the fact that he has no guarantee of success in all his refinements, which is also one of the reasons he tried to refine his first Gu right now, counting on this being the moment when his luck would be in a big positive variable.

Naturally, other reasons were that he also needs this Gu to deal with the remaining fishermen. In fact, with this Gu, he could massacre their entire village to obtain the large quantity of Blood Path materials he needs. But this, in turn, would quickly label him a demonic Gu master to be hunted and eliminated by the clan that governs this mountain.

This wouldn't normally be a problem for Chen Wei since he trusts his martial combat ability to handle it. However, considering his lack of Gu and that he would have to fight while protecting Wang Mei, who is pregnant with his child, this plan becomes unsuitable.

"what should I do with those other two girls now...?" Chen Wei wonders aloud, a question that has been occupying his subconscious for some time.

In fact, it has been on his mind since he went to retrieve the boar's body for the refinement and brought three sets of clothes for them, which, following to his instructions, are still in a deep part of the forest where they can see him.

The obvious reason for this is that he didn't want them to witness the Gu refinement he was about to perform, and if a battle ensued with the fishermen arriving before he finished refining the Gu, he didn't want them in the middle of the fight to distract his attention.

"Now that I have a Gu, their value has decreased significantly... but even so, they could become excellent future subordinates with their talents and immortal heritages," Chen Wei says, watching the fish swimming with the current.

"Why do I still have the impression that damned toad might be manipulating me..." Chen Wei murmurs, unsure if what he feels now is his usual paranoia or if something in his emotions is genuinely out of the ordinary due to some force beyond his control.