Shushan: Extinction

Chapter 48 Kang's Attributes

After the thing was completely stable, Gong Tianwu found that he had received a hint:
"You have successfully completed the main quest. The fragment of the ancient artifact you hold has been repaired and some of its power has been restored. You will also benefit from this."

"The Xuan-grade intermediate treasure, Ci Shuo, has now been completely destroyed. You played a key role in this process."

"This treasure was originally a mid-grade yellow-level treasure. Seventy-seven years later, it met the great scholar Gou Xun and willingly accepted him as its master. One hundred and thirty-one years later, it was destroyed in the Emei sword fight. Although your intervention caused the destruction of Ci Shuo prematurely, it made it more powerful, and the weapon soul was willing to accept this outcome, so the causal points +6."

"The lower-grade treasure of the Earth Rank: Wenhua Stone Pen has been completely destroyed. You played a part in the process."

"This treasure was originally going to be completely refined by the Purple Armored Sky Centipede with the help of external forces in eight years. Although your intervention caused it to be destroyed prematurely, this is the outcome that the weapon soul is willing to accept, so the karma points are +12."

Seeing the last two hints, Gong Tianwu's eyes widened, and a surge of ecstasy naturally emerged in his heart! His hard work was not in vain!
After calming down a little, Gong Tianwu analyzed the situation and found that in the cause and effect of the Wenhua Stone Pen, his role was obviously smaller, and the Wenhua Stone Pen would be refined soon, but it still gave him 12 cause and effect points, while "Ci Shuo" itself was more deeply involved, but it only had 6 cause and effect points.

This can only mean that the previous owner of the Wenhua Stone Pen, Monk Guangxiao, was too powerful. When he held this Wenhua Stone Pen, he influenced the fate of millions of people, so the cause and effect involved in this treasure is extraordinary.

In this case, once you are involved in the cause and effect, the share you get may be smaller, but the total amount will be larger.

After pondering for a while, Gong Tianwu suddenly became curious. What exactly does Kang look like at this moment? How can he just dismiss himself with a word of benefit? So he thought to himself:
"Kang, show me your attributes."

After about a minute, Kang Cai seemed somewhat reluctant to reveal the relevant information.

Name: Kang
Description: This is a fragment of an ancient artifact, and it has been strengthened to a certain extent by assimilating other fragments.

Soul Binding Object: Gong Tianwu
Passive ability of the artifact: Soul Healing, which increases the healing effect of the soul-bound object by 30% (if it can be increased), and the injury recovery speed is increased by 50%.

Passive ability of the divine object: Resurrection. At the cost of consuming causal points + soul life, the object bound by the soul can ignore the mystery in the womb and continue to reincarnate and revive.

Passive ability of the magical object: Heavenly Music, which enables the bound object to perform musical skills, increasing the effect of the magical power by 100%, and ignoring the resistance of most targets.

Passive ability of the magic item: Talented, which increases the bound object's training speed by 33% when learning any skills.

The passive ability of the artifact: Excellent Talent (gray), which will be activated soon.

The passive ability of the artifact: Rebirth (gray), which will be activated soon.

Passive ability of the artifact: being hunted (negative). In the great destruction of that year, the body and soul of this ancient artifact had been completely annihilated, and Kang only awakened a fragment of his self-consciousness.

While it is searching for other fragments of the divine object and trying to assimilate them, the other fragments of the divine object that have awakened their self-awareness are also searching for its existence. In other words, Kang is both a hunter and may become a prey at any time. Of course, the final winner will become a brand new weapon soul.

Special magical power: reading divine arts (a glimpse of the key points), drawing the power of the stars in the sky (Zhewei, Yangmen) to bless the bound person, so that the bound person can occasionally capture the divine thoughts and ideas of the people around him, and the divine thoughts and ideas related to himself will be captured first.

Ultimate magical power: Tianwen (experience): communicate with the remaining soul of the divine object to solve your current huge troubles.

When you are desperate, you can activate this magical power, but the activation cost is half of the remaining soul life! And according to the requirements, a certain amount of causal points and Zhenlong points will be deducted.

Note: This magical power is a trial version and will disappear after being used once.

***
Looking at these introductions, Gong Tianwu was delighted at first, but then he felt heavy in his heart.
"Oh my god! This is indeed a great opportunity, but it's also a big pitfall. If these ancient gods want to be reunited and regain their former glory, they have to go through this nakedly cruel process of raising insects?"

