蛊真人

蛊真人
Eight desolate beasts encircled closer to He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu.

"They are all real." Fairy Cang Yu had extremely outstanding investigative methods to
check the situation, but the result caused her pretty face to blanch further.

He Feng Yang looked around him and saw —

To the east was an ice spike divine ape whose bulk was only somewhat inferior to
Dang Hun mountain; a tyrannical aura spread out from it and as it moved, it left behind
a pure white icy trail. The fur on its whole body were like ice cones which brought a
stifling pressure upon the two Immortals. The sclera of its eyes were jade green, while
its pupils had a frost blue luster. This represented the dense bloodline in this ice spike
divine ape. If the eyeballs were completely frost blue in color, that would be the ancient
desolate beast, icefall divine ape, whose battle strength was comparable to a rank
seven Gu Immortal.

To the west floated a phoenix feather lava crocodile. This crocodile was two to three
times the size of ordinary crocodiles and could not compare to the enormously huge
ice spike divine ape, yet its aura surged mightily. Its every breath brought a scalding
hot heat wave. Its brownish-red scale armor was thick and robust, and its slender tail
was over six meters long. It did not have any scales on its back but instead had colorful
phoenix feathers that resembled blazing lava.

To the north stood a proud golden sand dark stallion. This horse was huge, its size
reaching the chest of the ice spike divine ape. It had six legs that looked like they were
cast from metal, its muscles were bulging, its posture was proud and aloof like a
dragon, and its whole body shone with a golden luster. Only the six hooves were pitch
black.

The south side was entrenched by an azure dragon vine. This vine was not a wild
beast, strictly speaking, but a plant. The vines had condensed into a dragon shape and
when its roots were pierced into the soil, its defensive and regenerative powers were
extremely terrifying, thus it specialized in battles of attrition. If it pulled out the roots,
it could soar in the sky like an azure dragon.

On the southeast side was a swamp crab. It was the king of swampy terrain. Its broad,
mountain-like body could reach up to a quarter of Dang Hun mountain's height when
standing. Its eyes had degenerated till they were nonexistent, and its shell was so thick
that He Feng Yang felt a powerless sensation, like he was facing a tortoise shell. It had
altogether nineteen pairs of legs and its front pair of pincers could easily crush
boulders and cut dragons, even Fang Yuan with his immortal zombie body did not dare
to test the might of this pair of pincers.

A peach wolf was crouching down on the northeast. This wolf had the smallest size,
the same as that of a newborn puppy. It looked extremely good natured and cute with
its round body, plump claws, pink tongue and round dark eyes. Judging from
appearance, it seemed to be harmless to both man and beast, however, He Feng Yang's
pupils shrunk and if he had to choose a direction to break through, he would avoid
this one outright!

An iron crown eagle circled over the northwest side. This eagle gave off a valiant and
imposing aura as it hovered in the air, its eyes locked onto He Feng Yang and Fairy
Cang Yu. Its wings were broad and thick, and each of its feathers could be shot out like
sharp arrows. Its claws were firm and savage, able to crush boulders and rip apart
dragons and tigers.

Finally on the southwest side stood an earth chief desolate beast. It had a humanoid
body with a snake tail, its face resembled a bat's and its nose was pointed up. It had
large ears and was black all over, with armor made of flesh covering it. Around its
chest were fifty to sixty fleshy whips, each over twenty meters in length. There were
suction organs on the surface of the fleshy whips; it would be hard to free oneself if
someone was entangled by them. At the front of each fleshy whip was a
chrysanthemum-like orifice which could shoot out a white milky fluid at the crucial
moment; the fluid had very high corrosiveness and contained extremely large
numbers of parasitic worms, which could drill into the pores of people and wreak
havoc from inside the body.

Fang Yuan had borrowed these eight desolate beasts from Lang Ya land spirit.

More accurately, it should be said that Fang Yuan borrowed Lang Ya land spirit's rank
seven beast enslavement Gu. This Immortal Gu could subdue all kinds of wild beasts,
including mutated beasts, myriad beast kings, beast emperors, even desolate beasts
and ancient desolate beasts.

Desolate beasts had the power of a rank six Gu Immortal and could be very difficult to
deal with when the wild Gu residing on them were unknown.

Eight desolate beasts encircled He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu, eying them with
greed.

The two sank into silence with no signs of a leisurely attitude like before.

He Feng Yang turned his heavy gaze towards the peak of Dang Hun mountain.
Compared to the eight desolate beasts, the true threat was still Fang Yuan and the
other three immortals.

Almost no desolate beasts could use killer moves, but Gu Immortals had ample wisdom
to use and research killer moves.

He Feng Yang's heart had sunken to rock bottom, he forcibly calmed down and shouted
towards Fang Yuan: "Who are all of you?"

Except Fang Yuan, the other three immortals were wearing masks; Hei Lou Lan wore
a black bear mask, Fairy Li Shan wore a blue bird mask, while Tai Bai Yun Sheng wore
a deer mask. The three were also shrouded in a layer of light that concealed their true
appearance, hiding it from the investigative methods of He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang
Yu.

Fang Yuan chuckled: "Before asking us of our identities, shouldn't you two introduce
yourselves first?"

He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu silently glanced at each other, and saw the bitter look
in each other's eyes.

They had thought this trip would be simple, and at worst, they thought the other side
would possess a Gu Immortal's battle strength. However, they absolutely had not
anticipated the enemy force would be this strong!

Thus, they had been arrogant and directly requested Fang Yuan to surrender without
giving self-introductions.

"My name is He Feng Yang, a rank six enslavement path Gu Immortal of Immortal
Crane Sect."

"I am Cang Yu, a rank six water path Gu Immortal of Immortal Crane Sect."

The two introduced themselves one after the other, their attitude was no longer as
overbearing as earlier, they were behaving very humbly at the moment.

A wise man submits to circumstances, those who could become Gu Immortals were
outstanding people. At present, Fang Yuan had an imposing force, He Feng Yang and
Cang Yu decisively lowered their high heads.

It might be easy to defeat Gu Immortals but killing them was difficult. He Feng Yang
could use expand space Immortal Gu to tear a hole in Hu Immortal blessed land's
space and escape. However, they did not know Fang Yuan's abilities, if Fang Yuan had
an Immortal Gu that could prevent their escape, the situation would become
dangerous.

"So it is brother He and Fairy Cang Yu." Fang Yuan's tone was polite, "I am Fang Yuan
and I welcome you two as guests in my blessed land."

These polite words felt grating when He Feng Yang and Cang Yu heard them, it was full
of sarcasm.

He Feng Yang could not help but feel stifled.

What he had asked for was clearly these people's true identities, but Fang Yuan played
dumb and gave an irrelevant answer by only replying with his name.

Right now, who in Central Continent's ten great sects would not know of his name?

Fang Yuan intentionally avoided this topic, and He Feng Yang, as the weaker side, did
not dare to pursue it.

"I wonder what both of you are here for?" Fang Yuan asked.

He Feng Yang was silent, but inwardly he was screaming insults: 'What else could we
come for? It is to take Hu Immortal blessed land and capture Dang Hun mountain. This
brat, asking when he already knows!'

Fairy Cang Yu snorted: "Why is sir speaking in such a weird and sarcastic tone? Sir's
power surpassed everyone's imagination, when did such a force appear in Central
Continent? Today was our loss, sir's planning skills are indeed excellent and have fully
controlled the situation. Now what should we do? If you want to battle, then let us
begin, why waste time chit-chatting? We will battle to the end if you wish to, in the
worst case, our blood will splatter all over and we will perish here."

Fang Yuan could not help but take another look at Fairy Cang Yu upon hearing these
words, shortly afterwards he smiled: "Fairy, you are quite brave, I am filled with
admiration. I can roughly guess your intentions in coming here, it should be for Dang
Hun mountain's guts Gu, right?"

"You are right." He Feng Yang frankly admitted. Under the circumstances, he had no
choice but to admit it, the scheme which he had painstakingly devised and prepared
for over a year in order to capture Hu Immortal blessed land had already completely
failed.

However, right at this time, he could not help but have some hope: 'If Fang Yuan
wanted to battle, he should have started already. But he has been talking up to this
point, it seems he is afraid of Immortal Crane Sect, as long as I use this correctly, maybe
we can escape without any accidents.'

Fang Yuan suddenly clapped and smiled: "You two came in at just the right time, I had
already been thinking of selling guts Gu. What do you think of this Gu?"

A rank three Gu worm flew out of his hand.

The Gu worm slowly flew under the gazes of six Gu Immortals, eight desolate beasts
as well as the blue charm lightning shadow, and landed in He Feng Yang's hand.

He Feng Yang was uncertain and worried of Fang Yuan's scheme as he carefully
accepted this mortal Gu.

This rank three Gu worm resembled a ladybug. It was the size of a large bowl, its head
was extremely small while its stomach was so big that it occupied ninety-nine percent
of its body.

Its stomach was round like a lamp bulb and was translucent. It did not have a carapace
on its back and also did not have wings.

In its translucent stomach, there was a Gu.

"A Gu within a Gu?" Fairy Cang Yu softly mumbled.

This rank three mortal Gu was clearly a storage Gu worm, particularly with the
purpose of storing Gu worms. These types of storage Gu worms were extremely
common, it included examples like Earth Treasury Flower.

However, the Gu worm inside the belly made He Feng Yang's gaze fix on it as if it was
glued. He then said with uncertain eyes: "This Gu inside… could it be guts Gu?"

Fang Yuan gave a bright smile: "That is exactly right!"

"What?" Fairy Cang Yu's beautiful eyes widened in astonishment.

She might know very little about guts Gu, but she knew guts Gu could not be taken out
of Dang Hun mountain; if taken out, they would dissipate.

It was because of this that Fang Yuan was not willing to trade guts Gu before. Because
if others wanted to use guts Gu, they would have to personally come to Dang Hun
mountain. And letting so many outsiders enter Hu Immortal blessed land would no
doubt be a huge threat to Fang Yuan's life.

This was the reason central continent's ten great ancient sects wanted to seize Dang
Hun mountain. Guts Gu could not be taken out of Dang Hun mountain, thus taking
control of Dang Hun mountain meant being in control of guts Gu.

However, the fact right in front on them showed that guts Gu could actually be stored
and taken out of Dang Hun mountain.

Fairy Cang Yu soon recognized how much significance this unremarkable ladybug-like
Gu worm carried; for a moment, her eyes were tightly affixed to it.

"This Gu worm, what is its name?" He Feng Yang looked up at Fang Yuan and asked
with a slightly trembling tone.

Fang Yuan had in truth not thought of a name, and casually named it at this moment:
"Airsac Gu."

He Feng Yang sank into silence.

In an instant, he thought of many things.

Immortal Crane Sect's higher ups had also made these attempts. Back then, many Gu
Immortals had participated but it ended up in failure.

Now, success was in He Feng Yang's hand.

He Feng Yang's hands shivered slightly.

'If guts Gu could be taken out of Dang Hun mountain and exported to all places,
treasure yellow heaven, Hai Shi blessed land, Central Continent, Southern Border,
Northern Plains… how big of a profit would this be?'

'Something that even our Immortal Crane Sect could not research was successfully
accomplished by the force behind Fang Yuan. What are their origins? Maybe they had
planned for a long time and thought of every means to capture Hu Immortal blessed
land, in order to engage in the business of guts Gu!'

'Fang Yuan did not attack, could it be that he wants to… with our Immortal Crane
Sect… '

He Feng Yang was still considering when Fang Yuan spoke: "Since both guests are
interested in my guts Gu, what do you think of doing this transaction?"

He Feng Yang's heart wavered!

Fang Yuan's suggestion moved He Feng Yang's heart.

When Fang Yuan launched the ambush and encircled He Feng Yang, he had thought
that this operation was going to end in failure. In the best case scenario, he would use
expand space Immortal Gu and break out of the encirclement forcefully after
sustaining huge injuries.

Even if he consumed a lot of immortal essence during the process of escaping, he could
not care about it. After all, comparing immortal essence and his life, the latter was
much more important.

After returning to Immortal Crane Sect, He Feng Yang's life would definitely go downhill.

Immortal Crane Sect placed such great expectations on him, and he had even prepared
for over a year, but he ended up failing. His rival, Gu Immortal Lei Tan, would definitely
seek him out to mock him personally when he hears the news!

Second supreme elder would be utterly disappointed with him, and He Feng Yang
might not be able to lift his head for several years after that. This loss could be a
lifelong blemish, solely with just this failure, he would be mocked by countless people
in the dark forever.

If he could establish the deal with Fang Yuan for guts Gu, to He Feng Yang, that would
be many times better than breaking through the encirclement.

He Feng Yang assessed in his heart: "Hu Immortal blessed land has four Gu Immortals
and eight desolate beasts, together with the territorial advantage, they are as secure
as a fortress! Even though any of the ten great ancient sects have the capability to take
this on, that is only speaking of capability. They might not be able to gather so many
Gu Immortals here. Even if they could send Gu Immortals to attack Hu Immortal
blessed land, a battle between Gu Immortals will expend a great amount of immortal
essence and other resources."

"Even if they could get enough manpower and invest a lot into this battle, the other
party also has Gu Immortals and can easily destroy Dang Hun mountain. By then, even
if Hu Immortal blessed land was obtained, it would all be for nothing."

In the outside world, Great Heavenly Sword Sect had three Gu Immortals, and could
attempt to leave one of the ten great ancient sects, Immortal Crane Sect.

This was because to deal with three Gu Immortals, the resources and manpower
needed were something Immortal Crane Sect needed to consider. If they failed, not
only would they suffer a loss in their reputation, this huge loss might also cause unrest
within the sect, and trigger other problems.

Gu Immortals were easy to defeat, but they were hard to kill. Why would anyone who
could reach this stage not have any means or trump cards to escape?

If they failed to kill him, they would utterly offend a Gu Immortal. A Gu Immortal that
is holding grudges may cause trouble to mortals, with Immortal Crane Sect's huge size
and wide range of assets, they would have to salvage the situation everywhere.

Now that Fang Yuan has displayed such a force, Immortal Crane Sect alone could no
longer attack forcefully, unless the other sects cooperated with them. But if they
cooperated, there would be issues in many aspects, regarding the allocation of
benefits.

If He Feng Yang agrees to cooperate with Fang Yuan, they would establish trade for
guts Gu, this result was not an utter failure.

That was because Immortal Crane Sect's main objective in taking down Hu Immortal
blessed land was for the guts Gu.

Using the smallest price to obtain the biggest benefits, this was the issue that all of the
supreme elders in Immortal Crane Sect were concerned about.

Before this, Immortal Crane Sect had already requested for Fang Yuan to initiate the
sales of guts Gu.

"If we could establish a trade with the other party, I would not need to force my way
out and risk injury, I can save a lot of immortal essence and have a proper justification
when I return to the sect." He Feng Yang considered this option.

Fang Yuan observed his expression, even though He Feng Yang was a shrewd man and
did not show emotions on his face, he was clearly moved due to how long he was
considering this for.

Thus, Fang Yuan continued: "A hundred of my guts Gu will sell for one immortal
essence stone in treasure yellow heaven. I will sell a hundred and twenty guts Gu to
Immortal Crane Sect for each immortal essence stone. However, in return, I want your
Immortal Crane Sect to acknowledge my Hu Immortal blessed land as your sect's
subsidiary force. Furthermore, this subsidiary can detach from you at any time."

As long as he had this identity, the other nine great ancient sects would not be able to
deal with Fang Yuan without involving Immortal Crane Sect. These were the rules of
the righteous path, it was like making Immortal Crane Sect the big boss, while Hu
Immortal blessed land was the lackey, you would need to ask the boss before hitting
his lackeys.

He Feng Yang smiled insincerely as he spoke: "Fang Yuan, are you thinking of using my
sect as your protection? With your force, you can definitely establish your own sect,
right?"

"Nobody can set up a sect on Tian Ti mountain. I have no intention to leave this
valuable spot." Fang Yuan laughed.

Tian Ti mountain had directly connected to Heavenly Court, even Gu Immortals did
not dare to fight on this mountain. If Immortal Crane Sect did not declare Fang Yuan
as a sect traitor and hold perfect reason to take him down, they would not dare to
attack Hu Immortal blessed land.

"Furthermore, Hu Immortal blessed land becoming Immortal Crane Sect's subsidiary

will also account for your sect's reputation, right?" Fang Yuan continued.

He Feng Yang fell into silence again.

A long while later, he sighed out: "This matter is very important, I cannot be in charge
of the decision, allow me to return and report to the sect."

Fang Yuan nodded: "It would be best if brother He goes and explains it. But Fairy Cang
Yu would need to remain as a guest here for a while longer."
He Feng Yang and Cang Yu made eye contact.

Fairy Cang Yu said: "Lord Feng Yang, go ahead and return, I will wait here."

"I will return quickly." He Feng Yang nodded solemnly at her, before looking deeply at
Fang Yuan and his gang.

He wanted to engrave these people into the depths of his heart.

"Land spirit, open the door and let brother He out." Fang Yuan said with a concerned
tone.

"Yes, master." Little Hu Immortal quickly replied.

On Tian Ti mountain, a brilliant white gold light formed.

In the light, a bright red door appeared, it was over thirty meters tall, and there was a
rainbow colored plaque. Pink clouds gathered as the aurora condensed into a flight of
stairs of light.

He Feng Yang came out of the door, when he left, it was through the proper exit of the
blessed land.

This action quickly attracted the attention of the Gu Immortals of the other nine great
sects.

They started to converse.

"He's out!"

"So fast? Don't tell me there was no resistance at all?"

"When He Feng Yang entered, he used the expand space Immortal Gu, but when he
came out, it was through the main entrance. This is proof that he succeeded."

"Something's wrong, look at his face, there is no joy of victory, he looks more calm and
composed instead."

Even though they were suspicious, none of them asked him directly.
This was a hidden contest between the ten great sects, a direct confrontation was
damaging to their reputations.

He Feng Yang could not care about their feelings, he only wanted to return to Fei He
mountain, to report this matter.

He flew quickly, traveling far from Tian Ti mountain in a moment's time.

He Feng Yang's brows were locked, he was indignant and suspicious: "Where did Fang
Yuan's force come from? Other than Fang Yuan, the other three immortals all covered
their faces with masks, and used Gu worms to block investigative methods, they
evidently do not want to expose their identities. Why is that?"

"Don't tell me they are Gu Immortals from the other nine sects? They did not want our
sect to obtain Dang Hun mountain, thus they secretly colluded with Fang Yuan
beforehand?"

The moment he thought of this, He Feng Yang rejected this possibility.

Paper could not cover up a fire, secrets were temporary and would be outed, the nine
great sects would not do such a thing, it was against the demeanor of one of the great
sects.

"Then, are they Gu Immortals gathered from Central Continent's smaller sects?" He
Feng Yang thought.

Central Continent had countless sects, other than the ten great ancient sects, there
were large sized sects, middle sized sects, small sized sects, and mini sects. There were
untold numbers of sects, within them, there naturally were some Gu Immortals.

If it had been them, then these Gu Immortal would all have foundations in Central
Continent, to prevent their home sect from being suppressed or troubled by the
ancient sects, they would not want to reveal their identities, that made sense.

"That's right, Fang Yuan has the fixed immortal travel Immortal Gu! These people
might not be Central Continent Gu Immortals, they might be from other regions. The
stronger the Gu Immortal, the harder it is to get past the regional walls. Every once in
a while, they have to let out their aperture in the region that they became an immortal
to recollect and gather heaven and earth qi to stabilize the blessed land. But with Fixed
Immortal Travel, the other party can settle these problems easily!"
He Feng Yang's thoughts moved swiftly, he quickly guessed Fang Yuan and the other
Gu Immortals' identities. But he had too little evidence, he could not confirm it.

"All in all, Hu Immortal blessed land is very mysterious and dangerous, before we find
out their secrets, we cannot strike easily. This time, I suffered a huge loss, the root of
the problem was that the enemy was in the dark while I was out in the open, we
suffered from a lack of intel!"

He Feng Yang concluded his experience from this incident, but he suddenly stopped in
the air.

"Who is this? You dare to ambush me here!" He Feng Yang quickly became alert,
shouting.

"Hmm, you are very vigilant." A voice came from somewhere, it was high and low
pitched at times, with a hoarse male voice that turned into a crisp female voice.
Someone had evidently modified their voice with Gu worms.

Two figures appeared, one in front and one behind, they blocked He Feng Yang's paths.

What changed next was the sky. The bright, shiny and clear sky with no clouds turned
dark and eerie, fog became thick as vengeful souls flew all over the place.

This was a battlefield killer move!

This was a battlefield environment created to amplify the effects of certain Gu worms.

This was not something ordinary Gu Immortals could have.

"I am Immortal Crane Sect's He Feng Yang, both of you are concealing your
appearances and acting so secretive, what is your intention?" He Feng Yang shouted.

The two Gu Immortals before him were masked in a layer of dark light, their
appearances could not be seen.

"So what if you are from Immortal Crane Sect?" The mysterious Gu Immortal in front
of him laughed coldly.

The Gu Immortal behind him said directly: "We will kill you regardless!"
Just as they said that, the Gu Immortal struck.

Five fingers spread open and thousands of grey white threads appeared from the
palm.

The threads got close to He Feng Yang, as his heart jumped, this was obviously a mortal
killer move designed to trap people. Once he was entangled by these threads, it would
be difficult to escape.

He Feng Yang quickly summoned the crane group.

Within his immortal aperture, there were large numbers of flying cranes, he brought
them with him everywhere and he never lacked any troops.

The crane groups were huge in numbers, there were iron beak flying cranes, fire pellet
cranes, tailwind cranes, cloud mist cranes, stellar light cranes, and illusion lightning
cranes all mixed together in perfect harmony, forming a tight formation.

A desolate beast nine palace crane flew out, crying out and causing the surrounding
fog to disperse.

He Feng Yang stepped onto the nine palace crane's back, his hair was fluttering as his
gaze was like lightning, the anger within him had awakened: "Do you really think I am
an easy target? Today, you will taste the fury of the Winged Crane Flying Immortal!"

As the threads flew to him, the iron beak flying crane group flew out and blocked them
with their bodies.

The other mysterious Gu Immortal puffed up his cheeks and blew out huge flames.
These flames were pale green, and in this battlefield, their power was amplified,
causing many cranes to fall from the sky after getting burnt.

He Feng Yang was not to be outdone, he activated his enslavement path killer move.

Immediately, a group of illusion lightning cranes flew out, shooting lightning bolts that
gathered and formed into a pillar, piercing the battlefield. Another group of fire pellet
cranes flew out, their bodies covered in flames, burning their enemies.

Two groups of flying cranes charged towards the two mysterious Gu Immortals like a
pair of giant fists.
Boom boom boom…

With an intense explosion, the two sides engaged in intense battle!

On the battlefield, the intense battle continued.

A large group of iron beak flying cranes, each with bodies black as steel, they had
increased defense and did not fear death, they charged towards the two mysterious
Gu Immortals fiercely.

One of the two mysterious Gu Immortals opened their mouth, as a loud sound came
out of it, echoing everywhere.

This was a sound path killer move!

The iron beak flying crane group's formation went into chaos under the effect of the
sound, their tight formation became loose and there were many weaknesses exposed.

"Go!" The other mysterious Gu Immortal saw a chance and grabbed the other person's
limb, the two of them turning into two lumps of grey white flames, piercing the iron
beak flying cranes' formation and moving towards He Feng Yang.

Against an enslavement path Gu Immortal, one should not fight intensely with their
beast group, taking down the enslavement Gu Immortal was the proper battle tactic.

He Feng Yang saw that the enemy was approaching, not only was he not anxious, he
showed a cold smile: "You fell into my trap."

He took out a five hole jade flute Gu, placing it near his mouth and started playing the
flute. He looked like a green clothed young man, but he was actually the lord of
myriads of beasts. His sleeves fluttered in the air despite having no wind, his eyes
burst out with a lively brilliance.

Enslavement path killer move — Eight Sided Ambush!

Tens of thousands of flying cranes moved with his music, groups of invisible cranes
that had hidden their figures exposed themselves, encircling the two mysterious Gu
Immortals tightly.

He Feng Yang purposely left behind an empty space in the formation around himself,
that was a trap to lead his enemies right into it.

Now that the other party had fallen for it, he did not let them off, as his flute continued
to play, three five string zither Gu flew out of his body.

Amidst the music of the flute, the zither played a crisp tune, turning into another
enslavement path killer move — Formation Like Water!

Innumerable flying cranes flew outward, while countless flying cranes flew towards
the center.

The entire battlefield was like a perfect harmony of churning gears, the scale was
massive but orderly, the flying cranes moved fluidly, their formation was changing like
the flow of water.

The two mysterious Gu Immortals were within this formation, they saw the array of
flying cranes changing their formation smoothly, they felt like beans in a stone grinder,
about to be turned into pulp!

He Feng Yang continued to blow the flute, safely at the center of the beast group,
standing on the back of the desolate crane, he watched the crane group engage with
the two mysterious experts.

He thought in his heart: "Ever since we started fighting, these two have used countless
killer moves, ranging from sound path, space path, fire path, wind path, light path,
dark path, rule path and more, they were doing this on purpose, they did not want to
use their real abilities and expose their identities."

When Gu Masters become immortals, according to the foundation of their bodies, as

well as the Gu worm used to create their immortal aperture, they would be classified
into Gu Immortals of their respective paths. There were fire path Gu Immortals, wind
path Gu Immortals, wisdom path Gu Immortals and many others, forming the
immortal bodies of the respective paths.

The immortal body is obtained when a Gu Masters ascends, their body will be
modified by the three qi, removing all impurities and elevating the essence of their life
itself.
A wind path immortal body will have the dao marks and comprehension of wind, thus
when they use wind path Gu worms, the effect would be greater. A fire path immortal
body would be cleansed by the Great Dao in relation to fire, it would be closely
connected to fire path, and would cause fire path killer moves to be much more
powerful than normal.

For example, Fang Yuan, although he was an immortal zombie, he was still a strength
path Gu Immortal, his body was the strength path immortal body, thus when he used
Gu worms and killer moves of other paths, the effects were only ordinary.

The two mysterious Gu Immortals trying to kill He Feng Yang did not use their real
fighting methods, therefore, they were suppressed by him despite outnumbering him
two to one.

"Are you two still trying to conceal your identities? If you do not use your true abilities,
you might die here." He Feng Yang snickered continuously, his voice filled the
battlefield.

The two mysterious Gu Immortals were breathing roughly, the attack of the crane
groups were unceasing and furious like a tide, the two of them were tired from dealing
with them.

Like what He Feng Yang said, if the two did not start using their real methods, they
would truly get killed soon.

The two made eye contact as they nodded, making up their minds.

One of them sighed: "As expected of a reputed righteous sect. The might of the Winged
Crane Flying Immortal, I have truly seen it today."

The other said: "However, even if we do not use our real capabilities, we can still kill
you. He Feng Yang, take a look around you."

"Oh?" He Feng Yang's gaze quickly swept the surroundings.

Originally, it was a foggy scene, the battlefield was full of crying and anguished
screams, but now there was a change.

Within the lumps of thick fog, dark blue soul beasts were formed. In just a few breaths
of time, the number of soul beasts increased greatly, they were equally numbered with
He Feng Yang's crane group.

"Is this… soul taker battlefield?" He Feng Yang's heart jumped, he said it subconsciously.

"Hehehe, Winged Crane Flying Immortal, you are very knowledgeable." The
mysterious Gu Immortals laughed, their voices changing constantly, sounding like
male or female at times.

He Feng Yang's expression turned grim.

This soul taker battlefield killer move had a vile reputation, it was very hard to deal
with. Living beings who died in this battlefield would have their souls taken and
transformed into soul beasts, under the control of the killer move's user.

Most importantly, this battlefield killer move's origin was huge, it was created by one
of the ten venerables in history when he was young, Spectral Soul Demon Venerable
who had the most murderous nature.

Who were these two mysterious Gu Immortals, they actually had a battlefield killer
move, soul taker, that was long lost in history?!

Once the soul beasts appeared, they started fighting with the crane groups.

The battle situation changed.

He Feng Yang quickly manipulated the crane groups, changing formations to defend
against the soul beasts. The two mysterious Gu Immortals felt less pressure now, and
were able to rush out of the crane groups' encirclement.

The size of the soul beasts was the same as the crane group, but they could not defeat
the cranes, often, ten soul beasts were sacrificed to kill one crane.

But He Feng Yang became increasingly alert in his heart, after the soul beasts were
shredded into fragments, these fragments could form into new soul beasts in this soul
taker battlefield.

Meanwhile, when a flying crane dies, its soul would be taken by the battlefield, forming
a soul beast, becoming part of the enemy's troops. No matter how high He Feng Yang's
cultivation was, he could not battle with zero casualties. Once he suffered losses, over
a long period, the soul beasts would have the upper hand.
As this dragged on, He Feng Yang's advantage would dwindle, the crane groups would
slowly be taken down by the soul beasts.

"He Feng Yang, just so you know, we expressed weakness earlier on purpose, to delay
for time. Now that the soul taker battlefield has grown to a sizable amount, your
enslavement path advantage is gone."

"Winged Crane Flying Immortal, today, you will perish here."

The two mysterious Gu Immortal worked together.

Wind path killer move — Tornado Dragon Whip!

With a wind whip that was hundreds of meters long, one of the Gu Immortals swung,
killing countless flying cranes.

Poison path killer move — Killer Bee Stab!

Thousands of needles rained down like a torrential storm, the poison on them were
very potent, any flying crane that was hit directly died on the spot, their flesh
disintegrating.

The two mysterious Gu Immortals had finally showed their true abilities, one was a
wind path Gu Immortal, while the other was a poison path Gu Immortal.

Large numbers of cranes were exterminated, their souls were extracted by the
battlefield, forming new batches of soul beasts.

"Oh no, the enemy came prepared, they planned for this long ago, I cannot stay here."
He Feng Yang saw this and wanted to retreat.

Only a fool would want to stay in the soul taker battlefield and fight it out with the
enemy.

"This soul taker battlefield is filled with fog, it is easy to lose one's direction, it is hard
to escape from. But right now, I have expand space Immortal Gu with me, it should not
be hard to escape from here."

He Feng Yang thought about this and used his divine sense to communicate with a will
in his immortal aperture.
This will was in the form of a burly man, when He Feng Yang left Fei He mountain
earlier, it had entered his immortal aperture and had been observing the outside
situation using his Gu worms.

All of He Feng Yang's experience this time, since he left Fei He mountain, in Hu
Immortal blessed land, when he was encircled by Fang Yuan and the others, and after
he left Hu Immortal blessed land and was trapped in the soul taker battlefield,
attacked by two mysterious Gu Immortals. The will saw it all clearly.

He Feng Yang requested: "Lord Tiger Demon, please use your immortal killer move
once again to break out of the battlefield and escape this place."

This will belonged to Immortal Crane Sect's third supreme elder, Lord Tiger Demon's
anger will.

He sat in the air, opening his eyes emotionlessly: "You need to know that every time I
use force intrusion, my main body will need to expend two red date immortal essence
beads."

He Feng Yang quickly said: "Junior understand, I will make the appropriate compensation
when we return."

Tiger Demon's anger will nodded, not speaking any further. He grabbed with his hand,
tossing two red date immortal essence to the expand space Immortal Gu, at the same
time, many mortal Gu rose up as well.

After a while of preparing, He Feng Yang opened his palm, taking out expand space
Immortal Gu from his immortal aperture.

The Immortal Gu was covered in a yellow light, He Feng Yang patted it lightly.

The yellow light left his hands, breaking apart the soul taker battlefield and creating a
hole.

He Feng Yang was overjoyed, he put back expand space Immortal Gu and the nine
palace crane below his feet cried out, flapping its wings and bringing him out of soul
taker battlefield.

Outside the battlefield, it was clear skies with no clouds.

"Oh no! He actually had expand space Immortal Gu, he's escaping!"

"He Feng Yang, don't run if you have the guts, let us battle for three hundred rounds!"

The shouts of the two Gu Immortals behind him had a tone of anxiety and panic.

He Feng Yang laughed heartily, his heart was filled with pride: "Even soul taker
battlefield cannot contain me. No matter who you are, ambushing and attempting to
kill me, I will remember this. Don't think I will not find out just because you hid your
identity, you used your own killer moves. When I return to the sect, I will investigate,
I will definitely find out who you really are! Eh? Oh no!"

Suddenly, He Feng Yang sensed something amiss, his expression changed.

He had always been a vigilant person and had great self control, how could his
emotions become so overjoyed the moment he left the soul taker battlefield, like he
had just won a battle?

This time, he failed to take back Hu Immortal blessed land, he had let down Lord Tiger
Demon's nurturing and expectations, he should feel downcast instead.

"Oh no!" An intense warning of danger rose in his heart, He Feng Yang turned around,
only to see a Gu Immortal as tiny as a little boy, his body covered in a dark light. He
was holding a dagger shaped Gu worm, he was right behind He Feng Yang, less than a
foot away.

A third Gu Immortal!

There was a third Gu Immortal in ambush!

