"This is Extreme Aptitude Gu?" Lo Jik acted shocked while sighing at the whims of fate. Who could have expected this gu worm to land in his hands? Fairy Yi's will observed Lo Jik's reaction while instructing calmly. "Indeed, it is. This is an extremely rare rank 1 human path gu worm that emerged in Treasure Yellow Heaven a while back. We contacted the seller but they refused to sell any more of it. As the name suggests, it can elevate a rank 1 gu master's aptitude to the level of an extreme physique."
Lo Jik studied the gu worm's appearance with a great deal of curiosity.
"What a dangerous gu worm," he hummed while simultaneously deducing the recipe for rank 6 Extreme Aptitude Immortal Gu Worm. In reality, extreme physiques were no longer a burden to Lo Jik ever since he innovated Fake Aptitude Gu. He had great ambitions and wanted to refine new extreme physiques. Why couldn't he produce a gu master with an extreme physique for luck path when Ren Zu already created such talents for several paths? The nature of extreme physique itself was man-made since the beginning.
Furthermore, Extreme Aptitude Gu was the result of Lo Jik's initial result. There were already recipes for Great Strength True Martial Physique Gu, Northern Dark Ice Soul Physique Gu, and more. The set of these new gu worms eliminated the aspect of uncertainty within Extreme Aptitude Gu and granted the user their desired extreme physiques.
"Dangerous and beneficial," supplanted Fairy Yi with a meaningful look. "We obtained this gu worm from the higher-ups. They shared three of these gu worms with all the ten great ancient sects. Back then, the seller sold fifty Extreme Aptitude Gu Worm to two different sellers and our side acquired thirty of these gu worms."
Lo Jik glimpsed at this information.
'I sold thirty of these gu worms for the pill path recipe. Pill path is an entirely new concept… is Heavenly Court its origin?' Lo Jik memorized this clue.
"And I get one?" Lo Jik inquired. "This is too little to deduce its recipe."
Fairy Yi sighed and shook her head.
"All of us ten sects received the same mission. We are to deduce this gu worm's recipe. There are a lot of benefits involved in this mission, Lo Jik. Our side cannot rely on you alone. One of the remaining two gu worms is with First Senior Sister and Third Supreme Elder."
Lo Jik nodded slowly as he inspected the gu worm detailing this mission.
'These benefits are truly too immense for deducing the recipe for a rank 1 gu worm.' Lo Jik felt moved.
Heavenly Court boasted rich history and reserves. They did not lack refinement path great experts. However, Lo Jik did not sell a lot of these gu worms to keep its recipe from being discovered. He even tampered with all these gu worms. Even if they could be used normally, the changes in the gu worm made it hell for anyone to deduce its recipe.
Despite Heavenly Court boasting great experts, Lo Jik himself was no worse in terms of attainment!
He was confident in the results.
'Deducing the recipe for this gu worm is still possible if one invested a disgustingly high portion of resources… but that is not profitable at all. Heavenly Court directly left this task to its subordinate forces, the ten great ancient sects.'
"Of course, nothing can be done if we fail in this task." Fairy Yi smiled lightly. "But this is an incredible opportunity, Lo Jik. Completing a mission from Heavenly Court will improve your standing and reputation in their view. Since this gu worm holds certain aspects of the dao towards the extreme physiques, perhaps you can even glean some insights on preventing the eventual demise of gu masters burdened by extreme physiques."
Lo Jik smiled and nodded, saying, "I will do my best!"
Fairy Yi nodded and left while Lo Jik sank in silence. The last portion of Fairy Yi's encouragement directly targeted Lo Jik's secret. He possessed Great Strength True Martial Physique but somehow survived. Spirit Affinity House was interested in this secret but did not force Lo Jik to turn over this incredible method. First, it wasn't a part of inheritance Lo Jik acquired after joining the sect. They had no righteous reasons to force this method out. And second, even if they had a righteous cause, they would not want to turn things sour with Lo Jik over one method when he already handed over the recipes for the Strength Champion series and also the early recipes for the Human Adaptive Qi Gu. All these were precious findings for the current Spirit Affinity House, and with time, they expected Lo Jik to willingly offer more of his research results for the goods in the sect treasury—inheritances, immortal materials, immortal gu worms, and more!
This was the confidence of a super sect.
'Extreme Aptitude Gu, eh?' Lo Jik sighed and shook his head. Though rewarding, Lo Jik did not want to complete this mission at all. He wanted to make use of Spirit Affinity House and not the other way around. Completing this mission would incur the jealousy of the other nine ancient sects. His circumstances would not improve but would degrade instead.
"Done with your talks?" Feng Jin Huang strolled into the room after a while. She smiled at Lo Jik and asked curiously, "Do you have a moment?"
"For you? Always~!" Lo Jik grinned as he held her hand.
Feng Jin Huang momentarily puckered her lips before scoffing. Weak against his flattering words, she couldn't help but plant a chaste kiss on his lips.
"I wanted to show you something… it's incomplete and who knows how long it will take for me to finish it. But consider this my way of thanking you for your earlier present."
