Middle stage achieved ,Refining a Deadly Arsenal

Chen Wei is in his room in a meditative state as he evaluates his own aperture with a deep and thoughtful look.

"Pale Green primeval essence, the sensation of cultivation is truly magnificent," he thinks to himself after advancing to the rank 1 middle stage following an exhaustive cultivation session.

"It actually took less time than I expected," it's been a week and a half since the academy elder made his announcement, and Chen Wei has already reached the middle stage.

"Let's test something first," he thinks to himself before getting up, going to the window of his room, and activating the Blood Cut Gu, using it a few times.

"Hmm, the attack and speed are higher, as well as the range, and now it only consumes 7.5% of primeval essence," Chen Wei knew this would be the result, but he still wanted to experience it firsthand to draw his own conclusions.

"With each small realm, the quality of primeval essence doubles, as does the power of the gu used, but the gu itself doesn't double in power," he spends the whole night developing theories on why this happens while conducting tests to reach his conclusions.

"After all, I'm almost certain it comes down to Dao marks, but which path do they belong to? Blood path?" Well, he would need to use a gu from another path to verify this, but there's no time now, as he had to notify the academy elder of his achievement first thing in the morning.

"Ah, young master Chen Wei, it's a pleasure to see you again. Would I be right in guessing that you're here to notify the elder of your success in the competition once again?" The same leader of the academy guards who greeted him last time comes to speak with him.

"Indeed, I just reached the rank 1 middle stage last night," Chen Wei responds, observing the academy elder arriving along with a guard who had informed him of Chen Wei's arrival.

"Ah, young Chen Wei, this result is impressive. Few can reach the middle stage before a month of cultivation," the academy elder praises him fervently while politely checking his aperture to confirm the result.

"Well, everything is correct as I expected. While I can't notify you in advance that you will be chosen as chairman, you are a stronger candidate, that much I can tell you," the academy elder hands him the 50 primeval stones while chatting with Chen Wei before politely taking his leave, as the elder of the academy clan is a busy man.

"Now it's time to see the power of this beauty," Chen Wei says, looking at the Liquor Worm he received from his grandfather, who spent the entire morning with a wide smile on his face due to his grandson's exceptional result.

Chen Wei begins using the Liquor Worm to convert his primeval essence from the characteristic Pale Green of the middle stage to the Dark Green of the Upper stage.

"Let's try using gu again," he begins testing the Blood Cut Gu once more, each use now costing only 3.75% of primeval essence, and the overall power increasing again.

"This definitely involves Dao marks, but which path? Perhaps Heaven path?" he considers the idea but quickly dismisses it. He knows how special and difficult to cultivate that path is, as throughout human history, only three Venerables have been able cultivated it, and two of them aren't even born yet.

"More important than that now, I have to spend my time preparing for refining," Chen Wei speaks to himself while beginning to review the plan to refine three gu he has in mind to complement his combat system.

"They will be based on the Strength path Rabbit Rush Gu, Water path Water Armor Gu, and Water path Water Leak Gu. For now, that's it, but I still have to refine more gu when I reach the peak stage," Chen Wei sends one of his servants to the market to buy these gu on his behalf, even though he's nowhere near having the money to buy these three gu. His grandfather is willing to pay for them gladly to further his grandson's development.

Typically, gu masters at his level wouldn't be able to refine and maintain so many gu, but he's different, as he has the support of his grandfather, who, while not directly aiding him in refining and cultivation, is more than willing to provide ample resources to further his development.

Another important part is a characteristic of the blood path being one of the easiest paths to feed gu, with most blood path gu only needing blood as food, which is neither expensive nor difficult to obtain.

Although some people started spreading bad rumors about the Chen family's servants constantly bringing blood from animals for their young master, but after a bit of clarification from his grandfather, it didn't lead to anything. After all, Blood path hasn't emerged yet, let alone being treated as one of the worst demonic paths by people.

While waiting for the servant to return, Chen Wei organizes the various gallons of blood from different animals with different qualities, as well as the bloody plants, making full use of his knowledge of the blood path, which is increasing at an incredible rate, with him even learning to differentiate blood from different species just by smell, taste, and texture.

"Hmm, my knowledge of biology regarding blood types and how blood is composed of Plasma, Red blood cells, White blood cells, etc., is really helping me in my cultivation and attainment in the blood path," Chen Wei has been constantly using his knowledge of biology from earth to help him in his gu cultivation, as well as constantly using the scientific method to conduct his cultivation experiments.

When the servant arrives at his house with the gu he requested, Chen Wei quickly takes them and enters his private refining room for a long refining session.

He starts using the Water Armor as a base to refine the Blood Armor, which he created to be his main defensive method for now.

This gu has actually been part of his plans for a long time since, after the question of attack, Chen Wei prioritizes his defensive capability the most.

So it was the first gu he decided to refine, as it's always good to prioritize a balanced combat means, and what he lacks the most right now is a defensive method.

Thus, after failing once due to bad luck, he manages to refine the Blood Armor gu.

After a day of rest, which he used to analyze and make deductions based on his second gu refining experience, he prepares for his third gu refining.

Now he will use the Strength path Rabbit Rush, which allows him to obtain the speed of a wild rabbit, to refine the Blood Rush Gu, which allows him to use his own blood flow to gain a similar effect to using an anabolic.

In concept, it's using the blood from his body to increase his speed of movement and reflexes, and it's even better than the Rabbit Rush, but it has the disadvantage of having to use primeval essence, although it's not much compared to its strong effect.

The biggest disadvantage, in fact, is that prolonged use of the gu can cause a rupture of his veins as well as considerable internal bleeding.

But as long as he takes precautions and uses the gu prudently and carefully, this disadvantage won't happen.

So after one attempt, he manages to refine it as well. This time, he feels even more ease in refining it, clearly seeing how much his skill is increasing.

And even if he didn't notice the various praises about how he was improving very quickly and how talented he was that came from his grandfather, who watched the process from afar to ensure his safety, they would have reminded him of his talent.

After another day of rest and reflection on his experiences, finally, he will refine another attack gu. Of course, when he said this, his grandfather didn't understand him at first since the Water Leak Gu was a support gu used to help with irrigation in agriculture and was never treated as a combat gu by anyone.

But after hearing Chen Wei's explanation, his grandfather's eyes lit up with understanding as he began to have a different look at this blood path that his grandson wants to create so much.

"Well, this gu will be quite important for my future combat system. I will call it the Bleeding Gu," he says proudly with his phenomenal naming ability.

Basically, it uses the concept of the Water Leak Gu to make the water leak much faster to increase the bleeding of the target of the attack. This may not seem like much or seem weak, but the capacity of this gu is actually very high.

For example, Chen Wei speculates that if a rank 1 gu master with a deep cut on their hand were to suffer the attack of this gu, they would take at most an hour to die from bleeding even using healing methods.

The most terrifying thing about this gu is that there is no effective method to combat it using the same rank. Of course, a rank 4 could deal with it just using their superior quality, but if they were at the same level, there wouldn't be a way for that rank 4 to handle it.

So after two attempts, Chen Wei successfully refines the gu despite a failure due to bad luck.

After that, Chen Wei finally finishes his five days of refining isolated from the world and emerges as a much stronger gu master.