Jia Jinsheng had originally been the caravan leader.
Given his status, there was naturally no need for him to personally deal with such dirty work.
However, everything changed when news spread that the old Jia family head had fallen seriously ill and was preparing to choose a successor.
As the struggle for succession began, Jia Jinsheng’s position within the family quickly declined.
Although he remained the caravan leader out of respect for the Jia family, everyone knew that the title had become little more than an empty shell.
With only Rank 1 cultivation, no one is willing to support him.
The dirty and troublesome task of collecting and disposing of the corpses of Gu Masters who died along the journey was simply pushed onto him.
Jia Hu knew exactly what was happening, but he had no intention of interfering.
He was busy currying favor with the other young masters of the Jia family and had no reason to offend them just to help Jia Jinsheng.
Unexpectedly, this arrangement actually made it easier for Jia Jinsheng to obtain corpses to refine Blood Path Gu worms.
“Father, Jia Fu, Jia Gui… just you wait!
Fortune changes every thirty years—never underestimate a poor young man!”
Jia Jinsheng clenched his fists.
Because of his inferior aptitude, he had suffered no shortage of neglect from his father and bullying from his brothers.
Now that he had obtained the Blood Sea inheritance, he was determined to make them regret ever looking down on him.
Just imagining their faces when that day came made Jia Jinsheng grin
“Hmph, one day, I’ll trample everyone who looked down on me beneath my feet!
After venting the resentment that had accumulated in his heart for years, Jia Jinsheng finally turned his attention back to the corpses.
He took out a pair of blood-red, worm-like Gu and placed them on one of the bodies.
These two Gu, together with the blood and flesh of a Gu Master, were the materials needed to refine a new Blood Path Gu.
The two blood-red worms crawled toward the pile of corpses.
They bit through the skin of one body and burrowed inside, quickly beginning to devour its blood and flesh.
As they fed, the worms multiplied rapidly.
One became two, two became four, and their numbers continued to grow.
Small holes appeared across the corpse as countless blood-red worms crawled beneath its skin, devouring it from the inside.
Within moments, all the flesh and blood had disappeared, leaving behind nothing but a bare skeleton.
But the worms did not stop.
By then, their numbers had grown into a dense swarm.
They poured out of the empty corpse and surged toward the remaining bodies, quickly engulfing the entire pile.
Before long, the entire pile of corpses had been reduced to bare skeletons.
Beneath them lay a large pool of blood, with countless blood-red worms writhing and swimming within it.
Seeing that the preparations were complete, Jia Jinsheng turned his attention to the next step.
“Next is the Blood Refining Gu, the most important Gu in the inheritance.
Only by relying on it can I successfully refine a new Blood Path Gu.”
Jia Jinsheng gazed at the pool of blood before him as a Rank 2 Blood Refining Gu slowly rose from his aperture.
Lin Feng had deliberately left this Gu within the inheritance he arranged for Jia Jinsheng, giving him the means to refine the new Blood Path Gu on his own. You are reading on NovelPing, the official source.
After all, refining Gu was something every Gu Master had to learn.
In this world, Gu Masters needed to refine Gu to increase their strength and continue developing their cultivation.
Because of this, Gu refinement was one of the most widespread paths among Gu Masters.
Therefore, different Gu refinement methods naturally developed over time.
Among the most common were fire refinement, water refinement, wind refinement, and blood refinement.
The method Jia Jinsheng was using now was precisely blood refinement.
Under the control of the Blood Refining Gu, the pool of blood gradually began to boil, releasing constant popping sounds.
Countless blood-red worms writhed within the blood as a thick mist slowly rose from the surface, swirling above the pool, giving the entire cave an eerie atmosphere.
This was the method of blood refinement.
Just as fire refinement relied on continuously burning Gu materials to refine them, blood refinement involved placing Gu materials into blood and using the blood to extract and enhance their essence and strengthen their properties until a new Gu worm was formed.
In truth, proper blood refinement was far more complicated than Jia Jinsheng’s crude method.
The refiner had to carefully control the temperature and thickness of the blood, the moisture in the surroundings, and even the mist gathering above the pool.
A slight mistake in any step could affect the final refinement.
However, possessing Blood Refining Gu made everything much easier.
It could automatically control most of these complicated steps, allowing even someone with little Refinement Path skill to perform blood refinement successfully.
Jia Jinsheng only needed to provide enough primeval essence, prepare the required Gu materials, and follow the steps recorded in the Gu recipe.
The more complicated parts—controlling the temperature and thickness of the blood, the surrounding moisture, and the mist above the pool—would all be handled by Blood Refining Gu.