Lo Jik understood what she was talking about—the incomplete dream path research results he gifted her before entering his year-long secluded cultivation.
"But you did thank me." Lo Jik shook his head. His hands, stirred by his illicit intentions, roamed Feng Jin Huang's curvaceous body. "Every second with you—"
"Just shut up!" Feng Jin Huang pouted, pressing back into him without much pressure and pinning him onto a lavish couch as she sat on top of him snugly, moaning in satisfaction as Lo Jik's arm looped around her waist to press her further into him.
"So shy, even after all the things we've done." Lo Jik never let go of a chance to tease her as he giggled into her ear while hugging her from behind. "Did I tell you how lovely you look today?"
"Yes. Ten times!" Feng Jin Huang rolled her eyes.
"And that I love you?"
Red freckled her ears and cheeks as she grunted bashfully.
"Well… now you did," she replied.
"I got to even those numbers out. Get ready to hear it nine more time."
He pecked the nape of her ear before saying those magical words that had Feng Jin Huang's spine tingling with phantom pleasure and her heart overwhelmed with sweet emotions. She fully laid on him by the time he ended, their lips locked firmly, just like their interlocked fingers.
"You were saying?" Lo Jik questioned after a while as Feng Jin Huang pouted slightly.
"See for it yourself, hmph! Why do I even bother with you?!" She left hurriedly, leaving behind an information path gu for Lo Jik to peruse.
"Hey! Don't leave yet! We haven't even—oh, she left…" Lo Jik slumped back with a frivolous smile. He was glad that his charm wasn't enough to distract Feng Jin Huang from focusing on her cultivation. That would have been such a waste of talent. Yet, he would also try his best to distract her from her goals just for the sake of it—after all, he was a consort. It was his duty to fully please his wives and have them ready for another day of arduous cultivation.
'And what is this?' Lo Jik idly inspected the gu worm before his eyes widened slightly. He sat straighter and scanned the gu worm with a serious expression.
'Hehe!' Feng Jin Huang observed everything through Little Hu Immortal land spirit, smirking with an air of superiority. 'What do you think, Lo Jik?' She thought internally, quite pleased with how serious Lo Jik grew. Of course, she understood the value of the gu worm she left behind. However, she was more than willing to share her innovations with Lo Jik because he had helped her plant a firm step in this path—Dream Path!
Two days in the real world meant ten days inside Hu Immortal Blessed Land. Feng Jin Huang had spent the last year comprehending Lo Jik's dream path research result and waited for him to emerge from his seclusion to get her dream path immortal gu worm. It didn't take long for Feng Jin Huang to realize how quickly she understood various concepts about dream path. But this was only the initial stage of this path. This road was filled with dangers and she did not dare charge forward recklessly to refine these mortal gu worms, not without the protection of her Dream Wings Immortal Gu Worm.
So, for the last ten days, Feng Jin Huang compiled all of her findings—however incomplete—and shared them with Lo Jik.
There was not an ounce of doubt in her heart that not only would this be beneficial to Lo Jik, but he would respond in kind and help her whenever she required his assistance. The only way she could sleep easy at night was by working hard and reaching the same stage as Lo Jik. The feeling of being dependent, no matter how sweet, did not delude Feng Jin Huang into completely becoming helpless. Not only did she want to enjoy her life with Lo Jik, she also wanted to be someone capable enough to inspire Lo Jik!
And unknowingly, inspire she did!
'Is this the talent of someone destined for dream path?' Lo Jik couldn't help but feel impressed. A cursory glance was all it took for him to comprehend Feng Jin Huang's innovations, but that only made him more alert. Her affinity with dream path was truly too scary… and that excited Lo Jik.
'There are a few incomplete dream recipes here and even an incomplete killer move! It seems her experience in Bai La's dream realm thoroughly impacted her to first tackle the obvious dangers of the dream realms.'
Dream realms were one of the greatest dream path resources. Not only did they contain dream path materials, but they were also a rare source of true meaning. But the dream realms were dangerous. They invoked desires and emotions. Staying in a dream realm corroded one's soul and injuries in this mystical space translated into horrible impacts to the soul. Through Dream Wings Immortal Gu, Feng Jin Huang found herself stuck in Bai La's dream realm, her emotions almost completely corrupted by Bai La's lust.
And so emerged Feng Jin Huang's…
Shatter Dream.
Like Lo Jik prepared for Bai La's dream realm using the killer moves Injuries Like Dream and Escape Dream, Feng Jin Huang also took her time developing a killer move targeting the manifested dream realms.
Shatter Dream!
The essence of the killer move was in its name itself. This killer move targeted dream realms and destroyed them.
A mortal Shatter Dream could destroy the self-dream realms one might get stuck in, but Shatter Dream needed to be at the level of an immortal killer move to target the manifested dream realms.
'It's the opposite of what I'm researching.' Lo Jik observed. He had relied on Dreamer Gu all along for his attainment needs. However, this method consumed too many gu worms. It was still manageable to become a grandmaster in all the known paths, but the cost was exponentially higher to rely on Dreamer Gu and becoming great grandmaster in all the known paths.
