No one is born to be a side character. An unexpected change

Laying on the ground, with the lightning currents assaulting him, Fang Yuan was completely unable to move and could barely think.

This was the effect of Lightning Current Gu.

Even though it was only a Rank 1 Gu and Chi Yan had the weak Jade Green colored primeval essence of Rank 1 initial stage cultivator, he still had one of the Ten Extreme Physiques! For a single attack, he could pump a lot of primeval essence into this Gu to maximize its power and the end effect was also slightly enhanced.

Chi Yan was squatting down while holding onto Fang Yuan's wrist and sending out his attack, activating his Gu. Rank 1 Lightning Current was enough to paralyze a thin mortal teenager like Fang Yuan who refined no Gu worms.

Unfortunately, Chi Yan couldn't utilize this Gu worm's full strength with his initial stage primeval essence, so he was only sure of the paralyzing effect. It was not certain if when the electric currents circulate through Fang Yuan's entire body, they could fully destroy his brain in an instant or not.

Being already prepared for it, Chi Yan pulled out a dagger of his own with his other hand to finish Fang Yuan off manually while he was stunned. 

Seeing Fang Yuan frozen still, Chi Yan knew that it was a done deal!

But then the wolf made his move and pounced on them. Both Chi Yan and Fang Yuan were crouched on the ground, making them very attractive targets.

Chi Yan cursed in his heart and could only try to protect his head and throat by stiffening his shoulders and crouching downwards. He ignored the wolf and with a groan, squeezing his hand at the handle, he sent the dagger at Fang Yuan's throat.

 Fang Yuan's face was facing downwards, so he could only do that. If his eyes were not exposed, the Chi Yan planned to directly pierce Fang Yuan's brain instead.

"Ahhrrrr!" Chi Yan used momentum and full strength to decisively slash across Fang Yuan's throat.

Skin, muscle and a major vine seemed to be cut deeply by Chi Yan's sharp blade as blood started spurting from Fang Yuan's neck.

At the same time the wolf had bitten Chi Yan's shoulder, causing him to loudly groan in pain.

Being prepared to go in for the kill from the beginning no matter what, Chi Yan ignored everything else under the surge of emotions and adrenaline, and slashed at Fang Yuan's neck deeply once again, deepening the wound.

After the first bite, the wolf had bitten Chi Yan once again, this time biting his upper arm and pulling.

"Arrrgh!" Chi Yan roared in pain as the wolf was tearing at his flesh.

Having massacred Fang Yuan's neck, Chi Yan let go of him and then quickly stood up, reading a battle stance and pointing his dagger at the wolf.

With Chi Yan standing up, seeing the tall stature, the wolf did not follow up with an attack and instead retreated slightly.

Adrenaline pumped through Chi Yan's veins and helped him ignore the pain from his wounds. He intensely stared at the wolf with both fear and a will to fight to the death.

Following its predatory instinct, the wolf's eyes seemed to turn to Fang Yuan who was still sprawled on the ground, as it gnashed its teeth.

Chi Yan retreated backwards very slowly, step by step without turning his back to the wolf.

As he once read back on Earth, if a person's neck arteries and muscles are cut deeply enough, then a person would lose consciousness within just 5 seconds due to the sudden drop of blood pressure and the lack of blood flow to the brain. And this is also what seemed to have happened to Fang Yuan, as he was not moving even an inch.

The wolf continued growling, and when Chi Yan retreated far enough, it approached Fang Yuan and started feasting on his flesh, starting with his neck which was oozing fresh blood.

Seeing that scene Chi Yan let out a breath of relief. At that moment the pain assaulted him once again as if being reminded of it.

After looking at his wounds, Chi Yan felt panicked as he didn't have anything to bandage himself with. It isn't that Chi Yan didn't prepare himself properly, it's just that he didn't dare to over prepare himself to not make his plans too obvious to the Heavens.

