100 White Jade Gu (1/2)
Chapter 100: White Jade Gu
Translator: SkyfarrowEditor: Skyfarrow
In the blink of an eye, ten more days passed.
Deep in the mountain, in the underground rock forest.
Squeakkkkk!
Tens of jade eye stone monkeys jumped in the air with blurred silhouettes.
They continued to leap and attacked Fang Yuan aggressively.
If it was like before, Fang Yuan would retreat without a doubt. But now, he stood on the spot with a cold expression, still like a rock.
The stone monkeys slammed, scratched, and bit Fang Yuan’s body, but a crisp ‘ding ding’ sound could be heard, as if they were not attacking a person, but a sturdy jade pillar.
A bright white jade light covered the area as it attached itself to Fang Yuan’s body. This light, although it was thinner than the Jade Skin Gu’s jade green glow, it had more than twice of the defensive power.
Jade Skin Gu’s defense can only handle up to sixteen monkeys’ simultaneous attack, but now Fang Yuan could face off against more than thirty monkeys alone.
”On the arena, I could break Fang Zheng’s Jade Skin Gu’s defense with my bare fists, but if Fang Zheng used this White Jade Gu, even if I broke my wrist bone, I would not be able to penetrate his defenses.”
Fang Yuan pondered while diverting a part of his thoughts towards his aperture sea.
In the red steel primeval sea, the White Jade Gu sank to the bottom of the sea, constantly absorbing primeval essence. Its surface also emitted a faint white jade glow, like a lightbulb.
Every time the stone monkeys attack Fang Yuan, the White Jade Gu’s surface which resembled an oval pebble would flash faintly.
At the same time, Fang Yuan could feel a trace of his primeval essence being expended.
”White Jade Gu’s defense is the same type as the Jade Skin Gu, they both require a continuous source of primeval essence. At the same time, the greater the intensity of the attack, the more primeval essence is expended.” Fang Yuan concluded in his heart.
At the same time, he counterattacked.
Punches and kicks kicked up a sandstorm. His strikes were simple, yet brutal and effective with an imposing aura.
Although the White Boar Gu was gone, the strength it gave to Fang Yuan still remained in his body.
Endless monkeys were hit by Fang Yuan. Some were kicked away, knocking on the stone pillar; some were killed in midair, turning into stone and breaking into fragments when they landed on the ground.
At the same time, with a flick of his wrist, Fang Yuan sent moonblades flying around, like the scythe of the reaper, harvesting the lives of the stone monkeys.
With the supply of red steel primeval essence, the Rank one Moonlight Gu could cause the greatest attack damage to the monkeys with every hit.
Squeak squeak...
The stone monkeys screamed in fright, retreating.
Fang Yuan had exterminated the stone monkeys in a short moment of counterattack, with only five or six remaining.
Fang Yuan killed another, and the remaining stone monkeys broke down, frantically running around and escaping deep into the stone forest.
Fang Yuan did not chase these escapees, but continued forwards deeper into the stone forest.
These days, he had been working hard to find the next clue for the inheritance. With continuous exploring, he had stepped foot on most of the areas around the stone forest, but did not find anything.
He had a hunch, vaguely guessing the Flower Wine Monk’s idea. He felt that the next step of the inheritance was likely linked to the most central area of the stone forest.
The deeper he got into the forest, the larger the stone pillars were, and the more stone monkeys lived inside them.
Fang Yuan walked as he observed — at the center of the stone forest, there was a large stone pillar. Its circumference was wider than tens of men surrounding it and attempting to hug it.
This stone pillar was his objective.
But, the deeper he got, the larger the monkey gangs, and the higher the difficulty.
Fang Yuan took a crucial step out and entered the alert zone of a group of monkeys.
Squeak squeak squeak!
The black caves in the stone pillar had emerging furious jade eye stone monkeys, and up to a hundred jumped in Fang Yuan’s direction.
Fang Yuan ran for his life.
Against so many monkeys, even with the White Jade Gu, he could not massacre them.
The stone monkeys chased Fang Yuan for a while, then some started to abandon the chase and turned around, going back to their caves. Eventually, only thirty or so monkeys trailed after Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan seeing the time was right, turned around and fought.
After a round of fighting, the last few monkeys ran and escaped, not even daring to return to their original caves.
After a few rounds, Fang Yuan killed over a hundred stone monkeys. On the road there were traces of broken stones from the corpses of the stone monkeys.
”Insufficient primeval essence.” Fang Yuan inspected his primeval sea and sighed, forced to stop in his tracks.
If it was before, he would use his primeval stones to recover swiftly, but now, after fusing the White Jade Gu, he had a severe lack of primeval stones, or rather his entire finance was on the brink of collapsing.
Fang Yuan picked up the jade rock eyeballs and stuffed them into his bag.
”It should be at the bottom of the center of that rock pillar. But to reach there, I have to open a path.” This feeling was getting more intense, Fang Yuan gave it one last look before opening the stone door and returning to the second secret room.