Manifested dream realms were Lo Jik's answer to this issue.
Back then, completing one scene of Bai La's dream realm granted him quite a bit of metal path true meaning. She was a metal path grandmaster and exploring her dream realm meant snatching her accumulated true meaning.
Clearing one scene would have let him reach the level of a quasi-master if he had no prior metal path attainment.
Exploring the entire dream realm meant becoming a metal path grandmaster.
It was too convenient and efficient, especially when Lo Jik had several dream path killer moves.
Feng Jin Huang created Shatter Dream because of her traumatic experience. With time, she would also realize the value of a dream realm and reach the same state as Lo Jik—the need to capitalize the dream realms!
'Shatter Dream… is almost the opposite of Dream Summoning I'm deducing with my Dreamer Gu Worms. Unfortunately, I don't have Dreamer Immortal Gu or Accumulation Immortal Gu. Either of these immortal gu worms could be used to activate this immortal killer move and summon dream realms!'
How did Dreamer Gu function?
It basically traveled to dream realms that were too weak to be manifested by relying on the connection of the gu worms in their apertures. It was sound to expect that sacrificing an immortal gu worm could allow Dreamer Gu to enter the dream realms at the level of a manifested dream realm!
Using this connection, Lo Jik deduced a dream path immortal killer move—Dream Summoning.
Bai La was a clear indication that dream realms might have already manifested in the gu world. He didn't know where they were, but couldn't he try summoning them? Even better, there might be a lot more dream realms yet to manifest! He could summon them all!
'But… there is one uncertainty.'
Lo Jik knew the limitations of his creations.
'I can never account for the quality of true meaning present in the summoned dream realm.'
'The summoned dream realm can either have true meaning equivalent to a master-level attainment, grandmaster-level attainment, and great grandmaster-level attainment. Spending a lot of resources to summon a master-level attainment is clearly a great loss.'
After all, each activation of this killer move would expend hundreds of dream path mortal gu worms!
'This Shatter Dream killer move pursues a different ideology, the one that is way too beneficial to not follow.'
'A dream realm can be shattered… and also created.'
Dream Creation!
Earlier, did Lo Jik not feel disappointed at his inability to completely plunder Dark Cloud Immortal Yin Yun?
'Let's say if I had the ability to expend the targets and transform their accumulated true meaning into dream realms…' He gulped.
'I could target the gu immortals who are known for their great expertise! This will be a dream path killer move, something they are unable to defend against. It's like slaughtering sheep!'
'And for other paths such as luck, painting, and theft… I still have Dream Summoning. So, what there aren't many gu immortals for these paths? I can directly target the dream realms of all these paths!'
Dream Creation and Dream Summoning.
One was completely deduced and the other was just inspired.
These two killer moves could reduce the cost of raising his attainment by a significant margin.
Best of all, Lo Jik already had a clear soul cultivation method.
And all his methods will reach new heights once he refines Accumulation Immortal Gu successfully!
So, his soul would grow rapidly and resist dream realm's corrosion. And that's if he took the task of exploring the dream realms.
But why would he do so?
That's why he refined Dreamer Gu!
'There's a chance I would have come to a similar conclusion after several uses of Dream Summoning.' Lo Jik sighed. 'But Feng Jin Huang somehow helped me reach this goal quicker. Furthermore, I can use the details of Shatter Dream itself to quickly deduce my Dream Creation killer move.'
Lo Jik couldn't help but feel amazed at that. He wanted to help Feng Jin Huang. Sharing his results did not mean a lot since he already deduced many dream path killer moves. Being a dream path great grandmaster granted him too many choices. Yet, Feng Jin Huang, who hadn't even touched dream path a year before somehow helped him, a dream path great grandmaster. Furthermore, he knew it for a fact that Feng Jin Huang held nothing back in this instance and shared all of her results while Lo Jik had only revealed a fraction of his treasures.
'I'll finish Shatter Dream for her… it's the least I can do.' Lo Jik smiled and left the room.
Dream Creation.
He couldn't wait to spar against other challengers once he eventually returned to Tian Ti Mountain.
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Alternate Title: Extreme Aptitude Gu returns home; Immense development of human path; Specific Aptitude Gu; Ambitions like Ren Zu; Ren Zu sacrificing his eyes and whatnot to create his children *Lo Jik af: Hehe, human is the spirit of all living being, watch my killer move go brrrr*; Lo Jik about to create luck path extreme physique from his nut sack; New extreme physiques?; Fairy Yi moving around like Doakes; *Insert doakes meme shorts*; Confidence of a super sect; Also Spirit Affinity House once they realize Lo Jik already left their control *Confidence shattering noises*; Rizzing future great dream seed; Hugs and kisses; A consort's solemn duty; Lo Jik, the eye candy; Lo Jik out here distracting waifus from cultivation; No waifu shall remain un-kissed and un-hugged; Stimulating make-out; Inspired; Talent vs Cheat
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