But if you think about it more, this is actually a good thing. The greater the pressure Kang faces, the less likely he will give up on himself.

At this moment, Gong Tianwu suddenly felt someone pulling him, and then he immediately acted weak and powerless, struggling to even move his little finger.

Then, he opened his eyes and found that Bengma had returned and was asking Jianmu to move him to the cart. He gasped and said in a weak voice:
"Where are you going to take me?"

No one answered.
The group walked straight out of the store and came to the field next to it, where they saw three cows tied up, grazing leisurely.

Bengma tilted his head towards Jianmu, who walked to a cow and suddenly stretched out his arms to tightly clamp the cow's neck.

The cow was of course very uncomfortable and began to struggle and kick its back desperately, but it was useless. Jianmu's arm was embedded in its neck as if it were cast steel or iron. In less than a minute, it foamed at the mouth, convulsed, and fell to the ground and died.

Jianmu took out a knife and cut open the cow's stomach, then pulled out a bunch of internal organs. He then stuffed Gong Tianwu into the empty cow's stomach with blood all over it, leaving only a small opening for him to breathe, and at the same time poured half a bottle of medicine into Gong Tianwu's stomach.

Gong Tianwu suddenly felt a tingling sensation as if ants were crawling all over his body, which was extremely uncomfortable. He had to try very hard to suppress the urge to reach out and scratch himself.

After just a few minutes, Gong Tianwu discovered that the meat of the cow had turned into rotten cotton! It looked like it had been left outside for more than ten days in the hot summer and had rotted into mud.

You know, this cow has been dead for less than five minutes, so the meat should be chewy and tender.

Then Jianmu pulled Gong Tianwu out of the cow's stomach and killed another cow and did the same thing.

This time the beef was obviously rotting much slower, and Gong Tianwu stayed in there for almost twenty minutes before coming out.

When it came to the third cow, Gong Tianwu stayed there for almost an hour and found that although the quality of the beef did not become too bad, the color of the meat had turned bluish-purple, which showed that there was a big problem.

At this time, Gong Tianwu looked at his status bar again and found that it had changed to Poisoned (mild). He thought that although Bengma had a bad character and was greedy for money, the treatment was still effective.

Of course, this old guy is the kind of guy who won’t cry until he sees the coffin. He must have tasted the sweetness before starting the next step of treatment for himself.

This time, after Jianmu pulled Gong Tianwu out of the dead cow's stomach, he began to pour water on him, making Gong Tianwu shiver with cold.

At this time, Gong Tianwu already knew that Beng Ma must have tasted the sweetness, otherwise three cows would not be a small amount of money to get in this rural area. However, he still pretended to be unsteady and very weak, and sat on the ground, panting and sneering at Beng Ma:
"Hey, old man, the things we got from the inn are pretty good, right?"

"I'm telling you, any item in there is worth fifty or sixty silver treasures, so remember to keep the things for me."

"I broke one. You, an old dog, can't even pay for it!!!"

At this time, Beng Ma was actually hesitating in his heart, with greed and caution constantly taking the upper hand:

"Damn it, the stuff this guy is carrying is worth a lot of money! It's probably worth thousands of silver treasures. Why should we be polite to him? Just bury it and hide in the mountains to avoid the limelight. It will be worth it when he comes out in a few years."

"Be careful. A charlatan who can carry so much wealth may have some power behind him. I'll just pay him a lot of money. It's better not to cause trouble."

But after hearing Gong Tianwu's shouting, Bengma suddenly became frightened and greed took over. He strode forward, looked at the breathless Gong Tianwu and kicked him, hitting him right in the nose, causing him to roll backwards several times with blood flowing from his nose.

Then Beng Ma squatted down, grabbed Gong Tianwu's hair, revealed an ugly and ferocious smile and said:
"Compensation? I tell you, take me to the place where the silver treasure is buried immediately, otherwise, if you are late for an incense stick, I will chop off one of your fingers. If you don't have enough fingers, I will chop off your toes!!"

As Bengma spoke, he stretched out his other hand to grab Gong Tianwu's little finger, intending to break it with force to give him a taste of pain.

However, at this moment, Gong Tianwu suddenly opened his eyes and gave him a sinister smile! ! Then he slapped Beng Ma on the chest.

With this blow, Gong Tianwu only felt as if he had hit a fragile wooden fence. The feedback from his palm was that the branches that made up the wooden fence were breaking one after another with a "crackling sound". It was so fragile that it could not withstand a single blow.

