Hey guys lot of work went into this chapter, especially the last part, hope you like it.
The sky was a lively blue. A full sun shone, scattering light throughout the tranquil forest. From the crystal river, one could hear fish jumping out of the water and the currents of the river. Fireflies were dancing throughout the forest. The scene was like a fantasy from a children's fairy tale.
Inside the cave, Wu Yi Hai opened his eyes and was greeted with a notification.
7 Hours Of Cultivation: +70 Exp
"So, it was not a dream, I really died" Spoke Wu Yi Hai in a low tone while standing up.
Injecting primeval essence in his Gu, the young Gu Master whispered "Status Gu"
A translucent blue page appeared, floating in the air.
Name: Wu Yi Hai
[Mortal]
Age: 10
Rank: 1 Initial Stage
Exp: 77/1000
Vital Gu: Rank 1 Gamer Gu
Talent: A
Primeval Essence: 90%
Paths Attainment:
Refinement: Grandmaster
Transformation: Quasi-Grandmaster
Blood Path: Quasi-Master
Gu: Rank 1 Mini Map Gu, Rank 1 Mission, Rank 1 Stats Gu, Rank 1 Analyze Gu, Rank 1 Human Nature Gu, Rank 1 Storage Gu, Rank 1 Cold-Blood
Equipment: -
"Rank 1 Storage Gu" A black hole appeared above the young man's hand as a piece of meat fell into his palm.
Wu Yi Hai took a few bites of the meat as he activated another Gu "Rank 1 Mini Map Gu" A round mirror appeared in the Gu Master's hand showing a blue dot in the middle and red dots around him some of them larger than the others.
"It seems animals use the river as a source of water, most of them are in Rank 1 but some of them are Rank 2…" Wu Yi Hai stopped thinking while he blinked "I have to remember that this is not my original world the beasts could be different-no they are different"
Wu Yi Hai stealthy walked away from the cave as the light of the sun greeted him, letting him have a full view of the forest. Rays of warm sunlight filtered through the various vegetation, penetrating through the leaves, and casting an unnatural green–gold luminescence over the ground.
The ground was dark and damp as the small prints of rodents and birds were sharply remembered by its form.
With Mini Map Gu in his hand, Wu Yi Hai avoided the beasts beyond his strength while he focused on a red dot which was separated from the other animals.
A brown beast appeared on Wu Yi Hai view. The beast appeared to be drinking water from a pond. Its eyes were Purple and its fur brown, it looked like a wolf but with an aura that transmitted evilness. Its pointed ears, bloodshot eyes, flat nose, and drooling lips only enchanted that image.
Primeval essence inside the aperture flowed to a Gu with the form of a lens with wings and two round and gigantic eyes. "Rank 1 Analyze Gu"
Wu Yi Hai's right eye started glowing with a golden colour as a transparent blue image appeared in his view.
Name: Gifnora Dog
State: Injured, Old
Rank: 1
Speciality: Sharp claws, Dark Aura, Beastly Instincts
Strengths: Agility, Experienced Hunter.
Weakness: Weak tendons, Very Weak Vitality, Damaged Nose, Weak Stamina, Weak Strength, Low-Intelligence.
"Gifnora Dog… as a Transformation Quasi-Grandmaster I studied every beast in the five regions but this one is unique,"Thought, Wu Yi Hai
while his eyes flickered"I can't sense a Gu inside the dog but I feel similar aura Dark path Gu Masters I met released in the past"
Those who possess quasi-grandmaster attainment are often elites among rank 6 Gu Immortals, decades of dedication and experience are often needed to reach this realm.
Shaking his head, Wu Yi Hai looked at his surroundings. Around the pond, green fallen leaves and twigs covered the ground. *CRUNCH* the dog steps broke some of them as the noise reverted through the pond.
Wu Yi Hai's eyes stopped in a wreathed tree a few meters away from the beast.
Wu Yi Hai silently moved towards the tree before climbing it. Branches hit his face and scrape his skin, but not a single noise escaped from his mouth.
"It should be enough" He thought while being five meters above the ground.
Primeval essence flowed into Rank 1 Cold-Blood Gu as blue veins emerged around his eyes.
Wu Yi Hai centred his gaze on the Dog's legs, especially its tendons.
Pain assaulted the Gifnora Dog as it howled, its purple eyes moved across the forest searching for the target of his suffering.
HOWL
Its shrieks of pain continued until its gaze focused on Wu Yi Hai. The beast's feet started running towards the trees with its back legs whipping.
The dog moved in a frenzy, showing its fangs while its drool flew. A bloodthirsty smile was pasted on its face as it reached the trunk of the tree.
