**Chapter 12: Locked up riches! **

I am a little late due to relatives visiting us.

My chapter stockpile is getting smaller. I hope to write at least 2 to 3 chapters a day during the Easter holidays.

Also, shoutout to Scholar_of_old_Era and his fic Reverend Insanity: Chaos Sea Ancestor.

I hope I did not overdo it in this chapter.

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"And people in my old life really said 13 is an unlucky number."

Time to hide those Gu, I trust the servants to a certain extent, but they are mortals and can be intimidated and investigated pretty easily, so they should not see them.

Carefully putting the Gu into a bag, and then hiding that in the house, I calm down slowly.

"It is as Fang Yuan has said, the most profitable business is the one that does not require an investment. So killing, stealing, and extortion."

I should not get too used to doing something like this though, as I am still a rank 1 in a really big righteous clan, so getting caught will not bring anything good with it.

"How long do I have to wait for these useless servants? I want to open my loot box and see what Gu I got..."

There he was, Fei Yu Zhen Wei, looking like a child anticipating getting his favorite ice cream. His surroundings, on the other hand, told a different story. Just a few meters in front of him lay two naked dead bodies, both of them badly mutilated.

"Young Master, we are ba..." shouted the young servant who was carrying the shovels that I had told them to get. But he could not even finish his sentence before he saw the gruesome sight that was the courtyard.

"Good, you can start digging a hole over there. Come get me when it is 2 meters deep."

With that, I quickly made my way into the small one-story rental house, and before the servants could utter any words of protest, I was gone.

In the house, I walked over to the kitchen, opened the middle upper cabinet, and took out the bag I had hidden the Gu in.

"These guys out there will probably take a few hours to dig a hole that can bury two people deep enough to not get them dug up and eaten by animals."

"So I will have some time, undisturbed, to look at my nice new Gu."

With that, Zhen Wei took them out of the bag and onto the kitchen table in no particular order.

As he looked at them, with a small satisfied smile on his face, he thought about his biggest problem right now.

"To be honest, I just want to keep all of these Gu a secret so that I do not have to feed them."

"But that leaves me with the problem of trying to refine 13 Gu. This is something I will never accomplish before the first of these starve to death."

"I could just keep them in my Aperture to not let them starve, but my Aperture can be inspected at any time. So that is not an option."

"Enough about the worrying, let's see what I got first…"

I recognize most of those Gu, but even the fact that I don't recognize some is quite impressive for two Rank 1 Gu masters. Let's start with the best things first.

Rank 3 primeval Elder Gu.

This particular Gu looked like the most grumpy, unhappiest old man you have ever seen in your life.

"How in the hell did these people even get something like this??? Inheritances? Nah, the other Gu on this table don't have anything to do with each other, these are just a mess, no one path, not even a direction like healing or storage is prevalent…"

Back to the primeval Elder Gu, I see that it is deeply unhappy. No surprise here, the small old man that I see here can store up to a million primeval stones, and will only be happy when he is full.

I did not expect these small-time robbing scammers to have anywhere near a million primeval stones. But on the other hand, I had also not expected them to have a rank 3 Gu.

How did they even refine that??

'And most importantly, how am I supposed to refine it?'

*Two years ago*

"So little Wei, which methods does a Gu master have if he wants to use a Gu?" asked the loving father.

"For one, the Gu master can replace the will inside the Gu with their own primeval essence an time.."

"Very good, that is the most common one. It is important to know that the difficulty in that usually depends on the will inside the Gu as well as the rank of the Gu."

"For example, if a rank 5 Gu master gave your father a rank 1 Gu that had their will inside, I would have to be in a battle of will with that Gu master and not the rank 1 Gu."

"So it would be really difficult for anyone to refine the Gu."

"Funnily enough, this does not work the other way around. So if a rank 2 Gu Master has refined a rank 5 Gu, for example, it will be as hard to refine as a wild rank 5 Gu."

"But father is there no way this can be overcome any easier?" I only asked that because I should not know the answer to this question.

"In general, no. But… there are some very rare Gu that, how can I say that, they have a strong personality." Wow, this is actually interesting info. Let's see if I can get more out of him?

"What do you mean by this?"

"Well, I have only encountered one such Gu before."

"It was years ago, at that time I was still rank 2 and a rank 3 Elder led 5 of us rank 2 Gu masters to hunt down a rank 3 demonic path Gu master."

"After we had killed him, we looted his body and found a rank 4 Gu, it was a terrible abomination. Like a cancerous lump with the agonized faces of about a dozen Women on it."

