Yin Moonblade

Fang Yuan followed the path in front of him. This road leads to a village at the foot of the mountain.

This village was filled with mortals, because most of the clan members and Gu Masters of the Gu Yue clan lived in the main village, there wasn't that much space for these mortals.

But Fang Yuan had his own curiosity, so he wanted to try to make his own refinement material. Even if this failed, at least he got some knowledge about refinement materials.

As he walked this path, Fang Yuan never missed paying attention to his surroundings. If he feels that something he saw is refinement material then he won't hesitate to take it. Of course not all of them weren't really refinement materials, Fang Yuan only wanted to experiment with materials he found useful. 

Isn't it said in some Chinese novels "This treasure was made by immersing it for three days and three nights in the blood of a white tiger or something?"

Fang Yuan wanted to try this out. If this can really happen then he can get lots of refinement materials.

When he was picking up a bamboo leaf that was still young but it fell off the tree, Fang Yuan looked through the bamboo trees. He saw a tree that caught his eye, with the least effort to break through the bamboo sticks blocking his path, Fang Yuan got there.

This bamboo stalk looks like any other bamboo tree, is green with several segments on its body, has the same height, and doesn't give off a different feeling at all.

But what caught Fang Yuan's attention when this stalk of bambios was in front of him, he realized what caught his attention.

This bamboo tree consists of several bamboo stalks stuck to each other, they look like they are destined to always live like this, these bamboo trees also don't bend like other bamboos when looked at carefully, despite all that. This collection of bamboo stalks is set apart by other bamboo trees.

It can be seen that in a radius of about 6-9 steps there are no other bamboo trees close to this collection of bamboo stalks. This is what really caught Fang Yuan's attention.

Fang Yuan tried to inspect this bunch of bamboo, but his efforts were fruitless.

Then he laughed a little, he remembered the laws of this world.

"In this world I can't judge things just by the appearance alone." He then took out Small Qi Gu.

What is the biggest difference between Mortal and Gu Master?

It's a use of the Gu Worm, Mortals can't use it but Gu Masters can use it.

So if there really was something that caught Fang Yuan's attention it wasn't something that only his eyes could tell, but he needed the Gu worm to know about it.

Fang Yuan didn't have any investigative-type Gu, but he did have Small Qi Gu, with this Gu he could investigate the Qi in this place. Even if he didn't find things out this way, he had at least tried everything he could to investigate this place.

And he could also investigate this place in the future, of course if this place was neither found by anyone else nor get destroyed by a random person.

With Small Qi Gu starting to absorb the Qi in this place, Fang Yuan found something that he thought was a clue to this place.

In Small Qi Gu he saw that the wood Qi content was 35% of the total Qi stored by Small Qi Gu.

This is a very strange thing according to Fang Yuan, because at night the amount of yin Qi and cold Qi doesn't reach the 20% mark.

Of course because he was in a bamboo forest full of plants, it was not unusual for the wood Qi in this place to be very high.

Then Fang Yuan tried the wood Qi content in another place, he wanted to make sure that it was true that all these places had the same content.

Since Small Qi Gu's main function was to absorb all the Qi around him, of course the measurement results would be inaccurate, but if for example there was a big difference, then there really was something in this bunch of bamboo.

Fang Yuan walked about 10 steps from the bamboo pile and began to check the wood Qi content there.

He was surprised by the first result, because he found that the wood Qi content where he was standing now was only 15%. This difference was too big in his opinion.

For that he did a second test, but the results were the same. He found that the wood Qi content in this place had changed to 17%.

No matter how Fang Yuan thinks about it, 15% and 17% are normal amounts of wood Qi, but if all of these bamboo forests had the same level of wood Qi content, wouldn't that collection of bamboo have twice the Qi content in this place?

Fang Yuan summed it up that way, but what caused it? He doesn't know.

But the answer is only three things. It can be refinement material, or beast, or Gu worm.

Only these three things can cause the wood Qi content near the bamboo to change.

But whatever the answer, Fang Yuan can check it later, now he has found a place that he thinks is suitable to try his experiment.

He knew that if he was experimenting here then he would be caught, but it was still very early in the morning and he wouldn't be able to make a fuss that would attract other people's attention.

Fang Yuan took the materials he had picked up on the way.

