Chapter 60: Peach Blossom Gu!

As Lu Changsheng extracted the Peach Blossom Gu, a butterfly with wings resembling two pink and white peach petals appeared before him out of thin air.The Peach Blossom Gu was only the size of a thumb, emitting a faint pink light, sparkling and delicate.

Holding it in his hand, it felt soft and smooth, as if he were holding two peach petals, without much weight.

Fragrant peach blossom scent emanated from it, refreshing his senses.

Lu Changsheng looked at the Peach Blossom Gu in his hand and could clearly feel a strange and intimate connection with it, just like when he obtained the Nine Netherworld Hound before.

There was no need to tame or subdue it by any means; the system helped with that directly.

Additionally, through the system, he learned that to control and master this type of Gu insect, he needed to refine it.

The refining process was simple.

First, feed it with a drop of essence and blood, and then gradually refine the Gu insect with the power of spiritual consciousness.

Knowing the basic usage of the Peach Blossom Gu, Lu Changsheng didn’t hesitate.

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

The Gu had a sesame-sized mouthpiece, which slowly licked up the blood.

After a moment, the Peach Blossom Gu finished consuming the blood.

Lu Changsheng then enveloped the Peach Blossom Gu with his spiritual power, invading its body and will to refine it.

For many Gu cultivators, refining Gu insects was a very dangerous task.

Although Gu insects lacked intelligence, they were living beings with instinctive will to survive.

Faced with the refining process of cultivators, they would naturally resist instinctively.

Some fierce and domineering Gu insects might even counterattack the refiner.

However, since Lu Changsheng obtained this Peach Blossom Gu from a lottery draw via the system, there was already a subtle connection between them, so this wasn’t an issue.

Under his spiritual power, the Peach Blossom Gu not only didn’t resist at all but also actively cooperated, allowing Lu Changsheng’s spiritual power to enter its body and refine it.

This saved Lu Changsheng from the need to suppress the Peach Blossom Gu’s will with his own mental strength.

An hour later, Lu Changsheng sighed as he looked at the partially translucent Peach Blossom Gu in his hand.

It wasn’t because he had finished refining it, but rather because his spiritual power was exhausted, and he needed to rest and recover.

“If it weren’t for obtaining this Peach Blossom Gu from the system lottery draw, with my current cultivation level, I wouldn’t have been able to refine it, let alone succeed in refining it. I might even have been counterattacked, and my own self would be injured,” Lu Changsheng shook his head, unable to hide his admiration.

During this hour, he had fully exerted his spiritual power to refine the Peach Blossom Gu.

As a result, his spiritual power was depleted, and he hadn’t even refined one-tenth of the Peach Blossom Gu.

It was worth noting that this was with the Peach Blossom Gu fully cooperating the entire time.

If the Peach Blossom Gu had resisted even slightly, he would have faced difficulties in refining it.

“However, this also indicates that this Peach Blossom Gu is even more extraordinary, far beyond what an ordinary Qi Refining stage cultivator can handle,” Lu Changsheng mused. “Only someone like me, who relies on the system, can obtain things far beyond their own stage.”

“Now that I’ve recovered my spiritual power, I’ll see what changes have occurred since my Spirit Root advanced to the eighth grade.”

Lu Changsheng began to meditate and cultivate, regaining his spiritual strength and observing the changes that had occurred since his Spirit Root had advanced from the ninth to the eighth level.

An hour passed, and Lu Changsheng opened his eyes.

After the meditation and cultivation just now, he realized that there hadn’t been a significant increase in his cultivation speed since his Spirit Root had advanced from the ninth grade to the eighth grade.

It had only increased by about ten percent.

“The cultivation speed with an eighth-grade Spirit Root is roughly thirty percent faster than with a ninth-grade Spirit Root,” Lu Changsheng concluded.

“Considering the boosts from Little Seven and Little Seventeen earlier, my Spirit Root was already close to the eighth grade,” Lu Changsheng murmured to himself. “So, with the addition of this daughter’s boost, even though my Spirit Root advanced from the ninth grade to the eighth grade, the actual improvement isn’t significant.”

