Chapter 777 — Frustration and Disappointment
Years of Heartflutter · Page 1 of 2
This was what Yang Ce found most baffling. By any reasonable accounting, the Right Elder was no fool—far from it. He was a cautious, cunning, devious man, which was precisely why Yang Ce had been duped by him time and again!
Yet this time, the Right Elder had actually explained why Lin Ce's Mighty Spirit Gu had failed against his Vajra Gu. Did that not amount to confessing his own weakness? Either the Right Elder still held other cards in reserve, or there was something wrong with his intellect!
The odds of the Right Elder being deficient in intellect were next to zero. Every sign suggested the man was not merely shrewd—he was exceedingly shrewd. That was exactly why Yang Ce could not help but ask outright.
"Since I've told you the reason, naturally I'm not afraid." The Right Elder seemed to have anticipated the question. His brows lifted slightly as he said coolly, "Never mind Lin Ce's Mighty Spirit Gu, which is shackled by the Vajra Gu—even a complete Mighty Spirit Gu, entirely unconstrained, would have no effect on me! So I advise you to stop wasting your effort. If you have the time, you'd do better to hurry up and cultivate that initial-stage Vajra Gu for me!"
"Why?" Yang Jiyan asked, bewildered. "Isn't the Mighty Spirit Gu the natural bane of the Vajra Gu?"
"I said it before—the Vajra Gu inside my body is not really a Vajra Gu anymore. I have refined it into an evil Gu. Originally it was an incomplete version of the Vajra Gu, but through my blood sacrifices, the incomplete Vajra Gu in my body has come to match the effects of the complete version—and now it has surpassed the complete Vajra Gu!" said the Right Elder. "So even the Mighty Spirit Gu is useless against the Vajra Gu in my body. It has become something beyond the Vajra Gu—a new, super Vajra Gu!"
"Oh? If that's so, why do you still need us to cultivate a Vajra Gu for you? The one in your body has already become a super Vajra Gu—so what use is a weaker Vajra Gu to you?" Yang Minlan was even more baffled by the Right Elder's answer.
"You're not wrong, but my incomplete Vajra Gu has one flaw: it must be fed with blood sacrifices, which is far too troublesome. If it goes for a time without blood sacrifice, it loses its efficacy. That's why I want the complete Vajra Gu—with it, I can merge the two into a true super Vajra Gu. Only then will I reach the true state of great perfection!" The Right Elder, for once, did not conceal the reason and laid it out for Yang Ce.
In truth, the Right Elder had nothing to fear from Yang Ce and the others. His super Vajra Gu was a little troublesome, but it could still crush them utterly—even if they consumed the complete Mighty Spirit Gu, they would be helpless against him. That was why the Right Elder did not scruple to tell Yang Ce the truth.
"So that's how it is!" Yang Ce exclaimed in sudden understanding, though a bitter note crept into his words. Once again they had pinned their hopes on a decisive confrontation with the Right Elder, and once again it had ended in failure. Could it be that all their efforts truly amounted to nothing?
Yang Juehuan's heart was filled with deep unwillingness, yet he was utterly helpless. The Right Elder had a way to counter the Vajra Gu—it posed no danger to him at all. And the Mighty Spirit Gu, the one hope everyone had placed such faith in, was useless too. At this moment, the Right Elder was simply an invulnerable monster!
"Enough. I should be going. I hope that the next time you call me here, you will have genuinely succeeded in cultivating the initial-stage Vajra Gu. Otherwise—well, my patience has its limits. Don't mistake my repeated leniency for mercy. The only reason I spared you is that you pose no threat to me whatsoever, and if I weren't counting on you to cultivate the Vajra Gu for me, do you think you'd still be alive?" The Right Elder gave a cold snort. "Be a little smarter. Stop doing foolish things!"