The dog dug its claws in the trunk as it started climbing while leaving marks claws in the tree.
4m… The dog's eyes intensified on the prey.
3m… Its claws lengthen.
2m… The dog's mouth overflowed with an enormous amount of drool as it looked like a cascade.
1m… With the target on his reach, the dog's muscles clenched, focusing his weight on his back legs.
Wu Yi Hai's eyes narrowed as the effect of Cold-Blood Gu increased at its maximum.
The back-legs of the Gifnora Dog broke as white spots appeared in its fur. The weight of the entire dog made the bones stick out from the legs spraying blood everywhere slamming the beast to the ground.
Squeals of pain followed the dog as it tried to stand up. Its left paw touched the ground, followed by its right as strength flowed across its body.
RAWR
The upper figure of the beast was standing arrogantly in the open when suddenly white spots emerged in the rest of his body.
Killed Rank 1 Gifnora Dog: 30 Exp
Wu Yi Hai slowly climbed down the tree not before using Mini Map Gu to check for ambushes.
"The aura gave the beast resistance against my Gu. My tactic was correct, small use of Cold-Blood to take its attention and make me look like a weak prey and later accumulate the effect of the Gu to release all at once," Thought Wu Yi Hai stroking his chin while he crouched to examine the beast.
"Its eyes release that dark aura, as suspected it doesn't have a Gu," Said the Gu Master while flowing his primeval essence into Storage Gu.
A dark hole appeared in the air as Wu Yi Hai carefully clutched the corpse of the dead best before tossing it inside.
As soon as Wu Yi Hai stored the corpse words appeared in front of him.
Hidden Quest:
First Kill In The New World
Hidden Objective: Kill a Rank 1 Or More living Being Before 24 Hours Passed (Completed)
Hidden Objective II: Kill a Rank 1 Or More living Being Before 12 Hours Passed (Completed)
Hidden Objective II: Kill a Rank 1 Or More living Being Before 9 Hours Passed (Failed)
Hidden Reward: 100 Exp
Hidden Reward II: Ring Of Enlightenment
Hidden Reward III: Failed
"The blood may attract some animals I need to leave first," Thought Wu Yi Hai as he sneakily walked away from the pond.
A primeval stone appeared in his hand as the grey stone flowed through Wu Yi Hay's body, restoring his primeval essence.
"Status"
Name: Wu Yi Hai
[Mortal]
Age: 10
Rank: 1 Initial Stage
Exp: 207/1000
Vital Gu: Rank 1 Gamer Gu
Talent: A
Primeval Essence: 90% (50%)
Paths Attainment:
Refinement: Grandmaster
Transformation: Quasi-Grandmaster
Blood Path: Quasi-Master
Gu: Rank 1 Mini Map Gu, Rank 1 Mission, Rank 1 Stats Gu, Rank 1 Analyze Gu, Rank 1 Human Nature Gu, Rank 1 Storage Gu, Rank 1 Cold-Blood
Equipment: -
He lifted his face, letting the light and shadows from the trees dance across his skin. The fishes splashed water as they jumped out of it.
Fallen trees and insects filled the ground, their humming and the leaves rustling sounds resounded through the field. Wu Yi Hai inhaled the smell of the wildflowers as he grabbed a berry. A sweet taste entered his mouth.
An enormous tree appeared in his view. The thick trunk is wide and stable, stretching up far into the sky, practically skimming the stars. It's long, continuously forking branches form a blanket over the earth, protecting the sensitive ground underneath from harm. The rough tree bark scratched his skin as his hand grabbed a branch. From Wu Yi Hai's point of view, the tree was massive.
"This should be enough" Thought Wu Yi Hai while climbing the tree.
Move one foot, move one hand. The same action repeated as the ground appeared further and further away.
As he reached the top, branches, and leaves blocked his view of the ground. The forest lay like a blanket, spilling over hills and pouring into valleys. Focusing his gaze at the south of the mountain, a huge grassland appeared in his view.
"There" Wu Yi Hai's eyes narrowed as he saw smoke out in the air. "Someone or a village should be there. Judging by the amount of smoke there is over one individual, it would take me two days to reach there while avoiding beasts" Shaking his head, Wu Yi Hai muttered, "I should first refine some Gu and scout the place"
With those thoughts, the Gu master descended the tree one step at a time.
Sunset had finally drained out of the sky overhead, sheathing the woods in shadow. Weathered trees rising out of the earth to brush against the sky, sun-dappled leaves creating flickering shadows. The wind sending a shudder of movement through the branches.
A child walked thought the forest, but no-sound generated from his steps.
The kid's hand was clutching various plants, buds and flowers as a dark hole mysteriously emerged in the air, suctioning the vegetation in the child's hand.
