10x Rewards: Novel's Extra's Cultivation Stealing System

"Brother Chen! Save Me!" These were the final words of Gu Chen’s favourite lackey who died as the Ironback Crocodile whipped its heavy head to the side, ripping Gu Qiang’s upper torso away from his pelvis with a horrific tear of muscles and spine as a thick fountain of dark red blood, shattered bone fragments, and slippery intestines violently sprayed all over the faces of the surrounding Gu Clan disciples, leaving Gu Qiang’s bottom half still standing for a split second before it heavily collapsed into the bloody mud.

"Formation! Protect yourself!" Gu Chen roared furiously, as his flawless assassination plan had somehow violently backfired directly onto his own loyal ’subordinates’.

The entire muddy path instantly devolved into a chaotic bloodbath as the remaining seven Ironback Abyss Crocodiles aggressively crashed into the panicking disciples, their massive, spiked tails violently swiping through the air to brutally smash three elite cultivators directly against the heavy tree trunks, instantly turning their internal organs into bloody mush.

"Die, you foul beasts! Radiant Lotus Sword Art!" Gu Chen screamed loudly, violently unsheathing his silver sword and aggressively channeling his 3rd Stage Origin Realm Qi into the blade, releasing a highly condensed, blindingly bright lotus flower of sword energy directly into the face of the nearest crocodile.

The pure sword Qi directly collided with the thick, hard scales and deafening BOOM! echoed loudly through the gloomy forest, slicing deeply into the beast’s skull causing thick, black blood to splatter all over Gu Chen’s white robes.

But exactly as the beast bled, another system notification quickly flashed in Gu Fan’s vision.

[Ding!]

[Combat Analysis Update: Frenzy-Blood Spore Effects.]

[Status: Berserk State Activated. Targets are experiencing extreme bloodlust, heavily ignoring physical pain while their overall combat prowess and physical defenses are temporarily boosted by an entire minor realm.]

Because the beasts were completely driven insane by the Frenzy-Blood Spores, they ignored their own fatal wounds and continued their brutal slaughter, biting off the arm of another screaming disciple while entirely ignoring Gu Fan, who was currently standing safely on the sidelines while casually leaning against a tree with an entertained smirk.

It took Gu Chen and the remaining elite disciples several long, incredibly exhausting minutes of brutal, highly chaotic combat to finally slaughter the enraged beasts until the swampy path was completely littered with massive, severed crocodile limbs and the heavily mangled, unrecognizable corpses of three Gu Clan disciples.

’Three wickets already down!’ Gu Fan thought to himself, ’At this rate by the time we reach their hidden hideout. Only me and Gu Chen might remain.’

Gu Chen stood in the centre of the bloody carnage, his chest heaving heavily as he tried to catch his breath. His white robes were now completely soaked in mud and the foul-smelling blood of the dead beasts while his eyes burned with unadulterated fury.

He slowly turned his head to look at Gu Fan, expecting to see the Trash Young Master at least heavily injured or missing a limb.

But his Dao heart nearly shattered on the spot when he clearly saw Gu Fan standing completely unharmed, without a single drop of blood or mud on his dark clothes.

"Brother Chen, your swordsmanship is truly heaven-defying!" Gu Fan immediately praised loudly, aggressively clapping his hands together while running forward, "No wonder you are the chosen one, the only hope, the shining star of our Gu Clan."

"If you hadn’t violently slain those beasts with your incredible strength, I would have definitely been eaten alive today!"

"You saved me brother Chen... You saved me!"

The more Gu Fan spoke, the harder Gu Chen’s jaw clenched, and his hands trembled with rage.

This slippery bastard.... Why does he not have a single cut? Why is this bastard so lucky?

Forcing his rapidly boiling fury down deep into his stomach, Gu Chen forcefully morphed his angry expression into a mask of deep, convincing agony as he slowly dropped directly onto his knees in the bloody mud right beside the highly mutilated, half-eaten corpse of his most vocal lackey, Gu Qiang.

"My brave brothers..." Gu Chen cried out loud, tears streaming down his dirty face as he gently closed Gu Qiang’s lifeless eyes, "You sacrificed your noble lives to protect the clan... and I swear upon my Dao heart that your deaths will absolutely not be in vain!"