Chi Yan thought of using his shirt to bandage his wound and hesitated for a while if he wouldn't look too suspicious. Eventually though he figured that no matter what he does, he would attract attention on the way back either way. He quickly pulled off his shirt, exposing his torso, and sensibly slashed the shirt apart using his dagger a few times. Using a lengthened cloth he then wrapped it around his arm and shoulder while groaning in pain, and then tied it.

Having finished, he felt quite dizzy. It appeared that he still lost quite a lot of blood during this time. At the same time, he seemed to still be bleeding from his wounds.

'I need a better, tighter bandage… I need to return,' Chi Yan thought quickly.

The wolf glanced at Chi Yan for a moment before it returned to greedily eating Fang Yuan's meat. It now moved to Fang Yuan's stomach and started consuming his warm internal organs.

"Hahaha!" Although the scene of a person being eaten was quite gruesome, upon seeing it, Chi Yan couldn't help but laugh out loud, as seeing it happen was his greatest wish. It was obvious that Fang Yuan was completely dead now.

Chi Yan recalled a few paragraphs from the novel.

If the heavens had emotions it would grow old. The Great Dao is emotionless and impartial. Every living being has the chance to rise up, it depends on how one uses their opportunities, and how one fights!

In this world, no one is born to be a side character. And there is no one who is an eternal main character.

Precisely because of the heroes competing in this world, facing off with their respective strengths and trump cards, can history be so immense and interesting, making the world such a mystical place.

Chi Yan could not even reach Fang Yuan's heels and was well aware of that, but it didn't mean that he couldn't kill him. The advantage that Chi Yan had at this time was just too big!

Looking at the dead Fang Yuan right now, Chi Yan also felt some regret and pity. The reason being - by doing things this way he had missed out on Fang Yuan's 500 years of knowledge of the future! If he made his move in a year or two and prepared better, then he could have been able to capture Fang Yuan's soul with higher rank Gu to soul search him as he pleases.

However, doing things this way also had a big risk involved - what if Heaven's Will would at one point pull some kind of scheme to make Fang Yuan's soul possess Chi Yan's body? What if it was all Heaven's plan all along in this world? What if during this time he would simply be discovered and killed off by Heaven's Will? Not to forget that until that time Fang Yuan's Spring Autumn Cicada, which is currently at the brink of death, would recover enough to be usable again.

Waiting for Chi Yan to raise his cultivation would also ruin all kinds of possibilities on the Qing Mao Mountain by allowing Fang Yuan to do as he pleases, letting him acquire Flower Wine Monk's Inheritance and killing Jia Jin Sheng, and summoning Tie Xue Leng, all of which would ruin Chi Yan's chances of getting the complete true inheritance of Blood Sea Ancestor that was owned by First Gen Gu Yue.

Chi Yan felt pity, but he could only accept this result. It was the safest move in consideration of Heaven's Will retaliation.

Ideally Chi Yan would even crush Fang Yuan's soul completely to not even allow him to return to the door of Life and Death and ever reincarnate. Unfortunately he simply lacked the necessary Gu worms to do it, while his cultivation base was also insufficient.

'But this is good too. The most important thing is to ensure that Fang Yuan is dead, no matter what. As long as he dies, and if I can become the new pawn of Heaven's Will, then that's all that matters. What's most valuable is not Fang Yuan's knowledge, but his life and cultivation experiences, which I could never acquire just from soul searching him - I need to experience my own life of ups and downs,' Chi Yan thought in his heart, putting the feelings of pity aside.

He faintly smirked as he looked at the devouring wolf. In his aperture he also had a Rank 1 Fire Pellet Gu, which was a very popular Fire Path range attacking Gu. However, from what he was told, he believed that there was little chance for him to actually safely kill a wild beast like this wolf; one only needed to look at how much effort Fang Yuan needed to kill a wild boar with Upper Stage Primeval essence and his experience.

The wolf in front of Chi Yan had electric currents running through his teeth and body as it was biting into Fang Yuan's meat, so although it might be old and crippled, Chi Yan knew that it was actually a Lightning Wolf and not a regular one.

