Chapter 5: Role-play Progress Skyrockets! The Reward is a Rank Four Gu?

Tang Niu felt his luck today was truly too good!

After listening to Tang Xiaolong's suggestion yesterday, he had been keeping an eye on this Miscellaneous Disciple, Tang Yeming.

Never did he expect that by following the other party to the mine, he would directly pick up a piece of iron essence ore!

If he exchanged it for Gold Soul Coins, plus the small treasury he had saved up, he could find a time to sneak off to the brothels in Heaven Dou City to listen to music again! Originally, he thought his good luck ended there; as long as he gave this kid Tang Yeming another beating, the mission would be considered complete.

Unexpectedly! This kid Tang Yeming had actually struck gold again!

That jade stone, with its green radiance and containing fluctuations of soul power, was definitely no ordinary item.

If he took it to Heaven Dou City to sell, it would be worth at least several hundred Gold Soul Coins!

That would be enough for him to listen to how many tunes!

"No! I can't let this kid Tang Yeming off so easily!"

Tang Niu's gaze flickered, thinking that once the other party exposed the matter of this jade stone, it would surely attract the sect's attention.

For a jade stone of this grade, the sect would definitely confiscate it!

By then, the things he would obtain would definitely be much less.

"Kill him?" A thought suddenly arose in Tang Niu's heart.

No one had discovered him when he just entered this mine tunnel, and Tang Yeming was only a Miscellaneous Disciple.

If he killed the other party in this mine, he could find an excuse like a mine collapse or the appearance of a Soul Beast lurking underground to clear his name completely.

By then, he would be able to enjoy this treasure all by himself! The shimmering green light emitted from the jade stone reflected on Tang Niu's face, making him look eerie and ferocious.

Raising his head, Tang Niu's gaze locked onto Ye Ming! Greeting him was a palm-sized Blue Moon Blade.

His pupils suddenly shrank to the size of needle points; in his haste, he had no time to mobilize his soul power, let alone release his martial soul.

"Tang..." His voice stopped abruptly.

"Puchi!"

A blue light flashed, and a human head drifted into the air.

Tang Niu felt the scene before his eyes spinning rapidly; he saw his own body, dressed in white, falling backward, with nothing left above the neck.

"If you want to kill, just kill; why think so much." Ye Ming glanced indifferently at the corpse on the ground, his gaze shifting to the green jade stone at his feet.

"To think that I could actually dig up a Gu in this mine! Truly interesting." He murmured, his eyes flashing with a faint light.

Bending down to pick it up, Ye Ming saw the appearance of the Gu inside the green jade stone through the faint light under the ventilation hole.

Its shape was like a bedbug, flat and wide, with a very small head and a pale green body in an oval shape.

Even through the green jade stone, Ye Ming could clearly see the layer of jade-colored halo it emitted.

Comparing it with the information in the "Complete Guide to 1st-5th Rank Gu Master Applications" in his mind, he instantly identified this Gu.

"First Turn Jade Skin Gu!!"

"I'm really lucky this time!"

Just then, a series of system prompts suddenly rang out in Ye Ming's mind! 【Ding, Refining Path Venerable role-play progress has reached 10%, rewarding one First Turn Wine Gu, one First Turn White Boar Gu, one First Turn Little Light Gu, and one Spirit Spring Baptism!】

【Ding, Refining Path Venerable role-play progress has reached 15%, rewarding 1,000 Primeval Stones and one Second Rank Water Shield Gu!】

【Ding, Refining Path Venerable role-play progress has reached 20%, rewarding one Rank Four Blood Skull Gu!】

"Is the compatibility actually this high? It increased the role-play progress by 15% directly!"

Ye Ming himself was somewhat surprised.

Thinking of the style of the Refining Path Venerable in the book, he felt relieved.

Killing was merely a means to achieve an end; if there were other choices, who would choose slaughter? With foreign races invading, if he could not awaken an Extraordinary Talent in this examination, his final outcome would only be to become a withered bone under the city walls defending against the foreign races. Now that he had a chance to change, could he just watch it slip through his fingers? Looking at the headless corpse at his feet, Ye Ming's heart was pounding, his face felt hot, and his arms were trembling slightly.

