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# Chapter 829 - First Round of Gu Refinement
## Chapter 829: First Round of Gu Refinement
**Translator:** Atlas Studios  __**Editor:** Atlas Studios
As one walked along the path on the mountain, they would arrive at a pointpart way up it. There was a huge platform here, on the mountain wall, therewere the huge words of ‘Disciple Selection Stage’ engraved. Every year, theaptitude of the disciples who had just entered the sect would be tested, andthe elders would choose their disciples here.
But here, the place had been modified roughly.
There was a simple Gu formation on the ground, it separated the locations intosmall areas, and on each of them, there was a number.
Once in a while, the people ahead would move forward by a bit. At the sides ofthe path, Five Virtues Sect disciples were passing out tokens with numbers onthem.
Fang Yuan took his token, the number on it was sixty-three.
Walking into the Disciple Selection Stage, after finding the spot numberedsixty-three, he sat down on the ground.
A while later, when people had finished sitting in the square, an elder ofFive Virtues Sect declared: “This Refinement Path Convention has four entrytasks, the test begins now!”
At the next moment, the hundreds of Gu Masters on the Disciple Selection Stagestarted showing off their skills.
Some of their hands were burning with flames, this was a fire refinementmethod. Some breathed out smoke, it was a smoke refinement method. Somereleased several ice snakes, the snakes worked together and breathed out coldair, this was an ice refinement method.
And in Fang Yuan’s hands, dozens of starlight specks were dancing, they werelike blue fireflies, flying around him.
In accordance with the sequence, Fang Yuan placed the Gu refinement materialsin, one by one. Fifteen minutes later, he finished all of the tasks and stoodup.
“Such quick speed!” The Five Virtues Sect elder in charge of the event knewabout Fang Yuan’s rank five Gu Master identity, he had been paying closeattention.
Even so, when Fang Yuan stood up, this elder showed shock on his face.
Fang Yuan’s speed was simply too fast. He made no mistakes at all, histechnique was extremely skilful and experienced.
“What, someone already completed it?!” Fang Yuan’s movements attracted theattentions of many Gu Masters who were refining Gu.
“It is that mysterious rank five Gu Master…” The old master stood outside thestage, seeing Fang Yuan, his pupils shrunk as he looked at his disciple inworry, he prayed inwardly: “Good disciple, please do not get distracted fromthis and lose your focus.”
Thankfully, his disciple had been concentrating on refining Gu, he was focusedand did not notice the commotion around Fang Yuan.
Fang Yuan walked onto the highest platform, as the elder from Five VirtuesSect left his seat and inspected Fang Yuan’s four Gu worms.
“No negative conditions, the Gu worms look like they are well fed and in goodshape.” The Five Virtues Sect elder was secretly shocked, after inspectingthem, he cupped his fists at Fang Yuan, saying warmly: “Lord, please come thisway into the mountain.”
Fang Yuan nodded, slowly walking and leaving the Disciple Selection Stage.
“No way, is this possible?”
“Someone actually got through using less than one third of the time…”
“Such high refinement path attainment!”
The people outside were talking among themselves, among the Gu Masters whowere refining Gu, some were so shocked that their minds wavered, causing theirGu refinement to fail.
Fang Yuan was here to join the Refinement Path Convention, he did not need tohide his skill. He was a Gu Immortal, after all, he did not need to concealhis ability.
He walked up the mountain and after a while, an elder from Five Virtues Sectwelcomed him: “Sir, please hold on…”
The elder was about to speak but Fang Yuan waved his hand, interrupting him:“I know your intention. I have no interest. Just this mere Five Virtues Sectcannot accommodate me.”
The elder was stunned before rage flashed on his face.
He came here with the sect leader’s orders to try and recruit Fang Yuan, toinvite him to be an external elder in the sect.
In truth, Five Virtues Sect became one of the signing up locations for theRefinement Path Convention in order to recruit some talents.
With Fang Yuan’s rank five cultivation level, Five Virtues Sect was payinggreat attention to him. With the refinement path attainment that he displayed,even the Five Virtues Sect Leader was shocked, how could he let such atalented person go? Thus, he ordered this elder to come and negotiate.
But before this elder even spoke about his intentions, Fang Yuan rejected him.
Being mercilessly rejected like this made the elder embarrassed.
“What else do you want?” Fang Yuan looked at him coldly.
The elder’s face turned purple, he snorted coldly: “Sir, you actually arelooking down on our Five Virtues Sect, aren’t you being too arrogant?”
“You want to duel me?” Fang Yuan’s voice was cold.
The elder’s anger subsided, he looked at Fang Yuan deeply: “Good, good, good,sir, you think highly of yourself, I am sure you can obtain a good position inthe Refinement Path Convention. My Five Virtues Sect will be waiting to watchit!”
Saying so, he waved his sleeves and left.
Fang Yuan felt indifferent, he continued moving forward, he came to a cliffand arrived at the wood virtue hall.
This hall was hidden in the woods, it was green and mixed in with the grassand trees in the surroundings.
Fang Yuan walked into the hall, there were many tables and chairs inside,elite disciples of Five Virtues Sect were managing the place. Seeing FangYuan’s arrival, a disciple went up: “Senior, may I ask for your name, sect,and main Gu Master cultivation path.”
Fang Yuan replied: “My name is Fang Yuan, my sect will be kept as a secret, mymain path will be kept as a secret.”