The child's breath was harsh "six hours of continuous walking really make me tired, it seems to have a child's body is limiting"
Wu Yi Hai's eyes plastered in the mirror on his hand as a red dot appeared, getting to his direction.
Dismissing Mini Map Gu, Wu Yi Hai swiftly concealed in a bush, the birds stopped singing as a beast appeared in his view. The animal scent assaulted his nose.
Name: Jackaleo
State: ?
Rank: ?
Speciality: ?
Strengths: ?
Weakness: ?
His heart slammed against his ribs, he gulped at the air, Wu Yi Hai breath started getting slower and softer than his body remained immobile. Wu Yi Hai pressed his body against the floor, the mud sticking into his skin, and tried to become one with the ground. The sweat on his lips contrasted with the dryness in his throat.
A colossal monster appeared in his view, three red eyes and enormous horns which grew from the side of its head draw the attention. Its lion-like mane fluttered with the wind.
Branches creaking, feet shuffling through the earth sounded closer and closer to the bushes.
The breath inside the bush started sounding louder and louder.
The twigs snagging at this hair and spider webs strands on the skin were not enough to take Wu Yi Hai attention, as his eyes persisted at the beast.
The Jackaleo steps ended in front of the bush. Its eyes roamed the shrub, looking for its prey. Its position was a kind of crouch, and as one looked one felt that at any moment it might drop its present stance and seek its prey.
Minutes passed in absolute silence as the Jackaleo turned his head, glancing at the river.
CRASH
The beast dived into the bush.
SPLASH
Blood spill everywhere as the head of a squirrel appeared between the Jackaleo's jaw.
CRACK
The noise of the squirrel bones being broken by the beast's teeth echoed as the entire corpse disappeared into its stomach.
Blood soaked the beast's mouth, its yellow fur created a startling contrast. The Jackaleo with blood in its mouth calmly walked away from the bushes.
The birds singing resumed as the wind whistling around trunks, disturbing the leaves. We could see a crouching child leaving a bush some meters away from where the hunt took place.
The mixed cool autumn leaves from the tall trees lay scattered on the forest floor; they were in the motion of turning a brittle brown. The dark tree trunks and the clump of bushes covered the barely visible black trails snaking through the undergrowth. The moon shining through the leaves of the trees covered the forest in its darkness.
A house was in a hidden corner of the forest. The wood walls were empty in the house. There was a small, square window, heavily disguised by the green moss growing all over. Fauna started growing around the house, the floorboards creaked noisily, as the silhouette of a child appeared sitting in a corner of the house.
Wu Yi Hai rubbed his arms "I need to remember I'm not as strong as I used to be I'm not an Immortal anymore, just a week Gu master" A slap resounded through the house as a red imprint appeared on his cheek.
"With the materials inside Storage Gu and the ones I picked while travelling there are two Gu that I can think of refining" Thought Wu Yi Hai while stroking his chin.
"But first…" Wu Yi Hai injected primeval essence into Storage Gu as a ring with a great black stone set in a gold band fell from the black hole into Wu Yi Hai's hands.
"Analyze Gu" Muttered the Gu Master as his right eye glowed with a golden colour.
[Ring Of Enlightenment]
Passive Effects: Increase Dao Comprehension Chances by 5%
Active Effects: [Concentration] Lets the user Comprehend the Great Dao, Cooldown: 1825 Days.
Wu Yi Hai opened his mouth, but words didn't come out as his eyebrows shot up.
Wu Yi Hai stood there while re-reading the effects. He shook his head and regained his cool forming a calm expression "It seems lady luck is smiling to me again"
His eyes focused on the active effects of the ring "This would affect specially my attainment level? Or is it something similar to a Wisdom Killer Move which improves my speed of thoughts? Well, there's only one way to find out…"
"its cooldown is of 5 years so its effects have to be potent"
Wu Yi Hai hands grabbed the ring as it joined his index finger. ´I must start analyzing Gamer Gu and when I reach a critical point, I'll use the effect'
A page and a quill appeared in front of Wu Yi Hai as he wrote.
Immortal Gu represents the intact fragments of the Great Dao. They rank from 6 to 10 and it's their rank that determines their rarity, strength, and worth in the Gu World. Immortal Gu are unique and only one of them can exist.
Even when their rank ascends an Immortal Gu can only have one effect but can be modified by a killer move.
A killer move possesses a core Gu that dictates the effect and many supplementary Gu which are stacking and or changing the effect the core Gu produces.
Despite being called killer move, not all killer moves are meant to kill, there are various killer move types with different applications, such as offence, defence, movement, investigation, healing, cultivation, and many more.