This was their true killer move, a plot within a plot! While He Feng Yang's mind relaxed
the moment he left the soul taker battlefield, the fatal strike was launched at him!

He Feng Yang was furious and shocked, his eyes were blood red and he was extremely
angry, he did not retreat, instead, he had the urge to fight to the death with the enemy.

"Quickly dodge! The enemy is an emotion path Gu Immortal, they can interfere with
your judgment by influencing your emotions!" Within his immortal aperture, Tiger
Demon's anger will was shouting.
"Hehehe, it is too late." The third Gu Immortal raised their dagger, stabbing at He Feng
Yang.

The dagger shaped Gu worm burst out with an intense Immortal Gu aura.

He Feng Yang was horror stricken and full of grievances.

The enemy had an attack type Immortal Gu?!

He only had an expand space Immortal Gu, it could not help him. The defensive mortal
killer moves he had could not block this attack type Immortal Gu!
The dagger shaped Immortal Gu was about to pierce into him; He Feng Yang felt anger,
fear, bewilderment, unresignedness, all kinds of feelings seethed in him like lava,
greatly influencing his actions.

"Am I going to die here today?" He Feng Yang involuntarily had this thought.

However, right at this dangerous moment, the desolate beast nine palace crane under
his feet suddenly let out a clear cry before fiercely turning its body around.

He Feng Yang's body was thrown down while the nine palace crane blocked the
ambushing Gu Immortal.

Plop.

A soft sound echoed, the dagger shaped Immortal Gu ruthlessly pierced into the nine
palace crane's chest.

"Eh?" The third Gu Immortal showed a shocked expression.

He had thought disturbing He Feng Yang could influence the nine palace crane. After
all, He Feng Yang was an enslavement path Gu Immortal and the nine palace crane had
been enslaved by him. If he was influenced, the nine palace crane should also be
nothing to worry about.

He activated several emotion path killer moves to heavily disturb He Feng Yang, but
he had never expected that at the last juncture, this nine palace crane would actually
move to protect its master.

"Little nine!" He Feng Yang saw the nine palace crane taking the fatal strike, tears
immediately streamed down his eyes as he gave a pained roar.

He had raised this nine palace crane with great care and had never used any
enslavement methods on it.
Back when he was young, he had been brutally chased when out on a mission. His life
was hanging in the balance when he accidentally bumped into the similarly heavily
injured nine palace crane.

After this coincidental and accidental meeting, he and the nine palace crane helped
each other to escape the plight.

The nine palace crane was on the verge of death, He Feng Yang brought it back to the
sect and used all of his wealth, barely managing to stabilize its life.

In the dozens of years afterwards, He Feng Yang braved many dangers to earn money
to treat the nine palace crane little by little, slowly pulling it out from the brink of
death.

A profound sentiment more intimate than brothers was established like this between
a man and a crane.

Later an accident occurred, the rank five Gu Master He Feng Yang had failed his
mission and was in a heavily injured state. The resources on him could only save one
person. If he treated the nine palace crane, he would die, but if he saved himself, the
nine palace crane would not be able to maintain its lingering vitality.

At the juncture of this choice, He Feng Yang thought for three days and three nights, in
the end, he decided to sacrifice himself to save the nine palace crane!

This action caused third supreme elder, Lord Tiger Demon, to be moved, and with his
help, both He Feng Yang and the nine palace crane were saved.

He Feng Yang lived up to his expectations and after becoming a Gu Immortal, he joined
Lord Tiger Demon's faction.

The nine palace crane let out a mournful cry. Its enormous and slender body was
covered with a layer of grey light. In this grey light, its body was rapidly shrinking and
becoming younger, from a mature age it continuously turned to its youth, then to its
infancy.

This was the power of the Immortal Gu!

The dagger shaped Immortal Gu was actually a time path Immortal Gu that could
reverse the target's body to a younger state.
"Retreat. Don't let down your friend's kind intention." In his immortal aperture, Tiger
Demon's anger will heaved a long sigh.

"Little nine!" He Feng Yang shouted furiously and went back regardless of the advice
of Tiger Demon's anger will.

The hems of his gown fluttered and moved, turning into a crane feather cloak. A blood
red glint blossomed in his eyes and his slender green brows moved nimbly like a snake
or dragon.

The mysterious Gu Immortal showed a surprised expression.

He had not thought He Feng Yang who could have clearly escaped in the moment just
before would actually return with killing intent.

He Feng Yang was an enslavement path Gu Immortal!

He Feng Yang pushed forward his palms from which jade green lightning rays surged
out.

The mysterious Gu Immortal snorted, he raised the dagger and confronted it head-on,
simultaneously activating emotion path killer moves to influence He Feng Yang's
emotions.

However, He Feng Yang's heart was filled completely with anger and was unexpectedly
not influenced.

Bam!

A loud explosion erupted and the mysterious Gu Immortal was thrown back. He Feng
Yang's body trembled intensely and blood spurted out of his mouth, but he forcibly
pulled himself together and pulled the infant nine palace crane into his hands.

"Little nine!" He Feng Yang held the nine palace crane in his embrace and turned
around, escaping immediately with no intent to stay.

The nine palace crane had already become the size of a white goose and was softly
twittering as He Feng Yang held it in his embrace.

The emotion path Gu Immortal had been sent some distance away, that gap was
enough for him to be unable to chase He Feng Yang in this moment.

The other two mysterious Gu Immortals hurried over after canceling the soul taker
battlefield.

"Sigh, he escaped in the end!" The wind path Gu Immortal heaved a long sigh in pity.

"This guy is clearly an enslavement path Gu Immortal but he is actually not weak in
close combat. That green lightning killer move isn't what it appears to be, it makes me
think of…” The emotion path Gu Immortal said.

"Hmph, if not for lacking time to gather more people, would we be afraid of not being
able to put him down? How about we chase, maybe we can……” The poison path Gu
Immortal was not resigned.

"He has expand space Immortal Gu, soul taker battlefield cannot trap him. Let's leave
quickly, it is not convenient to stay here." The wind path Gu Immortal was calm.

"Right, this ambush was nothing more than a hastily considered course of action. We
absolutely cannot lose sight of the main goal for small gains and risk exposing our
identities, which would affect master's grand plan. We will retreat!" The emotion path
Gu Immortal ceased his absent-mindedness, and said softly.

His position seemed to be higher than the other two Gu Immortals and his words had
a tone of decisiveness.

"I shall take my leave." The wind path Gu Immortal rapidly flew in the air and soon
was no more than a small black dot in the horizon.

"Hmph!" The poison path Gu Immortal dropped into the ground and escaped.

The emotion path Gu Immortal paused for a while until the other two had completely
left, his body then disappeared in the air as if he had never been there.

He Feng Yang flew at top speed to Fei He mountain, and without stopping, he directly
entered Fu Hu blessed land.

Lord Tiger Demon was standing beside an enormous stone pit, looking at the tens of
thousands of rockmen working inside the pit.
"Junior was incompetent and let down Lord's expectations." He Feng Yang bowed in
greeting to Lord Tiger Demon, his body filled with injuries and his expression one of
shame.

"You got injured? First go take a rest and heal yourself." Lord Tiger Demon did not ask
anything to He Feng Yang and only waved his hand, that anger will in He Feng Yang's
immortal aperture flew out and entered his mind.

In just an instant, he understood all the things He Feng Yang had experienced in this
trip.

His gaze flickered, shortly afterwards, he activated anger will Gu to produce anger will.

The anger will flew through the sky, out of Fu Hu blessed land and towards the peak
of Fei He mountain. When it reached the conference hall at the mountain peak, three
wills that were left here came after sensing it.

These three wills were respectively from first supreme elder, second supreme elder
and the third supreme elder, Lord Tiger Demon, they were in charge of monitoring the
sect and also handling some small matters.

The major matters were also arranged and at every set period of time, they would
gather a group of Gu Immortals to hold a joint discussion on them.

Tiger Demon's anger will landed in the hall and fused with its previous will, then
narrated the events that occurred to He Feng Yang.

The first and second supreme elders' wills sank into silence when they heard the
narration. They started to rapidly think which caused their bodies to shrink at a visible
speed.

When they had shrunken to almost half the previous size, second supreme elder's will
said: "Let's allow Lord Tiger Demon to have the final decision on the matters of Hu
Immortal blessed land."

First supreme elder's will spoke: "He Feng Yang was ambushed and almost killed, this
is much more serious than Hu Immortal blessed land. Where was he ambushed?"

A Gu worm flew out from the hall and turned into a map made of light and shadow.
"Here." Lord Tiger Demon's anger will pointed at the location.

First supreme elder's will nodded and spoke heavily: "This location is a very good
place to lay an ambush. There is no force situated both in front and behind, and this
makes it a very good place of concealment. It seems the ambushers are very familiar
with Central Continent's terrain."

"Investigate! When has there been anyone that had the guts to try to kill our ten great
ancient sects' Gu Immortals?" Second supreme elder's will shouted in rage.

"My concern is this. Elders, where do you think these Gu Immortals came from?" Lord
Tiger Demon's anger will asked.

First supreme elder's and second supreme elder's wills glanced at each other, both
revealing heavy expressions.

"Third elder is worried these Gu Immortals are Central Continent Gu Immortals?"

First supreme elder said quietly.

Tiger Demon's anger will spoke frankly with confidence: "Right. How long have our
ten great ancient sects been in control of Central Continent? The situation has been
getting increasingly harder over these recent years, why is that? Our Central Continent
is different from the other four regions. Led by Primordial Origin Immortal Venerable,
Central Continent had already been reformed during the Remote Antiquity Era,
establishing the sect system. During the Remote Antiquity Era, sects had been rare. In
Olden Antiquity Era, clan forces surpassed sect forces. In Medieval Antiquity Era, sects
and clans clashed against each other, and advanced at an equal pace. In Late Antiquity
Era, clans weakened while sects flourished. And now, sects stand in great numbers in
Central Continent while there are almost no clans."

"The clan system only selects the clan's children as Gu Masters. The sect system,
however, allows ordinary mortals to step on the path of Gu cultivation. Our Central
Continent's history is filled with the conflicts between the two great systems. After
going through over three million years of struggles, evolution and accumulation, the
sect system has prevailed; the number of Central Continent Gu Immortals far surpass
the other four regions and they continue to increase, and soon will leave the control
of our ten great sects."

"How many Gu Immortals can our ten great sects recruit? The number of other Gu
Immortals in Central Continent are several times our own! As these Gu Immortals of
other sects, demonic path Gu Immortals and lone cultivator Gu Immortals continue to
cultivate, they would require more cultivation resources. Conflicts are unavoidable
because our ten great sects control eighty percent of cultivation resources in Central
Continent."

"Have there not been cases like Great Heavenly Sword Sect before? It is just that they
were secretly suppressed by our ten great ancient sects. But in these recent years, new
sects are still emerging unendingly, new innovations and new schools of thought are
common occurrences, uncommon geniuses and monstrous talents are constantly
sprouting among the mortals while there are limited spots in our ten great ancient
sects. Despite recruiting exceptional talents every year, Central Continent is truly too
big."

Lord Tiger Demon's anger will sighed as he said this.

The two supreme elders were silent all along.

The ten great ancient sects held control of eighty percent of Central Continent's
resources, but after the resources were split amongst everyone, how much would be
left behind for individual Gu Immortals?

As a Gu Immortal's cultivation got higher, their blessed land would require more
resources to manage. In particular, the heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities
would also continue to become stronger, and after every tribulation, the losses would
be very severe, and the price to repair it would continue to become higher.

It was impossible for the ten great ancient sects' Gu Immortals to share their resources
to others.

In the past, although there were many sects outside of the ten great sects, there were
not many Gu Immortals. Immortal and mortal were different concepts, there was a
wide gap in the strength between mortals and immortals, thus mortals could be
suppressed.

But at present, the Gu Immortals outside of the ten great sects were increasing
constantly in numbers. Although these Gu Immortals usually had inferior battle
strength, their vast numbers were enough to bring about an impact to the ten great
ancient sects.
Great Heavenly Sword Sect was a good example. This large sized sect had two Gu
Immortals originally and was a vassal of Immortal Crane Sect. Now, that they had a
third Gu Immortal, they immediately planned to leave Immortal Crane Sect and be
independent.
Lord Tiger Demon's anger will continued: "These years, our ten great ancient sects
have been in difficult circumstances, we could be said to be treading on thin ice. It is
as if we are blocking the top of a volcano, the magma underneath will eventually burst
out one day, causing a major impact to our ten great sects!"

"Third supreme elder is talking about the general situation in Central Continent right
now. But this is the situation of the whole region, how can we change it?" Second
supreme elder's will sighed.

Lord Tiger Demon's will continued: "Great Heavenly Sword Sect's example is in front
of us. The Gu Immortals in Hu Immortal blessed land could be from other regions, but
they are most likely to be an alliance of lone cultivators in our region. The ones who
ambushed He Feng Yang today might also be Gu Immortals of our own region's forces.
But if that is the case, it would be terrifying."

Second supreme elder nodded: "It is indeed like that. The force that attacked He Feng
Yang obviously does not want Hu Immortal blessed land to continue being in the
hands of Fang Yuan. If He Feng Yang dies, Immortal Crane Sect will have to attack Hu
Immortal blessed land forcefully to defend our reputation. Even though it is obvious
that they are framed, Immortal Crane Sect has no choice but to go along with it."

The ten great ancient sects' pride and reputation that had been defended for
innumerable years cannot be tarnished. If they could not take revenge for the death of
their own Gu Immortals, then their reputation would be ruined, the hearts of the
people would waver, and everyone would be emboldened to offend Immortal Crane
Sect. If Immortal Crane Sect is under such problems, they would not be able to manage
their resources and land within Central Continent. By then, Immortal Crane Sect
would be worn out physically and mentally, their exhaustion would attract even more
greedy jackals and wolves.

This would be a vicious cycle, once they fall into it, it would be hard to recover.
Immortal Crane Sect's top three supreme elders were all experienced people, they
were old monsters with bountiful life experience, they had considered this terrifying
future prospect already.

Not just them, among the other nine great ancient sects of Central Continent, there
were sure to be people who understood this.

Right now, Central Continent was becoming saturated with experts, but there were
limited resources, it was like a powder keg that was expanding endlessly. The ten great
ancient sects were sitting on top of the keg, if they were careless and ignited it, they
might be blown to pieces.

"Tiger Demon, you used this topic today to start a long discussion, I'm sure you have
some insights to share with us. Why not just tell us straight away." First supreme elder
said.

Tiger Demon's anger will laughed, saying startling things: "My current idea is to agree
with Fang Yuan's conditions and acknowledge that Hu Immortal blessed land is a
subsidiary of our sect. At the same time, we will find out the true identities of the
culprits who attacked He Feng Yang. Once we know which lone cultivators are ganging
up, we will collaborate with the other nine sects and engage in a wide scale immortal
slaughtering plan!"

"Immortal slaughtering?!" Second supreme elder heard this and excitement shined in
his eyes.

First supreme elder's will shut his eyes, he slowly said: "Tiger Demon, I will not hide
it from you. This suggestion of yours had been brought up by Combat Immortal Sect's
Gu Immortal Shi Lei many years ago, he had even sent a proposal to Heavenly Court,
requesting for Heavenly Court to come out and organize the ten great ancient sects, in
order to execute this plan."

"Oh, that Immortal Monkey King? Even though our ten great ancient sects have had
changes throughout history, the root of all these changes were righteous reasons, like
the interchanging of main and side branches, these all have much to do with Heavenly
Court. If the ten ancient sects engage in a slaughter of immortals, it would have huge
implications and involve innumerable benefits. Only Heavenly Court can step in to
convince and assemble everyone, leading us towards victory!" Tiger Demon's anger
will agreed.
"But Heavenly Court rejected this proposal. They even warned us ten great ancient
sects not to specially target the respective smaller sects and lone cultivator Gu
Immortals, we are not to consciously massacre them, violators would be heavily
punished." First supreme elder's will said.

"What?" Tiger Demon's anger will shouted in shock.

"This matter, how did I not know about it?" Second supreme elder muttered to himself.

First supreme elder sighed loudly, looking at the sky: "The will of Heavenly Court is
heaven's will. Heaven's will cannot be defied, heaven's will cannot be anticipated."

He Feng Yang returned to Hu Immortal blessed land once again.

Fairy Cang Yu and Fang Yuan were walking on Dang Hun mountain, observing the
growth of the guts Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked from afar, staring at Fairy Cang Yu.

Meanwhile, that blue charm lightning shadow was encircled by the eight desolate
beasts, once in a while, a different desolate beast would go up and fight it, they were
taking turns to wear it down.

"Brother He was a bit slow." Fang Yuan saw He Feng Yang and smiled while saying
plainly.

He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu first looked at each other, seeing her nod and hint that
she was unharmed, he turned to Fang Yuan: "My sect has already agreed to
acknowledge your side as our sect's subsidiary. The relationship would have no time
limit, and you can leave at any time. At the same time, we will engage in the trading of
guts Gu, the price will be one immortal essence stone for a hundred and twenty guts
Gu. This is the rank six Immortal Gu, Promise."

Immortal Gu Promise was an information path Gu worm, its use was similar to
mountain pledge Gu and sea oath Gu.

Immediately, He Feng Yang activated the Immortal Gu to make a promise.

When it was Fang Yuan's turn, he received the Immortal Gu and checked that there
were no issues, he consumed his green grape immortal essence and made a promise
as well.

Their promises created material forms that resembled lumps of gold, the two sides
exchanged with each other to keep a copy each.

Fairy Cang Yu finally breathed out a sigh of relief, now that the transaction had been
established, she was finally safe.

Fang Yuan breathed out in relief too, the situation that he had been trying to resolve
had finally reached this stage. Fighting to the death with Immortal Crane Sect was
definitely impossible. Immortal Crane Sect was a huge organization, if he angered
them, Hu Immortal blessed land would certainly be lost. With Fang Yuan's finances,
he could not sustain a huge battle against Gu Immortal level opponents.

But He Feng Yang's words quickly earned his attention: "On the way back, I was
ambushed by three Gu Immortals and my life was almost lost. The other party
evidently wants to frame you, our sect is investigating it now, I wonder if your force
had offended anyone?"

"What? In Central Continent, there were actually Gu Immortals who dared to kill a Gu
Immortal from the ten great sects?" Fang Yuan did not conceal his shock.

He remembered clearly that such situations would only happen a while after the five
regions chaotic war started.

By then, the five regions would be in chaos, mortals would face difficulties living and
battles would be unceasing.

Even the authority of Heavenly Court was useless, the ten great sects' Gu Immortals
all faced assassinations, there were those who were taking revenge from the other
four regions, but also Central Continent's own lone cultivator Gu Immortals who were
trying to fish for benefits.

As the situation became more and more chaotic, Fang Yuan could even bring a band of
demonic path Gu Immortals to attack Hu Immortal blessed land on Tian Ti mountain,
killing Feng Jin Huang eventually.

Unknowingly, Fang Yuan thought about the mysterious force that plotted against him
secretly in treasure yellow heaven over a year ago.

But he did not even know what this force was called, even if he knew, he would not
expose such information to He Feng Yang.

Thus, he shook his head: "I have been in Hu Immortal blessed land for this period of
time, how could I offend other forces? I have no intentions to offend brother He, but
thinking about it, Immortal Crane Sect probably attracts more enemies than me, was
it a force trying to plot against your sect, but wanting to use me as a diversion instead?"

He Feng Yang did not get the information he wanted, he was a little disappointed but
he could not force Fang Yuan.

Immortal Crane Sect had their own worries, even though Fang Yuan was only an
immortal zombie, the force behind him allowed the two sides to speak on equal terms.

He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu did not stay any longer, Fang Yuan opened Hu
Immortal blessed land's door and sent them out.

Fang Yuan stood at the door, saying goodbye to them.

The other nine sects who saw this immediately realized that something had occurred
in Hu Immortal blessed land.

"What is going on? Why is there an immortal zombie?"

"He Feng Yang and Fairy Cang Yu came with great confidence, but now their
expression are not quite right, it seems a problem occurred!"

"Did they fail to take it down? That's impossible, right."

The Gu Immortals were confused, they were guessing randomly.

The ten great ancient sects were in cahoots, they were the overlords of Central
Continent, over these last years there was unavoidably no lack of hidden competition
among themselves. The contest of Hu Immortal blessed land was at first an open
competition, using disciples from each sect to decide the eventual owner, but the
result was that Fang Yuan actually took advantage. Now, it was a hidden contest, they
could not question Immortal Crane Sect in public, that would break the unspoken
rules.
The Gu Immortals did not know what happened to Hu Immortal blessed land, they
were hesitant to return.

Fang Yuan closed the door, as Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan came to congratulate him
with smiles on their faces.

"Fang Yuan, you have caused me to look at you in a different light. This time, the
collaboration between you and Immortal Crane Sect succeeded without any battle, it
was truly a great victory." Fairy Li Shan was full of praise.

This was the type of victory that Gu Immortals loved the most.

Without any battles, without any huge investments, but the rewards were simply
incredible.

"Senior is not entirely correct." Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "It is not me who is
collaborating with Immortal Crane Sect, it is us. After all, to refine the airsac Gu, we
will need Hei Lou Lan's strength qi Gu to muster the strength qi. As for the profits of
the guts Gu, your side will take forty percent, my side will take sixty."

Fairy Li Shan heard this and the smile on her face intensified. As long as one was not
a fool, they could see the prospects of the transaction of guts Gu.

She understood clearly that Fang Yuan's action was to stabilize their alliance
completely, to bind them to Dang Hun mountain itself. In the future, when Hu
Immortal blessed land is attacked, they would need to come and defend it too.

But with such great benefits, Fairy Li Shan could not help but be moved.

Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan deeply: "To think that you had this method, Fang
Yuan, conceptualizing the airsac Gu. To refine the rank three airsac Gu, you need to use
the rank six strength qi Gu. This Gu is truly very special."

A part of this was definitely due to wisdom Gu's credit.

After obtaining wisdom Gu, Fang Yuan had been conceptualizing, to see if there was a
way to extract guts Gu under the help of unlimited inspiration.

The success this time was also because he had unexpectedly heard from Tai Bai Yun
Sheng that Hei Lou Lan had the strength qi Immortal Gu.
Only an immortal class strength could envelop the guts Gu, allowing it to leave Dang
Hun mountain unscathed.

Fang Yuan changed the topic: "To produce guts Gu, we will need huge amounts of
souls, I will have to trouble the two of you."

"Northern Plains is a land of battles, chaotic wars happen all the time, and beast
groups and tribes relocate constantly. There are surely many souls that can be
collected there. We will go and settle this now." Hei Lou Lan wanted to act immediately.

After she ascended to an immortal, her need for resources had become much greater,
especially in terms of immortal essence stones, she could not always rely on Fairy Li
Shan.

Relying on others was not Hei Lou Lan's style.

Fairy Li Shan agreed: "That's right, Dang Hun mountain does not have any
requirements for the type of soul. We can even buy them from Northern Plains Zombie
Alliance, it will be more expensive than collecting the souls ourselves, but the price
would be acceptable and we can save lots of trouble."

"Hehehe." Fang Yuan waved a hand: "Please hold on for a moment, don't be too anxious
now. Now, come with me to suppress a Gu Immortal. This Gu Immortal is inside Hu
Immortal blessed land right now."

"Oh? Who?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng questioned.

"There are other Gu Immortals hiding in the blessed land now? Is it an ambush by
Immortal Crane Sect, having ulterior motives?" Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan looked
at each other with confused and shocked expressions.
Fang Yuan smiled mysteriously: "This immortal is right under our noses, please follow
me."

Under Fang Yuan's lead, everyone came before the blue charm lightning shadow.

The blue charm lightning shadow right now was fighting in the air with the iron crown
eagle, its small blue figure was colliding with the desolate beast iron crown eagle's
huge body, fighting evenly back and forth.

Hei Lou Lan was even more uncertain now: "The Gu Immortal you are talking about is
the blue charm lightning shadow?"

Fang Yuan smiled and did not respond.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes shone with brilliance: "Now that you've mentioned it, this
blue charm lightning shadow is acting really strangely."

"That's right." Fairy Li Shan showed a wary and vigilant expression: "Logically
speaking, the blue charm lightning shadow was formed from an earthly calamity, its
main target would be the owner of Hu Immortal blessed land, which is you, Fang Yuan.
But it has been engaging with these desolate beasts all this time, it had no intentions
to attack you."

Hei Lou Lan continued: "No wonder I felt that it was strange, when the desolate beast
appeared, this blue charm lightning shadow seemed to have been shocked, it stopped
growling and started to conceal its presence. This blue charm lightning shadow is
weird, I'm sure it is not normal!"

"Hehehe." Fang Yuan laughed heartily, saying: "The blue charm lightning shadow in
the past had no issues, but after it was sent out of the blessed land by me, it was
captured by a lightning path Gu Immortal, and was refined into some sort of puppet
killer move. When Immortal Crane Sect came to attack my blessed land, this Gu
Immortal manipulated the blue charm lightning shadow into barging in, his objective
was to fish for benefits. If Immortal Crane Sect failed, he could show up as a
representative of his sect, and strike first. I wonder if my analysis is correct, Myriad
Dragon Dock's Vicious Lightning Fiend?"

"How did you know that I am Vicious Lightning Fiend?!" The blue charm lightning
shadow could not put up a facade any longer, he ignored the iron crown eagle and flew
to Fang Yuan.

The iron crown eagle chased it, but Fang Yuan waved a hand, the eagle screeched and
flew away.

"Myriad Dragon Dock's Vicious Lightning Fiend?" Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan
looked at each other, they knew about Myriad Dragon Dock, it was one of the ten great
ancient sects of Central Continent, just like Immortal Crane Sect. But who Vicious
Lightning Fiend was, they did not have much of an idea.

Only Tai Bai Yun Sheng's eyes shone brightly, after coming to Hu Immortal blessed
land, he had collected a lot of information upon Fang Yuan's advice, he knew a lot of
intelligence about Central Continent's Gu Immortals.

"Vicious Lightning Fiend is a rank six Gu Immortal, he has passed two heavenly
tribulations and had an amazing history of ending in a draw after fighting with a rank
seven Gu Immortal. But many years ago, he had entered closed cultivation. There had
been no traces of him these last few years in Central Continent." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
introduced.

"A draw with a rank seven Gu Immortal?" Fairy Li Shan's gaze shone.

Hei Lou Lan had a proud and arrogant demeanor as she snorted coldly.

The blue charm lightning shadow looked at everyone, but eventually his gaze locked
onto Fang Yuan: "Who are you guys? My immortal killer move was the fruit of my many
years of closed cultivation, after thinking of how to raise my battle strength. A year
ago, I learned that there was a blue charm lightning shadow on Tian Ti mountain, it
was lurking around there and did not want to leave, thus I struck secretly and captured
the blue charm lightning shadow. A few months ago, I perfected my immortal killer
move, making this blue charm lightning shadow my puppet. I have only told this secret
to a few people. You guys actually know about this in detail! Tell me, who in the world
are you?"

Fang Yuan snorted, he said very unkindly: "Vicious Lightning Fiend, you might have a
fierce reputation, but we are not afraid of you. You made the blue charm lightning
shadow into your puppet, I'm sure you paid a heavy price for that. I am in a bad mood,
you should be careful, otherwise if I get angry, I will kill this blue charm lightning
shadow right here, can you stop me?"

The blue charm lightning shadow shouted out angrily, he showed his irascible nature:
"You dare! I am a Gu Immortal of Myriad Dragon Dock! Don't think you can continue
to be arrogant, it is only temporarily that you are occupying Hu Immortal blessed land,
once your identities are exposed, we, the ten great ancient sects, will make sure all of
you lone cultivators and demonic cultivators are done for."

"Oh? Is that so…” Fang Yuan's eyes shone with brilliance: "You saw our earlier
transaction clearly, we are already a subsidiary of Immortal Crane Sect, we have both
made a promise, even if Myriad Dragon Dock wants to deal with us, you will need to
get past Immortal Crane Sect first. That's right, that's right, earlier, Immortal Crane
Sect's He Feng Yang was attacked, the mastermind was you, or rather, Myriad Dragon
Dock. right?"

"Bullshit! We of the ten great ancient sects are on the same side, even if we compete
with each other both openly and secretly, how could we do things without limits like
you lone cultivators with demonic natures?" The blue charm lightning shadow was
furious.

Fang Yuan did not speak, he glanced over at Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan was a formidable character just like him, they cooperated flawlessly, she
pretended to jump to a realization, saying: "Fang Yuan, you are absolutely right. Hu
Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun mountain, and guts Gu are extremely huge benefits.
After assassinating He Feng Yang, Immortal Crane Sect will come to attack us. By then,
when we both suffer great losses, Myriad Dragon Dock will be able to take advantage
of the situation."

"You're bullshitting! Bullshit! How can I be such a petty person!!" The blue charm
lightning shadow's anger was through the roof, he shouted unceasingly.
Hei Lou Lan laughed sinisterly: "But the timing in which you appeared was simply too
coincidental. When He Feng Yang attacked Hu Immortal blessed land, all the events
that happened in here, how could the outside world know? Why did He Feng Yang
encounter an assassination the moment he left Hu Immortal blessed land? Obviously,
you were an insider and used some special method to inform your main body, who
then organized the ambush."

Hei Lou Lan fully expressed her twisted logic, her words shocked the blue charm
lightning shadow.

But immediately after, he reacted, turning angry from shame, rebuking: "Hu Immortal
blessed land is a separate piece of heaven and earth, unless I have an immortal killer
move, how could I communicate with my main body? But if I use an immortal killer
move, such intense immortal aura would be detected by you guys, isn't that right?"

"But there was a moment when Hu Immortal blessed land opened its doors, that way,
we were connected to the outside world. You communicated with your main body at
that very point in time." Hei Lou Lan immediately retorted.

"Scumbag! Bullshit! I am honorable and righteous, how can I be like that? No, no, I was
almost tricked by you. How can He Feng Yang's ambush have anything to do with my
blue charm lightning shadow sending out information? Even if the other party did not
know what happened in Hu Immortal blessed land, they can still ambush He Feng
Yang. There is no relationship between the two issues!" The blue charm lightning
shadow screamed.

Hei Lou Lan said eerily: "Whether a relationship exists, we do not care about that. We
will tell this to Immortal Crane Sect, you can explain things to them yourself."

"Go ahead and tell them. I have not done any of the things you've said, why would I be
afraid of slander?" The blue charm lightning shadow tried to put up a front.

At this time, Tai Bai Yun Sheng said: "Oh! I remember now, recently in Immortal Crane
Sect's region of control, wasn't there the matter of Great Heavenly Sword Sect trying
to gain independence? There had been rumors that the matter of Great Heavenly
Sword Sect was instigated by Myriad Dragon Dock. Hehe, I get it. After killing He Feng
Yang, Immortal Crane Sect's main forces will come and attack our blessed land. In that
case, it will be even easier for Great Heavenly Sword Sect to detach from Immortal
Crane Sect. After Great Heavenly Sword Sect joins Myriad Dragon Dock, and become
your subsidiary, Immortal Crane Sect's territory at the northwest area will be
devoured by Myriad Dragon Dock. By then, even if they taken down Hu Immortal
blessed land, they will suffer a huge loss in battle strength, if they return and want to
settle the matter with Myriad Dragon Dock, it would be too late, and they would not
have the strength to do so."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's words not only shocked the blue charm lightning shadow, even
Fang Yuan was looking at him in surprise.

Although Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a good person and had been kind in his life, he was
old and experienced, his words were like a dagger stabbing into the heart of the
matter, he directly pointed out Vicious Lightning Fiend's weakness.

The blue charm lightning shadow finally became quiet.

After a dozen breaths of time, he said: "Damn, you bunch of scheming scoundrels, you
are simply twisting logic as you like, you're making things up! Say it, what is the
condition for letting go of my lightning shadow puppet?"

Hei Lou Lan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not speak, they looked at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan laughed lightly, saying a ridiculous condition: "Vicious Lightning Fiend, I
am very interested in this immortal killer move that can turn the blue charm lightning
shadow into a puppet. Why don't you teach me."

"Screw you! This is a trump card that I finally came up with after four years of closed
cultivation! With just a few words from you, you want to take the fruits of my labor, it
will only happen in your dreams! Even if this puppet is destroyed, I will not give it to
you!!" The blue charm lightning shadow shouted in anger, categorically rejecting this.

But Fang Yuan had his previous life's memories, he was carrying out a plan based on
them and knew about Vicious Lightning Fiend's bottom line.

He chuckled as he said slowly: "Vicious Lightning Fiend, your immortal killer move
was only created in a rush, the success rate is definitely not high. The blue charm
lightning shadow has rank six battle strength, isn't it such a waste to discard it here?
How about this, I will take a step back, I do not want your immortal killer move, I want
the Blood Deity remnant recipe that you have."

The blue charm lightning shadow's expression was grim: "How did you know that I
have Blood Deity's remnant recipe? There are only a small number of Gu Immortals in
Myriad Dragon Dock that know about this secret!"

"Hmph, frog in the well, there are no impenetrable walls in this world, even if very few
people know, can't I have Gu worms to deduce it?" Fang Yuan showed a disposition of
unfathomable depth.

