10x Rewards: Novel's Extra's Cultivation Stealing System-Chapter 54: Blue Ghost Fire

The next morning when the morning sun filtered through the thick, purple toxic vines hanging over the cave entrance, Gu Fan opened his eyes, and taking a deep breath, sat up.

Crack!

Crack!

"Aghh!" Gu Fan stretched his arms, and felt his muscles pumping with the strength of a 6th Stage of Body Tempering cultivator.

It has been little more than a week and Gu Fan has transformed from a shut-in in that lonely apartment of his to a cripple in his own novel and now a man who was playing everyone on his fingertips.

Feeling refreshed so early in the morning, Gu Fan smirked lazily, turning his head to look around and see what the beautiful genius of the Bai Clan, Bai Bing was up to this morning.

He expected to see her meditating or perhaps glaring at him with her icy piercing gaze.

Instead, he found the spot next to him was completely empty.

In fact, the entire cave was empty. There was no sign of the beauty, or her ruined dark green robes. There was only a faint, lingering smell of her scent mixed with the smell of their intense sex from yesterday.

He looked down at the floor, and the giant palm leaf he had placed between them last night was entirely empty. The thick slabs of roasted Venomhide Bear meat were completely gone. She had licked it clean.

Gu Fan let out a long, dramatic sigh.

"Unbelievable," Gu Fan muttered to the empty cave, an amused, lewd smirk pulling at his lips, "I save her. I give her the greatest, deepest dicking of her entire life."

"I even roast her dinner for her."

"But what do I get in return?"

"No wake up kisses."

"No morning fuck."

"She pulls a dine-and-dash on me?!"

He shook his head, standing up and dusting off his trousers, as he stood up.

"Women these days have absolutely no respect for a hard-working man."

But while Bai Bing was a nice twist, he still had to follow the plotline for which he was here. he had more important things to take care of.

And where can she go? After the after noon they spent in each other’s arms, her mind may want to resist it, but her body will forever remember him.

The seed was already planted inside of her. She would be back on her knees for his thick cock soon enough.

And with that, the system chimed into his head, with the daily reminder of his Parasite multipler.

[System Notification: Parasitic Network Daily Siphon Complete.]

[Host 1: Xiao Mei (Mortal) - Siphoned ambient vitality: +2 Yin Vitality Units.]

[Host 2: Gu Ling (1st Stage Spirit Realm) - Siphoned morning meditation Yin Cultivation Qi: +150 Cultivation Units.]

[Host 3: Madam Li (3rd Stage Origin Realm) - Siphoned residual Yin Cultivation essence: +1,250 Yin Cultivation Units.]

[Host 4: Bai Bing (8th Stage Spirit Realm) - Siphoned breakthrough Yin Cultivation essence: +1,014 Yin Cultivation Units.]

[Applying Multipliers...]

[Total Passive Gain: +20 Vitality, +46,780 Yin Cultivation Units.]

[System Status Normal. All Parasite Hosts Stable.]

"They are never late with their rent," Gu Fan dismissed the screen and reached into his inner pocket, as he pulled out the smooth, unassuming Jade Pendant his dying mother had given him.

