Chapter 24: Chapter 24: Your own true self(part 1)
After several months of travelling the caravan finally reached Jia clan, in these months Xun Shung reached rank 3 middle stage. This experience was truly something else, the types of mythical creatures he saw, the scenery of this world is truly amazing for an otherworldly. He also thought about the path he should choose.There were too many paths and every path has its own pros and cons. His head started to spin after thinking about it for these months, he also practiced refinement and exchange pointers with Jia Fu himself about cultivation. Finally they reached their destination without any obstacles.
Jia family approached Xun Shung with utmost respect, Jia Fu had already sent a letter to the clan about Xun Shung,he prepared everything for Xun Shung beforehand. Upon arrival, everyone meet Xun Shung with heart-warming gaze. After having banquet with the main family, he was given a house of his own to settle down for some days. Jia clan is a middle sized clan, there are 4 rank 4 in the family. Including Jia Sheng the head of the clan and Jia Fu's father and Jia Fu himself,there are 2 more. Their wealth is also in top tier of a middle sized clan because they are merchants from background, wealth and resources were never a problem to them.
Xun Shung was given a decent house, a lot bigger than his own, to rest and cultivate, there were servants and gu masters as gaurds as well. He took rest for 3 days and then went to meet Jia Fu in banquet.
They were having wine and food alone, as Jia Fu knew some matters are better kept away from others.
Jia Fu : "brother Xun, so how are you feeling these days?"
Xun Shung : "brother Jia, your clan's hospitality is something else, I never had this type of treatment in my entire life in the clan where I was an elder"
Jia Fu : "so brother Xun about our deal from back then, what did you decided about that?"
Xun Shung : "brother Jia I haven't forgotten about that, I will surely give you what I promised, but what about the price?"
Jia Fu : "brother Xun, I think 600 thousand will do fine?"
Xun Shung was shocked, he never thought about this much money even in dreams, but he hide these expression.
"brother Jia, this is an entirely new gu, the world has never seen this and it will surely bring a revolution with it and after purchasing the recipe you will be the leader of this revolution, so after this I think your price is somewhat less."
Jia Fu himself knew the price was less, he was judging Xun Shung's character with this.
Jia Fu : "borther Xun, then what about 700 thousand?"
Xun Shung : "brother Jia, even now it's somewhat low"
"So what are thinking brother Xun ?"
Xun Shung : "iam thinking of a million atleast" this time it's Jia Fu's time to be shocked, this price was absurdly high, he immediately retorted.
Jia Fu: "elder Gu Yue Xun Shung, you are being greedy now hehehe!"
He said Xun Shung's full name to show that he is in Jia family now.
Xun Shung : "hhahaha!!, brother Jia it was a mere joke, just kidding. Now seriously, I not only want primeval stones but something else as well"
Jia Fu : "I knew brother Xun is not a greedy person, say what do you want, if it is in my capabilities I will do it for you"
Xun Shung : "brother there many conditions regarding the selling of my recipe and the first one is making an agreement, then we will discuss about other things"
Jia Fu knew this was gonna happen, he was already prepared, his left hand went to his bossom and he took a gu worm with his hand, he then showed the gu worm to Xun Shung.
Jia Fu : "brother Xun, it is a rank 4 gu which I earned after killing a rank 4 demonic blood path gu master, this gu is restriction bond gu, it forms a pact between gu masters and it's effect couldn't be negated even with rank 5 gu worms to some extent."
Xun Shung was serious now,there was no aloofness on his face, he knew that this gu will pose difficulty if he don't take this seriously.
He began to state his demands,
Xun Shung : "brother Jia, my price for the recipe is 800 thousand primeval stones, as long as I stay in Jia family's land you have to protect me from any problem or attack, you can get the recipe now but you can only see this recipe and refine gu with it after 2 years, you can't give,share or let anyone other than you to see or this recipe of mine and in case you die or any bad scenerio occur to you, you will destroy this recipe before anything else and last is that I can sell this recipe to others as well so brother Jia Fu that's my side of the deal"
Jia Fu said in a serious tone : "brother Xun your side of deal is not bad, but if I give you all this benefit and even secure this recipe then I want the price to be less how about 700 thousand"
Xun Shung : " brother Jia, my last stand is 730 thousand primeval stones and with this I want some rank 3 gu as well."
Jia Fu : "brother Xun this will work for me and you as well, but what about the 2 years ban?"
Xun Shung : "brother Jia you also knew that this gu is something else, if you start refining this now, then with your relationship with me and with the timing I arrived here, someone will deduce about the truth of the creator of this recipe and when that will happen, my life will be in danger, you can support and save me here but what about outside the clan, what about your own family, you also knew that after this gu, you will be able to become the next clan head and that time many people will come to find problem and I will get caught in middle of this"
Jia Fu pondered this and felt what Xun Shung said was true and with his excitement towards the brighter future he finally accepted the deal. Just when Jia Fu agreed, Xun Shung felt a slight blissed feeling inside his body after he saw Jia Fu's but he wasn't able to deduce what that was a the moment. They formed a pact, they both read the agreement one by one and after hearing that the restriction bond gu float above Jia Fu's head first and covered him with a red hue, the gu then dissolve itself half. After that it floated to Xun Shung and dissolve the other half inside his body.
Xun Shung knew that this deal will be very beneficial to him in the future, the most brilliant part wasn't the stones but the freedom that he could sell this recipe in the future.
With the agreement being formed the environment returns to its old colour and they start talking and drinking once again. The next day Xun Shung meet Jia Fu's assistant and gave him a list of gu worms he needed as the part of their agreement.
A day passed and Xun Shung was thinking on what to do next, now he is a rank 3 middle stage, it's time for him to choose what he should do next, there were many ideas in his mind.
Xun Shung 'I knew about many future places that could help me in advancement, for the dao I want to select 7 years is enough advantage but only if I could survive and become an immortal. For the path I select there are many choices' Xun Shung knew that he is not talented enough to pioneer a path of his own, there's no possibility that if he could even survive with that and for the existing path there are many advantages.
Xun Shung 'even if I exclude dream realms, there are still many opportunities to increase my attainment and the most important one for that is refinement path'
Xun Shung knew that Fang Yuan will choose refinement path to achieve the venerable's throne, Fang Yuan was his favourite character of all time but it doesn't mean that he will not kill Fang Yuan if he gets a chance to do so. But he will not try anything funny before fate gu war, he knew about venerable's plan and if he harm Fang Yuan in any way then there will surely be a counterattack by venerables waiting for him. He also don't want to replace Fang Yuan, as he knew he can't pull the entire fate gu war off, he isn't someone determined enough to do so, he only lived for 30 years in his first life and 15 years in present in comparison Fang Yuan is like an elephant and Xun Shung is an ant.
Xun Shung 'so what should I do in the future, strength and transformation paths are great because reckless meaning could help me to attain great grandmaster level. For law path Tao Zhu's true meaning could help. For wisdom and star path Star's dream realm is good enough. For theft path, the dream realm in Tang family could be helpful. But all these paths had one problem and that's sovereign body, if I choose these paths, then Fang Yuan could possibly target me to raise his cultivation, there are only few paths that are safe until the fate gu war'
'food path, sword path, time path and other unconventional paths are also not available as fang yuan needed many immortal gus of these paths then also I will die surely'
'So what dao I should follow'
Thinking so he started reading Ren Zhu's story for answers to his question.
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