"Good, very good. I am even more curious about your true identities now. Hmph, I will
admit a loss this time!" The blue charm lightning shadow agreed as he gritted his
teeth.

"Let's trade using treasure yellow heaven." Fang Yuan said.

"No way, treasure yellow heaven will expose the blue charm lightning shadow puppet,
it will expose my immortal killer move in advance!" The blue charm lightning shadow
rejected immediately.

Fang Yuan laughed coldly: "Vicious Lightning Fiend, don't think I am unaware, after
coming out of closed cultivation, you plan to imitate Sword Immortal Bo Qing, to
challenge experts from all over the region, and use your power to contest for the title
of the strongest. Your first target must be Bee Immortal Liao Mao."

"You sure know a lot!" The blue charm lightning shadow's tone was cold, but his heart
was jumping.

The other party's grasp on information was far too detailed, he was in a very passive
spot.

Fang Yuan ordered Little Hu Immortal to act, using connecting heaven Gu to connect
to treasure yellow heaven, before finding Vicious Lightning Fiend's main body.

After the two negotiated, Fang Yuan sent the blue charm lightning shadow as
merchandise and sent it over.

Immediately, the treasure light burst into the sky, attracting countless divine senses.

Vicious Lightning Fiend quickly took out Blood Deity's Immortal Gu remnant recipe,
who knew how many Gu Immortals cried out in alarm at this.

"Scoundrel, quickly settle the deal!" Vicious Lightning Fiend's divine sense screamed.
"Vicious Lightning Fiend, you are not being genuine. The Blood Deity remnant recipe
you have is seventy percent complete, you are trying to scam my ignorance, only
taking out a forty percent remnant recipe?" Fang Yuan said slowly.

Vicious Lightning Fiend was shocked: "How can I have a seventy percent Blood Deity
remnant recipe!"

"I am in no rush, the longer the blue charm lightning shadow is exposed, the more
people will know." Fang Yuan said casually.

Vicious Lightning Fiend almost spat blood from anger: "Lad, don't think that with a
wisdom path Gu Immortal behind you deducing things, you can act so arrogantly!! I
will remember you, just you wait!!"

Saying this, he finally tossed out a seventy percent Blood Deity remnant recipe.

"An Immortal Gu remnant recipe with such a high completion rate appeared!"

"Since when did blue charm lightning shadow become a commodity?"

Some Gu Immortals fortunate enough to witness the transaction went into deep
shock.

Fang Yuan did not make things difficult for Vicious Lightning Fiend this time, they
swiftly ended the deal.

Under the gazes of Hei Lou Lan and the others, Fang Yuan took the Immortal Gu
remnant recipe, exclaiming in his heart: "I obtained this so easily, something that I had
been unable to get my hands on in my previous life no matter what. A seventy percent
blood deity Immortal Gu remnant recipe, together with my previous life's
accumulations, and with wisdom Gu's power, I should be able to complete the blood
deity Immortal Gu recipe."

Next, he thought about Vicious Lightning Fiend.

This person had an fierce, ruthless, and fiery personality, in his previous life, he
attained rank seven and had incredible battle strength. During the five regions chaotic
war, he used the immortal killer move Lightning Deity, to accumulate eight rank six
battle strength beings that were similar to the blue charm lightning shadow. After
Feng Jiu Ge died, he contested for the prized status of being the number one in battle
strength among rank seven, he fought with Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei for three
days and three nights but unfortunately lost.

In his previous life, Fang Yuan had most wanted to refine the Immortal Gu Blood Deity.
He had once targeted the Immortal Gu remnant recipe in Vicious Lightning Fiend's
possession, but his plot failed and he escaped after being heavily injured.

To think that in this life, he could obtain what he had always wanted in his previous
life in such a manner.
In central continent time, three days after extorting Vicious Lightning Fiend, Immortal
Crane Sect announced to the world: They recognized Fang Yuan as the owner of Hu
Immortal blessed land, Hu Immortal blessed land was now a subsidiary force of
Immortal Crane Sect, and could leave at any time.

This shocking news was like a large rock being thrown into a lake, causing many
surging waves and splashes.

At once, the world of Central Continent's Gu Immortals was in a commotion!

Earlier, Immortal Crane Sect had declared publicly that Fang Yuan was a traitor of the
sect, and would receive judgment soon. Such matters were common in Central
Continent. Many Gu Masters, after obtaining benefits, would not want to share it with
their sect, or they might be recruited by other sects, and so on, such reasons caused
them to betray their original sect.

The cohesion of members under the sect system was weaker compared to the clan and
tribe system that united people from the same bloodline together.

Among sects, the ten great ancient sects had the highest cohesion. But there were still
traitors that appeared in these ancient sects.

In the past, First Gen Gu Yue obtained a blood path true inheritance and betrayed
Immortal Crane Sect, going to Southern Border and hiding his name and identity.

These recent years, Myriad Dragon Dock's former disciple Song Zi Xing had also
betrayed his sect. After growing from battles, he was now a rank seven Gu Immortal,
known as the Blood Dragon, he was a famous demonic path expert in Central
Continent.

Thus, when Fang Yuan as a rank five Gu Master had betrayed Immortal Crane Sect, it
was only news of mild magnitude.
But now, Immortal Crane Sect had gathered up its forces and gone to pass judgment
on Fang Yuan, the result was nothing anyone could have expected.

In this time, who knew how many people thought that Fang Yuan was courting death,
their eyes were popping out of their sockets when they learned about the news.

After that, even more inside information was released, from Immortal Crane Sect,
Vicious Lightning Fiend, and Fang Yuan.

There were many rumors, like the strength of Dang Hun mountain and Hu Immortal
blessed land, the rise of a mysterious force, Vicious Lightning Fiend's immortal killer
move, all these attracted people's attentions. Among them, the biggest highlight was
the transaction of guts Gu.

Guts Gu could leave Dang Hun mountain and be stored, thus they could be traded!
There were such great profits implied by this information, all the different forces were
moved.

The Gu Immortals finally understood why Immortal Crane Sect made such a
declaration, it was the motivation of profits!

For guts Gu, forsaking some hollow reputation was nothing. Furthermore, Fang Yuan
acknowledged that his force was a subsidiary of Immortal Crane Sect, this was giving
face to the ancient sects.

The other nine great ancient sects called Immortal Crane Sect shameless on one hand,
while interacting with Hu Immortal blessed land on the other.

Fang Yuan's guts Gu had yet to begin being traded, but he had already received a large
number of letter Gu, and they were still coming.

Regardless of whether it was a large or small force, Fang Yuan replied to them all. This
was to establish the first contact between them.

Using this as an opportunity, Fang Yuan finally entered the limelight of Central
Continent, with the status of an immortal zombie and the owner of Hu Immortal
blessed land, he entered the eyes of all the Gu Immortals and the different forces.

A few days later, Hei Lou Lan brought in the first batch of souls, there were hundreds
of thousands of them.
Of course, most of them were souls of wild beasts.

Fang Yuan placed them all into Dang Hun mountain, and Hu Immortal land spirit
started to release Dang Hun mountain's power, vibrating and turning these souls into
fragments, as these soul fragments were scattered on the surface of Dang Hun
mountain, they gradually formed into guts Gu.

As the guts Gu grew here, Fang Yuan started to make his preparations elsewhere.

He ordered all of his hairy men to start creating the foundational Gu worms.

After seven days and seven nights, working in three shifts, they had finally produced
a large number of Gu worms.

He next ordered the rockmen to start building a stone nest.

Half a month later, the first batch of souls were all used up, as a large number of guts
Gu were formed on Dang Hun mountain.

Hei Lou Lan brought the second batch of souls into Hu Immortal blessed land.

Fang Yuan brought her to the stone nest near Dang Hun mountain.

Hei Lou Lan stood at the edge of the stone nest, seeing the huge structure below her,
she was very shocked at Fang Yuan's huge investment.

This stone nest was tens of acres in area, and it was hundreds of meters deep into the
ground.

At the outer ring of the stone nest, it was a huge sinkhole, dug manually, vertically up
and down. The circular sinkhole was one li in radius, at least three li deep, like the
frame of a tall piece of glassware.

At the center of the sinkhole, there was a huge stone pillar.

The stone pillar was over three hundred meters in radius, this length was slightly
more than half of one li, thus, the stone pillar and the circular sinkhole did not touch,
they were at least a hundred and fifty meters apart, and there was an empty space left
purposely.
The stone pillar was like an ant hill, it was complex inside but could reach anywhere
as long as one knew the directions.

Be it the outer wall of the stone pillar, or the inner area of the circular sinkhole, there
were countless rooms dug out. In each room, there was an elderly hairy man, and they
had the basic Gu refinement materials and tools they needed.

"Fairy Lou Lan, please." Fang Yuan brought Hei Lou Lan to the top of the stone pillar,
at the center-most spot.

Hei Lou Lan used her investigative Gu non-stop, realizing that this stone pillar and the
sinkhole around the stone pillar had countless Gu worms around them at set intervals.

These arrangements had many complicated smaller details, Hei Lou Lan was going
dizzy from seeing them, but what she knew was that these arrangements were not
randomly set up, they were linked to each other and formed a great influence as a
whole, it was set up with deep intentions.

"Don't tell me…” Hei Lou Lan was guessing in her heart, when Fang Yuan said: "Fairy,
I am already done preparing, you can use the strength qi Immortal Gu now."

"Oh? Please teach me."

"Fairy only needs to activate strength qi Immortal Gu, and let the strength qi spread
out naturally." Fang Yuan explained.

Hei Lou Lan followed his instructions, a powerful strength qi formed air currents and
spread out everywhere. As the strength qi got thicker, they formed into a fog-like state,
as they slowly spread and covered the entire stone nest.

In the stone nest, countless mortal Gu were activated, shining with all sorts of dazzling
lights, like the stars in the night sky.

Under the combined force of these Gu worms, the vast strength qi was slowly
extracted strand by strand, in a few breaths of time, all of the strength qi was in
between the stone pillar and the sinkhole.

After a dozen breaths of time, these strength qi continued to move about, forming into
the shape of a tornado, spinning around the stone pillar.
"Start the Gu refinement." Fang Yuan instructed, as the hairy men in the rooms
prepared themselves, they opened their eyes and started to refine Gu.

Whenever they needed strength qi as a Gu refinement material, the turbulent strength

qi outside the room would enter it automatically.

Such a scene was praised by Hei Lou Lan in amazement: "Fang Yuan, your stone nest
is so grand and huge, it can accommodate thousands of hairy men refining Gu at the
same time, this is truly an innovative and incredible idea."

Fang Yuan laughed: "Didn't I tell you I am also a refinement master?"

In truth, this stone nest was invented during the five regions chaotic war in his
previous life.

Because of the unceasing battles that occurred at both large and small scale, Gu
Masters would expend a lot of their Gu worms, all of the forces needed to replenish
their Gu worms. Thus, they gradually researched and came up with such a stone nest
that could accommodate so many Gu Masters, a structure that can allow mass
refinement of Gu.

"I will name this the Fang Yuan stone nest, it is a place specially used to mass produce
mortal Gu. I split the refinement process of the airsac Gu into over a dozen steps. When
the hairy men at the highest level finish the first step, they will pass the partly-done
product to the next floor's rooms. After the next floor finishes their refinement, they
will send the partly-done product to the next floor. This way, each of the hairy men
would be specialized in one step, not only would this prevent my Gu recipe from
leaking, they can also get more familiar with their own steps and increase the success
rate."

Fang Yuan shamelessly took the invention of someone in his previous life for his own.

Hei Lou Lan could not help but praise again: "This is indeed the right method to mass
produce mortal Gu, in a certain aspect, it can even reduce the required proficiency of
the Gu refiners themselves, because they only need to finish one step of the entire
refinement process. But you, Fang Yuan, would be able to free yourself from the
complication of dealing with all the many small steps, only having to control the
materials."

"There are some Gu recipes that need the Gu refiner to refine it non-stop. Thankfully,
airsac Gu is not like that." Fang Yuan said.

Hei Lou Lan nodded: "I was worried that the number of airsac Gu would be too little,
and that would affect the sale of guts Gu. After all, each airsac Gu can only hold one
guts Gu. But now that I've seen this stone nest for myself, I can feel assured. How are
you intending to sell these guts Gu?"

Fang Yuan had a plan already: "Most of the sales will be towards the ten great ancient
sects of Central Continent. I have already established a connection via hole earth Gu
with the ten great sects. From now on, we will trade using these hole earth Gu, the
remaining guts Gu will be sold in treasure yellow heaven."

"Aren't you going to sell some to the other sects in central continent specifically?"

"No. Right now, the ten great sects are the leaders of Central Continent, our identities
and statuses are already very sensitive, we do not need to test the limits of the ancient
sects. Our current peace was not obtained easily, we should quietly wait and reap our
profits."

Hei Lou Lan heard this and nodded, she was completely at ease now.

Time passed by quickly, another half a month passed in Hu Immortal blessed land.

The first batch of guts Gu had already been sold, after accounting for the costs, as well
as Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan's forty percent cut, Fang Yuan earned forty-three
immortal essence stones.

A month later in Hu Immortal blessed land's time, the second batch of guts Gu was
sold, and Fang Yuan's immortal essence stone stockpile increased by another forty-six
pieces.

The third batch of guts Gu earned him forty-seven pieces.

The market reception was great, the ten great ancient sects' demand was increasing,
and sales in treasure yellow heaven were extremely heated, usually in just one to two
days, they would all be sold.

Guts Gu was after all a treasure that Spectral Soul Demon Venerable recommended,
the efficiency of strengthening the soul was very high, at least ten times as efficient as
ordinary methods.
In truth, not only did soul path Gu Masters need it, enslavement path, refinement path
and other related paths also needed a foundation in their soul.

When a Gu Master ascends to Gu Immortal, the soul was also an important element
for the thickness of the human qi, nobody would resent their soul for being strong.

Fang Yuan started to feel the benefits of having a monopolized market.

He could control the market, and control the situation. He could sell to anyone he
wanted to, and he could sell at any quantity he set.

But he did not raise prices randomly, because guts Gu were not the only way to
strengthen souls, if the price was too high, people would just use their original
methods instead. That would instead, cause Fang Yuan's profits to fall.

After three batches of guts Gu were sold, Fang Yuan had over a hundred immortal
essence stones. He started to purchase hairy men in bulk, creating more rooms in the
stone nest and expanding his scale of production.

The more hairy men he had, the higher the efficiency of refining Gu, this caused the
profits that Fang Yuan gained from each batch of guts Gu sold to be higher as well.

After five months in Hu Immortal blessed land's time, his earnings finally stabilized,
each batch of guts Gu would earn him forty-eight immortal essence stones in total
profit.

This was genuinely an overwhelming profit!

The scariest thing was, guts Gu were consumable Gu, they were gone after one use.
The market demand for them would never dwindle.

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan started to feel that they were a burden.

Because their job was to collect souls.

But now, the quantity of the souls gathered to use for Dang Hun mountain gradually
became the biggest restriction in the sale of guts Gu.
Northern Plains, Lang Ya blessed land.

Boom boom boom…

The huge ice spike divine ape caused tremors with every step it took.

Walking towards the cloud building, it stopped and raised its head to growl, the sound
waves traveled far,causing the clouds to shake.

Fang Yuan was standing far away with Lang Ya land spirit, they were conversing but
they turned around to look after hearing the noise.

"This little monkey!" Lang Ya land spirit stretched out his left arm, stroking his
mustache as he laughed.

He was sealed by a qi path killer move, the fifteen layers had been reduced to six layers,
all thanks to the help of the Inkman King.

Thus, Lang Ya land spirit's left arm was free to move now, only his right arm was left
immobile.

Fang Yuan smiled, as he saw the cloud building rise up slowly, exposing a cave made
of cloud soil underneath. The cloud fog was misty, covering the ice spike divine ape
completely. The ice spike divine ape stepped into the hole and its tall figure gradually
vanished from Fang Yuan's vision.

Finally, the cloud building gradually descended, and resealed the cave. The Gu worms
in the cave were activated, causing the ice spike divine ape to go into hibernation.

Not far away, the same sight was happening with other cloud buildings.

Except that the ones entering the caves were not the ice spike divine ape, but the
phoenix feather lava crocodile, golden sand dark stallion and the other desolate
beasts.

"Ice spike divine ape, phoenix feather lava crocodile, golden sand dark stallion, azure
dragon vine, swamp crab, peach wolf, iron crown eagle and earth chief desolate beast,
I have returned to you the eight desolate beasts that you lent me without a single
scratch. Actually, letting them out to roam once in a while is a good thing. Letting them
sleep all the time, although it saves food, it will affect their battle strength." Fang Yuan
said.

Lang Ya land spirit rolled his eyes: "Rascal, do you think I cannot understand what you
are trying to imply? You want to borrow my desolate beasts again to fight for you,
right? Hmph, these desolate beasts were captured with much difficulty, they are an
important line of defense for Lang Ya blessed land. If you want to borrow them again,
you cannot bring all eight at once!"

Fang Yuan laughed nonchalantly, stretching out his arm: "Alright, I returned to you
your desolate beasts, according to our agreement, you should return the two great
Immortal Gu, Man as Before and Landscape as Before, to me now."

Lang Ya land spirit heard this and his aura diminished, he smiled sheepishly: "Well…
Little Fang, no, brother Fang, Man as Before and Landscape as Before are two
incredible Immortal Gu, I have not finished researching them yet, can you give me a
few more days?"

Fang Yuan's expression turned stiff: "Don't even think about it, hand them over!"

"Little brother Fang, no, big brother fang, you cannot be so ruthless. You know that I
am current sealed by the qi path move, I cannot display my true strength as an expert,
there's no way my research can have progress. This deal was very disadvantageous to
me!" Lang Ya land spirit shouted.

"This transaction was willingly done by the two of us, I did not force you. It is your
problem that you made a loss, you want to regret it now? Too late! Quickly hand it over,
don't forget that we used mountain pledge Gu to make the vow, this also involves your
friend Mo Tan Sang, whoever breaks the vow would have to pay with his life." Fang
Yuan snickered continuously.

"Oh land spirit, return him the Immortal Gu." Mo Tan Sang quickly hurried over,
staring at Lang Ya land spirit worriedly.
Lang Ya land spirit looked at Mo Tan Sang, he could not stand his gaze and stomped
his foot, handing over Man as Before and Landscape as Before, these two Immortal Gu,
over to Fang Yuan with much reluctance.

"Damn brat, you always take advantage of me in the end. Take it, take it, you scheming
fellow!" Lang Ya land spirit continued to grumble.

Fang Yuan snorted disgruntedly: "I took advantage? What advantage did I take? I fed
all eight of your desolate beasts till they were full, while no battles actually took place,
it was like taking a walk with them. I saved some costs for you, nor am I even asking
you to settle the score."

"Score, what score? Didn't I feed your rising azure cloud Immortal Gu as well, in order
to buy the food, I spent a lot of immortal essence stones too, if you want to calculate
all of this, let's count properly and see who paid a higher price!" Lang Ya land spirit
was stomping his foot in agitation, he rebuked immediately.

The feeding of desolate beasts was naturally much simpler and cheaper than feeding
Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan could not argue with Lang Ya land spirit over this, but he had control of
Lang Ya land spirit's weakness, thus he could speak in a confident tone, he laughed
coldly: "Lang Ya land spirit, do you still want to research Man as Before and Landscape
as Before? Do you?"

Lang Ya land spirit's expression changed, he smiled amicably: "Yes, I want to even in
my dreams."

"Then good." Fang Yuan patted Lang Ya land spirit's head: "Is there a point in being
calculative, it was your fault for keeping my rising azure cloud Immortal Gu as
collateral, right?"

"Get lost!" Lang Ya land spirit was so angry that he shrugged off Fang Yuan's hand:
"You brat, you have no manners, I am your senior's senior's senior's senior's senior's
senior!"

"Oh?" Fang Yuan stared, while showing a flash of the two Immortal Gu in his hand.

Lang Ya land spirit's expression changed, he laughed as he patted Fang Yuan's leg:
"Fang Yuan, there's nothing I can do, you really suit my taste, we are old friends with
much in common after all!"

Mo Tan Sang, who was at the side, witnessed this entire scene speechlessly.

Fang Yuan placed the two Immortal Gu into his own immortal aperture and took out
three Immortal Gu recipes.

After five months in Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan had made six deals with
Lang Ya land spirit.

The lower the completion rate of the Immortal Gu recipe, the more green grape
immortal essence would be consumed during the deduction, and it would take more
time as well. The three Immortal Gu recipes that Fang Yuan took out now had only
sixty percent completion rate originally, he spent half a month before he completed
them with difficulty.

Lang Ya land spirit received the Immortal Gu recipes and looked, sighing while shaking
his head: "Lad, I have to admit, you are an unparalleled genius in deducing Gu recipes.
It is such a pity that you have become an immortal zombie."

Fang Yuan followed up and asked: "I also want to find a way to remove my immortal
zombie status, do you know of any methods?"

"There are a bunch of methods, of course, but they are all old and cannot keep up with
the times. Some have high risks, some have low probabilities of success, while some
have extinct materials, for some, I don't even believe the methods." Lang Ya land spirit
shook his head: "After all, I am a land spirit, I would not usually think about an
immortal zombie's problems."

"Brother Fang might be able to get into Northern Plains' Zombie Alliance branch. The
higher ups of Zombie Alliance are mostly immortal zombies, they have been
researching on how to get rid of the immortal zombie body, and regain their lives.
Furthermore, several years ago, I've heard some rumors that Northern Plains Zombie
Alliance had made some progress on this matter." Mo Tan Sang suggested at this time.

Fang Yuan nodded: "I have such intentions, but I cannot expose myself. I destroyed
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building and ruined Imperial Court blessed land, it is
inconvenient to appear in public. If deductions were made against me, that would be
horrible."
"Now that Dong Fang Chang Fan is dead, there might not be any Gu Immortals who
can deduce brother Fang's identity." Mo Tan Sang said.

"It is hard to say, some thousand year old monsters or some wisdom path Gu
Immortals might exist." Fang Yuan shook his head, sighing.

"Oh? Lad, aren't you a wisdom path Gu Immortal? If you can deduce so many Immortal
Gu recipes, your wisdom path attainment must be very high, you should use your own
wisdom path methods to prevent others from deducing you. I remember that many
wisdom path Gu Immortals have done that before." Lang Ya land spirit asked.

Fang Yuan laughed bitterly in his heart.

How could he be a wisdom path Gu Immortal? He was only using the might of the rank
nine wisdom Gu to impersonate as one, shamelessly claiming credit for it.

Thus, he said: "My wisdom path methods are very heavily skewed towards deducing
Gu recipes, they are very poor in other aspects. Furthermore, Ma Hong Yun and Zhao
Lian Yun are both living eyewitnesses, they had experienced the situation in Imperial
Court blessed land. I am afraid my current appearance has been found out by Qin Bai
Sheng already."

Speaking of Qin Bai Sheng, Mo Tan Sang's eyes shone, he praised: "This person is quite
impressive. I had thought that he was only strong in battle strength, but to think he
was very wise as well. He captured Ma and Zhao, obtaining the core of the luck path
true inheritance. Originally, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals were going to attack and
exterminate him together. But during this month's time in Northern Plains, he
recruited allies, giving up some benefits and persuading Fairy Li Shan to come out and
use mountain pledge Gu, to forcefully gather and unite a bunch of lone cultivators,
even Ye Lui tribe was convinced by him."

"Originally, there was a huge battle ahead, but because of his actions, the battle
flopped. He even is going to hold a huge auction in his blessed land, purposely selling
the core Immortal Gu of the luck path true inheritance, he even will be placing Ma and
Zhao as commodities for sale."

After saying that, Mo Tan Sang looked at Fang Yuan deeply in the eye.

He knew that Fairy Li Shan and Fang Yuan had a deep relationship.
Back then, when Fang Yuan borrowed the desolate beasts from Lang Ya land spirit, he
was present. Lang Ya land spirit rejected him outright, having a firm attitude, after all,
the desolate beasts were an important defense of Lang Ya blessed land. If Fang Yuan
had ill intentions, and was in cahoots with the group that attacked the blessed land,
Lang Ya land spirit would be in danger.

But out of his expectations, Fang Yuan took out mountain pledge Gu.

Using this Gu to make a vow, Lang Ya land spirit's worries were dispelled.

Later, he used Man as Before and Landscape as Before, these two Immortal Gu, to
attract Lang Ya land spirit and strike at his weakness. After all, Lang Ya land spirit had
offered Tai Bai Yun Sheng five immortal essence stones just to research Landscape as
Before in the past.

Lang Ya land spirit was moved by the two Immortal Gu, and after being provoked by
Fang Yuan's words, he lent eight desolate beasts to him.

"Qin Bai Sheng knows how to give in at the right time, he can adapt to circumstances
and has amazing methods, he is truly skilled in both brains and brawn, one can't help
but admire him." Fang Yuan said lightly, before changing the subjecting and asking the
land spirit: "Do you have any leads on the white lotus giant silkworm Gu?"

Fang Yuan's cleanse soul Immortal Gu has not been fed, after this period of time, it
became even weaker.

But to feed cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he needed the flesh of the white lotus giant
silkworm Gu.

Earlier, Fang Yuan had asked Lang Ya land spirit, but Lang Ya land spirit did not have
the recipe of the white lotus giant silkworm Gu, or even any remnant recipes of it.

Thus, he could only ask for a lead, not raising any talk of the Gu recipe.

Lang Ya land spirit shook his head: "Lad, this white lotus giant silkworm Gu was
created by Spectral Soul Demon Venerable. My main body had lived through the eras
of Thieving Heaven and Giant Sun before dying. Spectral Soul Demon Venerable only
rose up after Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, by that time, I was already confined inside
this blessed land, how could I have any leads?"
"But, I do have an incredible transformation path killer move here. This killer move
originated from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable. When he was young, he used this
set of Gu worms to hide his appearance and evade his enemies when they chased him,
the effect was great. With this killer move, you will be able to change your appearance
and aura, to conceal your identity. Even if Gu Immortals manage to deduce your
identity, you might be able to deny it in person and claim that their deduction was
wrong, successfully hoodwinking them!"
"Oh?" As it involved Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, Fang Yuan's interest was
roused: "Is it the legendary 'familiar face'?"

In Gu Master history, there were many interesting records about the immortal killer
move 'familiar face'.

Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had once relied on familiar face to transform into
all sorts of appearances, he had once scammed a rank eight Gu Immortal, Deng Zuo
Yan, while he himself had rank six cultivation, causing Deng Zuo Yan to think that he
was his best friend, Wan Che Zhen. In the end, Deng Zuo Yan allowed the thief into his
house, and Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable used the opportunity to steal a lot of
treasures in his blessed land.

After the incident, Deng Zuo Yan was angered to the point of spitting out blood, he
found Wan Che Zhen and engaged in a fierce battle, it was an extremely heated match.

Wan Che Zhen was very puzzled, he tried to explain himself but it was not working. In
the end, he took a risk and stopped defending him, letting Deng Zuo Yan deal three
blows to him.

After three blows, Wan Che Zhen was on the verge of death, he finally managed to
convince Deng Zuo Yan of their friendship.

Deng Zuo Yan felt deep regret, he tried to heal Wan Che Zhen regardless of the
consequences. After he found out the truth, he saw Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable
as his most hated enemy and one that he must kill.

Wan Che Zhen's deep injuries could not heal, and seeing that Deng Zuo Yan was about
to face a tribulation, he did not want to be a burden to his friend and left secretly.

But to think that Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable had perfect timing, he disguised
as Wan Che Zhen and lied to Deng Zuo Yan, lying in bed and pretending to be ill,
extorting countless cultivation resources from him.
After that, Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable escaped scot-free.

Deng Zuo Yan lost a huge amount of his foundation, he died during his heavenly
tribulation and earthly calamity not long after. Wan Che Zhen heard that his friend had
died and vomited blood from anger. His weak body that was heavily injured finally
gave in and he died several days later.

This was the most illustrious achievement of the immortal killer move 'familiar face'.

It was not an offensive killer move, but it indirectly took the lives of two rank eight Gu
Immortals.

In history, other than this incredible account, there were also countless incidents
where Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable used this move to pretend to be a weakling
to catch people off guard, or scammed people by pretending to be an expert. He also
transformed into a snowman and caused trouble in an inkman city, resulting in a huge
battle between the snowmen and the inkmen.

Lang Ya land spirit stared at Fang Yuan, shaking his head: "Familiar face? You are really
daring! That is an immortal killer move, the core Gu is the legendary attitude Gu. Even
if I give it to you, you will not be able to use it. But this killer move of mine has a huge
relationship with familiar face, it can be said to be the former version of it, this is a
mortal killer move and is suitable for you to use."

"Oh?" Bright light shined in Fang Yuan's eyes.

Seeing that he had drawn out Fang Yuan's interest, Lang Ya land spirit chuckled as he
continued: "This killer move is called 'unfamiliar face'. But if you want it, you will need
to do me a favor."

Fang Yuan knew that there was no free lunch in this world, he nodded: "Say it."

Lang Ya land spirit said his plan immediately: "My twelve cloud buildings all had one
desolate beast inside each in the past. But because of the attacks of the Gu Immortals
from the mysterious force, two of them died and one died after succumbing to injuries.
Now, I only have nine left. If you can enslave a desolate beast with outstanding battle
strength for me, not only will I pay you immortal essence stones based on market
rates, I will also give you this mortal killer move 'unfamiliar face'."

Fang Yuan was overjoyed deep inside: After making many transactions with Lang Ya
land spirit over the Immortal Gu remnant recipes, and using the mountain pledge Gu
to dispel any suspicions, along with returning the desolate beasts, he had finally
improved his relationship with Lang Ya land spirit.

In the past, Lang Ya land spirit would not ask Fang Yuan for such a matter.

Fang Yuan thought about it and agreed.

Next, he obtained three new Immortal Gu remnant recipes from Lang Ya land spirit,
after saying goodbye, he went back to Hu Immortal blessed land.

"Junior brother, you are back, was this trip successful?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was inside
Hu Immortal blessed land.

Now, with the eight desolate beasts already returned, it was impossible for Hei Lou
Lan and Fairy Li Shan to stay in Hu Immortal blessed land, when Fang Yuan went to
Lang Ya blessed land, Tai Bai Yun Sheng was the only Gu Immortal left to defend it.

"Mm, it was rather fruitful." Fang Yuan said, returning landscape as before Gu and man
as before Gu to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

"Shark Demon is calling me urgently, I have to go to Eastern Sea now." Tai Bai Yun
Sheng took the two Gu and rushed over without examining them.

Fang Yuan did not obstruct him, he only told him to be careful.

Now that he was finally alone, it was time to plan what to do for the future.

"After resolving the huge crisis of Immortal Crane Sect attacking Hu Immortal blessed
land, I have finally stabilized the situation, I have entered the righteous path faction
using the status of a subsidiary force, now that I can sell guts Gu, I can intervene
slightly in Central Continent's matters now."

In the past, Fang Yuan was a mortal, he did not even have the qualifications to speak
to Gu Immortals as equals. Although he had Hu Immortal blessed land, he was like a
child walking into a bandit's den holding primeval stones. Once the bandits saw Fang
Yuan, they would only think of how to take Hu Immortal blessed land for themselves.

Now that Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie, he finally was qualified. After gathering
his strength and showing the mysterious force behind him, he had finally intimidated
Immortal Crane Sect and the other forces. Using the guts Gu transaction to form an
economic connection between them, the child had now grown into a young man,
seeing a bandit, he scattered some primeval stones to them. The bandits want to rob
him, but they are afraid of a counterattack from the young man that would cause them
to suffer greater losses, thus, they took the primeval stones to temporarily satisfy
themselves.

Furthermore, these bandits themselves are wary of each other and restrict
themselves, their attention is placed on many other things. The young man is
temporarily safe in this den.

But Fang Yuan was aware, that when the guts Gu transactions become bigger, and the
benefits become larger, there would be even greater pressure on him, as more people
would want to snatch it from him.

Especially during the five regions chaotic war, all of the forces would not let go of
something that could raise their strength.

Although the young man gave out some primeval stones and satisfied the bandits
temporarily, as his wealth grows, these bandits were bound to engage in another
attempt of robbery soon.

Thus, Fang Yuan lowered his head and became a subsidiary of Immortal Crane Sect in
name. This way, the young man was now a young bandit, these bandits could not rob
each other, they had to follow the rules.

But rules were just formless restrictions, as time passed, as the profits grew, they
would have less effect.

After all, this young bandit was not as powerful as he had displayed himself to be.

"Four Gu Immortals, eight desolate beasts, this is just a facade that I put up by
borrowing the strength of others. The Snowy Mountain Alliance I have with Hei Lou
Lan has a time limit. Lang Ya blessed land is facing strong enemies, it can hardly
protect itself, I cannot bring out the eight desolate beasts anytime I wish. Even though
we made Immortal Crane Sect retreat and have set up transactions with the ten great
ancient sects, since I have now appeared in the open, they will definitely use all sorts
of methods to investigate me. They have not struck yet because they are not sure of
my background at this point. One they know, they will strike again." Fang Yuan
considered.