"I only have a day left," Gu Fan, said as he walked out of the cave and disappeared into the toxic morning mist, "Time to get to work."

~~~~~

A few hours passed.

Gu Fan travelled towards a surprisingly ordinary, outer sector of the Ten Thousand Poison Forest, a place so unassuming that no one would ever expect to find a supreme treasure hidden there.

He completely bypassed the low-level toxic beasts snarling in the bushes thanks to his Phantom Cloak, following the map given by the System, matching it with the coordinates to the faint, pulsing lines inside the Jade Pendant.

Eventually, he pushed through a thick wall of rotting ferns and stepped into a strange, rocky place.

It was perfectly circular area completely devoid of trees or vegetation.

Instead, the ground was littered with massive, jagged rocks that were arranged in a chaotic, seemingly random pattern.

Gu Fan looked down at the Jade Pendant in his palm. The glowing green lines on the jade matched the chaotic arrangement of the rocks perfectly.

"Right on the money," Gu Fan smirked.

He walked straight to the centre of the hollow. He stopped in front of a massive, unassuming boulder that looked identical to the rest.

He channelled a fraction of his Spirit Qi into the Jade Pendant.

The stone glowed brightly, and he quickly pressed the flat side of the pendant directly against a hidden, rectangular groove in the centre of the boulder.

Click!

A deep, heavy grinding sound immediately shook the ground, and the massive boulder split perfectly down the middle. The two halves slid apart heavily, shaking the dirt.

As soon as the dust settled, a dark, claustrophobic flight of steep stone stairs was revealed, descending straight down into the pitch-black earth.

A rush of cold, stale air wafted up from below the dark path, hitting Gu Fan in the face.

Gu Fan didn’t hesitate one bit as he descended down the stairs into the dark dungeon. And as soon as he stepped inside, the boulder behind him moved again and closed.

The stone staircase led straight into a narrow, dark dungeon corridor. The walls were made of damp, black brick.

It was dark, but Gu Fan could still make out where he was going. But just as he reached the last step.

Click!

He stepped directly onto a raised stone tile. It was a pressure plate.

Within a breath, dozens of small, hidden holes opened in the brick walls on both sides. A barrage of razor-sharp, steel darts shot out at terrifying speeds, aimed directly at his chest and neck. The tips of the darts dripped with venom.

But it was no trouble for Gu Fan. If he didn’t mind the needles puncturing his body, he wouldn’t even care to move.

So Gu Fan simply raised his bare hands and caught all the needles right out of the air.

He looked at the venom dripping from the steel dart in his hand, and in front of his eyes, the toxic liquid seeped through his skin, into his body.

His Ancient Venom Physique instantly flared to life, as it did not reject the poison. Instead it absorbed it, devouring the toxins and converting them into pure, nourishing Qi.

Gu Fan brought the dart to his mouth and literally licked the remaining purple venom right off the sharp steel tip.

"Ah," Gu Fan sighed, tossing the dart away, as he kept walking, "Is this how the addicts feel?

Fifty metres down the corridor, the floor abruptly ended.

A massive, twenty-metre-wide pit blocked the path, filled to the brim with bubbling, highly volatile green acid.

For a mortal, it was certain death.

But or a cultivator, a simple twenty-metre jump would normally be child’s play.

However Gu Fan’s glowing eyes caught the faint, deadly shimmer of razor-thin Qi-wires crisscrossing the air above the pit.

Worse, the ceiling was lined with pressure-sensitive stalactites, primed to drop another trap to keep him away from his final goal.

Gu Fan quickly activated the Sovereign Strike of Infinite Freedom, as he leaped sideways off the edge, planting his heavy boots directly onto the vertical brick wall. He ran horizontally across the wall with impossible speed, his body weaving and contorting to narrowly dodge the invisible Qi-wires.

Halfway across, a hidden mechanism triggered. A volley of explosive venom-bombs shot down from the ceiling, aimed directly at his path.

Gu Fan pushed off the wall mid-stride, twisting his body violently through the narrowest gap in the wire mesh as the bombs detonated against the brick behind him, showering the acid pit in debris.

Gu Fan managed to dodge the venom bomb and in the next leap, he crossed the rest of the twenty-metre gap in a blur and landed heavily but safely on the solid ground on the other side.

"When I wrote this shit. It looked all so easy." Gu fan shook his head as he continued to walk for another minute before running into a dead end.

There, a heavy, incredibly thick solid iron gate blocked the entire corridor. In the centre of the heavy metal, a glowing yellow talisman was plastered, but there was no lever, or a keyhole.

Gu Fan didn’t bother looking for a hidden switch. Gu fan had written a very complicated mechanism to open the door. He was not going to go through all of that jumping and kicking in this cave. It was fun when Gu Chen did it. Not him.

So he did what anyone would think of at the very onset. He stepped up to the gate and threw a heavy punch directly at the metal.

Thud!

But instead of what he had expected that the gate would go flying and break open, his fist sank slightly into a suddenly materialized Qi barrier. The immense physical energy of his punch was completely absorbed by the talisman.

Frowning, Gu Fan threw a few more rapid, heavy punches at the gate.

Bang!

Bang!

Bang!

But the result was the same until he punched his 12th punch.

Suddenly, the talisman flared brightly. A violent backlash of repulsive energy erupted from the gate, sending a shockwave that forced Gu Fan to slide a few feet backward, his boots skidding against the stone floor.

"Oh! So you can retaliate?!" Gu Fan smirked, raising his eyebrow.

"Let me see how you absorb this," Gu Fan sneered.

He stepped back up to the gate and placed both of his bare hands directly onto the solid iron and the glowing talisman.

Sssssssssss!

A terrifying, hissing white smoke erupted from his palms, as the highly toxic, acidic Qi violently attacked the metal.

The highly toxic, acidic Qi violently attacked the metal and the spiritual energy of the talisman alike.

The solid iron gate began to sizzle, turn cherry-red, and then literally melt. The steel liquefied into glowing slag, dripping down onto the stone floor alongside the dissolving ashes of the talisman.

Within ten breaths, Gu Fan had sadistically melted a massive, bubbling hole right through the centre of the heavy gate.

He stepped through the glowing, molten slag like a demon walking out of hell, totally unfazed by the heat.

Gu Fan finally stepped out of the narrow corridor and into a massive, cavernous Audience Hall.

As soon as his heavy boots touched the stone floor of the room, a sequence of eerie, blue fire torches automatically flared to life along the high walls, one by one.

The sudden, flickering light cast long, dancing shadows across the floor.

Lining the hall were twelve towering, incredibly intimidating stone statues. Six stood on the left wall, six on the right.

They were massive at least three metres tall, depicting ancient, multi-armed demonic warriors. Some wielded massive stone halberds, while others gripped heavy, jagged broadswords.

They were the Nether-Stone Sentinels. Gu Fan had spent a great deal of time describing them in his novel. And now that they were in front of him, he could not help but admire his creation.

But before he could do so, a booming, ancient voice echoed from the walls, vibrating directly in Gu Fan’s chest.

"Seeker of the Blue Ghost Fire..." the ancient voice thundered, entirely devoid of emotion. "To wield the flame of souls, you must prove your worth in blood."