The surviving injured disciples instantly felt tears welling up in their own eyes as they watched their righteous brother openly weep for a dead brother and their loyalty for the Golden Boy instantly skyrocketed to blind heights.

"Those highly cowardly bandits must have intentionally lured these vicious beasts!" Gu Chen declared aggressively, shifting all the blame onto the unseen thieves while he dramatically raised his silver sword high into the foggy air, "We will completely slaughter every single one of them to perfectly avenge our fallen brothers! No mercy!"

"No mercy!"

"For the Gu Clan!"

The surviving disciples roared passionately in highly unified, deeply absolute devotion, entirely manipulated by his flawless, highly hypocritical performance.

While the protagonist was busy putting on his award-winning theatrical play of fake grief, Gu Fan simply stood near the back of the group and mentally called out to the system.

’System, distribute my quest reward.’ Gu Fan demanded internally, perfectly ready to claim his special reward.

[Ding!]

[Error. Quest ’Survive the Vanguard’ is still actively ongoing.]

[The Host has not successfully cleared the Miasma Woods Vanguard sector yet. Did the Host honestly think surviving one pathetic ambush would be enough to complete the quest? You wish.]

Gu Fan completely suppressed a twitch of annoyance at the system’s snarky tone, but his lips quickly curled into a highly shameless smirk as he casually walked right up to the massive, bloody corpses of the slaughtered Ironback Abyss Crocodiles.

"Phew, what an incredibly exhausting battle," Gu Fan sighed loudly, dramatically wiping fake sweat from his forehead as he shamelessly plunged his hand directly into the skull of the massive 9th Stage Spirit Realm Ironback crocodile, easily digging out its glowing beast core, "My arms are completely sore from all the heavy lifting I just did for the clan."

He rapidly moved from corpse to corpse, actively harvesting all eight glowing beast cores while the surviving disciples were still busy crying over their dead comrades.

[Ding!]

[8 Razor-Maw Crocodile Beast Cores Successfully Harvested.]

[10x Plunder Multiplier Applied to Loot Value.]

[Cores successfully refined into 80 High-Grade Spirit Beast Cores within the Host’s inventory!]

"You shameless!" a bleeding disciple suddenly yelled, pointing his spear directly at Gu Fan as he watched the former trash pocket the valuable loot, "You didn’t even swing your sword once during that entire ambush! Those valuable beast cores rightfully belong to everyone in the vanguard!"

Gu Fan paused, turning around to look directly at the angry disciples with a haughty sneer that completely looked down on them.

"Belong to everyone? How completely laughable," Gu Fan taunted coldly, spinning a massive, glowing beast core effortlessly between his fingers, "It was my righteous Big Brother Chen who bravely risked his life and actually did all the bloody work to protect us, while you cowards just screamed and died like useless fodder."

The disciples gritted their teeth in sheer fury, completely unable to argue against the logic since Gu Chen truly had killed the beasts, but before they could curse him further, Gu Fan suddenly burst into loud laughter.

"But since my Dao heart is so incredibly magnanimous and caring," Gu Fan announced with a highly mocking tone, directly tossing eight glowing beast cores into the muddy puddle right at their feet, "You can have these. Go ahead and divide these scraps amongst yourselves, you pathetic beggars."

"You...!" The disciples glared at him with hatred as they felt insulted, but their greed completely overtook their pride as they immediately scrambled into the bloody mud to grab the valuable cores.

Gu Fan smirked in amusement, enjoying how easily he could humiliate these people.

But as he lazily glanced down at the ground, noticed that the massive pools of blood leaking from the dead disciples and the slaughtered crocodiles wasn’t pooling into the dirt like normal liquid, but was instead unnaturally seeping directly straight down deep into the earth at terrifying speeds, completely draining as if the muddy ground beneath them was drinking the fresh blood.

’These trees!’ Gu Fan frowned at the thought, ’This Miasma woods is really sinister.’

At that exact same moment, the ’Blood-Tracking Compass’ securely attached to Gu Chen’s heavy leather belt suddenly began to emit a buzz as it actively reacted to the massive amount of fresh blood heavily soaking the corrupted earth.

Gu Fan’s green eyes instantly narrowed, remembering Bai Bing’s warning from the night before.

’Brother Chen.’

Gu Fan grinned thinking.

’Your compass really is sinister.’

’It still does not feel satisfied with this blood bath.’