The secret tunnel was not long; after walking for a while, the gang arrived at a huge hall.

 

The pure white hall was made out of bones. In the center was a huge vat.

 

The vat was filled with milk-like white liquid that was giving off a fragrant smell.

 

As I got close to it, my memories resurfaced.

 

According to the novel, this vat should be connected to a spring below it.

This spring was a milk spring.

The spring water tasted like milk, a clean sweet taste. Not only was it a top-tier beverage, but it was also extremely nutritious, children grew better drinking it, and the elderly could maintain a strong healthy body as well.

Milk spring was going to be the specialty product of Bai Gu Mountain If I did nothing.

 

In the novel,” in fang yuan’s First Life, after the Bai clan relocated here, they unearthed five milk springs, causing it to become their specialty production, and even used it as a commercial product to attract many traders and merchants to come and make a deal.”

 

"There are many Gu inside this vat..." I said, indicating to the gang using my gaze.

 

According to the novel, there was no danger at this location,

 

No. 5 activated his defense and put his hand into the vat.

 

"There are so many Gu inside!" His brows raised in shock.

 

When he pulled his hand out, his hand was full of Gu worms.

These Gu were as large as a human finger and were completely white. One end was round while the other was sharp, like a miniature spear.

This was the Bone Spear Gu.

 

" The whole vat is almost filled to the brim with it." no. 5  was slightly excited.

all of them came near the vat and started to take out gu worms and started refining it.

 

Bone Spear Gu was similar to Gu Yue clan's Moonlight Gu in that it was the foundational gu of the White Bone inheritance

In the novel, after the Bai clan found this inheritance, many of the clan's Gu Masters equipped this Gu, thus the Bone Spear Gu also became a characteristic of Bai Clan's Gu Masters.

"There is a rank two Gu inside." Hwang Gu said with an excited expression.

 

This Gu was similar to the Bone Spear Gu, but on the surface of the bone spear, there were spiral markings — Spiral Bone Spear Gu.

 

This Gu was the evolution of the Bone Spear Gu, its attack power and penetrative force was higher than the Bone Spear Gu.

 

In the huge vat, the Bone Spear Gu was in the majority, and only a small number were Spiral Bone Spear Gu.

 

"A pity there isn't a rank three Gu." The clan leader was slightly disappointed.

 

No 5 chose a Spiral Bone Spear Gu and placed it into his sleeves, planning to refine it later.

Gu Yue Bo only felt curiosity towards these types of rank two Gu worms. They could not display the true power of a rank 4 Gu Master in battles.

But when he thought how it would benefit the clan his face lit up with a smile, He looked at me with shining eyes and thought finally the golden age for our clan had arrived.

 

Bone Spear Gu, Spiral Bone Spear Gu, they all fed on milk. Thus, they were kept in this vat of milk.

 

Don't see how this milk spring is one full vat, the expenditure was huge, and only because there is a spring eye at the bottom of the vat, can it sustain till now.

The Gu Yue clan needed to feed and raise numerous bone inheritance Gu worms, which required them to have access to a milk spring. 

That's why the clan leader brought the bloody spirit spring storage gu with him. These gu were expensive but could store and relocate a spirit spring. However, they were consumable and could only be used once. The bloody spirit spring storage gu was passed down from the Gen 1 ancestor, who had used it himself.

 

When the group learned about this, they were shocked, including me. I knew there was a method to store and change the location of a spirit spring, I did not think they would have such a gu. I had assumed that they would use the Earth Treasury flower gu to store the spring's essence again and again before bringing it to the clan. The clan leader revealed to the group that there were four more spirit springs in the area, and they planned to collect them over time.

 

The leader then suggested that they move forward, and the group members including me were surprised and impressed by his actions.

 All of us left the hall, and moved along another secret tunnel, getting to the second white hall.

At the center of the hall, there were three white-bone pillars.

At the tip of the pillar, it was carved into a human hand, without skin or flesh, only left with bones.

 

In the white bone hand, they each held one Gu.

Three pillars, three slumbering Gu worms.

 

The group got closer and saw what was carved on the pillars, explaining the characteristics of the three Gu.

 

"Ribcage shield Gu, Flying bone shield Gu, Arm bone wings Gu..." Number 7 stared at the pillar, muttering

 

Very quickly, everyone's gaze was focused on a line —"Three, choose one, satisfied at heart. Bai Gu inheritance, left for future descendants."

The meaning was obvious, they can only choose one Gu, and leave the others to future inheritors.

Hwang Gu Being a refinement path master started explaining..

1. Ribcage shield Gu could cause a Gu Master to grow two rows of ribcages, shielding their chest, and had a great defense, and it made the bones permanently lighter. It was a rank three Gu, advantages being: Other than the initial growth period, which needs a lot of primeval essences, afterwards it can be sustained without primeval essence, something like the heavenly essence treasure lotus after it is refined, it can be used without injecting primeval essence.
2. Flying bone shield Gu, after using, three flying bone shields would fly out, being small and floating around the Gu Master's surroundings.
3. Arm bone wings Gu would grow a pair of bone wings at the forearm area, waving the wings would increase movement speed slightly, and most importantly it increased attack speed.

“All of us are here but we can choose only one gu.” Number three shortages dissatisfaction.