"At that time the rank 3 Elder knew I had an interest in refinement, so he explained that this Gu could either be refined by replacing the will in it by force the normal way. But the interesting thing was, that it was evil, you could just slowly put little primeval essence into it while doing actions it approves."

"Actions it approves?" I was confused, as I thought that only normal refinement and maybe suppression with a higher-ranked Gu worked into refining a Gu.

"Yes, actions it approves, in the case of that particular Gu… well you a have to know that, everthing you need to know is it was demonic."

"And if you did that certain thing enought, it would just let itself be refined, without any struggle or battle of will."

'Well, I am curious how that rank 3 Elder knew the specific thing needed to refine that Gu. Maybe he only hunted that demonic Gu Master down because he had planned to get it himself?'

"But the lesson here is that some Gu that have very specific desires can even give up their former master's will. These types of Gu are very rare though."

*present time*

"Thinking about it, they probably just threatened someone without experience to hand it over."

"If there is one Gu that has a personality, it is this greedy one." I could not help thinking as I looked at the primeval Elder Gu.

Convinced to try this theory, I go outside to take all the primeval stones I have left and take them with me.

"Now if this does not work, I can either try to let my father refine it or just kill it and hope the primeval stones come out." But let's not give up before even trying.

With that, I hold the primeval Elder in my hand and try to input some primeval essence, without doing anything special.

"The will in this one is a whole other level, I have no chance to refine this normally with my primeval essence."

"Now let's see if my theory works…"

With that, I took about 10 primeval stones and gave them to the primeval elder.

*Swoosh*

"It at least takes them in, this is good."

Without wasting time, I put some more of my primeval essence into the Gu and instantly refine about 1 or 2% of it.

"Hahaha… it works, let's not waste time and refine this Gu."

100 primeval stones gone

20% refined

250 primeval stones

48% refined

350 primeval stones

71% refined

"I hope it continues at this rate…"

400 primeval stones

85%

"I only have 200 primeval stones left…"

514 primeval stones

Success!!!

"Who would have thought that my next Gu would be a rank 3?"

With that, all the rest of my primeval stones were sucked up and put into the Primeval Elder Gu.

"Let me take a look inside."

17,491 primeval Stones…

"I am rich!!!"

"It is as they say, good things happen to bad people."

"Hehehe"

"Fortunately, I have decided to be a bad person in this life."

My thoughts were racing, 17 ½ thousand primeval stones. So many of my plans needed to be accelerated or changed altogether.

Not that this was a bad thing.

I have a rule, I do not make or change my plans while I am emotional, this is a sure way to disaster.

"Ok, I should continue with the other 12 Gu."

The second Gu that had me excited was the rank 2 red steel relic Gu. I am lucky they were not rank 2 or this would probably not be here.

'They must have planned to use this one once one of them reached rank 2.'

'I will take it.'

With that, I put my new red relic Gu in my Aperture. I plan to refine it when I reach rank 2. I don't have to feed it anyway, as relic Gu, like lifespan Gu, don't have to be fed even without my cheat.

"All that is left are some rank 1 Gu… but I can cheat now. Hehehe"

With that, I put them all in my Aperture, a space that was full of rank 3 aura at the moment, as I ordered the rank 3 primeval elder Gu to be as threatening as possible.

All the rank 1 Gu in the Aperture just flopped to the bottom of it and pretended to be dead.

Rank 1 Windblade Gu, instantly refined.

Another Rank 1 Windblade Gu, instantly refined.

Then came two rank 1 water shielding Gu, these must have been their main defensive Gu.

Rank 1 Greedy Toad Gu, instantly refined.

Rank 1 Scent Tracking Gu, instantly refined.

Rank 1 Firestop Bleeding Gu, instantly refined.

That one burns open wounds to close them; it is quite effective and fast, but extremely painful.

Rank 1 Burn Healing Gu, instantly refined.

This is a nice combo with the Firestop bleeding Gu, as it heals all wounds that came through burning.

So I could use the Firestop bleeding Gu to stop the bleeding and then the Burn Healing Gu to heal the wounds that create. The good thing is that they take very little primeval essence.

The last 3 Gu I don't recognize, but refine them anyway.

"They had a whole set of attack, defense, healing, investigation/tracking, and storage. And that as a bunch of rogue rank 1 cultivators, as well as the 17 ½ thousand primeval stones. I don't want to know how many people they must have killed and robbed to amass this amount of wealth."

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