Chapter 60: Peach Blossom Gu!

With Lu Changsheng extracting the Peach Blossom Gu.

Suddenly, a butterfly with wings resembling two pink and white peach blossom petals appeared before him.

This Peach Blossom Gu was only the size of a thumb, emitting a faint pink glow, crystal clear and tender.

In hand, it felt soft and smooth, like holding two peach petals, almost weightless.

A delicate and ethereal scent of peach blossoms wafted from it, refreshing the senses.

Lu Changsheng looked at the Peach Blossom Gu in his hand and clearly felt a mysterious connection with it.

Just like when he acquired the Nine Abyss Mastiff.

No need for any taming methods, the system directly helped tame and subdue it.

Moreover, through the system, he learned that to control and wield this Gu Worm, it needed to be refined.

And the method of refining was fairly simple.

First, feed it with a drop of essence blood, then refine the Gu Worm gradually with spiritual energy and mind.

After knowing the basic use of this Peach Blossom Gu, Lu Changsheng did not hesitate.

He forced out a drop of blood from his fingertip and fed it to the Peach Blossom Gu.

The Peach Blossom Gu had a sesame-sized mouthpart and slowly licked up the drop of blood.

Moments later, the Peach Blossom Gu finished consuming the essence blood.

Lu Changsheng began to envelop the Peach Blossom Gu with spiritual energy, starting to invade its body and will to refine it.

For many Gu cultivation practitioners, refining a Gu Worm is a very risky affair.

Although Gu Worms lack intelligence, they are living beings with a survival instinct.

When faced with the refinement of a cultivator, they naturally resist instinctively.

Some fierce Gu worms might even bite back at the refiner.

However, this Peach Blossom Gu was obtained from a system draw, establishing a subtle connection between it and Lu Changsheng, so there was no such issue.

Under his spiritual refinement, this Peach Blossom Gu not only did not resist at all.

It even actively cooperated, allowing Lu Changsheng’s spiritual energy to enter its body and be refined.

Allowing Lu Changsheng to avoid expending mental effort to suppress the Peach Blossom Gu’s will.

An hour later.

“Hoo!”

Lu Changsheng looked at the partially transparent Peach Blossom Gu in his hand, exhaling deeply.

He hadn’t completed the refinement.

Instead, he had exhausted his spiritual energy and needed to rest to recover it.

“If this Peach Blossom Gu was not obtained from a system draw, with my current cultivation power, I wouldn’t have been able to refine it successfully.”

“I might even have suffered a backlash, harming myself.”

Lu Changsheng couldn’t help but shake his head.

For this whole hour, he fully focused his spiritual energy on refining the Peach Blossom Gu.

The result was complete depletion of his spiritual energy, yet he had not refined even one-tenth of the Peach Blossom Gu.

Bear in mind, the Peach Blossom Gu was actively cooperating the entire time.

If it had resisted even a little, he would have had difficulty in refinement.

“However, this also indicates that this Peach Blossom Gu is extraordinary, not something an ordinary Qi Refining cultivator can handle.”

“Only someone like me, with a cheat-like advantage, can acquire things far beyond my level through the system.”

“Just the right time to restore spiritual energy and see what changes occurred after my Spirit Root advanced to Eighth Tier.”

Lu Changsheng sat down to cultivate, restoring spiritual energy.

Also examining what changes occurred after his Spirit Root advanced from Ninth Tier to Eighth Tier.

An hour passed.

Lu Changsheng opened his eyes.

After the meditation and cultivation, he found no significant increase in his cultivation speed despite his Spirit Root’s advancement from Ninth to Eighth Tier.

There was merely a ten percent increase in speed.

“The cultivation speed of Eighth Tier Spirit Root is almost thirty percent faster than Ninth.”

“With the support of Xian’er and Xiao Shiqi, my Spirit Root had almost reached Eighth Tier level.”

