62 Choosing Gu again in the Gu storage room (1/2)
Chapter 62: Choosing Gu again in the Gu storage room
Translator: SkyfarrowEditor: Skyfarrow
The sun rises, signifying the arrival of another day.
The students lined up properly, faces flushed with excitement as they stood before the academy Gu storage room.
Today was the day where they would pick their second Gu!
As the first to advance to middle stage, Fang Yuan had the priority in choosing, thus he stood at the front of the queue.
Behind him was Gu Yue Mo Chen, Gu Yue Fang Zheng and Gu Yue Chi Cheng.
Creak.
The Gu storage room’s door was opened by the guards, and Fang Yuan was the first to set foot into it.
The Gu room was not big, but was a sight to behold. The surrounding walls had square holes in them, some were big but others were small, holding all sorts of containers in them.
There was rock pots, jade pots, cages made of weaved grass, and some porcelain ware.
All sorts of Gu worms, being all Rank one, were stored in these containers. The academy probably spent more than 1000 primeval stones every day just to feed these Gu worms.
Fang Yuan glanced through and found that in many containers, they were already empty, having no Gu worms inside.
The Gu worms in the storage room were replenished once a year. Previously when they were choosing their vital Gu, most of the youngsters chose the Moonlight Gu, thus the storage room had no moonlight Gu left at the moment.
The storage room had no windows, there was only a small skylight at the rooftop.
The sunlight shone in from the skylight and formed a rectangular golden image on the ground.
The first time when he entered the Gu room, Fang Yuan already had an objective and chose the Moonlight Gu immediately. But now, he had several possible targets in his mind.
Yet these targets also depended on whether there was stock in the storage room.
Fang Yuan moved along the left wall and strolled inside slowly while examining the catalogue.
Five steps later, he paused.
A square box frame near his shoulder had a bronze bowl inside, and within it was a Gu worm.
This Gu worm was like a bedbug, flat and wide with a small head, having an oval body. It was yellow-orange throughout, and emitted a faint bronze-like glow.
This was the Bronze Skin Gu, the choice for most close-combat Gu Masters. The academy’s martial arts instructor raised such a Gu, and once activated, causes the body to glow yellow, greatly raising defense.
Fang Yuan’s knowledge was deep and broad, so of course he did not have any urge for this Gu. He continued forward and saw a Stone Skin Gu.
The Stone Skin Gu and Bronze Skin Gu were similar in appearance, but the Stone Skin Gu’s body was grey instead, like an art piece made of rock.
After six Stone Skin Gu, there was the Iron Skin Gu.
Iron Skin Gu and Bronze Skin Gu were outwardly similar but with only a tiny difference. It was silently staying in a iron bowl, unmoving. It emitted a black iron-like glow around its body.
As humans have clans, so do Gu.
The three Gu that Fang Yuan saw simultaneously were all from the same series. They were similar in appearance and had similar effects.
”Iron Skin, Bronze Skin, Rock Skin, Jade Skin Gu….. if there is a Jade Skin Gu, I might as well choose it.” Fang Yuan mumbled as his heart felt a tiny flicker of expectation rising, and he continued walking.
However he was destined to be disappointed, for after the Iron Skin Gu, he saw the Beast Skin Gu.
The Jade Skin Gu and Beast Skin Gu belonged to the same series as the Bronze Skin Gu etc. But they had great difference in value - the Beast Skin Gu was the most common, even cheaper than the Rock Skin Gu, but it had more evolutionary lines and could fuse with more varieties of Gu.
The Jade Skin Gu was the most rare Gu in this series. Its market value was only second to the Liquor worm, and at times the price would fluctuate and rival with the Liquor worm itself.
Fang Yuan took a look, but he did not find a Jade Skin Gu. He was not disappointed, but laughed in relief, ”Gu Yue village is just a middle-sized clan, the academy Gu storage room is only of middle tier quality. To have a Jade Skin Gu, that is rather impossible.”
The left side of the wall had already been inspected, so Fang Yuan swapped to another wall and continued strolling.
On this wall, there was mostly the Longhorn Beetle Gu.
Similar to the Skin Gu series, Longhorn Beetle Gu was a large clan among the Rank one Gu worms.
Their outer appearances were similar - they had long and circular cylinder figures, the back area having many outlines. A large part of the body was a black colour, giving out a metallic luster. It had a pair of feelers that were long and exceeded the body size; its chin was strong and it gave out screeching noises, like the sound of timber being sawed. With this, a few Gu Masters from some places would call them as the ‘sawing tree bunch’.
What first entered Fang Yuan’s vision was a Brute Force Longhorn Beetle Gu.
Its entire body was a red metallic colour, and it had a pair of antennae that was coarser than the usual Longhorn Beetle ones. On the top surface of the antenna there was a bamboo joint-like growth with every small interval.
This Brute Force Longhorn Beetle Gu was highly sought after in the market; earlier the caravan that came to the Gu Yue village had people who sold large numbers of this Gu.
The Brute Force Longhorn Beetle Gu gave Gu Masters temporary super strength. It had the reputation of the strength of one bull, and could sustain for five breaths.
But it had two weaknesses.
One was that every activation consumed too much primeval essence. Rank one middle stage required 10% primeval essence, but if converted to initial stage, it would consume 20%.
Another was sequela. If the Gu Master had a weak constitution, using this Gu a lot would cause their muscles to get injured, even experiencing muscle tearing. Only Gu Masters with a strong body would choose to use this Gu. A small-sized person like Fang Yuan was unsuitable for it.
Fang Yuan knew this too, and walked past the Brute Force Longhorn Beetle Gu, continuing to look around.