After all, it was his first time killing someone; even though he had always treated the people in this world as NPCs, seeing this scene, he still felt a thousand emotions in his heart.

However, after a moment, Ye Ming adjusted his mindset.

He had already left that stable world; being indecisive would only cost him his life!

"Tang Niu, thank you for helping me make up my mind."

After Ye Ming murmured this, he carefully checked the system rewards.

Upon looking, he discovered a pattern.

It seemed that when the role-play progress reached the 10% node, the rewards were particularly rich! Reaching 10% directly rewarded three Gu and one Spirit Spring Baptism! Although he was not clear what a Spirit Spring Baptism was, thinking of the previous Yuelan Flower Sea Spirit Spring Cleansing, he knew this reward was still generous.

And when the role-play progress reached 20%, it directly skipped the 3rd Turn and rewarded a Rank Four Gu! The Blood Skull Gu!

Although this Gu had major drawbacks and ordinary people dared not use it, one had to admit its effects were extremely powerful.

The Blood Skull Gu uses the blood of blood relatives to improve one's own cultivation aptitude.

"Do not feel inferior because of your aptitude; when you feel your aptitude is not good enough, think of your family."

This sentence suddenly flashed through his mind, making his thoughts instantly active.

Ye Ming was originally thinking about how to dispose of Tang Niu's corpse, but with the Blood Skull Gu, he had other ideas.

Since this place was not safe, he temporarily stored the other rewards and chose to claim the 20% reward, which was the Rank Four Blood Skull Gu!

【Ding, reward issued.】

A palm-sized crystal skull suddenly appeared before his eyes, covered with pale red blood-thread patterns.

Ye Ming opened his hand to gently support it, then directly mobilized the True Essence in his body and began to refine the Blood Skull Gu.

A Rank Four Gu, logically speaking, was simply not something a First Turn Gu Master could refine.

Because the Gu itself possessed a will, and high-level Gu possessed immense power; under the backlash of its will, an ordinary Gu Master could not withstand it at all.

However, this Blood Skull Gu was a system reward, and the will upon it was nearly extinguished. Ye Ming's True Essence entered without any obstruction, driving straight in and instantly refining this Rank Four Gu.

"Boom!"

The moment it was refined, the True Essence Sea within his aperture began to riot, as if triggering a tsunami, and began to frantically wash against that layer of light membrane.

The light membrane gradually became moist, then turned into a transparent water membrane, and the originally emerald-green True Essence actually transformed into a deep, sea-green color.

His cultivation had reached the First Turn Intermediate Stage! Ye Ming was overjoyed; he had not expected that refining this Rank Four Gu would, through its feedback, actually drive his own cultivation to grow! He then cast his gaze toward Tang Niu at his feet, "You really are my lucky charm!"

Having said that, he summoned the Blood Skull Gu directly and tossed it toward the other party.

The blood-red crystal floated out, circled around Tang Niu's body, and wisps of blood were extracted, then all poured into the two hollow eye sockets of the Blood Skull Gu.

After drinking its fill of fresh blood, the streaks of blood-colored silk on the crystal-like skull became even more vivid.

Tang Niu, under his feet, had by now shriveled into a dried-up corpse, no longer possessing the prestige of an Outer Sect Disciple and a level twenty-one Great Soul Master.

Even in death, he could not understand how a mere level nine Soul Scholar had the power to kill a Great Soul Master like him!

Ye Ming's mood, by this time, had instead calmed down; he gave a light beckoning gesture, and the Blood Skull Gu flew over to hover above his head.

"Whether I can improve my cultivation aptitude depends on you!"

"Tang Niu, my dearest friend and brother!"

During the new book period, every follow-up read is very important. I hope everyone will try not to let the book sit in your library, please flip to the last page and stay for a moment. I beg for your follow-up reads! Thank you! (End of chapter)