Using an analogy, when Fang Yuan first obtained Hu Immortal blessed land, the
situation was like a torrential rainstorm with thunder and lightning, it was vicious
weather and only by taking a fatal risk could he have a chance of survival.

After Fang Yuan's trip to Northern Plains, he became an immortal zombie, when he
returned to Hu Immortal blessed land, the situation was like a sky with dark clouds
covering him, and strong winds blowing. The future was grim, only by plotting
carefully, taking every step vigilantly, and grabbing onto every opportunity, could he
climb out of the swamp slowly and with much difficulty.

After Fang Yuan repelled Immortal Crane Sect and started selling guts Gu, the fierce
winds had disappeared, and the dark clouds had thinned, a hole was exposed and the
blue sky could be seen. The future was now bright and hopeful, but the dark clouds
were still looming, if he was careless, they would cover the sky again, with lightning
and rain pouring. It was like a person had just escaped from a swamp, he was standing
at the edge of the swamp, finally safe for the time being.

If he took a step back, Fang Yuan would fall into the swamp again, if he wanted to get
out, he would need to struggle intensely, and his luck would matter greatly.

If he moved forward, Fang Yuan would become more stable, and he would finally get
back onto a wide and large track. Even if there were thorns along the way, it would not
be like before, when he was struggling between life and death, and every step could
lead to a fatal disaster.

"The following period of time is a time of peace that I have obtained with much
difficulty, I need to advance forward, accumulating my foundation and raising my
cultivation, I have to become stronger, until none of the forces around me dare to have
any ill intentions against me."

Fang Yuan thought about it carefully, there were several huge problems in front of him.

The first question facing him now was the feeding of Immortal Gu.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu was the most urgent one.

Lang Ya land spirit and Fairy Li Shan did not have any leads to the white lotus giant
silkworm Gu, even though he could buy some in treasure yellow heaven for a high
price, it could only sustain cleanse soul Immortal Gu's life and not let it die of hunger.

To feed it till it was full, he needed ten thousand white lotus giant silkworm Gu, this
Gu was in small quantity even for Gu Immortals who collected them.

Unless Fang Yuan got the Gu recipe and refined it in bulk, he could not solve the issue
completely.

Looking at his other Immortal Gu, feeding them was still a huge problem.

Although he got through it this time, the next round of feeding would be a problem
again.

The six headed snake's bones had turned into black blood and were fed to calamity
beckoning Immortal Gu. Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu's feeding
problem had never been resolved. It was just that Mo Yao's will had fed it earlier, thus
there were no issues yet.

Worldly wave trace Gu needed tens of thousands of underworld jellyfish and

thousands of deepsea lightning eels. Although the former was in huge quantity, it
could be bought easily using immortal essence stones. But the latter was rare in the
market, if not for Tai Bai Yun Sheng encountering Shark Demon and putting his own
life at risk, he would not have gotten the required amount.

Rising Azure Cloud was in Lang Ya land spirit's hands, it need not be considered for
now. Connect luck Immortal Gu needs five thousand kilograms of sand gull soil,
looking at the condition of the worldly sand gull's dead egg, it could produce another
fifteen thousand kilograms, which was three feeding sessions. The feeding of Woman's
Heart was troublesome, after all, mass killing of mortals would attract the attack of
righteous path Gu Immortals.

After all, now was not the five regions chaotic war yet.

Within the five regions, the righteous path suppressed the demonic path, order was
abundant in society.

Although Fang Yuan had many immortal essence stones now, the feeding of Immortal
Gu could not be resolved simply by having immortal essence stones.

Generally in most cases, the feeding of Immortal Gu was usually connected to the
cultivation path of the Gu Immortal themselves, and their blessed land.
For instance, a water path Gu Immortal's blessed land would be in the form of a sea.
After obtaining worldly wave trace Gu, the Gu Immortal would raise underworld
jellyfish, deepsea lightning eels and so on inside their blessed land. Thus, the Gu
Immortal could be self-sufficient, by drawing materials from their own blessed land
to feed the Immortal Gu Worldly Wave Trace.

Another example was Tai Bai Yun Sheng's two Immortal Gu, he could obtain food for
them by managing his own blessed land.

Hei Lou Lan's blessed land contained large numbers of heavy metal ores. These heavy
metals were strength qi Immortal Gu's food.

However, Fang Yuan's situation was different from theirs.

Their Immortal Gu were mostly obtained by refining vital Gu and core Gu when
advancing to Gu Immortal, and were integrated with their path.

Fang Yuan's Immortal Gu were mostly obtained from scheming. His vital Gu was
Spring Autumn Cicada but he had no time path inheritance, and what he currently
practiced was strength path.

Moreover, Fang Yuan's Immortal Gu were extremely disordered, involving time path,
space path, water path, wisdom path and other paths. The most crucial point was that
Fang Yuan's blessed land was dead.

His immortal aperture had turned into a dead aperture and whatever he placed in
there would die, it could neither be managed nor developed like a normal blessed
land, nor could it provide convenience in feeding Immortal Gu, and most importantly
it could not produce immortal essence. Thus, there was a much heavier burden on
immortal essence stones.

Fang Yuan not only had to use his immortal essence stones for transactions, but also
turn a part of them into green grape immortal essence, and furthermore bear the costs
for feeding Immortal Gu. The main reason for Fang Yuan almost becoming bankrupt
after the battle with Hei Cheng was this.

Thus the second problem in front of Fang Yuan was his immortal aperture.

The immortal aperture was already dead, his cultivation had stagnated.

The blessed land was involved in many aspects of the Gu Immortal's cultivation,
therefore this was a great burden to Fang Yuan. The day Fang Yuan truly got rid of his
immortal zombie body would be the day he can formally start his Gu Immortal
cultivation.

However, getting rid of the immortal zombie body and returning to his human body
meant Fang Yuan would not be able to step into the wisdom light halo, this was also a
problem.

As for the final important problem, it was battle strength.

Currently, cleanse soul Immortal Gu was weak from hunger and was too risky to use.
Fang Yuan's trump card — the immortal killer move myriad self, also could not be
used.

Fang Yuan's battle strength had fallen as a result.

Whether it was confronting Central Continent's ten great ancient sects in the days to
come, dealing with the pursuit of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals, seizing Dong Fang
Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance, helping Lang Ya land spirit to capture a desolate
beast, seeking the Thieving Heaven inheritance pertaining to Luo Po Valley, taking
Immortal Gu Dark Limit from Fairy Jiang Yu, all of these required powerful battle
strength.

"There are mainly four aspects that influence a Gu Immortal's battle strength. The Gu
Immortal's own battle attainment, Immortal Gu, killer moves and immortal essence.
With the guts Gu business now, I don't lack immortal essence for the moment. A Gu
Immortal's battle attainment is formed from constant accumulation of their
foundation over time and cannot be raised in a short period. In the Immortal Gu
aspect, the Blood Deity remnant recipe is enough to deduce the complete blood deity
Immortal Gu recipe, but my wealth right now is still quite far from reaching the
standard of refining Immortal Gu."
Fang Yuan thought it over, even if he could refine Blood Deity, he did not want to do
so.

Blood path had been affiliated with the demonic path since long ago, even the ten great
ancient sects had to research blood path in secret and did not dare to publicly
announce it. Heavenly Court even had the Demon Judgment Board and Fang Yuan did
not want to put his name there this early.

Moreover, almost all the Immortal Gu in Fang Yuan's hands were in a bad state from
hunger. The burden of feeding was too heavy and Fang Yuan lacked confidence in
managing it if a new Immortal Gu was added on top of that.

Therefore, the only method Fang Yuan could use to raise his battle strength quickly
was through killer moves.

The killer move aspect involved both immortal killer moves and mortal killer moves.

"I have sufficient immortal essence stones, my disposable income is much higher than
in the past, not only can I purchase a lot of good mortal killer moves, but I also can
continuously experiment, deduce and reproduce some powerful killer moves from my
past life."

Having thought things through, Fang Yuan immediately started with the task.

Central Continent.

With Feng Jiu Ge as the leader, a group of Gu Immortals were standing in front of an
enormous light wall.

The light wall was incomparably tall, connecting the sky and ground. The white light
had condensed into a solid and formed a wall. Within it flickered golden light which
was full of vigor and majesty.

This was Central Continent's membrane, known as the saint regional wall.

The world of Gu Masters had five large regions: Central Continent, Southern Border,
Eastern Sea, Western Desert and Northern Plains, each was covered with a layer of
membrane forming the boundaries of heaven and earth, mutually isolating each other.

"Old Oracle, what is the result of your calculation this time?" Old Lord Can Yang asked
a young looking Gu Immortal in the group.

The young looking Gu Immortal slowly opened his eyes, they were filled with clouds
and mist and constantly transforming.

A long while later, the clouds and mist dispersed and he returned to having ordinary
white eyes with black pupils.

The young looking Gu Immortal spoke with a slightly happy tone: "It can be done. This
part of the regional wall is rather weak, it is the third weak spot we have found over
these last days. But compared to the first and the second, this is more stable. I suggest
we use this to cut open an entrance and cross the regional wall to Northern Plains!"

"Hahaha, good, we have searched close to a thousand areas and finally found an ideal
weak spot." Old Man Tian Long laughed loudly.

Fairy Ling Mei let out a breath of cloudy air and said with a sigh: "We have searched
for so many days before finally getting a good result, it was really not easy."

"We have already wasted a lot of time, let's begin." Feng Jiu Ge said briefly, "Who goes
first?"

Fairy Ao Xue and Fairy Ling Mei glanced at each other, then stood up together,
speaking in unison: "This time, let our Heaven's Envy Manor take the lead."

With that statement, the two exerted strength and activated an immortal killer move
together, called peerless crescent moon slash.

This killer move's core was the rank seven crescent moon Immortal Gu, with two rank
six Immortal Gu as support. The immortal essence required to activate this immortal
killer move was extremely high and it also burdened the mind significantly; just one
Gu Immortal could not display its might, two Gu Immortals must activate it together.

The immortal killer move was activated, instantly forming a blue crescent moon.

The crescent moon was not large and was only the size of a water jar, but it had
condensed into solid form and was sparkling like a magnificent piece of artwork. Only
the terrifying aura it leaked out occasionally would let one know that it was not
harmless like its appearance showed.
The surrounding Gu Immortals distanced themselves far away from Ao Xue and Ling
Mei.

After accumulating enough power, the two fairies gave soft cries and released the blue
crescent moon.

The crescent moon flew extremely quick and silently, shining with gentle moonlight.

The blue crescent moon slashed the saint regional wall and immediately cut open a
path about seventy-six steps in length.

"Worthy of being a well-known killer move of Heaven's Envy Manor, it directly cut
open a distance of seventy-six steps, remarkable." Gu Immortal Chen Zhen Chi
exclaimed in admiration.

Feng Jiu Ge led the way with the other Gu Immortals behind him and entered the saint
regional wall.

The moment they stepped into the saint regional wall, many Gu Immortals'
expressions changed slightly. Their bodies became heavier, their thoughts moved
more slowly and even the immortal aperture inside them gradually started to tremor.

"Quick, we need to move faster." Feng Jiu Ge hastened. They had walked seventy-four
steps before they could not walk any further.

In this short period of time, the saint regional wall had already started to rapidly heal;
the path of seventy-six steps in depth had already shortened by two steps.

Old Lord Can Yang stood up: "Next, let this old man give it a try."

He took out an Immortal Gu, this Immortal Gu resembled a mostly burnt out candle
with a small amount of candlelight burning at the top.

Old Lord Can Yang softly blew at the candlelight.

The candlelight shook and following the direction of Old Lord Can Yang's breath, it let
out countless glittering light spots.

The light spots struck the white-gold saint regional wall, the regional wall melted like
snow as it rapidly dissolved and formed a sixty-three steps passage.
Everyone quickly moved ahead. At the end of the passage, Old Man Tian Long stood
up and activated an Immortal Gu, opening a sixty-seven steps passage.

All the Gu Immortals took turns in using their Immortal Gu or immortal killer moves
to open the passage deeper into the saint regional wall.

The deeper they went, the greater the pressure on them was, even turning into a giant
force that dragged them backwards, seemingly as if this world did not want them to
leave Central Continent.

The thoughts in their minds also kept on moving increasingly slowly, which caused the
Gu Immortals to have extreme difficulty in activating their immortal killer moves. As
a wisdom path Gu Immortal, Old Oracle had no choice but to use all sorts of methods
and even immortal killer moves to reinforce the other Gu Immortals' minds. But in
spite of this, Ao Xue and Ling Mei, these two fairies could not activate peerless crescent
moon slash anymore.

The most crucial point was the immortal apertures in their bodies.

The deeper they went, the greater the intensity of the tremors in their immortal
apertures. The earth within their blessed lands cracked, boulders started falling down
and countless life forms within died pitifully.

These Gu Immortals came from the ten great ancient sects, they were famous experts
with outstanding battle strength. However, several hundred steps later, most turned
pale, some with weaker cultivation even started trembling slightly.

A thousand steps later, most of the Gu Immortals were covered with sweat, some were
deathly pale. Ao Xue and Ling Mei were walking while supporting each other.

Only Feng Jiu Ge alone was still walking ahead upright, his expression was normal.
Every time he made a move, they were all immortal killer moves, cutting open
passages longer than a hundred steps.

After walking for over three thousand steps, there was much thinner white-gold light
in front, instead a trace of green was vaguely revealed.

"Old Oracle, your deduction was correct, this is indeed a weak area of saint regional
wall, we reached here after only walking over three thousand steps." Someone
immediately praised.
"Beyond saint regional wall is Northern Plains' licorice regional wall. Let's speed up
and break through it in one move!" Old Lord Can Yang attempted to raise the morale
while gasping for breath.

The young looking Gu Immortal Old Oracle, however, was somewhat worried: "My
ability is limited, I could only deduce saint regional wall. Hopefully this area of licorice
regional wall is not too thick."

After around eight minutes, the Gu Immortals were out of saint regional wall and
entered into licorice regional wall.

This regional wall was quite different from saint regional wall. The Gu Immortals felt
an enormous formless force pushing at them and constantly repelling them.

The intensity of the tremors of their immortal apertures increased further, the losses
causing great heartache to many Gu Immortals.

"I hope we can subdue one or two Immortal Gu in this trip to Northern Plains,
otherwise the losses would be too huge." Old Man Tian Long said.

"Sigh, I had passed the regional wall to Northern Plains when I was younger, but back
then the whole process only took about five minutes of time and was very easy." Gu
Immortal Hong Chi Ming sighed deeply.

When he had crossed the regional wall back then, he had only been a rank four Gu
Master. As one's cultivation became higher, the difficulty in traversing regional walls
would become increasingly difficult.

After a long time, this group of Gu Immortals had no choice but to stop.

They were in licorice regional wall and everywhere around them was filled with green
fog. Grass was growing wildly in the fog and was constantly twining and twisting like
a sea of snakes or hair, blocking their paths.

Feng Jiu Ge's body was dripping with sweat and his lips were pale: "This won't do, this
part of licorice regional wall is extremely firm, we need to change to another direction
even if we have to walk more."

Everyone nodded, approving of Feng Jiu Ge's resoluteness.

Old Oracle began to deduce, and in this period of time, the regional wall was constantly
recovering, making the Gu Immortals retreat further.

"This way." Finally, Old Oracle calculated a direction.

The Gu Immortals changed their direction and after suffering bitterly for a day and a
night, they passed the licorice regional wall and entered Northern Plains.

"Rest and reorganize for three days, we will talk after that." Feng Jiu Ge exhaustedly
said.

Among the whole group, only he was able to barely stand while the others fell down
unsteadily to the ground like piles of mud, not wanting to even budge anymore.
Cranes cried out, flying beautifully in the sky, displaying their elegant appearances.

As the wind blew gently, the trees on Fei He mountain were swaying lightly.

The sun was high in the sky, but the sunlight could not penetrate into this dark gloomy
underground secret room.

The underground secret room was plain and simple, the surroundings were stone
walls and other than the stone bed at the center, there was nothing.

Moist water vapor slipped into the cracks of the walls, as moss grew on them.

On the stone bed, there was a rotten and ruined body of a young rank five Gu Master,
it was Gu Yue Fang Zheng.

In order to detect Fang Yuan's location, coordinating with He Feng Yang to attack Hu
Immortal blessed land, Fang Zheng was plotted against by Lord Sky Crane and lost
control of the failed blood demon flower Gu, causing him to lose too much blood and
his soul went on the verge of collapse, as he entered a deep state of unconsciousness.

"You want to revive Fang Zheng?" He Feng Yang was right beside the stone bed, looking
at the spirit incubating flea which was floating in front of him.

Fang Zheng's master was inside the spirit incubating flea — Lord Sky Crane's soul.

At this moment, a firm voice came from within the flea: "Yes lord, I am willing to give
up this possession opportunity, please save Fang Zheng instead."

He Feng Yang turned his gaze towards Fang Zheng who had fainted, saying softly: "The
injuries to his body might seem terrifying, but it is not a big concern, even without my
help, the sect has many ways to heal him. The problem is his soul. He did the blood
sense forcefully this time, it caused a huge burden on his soul, his soul was only a step
away from collapsing."
"Actually, the current situation is most suitable for you to possess his body. This body
has A grade aptitude and a rank five aperture, his soul is extremely weak so if you
undergo possession now, you would win the contest between souls without doubt.
Wasn't possession your goal all along?"

Lord Sky Crane laughed bitterly.

Ever since he used the method to harm Fang Zheng, Lord Sky Crane had been recalling
Fang Zheng's appearance and all the memories of their experiences had been flashing
through his mind.

Fang Zheng's purity, his pursuit of justice, it reminded him of his younger self. Fang
Zheng's desire for revenge was so similar to his own experiences.

"Subordinate's original plan was to possess Fang Zheng. But… now in my heart, I feel
guilt and reluctance. According to logic, he has the bloodline of First Gen Gu Yue, yet
he has been calling me master and trusts me, he had never thought I would harm him.
He believes in justice, just like I did in the past. If I kill him and succeed in the
possession, I would have to live within his shell in the future, how would I face
myself?"

Lord Sky Crane sighed.

He Feng Yang was silent for a while, before he raised his hand and placed it on Fang
Zheng's forehead.

A green light that was gentle as water dripped down from He Feng Yang's palm,
spreading all over Fang Zheng's body.

Everywhere the green light reached, his swollen flesh and scars healed rapidly at a
visible rate.

After several breaths of time, Fang Zheng's body fully recovered, his breathing relaxed,
but he was still unconscious.

"I have already healed his physical body, and stabilized his soul. As a reward for being
my subordinate, I will give you another opportunity, Sky Crane. You do not need to
give up on the possession chance, I will give you some time to consider it, think it
through properly." He Feng Yang said.
"Lord…”

He Feng Yang retracted his hand: "The possession technique we have is not complete,
it originated from Northern Plains. Right now, our sect's Old Lord Can Yang has
followed Feng Jiu Ge into Northern Plains, he had been assigned several missions from
the sect him. One of them is to collect more information and improve the possession
technique. When he returns to the sect, Sky Crane, you will have a higher chance of
succeeding in the possession. By that point, you would have already reflected
thoroughly on it, give me the answer then."

"Lord…”

Without waiting for Lord Sky Crane to finish speaking, He Feng Yang waved his sleeves
and his figure vanished.

Hu Immortal blessed land, in an underground cave.

The wisdom light halo that was shining in many colors shone on Fang Yuan's face.

Fang Yuan's brows were tightly locked, his expression was grim and uncertain.

Guh.

Suddenly, he opened his mouth, spitting a mouthful of green zombie blood. At the
same time, countless joyful wills in his mind collapsed and disintegrated.

This was the first time Fang Yuan had gotten injured from using the light of wisdom.

Fang Yuan stepped out of the light of wisdom, finding a mushroom nearby and sitting
on it like a bench.

He stretched out one arm to wipe the zombie blood around his mouth, as he inspected
his mind while enduring the huge pain in his head.

His mind was experiencing tremors, thoughts disintegrated on their own the moment
they were created. The surrounding boundaries of his mind had mild cracks on them,
this was the backlash due to Fang Yuan's forceful thinking.

At this moment, as long as Fang Yuan had a thought, intense pain would assault his
mind.
He shut his eyes and stopped all his thinking, he was like a rock statue without any
movement.

A while later, he slowly opened his eyes, inspecting his mind again.

The tremors had stopped in his mind, but the boundaries still had remaining cracks
on them. The speed of his thought generation was slower than before, but they would
not collapse upon creation.

That was to say, Fang Yuan could think again.

This injury was no doubt a valuable experience, Fang Yuan learned many things from
it.

"Wisdom path deductions have a risk as well, one can get injured. Just like strength
path, overexerting oneself would cause them to pull their muscles, and their tendons
might even break."

"This time, I was trying to deduce a difficult question of the star path, I used a large
amount of joyful wills and the unlimited inspiration from the light of wisdom to
deduce countless possibilities. It surpassed the limits and endurance level of my mind,
thus I got injured."

"I thought I could use the power of wisdom Gu to deduce the recipe of star shoot Gu.
But now it seems that my star path foundation is too low, the unlimited inspiration
can give me countless possibilities and directions, but I will need to deduce every
single possibility. At the same time, during the process of deduction, more choices
would be generated."

Star shoot Gu was Star Lord Wan Xiang's self-created Gu worm. Using large numbers
of star rain Gu, small numbers of spring wind Gu, as well as many other Gu worms,
one could assemble the killer move — Spring Star Rain.

The effect of spring star rain was to increase the growth rate of plants. Fang Yuan used
it many times to nourish his star fragment grass.

But star shoot Gu was a consumable Gu, right now, he could only purchase it from Star
Lord Wan Xiang, and Star Lord Wan Xiang was making a huge profit out of this Gu.

Fang Yuan had wanted to use the light of wisdom to reverse engineer the star shoot
Gu's recipe, but he did not succeed, and even got himself injured.

"Although star shoot Gu is a mortal Gu, it had been tampered with by Star Lord Wan
Xiang, the recipe is very hard to reverse refine. Unless my star path realm reaches
master level, if not, it will be hard to succeed." Fang Yuan had a realization.

Star path master level realm, it represented a foundation in star path, and could
greatly reduce the possibilities when undergoing deductions. It could help Fang Yuan
reach the correct answer much quicker.

Fang Yuan made an estimate based on the difficulty: "If reverse refining star shoot Gu's
recipe requires star path master level attainment, then researching an entirely new
Gu recipe to create the starlight firefly Gu would be even harder, most likely, star path
grandmaster realm is needed. As for modifying Dou Min Jun's star path inheritance
and creating an entire new star path Gu worm, to amplify the effects of attacking,
defending, movement, and healing in star path Gu worms, that would be even harder.
At least quasi-great grandmaster realm attainment is required."

Starlight firefly Gu was a necessity in activating stargate Gu, it would not hurt to have
more of it.

But in Dou Min Jun's inheritance, a bit of star Gu, brilliance of two stars Gu, three stars
in the sky Gu, four stars cube Gu, five stars aligned Gu, these could amplify the offense
of star path Gu worms. If this was circulated, star path Gu would definitely become
much more popular, it would even have a mild effect on the current status of the
different paths.

Fang Yuan's original plan was to reverse refine the Gu recipe of star shoot Gu and
starlight firefly Gu, one was to escape from his reliance on Star Lord Wan Xiang, but
also to have a method to obtain even more starlight firefly Gu for his use of stargates.

In addition, raising the effects of a bit of star Gu, brilliance of two stars Gu, three stars
in the sky Gu… this series of Gu worms would help in developing a whole new star
path killer move that would suit Fang Yuan's needs, and raise his battle strength.

But after making an attempt, Fang Yuan knew that this was not feasible yet.

Even if he had the light of wisdom and had unlimited inspiration, his refinement path
realm was master level, his star path realm was merely ordinary, it was hard for his
plans to work.
"It seems that to raise my battle strength, I have to focus on my strengths and make
use of my advantages." Fang Yuan assessed himself, he was a blood path grandmaster,
strength path grandmaster, flying quasi-grandmaster, refinement path master,
enslavement path master, as well as transformation path master.

He first eliminated blood path.

Blood path Gu Immortals were heavily targeted by everyone, because blood path
cultivation focused on harming others to raise one's own battle strength. The
righteous and demonic paths were both unwilling to face such a huge threat like blood
path Gu Immortals.

Only during the five regions chaotic war, when the law and order of the regions go into
chaos, would blood path emerge again.

Although Fang Yuan had Blood Deity's remnant recipe, he did not want to deduce the
completed recipe yet, he did not have the financial capability to refine blood deity
Immortal Gu now.

Furthermore, the blood path inheritance in his previous life had yet to mature, he
could not retrieve it yet.

Next, Fang Yuan eliminated strength path.

Strength path had once flourished in the past, at present, it had already heavily
declined. Even though there were incredible geniuses like Chu Du, it was unlikely for
the past glory of strength path to reappear.

The might and prosperity of a path not only relied on genius Gu Masters and Gu
Immortals, they also relied on resources.

In the present era, the resources for strength path had mostly gone extinct, or were
extremely rare.

Strength path had little prospects, many Gu recipes were lost, and the future was grim.
Even though Fang Yuan was a strength path immortal zombie, he did not want to walk
on this path.

The reason he chose strength path was because the conditions back then were very
convenient, he would use it as a springboard, to change to another path in the future.
He later became a strength path immortal zombie because he was left with no choice
in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building.

Unless Fang Yuan was like Hei Lou Lan with multiple strength path Immortal Gu, who
can raise her battle strength using these Immortal Gu. But such a situation was not
feasible for Fang Yuan.

Blood path and strength path were dead ends, flying quasi-grandmaster was merely
part of his battle proficiency, refinement path did not excel in fighting, Fang Yuan's
only options were enslavement path and transformation path.

But enslavement path needed beast groups.

At the level of Gu Immortals, ordinary beasts were of little use. Their core beast groups
would be elevated from mutated beast kings and beast emperors to desolate beasts.

Fang Yuan used the light of wisdom and thought about it for a long time.

Three days later, he finally made a breakthrough in transformation path.

Time flew by quickly and in a blink of an eye, ten days had passed in Hu Immortal
blessed land.

Fang Yuan was flying in the air.

"Hair armor." His thoughts shifted, his hair grew wildly and instantly condensed into
a malevolent looking pitch black armor full of spikes.

"Icy drill stardust." Fang Yuan pinched at the air with his five fingers, a ball of starlight
formed on his hand.

The starlight constantly let out crackling sounds, looking closely inside, one could
discover there were countless small specks of icy drills colliding and exploding non-
stop.

Fang Yuan slowly pressed this ball of starlight into the hair armor on his chest.

The hair armor lasted for a few breaths before it began to be damaged. A dozen or so
breaths later, the surroundings of the damaged area were dyed azure blue, and the
blue frost was spreading everywhere.

Twenty breaths later, the hair armor completely shattered, and there was a small hole
on Fang Yuan's chest.

This was completely within Fang Yuan's expectations.

He had merged Du Min Jun's inheritance into icy drill stardust, this would sell for four
immortal essence stones in treasure yellow heaven. And the defensive killer move hair
armor would only be worth around two and a half immortal essence stones.

The starlight on his palm dissipated, Fang Yuan willed and activated hair armor again.
However, the hair armor this time was different, it was a new and improved version,
having gone through many days of experimentation.

The hair armor transformed quickly. The useless malevolent spikes were removed.
The black iron-like luster before also turned into bronze.

The primary cause for this was Fang Yuan perfectly merging large numbers of golden
lion fur Gu into the original foundation of hair armor.

Golden lion fur Gu was a rank five mortal Gu that could let Gu Masters grow golden
lion fur, increasing their defense and having an even higher increase in resistance to
metal path attacks.

Several breaths later, the original black iron spiked hair armor was gone, and replacing
it was a smooth bronze armor which was twice the thickness of the black armor. The
helmet had turned into the shape of a lion roaring with an open mouth, revealing Fang
Yuan's face inside. The defensive ability had also increased by one hundred and fifty
percent. If it was defending against metal path attacks, the defensive power would
increase by a whole two hundred percent.

Fang Yuan made a lump of starlight again and pressed it towards his chest area like
before.

The stardust drilled endlessly into the hair armor, but after a whole dozen or so
breaths had gone by, the starlight was completely used up and merely a crack appear
on the hair armor.

"Let's call it lion fur armor." Fang Yuan mumbled to himself before raising his eight
arms and letting out eight lumps of starlight.

The starlight flew to the sky and gathered into a large lump.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, charging into the large lump of stardust with his lion fur
armor.

The icy drill stardust constantly produced tiny explosions which impacted against
Fang Yuan's lion fur armor from all directions.

Fang Yuan constantly maintained the lion fur armor killer move, rapidly restoring any
cracks that appeared. He maintained it till the starlight lump dissipated, and then flew
down. There was not even a trace of a crack on the lion fur armor.

"Such recovery ability is about twice that of before. If placed in treasure yellow heaven,
this could sell for four and a half immortal essence stones."

Lion fur armor was one of the accomplishments Fang Yuan had made these days.

He returned to Dang Hun palace where Hu Immortal land spirit was maintaining
connecting heaven Gu, paying attention to treasure yellow heaven.

"How is the situation?" Fang Yuan asked.

"Master, the other party is still insisting on four immortal essence stones and shows
no signs of lowering it." Little Hu Immortal land spirit replied.

Fang Yuan wanted to buy a pair of bat desolate beast wings.

The other party had killed this bat desolate beast and was putting its corpse on sale
in treasure yellow heaven. Fang Yuan had asked for price before, but the other party
had asked for four immortal essence stones just for this pair of bat wings, and their
attitude was firm, not willing to lower it.

Four immortal essence stones was no doubt an expensive price. Back then, when Fang
Yuan bought a six headed snake's skeleton, he had only had to pay three immortal
essence stones.

According to the normal price, it should be two and a half at most.

Fang Yuan personally activated divine sense Gu and used the identity of Eight Arm
Immortal to get in touch with the seller: "I am willing to pay three immortal essence
stones to buy this pair of bat wings."

The seller's will, however, refused: "I'm not selling, not selling, the lowest is at least
four immortal essence stones."

Fang Yuan snorted: "Sir is too greedy, look at how damaged these desolate beast wings
are, they would normally only sell for two and a half immortal essence stones. If not
for me wanting to research some new Gu and coincidentally happening to need this
material, I would not have even asked."
The seller's will's tone softened and it sighed: "I am also helpless, my losses were too
severe when hunting this desolate beast. This desolate beast's blood had already
flowed out and my main body also suffered heavy injuries, if I don't sell it for this price,
my finances will collapse and it might even lead to a delay in healing my injuries."

"Whether you live or die, is that my problem? Also, why would I believe your one-sided
words? Three immortal essence stones, are you selling or not?" Fang Yuan said coldly.

"Not selling."

Fang Yuan immediately withdrew his divine sense.

After a while, he commanded Little Hu Immortal land spirit to inquire about the price
and show a stance of being impatient: "How about this, I will take out three immortal
essence stones to buy your bat wings. Say it, are you selling or not?"

The seller's will hesitated this time, but still refused in the end: "This pair of wings is
the most valuable part of the whole desolate beast corpse. If sir only wants to buy the
wings, it won't be easy for me to sell the remaining parts. If you are sincerely thinking
of buying, how about you take out five immortal essence stones to buy this whole
desolate beast corpse?"

Little Hu Immortal talked with Fang Yuan, and replied: "I only need the wings, what
will I do with the other parts? I have wasted enough time already. Three immortal
essence stones are already a lot, alright I shall give you three and a half immortal
essence stones, this is my final bottom line. If you are still not selling, then forget it."

The seller's will was clearly shaken and it replied with hesitation: "This… let me
consider it."

The land spirit hastened him: "My patience has limits, I will give you five breaths of
time. Any longer and I might just take back my offer."

Four breaths passed before the seller's will heaved a long sigh. He also knew that
although there was a high demand for desolate beast corpses but his price was indeed
high. Gu Immortals were shrewd people, there were few that would spend money
casually.

"Alright, I will sell…” The seller's will was just replying when a divine sense interrupted
him, "Slow down, I want this bat desolate beast's corpse, I will give you five immortal
essence stones."

"Eh? Sir is Immortal Monkey King!" This change naturally made the seller very happy.

If he sold the bat wings to Fang Yuan for three and a half immortal essence stones,
then trying to sell the remaining parts of the corpse which were extremely damaged
for one immortal essence stone would be demanding a very high price.

Now, Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei cut in and was willing to pay five immortal
essence stones, the seller was naturally willing to accept this transaction.

"Wait a second, we have already made the deal. Immortal Monkey King, what do you
think you are doing by suddenly butting in?" Hu Immortal land spirit refused to accept
this.

"What deal?" Shi Lei scoffed, "Who are you kidding? Does business in treasure yellow
heaven pay attention to first come, first serve? The item will naturally go to whoever
pays the higher price. Since the transaction has not been carried out, there is no deal."

After saying that, Shi Lei then said to the seller: "Hey, this deal will earn you a great
profit, why are you not quickly finishing the transaction?"