“The increase in cultivation speed of about ten percent also indicates that this child’s Spirit Root is probably a low-grade Spirit Root, similar to Little Seventeen’s Spirit Root, which is probably a seventh- or eighth-grade Spirit Root,” Lu Changsheng continued his thoughts.

He didn’t feel any sense of loss.

After all, whether it was a ninth-grade Spirit Root or an eighth-grade Spirit Root, they were both low-grade Spirit Roots, and the difference between them wasn’t too great.

Therefore, advancing from a ninth-grade Spirit Root to an eighth-grade Spirit Root wouldn’t lead to any significant qualitative changes.

However, for Lu Changsheng, the advancement from a ninth-grade Spirit Root to an eighth-grade Spirit Root was still a milestone.

At least he had taken the first step in advancing his Spirit Root!

In the future, as more and more children with Spirit Roots came along, his Spirit Root would eventually advance step by step, from a low-grade Spirit Root to a medium-grade or high-grade one.

Perhaps even to the legendary Earth Spirit Root or Heaven Spirit Root!

“Spirit Root not only affects cultivation speed but also affects cultivation bottlenecks,” Lu Changsheng pondered. “I wonder how much help advancing from a ninth-grade Spirit Root to an eighth-grade Spirit Root will be in breaking through the bottleneck of advancing from the third stage of Qi Refining to the fourth stage.”

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

The better the Spirit Root, the weaker the bottlenecks.

Lu Changsheng had read in books before that for Spirit Roots of the caliber of Earth Spirit Root or Heaven Spirit Root, there was no concept of bottlenecks from Qi Refining all the way to the Foundation Establishment stage.

Under the prospect of smooth cultivation all the way to the future, Lu Changsheng could potentially break through to the Core Formation Stage and condense a high-grade Golden Core.

Without dwelling further on these distant prospects, Lu Changsheng rose from his study and made his way to the training room to continue his cultivation and restore his spiritual power.

The next day, Lu Changsheng visited the library at the Qingzhu Mountain Estate, searching for books on Luck and Gu cultivation.

However, he found that there were no books on Luck within the Lu Family, and the information on Gu cultivation was also scarce.

He only came across a few brief introductions to Gu Insects in an ancient text.

For instance, Gu Insects were classified into six levels: Ordinary Gu, Spirit Gu, Mystic Spirit Gu, Earth Spirit Gu, Heavenly Spirit Gu, and Immortal Gu.

The higher-level Gu Insects, like Immortal Gu, were legendary entities akin to true spirit bloodlines among demonic beasts and were exceedingly rare.

Even Earth Spirit Gu and Heavenly Spirit Gu belonged to the realm of legend, being extremely rare.

This insight gave Lu Changsheng a rough understanding of the preciousness of the Peach Blossom Gu, which was likely comparable to the Nine Netherworld Hound with its celestial bloodline.

Gu Insects would undergo continuous transformations as they matured, progressing from low to high levels such as First Transformation, Second Transformation, Third Transformation, Fourth Transformation, Fifth Transformation, and so forth, corresponding to stages in a cultivator’s Qi Refining stage, Foundation Establishment stage, Core Formation Stage, Nascent Soul Stage, and Divine Transformation Stage.

The Peach Blossom Gu that Lu Changsheng had obtained naturally belonged to the First Transformation. Sᴇaʀᴄh thᴇ Nʘvᴇl(F)ire.nᴇt website on Gøøglᴇ to access chapters of nøvels early and in the highest quality.

In the following days, in addition to his daily meditation and cultivation, as well as crafting talismans, Lu Changsheng made time to refine the Peach Blossom Gu.

He hoped to complete its refinement as soon as possible to see its specific effects.

After all, he was quite eager for any improvements it might bring to his own condition and his fortune in love.

Half a month later, Lu Changsheng finally completed the refinement of the Peach Blossom Gu.

At that moment, he felt a strange connection to the Peach Blossom Gu, as if it had become a part of his own body.

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