He wants to fill this materias with wood Qi to make it into a refinement material.

The first material is a young bamboo tree shoot, this material appears to have folds that have not fully developed.

Using a magnetic Qi field, Fang Yuan filled this material with wood Qi.

At first, Fang Yuan felt a little troubled, because he had never controlled Wood Qi before, he felt a little out of control, but luckily it didn't hurt either himself or Small Qi Gu.

After filling the young bamboo shoots, it seemed that there was no immediate change. But if you pay close attention, the buds that are still not developing start to move little by little. Like it was growing in small changes.

Fang Yuan continued to the next material.

But now he thought of something else, if he could think of this to create refinement materials. Hasn't someone done it already?

In the end no one answered his question, he was left alone with his opinion.

"Maybe this is not making a refinement material, but just filling a material with Qi." Even though he didn't know what he was doing, he continued on, because there was nothing wrong with doing something to learn right.

The second material that Fang Yuan took out was a stone, this stone was not like ordinary stones, this stone was actually a refinement material from the start. But Fang Yuan didn't know about this.

This material is bamboo leaf mud, this material is created from yellow and old bamboo tree leaves that fall to the ground. Since no one has cleaned them, over time these leaves stick together with the help of soil and eventually become refinement material.

Bamboo leaf mud has rough surface characteristics such as a pile of old bamboo leaves and has a mixture of dark yellow and soil brown.

Fang Yuan took the bamboo leaf mud because he thought these stones looked different from others, he took everything he found, a total of 6 pieces.

Bamboo leaf mud was not a high level refinement material, it was only Rank one and was a member of the lower part of all Rank one materials.

Because Fang Yuan planned to buy refinement materials from the start, he brought a spare bag, now he uses this bag to carry materials that he thinks can be used as experiment material.

Fang Yuan started filling the bamboo leaf mud with wood Qi, this material easily absorbed it.

Having run out of primeval essence, Fang Yuan refilled it using Primeval Stones. He did not hesitate to do so, he thought more about this opportunity than losing a few primeval stones.

After completing the filling of the six bamboo leaf mud, he can see that this material is also starting to change. What started out as a combination of yellow and brown, now only has a dark yellow color like the color of the aged leaves.

There are still a few more ingredients that Fang Yuan wants to try, but everything doesn't go as he wants. Of these several materials, only one can absorb wood Qi.

It was a young bamboo leaf that Fang Yuan picked up before finally finding this place.

This bamboo leaf did not look different from the others, because Fang Yuan already felt a little disappointed with the previous few material failures, he wanted to try something different.

Wood paths can be imagined as a plant, so what Qi has a good relationship with plants?

It was Light path, plants need light to photosynthesize. Of course this only applies on earth, Fang Yuan still doesn't understand how the plants work in the Gu world.

But he didn't really need to understand it, he wasn't really interested in Wood Path for now.

Fang Yuan rolled up this bamboo leaf, then he began to absorb Qi with Small Qi Gu.

But he was disappointed when he examined the absorbed Qi, Fang Yuan could not tell which one was light Qi, he had never found any reading material related to the Qi path in the academy, so all he could do was experiment and find the answer by himself.

After thinking about it a few times, Fang Yuan finally got some finding.

Moonlight Gu is Light path Gu, surely this Gu can absorb light Qi easily.

If Fang Yuan randomly releases Qi into Moonlight Gu, then he will be able to tell which is light Qi. But there will also be a chance that Moonlight Gu gets broken because of an unknown Qi.

Fang Yuan usually did experiments on Moonlight Gu at night, because he could generate ideas at night, so in the end the Qi that he often caught was Yin Qi and cold Qi.

But now it's daytime, who knows he can do it.

'At least I did my best with this.'

Fang Yuan looked at Small Qi Gu and Moonlight Gu above his right palm.

Fang Yuan carefully began his experiments. As usual Yang Qi and Yin Qi influence each other with this Fang Yuan can easily throw them away.

Finally Fang Yuan found it, a Qi that Moonlight Gu could absorb easily. Fang Yuan was a cautious person, so he did another double attempt.

The first time he didn't make any progress, because too many types of Qi that Fang Yuan didn't know were passed on to Moonlight Gu.

With the magnetic Qi field, Fang Yuan could separate all kinds of Qi and leave just one kind, but now he wanted to find out which Qi was Light Qi. So he had to use up all the sucked Qi and try them out one by one.

