The Gu Worms' Talents

[What the host described is the divine Gu Three-Legged Golden Toad. The one you currently possess is only a Yellow-Rank Three-Legged Golden Toad and does not yet have those traits.]

The system actually answered.

"Then, can mine become a divine Gu Three-Legged Golden Toad?"

[As long as you keep refining Gu, any Yellow-Rank Gu Worm has a chance to become a divine Gu.]

"Any one of them has a chance?"

Jiang Yiming pondered those words carefully.

A moment later, he scoffed. "Why do I get the feeling you're promising me a pie in the sky?"

Others might not know, but he, Jiang Yiming, knew full well how hard it was to refine Gu.

After all those attempts, he had only succeeded in obtaining three Yellow-Rank Gu Worms.

The failure rate was over ninety-five percent!

If he put this Yellow-Rank Three-Legged Golden Toad back into the Gu Refining Plate, its chances of survival would be less than five percent! Even if it survived by sheer luck, it would only be a Mystic-Tier Gu Worm, with a long way still to go!

The chances of it becoming a divine Gu after repeated rounds of refinement were even lower than the chances of getting a system out of the blue!

Most likely, the Three-Legged Golden Toad would have become some other Gu Worm's droppings long before the refining was done.

Refining a Gu Worm all the way from Yellow Rank into a divine Gu was simply unrealistic.

Just then, the goofy Three-Legged Golden Toad suddenly croaked, as though greeting him.

Jiang Yiming took another look at it and instantly understood the skill Mysterious Fate Coin.

"Mysterious Fate Coin: a talent unique to the Three-Legged Golden Toad."

"After absorbing the spiritual energy of heaven and earth, the Three-Legged Golden Toad gathers it all in its mouth to form a copper coin. Once formed, the coin contains all of the golden toad's vital essence. As long as the coin remains unbroken, the toad cannot perish; its life is bound to a single coin!"

What was all this supposed to mean?

"The Red Tail Centipede got Earth Escape when it evolved to Yellow Rank. The Ghost-Faced Spider wasn't bad either; it got Poison Web. But look at you! All you got was this baffling trash skill!"

Jiang Yiming complained furiously in his heart.

He couldn't be bothered to look at the Three-Legged Golden Toad anymore and resumed refining Gu.

He had used five Primordial Snake Gu just now, leaving only the last one, which was also the largest.

Its body was over twenty meters long, but after entering the Gu Refining Plate, it shrank to just over two meters. Compared with the other four kinds of primordial Gu, it was still very large.

After a round of slaughter, the Snake Gu emerged victorious again. What was more, it had somehow come through the fight without any serious injuries.

The fusion process went surprisingly smoothly as well, finishing in less than a minute!

[Congratulations, host. Gu refinement successful. Obtained Yellow-Rank Gu Worm: Single-Horned Wandering Snake Gu. Gu Worm skill: Poison Dragon Drill.]

"Poison Dragon Drill? What the hell kind of skill is that?"

A moment ago, Jiang Yiming had struggled to accept the skill. The next moment, after learning what it did, he smiled. "What a powerful skill!"

Poison Dragon Drill: the Single-Horned Wandering Snake Gu's strongest attack skill. Using rotational force, it allows the single horn on its forehead to pierce through anything!

Jiang Yiming was happy because this was the first offensive skill he had encountered!

The Red Tail Centipede's Earth Escape was a skill for lying in ambush, scouting, and the like. The Ghost-Faced Spider's Poison Web was more of a control skill. As for the Three-Legged Golden Toad's Mysterious Fate Coin, that didn't count as a skill at all!

Only the Single-Horned Wandering Snake's Poison Dragon Drill could be called a true attack skill!

As he looked at the Single-Horned Wandering Snake in the Gu Refining Plate, its dark golden horn became more pleasing to the eye the longer he looked!

"I wonder what that horn feels like to touch..."

With that thought, Jiang Yiming released it from the Gu Refining Plate.

Suddenly!

"Smack!" "Boom!"

The mirror in the room shattered, the water dispenser toppled over, the chair exploded, and the bed collapsed...

All because the Single-Horned Wandering Snake was simply too big!

The previous primordial Gu had shrunk after evolving to Yellow Rank. The Snake Gu alone had grown a full ten meters longer after evolving!

It had already been over twenty meters long, but now it exceeded thirty meters and had grown thicker than his waist!

There had been no sign of it in the Gu Refining Plate, but once it came out, its true size was revealed at once.

Its enormous body crushed everything in the room, only barely fitting inside.

Poor Jiang Yiming was pinned beneath the Single-Horned Wandering Snake, unable to move.

Fortunately, the Single-Horned Wandering Snake wasn't pressing down on him; it arched its body, relieving most of the pressure. Otherwise, its enormous body would surely have flattened Jiang Yiming into a sheet of paper.

To give himself room to breathe, Jiang Yiming tried to put the Single-Horned Wandering Snake back into the Gu Refining Plate with a thought.

But the damned system gave him an icy reply: [A refined Gu Worm cannot return to the Gu Refining Plate.]

"Damn it! It can come out, but it can't go back in!"

He only had 300 grams of gold left, so upgrading the Gu Refining Plate was impossible.

Let the Single-Horned Wandering Snake outside? That was even more impossible. If it frightened someone and brought the police down on him, he'd be finished.

With no other choice, he could only lie on the floor and continue refining Gu.

As long as he refined Gu, he could earn Gu Refining Points. With those points, he could buy a Yellow Gu Lotus Platform from the System Store. Then he could put the Single-Horned Wandering Snake inside it.

That seemed to be the best solution.

After more than three full hours of refinement, all thirteen hundred-odd primordial Gu had been used up.

Perhaps his posture was wrong, or perhaps he had used up all his good luck by refining the Three-Legged Golden Toad and the Single-Horned Wandering Snake.

In any case, after refining over a thousand primordial Gu, he hadn't succeeded even once!

Fortunately, he had gained thirteen hundred Gu Refining Points. He finally bought two Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms and put the Three-Legged Golden Toad and the Single-Horned Wandering Snake inside them.

"Phew... That's a relief."

Jiang Yiming sat up, closed his eyes, and used his mind to survey the Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms.

He now had four Yellow Gu Lotus Platforms.

Each platform had nine lotus leaves. He didn't know what space the platforms were in, but it certainly wasn't the one Jiang Yiming occupied. The spiritual energy there was far too dense, nothing like that of this world.

The ethereal spiritual energy was drawn to the lotus leaves and gathered at the hearts of the lotuses.

Red Tail and Ghost Face lay at the lotus hearts as before, greedily absorbing it.

Two strands of spiritual energy as fine as hairs slowly drifted into its body. Only after absorbing those two strands could it absorb another two.

Two strands of spiritual energy at a time—that was its cultivation speed.

The Three-Legged Golden Toad, on the other hand, looked goofy and dull, with a belly so big it could barely crawl, yet it absorbed spiritual energy at a surprisingly fast rate!

It absorbed ten strands of spiritual energy at once each time. That was five times as fast as Red Tail and Ghost Face!

The Single-Horned Wandering Snake wasn't bad either, absorbing eight strands at a time.

Unexpectedly, once they were compared, the Three-Legged Golden Toad, which looked the stupidest, turned out to have the greatest cultivation talent!

Talent really was a hard thing to explain.