“Thus, although my Spirit Root advanced from Ninth to Eighth Tier with this child’s boost, the actual improvement wasn’t significant.”

“This ten percent increase in cultivation speed indicates that this child also has a low-tier Spirit Root, likely similar to Xiao Shiqi’s, either Seventh or Eighth Tier Spirit Root.”

Lu Changsheng muttered to himself.

He didn’t have any feelings of disappointment.

After all, both Ninth and Eighth Tier Spirit Roots belong to low-tier Spirit Roots.

The difference between the two isn’t very vast.

So advancing from a Ninth Tier to an Eighth Tier Spirit Root cannot cause a significant qualitative change.

However, the advancement from a Ninth Tier to an Eighth Tier Spirit Root was still a milestone for Lu Changsheng.

At least he’s taken the first step.

The first step in Spirit Root improvement!

In the future, as more children with Spirit Roots are born, his Spirit Root could gradually progress from low-tier to middle, and high-tier.

Perhaps even reaching the legendary Earthly and Heavenly Spirit Roots!

“Spirit Root not only relates to cultivation speed but also cultivation bottlenecks.”

“After advancing from Ninth Tier Spirit Root to Eighth Tier, I wonder how much it helps break through my Qi Refining Stage Four bottleneck.”

Lu Changsheng pondered inwardly.

Besides influencing cultivation speed, the quality of Spirit Root also affects cultivation bottlenecks.

The better the Spirit Root, the weaker the bottlenecks.

Currently, he was stuck at the bottleneck of breaking through from Qi Refining Stage Three to Stage Four.

But with a middle-tier Spirit Root, that bottleneck might not even exist.

Previously, Lu Changsheng read in books saying that for those with Earthly and Heavenly Spirit Roots, from Qi Refining till Foundation Establishment, there are no bottlenecks.

They could smoothly cultivate all the way, with a high probability of reaching the Golden Core Formation stage.

And even congealing a High-Tier Golden Core!

Lu Changsheng didn’t dwell much on this, as it was still far off.

He got up, moved from the study to the training room, continuing to cultivate and restore spiritual energy.

The next day.

Lu Changsheng went to the library at Qingzhu Mountain Estate.

He sought books about fortune and Gu cultivation.

However, in the Lu Family, there were no books on fortune, nor detailed ones on Gu cultivation.

Only in an ancient text did he find simple introductions about Gu Worms.

For instance, Gu Worms were classified as: Mortal Gu, Spirit Gu, Arcane Spirit Gu, Earthly Spirit Gu, Heavenly Spirit Gu, and Immortal Gu.

An Immortal Gu is akin to divine bloodlines among spirit beasts, naturally being legendary.

Even Earthly Spirit Gu and Heavenly Spirit Gu are considered legendary and extremely rare.

This gave Lu Changsheng a general understanding of the preciousness of the Peach Blossom Gu.

It should be comparable to the Heaven-Tier bloodline of the Nine Abyss Mastiff.

Gu Worms also evolve through growth: First Turn, Second Turn, Third Turn, Fourth Turn, Fifth Turn…..

Corresponding with stages in cultivation: Qi Refining, Foundation Establishment, Golden Core Formation, Nascent Soul, Divine Transformation.

The Peach Blossom Gu Lu Changsheng possessed was naturally at the First Turn stage.

In the days that followed.

Besides meditating and cultivating every day, Lu Changsheng continued talisman-making and would also spare time to refine the Peach Blossom Gu.

He wanted to refine the Peach Blossom Gu as soon as possible to see its specific effects.

After all, Lu Changsheng looked forward to improving himself and his peach blossom fortune.

Half a month later.

Lu Changsheng finally completely refined the Peach Blossom Gu.

At that moment, he felt a peculiar sense towards the Peach Blossom Gu before him.

It was as if this Peach Blossom Gu became a part of his own body.

Simultaneously, he gained a detailed understanding of this Peach Blossom Gu.