Of course, the "crunching" sound was definitely not made by branches, but by ribs!

After this palm landed, Bengma was directly knocked five or six meters away. After falling to the ground, he rolled a few times and landed right in front of Jianmu.

Gong Tianwu immediately regretted it, knowing that he had used too much force. Now it seemed that Bengma was at most at the initial stage of dark energy. Even though his poisonous wound had not healed, a palm strike from this innate master with 50% of his internal strength was too much for him to bear.

Bengma spurted out a large cloud of blood mist mixed with internal organs. He stretched out his hand towards Jianmu in front of him and said in pain and despair:
"Save me with the red gourd."

But Bengma's words were of no use at all. Jianmu, who was as dull as a mute, suddenly attacked and grabbed his head and twisted it hard!
With a slight "click" sound, the greedy and cruel old man's head turned 180 degrees, and the light of life quickly disappeared from his eyes.

What happened before his eyes undoubtedly surprised Gong Tianwu a little, but he was just surprised, because he could figure it out with his toes, if Jianmu really had such powerful strength, why would he have to become a slave and endure the suffering beside Bengma?

Jianmu looked at Bengma's body, his eyes suddenly turned red, and he knelt on the ground, covering his face and burst into tears.

Gong Tianwu's eyebrows suddenly twitched at this moment, because at this moment, his passive magical power: reading spirits was activated automatically.

What Jianmu was thinking at this moment began to enter his mind intermittently:
"Mom! I finally avenged you."

"Amin, I finally killed Beng Ma with my own hands. I know you loved him before you died, but even though I didn't get you, I got your wife!"

"Okay, it's over. It's all over."

After a long while, he had vented most of his emotions and looked at Gong Tianwu:

"Do you want to know my story, benefactor?"

Gong Tianwu shrugged:

"I don't want to know, but I can probably guess that it's the hatred of your relatives being killed or your wife being taken away that makes you so patient. I'm not interested in Beng Ma's money and relationships, I can give them to you."

"If you cooperate and return all my personal belongings to me, I will leave soon."

Obviously, Jianmu was overjoyed at Gong Tianwu's proposal. He had already successfully taken revenge, but he still had to live his life. The master in front of him was wealthy, so there was really no need for him to lie to him, so he took the initiative to cooperate with Gong Tianwu.

***
One day later,
Gong Tianwu has already boarded the passenger ship returning to Yidu.

The "Chita", a very practical yellow-level treasure that he valued most, was retrieved effortlessly, because this thing was made dirty when he escaped, and Bengma was short-sighted and didn't know the value of it at all, so it was casually thrown into a pile of dirty and filthy miscellaneous items.

In addition, Gong Tianwu also took away a specially refined bamboo tube, which contained none other than He Lao's natal Gu that he vomited out.

Gong Tianwu is not the kind of person who repays evil with kindness. This time when he returns to Yidu, of course he wants to find trouble with Ming Zhenzi and He Lao!
Of course, Gong Tianwu also had a hidden expectation in his heart and wanted to get some cause and effect points from them. According to Kang, he could not kill people indiscriminately just because there were cause and effect points in killing the other party. This was deliberately creating cause for the sake of effect.

However, Ming Zhenzi and He Lao took the initiative to provoke me and even tried to kill me, so my counterattack was reasonable, right?
In fact, Kang also acquiesced to this statement.

As for whether he could win, Gong Tianwu conducted in-depth investigation and research:

Mr. He is a Gu Master. His strength is to assassinate people secretly and kill them without them being seen. He is not good at frontal combat, so he can even arrange a group of archers to shoot the poison onto the wall.

Although Ming Zhenzi is a veteran among cultivators, his strength has been reduced by 20% due to his age, and his strength has been reduced by another 20% due to his indulgence in alcohol and sex. He still has the ability to carry out unintentional assassinations, which reduces the difficulty by another 20%!
Taking these factors into consideration, the difficulty is about the same as dealing with a cultivator in the early or middle stage of Qi Refining.

Of course, the old guy has more experience and more magical weapons and supernatural powers, so Gong Tianwu still thinks it's worth a try.

It is generally recognized in the martial arts world that the chances of a congenital master winning against a cultivator in the early stages of Qi Refining are 60:40, but once they can get close the chances are 90:10, so there is a chance of winning.

Then of course I did it!

(End of this chapter)