The seller's will was just about to nod when Hu Immortal land spirit obtained Fang
Yuan's instructions and immediately prevented it: "Slow down, I will pay five and a
half immortal essence stones."

"Hmph, only adding half an immortal essence stone, aren't you too petty? I will pay
seven immortal essence stones." Shi Lei said with a rich and overbearing attitude.

Hu Immortal land spirit's tone immediately became gloomy: "Since it is so, I will pay
eight immortal essence stones."

"Eight?" Shi Lei laughed, "Then I will pay nine!"

"Nine and a half." Hu Immortal land spirit immediately quoted.

That seller's will had never expected such a change and was already overjoyed.

Shi Lei was dazed before laughing loudly: "Alright, Hu Immortal, as expected of
someone doing the business of guts Gu, you have so much money. I don't want to
contend with a junior. Just a mere damaged desolate beast corpse, I hope you can be
happy when you take it."

The divine sense left directly after laughing heartily.

"Hu… Lord Hu Immortal… you meant what you said, right?" The seller's will wore a
fawning smile as he said while stammering. From the looks of it, he had not lied before,
he was indeed a poor rank six Gu Immortal.

"Hmph, business needs to be done with sincerity, would my words be a lie?" Hu

Immortal land spirit coldly snorted.

The two finished the transaction.

The seller received nine and a half immortal essence stones while Fang Yuan obtained
a bat desolate beast's corpse.

After this transaction, Fang Yuan checked his wealth again; he had one hundred and
seventy-two immortal essence stones and seventy-seven beads of green grape
immortal essence.

So far, Fang Yuan had already sold the sixth batch of guts Gu. It was an average of one
batch per month and every batch gave him forty-eight immortal essence stones in
profit.

Over these six months, Fang Yuan had completed one transaction of an Immortal Gu
recipe with Lang Ya land spirit, earning over twenty immortal essence stones.

But he had fed the eight desolate beasts earlier and converted large numbers of
immortal essence stones into green grape immortal essence. He also consumed green
grape immortal essence to reverse refine star path Gu recipes, which ended in failure,
and finally, to make a breakthrough using transformation path, he improved on his
killer moves.

He had not only improved his defensive killer move hair armor to lion fur armor, but
also upgraded light illusion bat wings by a great degree.

But to complete the new light illusion bat wings, he needed to transplant a pair of real
bat wings onto his immortal zombie body.
Because of this, Fang Yuan did not hesitate on spending a large amount to buy this bat
desolate beast's corpse.

"Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei, making me spend three times the price to buy this bat
corpse. I will remember this."

Shi Lei was a higher up of Combat Immortal Sect, which was one of the ten great
ancient sects. During his previous life's five regions chaotic war, after Feng Jiu Ge died,
he replaced Feng Jiu Ge as the most powerful rank seven in Central Continent. He was
an earth path expert but cultivated transformation path as well, having secretly
obtained several inheritances of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable.

Fang Yuan thought of raising the price of guts Gu to Combat Immortal Sect, but he
dispelled this thought after pondering about it.

For the next half a month, he concentrated on handling the bat desolate beast's corpse.

He carefully cut apart the bat wings and did more than a dozen sessions of meticulous
treatment and maintenance.

He then used fire path and strength path Gu worms to constantly temper the bat
wings; as a result, the extremely wide bat wings gradually became more condensed
and small.

Finally, after Fang Yuan endured intense pain, he finally succeeded in transplanting
the bat wings onto his back.
A wind wolf had its head lowered, its four limbs were stealthily moving as it traveled
in the lush grassland.

The prey that it was targeting was a pink flower rabbit.

The rabbit's two ears were standing on end, listening to every movement nearby. The
rabbit's head was buried in the flowers, eating pollen as food.

As a cool breeze blew on this mountain, flowers blossomed in this lush greenery,
giving off waves of fragrant smells.

The wind wolf slowly got closer, but the pink flower rabbit had no idea.

Suddenly, a black shadow flew past the ground rapidly.

The pink flower rabbit was shocked, it raised its head. Even though Hu Immortal
blessed land had no eagle groups, it sprinted away in fear, managing to survive this
trial, causing the wind wolf to fail in its hunt.

Fang Yuan, who was flying in the air, observed all of this.

He could not help but start to think: "Right now, I have ample funds, and my own
blessed land has turned into a dead aperture, I might as well manage this Hu Immortal
blessed land first. After the journey in Northern Plains, the beast groups in Hu
Immortal blessed land had fallen in numbers, becoming very sparse. Right now, I am
already selling guts Gu, the rockmen transaction is simply unnecessary."

"Hu Immortal was an enslavement path Gu Immortal, Hu Immortal blessed land has a
grassland landscape, it is most suited for raising fox groups. If I raise the vitality of Hu
Immortal blessed land and make it flourish with life, when I revive, I would gain much
greater benefits if I fuse this Hu Immortal blessed land."

Thinking so, Fang Yuan inspected the bat wings on his back.
This was the third time he had tested out flying with these newly transplanted bat
wings on his back.

The processed bat wings, if spread fully, were not even half of Fang Yuan's arm length.
They were yellow-brown in color, and were quite petite, they seemed much less
impressive than the prior light illusion bat wings.

But Fang Yuan did not care about appearance, he only looked at its value and
usefulness.

The new light illusion bat wings gave Fang Yuan almost double the speed boost, at the
same time, the duration of his flight had greatly increased. After all, the bat wings back
then were only a phantom, the bat wings now were real physical wings.

The flesh, skin, fur, bones, and blood were all condensed and refined. There were also
many Gu worms inside these wings.

The Gu worms residing in the bat wings were used to activate the newly modified
movement killer move, light illusion bat wings.

"No, right now, using the name light illusion bat wings for this killer move is no longer
appropriate. I should call it true solid bat wings." Fang Yuan created a new name for
this newly modified killer move.

He was more pleased with this movement killer move true solid bat wings than the
lion fur armor.

If this movement killer move was sold in treasure yellow heaven, it could be sold for
six immortal essence stones or more!

That was because true solid bat wings had much potential left, one pair of bat wings
was not its limit. It could transplant three pairs of bat wings at most. The origin of
these wings should be at least desolate beasts. Of course, ancient desolate beasts and
immemorial desolate beasts would be even better.

If Fang Yuan could transplant three pairs of desolate beast bat wings on his back, his
speed would be at least three times faster.

Light illusion bat wings was the most widely spread movement killer move during the
five regions chaotic war due to its price to value ratio. On that basis, raising one's speed
by three times as much would be even more impressive.

Even though it could not compare to movement Immortal Gu like Worldly Wave Trace,
or Rising Azure Cloud, if Fang Yuan met Plump Lady again, her light sand escape would
not allow her to run from Fang Yuan's assault.

As the winds blew intensely behind him, Fang Yuan flapped with his wings and flew
up into the sky.

After flying to a high altitude in midair, Fang Yuan closed his eyes and felt the sensation
of the air currents blowing on the bat wings silently.

His immortal zombie body could not feel any pain, his sense of touch was nearly non-
existent. This was a strength and also a weakness.

When Fang Yuan transplanted the bat wings, he spent a lot of effort in order to retain
the sense of pain and touch that the bat wings had. Only by doing this could he have a
clearer and realistic feeling of the air when he flaps his wings, to feel the strength of
the air currents, and to sense the state of the wings.

Losing the sense of pain numbed him and made Fang Yuan fight more fiercely.

But flying was another matter.

Flying required meticulous control, especially when Fang Yuan's flying attainment had
reached quasi-grandmaster level. Only by regaining his sense of pain and touch could
he truly display his actual flying attainment.

If it was a pair of zombified wings, the feeling would be very vague, especially in
intense battles, when he needed to rely on the wings, sensitive nerves would allow
him to react and adapt more easily, instead of being rough and careless.

"With a boost in movement strength, I will be able to advance or retreat at will. After
I get three pairs of wings, true solid bat wings will be an exceptional mortal killer
move, it would only lose out to worldly wave trace Immortal Gu."

Fang Yuan was a strength path Gu Immortal, he obtained a strength path immortal
body. Worldly wave trace Immortal Gu had the law of water path, when Fang Yuan uses
this Immortal Gu, water path and strength path do not work together perfectly, there
was a problem of them restricting each other.
If a fire path Gu Immortal uses worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, his speed would be
even slower than Fang Yuan.

The most suitable would be water path Gu Immortals, when they use this same Gu, by
expending the same amount of immortal essence, they would achieve greater speed.

Most importantly, true solid bat wings was a mortal killer move, compared to using
worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, it had a much greater value to cost ratio.

This was the intelligence of humans.

Using the combination of many mortal Gu, they could achieve an effect that was only
somewhat below Immortal Gu.

Using Gu, nurturing Gu, and refining Gu, they were extremely profound and deep.

"The corpse of a desolate beast is rarely seen, even if Gu Immortals sell new beast
corpses in treasure yellow heaven, they might not be bats. To collect two more pairs
of bat wings, I would need to actively seek them. It seems that now, I should take some
risks and go to Starry Sky grotto-heaven."

The immortal aperture of a rank eight or nine was known as a grotto-heaven.

The owner of Starry Sky grotto-heaven was a rank eight Gu Immortal from one
thousand and seven hundred years ago, Seven Star Child.

Seven Star Child had died long ago, during Fang Yuan's previous life, one day, Starry
Sky grotto-heaven fell from high up in Central Continent, it broke up into tens of
immortal aperture fragments, and was scattered all over Central Continent.

Fang Yuan had already become a Gu Immortal, he could not enter these grotto-heaven
fragments.

These fragment worlds of the grotto-heaven were already very fragile, Fang Yuan's
cultivation level was too high and if he tried entering one, it would destroy the
extremely unstable grotto-heaven fragment.

Thankfully, Fang Yuan had a bunch of elite subordinates in Blood Wing Demon Sect.

After competing with several Gu Immortals, they split a relatively large grotto-heaven
fragment world between themselves.

Fang Yuan and the other immortals sent their respective Gu Master disciples or
subordinates towards the grotto-heaven fragment world to explore and find
resources.

Fang Yuan left a will in each of his capable subordinates' minds to direct and supervise
them.

Thus, he was rather familiar with the scenery inside Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

"In this life, currently, Starry Sky grotto-heaven is still high up in the sky, it had not
fallen or broken into pieces. The scenery of Starry Sky grotto-heaven in my mind will
allow me to use Fixed Immortal Travel to enter the grotto-heaven in advance, to take
the resources inside. I remember that there were a number of desolate beasts inside
the grotto-heaven, there were even ancient desolate beasts and among them, there
was a star demon bat desolate beast. My goal this time is to go and kill the star demon
bat, and obtain the wings. At the same time, I can check the situation and see if I can
capture a desolate beast and bring it to Lang Ya land spirit." Fang Yuan planned in his
mind.

There were still many places in Fang Yuan's memories that were similar to this Starry
Sky grotto-heaven.

But for some, now was not the time yet, and others were simply too dangerous.

Starry Sky grotto-heaven was the immortal aperture of a rank eight Gu Immortal, it
had not reached the point of breaking down like in Fang Yuan's previous life, it was
still very strong now.

"In my previous life, I only sent people to indirectly explore the grotto-heaven
fragment world. By that time, the heavenly spirit was no longer around. But in this life,
if I go now, the heavenly spirit is sure to be alive, it can summon the entire defensive
power of Starry Sky grotto-heaven. If I had not become an immortal zombie, I would
not have the qualifications to explore it."

Fang Yuan did not know too much about the current Starry Sky grotto-heaven, he
could only deduce it based on his previous life's experiences.

In his previous life, he was not the person who benefited the most from this
opportunity. It was a rank eight immortal zombie who rose up as a result of this. The
ten great ancient sects which had been extremely forceful all along suffered a loss
under the hands of this immortal zombie.

Next, this immortal zombie entered the Central Continent Zombie Alliance branch,
and easily defeated the branch leader, becoming the one in charge and calling himself
Star Constellation immortal zombie.

He had been the cause of many incidents, during the five regions chaotic war, he was
an overlord that could hold his own in his territory.

As for the real Starry Sky heavenly spirit, Fang Yuan did not see it, and did not know
the conditions for the grotto-heaven to belong to a new owner.

A few days later, Hei Lou Lan brought strength qi Immortal Gu and entered Hu
Immortal blessed land using a stargate. Next, in Fang Yuan's stone nest, she and Fang
Yuan, together with the thousands of hairy men, refined the eighth batch of airsac Gu.

After this, Hei Lou Lan did not leave immediately, instead she stayed in Hu Immortal
blessed land and listened to Fang Yuan's information on Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

With Fang Yuan's current strength, it was rather dangerous to enter Starry Sky grotto-
heaven.

Thus, Fang Yuan invited his allies.

But Fairy Li Shan was cooperating with Qin Bai Sheng right now, her mountain pledge
Gu was having great use at this time, it allowed Qin Bai Sheng to gather his forces and
eliminate the enmity of his foes, he was preparing for a Northern Plains auction that
was of unprecedented scale.

Qin Bai Sheng's compensation to Fairy Li Shan was an Immortal Gu.

With such great benefits, Fairy Li Shan obviously chose Qin Bai Sheng and gave up on
working with Fang Yuan this time.

As for Tai Bai Yun Sheng, he was with Shark Demon now, entering the sea and
exploring Yu Lu blessed land.

Even thought Tai Bai Yun Sheng wanted to help his 'junior brother' Fang Yuan, he was
afflicted with death sentence awaits Immortal Gu, and could not split himself into two,
there was nothing he could do to help.

Only Hei Lou Lan was free now, she agreed with Fang Yuan to explore Starry Sky
grotto-heaven together.

According to the Snowy Mountain Alliance, since the two were exploring and taking
the risk together, any losses to Hei Lou Lan would not require Fang Yuan to
compensate her twice the amount. At the same time, their gains would be split into
Fang Yuan getting sixty percent, and Hei Lou Lan getting forty percent.

After resting for a few days in Hu Immortal blessed land, Hei Lou Lan entered Fang
Yuan's immortal aperture.

Fang Yuan tried to activate Fixed Immortal Travel with the image in his mind.

He tried for three or four times, but he did not succeed.

Fang Yuan was not surprised.

The image in his memories, although it was a portion of Starry Sky grotto-heaven, it
had already fallen at that time, and the scenery had changed drastically.

Thankfully, Fang Yuan had many images in his memories.

After trying for a dozen times, after he spent more than ten beads of green grape
immortal essence, he finally succeeded.

With a flash of jade green light, at the next moment, he appeared inside Starry Sky
grotto-heaven.
They appeared before a thick forest which was verdant and lush, the foot of the
mountain was serene and fog filled the place.

Fang Yuan had already activated lion fur armor to protect him tightly. He used all his
concentration to quickly scan his surroundings and discovered that he had appeared
on the waist of a mountain.

Surrounding him were tall ancient trees, and even his six meter tall immortal zombie
body could not reach one-third of these giant trees.

Raising his head, he gazed at the sky through the opening between the lush leaves.

The sky was a tranquil green color. There were six giant shadows of stars in the green
sky, they appeared to be six round moons in the color of red, brown, yellow, blue,
purple and white.

Fang Yuan opened his immortal aperture, and Hei Lou Lan shortly appeared outside,
stepping on the mountain stones.

Her eyes flashed with bright light as she looked around: "This is inside Starry Sky
grotto-heaven?"

"It is indeed, let's go. The desolate beast that I want to kill, star demon bat, should be
nearby."

The two did not know the exact location of the star demon bat, thus they casually
chose a direction and moved along it.

While moving forward, the two used investigative methods to scan around them all
the time. After advancing to a Gu Immortal, they had unlimited primeval essence and
could use mortal Gu freely.

The two had also made ample preparations before they had come here.
Although they did not have investigative killer moves, they had prepared large
numbers of investigative Gu worms of all paths to not only enhance their vision and
hearing, but also to sense the slight tremors when they walked, and to smell any odd
odors when they breathed. At the same time, they spread out their divine senses to
cover their surroundings, attaining completion in all aspects of scouting.

Time flowed little by little, but this forest did not seem to have any end.

"Five minutes have already gone by, there seems to be something wrong!" Hei Lou Lan
stopped and solemnly asked Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan nodded, saying in a deep voice: "Indeed, we have already been in Starry Sky
grotto-heaven for some time now but haven't actually encountered a single wild beast.
There are only trees or fog. Whether we go up the mountain or down, or move in any
direction, things all look the same."

Hei Lou Lan looked up: "Let's fly."

The two carefully flew up.

The green sky was completely empty; if the two flew high up, they would be very
conspicuous and it would be extremely easy for them to be discovered by beast groups
and get surrounded.

Thus for safety purposes, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had chosen to move along the
ground.

Right now, the two took the risk to attempt flying, but the result was disappointing.

The higher they flew up, the thicker the fog became. Finally, the fog became so thick
that they could not even see their own fingers.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan's investigative methods were greatly restricted in this fog.

The two discussed and chose to be cautious, not willing to continue taking this risk,
they descended to the ground.

"Has the Starry Sky heavenly spirit already begun to target us?" Hei Lou Lan guessed.

"The situation here, if it is not a unique law of the grotto-heaven, then it is an illusion,
quietly disturbing our sense of direction and obstructing our true senses.
Unfortunately, I don't have any investigative killer moves." Fang Yuan replied.

"Don't you have wisdom path methods?" Wisdom path is also specialized in resolving
these kinds of circumstances." Hei Lou Lan asked while frowning.

Fang Yuan shook his head: "I indeed have some wisdom path methods, but they are
rather special, they cannot deduce directions. How about you, do you have any
investigative killer moves?"

Hei Lou Lan snorted lightly and raised her two delicate fists: "I don't have any
investigative killer moves, but I do have offensive killer moves! Self Strength!"

She suddenly punched out with her two fists, sending out majestic fist qi.

The fist qi surged all around and rapidly condensed into strength path phantoms.

These strength path phantoms had fat bodies like bears with triangular eyes and
jagged teeth. It was the male shape Hei Lou Lan had disguised as before.

Fang Yuan took a few steps back to give Hei Lou Lan sufficient space.

These strength path phantoms pounced at Hei Lou Lan's main body. The phantoms
merged together and soon covered Hei Lou Lan, forming a giant strength path
phantom.

This killer move had astonishing might, Hei Lou Lan had used it before in Northern
Plains to destroy the flying bear phantom.

She again raised a fist.

The giant fist ruthlessly smashed at an ancient tree on the side.

The thick and sturdy ancient tree immediately broke into two; the lower half remained
at the ground but was shaking intensely, the soil around it splattered to reveal the tree
roots. The upper half was directly sent flying, cutting through the wind as it collided
with another ancient tree, smashing two to three branches.

Boom boom boom…

Hei Lou Lan punched and kicked, the heavy punches and kicks shook the earth, stones
flew, trees toppled down and the fog dispersed.

Fang Yuan flew into the sky, his sight was now much more clear.

He saw this forest only had the range of a hundred li, he and Hei Lou Lan had been
moving in a circle.

Outside of this forest, he saw a scene abundant in nature and life; the wild beasts
roaming around, the cries of birds and insects, the gurgling of streams and wild
flowers swaying with the wind.

"It seems this forest itself was special, it should be an extinct tree species. Your
information source is somewhat dubious, our entry was actually in this forest." The
giant strength path phantom transmitted its divine sense to communicate with Fang
Yuan.

Even Fang Yuan, with his plentiful experiences from his previous life and broad vision,
did not recognize the origin of this kind of tree.

He gave a bitter laugh and changed the topic: "After the trees became sparse, this forest
no longer has the bewilderment effect. We should take some and plant it in our own
blessed lands, maybe we can make some profits."

There was absolutely no issue with the information source.

Because he himself was the information supplier.

In his previous life, Starry Sky grotto-heaven had shattered into many parts which
then fell towards Central Continent. When Fang Yuan had sent people to explore the
grotto-heaven's fragment world, this forest was already in a different shape, much of
it had been damaged and thus it did not show any special effects.

This was an warning to Fang Yuan — although he had previous life's memories,
however he had come early to Starry Sky grotto-heaven in this life, the situation was
different, and he could not blindly rely on these memories.

The giant strength path phantom gazed at these ancient trees: "Even if you had not
said it, I intended to do it."
When the two had just taken four to five trees, a dog shaped desolate beast charged
down from the top of the mountain.

The dog shaped desolate beast growled, not concealing the fierce glare of its eyes as it
looked directly at Hei Lou Lan. Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantom giant was not
concealed by the trees and was exceptionally conspicuous.

Fang Yuan looked at the source of the growl and saw the desolate beast. Its body was
as large as a small hill, and glossy azure fur covered it. Whether it was its head,
stomach, back, tail or its limbs, they were all covered with star shaped stripes. These
stripes were emitting faint blue radiance.

Fang Yuan recognized this beast with just one glance, immediately reminding Hei Lou
Lan: "This is a star desolate hound, it should be this mountain's overlord. Let's check
how powerful the desolate beasts in Starry Sky grotto-heaven are. If it is weak, don't
kill it, it is best if we capture it alive, I have other uses for it!"

Hei Lou Lan frowned.

She had an extreme physique strength path immortal body and possessed several
great strength path Immortal Gu; it was not difficult for her to kill a desolate beast, but
she still had some difference between the level of capturing a desolate beast alive.

However, Fang Yuan continued: "You take the lead, I will support. Decide it according
to the situation, if we can really capture it alive, I will use immortal essence stones to
pay you."

"Alright, then let's do it like that." Hei Lou Lan was not an irresolute person, with a
loud shout, the giant strength path phantom took large and loud steps as it charged
towards the star desolate hound.

The star desolate hound fiercely charged down from above and pounced at the giant
strength path phantom.

Hei Lou Lan was not to be outdone and immediately punched and kicked, clashing
with the star desolate hound. The two huge figures rolled down from partway up the
mountain towards the foot, like a rolling gourd.

It was like a giant compactor had steamrolled through a path, as the trees were
toppled, protruding boulders were smashed and beast and birds who had not time to
escape were crushed into paste.

Fang Yuan flapped his bat wings and flew down.

Eight lumps of starlight condensed separately on his eight monstrous claws, but they
did not crash down yet.

Hei Lou Lan's giant strength path phantom was rolling and turning around at times as
it clashed with the star desolate hound, like a rolling wheel. The fight was fierce but
the situation was still not decided, the attacks moved so quickly that even an old
demon like Fang Yuan was not able to find an opportunity to interfere.

Rumble…

Dust flew up, the giant phantom and the desolate beast rolled down to the foot of the
mountain before finally stopping.

The star desolate hound fiercely pounced on the giant phantom. It raised its head and
opened its mouth, revealing the snow-white canines that were as sharp as swords and
long as halberds, and bit down.

Fang Yuan saw the chance, his eight arms moved and the eight lumps of starlight that
had accumulated enough energy slammed down.

Bam bam bam…

A series of explosions resounded, the star desolate hound furiously barked, its attack
was interrupted.

The giant hound head shook in every direction, flinging off the starlight lumps.

However, Hei Lou Lan obtained the critical opportunity due to this, letting out a fierce
attack.

The giant strength path phantom bent its knee and fiercely struck a crucial part
between the star desolate hound's rear legs.

Howl——!

The star desolate hound immediately let out an extremely painful cry, its giant body
fiercely jumped like it had been electrocuted and bounced around in the lush forest.

Fang Yuan immediately fluttered over, not giving the star desolate hound any time to
recover.

He flapped his wings in the sky, moving nimbly like a fly as he threw down lumps of
starlight right at the star desolate hound's vital areas like eyes, mouth and anus.

The star desolate hound bounced around everywhere but it was gradually not able to
hide from Fang Yuan's crafty attacks and started to whine in pain.

The star desolate hound had defensive wild Gu on it.

But facing a killer move like icy drill stardust, a defense from ordinary wild Gu would
not work, instead the defensive Gu would rapidly die when facing icy drill stardust.

Hei Lou Lan controlled her giant strength path phantom and stood up.

"As expected of a desolate beast." Hei Lou Lan sighed in her heart.

The strength path killer move that had never failed her before was actually not able to
resist the tyrannical strength of the star desolate hound. Especially this giant strength
path phantom, which was the pinnacle transformation of her killer move, and yet was
actually not a match against the star desolate hound in terms of strength.

"Since that is the case, then let me use self strength Immortal Gu." Hei Lou Lan gave a
sinister smile and was about to attack.

Suddenly, familiar barks came down from the nearby two mountain peaks.

Shortly afterwards, two female star desolate hounds charged into Fang Yuan and Hei
Lou Lan's sight.

Fang Yuan's movement slowed down, Hei Lou Lan's pupils shrunk, and as if they had
identical thoughts in mind, they transmitted the same message to each other: "Run!"
Three star desolate hounds chased, as Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan retreated along the
way.

It was not that they could not defeat the three desolate beasts, but they would have to
engage in fierce combat and expend a lot of effort to defeat them.

As Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were inside an unfamiliar environment like Starry Sky
grotto-heaven, they would not want to fight with their full strength randomly,
especially not against these desolate beasts which they had met by chance, only a fool
would do such a thing.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were experienced schemers, this trip of exploring Starry
Sky grotto-heaven needed to be handled with caution, they had to preserve their
battle strength to deal with unexpected situations.

Especially when the heavenly spirit of Starry Sky grotto-heaven had not shown itself
yet.

The heavenly spirit controlled all aspects of the grotto-heaven, when Fang Yuan and
Hei Lou Lan entered, they would have been detected already.

Fang Yuan led the way, flapping his wings continuously, he was extremely fast. He did
not dare to fly at high altitude, he only flew near the ground.

Hei Lou Lan was much slower than Fang Yuan, she was behind him as she deeply
looked at his wings, thinking and comparing in her heart: "Fang Yuan's current speed
is not outstanding, I can reach it. But he can move and maneuver so agilely and
precisely, he can swerve around the branches of the trees so freely."

After nearly ten li of flying, the three star desolate hounds behind them stopped and
gave up on Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan, no longer chasing them.

The two stopped at a tall tree and took a small rest to recover.
Fang Yuan stood on the crown of the tree, trying to decipher their direction, the
surrounding mountains were not far from each other, yet they were independent and
distinct.

Some mountain peaks had green pines growing on them. Some had only shrubs. Some
had no trees and only had weeds and wild flowers — all these were man made
arrangements, nature would not have made things so organized.

Fang Yuan could tell.

The owner of Starry Sky grotto-heaven, Seven Star Child, had categorized these
mountain peaks into independent areas to nurture different vegetation. This way, he
could raise the productivity of specialized products.

"It seems that the owner of this grotto-heaven had spent quite some effort on
managing it." Hei Lou Lan walked over, standing beside Fang Yuan and observing the
area.

Fang Yuan instead frowned.

This landscape was simply too different from the one in his memories. Did that mean
that hundreds of years later, there would be a huge change to Starry Sky grotto-
heaven's terrain, causing it to be completely different after it broke apart and
collapsed?

This way, Fang Yuan's previous life's memories could not give him any precious help.

Hei Lou Lan directed her gaze towards the small bat wings on Fang Yuan's back, asking
with great interest: "Your killer move is not bad, where did you buy it?"

According to the Snowy Mountain Alliance, Fang Yuan could not lie to Hei Lou Lan, but
he could choose to not talk about it.

However, true solid bat wings was an ordinary technique of Fang Yuan's, he did not
need to hide it.

He answered plainly: "This killer move is based on an improvement of my previous

killer move, suited for my immortal zombie body. If you want to use it, you will need
to transplant a pair of bat wings onto your back."
Hei Lou Lan heard this and frowned, though not because she was concerned over
destroying her image, she pursued strength: "The body of a desolate beast is also an
immortal body. Just like the bodies of us Gu Immortals, their bodies contain dao marks
and are closer to certain laws. Your pair of bat wings should not have the dao marks
of strength path, they are closer to wind path. Transplanting them casually like this,
are you not afraid that there would be a conflict between strength path and wind path,
resulting in your strength path killer moves weakening?"

Fang Yuan chuckled: "You know about how Reckless Savage Demon Venerable can
transform into all sorts of fierce beasts, right?"

"Of course. Reckless Savage Demon Venerable created transformation path, he was the
progenitor of transformation path." Hei Lou Lan answered.

"The essence of transformation path is to transform one's own body into a fierce beast
or plant, and obtain their strength and abilities at the same time. A transformation
path Gu Master can become a wind path bird, fire path tiger, or water path fish, using
just one path to project countless paths. Why do their dao marks not interfere with
one another?" Fang Yuan asked.

Transformation path Gu Masters who solely transform their bodies had not truly
ventured into transformation path.

A truly successful transformation was not only changing one's appearance, but also
gaining the beast's respective dao marks.

Gu Immortals who become desolate beasts not only have the strength, defense, and
speed of the desolate beast itself, they can even amplify the effect of Gu worms in their
respective paths.

"That is because, every time they transform, they will turn into a single fierce beast,
they would only have one type of dao mark on their bodies, it is unlike you who has
two types of dao marks mixing together, like a Gu Master trying to cultivate two paths.
Furthermore, after they transform, they will use their relevant Gu worms to cleanse
their bodies, removing all of their current dao marks, before they can transform into
a fierce beast which has another dao mark." Hei Lou Lan said.

Fang Yuan laughed arrogantly: "No, that is because they are not good enough yet, their
methods are lacking. Reckless Savage Demon Venerable was not like this, he ate
immemorial desolate beasts and formed desolate beast totems on his body,
encompassing countless dao marks in his body, allowing him to transform at will.
When you were undergoing your tribulation, I obtained the true meaning infusions of
the Demon Venerable, I have already become a transformation path master."

Hei Lou Lan was truly shocked: "That is to say, you obtained pointers from Reckless
Savage Demon Venerable, you have a method to balance different dao marks?"

Fang Yuan nodded, but shook his head soon after: "I am only at master realm, I can
only balance three different dao marks. I am also limited by physical transplantation
and other restrictions, true solid bat wings can only have up to three pairs of wings,
that is the greatest display of my current transformation path master realm
attainment."

Hei Lou Lan heard Fang Yuan's words and gained much interest in true solid bat wings:
"Sell this movement killer move to me, I will purchase it at a high price!"

Fang Yuan shook his head, rejecting her.

He had modified this killer move after much effort, it was his unique method, how
could he give it to someone else?

Unless he no longer needed it in the future, then he would consider selling the
simplified version.

Hei Lou Lan was slightly disappointed that Fang Yuan rejected her, but she was not
surprised. If their roles were swapped, she would have rejected him as well.

Fang Yuan did not lack immortal essence stones currently.

"I finally understand why you want to kill star demon bats now. What does your
information say? A star demon bat is nearby?" Hei Lou Lan asked.

Fang Yuan nodded: "From my information, it is close by. But the terrain here is slightly
different, let's look around first."

He had surveyed for a long time, but he could not confirm the location.

The place in his memory was a rotten swamp with poisonous air. But here, there were
mountains independent of each other, how could there be a rotten swamp?
Two hours later.

Two figures were attacking a desolate beast.

This desolate beast's body was transparent, like it was made of diamond, its figure
resembled a bear, but it was as large as a mammoth, it was a diamond bear that was
rarely seen in the five regions.

It was Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan fighting the diamond bear.

"Take this." Fang Yuan flew in the air, his eight arms were moving around as they sent
out lumps of starlight specks.

The diamond bear stood up, waving its paws and smashing the starlight completely.

Hei Lou Lan transformed into the strength path phantom giant again, she raised her
leg and kicked at the diamond bear's belly.

The diamond bear growled, as its diamond-like body shined, Hei Lou Lan's giant
strength path phantom's right leg broke.

"This diamond bear's body contains wild Gu worms that counter my strength path
giant!" Hei Lou Lan was shocked, retreating immediately.

Killer moves were not invincible, they had weaknesses and could be countered.

But the diamond bear did not want to let Hei Lou Lan go, it pounced in her direction.

Fang Yuan saw this and immediately rushed over, the starlight lumps in his hands were
shot out more quickly, like the pelting of raindrops.

At once, the diamond bear was unable to raise its head from the attacks.

"Here's a big one, enjoy it." Fang Yuan raised four of his arms up, summoning a huge
icy drill stardust lump that he threw it down.

With a loud explosion, the entire diamond bear was covered by the icy drill stardust.

The diamond bear was assaulted by the stardust, it growled in pain, it had become
greatly angered.
Boom!

At the next moment, it charged out of the starlight lump, flying into the sky.

"This bear could fly?" Fang Yuan was the closest to it, caught off guard, he was hit by
the diamond bear's raised paws.

Bam.

At the next moment, Fang Yuan was like a cannonball, he flew out, crashing into
dozens of large trees before stopping.

His zombie blood was pouring out, with two of the arms used to block the bear paw
having been cut off, and three were fractured.

Fang Yuan's mouth twitched, accidents were bound to happen when fighting desolate
beasts.

Desolate beasts were not like Gu Immortals, they did not have much intelligence, but
as for which wild Gu they had in their bodies, one could not tell upon first contact.

Like earlier, the diamond bear actually dispelled Hei Lou Lan's strength path phantom
and flew into the air, causing heavy injuries to Fang Yuan.