Then he found it, a Qi that had a strong connection with Moonlight Gu.

"Is this Light Qi?" Fang Yuan did not jump to the conclusion and tried to fill Small Qi Gu full of this Qi. Qi will show changes when it has a certain amount and density.

After completely accumulating this Qi with the help of the magnetic Qi field, Fang Yuan found the answer. This was indeed Light Qi, this Qi stored up and filled Small Qi Gu when he tried to feel this Qi through Small Qi Gu, Fang Yuan felt a 'light'.

Then he continued experimenting. He used both Light Qi and Wood Qi to this experiment.

Unlike other materials, some react after they are fully charged some do not react at all.

But this bamboo leaf immediately shows a reaction when it is filled with two types of Qi.

The rolled bamboo leaves slowly began to move, then continued by squeezing themselves to become denser.

After some time, Fang finally succeeded. He had to refill his primeval essence during the experiment, this was very time consuming, as Small Qi Gu needed five refills to complete this experiment.

Because of that he can only make one of them, he also needs to save his primeval stones to do the last experiment.

On the palm of Fang Yuan's hand was the refinement material he had made. It looked like polished jade, it was about the size of an adult's thumb and you could see a shadow of a bamboo leaf inside even though it was very faint.

Unlike its appearance, this material was very heavy, even the Fang Yuan needed a little more effort to keep the hand from falling.

"I got an interesting toy."

Fang Yuan was happy that his experiment was successful.

If this is seen by Gu Yue clan Gu Master, maybe they will wonder why this happened?

If they try to do it without knowing what really happened, they may fail. Unless they have attainment in the Qi path.

Because what Fang Yuan actually did was the Qi path refining method.

Fang Yuan has no attainment on the Qi path, Refinement path, or Wood path. But he had an Imagination path that could generate intuition for all paths, he could do something only with the experience and understanding he had. 

Even when Fang Yuan conducted an experiment including the one he just did, he didn't do it carelessly, but he carefully refined this green jade. 

Even now, Fang Yuan looked exhausted, both in body and mind. If he decides to refinement this material at will, then what he's doing is stupid.

First, because refinement material requires time and effort. The second is the consumption of primeval stones, and the last is that most Rank one refinement materials are easier to obtain than making these refinement materials.

Fang Yuan then kept the material, he called it green leaf jade for now.

Now the focus is the collection of bamboo trees in front of him. Did it produce more Qi wood than other places around it surrounding or collects surrounding wood Qi in this place to focus on this place.

Fang Yuan is from earth, he has logical thinking. If there is reaction there is action, now the question is what is the action?

Is it this collection of bamboo trees? Or is it something that lies in there? Or is it a Gu worm?

"It's a shame, but I have to do it! " thought Fang Yuan, a feeling of disappointment rising in his heart.

He still wanted to use this place to do more experiment, but who knows what tomorrow will bring? It could be that this place was found by the Gu Master or accidentally destroyed. For that, Fang Yuan chose to investigate that reason now.

Just in case it was caused by a Gu worm or a beast, Fang Yuan filled up its primeval essence.

Fang Yuan used Yin Qi Drop to fill Moonlight Gu with Yin Qi. This has been tested several times by Fang Yuan before, even if their paths are conflicting, but they can be connected, He doesn't know the reason behind this. Maybe it's because Yin Qi is such an attraction that it causes the resulting moonblade to become denser? Whatever it is he will know the answer if he keeps experimenting.

Now that he knew Light Qi, wouldn't it be great to use Light Qi to amplify Moonlight Gu's attacks because it was from the Light path?

Fang Yuan did not have time for that, he had never even tried to enter Light Qi into Moonlight Gu, now the time was limited. Therefore he did not do what he had never tested before. What's more, now that he already has the Yin Qi Drop Gu, with this Gu Fang Yuan who is exhausted from refining green leaf jade can easily fill Moonlight Gu with Yin Qi.

With the special function of Yin Qi Drop Gu, Yin Qi can be easily absorbed by Moonlight Gu.

Fang Yuan can only charge 15% of Yin Qi , if it is more than this Moonlight Gu will start to take some damage. He already tested this fact before using the help of Small Qi Gu and magnetic Qi field.