 

“No. 8 can come here later and take another gu from the inheritance.” said number 6

 

“choose one gu worm that you would want to be gifted when you reach rank three”, Said the clan leader

 

I showed a smile and said Ribcage shield Gu

 

“Good choice”, number three praised

 

Gu Yue Bo smashed the bone arm, refining the Flying bone shield Gu and keeping it in his aperture.

 

“As for the other two gu, no one touches them. Sometimes righteous inheritance can be crueler than demonic inheritance if the inheritor is greedy”, commanded the clan leader.

 

This is a righteous faction inheritance, this area tested the self-control of the inheritor, if they cannot control their greed and desires, taking all three Gu, then the future tunnels would change drastically, although there would not be devious traps, and their rewards would be much lower.

Righteous inheritance is unlike demonic inheritance. Normally speaking, they are designed kindly. Gu Masters having the luck to encounter their opportunities would gain them, the only difference is how much.

…

The gang moved along the secret tunnel entering a third hall.

There were no more tunnels now after the hall, only one human skeleton in the cave in a sitting position.

Before the human skeleton, there was a huge book.

This book was made with bones, as long as an arm, wide as half an arm, and as thick as eight inches.

 

Number two indicated to number five to pick it up, and seeing no problems, took the book from him.

This book was named "Grey Bone Huge Book". Inside, there were many refinement recipes as well as the creator of the inheritance, Grey Bone Scholar's life experiences, and why he set up this inheritance.

 

“This is a genuine righteous inheritance.” said the clan head.

At the end of the book, it says: This corpse, is the Grey Bone Scholar himself. If the future inheritor has the kindness, they might as well pay respects to it, and kowtow three times. Afterwards, they can split the skull apart, and obtain one Gu. That is the Grey Bone Scholar's life-bound Gu if the inheritor obtains it, they should make the world a better place and uphold justice.

After hearing this I told everyone not to move and then I did what the book said:

Kneeling on the ground, kowtowing three times respectfully. This was a true kowtow. My forehead hit the rough floor, emitting three loud sounds. After I finished, I stood up, and there was no commotion in the hall.

I did not mind it, smiling lightly. I asked all of them to wait.

In this hall, there are no more secret tunnels, but it is not the end. This place tests the inheritor's nature, if the person is kindhearted and knows gratitude, they would kowtow.

If they do three genuine "knocks" on the ground, a new tunnel would appear. But this is only one aspect. If they not only kowtow but do not move the corpse, showing respect for the corpse of the senior, a second path would appear.

 

According to the novel,

"In the previous life, Bai Sheng and Bai Hua both kowtow, but Bai Hua was afraid of pain, not giving off a loud sound. But Bai Sheng triggered the first path. Bai Sheng wanted to retrieve the Gu, but Bai Hua stood him, wanting to leave the senior in peace. Thus, Bai Hua triggered the second path."

...

Waiting made time feel much slower.

After waiting for five minutes, number five started to get impatient, but suddenly a new door slid open, revealing another tunnel.

"Go ahead, this is it, we can smash the head now," I said.

 

After hearing this clan head moved forward raised his leg and smashed Grey Bone Scholar's corpse to bits.

 

When this tunnel appeared, the corpse lost its meaning.

 

"Bone spike Gu…" clan head held this Gu and observed its details.

This Gu was about fist-sized and was like a ball cactus, with thorns like bone, and spikes all over its surface. It was also somewhat heavy.

It was a rank three Gu, a typical Gu which would damage both the enemy and the user; if the enemy received a thousand damage then the user would be inflicted with eight hundred damage.

The reason was when a Gu Master used it, their skeleton would change before sharp and hard bone spikes protruded out. Before even using these bone spikes to confront the enemy, these bone spikes would first pierce through the Gu Master's flesh and skin.

The pain was still secondary, if there wasn't a corresponding healing Gu to pair up with it, the situation would truly be messed up.

The enemy might not die, but it sure would seriously injure the Gu Master that used it

 

"What Gu is this?" everyone curiously gazed at it. But when they heard Hwang Gu's introduction, they lost all interest.

 

"Let's go." I chose the hidden door which appeared in the last.

 

Number five was still the one to scout ahead.

 

A downward flight of stairs was spread inside the door. This flight of stairs was long, at least about a thousand meters.

 

The surrounding lights gradually dimmed when they reached the latter half of the stairs, and the stairs were also getting narrower.

 

By the time All of us reached the end of the stairs, the light had almost completely disappeared. In front of us was a tightly closed door.

 

There were four words carved on the door — Flesh Sac Secret Chamber.

 

"Flesh Sac Secret Chamber..." number five murmured before trying to push open the door.

 

The door was not locked at all and easily opened. Behind the door was a hidden room which was not that big, but was very grotesque.

The walls in the hidden room were all made of flesh. When the group walked inside, they felt like they had walked into the stomach of some monster. The flesh walls were warm and slightly throbbed rhythmically as if there was a heart inside them.

As if sensing someone's presence, the flesh walls suddenly opened up a small crack and revealed white teeth all over it.

Everyone in the group was astonished.

 

There seemed to be countless opened largemouths in the flesh walls. The mouths opened up with jaws clenched, revealing a set of even teeth.

The phrase 'baring one's fangs' seemed to match this scene perfectly.

Heeheehee… hahaha… hehehe...

These mouths let out all kinds of laughing sounds. The laughs mixed and echoed in this narrow secret chamber, anyone who heard it would feel their hearts palpitate!