Only after suffering some injuries did Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan learn that the
diamond bear had very powerful Gu worms on it, not only were there Gu worms that
countered the strength path phantom, it even had flying Gu that could raise such a
heavy body into the air.

"Retreat!" Fang Yuan shouted to Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan had the intention to retreat already, she stopped her killer move and
escaped with Fang Yuan.

The diamond bear did not chase after them, it picked up Fang Yuan's two arms and
placed them into its mouth, chewing.

Crack, crack…

The diamond bear's teeth were sharp, they easily broke Fang Yuan's immortal zombie
arms. It continued to chew, turning the arms into minced meat.

The green zombie blood flowed out from the space between the diamond bear's teeth,
and an intense stench spread out.

The diamond bear swallowed the zombie meat with a weird expression, but it
immediately opened its mouth and vomited the food that it had just eaten.

What a terrible taste!

The diamond bear had a constipated expression as it looked at Fang Yuan's remaining
arm with disgust, slamming it into a mountain rock before moving back to its cave that
was at the mountain peak grumpily.

A moment later, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan sneakily returned.

Fang Yuan picked up the amputated arm, after verifying it, he placed it at a wound on
his body.

He used healing Gu worms, and with the recovery ability of the immortal zombie, the
amputated arm quickly connected to his wound.

As for the remaining arm, it was chewed up by the diamond bear, Fang Yuan could not
use it, he sighed and had to regenerate it himself.

The immortal zombie body was not a mortal body, to regrow limbs, six to eight hours
were needed. This was not simply a regrowth of body parts, the relevant strength path
dao marks had to be replenished.

Hei Lou Lan looked at the cave entrance at the highest point of the mountain: "In that
cave, there are at least fifteen kilograms of diamond soil left."

Diamond soil was formed from the feces of the diamond bear, it was filled with rich
nutrients, and was one of the soils that could be sold for a high price in treasure yellow
heaven.

Not long ago, Fang Yuan had come to this mountain peak with Hei Lou Lan. While Fang
Yuan attracted the bear out of the cave, Hei Lou Lan sneaked in and took hundreds of
kilograms of diamond soil, they were worth at least thirty immortal essence stones.
Fang Yuan shook his head: "Fifteen kilograms of diamond soil is not worth the risk.
The first time was fine, but if we try a second time, with even more animosity, the
diamond bear might not let us off. The diamond bear is sturdy and tough, we will need
to pay a huge price to kill it. My goal is the star demon bat, since it is not in this
direction, let's try another direction."
Half a day later, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had almost searched through this area and
seen many desolate beasts, but did not come across the star demon bat.

"Your information seems to be somewhat unreliable." Hei Lou Lan casually sat down
on the ground and said while healing her wounds.

There was a long, bloody wound on her left arm which stretched from the back of her
palm to her elbow.

This was the mark left behind from the encounter of Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan with
a desolate beast flying sword rat.

The flying sword rat was small and extremely fast, a bit of carelessness resulted in it
slashing its claws at them.

Even if Hei Lou Lan had the Great Strength True Martial Physique, having a strength
path extreme immortal body, she had to struggle to heal this wound.

This was because the wound the flying sword rat caused was filled with dao marks of
metal path, which were repelling the strength path dao marks of Hei Lou Lan's
immortal body, and resisting the extreme immortal body's recovery ability.

A long while later, Hei Lou Lan was able to heal the wound and a thin layer of scab had
formed on top of it.

She went up to Fang Yuan; Fang Yuan was sitting on the ground, using his iron-sharp
fingernails to draw the outline of the terrain they had explored on a flat rock.

There were dozens of green mountain peaks. Most of the green peaks were the
territory of a desolate beast, like the star desolate hound, flying sword rat, diamond
bear and so on.

The mountain peaks with no desolate beasts had large numbers of beast groups as
well as a sea of Gu worms living together.

Seven Star Child had clearly invested a great amount of effort to manage Starry Sky
grotto-heaven, only then could such dense numbers of desolate beasts survive in this
piece of territory.

However, the strange thing was there were no ancient desolate beasts.

Ancient desolate beasts were comparable in battle strength to a rank seven, according
to common sense, there should be ancient desolate beasts in this outstandingly
managed Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

This was only one of the strange aspects.

The second strange aspect was that the heavenly spirit had still not shown itself.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had explored all around and encountered many fights, but
were able to smoothly free themselves.

Strictly speaking, they were invaders, but this Starry Sky grotto-heaven was behaving
as if it had no heavenly spirit to manage it, and the suppression Fang Yuan had
expected did not appear.

The third strange thing was that Fang Yuan could not find the poisonous swamp no
matter where he searched.

According to his previous life's memories, the area he was in right now was the same
as the small fragment world of the original grotto-heaven, which he had sent his
subordinates to explore in his previous life.

Originally, the poisonous swamp should have been near that ancient tree forest, but
Fang Yuan was not able to find it.

"Could it be that the poisonous swamp is part of the terrain that only appears after
several hundred years? I came here this early, thus I am not able to find it? If that is
the case, my plan to hunt star demon bat will end in failure."

Fang Yuan stared at the diagram of the terrain on the rock, and was pondering
everything when suddenly a bright light shot out.
He and Hei Lou Lan raised their heads at the same time and looked at the green sky;
unknowingly, the sky was filled with countless star specks.

The amount of this starlight grew rapidly and continued to grow. In a blink of an eye,
the starlight filled the whole world, drifting in disorderly fashion like snow.

"This is an astronomical change that occurs only in grotto-heavens." Fang Yuan stood
up with an alert gaze, activating lion fur armor.

Hei Lou Lan also activated her defensive killer move with a vigilant mind.

The bright starlight shone on all living beings; beast roars resounded from each
mountain peak, some clear, some crisp, some long and some hoarse.

Wind surged, the endless specks of starlight suddenly converged on top of a mountain.

After a dazzling blue radiance was sent out, the star specks dispersed and a
resplendent giant hall, exquisite and gorgeous, appeared on the mountain peak.

"This hall……” Fang Yuan's pupils enlarged, as he felt a great sense of familiarity with
the structure of the hall. It clearly resembled the ruins that had been left behind in the
shattered worlds of the grotto-heaven, which had spread everywhere during his
previous life.

It was only that the former ruins now showed no trace of damage.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan glanced at each other, Hei Lou Lan guessed: "Did the
astronomical change occur due to some specific timing and result in the appearance
of the hall?"

"Or did the heavenly spirit intentionally set up a trap to lure us in?" Fang Yuan eyes
flashed with bright light.

The two only hesitated for a moment before deciding to go in the star hall.

At the same time, in another area of Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

An intense battle was nearing its climax.

"Foul beast, take this king's fist!" A rockman that was as tall as a hill shouted as it
smashed down its fist, wind surged and even the air burst.

The desolate beast flying bear could not dodge in time, its head was struck by the giant
stone fist and with a loud sound, it crashed down on the ground, smashing a large
crater. Stones and soil flew all around, dust surged up and the earth shook for a while.

The rocky giant did not stop, it spread open its two fists then smashed down from high
up.

Bam. The two palms heavily smashed at the flying bear's thick, snow-white body.

The flying bear tried to budge but it was not able to let out even a cry. It was already
filled with injuries, the punch just before had cracked its skull and caused it to be on
the brink of losing consciousness.

Immortal killer move — Earth's Root!

From the center of his two palms, earth qi bubbled, and countless thick and sharp
earth spikes protruded out from the ground like spears.

Plop…

The desolate beast flying bear was pierced through instantly by hundreds of earth
spikes.

In its last burst of energy, it raised its head, opened its eyes and let out a mournful cry
before its energy was completely spent, its body stiffened and its head fell back down
to the ground.

Dong. A sound like that of a drum being struck resounded, with dust rising and falling.

An intense scent of hot blood erupted, as it flowed down the stone pillar and quickly
dyed the ground red.

The flying bear was dead.

The rocky giant snorted, it suddenly emitted a piercing light. After the light dispersed,
a Gu Immortal proudly stood in the air while crossing his arms.

He had short white hair, a pair of golden pupils, broad shoulders and a thin waist. He
wore a tight fitting combat uniform and a valiant aura was emitted from him.

A ray of starlight shot over, transforming into a middle-aged man. He was wearing a
long robe with wide sleeves and a high hat on his head. He clapped his hands and
praised: "As expected of Lord Immortal Monkey King, killing the desolate beast flying
bear in just three minutes."

The white haired man with golden pupils was a rank seven Gu Immortal of Combat
Immortal Sect, Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei.

Shi Lei looked at the middle-aged man with an indifferent gaze: "Seven star halls have
already appeared, Star Lord Wan Xiang, the eighth star hall you spoke of, why has it
still not opened?"

This middle-aged man was Star Lord Wan Xiang, who had traded with Fang Yuan
several times.

Star Lord Wan Xiang gave a bright smile: "Immortal Monkey King, there's no need to
worry. We can only make the eighth star hall appear when we have killed enough
desolate beasts and let their blood seep into the ground. We have already killed six
desolate beasts but the amount of blood is still not enough."

"How much more desolate beasts should we kill exactly?" Shi Lei asked impatiently.

Star Lord Wan Xiang revealed a thoughtful expression and said after a pause:
"According to my annual explorations over the past twenty years and my own
speculations, we probably only need to kill one more desolate beast."

"Hmph! You better not deceive me." Shi Lei replied in an overbearing manner.

Star Lord Wan Xiang lowered his head: "I am just a lone cultivator, even if I had ten
times the guts, I would not dare to deceive Lord Immortal Monkey King. Based on
Central Continent's time, I can only forcibly break into this star path Grotto-Heaven
during this point of the year. Moreover, the duration we can stay is only two days, after
these two days, the small opening leading to the grotto-heaven will close up and we
won't be able to exit. Why would I deceive you when time is so limited? I also want to
plunder more resources, but several years ago, I accidentally saw the eighth star hall,
that hall was covered in a foreboding atmosphere. The guards of the star hall were all
ancient desolate beasts, it definitely is the central control point of this grotto-heaven
and it is very likely for the heavenly spirit to be there."
Shi Lei nodded, he believed Star Lord Wan Xiang's words.

He has known Star Lord Wan Xiang for some time and was familiar with the latter's
nature.

"Sigh, if not because I had a huge battle with Song Zi Xing and spent large numbers of
immortal essence, and that I urgently require large amounts of immortal essence
stones to covert into immortal essence due to my blessed land's approaching
tribulation, I would not have told such a huge secret to you." Star Lord Wan Xiang
sighed.

Shi Lei's tone softened: "Don't worry, I will abide by the agreement, eighty percent of
this exploration's battle spoils will go to you while I take twenty percent. Also, I will
not tell anyone else about this secret. Later, we will come to explore this grotto-heaven
every year."

Right now, only Star Lord Wan Xiang had the special method to enter Starry Sky
grotto-heaven, Shi Lei still had not grasped the method.

"Lord Shi Lei has an outstanding reputation, I can be at ease. According to my past
explorations, there is a star demon bat not far away and it is rather easy to kill."

"Alright, let's go there. Old rules; when fighting, you stand to the side, don't interfere."
Shi Lei was very decisive and immediately started flying rapidly towards the
destination.

Star Lord Wan Xiang laughed bitterly while hurriedly following behind.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan cautiously entered the star hall.

This star hall had no defenses, there was no one inside, only six large wells in the
center of the main hall.

Water was surging inside these six large wells.

The water in the wells were of different colors; red, brown, yellow, blue, purple and
white. The well water was glittering and translucent, and emitted slight radiance.

Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan used investigative Gu worms to completely check them.
Their discovery was that the well water, the star hall, everything was as normal as they
could be. This was naturally impossible. How could an ordinary hall appear out of thin
air? How could ordinary well water be of different colors and emit light?

The only explanation was that the six well waters in this star hall were related to the
grotto-heaven's astronomical transformations. If so, the mortal investigative Gu of Hei
Lou Lan and Fang Yuan were not of high enough level to investigate anything.

The two were unable to distinguish the mysteries of the six wells, and fell into a
predicament for a while.

"This color…” Hei Lou Lan observed again and could not help mumbling.

Fang Yuan knew what she was thinking. He remembered when they had just arrived
in Starry Sky grotto-heaven, he had looked at the sky. He saw the shadows of six stars
in the sky, they were as large as the full moon and were easy to notice.

These six star shadows were the colors of red, brown, yellow, blue, purple and white,
the same as these six waters in the wells.

"What connection do they have?" Fang Yuan mumbled and sent a mortal storage Gu
inside a well to take out some of the water to study.

However, when the mortal Gu entered the well water, the tranquil and calm well water
suddenly moved and formed a whirlpool, swallowing the mortal Gu.
The well water quickly settled down, there were no ripples, it was shining brightly.

But the mortal Gu that Fang Yuan tossed in had completely vanished into the water.

Fang Yuan knew that his mortal Gu had not been destroyed yet, because he could still
sense its existence.

But this connection was very weak now.

The connection between a Gu Master and Gu worm had much to do with distance. The
further the Gu worm is from the Gu Master, the weaker their connection. In that case,
when a Gu Master uses the Gu, their mind would send orders, if they gave ten orders,
nine might be missed and the Gu worm would only execute one.

Of course, this was in ordinary cases.

A small portion of Gu worms could maintain a strong connection over a huge distance,
they could be easily activated even if they were far away. Some Gu worms were even
more peculiar, the closer they were to the Gu Master, the weaker their connection,
creating distance between them could improve their connection instead.

Fang Yuan originally had a close connection to the mortal Gu, but now the feeling was
much weaker, it was like the two were very far apart.

Fang Yuan followed the connection in his mind, slowly deducing the direction and
raising his head.

All he saw was the top of the walls in the star hall.

Fang Yuan activated his investigative Gu, in his field of vision, the roof of the star hall
became translucent. Fang Yuan's gaze pierced through the roof of the star hall, seeing
the six huge circular star shadows in the green sky.
He felt a sensation in his mind, his gaze remained on one of the star shadows.
According to the remaining connection he had, he knew that the mortal Gu was on top
of that star shadow!

Swoosh swoosh swoosh!

The star demon bat's huge wings whipped up fierce winds as countless arrows shot
out at the same time.

These arrows were all made of starlight, they flew very quickly, piercing the air. Their
numbers were high, flying towards Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei like a storm.

Seeing the large scale attack, Shi Lei scoffed in disdain: "Merely rank two star arrow
Gu, except the numbers are a bit high."

Mortal killer move — Fallen Grey Cloak.

Shi Lei's body shook, as a thin layer of yellow-white smoke and dust covered him.

He did not dodge, he allowed the arrows to land on his body.

No matter how many star arrows came, they dissipated after coming into contact with
the mortal killer move fallen grey cloak, vanishing in an instant.

The star demon bat lacked intelligence, it could not use killer moves. Although the
scale of the wild Gu on its body was large, it could not use Gu in great quantity.

How could such an attack compare to a killer move that a human cultivator came up
with painstakingly?

"This time, look at my eagle transformation!" Shi Lei shouted, his body shining in a
bright golden light.

As the light dissipated, Shi Lei had vanished, in his place was a desolate beast iron
crown eagle.

The iron crown eagle spread its wings, flying in the air, its sharp claws that resembled
steel gave off an imposing aura. The size of its body was not any smaller than the star
demon bat.

Far away, Star Lord Wan Xiang quietly observed the battle, seeing this, he sighed
helplessly.

Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei was a battle maniac, he refused to fight together in each
of these battles. Up to this point, Shi Lei had already killed eleven desolate beasts.
Every time he fought a desolate beast, he would use a different type of transformation
path killer move, to fight using the body of different desolate beasts.

Star Lord Wan Xiang was anxious about the time, he had urged Shi Lei to use his
strongest methods. But Shi Lei rejected him, saying that he wanted to use this
opportunity to accumulate transformation path battle experience, he did not want to
waste any chance he had. By accumulating his foundations, he would eventually
trigger a qualitative change, elevating his transformation path realm.

The iron crown eagle flew for a while, before screeching and pouncing towards the
star demon bat.

The star demon bat was also screeching, its ruthless nature was awakened as it did
not evade, it flapped its wings and collided with the iron crown eagle.

Two huge winged figures were clashing in the sky violently. The star demon bat bit
with its mouth, while the iron crown eagle attacked with its beak. The star demon bat
scratched with its claws, but the iron crown eagle's talons were just as sharp, they
were evenly matched.

The two had exchanged many blows within a moment, they left many injures on each
other's body. After a while, they pulled some distance between them.

The star demon bat shrieked loudly in a self-satisfied manner.

The iron crown eagle that Shi Lei had transformed into had lost most of its feathers, it
flapped its wings and after much effort, it stabilized its body.

In the battle earlier, the iron crown eagle had suffered a loss, while the star demon bat
had the upper hand.

Not only were most of its feathers gone, there was an injury on its stomach, filled with
star path dao marks, it bled continuously and prevented the iron crown eagle's body
from healing naturally.

Desolate beasts were different from Gu Immortals.

Gu Immortals had weak bodies, their strength rested in Gu worms. Even if strength
path Gu Immortals made their bodies extremely strong, it was still from the effects of
Gu worms.

Meanwhile, the strength of desolate beasts was in their own bodies. Desolate beasts
have strength, defense, and other attributes from birth, this was something humans
could only dream of. Especially when a desolate beast gets closer to nature during
their growth, and develops more dao marks on their bodies. When they fight in battle,
the injuries that desolate beasts cause will have dao marks lingering. Injuries
involving dao marks were very hard to get rid of, not only did they resist the body's
self healing, they also hindered the use and effect of healing Gu.

Of course, if the desolate beast had an Immortal Gu, the situation would be completely
different.

The iron crown eagle shrieked, ignoring its injures and pouncing towards the star
demon bat.

The two met in the sky again, after several attacks, the star demon bat found an
opening and flapped its wings quickly, slamming on the iron crown eagle's head.

The iron crown eagle went into a daze, falling towards the ground.

The star demon bat flew in the air, flapping its wings thrice at the iron crown eagle.

The first one caused an intense wind to blow, as thousands of wind blades shot out.

The second caused a burst of starlight, over ten thousand star arrows flew out.

The third caused darkness to gather, forming a giant specter that charged towards the
iron crown eagle.

The iron crown eagle first crashed onto the ground, causing rocks to fly and a crater
to form. Next, after it raised its head, it was cut by the wind blades.

The iron crown eagle shrieked, it endured the attacks and did not retreat, after
enduring the wind blade attacks, it had hundreds of light wounds on its body.

It wanted to flap its wings, but the star arrows flew over. These arrows had
extraordinary strength, they pierced into the iron crown eagle's body and caused
many wounds, but those were not deep.

Next, that specter which had no solid body drilled into the iron crown eagle's mind.

If it was any ordinary desolate beast, they would have been in trouble, but this iron
crown eagle was Shi Lei's transformation.

Shi Lei snorted coldly, thoughts and wills moved in his head, destroying the specter in
the blink of an eye.

Although he was an earth path Gu Immortal who also cultivated transformation path,
he was an established expert, he was a veteran Gu Immortal, he learned a lot about
many other paths and had a set of complete defensive measures against Gu worms of
other paths.

"Lord Immortal Monkey King…” At the side, Star Lord Wan Xiang shouted in concern.

The iron crown eagle spoke human words, laughing loudly: "Don't interfere, stay at
the side, this is my battle!"

Intense fire seemed to be burning in the eagle's eyes, with much determination, Shi
Lei flapped his wings and flew up, towards the star demon bat, but was sent flying.

Bang, with a loud sound, the eagle crashed on the ground again.

"Good, interesting!" Shi Lei shouted, he got more excited as he fought, ignoring his
injuries, he rushed up again.

He was fighting with something he was not familiar with, in terms of close combat,
how could he be the star demon bat's match. In their fight, he quickly fell into a
disadvantage.

But every time Shi Lei lost, he would battle again, the eagle's head would rise up highly,
and the eagle eyes would always stare at its opponent.

"This maniac…” Star Lord Wan Xiang watched with a grimacing expression.
Shi Lei obviously had defensive moves like fallen grey cloak, but after transforming
into the iron crown eagle, he did not use any of them in battle.

This had happened many times in his previous battles as well.

Star Lord Wan Xiang had asked earlier, but Shi Lei's answer was that he was purposely
not using them, it was to experience the joy of battle with his own body, this would be
the most effective way to raise his battle foundation.

Shi Lei was a battle-addict, he was a fierce man who derived pleasure from fighting.

"Again!" Shi Lei shouted, flapping his wings towards the star demon bat.

The two sides got closer rapidly, seeing that they were about to collide, the star demon
bat suddenly flapped its wings, displaying an incredible flying ability, passing the iron
crown eagle narrowly.

Whoosh!

The star demon bat suddenly breathed out a shooting star, hitting the iron crown
eagle's back.

The iron crown eagle spat out some blood, its body shook as it had to flap its wings to
stabilize itself. Next, Star Lord Wan Xiang heard Shi Lei laughing: "Interesting, bullying
my flying attainment which is only master level?"

Saying so, he flapped his wings and rushed up.

The star demon bat did not take the attack directly, it retreated while using star path,
wind path, or dark path Gu worms to attack its enemy from far away.

The two had fought for a long time, unknowingly, the star demon bat's body was filled
with injuries. These injuries all had metal path dao marks, they could not heal any
time soon.

Of course, the injuries on the iron crown eagle were at least twice as severe as the star
demon bat.

But Shi Lei fought crazily, it struck fear in the star demon bat, this dominating desolate
beast that ruled over a mountain felt some apprehension and did not dare to fight
directly.

The star demon bat's intelligence was low, what it was doing was giving on its
advantage and fighting with its weakness.

It had mortal Gu on it, although they could disturb Shi Lei, they were not as dangerous
to him as fighting at close range.

The iron crown eagle did not use any defensive methods as usual, but its aura was
surging as it dodged left and right, finally getting close to the star demon bat.

After shrieking loudly, the eagle claw grasped downwards at it.

The star demon bat dodged agilely, but Shi Lei found an opening.

In terms of flying attainment, the star demon bat which had been flying its entire life
was at least a flying grandmaster.

The star demon bat pulled some distance, using Gu worms to attack at a range, while
the iron crown eagle tried to get close to engage in close combat with it. In this fashion,
the two fought for a while, the star demon bat was bound to mess up at some point,
finally, the iron crown eagle found a flaw and used its eagle claws to tear the bat wings.

With a hole in the bat wings, the star demon bat's flying ability fell drastically. Before
it could adapt to the injury, the iron crown eagle found even more flaws.

Shi Lei pursued it during this prime opportunity, after enduring the star demon bat's
final struggle, he killed it.

The star demon bat landed on the ground, its blood was pouring like a river.

The ground absorbed the blood, just like what Star Lord Wan Xiang said, a formless
energy had been activated.

In the sky, starlight appeared again.

The specks of starlight coiled around and fluttered for a while before gathering high
up in the air and forming a completely new star hall.

Different from the previous star halls, this star hall was floating in the air, its design
was exquisite, giving off a majestic beauty that was far above those star halls on the
mountains.

"The eighth star hall has finally appeared. My speculation was indeed correct!" Star
Lord Wan Xiang spoke with excitement.

Shi Lei canceled the iron crown eagle transformation and returned to his human form.
The injuries on his body were still recovering, the blood flow had yet to stop. He
indifferently glanced at the sky with his golden pupils: "No wonder you guessed that
this was the grotto-heaven's central control point, looking at its appearance, it is very
likely to be that."

He grimaced in pain and sat down, healing the wounds.

His healing was in no way simple, he first used large numbers of Gu worms to
eliminate the dao marks of star path, wind path, dark path and other paths that had
filled the wounds, only then did he use healing Gu worms which showed visible effects.

Star Lord Wan Xiang waited for a little while and when he saw Shi Lei's injuries were
roughly treated, he finally could not endure and urged him: "Your healing is almost
done right? Time is limited, Lord Immortal Monkey King. The prerequisite for the
eighth star hall to appear is that the other seven star halls should be formed first.
Every time the seven star halls appear, they will only exist for fifteen minutes. When
the seven star halls disappear, the eighth star hall will also disappear."

"Why are you in a hurry? If you are in such a rush, you can enter it first." Shi Lei opened
his eyes and coldly glanced at Star Lord Wan Xiang.

"Lord Shi Lei is jesting, my battle strength has fallen to the depths, I still need to rely
on lord to break through the ancient desolate beasts' defenses." Star Lord Wan Xiang
chuckled and did not speak any further.

However, his fists that were hidden inside his sleeves were tightly clenched, if not for
his strength plummeting and the tribulation coming soon, why would he reveal this
treasury on his own initiative? And why would he have to be forced to bottle up his
frustration?

He knew Shi Lei's scheme and intentions.

Shi Lei was a battle-addict, unreasonable and unruly, but he was in no way stupid.

Everyone who reached a high position had their own outstanding points. The
outstanding and famous Shi Lei did not lack shrewdness.

Shi Lei accepted Star Lord Wan Xiang's invitation to come to Starry Sky grotto-heaven
to plunder resources. But he did not put in his full effort, he was interested in breaking
through the eighth star hall, but he was not willing to see Star Lord Wan Xiang obtain
large numbers of resources to pull through the difficulties and escape his grasp.

If Star Lord Wan Xiang does not obtain a fortune in this trip, he would have to request
help from others when undergoing the tribulation. Shi Lei could help him then and
also obtain a greater grasp on him.

When that happens, in their future visits to Starry Sky grotto-heaven, Shi Lei could
obtain larger benefits which would absolutely not be in an eighty to twenty ratio like
in this trip.

Every year, Starry Sky grotto-heaven would reveal a tiny gap which allowed Gu
Immortals to enter it. Every time, the Gu Immortals could only stay inside for two days
of Central Continent's time.

There were abundant desolate beasts and resources in Starry Sky grotto-heaven, it
was clearly a small but steady source of resources. Star Lord Wan Xiang was a prime
example of this, he was obviously a lone cultivator, but with each of his visits to Starry
Sky grotto-heaven, he was able to strengthen himself to the extent that his peak battle
strength did not lose out to the majority of Gu Immortals of the ten great ancient sects.
Even when fighting Song Zi Xing, he had even been able to make a good record of
himself.
After a while, Shi Lei's injuries healed completely with no traces of injuries anywhere
on him.

Because of the previous oath, Shi Lei could not push it too far; he examined his body
once then stood up: "Sorry to keep you waiting, we can now go in."

Star Lord Wan Xiang put on a smiling expression and shook his head: "It was me who
was overly anxious, I have to ask Immortal Monkey King to not blame me. More
preparations quicken the speed of the work, I will still have to rely on your strength a
lot more."

Shi Lei bluntly nodded: "Naturally."

He stamped his foot and charged straight into the sky.

Star Lord Wan Xiang followed closely behind.

The two immortals moved towards the eighth star hall in the sky together.

At the same time, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan also jumped out of a well.

"This is another star hall." Fang Yuan said as he scanned his surroundings.

Hei Lou Lan nodded: "We used many methods to test and we were not wrong, these
six wells are passages."

The two gazed behind them.

The center of this star hall also had six wells.

But the colors were slightly different from the previous star hall.

In the previous star hall, the six well waters were of red, brown, yellow, blue, purple
and white color. However, the six well waters here emitted the colors of red, brown,
yellow, blue, green and white.

Purple was gone and green was added.

Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan looked at each other. Both were clever and shrewd, and
they both obtained an understanding.
"What do you think of it?" Hei Lou Lan asked.

Fang Yuan grinned, showing his sharp, jagged canines as he replied with his hoarse
voice: "If I am not wrong, this Starry Sky grotto-heaven has a special terrain, there are
a total of seven spaces. These seven spaces are isolated and independent of each other,
outsiders can only enter or exit them through the six wells in the star halls."

Hei Lou Lan nodded and picked up a Gu worm from the ground: "This is the mortal Gu
you tossed earlier into the purple well water, it is the best proof. If my speculation is
right, there is also another form of proof, that is the sky. When we go out of this star
hall, this space's sky should also have six round shadows of stars. The difference
should be that there instead of a purple star shadow, there should be a green star
shadow."

Fang Yuan agreed with Hei Lou Lan's speculation.

Normal grotto-heavens and blessed lands would have integrated spaces. But Starry
Sky grotto-heaven was special, it was actually divided into seven spaces, and every
space had an independent sky, earth and ecology.

In his previous life, what Fang Yuan explored was only the fragment world of Starry
Sky grotto-heaven and he did not know of this layer of mystery.

He and Hei Lou Lan finished discussing and they walked out of the door of the hall,
gazing at the sky.

They saw six round star shadows like six full moons floating in the air, Hei Lou Lan
clapped her hands and gave a bright smile: "Just like I guessed."

"Wait, someone is here!" Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk as he looked at the moving objects
in the distance and happened to see Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang rapidly flying.
Following the direction they were flying towards, Fang Yuan discovered the eighth star
hall.

"This star hall seems to be of a higher standard, it is hovering in the air and is being
coveted by others, it is very likely that it is the central control point of Starry Sky
grotto-heaven." Hei Lou Lan guessed, her gaze stuck on the eighth star hall.

"There are actually others who are one step ahead of us!" Fang Yuan mumbled. He was
shocked internally, according to his previous estimation, Starry Sky grotto-heaven was
a place with no one but the heavenly spirit existing in it.

If not for this, Starry Sky grotto-heaven should not have fallen in his previous life.

However, the current situation was that he saw no signs of the heavenly spirit and
instead saw two Gu Immortals.

As for the Gu Immortals' appearances and identities, the distance between them was
very far so Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were not able to see clearly.

However, the two felt that these neither of these two Gu Immortals were the owners
of this grotto-heaven. If one of them was the owner of this grotto-heaven, they would
have already sensed Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan, and would have acted by now.

"What's strange about it? You could obtain the secret intelligence about Starry Sky
grotto-heaven from some source, does that mean other Gu Immortals cannot?" Hei
Lou Lan was able to accept this fact much more easily than Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan laughed bitterly in his heart.

He had concealed from Hei Lou Lan that the so-called information source was, in fact,
his own self.

However, it seemed that the truth and his preconceptions were vastly different.

The first possible cause for this situation would be Fang Yuan's rebirth constantly
influencing the various events in the world, causing a butterfly effect. The second
possible reason was there was a lot of details behind the scenes regarding the fall of
Starry Sky grotto-heaven in his previous life, it was just that he did not know about
them and now in this life, he ran across one of the inside stories.

Fang Yuan's thoughts ebbed and flowed, inclining towards the second cause.

At this moment, sounds of fighting came from the eighth star hall.

"Looks like these two Gu Immortals are of similar status to us, they are also outsiders.
But, they are a step ahead of us." Hei Lou Lan's gaze flickered.

Fang Yuan did not reply, he just snickered, his laughter was cold.
Hei Lou Lan also silently grinned.

These two were formidable characters and were also schemers. Right now, the enemy
was in the open while they were in the dark and both felt they had a had huge
advantage, they could even be said to be the oriole in the saying 'the mantis stalks the
cicada, unaware of the oriole behind'.

Immediately, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan activated large numbers of mortal Gu to hide
their bodies and restrain their auras, as well as using many kinds of investigative
methods to scout.

The two quietly closed the star hall's door, got rid of all their traces and slowly moved
outside.

After a while, Fang Yuan who was walking in front suddenly stopped and warned Hei
Lou Lan: "Slow down, there is a rank five investigative Gu ahead."

Hei Lou Lan carefully probed, and saw an eye-like small Gu worm quietly hovering in
the air. Its eyes were slowly moving around, constantly scanning its surroundings.

The two were not surprised.

With just one look, one could see this Gu worm was not a wild Gu and was clearly left
behind by the two Gu Immortals from before.

This was expected.

Previously, when Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had explored the space relating to the
green star shadow, they had also left behind similar investigative Gu to keep watch on
their paths.

After becoming a Gu Immortal, one no longer lacked mortal Gu.

These mortal Gu could let the Gu Immortal constantly scan their surroundings, mark
the area, warn them and many other uses.

Hei Lou Lan was young, she had just advanced into a Gu Immortal, thus was not able
to recognize this Gu's details, giving a suggestion of caution: "Let's detour."

Fang Yuan smiled: "No need. This Gu is starshine fake eye Gu, it has a long range
sensing ability, Gu Immortals can observe the situation of the surroundings through
it. Its scope is five li, it cannot detect stealth, and not only does using this Gu constantly
consume primeval essence, it also burdens the soul. We can use methods to be
invisible and boldly go past it."

At the same time, Fang Yuan added in his mind: 'This Gu worm is often used together
with true sight Gu which can then detect stealth and invisibility. But that is the
situation during the five regions chaotic war, the true sight Gu is still being held by
some small sect right now and has not been wantonly spread."

Hei Lou Lan glanced at Fang Yuan, still not feeling relieved: "Are you sure you are not
wrong? Gu Immortals research new Gu all the time, maybe this Gu worm is a newly
researched Gu that can see through invisibility?"

Fang Yuan snickered: "You think I only looked at it with my eyes and did not use other
Gu worms to check it? Don't worry, eight or nine out of ten Gu Immortals are flying
masters, but having even two to three refinement path masters out of ten would be
pretty good. Refinement path is considerably harder to advance compared to other
paths."
Fang Yuan spoke with such certainty that Hei Lou Lan chose to believe him.