In front of the Fang Yuan, you can see Moonlight Gu and Yin Qi Drop Gu appearing side by side, after filling Moonlight Gu with 15% Yin Qi, Moonlight Gu looks a little changed.

Its color which was originally light blue started to turn a whitish blue and looked a little pale, and Fang Yuan could feel that Moonlight Gu seemed to be on the verge of damage.

If he maintained this state for longer, then the Yin Qi within Moonlight Gu would start to destroy him from within.

Fang Yuan realized this and used it right away. Right after he fired the moonblade, Fang Yuan was pushed away because the firepower was stronger than he expected and the palm of his right hand which Moonlight Gu was on felt numb. When he saw the palm of his right hand he became very shocked.

"This ?!" Being so shocked he couldn't put it into words.

Fang Yuan's right palm appeared to have turned a pale color like the color of a corpse. Coupled with the feeling of numbness from the palm of his right hand he felt an extreme danger.

"This method is very dangerous! I've only tried to shoot at 5% Yin Qi and charge 15% before but didn't shoot it back then. But this isn't the power for the moonblade initial stage ... "

Fang Yuan saw the result of his attack, the bamboo tree that had been standing firmly and looked like a tube made of bamboo stalks had now changed its shape.

A horizontal slit that looked like a crescent moon had been engraved into the grove of bamboo trees and it wasn't like an attack made by moonblade.

If the moonblade is usually a light that forms a crescent shape and when it hits a hard target the attack will create an explosion.

But the attack made by the Fang Yuan earlier was different, rather than detonating itself it looked like a solid weapon. Penetrates through everything it touches and keeps its form until its energy is depleted.

Then because the bottom was cut off, several bamboo sticks fell to the ground.

Seeing this he gained a little understanding as to why Yin Qi could increase the power of the moonblade.

"Yin and Yang, both are existence which support each other, and if Yang is pushing then Yin is attracting. Yin Qi might do this to the moonblade, attracting all the light that is fired and condensing it so that it looks more real and what's more this does not stop here. Apart from making the moonblade more solid and real, there are other effects of Yin Qi that can be seen from the pale white color of the moonblade and also the backlash that I experienced. "Fang Yuan might find a simple reason that could be used as an answer but that answer is not completely explain what really happened.

But because of this he understood a little more about Qi, more precisely Yin Qi and then Yang Qi, because these two things are related to one another. Knowing Yin means understanding Yang.

He tried to understand more about Yin Qi and Yang Qi until he finally realized something.

"Did I just create a killer move?" His eyes were shining brightly, but his expression was not very happy.

Since this method was extremely dangerous for him, for that attack alone his entire right fist had gone numb and looked like the hand of a corpse.

Not to mention the state of Moonlight Gu after firing the moonblade earlier. This Gu was almost unusable for a while because Moonlight Gu's body was covered with several cracks that almost filled half of its body, moreover, within the crack was a faint pale white light.

It is the residue of Yin Qi that remains.

"This is indeed a killer move, but even so the price to use it is too expensive. I can't use it that often, but luckily I can use this killer move if I lower the Yin Qi levels. "

Fang Yuan had tried using 5% Yin Qi before and the results weren't that bad, so for Fang Yuan for now the limit was 5%. Of course he will carry out further experiments to determine at what is the exact limit of this killer move that will bring no harm to him because these killer moves are too dangerous.

"But what is the name for this killer move? ... How about Yin Moonblade?"

But is this really a killer move? Or Fang Yuan just too exaggerated ?

Basically, killer moves are just using Gu in a more effective way, there is no definite standard for this. Be it just one Gu or two Gu, as long as one used it in a more effective way and produced results that exceeded strength than using Gu alone. That is the meaning of killer move for Fang Yuan.

And also when Fang Yuan filled Moonlight Gu he did not like pouring water into a glass, but dai carefully controlled the incoming yin Qi so that it spread evenly and didn't accumulate to a point. Because Qi can cause a phenome if it reaches a certain amount or density.

So Fang Yuan is not exaggerated when he says that this is a killer move, first it has a lot of risk than just increasing the power of Moonlight Gu with the help of Little Light Gu, then the power generated is not small but multiplies beyond the limit that should be possessed by using Moonlight Gu when used together with Little Light Gu.

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By Nefar-inn and Spyrakles