Fighting this wolf to the death was unnecessary and dangerous. Although Chi Yan was very curious and wished to inspect Fang Yuan's body, he decided to simply retreat after watching for a while. There was nothing worthwhile on Fang Yuan's body, while Spring Autumn Cicada should have already perished along with Fang Yuan, as it was his Vital Gu.

'If I try to fight this wolf, I'll just die. I also need to re-bandage my wounds. What a pity,' thinking so, Chi Yan took a dozen steps backwards and soon left the scene.

Soon, Chi Yan arrived at the village's gate.

"Little brother, what happened to you?" One of the guards called out to Chi Yan as he noticed Chi Yan's exposed chest and bleeding arm.

"A stray Lightning Wolf," Chi Yan said. "It killed one of my classmates!"

"What?!"

"A stray Lightning Wolf so close to the village? Little brother, you're not joking?"

The two guards went instantly on alert.

"You can go and check. Just go left and you'll find Fang Yuan's body."

Following that, one of the guards left to check out the place that Chi Yan indicated, while the other clapped his wooden clappers in a rhythm, sending out some sort of signal.

Soon two other Gu Masters came, seemingly in response to the signal, and one of them was a healer. Chi Yan then received immediate treatment of his arm, while the guard that left to check up on Fang Yuan brought back Fang Yuan's body and confirmed that he was killed by a Lightning Wolf.

After Chi Yan's identity was revealed, one of the guards escorted him back to the Chi family's estate, completely free of suspicion.

When Chi Yan's grandfather found out about the matter, he flew into a rage. Rather than scolding Chi Yan though, he was mostly scolding the guards and Gu Masters who are supposed to clear up the surroundings of the village, scolding them for not doing their job properly.

Gu Yue Chi Lian seemed worried and relieved that nothing happened to Chi Yan, and then properly healed his wounds once again with a Rank 3 Gu.

Using a Blood Essence Gu from the family treasury, Chi Yan also replenished a little bit of his own blood.

Eventually Chi Yan retired to his room. There was still a feeling of numbness on his shoulder and arm, but he had no wounds or scars.

Following that, in order to celebrate Fang Yuan's death, Chi Yan invited his personal servant girl who clearly had a crush on him into his room.

These days Chi Yan found out that the original Chi Yan was having his maid, Luo An, give him handjobs and blowjobs everytime she bathed him… It was certainly good to be a young master.

Capitalizing on the previous body owner's connections, Chi Yan had a lot of fun with Luo An that night, smashing her until late night when both of them collapsed out of exhaustion.

After all this Chi Yan had to say that an Extreme Physique's stamina was quite something, and so was his little giant fire dragon!

Feeling satisfied with the day, Chi Yan even promised Luo An to take her as his concubine, which she seemed overjoyed to hear.

Although there were still the feelings of excitement in his mind, Chi Yan soon fell asleep with his servant girl in his arms, his first harem member. The future was looking bright!

After waking up in the early morning of the next day, Chi Yan noticed the sound of heavy rain hitting against the rooftop. 'It's raining again?'

Chi Yan looked around his room and noticed that Luo An, who he previously told to take a day off today, had already gotten up and left. The room was also quite a bit tidied up compared to the messy state that Chi Yan left it in yesterday night.

Chi Yan smiled fondly while thinking about Luo An and the last night. 'I wonder if she's able to walk properly today.'

An image of Luo An walking like a duck as she was cleaning the room appeared in his mind.

He then got up from his bed and stretched himself. He noticed that the feeling of numbness that he had on his shoulder and arm had disappeared completely. Chi Yan couldn't help but be amazed - this was the magical aspect of this world! His flesh was shredded just yesterday, but he already recovered and felt full of energy and vigor.

He walked to the window and noticed that it was raining very heavily and there were many pools formed outside. He closed the window without much thought. It must have started to rain very heavily when he fell asleep.

Recalling, today he should report his successful Gu worm refinement to the Academy Elder. With this in mind, Chi Yan slowly closed his eyes and looked into his Aperture.

However, what he found after inspecting himself shocked him.

There was now a strange new Gu worm inside his Aperture, while his Aptitude was no longer at 100%, but it seemed to have slightly dropped!