The two hid their bodies and swaggered into starshine fake eye Gu's range, and they
indeed did not attract any Gu Immortal's attention.

Along the way, the two found similar types of investigative Gu like starshine fake eye
Gu.

Some of these Gu worms were buried in the ground, some were disguised as tree
leaves, and some were hidden in brooks, drifting with the water.

Fang Yuan used his methods one by one, sometimes invisibility, sometimes Gu worms
directed at countering them, or tunneling under the ground or swimming through
water, all kinds of methods to slip past these investigative Gu worms.

The two had wanted to move until they were below the eighth star hall, and the
shortest way would be a straight line to the eighth star hall. If they got a chance, they
could also quickly react and use the shortest amount of time to charge to the eighth
star hall, and fish benefits from the messy situation.

However, as they walked through this straight line, a bloody odor assailed their noses
from ahead.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan glanced at each other, the latter revealed a doubtful look
as she used her divine sense to transmit: "Strange, both the amount of investigative
Gu in this path and their types are increasing more and more."

"Let's take a look." Fang Yuan replied.

The two cautiously evaded or deceived the investigative Gu worms, and discovered
further traces of battle.

After a while, they finally reached the area where there was the most intense odor of
blood.

They saw a black leopard's corpse lying on the shattered and disordered pile of rocks.

The black leopard was as large as an elephant. Its fur was glossy and shiny, full of wild
charm. The remaining aura showed the black leopard's identity, a genuine desolate
beast.

"This desolate beast is a vanishing shadow leopard." Fang Yuan said in a low voice.

"It is that someone killed this vanishing shadow leopard and yet left behind its corpse
here?" Hei Lou Lan revealed a trace of doubt.

Fang Yuan squatted down near the ground, and used his hand to feel the gully beside
his legs.

He then took out a time path Gu worm and carefully activated it.

This Gu worm had the appearance of a crystal sphere, and was an extremely rare rank
five Gu. Its name was backtrack Gu, an investigative Gu under time path, which could
backtrack to the past events within a specific range.

Backtrack Gu was activated; it displayed a blurry and mute battle scene.

In the scene, two giant figures were in an intense battle while a small figure was
standing far away to the side.

Backtrack Gu was only a rank five mortal Gu, and whether it was Shi Lei, the vanishing
shadow leopard or Star Lord Wan Xiang, they were all rank six or above, immortal
bodies and desolate beast bodies had dao marks, thus backtrack Gu's investigative
ability was restrained greatly.

Hei Lou Lan came closer and watched the battle.

The mute battle scene was extremely blurry. But they could roughly guess that one of
them was the vanishing shadow leopard from the approximate build.
And the one battling with the vanishing shadow leopard did not seem to be a human
but a tiger desolate beast.

The one standing far away had a human shape and could be a Gu Immortal. But their
appearance was blurry and they could not be sure.

Not only this, the battle scene broken off intermittently and was not coherent.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan observed the battle with all their attention, for a moment,
other than the slight breeze in the mountains, there was no other sound.

After a dozen breaths of time, scorching smoke started to curl up from the backtrack
Gu and the battle scene suddenly disappeared.

The backtrack Gu had died as a result of forcibly recreating the image of the Gu
Immortal level battle.

Fang Yuan felt slight heartache, and put the scorched corpse of backtrack Gu back
inside his immortal aperture to get rid of any traces.

He had been gathering this backtrack Gu from treasure yellow heaven recently but
even then, he only had a total of fifty to sixty. This was still the case when the five
regions were in peaceful times, during the chaotic war of the regions, backtrack Gu
would be widely used and very hard to get, it would be a case where one would have
to produce them for their own use, treasure yellow heaven would simply have none
for sale.

Hei Lou Lan was very interested: "This Gu worm is quite ingenious, what is its name,
did you buy it in treasure yellow heaven?"

The varieties of Gu worms in existence were as vast as the ocean. Moreover, Hei Lou
Lan cultivated strength path, not time path, and her understanding of other paths was
only at the basics, limited to the typically used Gu worms.

Gu worms like backtrack Gu were classified as rare Gu of another path, it was normal
for her to not know of it.

Fang Yuan did not reply, instead he took out another Gu.

He had refined this Gu himself based to his memories. According to the course of
history, this Gu should have only appeared three hundred years later, its name was
thread trace Gu.

Its appearance was quite special, resembling a small horsewhip which children from
Northern Plains played with as toys. Fang Yuan used his enormous, monstrous zombie
claws to grab it, making its small size even more apparent.

Fang Yuan grabbed the handle of the horsewhip and softly whipped at the air in front
of him.

Crack. The empty air suddenly showed traces of marks.

"What is this?" Hei Lou Lan gazed at the marks without blinking.

Crack crack crack.

Fang Yuan whipped the horsewhip like thread trace Gu repeatedly, the marks in the
air continued to increase.

Hei Lou Lan watched the whole process and soon was able to sense that the space
Fang Yuan was whipping at was the area where the fight in the battle scene had
occurred, and also the area where that blurry Gu Immortal had been standing.

As various thoughts flashed past, Hei Lou Lan's pupils slightly enlarged, blurting:
"Could these marks be dao marks?"

Fang Yuan gave a contented smile at this moment: "Right, they are dao marks. Whether
it be Gu Immortals or desolate beasts, they are filled with dao marks, and any area
they stop at will leave behind dao marks for a short period of time. It is just that these
dao marks are extremely weak, that even Gu Immortals paying close attention won't
be able to sense them, that is, unless they use this thread trace Gu that I researched.
From observing these dao marks, I can infer some information on them."

Fang Yuan once again brazenly took on someone else's creation from his previous life
as his own.

"Thread trace Gu……” Hei Lou Lan mumbled, her gaze towards Fang Yuan had changed
a little.

Fang Yuan pointed towards the area where Star Lord Wan Xiang had stood previously:
"Look, the dao marks have manifested and formed a human shape. The color is azure
blue which means a star path Gu Immortal had been observing the battle. The greater
portion of the dao marks had stayed there and although there are some dao marks in
the surroundings, they are mostly tightly enclosed around the greater portion, this
means that star path Gu Immortal had only been observing from the side during the
whole battle. And looking at the concentration of the dao marks, it seems to be a rank
six Gu Immortal."

Hei Lou Lan looked at the direction Fang Yuan pointed towards and listened to him,
paying full attention.

Fang Yuan then pointed at the area where the vanishing shadow leopard died, there
were remaining dao marks of black color for dark path and red color for fire path.

He continued: "The dark path dao marks clearly belong to the vanishing shadow
leopard while the red colored dao marks belong to the existence that killed the
vanishing shadow leopard. As for their identity, whether they are man or beast, that
is still not certain. Look at how concentrated these dao marks are and how they are
intertwined with each other, this shows that the battle was very intense. The dark path
dao marks are sparse while the red colored dao marks are rather dense, we can
deduce that the existence that killed the vanishing shadow leopard is also at least of
rank six realm."

Hei Lou Lan's mouth widened slightly as she listened to Fang Yuan.

Her gaze towards the thread trace Gu in Fang Yuan's hand became slightly burning.

This thread trace Gu was only a rank five mortal Gu, but it was very useful. With just
this Gu, one could infer so much useful information.

The key thing was the thoughts involved in refining it were very special, and it could
even be said to have blazed an unexpected new trail that bypasses common logic.

Hei Lou Lan might have just recently advanced into a Gu Immortal, but she understood
the importance of information and started to give more significance to Fang Yuan
'invention', thread trace Gu.

Had Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang been here, they would probably be soaked in cold
sweat.
They had used mainstream investigative methods and counter-investigative methods,
but thread trace Gu just happened to pierce through the gap in them. Fang Yuan's
methods were from the time of the chaotic war of the five regions after all, the
materialization of the intelligence of the whole five regions, it was like they were over
half an era ahead of current Gu Immortals, naturally they had huge superiority!

Crack crack crack.

Fang Yuan lashed the horsewhip several times, many more dao marks appeared but
also many more disappeared.

These dao marks were very weak and were gathered together by thread trace Gu, thus
greatly shortening their already limited lifespan.

Dao marks entangled mutually, getting more disorderly. Fang Yuan finally stopped
lashing the horsewhip and sighed: "This is more or less the ability of this thread trace
Gu, the manifestation of dao marks lasts only for a period of time and requires the
observer to have plenty of experience. Moreover, activating Immortal Gu also leaves
behind responding dao marks. In an intense battle, many abilities and methods are
used, causing the dao marks to entangle and become extremely chaotic with no way
to infer anything. However, fortunately, few methods were used in this battle, so we
are able to roughly understand the situation."

Hei Lou Lan's eyelids twitched.

Inferring so much useful information with a mere rank five mortal Gu and still not
satisfied?

Her gaze firmly locked upon the thread trace Gu until Fang Yuan stored it back in his
immortal aperture. She keenly discovered that the formerly intact thread trace Gu's
whip-like body was full of cracks now. Clearly, there was a price to pay for manifesting
the dao marks.

Hei Lou Lan inwardly estimated, this thread trace Gu could be used for two more times
at the minimum. Immediately, her evaluation of thread trace Gu increased by another
level.

It could be used for a total of three times!

A mere rank five Gu worm could be used three times to investigate into existences of
rank six level and obtain so much information.

Just as Hei Lou Lan was unable to endure and was about to ask if Fang Yuan was selling
thread trace Gu, Fang Yuan took out another investigative Gu worm.

This was only a qi path Gu worm which Fang Yuan used to draw in the surrounding
scents.

Next, Fang Yuan stored this qi path Gu worm and took out another Gu worm.

He moved everywhere around the battlefield and activated Gu worms from time to
time. Hei Lou Lan was only able to recognize a small portion of these Gu worms, but it
was also not to the extent where she was certain. The remaining greater portion, Hei
Lou Lan simply had no idea, unable to recognize any of them.

She subconsciously pursed her lips, as she for the first time felt that Fang Yuan had
unfathomable depths.

During the journey in Northern Plains, she only felt that Fang Yuan was experienced
and astute, and a major enemy. When cooperating with Fang Yuan, she had no choice
but to do so, and was very aware that it was asking for favors from a tiger.

She got Fang Yuan's help to pass through her tribulation and become a Gu Immortal,
she had thought she could suppress Fang Yuan a notch. But soon, Fang Yuan used her
and Fairy Li Shan to scare even Immortal Crane Sect's Gu Immortals away. The whole
thing was won before engaging in battle, which gave no chance for Hei Lou Lan to
make a move. Since there was no loss in battle, Fang Yuan did not have to pay twice
the compensation, it was akin to him obtaining his objective without losing anything.

In contrast, to coax Fang Yuan to make an effort, Hei Lou Lan had to give the precious
true meaning infusion of Reckless Savage Demon Venerable to him. Fang Yuan was
also truly ruthless, he swallowed it whole without leaving behind anything to Hei Lou
Lan.

Later, Fang Yuan started the guts Gu business and took the initiative to share profits
with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan. Although he needed Hei Lou Lan's strength qi
Immortal Gu in the process, Hei Lou Lan did not feel comfortable the whole time, it
seemed as if she was being controlled.

Now, Hei Lou Lan felt a shiver in her heart as she looked at Fang Yuan using these
methods.

These small methods all used mortal Gu and were seemingly unremarkable, but Hei
Lou Lan was a discerning person, how could she not understand the profound
significance represented by these small methods!
After Hei Lou Lan ascended to an immortal, she was taught by Fairy Li Shan, guided
step by step, she was instructed in almost all aspects.

Thus, in terms of investigative methods, Hei Lou Lan was not inferior to ordinary Gu
Immortals.

"But Fang Yuan's foundation is so deep, he is evidently miles ahead of most Gu

Immortals now. Although I have several Immortal Gu, can I be like Fang Yuan and
create new Gu independently, to modify and perfect my own killer moves?"

Hei Lou Lan shook her head internally.

Her strength path killer move was given to her by her mother.

To refine new Gu, one had to create new Gu recipes. This process not only required
resources and ample foundation in that path, one also needed inspiration and luck!

Hei Lou Lan was indeed a Gu Immortal, but she was too young, she was not a
refinement path master, and not even skilled in refinement path. Foundation could
only be attained after a long period of trial and error, of exploring and accumulating
experiences slowly.

At this point, Fang Yuan walked back, he hummed: "Summing up all of the clues, I
mostly know the other party's identities already."

"Oh?"

"One is a rank six star path Gu Immortal, he has not made a move yet and is more
mysterious. The other is an earth path Gu Immortal who cultivates transformation
path as well, he has a powerful aura and using Gu worms, I caught a trace of his voice,
this is likely Shi Lei from Combat Immortal Sect in Central Continent." Fang Yuan said.
"That Immortal Monkey King?" Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan had shared most of their
information, she naturally knew who Shi Lei was.

She started to frown, finding it a little troublesome.

Shi Lei was a rank seven Gu Immortal, he had outstanding battle strength. Even though
Hei Lou Lan had several strength path Immortal Gu, Shi Lei had earth path Immortal
Gu and had even created his own unique immortal killer moves long ago. In addition,
he even cultivated transformation path, his battle talent was exceedingly rare.

Hei Lou Lan had Immortal Gu Self Strength, using it to activate her former mortal killer
move, forming a giant strength path phantom, that could barely be considered an
immortal killer move.

Up to this point, Hei Lou Lan had been attempting to improve and modify it, but her
progress was slow.

"Fang Yuan, if you use the myriad self killer move, and cooperate with me, we might
be able to resist the Immortal Monkey King. But in that case, we will not be able to
deal with the mysterious star path Gu Immortal." Hei Lou Lan muttered.

Fang Yuan laughed bitterly: "I have not told you yet, but because the core Immortal Gu
is starving, myriad self cannot be used anymore. All I can use are mortal killer moves."

Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan deeply, squinting: "In other words, we should avoid
fighting with the other party directly."

Roar roar roar—!

High in the air, there was loud growling noises.

Fang Yuan raised his head and looked: "There are bound to be injuries when two sides
fight, we should just go with the flow and observe the situation now. Although our
battle strength is lower than them, if we find the chance, it is not necessarily the case
that we can't have them killed. In the worst case, I still have Fixed Immortal Travel, we
can definitely resist them while we find the time to activate Fixed Immortal Travel."

Hei Lou Lan nodded in agreement, Fang Yuan's words were very similar to her own
thoughts.
The two decided to devour the loot in front of them first.

The vanishing shadow leopard corpse was quite a fortune. Even though there were
large numbers of investigative Gu around, they could not stop the old demon Fang
Yuan.

Fang Yuan had methods that were ahead by half of an era, he made his moves, sealing
or deceiving the investigative Gu. A moment later, they obtained the vanishing shadow
leopard's corpse without alerting Star Lord Wan Xiang.

"This vanishing shadow leopard's fur can be used to make many defensive Gu. The
bones can be made into shadow attachment Gu, shadow tracing Gu and others, the
eyes are top tier materials for making dark vision Gu and dark fog Gu. It is a pity its
blood had already been lost completely. Otherwise, it would be even more valuable."
Hei Lou Lan placed the vanishing shadow leopard corpse into her immortal aperture,
her eyes shining with a joyful light.

"The other party seems to be letting it bleed on purpose, it seems that the star hall in
the air is truly an important place. They even ignored the desolate beast corpse for
now." Fang Yuan showed an interested expression as he pondered.

His immortal aperture was filled with death energy, it was not good for keeping
corpses fresh, thus he placed the vanishing shadow leopard in Hei Lou Lan's hands.

The two were fearless and unscrupulous people.

Even if the other party was strong, they dared to continue plotting against them.

Next, they followed their original plan and secretly advanced, trying to get close to the
eighth star hall in the air.

But along the way, they quickly made a new discovery.

"The number of investigative Gu ahead have increased, does that mean…” Hei Lou
Lan's gaze shone with anticipation.

After a while, the two avoided all of the investigative Gu, passing a mountain ridge and
into a valley.

In the valley, there was a desolate beast corpse, resembling a small hill.
It was like a colt, it had a huge, bright red body with thick legs, dark as steel, its body
was strong, muscular and bulky.

Its mane and tail were vibrant and golden in color.

Blood was dripping from the holes all over its body. The blood was scalding hot, and
the heat spread to the surrounding trees and plants, causing them to wilt.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan gradually got closer, feeling a heat that was like a
blisteringly hot summer day.

"This is the desolate beast blazing divine stallion, it has many fire path wild Gu on it
and can walk on fire. Its blood is extremely hot and is a top tier material in refining
fire path Gu worms, it is very rare even in treasure yellow heaven."

Hei Lou Lan's heart bled as she looked at the horse blood flowing out.

The two worked for a while, getting their hands on the blazing divine stallion, while
Star Lord Wan Xiang still had absolutely no idea.

After leaving this valley, the two moved stealthily, but Fang Yuan slowed his footsteps.

"Our destination is up ahead. But towards the left, there are large numbers of
investigative Gu, should we go take a look?" Fang Yuan looked at Hei Lou Lan,
transmitting.

"Of course." Hei Lou Lan's reply was very curt.

The two came to the area that was filled with investigative Gu, they found a desolate
beast corpse as expected.

This was a yellow jade lion.

Its body was like an elephant, lying on the ground with its eyes mostly closed, only
opened by a slit. Large amounts of yellow blood flowed along the wound on its
stomach, pouring out.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan stealthily moved closer, but this yellow jade lion's body
shook, it tried to open its eyes as its bloody mouth opened slightly, emitting a barely
discernible growl, as if it wanted to continue battling.
"This yellow jade lion truly has a courageous nature. To be able to hurt the yellow jade
lion to this extent, this Shi Lei's transformation path battle strength is greater than I
thought." Hei Lou Lan praised.

Fang Yuan was overjoyed.

He quickly made his move, after deceiving many of the surrounding investigative
methods, he stole the yellow jade lion.

He patted with his hand, as large numbers of healing Gu flew out of his aperture,
landing on the yellow jade lion, rapidly stabilizing its injuries and keeping it alive.

"You intend to save it?" Hei Lou Lan was slightly surprised.

Fang Yuan nodded: "Saving it is a hundred times easier than capturing another
desolate beast alive, why shouldn't we? You can keep this desolate beast in your
immortal aperture for now, be careful and keep it safe, this will be part of my share."

This way, as long as things progressed well, the mission that Fang Yuan agreed upon
with Lang Ya land spirit would be completed.

Hei Lou Lan placed the yellow jade lion into her immortal aperture, her gaze was
shining as she seemed to have made up her mind, saying: "The three desolate beasts
we had encountered had their blood drained for some reason. Very likely, Shi Lei's
group is trying to complete some procedure. Maybe this was the reason why the star
hall in the sky appeared. After all, when we first appeared in this place, the sky was
still empty. How many desolate beast corpses do you think are around here now?"

Fang Yuan laughed upon hearing this: "Even if you did not mention this, I was going to
talk about it. Indeed, looking at this situation, there are definitely many desolate beast
corpses around. One desolate beast corpse can be sold for around forty immortal
essence stones optimally. It is truly an effortless profit for us to pick up these desolate
beast corpses. The benefits are huge, yet we are paying zero costs. A bird in the hand
is worth two in the bush, moreover, we might not have the opportunity again. We
should secure these profits first, that is the safest measure."

The two had the same plot in mind, they changed their tactics and started scouring for
desolate beast corpses.

They could not use investigative Gu openly, but the clues were very obvious.
Star Lord Wan Xiang's original plan was to keep these desolate beast corpses around
first, and deal with them after taking down the eighth star hall.

The aura of these desolate beasts was still around, with that to induce fear, he was not
afraid of wild beasts devouring them.

Shi Lei was in charge of fighting, while Star Lord Wan Xiang was in charge of setting
up investigative Gu worms. Naturally, he would place more investigative Gu around
the corpses of the desolate beasts.

But he would never have guessed that putting all of these investigative Gu together
was the biggest clue in itself, they were guides for Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan to find
the corpses.

"This is the chestnut yak, its meat tastes like chestnut, it can be eaten raw. It has a mild
nature and is a somewhat unusual desolate beast. Mm, let's keep it, keep it." Hei Lou
Lan was laughing happily.

"Oh, there is a golden pangolin. It is a pity its armor is tattered, otherwise, it could be
sold for a higher price." Fang Yuan said with some disappointment.

"Flying bear, there is a flying bear corpse. Great, excellent, I want this corpse!" Hei Lou
Lan was overjoyed.

"Hmm? Star demon bat! I knew this rotten poisonous swamp was very familiar. It is a
pity that the bat wings are in bad shape, it would greatly affect my movement speed if
I transplant it like this. I wonder if I can fix it first." Fang Yuan also stole the corpse of
the star demon bat.

He felt some regret, but he quickly got over it.

After all, he did not battle the bat himself, why would Shi Lei care about his plans.
Obtaining the corpse without any cost, this was already a huge gain.

He had not felt such good luck in a long time.

The two obtained nearly ten desolate beast corpses, it was a windfall. After the two
searched around and ensured that there was no lingering desolate beast corpses, they
hurried towards the bottom of the eighth star hall.
But when they arrived, a figure like a small hill crashed onto the ground.

With a loud bang, it landed and caused the mountain rocks to shatter, dust and smoke
was rising.

"This is the ancient desolate beast, astral wind flying heavenly boar!"

"It is dead! This is the corpse of an ancient desolate beast."

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan made eye contact, after communicating through
transmission, they were evidently moved!
The corpse of the ancient desolate beast, astral wind flying heavenly boar, was right in
front of them.

Although Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan were moved, they did not close in on it.

The two looked up towards the sky at the same time.

They saw that high in the air, the eighth star hall was shaking slightly. Loud explosions
and the growls of fierce beasts could be heard from within the hall.

With a loud bang, the star hall shook intensely, a pillar of fire burst up from the roof of
the star hall, creating a huge hole on it.

The star hall was not made of ordinary material, it was formed from the phenomenon
in the grotto-heaven. At the area of the roof that was broken, starlight was emitting
from it, as the hole continued to spread outwards.

A pillar of smoke flew up outwards into the sky.

"What an intense battle." Hei Lou Lan sighed.

"Fight, fight, the more intense the better it is." Fang Yuan muttered.

In the eighth star hall, it was a mess, the two sides were fiercely engaged in combat.

A heavily injured desolate beast flame tiger growled loudly, shooting out a fireball
from its mouth.

The fireball shot a huge tree, while it was in the air, the flame tiger moved its claws
and followed behind the fireball, attacking towards the huge tree.

The huge tree moved its huge branches.

Its branches were very peculiar, they were like soft and thick octopus tentacles.

With a loud thud, a tentacle-like branch destroyed a fireball.

With another whipping noise, a branch swung over, causing the flame tiger who was
behind the fireball to be sent flying.

The flame tiger cried out in pain, it flew for up to a hundred steps and crashed onto
the ground. With a burst of bright light, it returned to a human form — it was Immortal
Monkey King Shi Lei.

Shi Lei spat out three teeth, his expression was excited and crazed: "What a great
walking meat tree, as expected of something of legend, this ancient desolate plant is
truly incredible."

Star Lord Wan Xiang who was beside him continued to unleash starlight attacks while
transmitting helplessly when he heard Shi Lei's words: "Lord Immortal Monkey King,
the enemy is very powerful, stop playing with it and use your earth path main battle
strength."

Shi Lei was not an ignorant person, he did not hesitate as he said: "Alright, I have
already used my transformation path battle strength to kill an astral wind flying
heavenly boar, I am satisfied. Next, I will use my true earth path cultivation and destroy
this energetic walking meat tree."

Star Lord Wan Xiang was overjoyed when he heard this, Immortal Monkey King Shi
Lei was finally going to use his true strength.

But at the next moment, Shi Lei sat down on a rock in the hall, healing himself: "Star
Lord Wan Xiang, hold on for now, when I remove the fire path dao marks on my body,
I will use my earth path methods."

Star Lord Wan Xiang heard this and almost scolded him in anger.

But he did not do so, Shi Lei's request was reasonable, with fire path dao marks on
him, it would interfere with and weaken the effects of his earth path Gu worms.

Star Lord Wan Xiang could only hold in his anger and agree, flying forward and facing
off against the walking meat tree.
Although Star Lord Wan Xiang was heavily injured by Song Zi Xing and his foundation
was damaged, he still had ingenious methods left.

Beams of starlight shot out like grand pillars, towards the walking meat tree.

The walking meat tree moved three branches to retaliate.

Star Lord Wan Xiang's body suddenly shuddered, as five starlight clones split from his
main body and together, they took up six positions, unleashing different star path
killer moves and attacking the walking meat tree.

The walking meat tree was hit several times, it flew into a rage and moved more than
ten branches to fight back.

Crack crack crack.

Star Lord Wan Xiang's starlight clones were all smashed, Star Lord Wan Xiang evaded
the branches coming from left and right, he quickly got into a disadvantage.

Facing off against the walking meat tree directly, he finally felt immense pressure.

Bang!

With a loud noise, Star Lord Wan Xiang could not defend himself and was sent flying.
Along the way, he crashed through a thick pillar, but his momentum was not lost, as
he directly flew out of the star hall.

Seeing that Star Lord Wan Xiang was gone, the walking meat tree moved its branches
and assaulted Shi Lei who was sitting down.

"Useless!" Shi Lei opened his eyes, the battle intent in his golden pupils were surging,
he shouted in anger as he stood up, attacking the walking meat tree.

Star Lord Wan Xiang flew a long way out of the star hall before stabilizing his body.

He wiped the blood on his lips, looking at the eighth star hall, he showed a cold smile
as his scheme worked.

He sent himself flying on purpose, this way, he could force Shi Lei to fight.
"I exposed the secret of this Starry Sky grotto-heaven to you, regardless of the
consequences, yet you do not even want to fight? Guh." Suddenly, Star Lord Wan Xiang
spit out a mouthful of blood.

An intense pain assaulted him.

He sucked in a breath of cold air, shock shining in his eyes: "When this walking meat
tree hits me, it directly etches the dao marks of strength path into my body, causing
my internal organs to suffer a huge blow!"

After realizing this, Star Lord Wan Xiang did not want to rush up foolishly to fight the
walking meat tree.

"I'll let Shi Lei fight, he is a battle maniac anyway. Under the pressure of the walking
meat tree, he would need to use his full strength. I have already paid such a huge price,
I should heal the injuries on my body first."

Immediately after, Star Lord Wan Xiang summoned his Gu worms, which formed a star
cloud bed. He sat on the bed as he floated in the air, healing his injuries.

After a while, he opened his eyes, the injuries on him had healed.

He first took a look at the eighth star hall, before looking down at the huge corpse of
the ancient desolate beast, astral wind flying heavenly boar. He then looked at the
other areas of the battlefield, seeing the other desolate beast corpses.

He hesitated, although he wanted to take all of the corpses first, considering Shi Lei's
feelings, he had to dispel this thought.

"Forget it, I do not need to give Shi Lei an excuse later to make things difficult. In any
case, there is no one else in this grotto-heaven, I should battle now and deal with the
current situation."

Thinking of this, Star Lord Wan Xiang retrieved the star cloud bed Gu and flew away,
entering the eighth star hall after traveling a short distance.

In the thick lush forest, Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan, who had concealed their auras,
sighed in relief.

"Fang Yuan, the Gu worms that you left behind successfully deceived the enemy!" Hei
Lou Lan said excitedly.

"My method can only create a hologram, it cannot deceive a proper investigation.
Quick, let's not talk about this anymore, we should make this part of our earnings
first!" Fang Yuan did not want to indulge in self praise, he moved ahead and sneaked
towards the corpse of the astral wind flying heavenly boar.

The two quickly got to the side of the astral wind flying heavenly boar corpse.

The astral wind flying heavenly boar corpse was tall like a small hill, it cast a huge
shadow on the ground.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan purposely detoured, hiding under the shadow, waiting for
the appropriate moment to strike.

They first inspected the wild Gu on the astral wind flying heavenly boar's body.

There were many wild Gu originally, but after the battle with Shi Lei, more than half
were destroyed. After the flying boar died, much of the remaining half escaped, very
few were left.

After Fang Yuan completed his search, he started to collect the astral wind flying
heavenly boar's soul.

The desolate beast corpses they encountered earlier had no souls. Maybe because they
had died for a long time, their souls had flown away from their bodies, but the more
likely reason was that Shi Lei or Star Lord Wan Xiang had taken them.

This astral wind flying heavenly boar had not been looted yet because the battle had
just ended, thus Fang Yuan had a chance.

But the result was very disappointing.

This astral wind flying heavenly boar's soul was heavily injured, only a little bit was
left. Evidently, during the earlier battle, it was attacked by methods directed at the
soul.

"No wonder the star path Gu Immortal earlier did not fly here to collect the soul of this
boar." Fang Yuan sighed, he willed and mobilized several hundred Gu worms.
These Gu were from light path and dark path, while a small number were from
strength path, blood path, bone path, and qi path.

Under Fang Yuan's control, these Gu worms flew around the surface of the astral wind
flying heavenly boar's body, going round and round as Fang Yuan nodded to Hei Lou
Lan.

Hei Lou Lan was prepared since long ago, once Fang Yuan gave the signal, she used the
tens of Gu worms prepared earlier.

Using these Gu worms, the astral wind flying heavenly boar corpse was quickly pushed
into Hei Lou Lan's immortal aperture in a short time.

Meanwhile, Fang Yuan activated the several hundred Gu worms, remaining at the
same spot as they continued to fly in the same manner as earlier.

They gave out bursts of light and shadow, forming into one figure, it was the image of
the astral wind flying heavenly boar, it was very realistic! Simply looking at it, one
would think this was really the astral wind flying heavenly boar in front of them.

"Your method is really good." Hei Lou Lan praised again.

Earlier, Star Lord Wan Xiang felt nothing wrong, he was deceived by this method.

Fang Yuan shook his head: "This simple method cannot deceive proper investigation.
If I can elevate it to a killer move, the effect would be better."

"Oh no." Hei Lou Lan suddenly froze, she pointed at one area and noted to Fang Yuan:
"You have a flaw here!"

Fang Yuan looked over and indeed, on the image of the astral wind flying heavenly
boar, the anus was missing.

How could the flying heavenly boar not have an anus?

This was indeed a huge flaw.

Fang Yuan quickly manipulated his Gu worms, adjusting the image and forming the
anus.
But Hei Lou Lan said: "Not good, not good, now that the anus is here, the penis is gone."

Fang Yuan looked and was embarrassed: "The astral wind flying heavenly boar is too
high level of an existence and has a gigantic body, my methods cannot replicate it fully,
this is the limit. To create something, it will have to lose something."

Hei Lou Lan nodded, her tone was grand and fearless: "Then stop changing it, keep the
penis and discard the anus, that is more realistic."

Fang Yuan followed what she said and changed the image back.

"Hey, Fang Yuan, aren't you proficient in researching killer moves? When we go back,
you should raise this to the level of a killer move, that would make it easier to use." Hei
Lou Lan said in amusement.

"Do you think we will still encounter such good things later? This method is sufficient,
we do not need to make it a killer move." Fang Yuan shook his head, before raising it
and looking at the sky.

The roof of the star hall only had a small hole earlier, but now holes were all around
the star hall.

All of the explosion sounds were even louder than before.

As he was looking, a broken tree flew out of the star hall.

With a loud bang, the giant tree's branches crashed onto the ground, causing the
ground below Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan's feet to tremble violently.

Next, the other half of the giant tree, the crown, also collapsed.

"This is a walking meat tree!" Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan opened their eyes which
were shining brightly.
Walking meat tree was a legendary plant that was recorded in <>.

<> Chapter Three, Section Sixteen states:

Ren Zu's third son — Northern Dark Ice Soul was revived by unexpected Gu and was
wandering outside. After encountering his sister, Desolate Ancient Moon, he gave her
a new meaning in life.

Next, under the guidance of wisdom Gu, the brother and sister came to the blue sea to
search for the life gem that could revive their father, Ren Zu.

In the end, Desolate Ancient Moon sensed the mysteries behind life and sacrificed
herself, being turned into a damaged life gem.

Northern Dark Ice Soul carried the life gem as he attempted to return to his father, to
revive Ren Zu.

But it was extremely difficult for him to enter the door of life and death.

The door of life and death had two routes, one was the road of life, the other was the
road of death. No matter which path it was, there would be a lot of suffering Gu.

To overcome the interference of the suffering Gu, to enter deep into the door of life
and death, he would need the help of courage Gu.

But because courage Gu had already been taken by Ren Zu and was currently with him,
Northern Dark Ice Soul did not have courage and could not enter the door of life and
death. He had no methods left and could only wander around and search for a method
to resolve this.

He walked past tall mountains, travelled through streams, ran for his life under the
assault of wild beasts, and had gone hungry during the intense cold, he had suffered a
lot.
Northern Dark Ice Soul was filled with guilt and anxiety.

He was guilty because he was the one who gave Desolate Ancient Moon her meaning
in life, but that caused her to sacrifice herself and become the life gem. Northern Dark
Ice Soul was the murderer who indirectly caused his sister's death.

He was anxious because even though he had the life gem, he was unable to return to
his father's side. He was afraid that if a long time passed, his father's soul might
collapse in Luo Po valley, causing Desolate Ancient Moon's sacrifice to be in vain.