A killer move is designed by a Gu Master, most often than not killer moves aren't finished in one designing session but are revised and improved throughout many tests, trials, and research sessions, until being usable.
For each activation and to maintain a killer move, a source of power needs to be supplied, most often in the form of primeval essence or immortal essence. Mental energy is being used to control all the Gu.
If the mental energy is insufficient, this may cause the user to be incapable to activate the killer move or activating it improperly resulting in a backlash and harming or destroying the used Gu.
Immortal Gamer Gu is a unique Gu as it has different effects encompassing different paths at the same time. It also connected directly to the soul, which is something unheard on the Gu world.
Immortal Gamer has the same effects as Mini Map Gu, Stats Gu, Analyze Gu, Human Nature Gu, and Storage Gu.
So, the question is why and how?
"Concentration" Wu Yi Hai's pupils dilate as his mind exploded, millions of theories surfaced in his head as the quill hurriedly moved without stopping.
I knew the strongest Gamer for his mastery of space, human and information path.
At first, I thought it was the effect of Gu gamer as I have the same abilities, but what if it wasn't for this?
Mini Map Gu is a combination of space and information path.
Stats Gu is an information path Gu.
Analyze Gu is also an information path Gu.
Human Nature Gu is related to human and information path.
Storage Gu is a space path Gu.
While mission Gu is…
Wu Yi Hai furrowed as his hand stopped moving for a second before it kept writing.
Gamer Gu is the central and most important Gu. it's like the trunk of the tree while the other Gu are the branches.
Wu Yi Hai stared at the page without blinking, becoming unaware of his increasing heartbeat.
The trunk, that's it. It relates all the Gu that came to form Gamer Gu to a mastery of the Gamer I received the inheritance of.
He was well-known for being a great grandmaster in Information path, a grandmaster in space path and grandmaster in the human path.
He was not the first Gamer, but he was the most powerful. In all the history of the Gu world, an Immortal Gamer that followed the same paths never appeared.
So, this means he refined the Gu I have right now except Gamer Gu.
Wu Yi Hai felt like time suddenly stopped, and his eyes got wider while unconsciously twitching his fingers.
Every Gamer refined their own Gu as they were mortals. They connected their refined Gu with Gamer Gu in their ascension as it assimilated them into Gamer Gu. The process is unknown, but the Gu has to meet certain requirements.
As they were killed early in their lives by heaven's will all of them except Shiro didn't reach the ranks of immortal.
This means Gamer Gu potential is infinite as long as the Gu Immortal has attainment in paths and the resources to refine Gu.
No- even if the Gu Master has attainment in every path with all those different Dao marks in the body, the conflict between the Dao marks in the body would make it explode.
But the Gu are all interconnected to Gamer Gu so there isn't a conflict in the Dao marks.
The attainments are the roots of the foundation of Gamer Gu as every root has an equal branch that is the Gu created.
So what path is Gamer Gu?
Wu Yi Hai's eyes opened wide, blood started coming out of his nose as the effect of the ring of enlightenment started fading.
He gritted his teeth and clenched his jaw as he kept writing.
When I ascended to an Immortal, I didn't have time to make a deep analysis of my aperture, but I remember seeing a Dao mark I didn't recognize.
That's it- Gamer Gu has only one Dao mark which controls and keeps the other path Dao marks from creating a conflict in the aperture and body.
Blood kept coming out of Wu Yi Hai's mouth, nose, and ears as it soaked his face in red. His face felt as it was on fire, but Wu Yi Hai sucks his lips as a calm demeanor emerged in his face.
All living beings in Gu World have certain paths in life that they follow, they cannot be allowed to change. That is the role of Fate Gu, which is just a pawn of Heaven's will to control all living beings.
And the Gamer Gu goes against it.
Gamer Gu path is not a singular path but is a path to creating an independent system of the Great Dao. Every time it assimilates a Gu, its abilities improve and is a step closer to being autonomous.
The conditions for refining the Gu are unspecified, but it needs high attainment at least.
Wu Yi Hai's quill stopped moped moving, the blood dripping from his chin impacted the ground, his eyes bloodshot. The pain was so great he felt like thousands of needles stabbed in his brain.
A translucent blue box appeared in front of him.
Hidden Quest:
Gamer Gu Path
Hidden Objective: Discover Gamer Gu Path
(Completed)
Hidden Reward: Gu Creation System
Wu Yi Hai's eyes started closing as his awareness started dissipating. Gritting his teeth, blue veins appeared around his eyes, freezing the blood in the ground and his face.
PA
Hey comment what you think about Gamer Gu and its path, I'll read them and take them into account for the future.