Big Data Cultivation

Chapter 1039: Chapter 1039: Same Disease, Different Fates

A bounty of ten thousand Spirit Stones for a Gu Cultivator in the Out-of-Dust Phase; the price… hard to say, but definitely not high.

Like the first Out-of-Dust Phase Cultivator Feng Jun killed, Yu Meiren, this person’s entire wealth amounted to just a few thousand Spirit Stones. If not accounting for the Immortal Binding Rope on him, one could almost consider him dirt poor. Expecting to kill him for ten thousand Spirit Stones was practically a dream.

Normally, Cultivators expect no less than eight thousand Spirit Stones for killing someone in the Out-of-Dust Phase—equivalent to the price of two Magic Artifacts.

Gu Cultivators are not only tricky but notoriously difficult to deal with, so a bounty of ten thousand Spirit Stones to eliminate a Gu Cultivator in Out-of-Dust Phase really isn’t very appealing.

Thus, when the Chu Family issued the bounty, they made the cause and effect clear—had they not, even Tiantong might not have accepted this job.

Indeed, the Chu Family are the victims. Whoever takes on this bounty and succeeds will not only get those ten thousand Spirit Stones but also a bounty from the Cultivation World for these wicked deeds—a bounty might not be particularly substantial, but… contribution points are also nice, right?

However, after the Chu Family explained the situation, the Ning Family of Guanquan Valley raised a question upon issuing the bounty: Who cured the Chu Family’s Gu Cultivator?

Why ask this? Because the Ning Family also has a Gu Practitioner in the Qi Refining Seventh Layer.

The Ning Family in Guanquan Valley is a considerably large Clan, which once had a Golden Core Cultivator. They now boast over a dozen Out-of-Dust Mechanisms, with two of them serving as Guest Elders at Qinggang Sect and the Ten Directions Platform. Plus, many of their descendants cultivate in the Four Sects and Five Platforms.

This Gu Practitioner from the Ning Family is called Ning Jianlin and is also of the Ning Family Direct Lineage. Debilitated in his youth, not much attention was paid to him despite consuming much medicine. But these resources were from the direct lineage’s own reserves, which other branches of the family understood less about.