“Oh… okay, senior, please pay a hundred primeval stones as the sign up fee.This fee will be used in…”
Before the disciple finished his words, Fang Yuan tossed him the primevalstones that he had prepared.
The disciple caught it flurriedly, before saying politely: “Please wait amoment.”
A short while later, Fang Yuan obtained a token.
On the token, the words ‘Fang Yuan’ were written, at the back, there was aline of words: Sect hidden, path hidden, signed up at Five Virtues Sect. Atthe end, there was the time of signing up.
“Senior, please take good care of this token. If you lose it, you should get areplacement as soon as possible, otherwise you will not be able to join theRefinement Path Convention. Please continue on your way up the mountain, thefire virtue hall has the first round of the refinement competition. Only aftersenior passes this round can you join the second round.” The discipleexplained patiently.
Fang Yuan took the token and left the wood virtue hall.
By now, the sign up process was over.
Central Continent’s Refinement Path Convention was created by the ten greatancient sects, but secretly, Heavenly Court was supporting it.
The Refinement Path Convention was of a huge scale, there were hundreds ofsign up locations all over Central Continent. Most of them were sects similarto Five Virtues Sect, having abundant strength and being closely linked to theten great ancient sects, or simply one of their representatives.
Fang Yuan wanted to join the Refinement Path Convention, he had to sign up atone of these locations. By refining Gu on the spot, and completing the fourtasks, he would have the qualifications to sign up and receive the token.
Because there were many demonic path Gu Masters signing up for the RefinementPath Convention, and even Gu Masters from the other four regions, the detailsfor signing up were very flexible. Names could be made up, sects and paths didnot need to be stated, the only important thing was the token itself.
There was also a group of special Gu Masters.
These people were either in sects or they themselves had obtained a goodposition in the previous Refinement Path Convention, thus they could join theRefinement Path Convention automatically.
For example, Hong Yi was such a case.
He was in Universal Life Academy, which had obtained a placing near the end ofthe list a hundred years ago in the Refinement Path Convention. This gave themthree spots to join the Refinement Path Convention automatically.
What was worth noting was that this treatment was only for Central ContinentGu Masters, as well as Central Continent sects.
After all, this Refinement Path Convention was held by the ten great ancientsects of Central Continent, they would favor their own region.
Of course, Immortal Crane Sect had a larger number of spots, but Fang Yuan wasonly in a subsidiary force of Immortal Crane Sect, if he really went for it,it would be troublesome. Fang Zheng however, was different.
A portion of the spots that the sects had were distributed to disciples andelite disciples, while the other portion went to elders.
Fang Zheng was now an elder of Immortal Crane Sect, he could not compete withthe disciples for the spot. His refinement path attainment was very low aswell, he could not beat other elders.
Immortal Crane Sect naturally gave the free spots to those with deepfoundation in Gu refinement, those Gu Masters that could defend Immortal CraneSect’s prestige in the Refinement Path Convention.
Thus, be it Fang Zheng or Fang Yuan, they had to sign up themselves.
Fang Yuan held the token and walked up the mountain, entering the fire virtuehall.
This was the first round of the competition in the Refinement Path Convention.
If his results were bad, he would not be able to join the second round.
Fang Yuan went in and was informed of the Gu refinement details.
“In thirty minutes, I have to refine the rank one water light Gu, at least ahundred of them to pass and enter the second round. Refining a hundred andfifty would reward me with five kilograms of phantom shadow petals, a hundredand eighty would get me six basins of rootless water, two hundred would get meten pieces of thunder strike wood… two hundred and forty is third place, twohundred and sixty is second place, and two hundred and seventy-six is firstplace, I would get the rank four healing Gu worm that is good at relievingheat toxins, green shine Gu.”
Fang Yuan thought in his mind.
This first round’s difficulty was higher than the first four entry tasks.
But it should not trouble most of the Gu Masters.
Because they only had to refine a hundred water light Gu to pass and move onto the second round. The rewards for refining a larger number, though, wasquite tempting to these Gu Masters.
First place would obtain a rank four Gu worm, green shine Gu.
Rank four Gu were often something that only the elder of a large force, or theleader of a small force would have.
Regarding Fang Yuan, he could buy green shine Gu in treasure yellow heaven.
Fang Yuan’s status was too high, these rewards had no attraction to him. Butwhat he found interesting was the challenge of these tasks.
“The materials for Gu refinement are provided beforehand, I can use them forfree. They also gave the recipe for water light Gu, and I can follow itcasually. But even if I go all out and use the water refinement technique, Ican only refine two hundred and fifty of them. This result is only thirdplace. But here in Five Virtues Sect, the third place position has alreadybeen taken.”
In regards to this, it was first come, first served.
Once the conditions for the first three positions had been fulfilled, nomatter how well someone who came later performed, it was useless.
In other words, if Fang Yuan wanted to leave his name on the board, he wouldhave to get first or second.
“Actually, it is not impossible to get first place. I can add in expensivematerials and increase the production of Gu worms. Water light Gu is only arank one Gu, if I use rank two or rank three materials, the production wouldbe higher. But I will have to bear the expenses myself. I can also modify theGu recipe, with my wisdom path inheritance, I can easily modify this Gu recipewithout wisdom Gu’s help. But that way, wouldn’t I lose the fun of achallenge? Hmm… maybe I can try a water-fire refinement technique. Since waterlight Gu is a water path Gu, people usually use water refinement or icerefinement for it. I can do the opposite and use fire refinement, there mightbe an unexpected result!”
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