He walked and walked, until the purple sky above him faded and became black.

Originally, the immemorial nine heavens, white, red, orange, yellow, green, azure, blue,
purple, black, would take turns to loom over the five regions at set intervals.

The sky of the Immemorial Antiquity Era was connected to the ground.

Heaven and earth were connected and whole, people could walk towards the sky from
the ground, or walk towards the ground from the sky.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was walking aimlessly, unknowingly, he left the ground and
walked towards an area deep within black heaven.

It was complete darkness inside black heaven, but it was not desolate, there were large
numbers of life forms there.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was inside the darkness and could not find a way back, he was
flustered, scared, and lost.

He could not tell what direction to walk, he tripped many times and fell. Suddenly, he
saw a lump of fire ahead of him.

This was the only source of light in the entirety of black heaven.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was overjoyed, he quickly walked towards the fire.

When he got close to the lump of fire, he realized it was a Gu.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was very curious, he asked: "What Gu are you, you can actually
give out light in black heaven. Help me, I want to leave black heaven, heading back to
the ground, I have very important things to do."

The Gu's voice was very weak, it said to Northern Dark Ice Soul: "My name is fire, who
are you?"

Northern Dark Ice Soul said: "I am a human, my name is Northern Dark Ice Soul. Can
you help me? With your light, I will be able to see the way, and return to the ground."

The Gu sighed: "So you are a human. I've heard of a famous human before, he is called
Verdant Great Sun."

Because Verdant Great Sun had reputation Gu, his name was spread in the entire
world, there was almost nobody that did not know him.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was overjoyed: "That's right, Verdant Great Sun is my big
brother."

Fire Gu said: "I can help you. But before I help you, you have to help me. I am too
hungry, I am going to die of starvation. Go find me some food first."

Northern Dark Ice Soul asked: "Oh, fire Gu, what do you eat? This place is completely
dark, how can I find what you need to eat?"

Fire Gu said: "I am the least picky Gu worm in the entire world, I can eat almost
anything. I will eat whatever you feed me."

Northern Dark Ice Soul searched around, finding some tree branches and throwing
them towards fire Gu.

After fire Gu ate, it started to shine more brightly, it was giving off a warmer light and
it also grew from the size of a fist to around the size of a basin.

It was very happy: "Can you bring me more food?"

Northern Dark Ice Soul nodded and looked around, finding a pile of rocks and
throwing them at fire Gu.

After eating for some time, fire Gu sighed: "Sigh, I was way too hungry, my teeth are
not working well now. The things I could chew before, I can't chew them now. Bring
me some stuff that are easy to digest."
Northern Dark Ice Soul thought about it: "How about this, fire Gu, follow me and light
the way. Along the way, whatever you feel like eating, I will feed to you, is that alright?"

Fire Gu agreed and condensed into a small lump, letting Northern Dark Ice Soul hold
it.

Like this, Northern Dark Ice Soul left on his return journey, along the way, he fed many
things to fire Gu.

After a while, fire Gu grew larger.

On this day, Northern Dark Ice Soul was resting, fire Gu was eating branches in front
of him while swaying with the wind.

Suddenly, countless footsteps could be heard, Northern Dark Ice Soul looked and saw
a huge group of trees shining under the light of the fire, they were running towards
him in huge numbers.

Not just trees, there were also countless wild beasts and insect groups.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was extremely scared, he quickly picked up fire Gu and ran.

Behind him, the trees, wild beasts, and insect groups were chasing. Wherever
Northern Dark Ice Soul went, they followed.

The pursuers shouted: "Whoever is in front, stop running."

"We do not want to harm you, we just want to escape into the light."

"Dream realms are about to reach us, please help us and let us live under the light of
the fire."

Northern Dark Ice Soul was breathing roughly, he could not run any further, seeing
that he was about to be caught, fire Gu said: "Oh human, don't be afraid, these pursuers
are my food, let me help you. Just toss me there."

Northern Dark Ice Soul was forced by the circumstances, he could only listen to fire
Gu and toss it towards them.

What fire Gu first encountered were a huge group of trees.

These trees were walking meat trees. The branches were made of meat, they
resembled the tentacles of octopuses.

Fire Gu burned all of these trees, turning the trunks into ashes, and branches into
cooked meat. The smell of fragrant meat attracted Northern Dark Ice Soul and he
picked up one to eat, exclaiming that it was delicious.

Hei Lou Lan stared with eyes wide open, looking at the broken tree trunk as well the
tentacle-like branches, speaking in disbelief: "This is a walking meat tree?"

"Absolutely." Fang Yuan nodded, his gaze was heated as well: "Right now, only black
heaven and white heaven are left from the immemorial nine heavens, walking meat
tree is a life form from black heaven, it is much easier to obtain than other immemorial
life forms in the other heavens, after all, black heaven is still around. Seven Star Child
is a rank eight Gu Immortal, he has the ability to explore black heaven, this walking
meat tree was most likely something he obtained from his explorations."

"This walking meat tree has an amazing aura, it has rank seven battle strength at least!
Even more amazingly, it is a rare strength path plant." Hei Lou Lan licked her lips,
saying excitedly.

Fang Yuan was also overjoyed.

Walking meat tree was a strength path plant, the branches, trunks and leaves were all
excellent materials to refine strength path Gu worms. Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were
strength path Gu Immortals, they had great use for it.

But when the two were going to sneak over and take the walking meat tree, there was
a huge, thunderous explosion in the sky.

This was an unprecedentedly large explosion, it shook the sky as a formless sound
wave spread out intensely.

The eighth star hall shook harshly, it also broke apart as large amounts of starlight
dispersed, it was in a half ruined state.

Roar—!
The roar of a dragon could be heard, not any softer than the explosion earlier.

Next, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan saw Shi Lei and Star Lord Wan Xiang fly out of the
star hall.

A huge dragon flew out of the star hall.

This dragon was hundreds of meters long, it was eerie and ominous, the dragon horn
on its head was like silver, the dragon's eyes were half open, and the scales were like
grey rocks. There were eight dragon claws that were fearsome and powerful, pale
white zombie energy was coiling around its body like a mist.

"Is this… a zombie dragon?" Hei Lou Lan exposed the identity of this dragon.

Zombie dragon was not an immemorial life form.

After fate Gu was broken by Red Lotus Demon Venerable, souls in the world were no
longer sucked directly into the door of life and death, thus zombies were born.

A zombie dragon was formed after a giant dragon died, if its soul did not leave the
body, it would undergo a transformation and become a zombie dragon.

"This zombie dragon has eight claws, it should have been an immemorial desolate
beast when it was alive, having rank eight battle strength. Now that it is dead,
becoming a zombie dragon, it has battle strength at the peak of rank seven, no wonder
Shi Lei was forced out of the star hall." Fang Yuan analyzed.

In the air, the zombie dragon was growling as its body twisted, flying towards Shi Lei.

The dragon opened its mouth and shot out a stream of pale white zombie fire.

Dragon fire was a primary form of attack of the giant dragon, that was a natural ability
for them, like the horns of a bull, the paws of a bear, or the stinger of a bee.

Wariness shone in Shi Lei's eyes, he did not dare to receive the attack head on. He
continued to fly to the left, after dodging the zombie fire, a huge dragon tail entered
his vision.

Shi Lei opened his eyes wide as he placed both arms in front of him, defending his
chest.
He could not dodge it!

In Fang Yuan, Star Lord Wan Xiang and Hei Lou Lan's vision, they saw that the zombie
dragon had elegantly moved in the air, turning its huge body and swinging its tail,
directly crashing it into Shi Lei who had dodged the zombie fire.

With a loud bang, Shi Lei was sent fly harshly like a cannonball.

He crashed onto a point partway up a mountain, entering deep into the mountain
rocks. The entire mountain was shaking as rocks fell from above, they quickly covered
him up completely.

Star Lord Wan Xiang sucked in a breath of cold air, he retreated hurriedly. The zombie
dragon was so powerful, this was the first time he had seen Immortal Monkey King
Shi Lei in such a pathetic state.

But soon, he heard Shi Lei shouting under the pile of rocks: "Worm, you have truly
angered me, have a taste of my immortal killer move. Shocking rock break!"

The sky burst open as a small hill was aimed towards the zombie dragon.

Hei Lou Lan's eyelids were twitching: "This immortal killer move's activation is so
fast?"

Normally, the stronger the immortal killer move, the more time is needed to activate
it. But Shi Lei's shocking rock break defied common logic, not only was it strong, it
could be used very quickly.

Even the zombie dragon could not dodge it.

But the zombie dragon did not want to dodge it, seeing the small hill that was
approaching it, a hint of disdain flashed across the dragon's eyes.

With a loud bang, the zombie dragon raised its head and rammed into the small hill.

Shi Lei's immortal killer move had no effect.

"Good, such an opponent is what I like!" Shi Lei was shocked and excited, he shot up
into the sky and crashed into the zombie dragon.
The human and dragon engaged in the sky, winds were blowing and clouds were in
turbulence, heaven and earth were changing colors.

Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk: "This zombie dragon is not simple, it seems that defensive
immortal Gu worms had been used on its body before."

"Then what do we do now?" Hei Lou Lan was very troubled: "Under their watchful
eyes, there is no way we can get the walking meat tree."
In the sky, the human and dragon were engaging in battle, with loud explosions, the
battle was entering its climax.

Star Lord Wan Xiang was at the side, he could not interfere at all.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were hiding in the forest on the ground, they were
observing the fighting and awaiting their chance.

The huge dragon roared, zombie energy was bursting from it as the famous expert of
Central Continent, Shi Lei, was in a disadvantage.

"This zombie dragon is incredible, when it was alive, it was a wind path azure dragon,
after becoming a zombie dragon, not only does it have wind path and dark path dao
marks, its speed is even amplified by Immortal Gu." After observing the battle, Hei Lou
Lan gradually understood the situation.

"Starry Sky grotto-heaven's owner, Seven Star Child, originally had a wind path
Immortal Gu, called wind sprint Immortal Gu. But using this Gu required immortal
essence. According to rumors, Seven Star Child had once developed a killer move that
could apply the effects of the Immortal Gu on another target for a long period of time.
Looking at this now, it seems the rumors were right." Fang Yuan added.

The zombie dragon's defense and movement were boosted by Immortal Gu, it was
experienced in battle and its giant dragon body could strike with huge force.
Manipulating its tail while flying, it gave off an unrestrained aura.

Most importantly, the zombie energy dragon flames were very powerful, they were on
par with the highest tier of mortal killer moves.

Shi Lei continued to shout as he used near ten different battle tactics, but he could not
change the situation. Often, when he took back some of the initiative, the zombie
dragon would suppress him again.

The zombie dragon had no weakness in attack, defense, or movement, it had an all-
around advantage.

Hei Lou Lan's expression turned heavy as she watched, she said solemnly: "Shi Lei's
battle strength far surpasses my estimation! If it had been me, facing the attacks of the
zombie dragon, I would only last for a moment before getting killed by it. If it was you,
Fang Yuan, unless you could use myriad self, you would only hold on for a while longer
than me, there is no way of winning."

Fang Yuan did not rebuke her, Hei Lou Lan's assessment was very reasonable.

Although she was a strength path extreme immortal, because of her life experiences,
she was not arrogant at all, she was humble and vigilant, she understood her own
strength clearly.

The reason why Fang Yuan could last longer than her was because of his flying
attainment, as well the movement killer move true solid bat wings.

But even if Fang Yuan's speed surpassed Hei Lou Lan, without the killer move myriad
self, he could not pose a threat to the zombie dragon. He could only run away, as icy
drill stardust could not cause damage to the zombie dragon, he had no way to win.

Although Hei Lou Lan had strength path Immortal Gu, and half an offensive immortal
killer move, her offense surpassed Fang Yuan but her movement speed and defense
were her weaknesses. Although she could cause damage to the zombie dragon, it
would not take a beating without fighting back, once they fought, Hei Lou Lan would
not last as long as Fang Yuan.

Those who were called experts not only had battle strength, they also needed great
insight.

Looking at information and knowing if they could do it or not, whether they could win
or not. That was the ability to assess a situation and know one's own limits.

Without these abilities, even if one had great strength, they would not go far.

Knowing whom they could offend, know whom they could not afford to offend,
knowing when to battle or retreat… retreating was not cowardly, it was treasuring
one's own life, awaiting the time where they could soar towards success!

"In this situation, we have no way of succeeding. We should leave the walking meat
tree there, I suggest we retreat." Fang Yuan said.

Hei Lou Lan nodded: "That was my intention as well, nobody can predict any accidents
in battle. Even if we stay here and take a risk of getting discovered, we cannot do
anything anyway, we should withdraw towards a safer location."

The two came to an agreement and retreated stealthily.

Their advantage was that they were in the dark while their enemies were out in the
open, they could afford to watch on the sidelines. Right now, the enemies were
stronger than them, they had to hold onto this advantage.

After they retreated to a safe distance, Hei Lou Lan suddenly said: "Actually, I have a
question — how did they get in?"

Fang Yuan's gaze shone: "I was thinking about this question too. The area near the star
hall that we came in from did not have any investigative Gu worms around, that is not
the usual behavior of Gu Immortals."

"In this case, we can deduce that they did not come from a star hall. This area is the
place where they first arrived in. To enter someone else's blessed land or grotto-
heaven, the most usual method is to follow cracks and loopholes, or Gu worms like
connecting heaven Gu and hole earth Gu." Hei Lou Lan continued.

"It is unlikely for them to use hole earth Gu or connecting heaven Gu, after all, both
sides need to agree for that to work. This Starry Sky grotto-heaven is quite strange,
the heavenly spirit has not shown up yet, after being here for so long, we have not
faced any obstacles as well. And if Shi Lei's group was able to gain access normally,
they would not be fighting so intensely." Fang Yuan said.

"Thus, it is most likely that they used a loophole or crack." Hei Lou Lan laughed.

A dark light shined in Fang Yuan's eyes, he spoke what Hei Lou Lan was thinking but
did not say out loud: "They are not like us who have Fixed Immortal Travel, so be it if
they have other space path Gu worms. But if they really came in from a loophole, we
can use this to ambush them or plot against them, we might have a huge profit from
it!"
If Star Lord Wan Xiang and Shi Lei heard this, they would definitely be breaking out in
cold sweat.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were demons full of evil ideas, most importantly, they
could keenly analyze and would not give up on any minute clues, they even managed
to guess Shi Lei's and Star Lord Wan Xiang's method of entering the grotto-heaven.

But just as Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were about to search for the loophole, the battle
in the sky changed.

Shi Lei had been fighting for a long time, suppressed by the zombie dragon the whole
time, he was growling in anger.

He quickly moved back as he pulled some distance, his body started shaking.

Immortal battlefield killer move — Rolling Rock Battlefield!

The sky was changing, turning into a grey rock battlefield. The battlefield rapidly
expanded, covering the zombie dragon and Shi Lei.

From outside, it looked like a huge grey rock cloud was hanging in the sky, it
completely blocked any vision from outside.

Hei Lou Lan's and Fang Yuan's hearts shuddered.

Hei Lou Lan thought: "An amazing method, it actually is an immortal level battlefield
killer move, to form such a killer move, he needs to use at least three Immortal Gu, and
these Immortal Gu need to be connected in some way."

Fang Yuan was thinking: "Rolling rock battlefield! In my previous life, Vicious
Lightning Fiend lost to this move. To think that Shi Lei has already obtained this
method at this time."

At the same time, Star Lord Wan Xiang was thinking: "Shi Lei is going to fight the
zombie dragon to the end! What should I do? There are no longer any ancient desolate
beast guards inside the eighth star hall, the battlefield killer move also isolates the
inside and outside of the domain… I, should I explore the eighth star hall first?"

The more Star Lord Wan Xiang thought about it, the more he was moved.
After a dozen breaths of time, he could not control it anymore, he turned into a
shooting star and flew into the eighth star hall.

"Huh?"

"Eh?"

Seeing Star Lord Wan Xiang move so swiftly, Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan stopped their
current plans.

The two were familiar with people's thought processes, they had keen perception,
they immediately guessed the possibility that the star hall's defenses were no longer
a threat!

"Let's bet on it."

"Do you dare to bet on it and charge in?"

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan transmitted at the same time, they flew up and towards
the eighth star hall.

The two came to the eighth star hall and found the ravaged battlefield. There were
three defenses in the eighth star hall, the first was the astral wind flying heavenly boar,
the second was the walking meat tree, and the third was the zombie dragon.

After the three defenses were gone, one could enter the deepest area of the star hall.

The two used their defensive killer moves at the same time, moving together deep into
the star hall.

Soon, they found the inner hall.

The inner hall's doors were opened, as Star Lord Wan Xiang was already inside.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan did not dare to waste their precious time, they hid their
figures and stepped into the inner hall.

At the next moment, they saw Star Lord Wan Xiang.

Star Lord Wan Xiang was in a strange condition, his back was facing Fang Yuan and
Hei Lou Lan as he stood on the spot, shivering as if he was filled with extreme fright.

"Immortal Venerable, please spare me!!" Suddenly, he shouted with a tone filled with
fear, he directly knelt on the ground, he was begging for mercy!

Before him was deep darkness.

The lights in the inner hall were not lit, there was no light source, Fang Yuan and Hei
Lou Lan could only see the figure of a huge throne.

"Immortal Venerable?!" Hei Lou Lan and Fang Yuan looked at each other.

"Hmph, acting mysterious." Soon after, Fang Yuan snorted coldly as he walked forward.

Hei Lou Lan followed behind.

At the next moment, their pupils shrunk to pin size as their bodies froze like a rock.

A woman's figure appeared before them.

She was wearing a dark blue robe, her hair was dazzling like the milky way, drooping
down. She looked down from above as she pointed at Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan: "You
two juniors are simply too daring, you dare to offend Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable, quickly kneel down!"

The aura of rank nine was overwhelming, she was the real deal!

Central Continent, Spirit Affinity House, Bai Qing blessed land.

The sunlight pierced the window as it shone on a small building on a mountain.

In the small building, there was a warm and comfortable bed, on it was a woman
sitting in a meditating position.

This woman had inborn beauty like that of a flower, she had white skin and a straightly
pointed nose with red lips, she wore a phoenix coronet as she appeared elegant and
grand, incapable of being profaned. She was Feng Jin Huang.
Because of dream wings Immortal Gu, she had gotten into a strange state where she
had not woken up for a very long time, all of the Gu Immortals in Spirit Affinity House
could do nothing to help her.

A small sparrow was chirping as it flew onto the window from a tree branch outside.

As if she had heard this, Feng Jin Huang's eyelashes suddenly moved.

Soon after, she opened her eyes, she had woken up.

"Huang Er, my Huang Er, you have finally woken up!!" Almost at the same time, Feng
Jin Huang's mother, Fairy Bai Qing, appeared in the building. Looking at Feng Jin
Huang who had woken up, she was overjoyed and in tears, she hugged Feng Jin Huang
tightly.

"Mother, Huang Er was unfilial, I have worried you." Feng Jin Huang hugged Bai Qing
as she consoled her maturely.

"All is fine as long as you are alright, Huang Er, are you injured, do you feel anything
wrong?" Fairy Bai Qing was worried, she touched Feng Jin Huang's face and shoulders,
checking everywhere.

"It is not a problem mother! This time, I have found the true use of dream wings
Immortal Gu. It can bring me into dream realms!" Feng Jin Huang said.

"Dream realms?" Fairy Bai Qing was shocked.

At the next moment, she reacted, her pupils expanded as she showed some uncertain
joy, she grabbed Feng Jin Huang's shoulders: "Daughter, are you sure? It really is about
dream realms?!"
"That's right." Feng Jin Huang nodded with certainty: "Using dream wings Immortal
Gu, I traveled in a dream realm, I encountered many life forms. I met many people,
there were Gu Masters and ordinary people. I saw many wild beasts, tigers, wolves,
rabbits, rats, I even found a desolate beast iron crown eagle, I watched it grow up from
birth. In the end, I came across an old man, he had a strange temperament, constantly
muttering to himself, saying that he is called Kong Jue, he often killed people and
dissected their corpses, it was terrifying. He even tried to block my way, I could only
dodge left and right and had to escape for a long time. Otherwise, I would have woken
up long ago."

When Feng Jin Huang first spoke, she had an excited and agitated tone, but when she
mentioned Kong Jue, her tone became grim and she felt some lingering fear.

Fairy Bai Qing heard this and stared straight at her daughter.

"Mother, what's wrong?"

Only when Feng Jin Huang was starting to get worried and asked did Fairy Bai Qing
breathe in deeply, her eyes showing extreme happiness: "Huang Er, your opportunity
has come! It seems you truly entered a dream realm!! The Kong Jue that you
mentioned is likely to be Old Immortal Kong Jue, in history, he was one of the Three
Olds, along with Old Eccentric Tian Nan and Long Hair Ancestor. The so called Three
Olds were the three refinement path supreme grandmasters over the long course of
history!"

"No wonder I felt that Kong Jue was so familiar when I heard the name." Feng Jin Huang
realized at once, but then her beautiful face showed some confusion: "But why did I
encounter Old Immortal Kong Jue? Why did he want to capture me? Why is it that after
I woke up, I felt that there are a lot of refinement path methods in my mind, my
recognition of certain Gu worms became clearer, and when I see a Gu worm, I would
think of its refinement recipe, the materials needed, the funds necessary for the
refinement and so on?"

"Great fortune! This is your great fortune…” Fairy Bai Qing raised her head and sighed,
tears were almost about to fall from her eyes.

"Mother, what is this dream realm, why is it so magical?" Feng Jin Huang asked again.

Fairy Bai Qing let out a breath of cloudy air, she calmed her emotions and said gently:
"Regarding dream realms, mother does not know much either, but the earliest record
of a dream realm is written in <>."

<>, Chapter Three, Section Sixteen states: Ren Zu's third son, Northern Dark Ice Soul
had entered a deep part of black heaven, obtaining fire Gu.

He was chased by many life forms inside black heaven, left without a choice, he tossed
fire Gu towards them to protect himself.

Fire Gu lit up many of the walking meat trees, and the fire spread out to ignite many
of the wild beasts' bodies.

At once, life forms were crying out as the light of the flames burst out brightly.

"So many delicious things, so many delicious things!" Fire Gu shouted in excitement,
it was no longer weak like before, it was tall and imposing, there was even a hint of
ruthlessness and madness in its tone.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was shocked: "Fire, oh fire, how did you become so huge?"

"I said, I am the least picky when it comes to food, I can eat almost anything. Fire can
draw out more fire, a spark can create a forest fire." Fire Gu shouted proudly as it
answered.

Suddenly, the flame rose up like a wall, moving towards Northern Dark Ice Soul.

Northern Dark Ice Soul quickly took a step back.

Fire Gu laughed loudly: "Oh human, do not be scared! You saved me, you are my
benefactor, you are my friend. They are afraid of me, but they need me to deal with
those dream realms, thus they imprisoned me and starved me. Only you helped me,
thus you are my true friend, from now on, if you have any difficulties, you can count
on me!"

Northern Dark Ice Soul's heart was eased, he said happily: "That would be great, my
friend."

"Friend!" Fire Gu laughed loudly, it turned into a form of a human as it opened its arms,
wanting to give Northern Dark Ice Soul a hug.

Northern Dark Ice Soul jumped back in fear: "Oh fire, excessive fervor is the fire of self-
immolation, let's keep a distance between us."

Fire Gu had no choice but to stop its actions, it spun around Northern Dark Ice Soul as
he said: "Oh human, you are so weak, you are not fun."

Northern Dark Ice Soul was surrounded in flames, he quickly waved his hand: "Don't
get too close, don't get too close. It is so hot, way too hot, leave a path open for me to
walk out."

Fire Gu had to open a path for Northern Dark Ice Soul to walk out of, after he walked
for several hundred steps, he looked back at the blazing sea of fire with a sigh of relief.

But at this time, a wild beast came out from the shadows behind him, swallowing
Northern Dark Ice Soul in one mouthful.

"That is a dream realm! There are so many dream realms, they are catching up!" Many
life forms shouted as they escaped.

"Quickly release my friend!" Fire Gu shouted in anger, pouncing towards the beast
group of dream realms.

The dream realm beast group shrunk when shone by the light of the fire, they rapidly
melted like a candle. They growled and scattered all over the place.

Fire Gu continued to eat along the way, it spread towards the dream realm that
consumed Northern Dark Ice Soul.

The dream realms were escaping, but fire Gu was chasing behind them.

Among the escaping dream realms, the larger their bodies, the stronger they were,
and the faster they ran away, soon, they pulled some distance from fire Gu.
As it turned out, the dream realms used the emotions and desires of their prey to
strengthen themselves.

Northern Dark Ice Soul, who was swallowed by a dream realm, had a huge desire to
survive, at the same time, his greatest goal was to revive his father.

In addition, he was filled with anxiety and was afraid he would not make it. He was
also filled with guilt and regret, because Desolate Ancient Moon died due to him giving
her a meaning in life.

One could say that Northern Dark Ice Soul was the best prey for the dream realms.

The dream realm who swallowed him grew rapidly, fire Gu growled loudly in anger,
but it was getting closer to the dream realm.

Northern Dark Ice Soul was deep inside the dream realm, he had fallen asleep, in his
dream, he saw Desolate Ancient Moon reviving and smiling to him, calling him a good
brother and saying she forgave him, and that she knew he did not do it intentionally.

He saw that he was at the door of life and death, successfully saving his father, Ren Zu.
Ren Zu praised him: You are indeed my good son, if not for you, father would not have
revived.

Northern Dark Ice Soul's face was filled with a blissful smile.

And like that, many days passed.

The sea of fire was still burning intensely, it spread all over black heaven as it finally
blocked all of the dream realms which were escaping.

Under the burning of the flames, the dream realm quickly melted as Northern Dark
Ice Soul fell onto the ground, waking up from his dream.

He suddenly understood that everything in his dream was fake, his happiness was not
real, what he faced was a burning hot fire Gu. But his face was filled with tears, he felt
an extreme cold that was piercing into his bones.

He cried out loud, questioning fire Gu: "Why, why did you wake me up? I still want to
dream, I want to be eaten by the dream realm!"
Fire Gu reminded him helplessly: "Oh human, you must know, dreams are often the
opposite of reality, they are fake."

"I don't want to listen, I don't care." Northern Dark Ice Soul cried out as he covered his
ears and shook his head.

Fire Gu was anxious: "I am your friend, I do not want…”

Northern Dark Ice Soul interrupted it before it finished: "Since you are my friend, you
should not restrict me or obstruct me!"

"Sigh…” Fire Gu let out a long sigh, it fell into silence, giving Northern Dark Ice Soul a
path leading out without a better choice.

Northern Dark Ice Soul quickly ran out, wanting to find another dream realm within
the darkness to have him eaten once again.

Central Continent, Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

"Star Constellation Immortal Venerable!!!" Facing this person, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou
Lan were tongue-tied, they were shocked and dazed.

Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, one of the ten venerables in the history of Gu
Masters.

Legends regarding her had been passed down even until this day.

She was a rarely seen female rank nine Gu Immortal, the founder of wisdom path, and
the creator of star path. She was the second generation reigning immortal of Heavenly
Court, even after death she plotted against three Demon Venerables, protecting
Heavenly Court from danger.

Now that she was standing in front of Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan, she looked down
arrogantly as her grand aura of rank nine burst out towards them.

"What is going on? Star Constellation Immortal Venerable? She is still alive?!" Hei Lou
Lan gritted her teeth, feeling an immense pressure. Even if she had great confidence,
and was a formidable person plotting to kill her own father, at this moment her body
was shaking as she faced an intense trial of her will.

After all, the other party was at the peak of Gu Masters, a rank nine Gu Immortal, the
legendary Star Constellation Immortal Venerable that she had heard about since a
young age.

Hei Lou Lan could not help but feel her legs go soft, while Star Lord Wan Xiang in front
of her was already kneeling on the ground, kowtowing as he begged for mercy.

The aura of rank nine was undeniable. But Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, his eyes shining
with ruthlessness: "This feeling? This feeling! This is actually… this is actually a piece
of a dream realm?!"

He could only growl in his mind, he could not produce any sound.

He could not move at all, under the pressure of the rank nine aura, he felt like an ant
that was sealed inside amber.

Under the intense threat of life and death, Fang Yuan felt a strong sense of danger in
his heart.

"I have to get out of this dream realm, otherwise, all of my plans after rebirth would
come to a halt. My plan for eternal life would end here! True solid bat wings, detonate
now!!"

Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, at the crucial moment, he decided to make a sacrifice.

The bat wings that he had transplanted after much effort detonated under Fang Yuan's
resolute decision.

An intense sense of pain assaulted him, turning into a formless energy that protected
Fang Yuan's entire body.

Star Constellation Immortal Venerable gasped lightly, looking at Fang Yuan deeply: "An
immortal zombie, yet so fascinating."

Just as she said that, under Fang Yuan's perception, the entire scene changed, Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable vanished, and the eighth star hall disappeared.
What he could see was a blue robed Gu Immortal with his face facing Fang Yuan,
looking up at the clear moon in the sky above the clouds.
He muttered: "Heaven has taken pity on me. I, Seven Star Child, have finally combined
the seven star spaces into one, forming the unified Starry Sky grotto-heaven. I have
passed another huge obstacle in my cultivation journey, I am one step closer to rank
nine realm, one step closer! Hahaha, hahaha…”

Seven Star Child seemed to be unable to sense Fang Yuan's existence, he continued to
face Fang Yuan as he had no inclination to turn around.

He continued to laugh loudly, his laughter was filled with joy, even Fang Yuan was
affected by it and started to feel happy.

Fang Yuan started to feel some joy in him, but his body was turning cold, like he was
in an icy domain.

"Oh no! This is a dream within a dream! I had just left the dream of Star Constellation
Immortal Venerable, but now I am inside Seven Star Child's dream."

But this time, Fang Yuan had no bat wings left to detonate.
"Not good! A person's dream realm is filled with their desires and emotions. I am
currently experiencing joy after hearing Seven Star Child's laughter, it is a signal that
I am starting to be infected by the dream's emotions!" Being inside Seven Star Child's
dream realm, Fang Yuan knew the situation was terrible.

He had his previous life's experiences, he knew about the dangers of a dream realm, if
one was careless, a grand Gu Immortal could lose himself inside a dream realm, dying
in the end.

At this moment, Fang Yuan had not fallen too deeply into it, to leave the dream realm,
the most effective way was to stimulate himself with severe pain.

But as an immortal zombie, he had no sense of pain. If not for the fact that he had
retained the sense of pain in his true solid bat wings earlier, he would have been stuck
in Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm.

The encounter earlier was extremely precarious. Thankfully, Fang Yuan had his
previous life's memories and recognized that it was a dream realm, thus he could leave
before he sunk further into it.

Fortunately, he had true solid bat wings, and the pain produced from the self-
detonation exceeded the power of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream,
thus Fang Yuan was pushed out of the rank nine venerable's dream.

But just when Fang Yuan escaped from the tiger's den, he entered the wolf's cave.

Seven Star Child was a rank eight Gu Immortal, he did not have a prominent reputation
but his battle strength would have been exemplary. Be it Fang Yuan during his
previous life or Fang Yuan currently, he was not Seven Star Child's match.

Fang Yuan had no more pain that he could inflict, he felt helpless at this moment, like
he was quietly awaiting death!
"No, there has to be a way, there is another way…” Fang Yuan lips were dry, he was
nervously clenching his fists.

"Huh?"

Sensing his clenched fists, a brilliant light shined in Fang Yuan's red eyes, he was
overjoyed: "There is a chance! Although Seven Star Child is rank eight, he is far inferior
to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable. In Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's
dream, I could not move at all. But in Seven Star Child's dream, I have not lost all of my
movement ability yet."

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan raised one arm with much difficulty.

It felt like a huge mountain was pressing on his hand, such a simple act of raising his
arm became extremely difficult.

"Rise, rise up!" Fang Yuan's veins were popping, he stared at this arm as he exerted all
of his strength.

After fifteen minutes, he finally raised his hand to an appropriate degree.

With much difficulty, he slowly opened his five fingers, conjuring a lump of starlight
in his palm.

There were countless icy shards in the starlight, a continuously soft explosion could
be heard from them. The blue starlight shined the entire area blue.

Seeing this starlight lump, Fang Yuan had an intense feeling of joy and satisfaction.

"Oh no, I'm starting to feel the same joyful emotions as him, the deeper I am in this
dream realm, the more mobility I lose." Fang Yuan reacted, suppressing his emotions.

As he expected, his mobility had fallen greatly, he could raise his arm earlier, but now
he could only move his fingers.

His hand spent a lot of effort to create a lump of starlight, this was his final hope.

"Hidden dream realms cannot be attacked using normal methods. But this piece of
dream realm is different, it has already surfaced, since it can interfere with outside
forces now, it can also be disrupted and destroyed by those outside forces."
Although this piece of dream realm had Star Constellation Immortal Venerable and
Seven Star Child's dreams, it had immense value, it was a huge waste to destroy it, but
if Fang Yuan did not do this, he would lose his life.

He had no choice but to do this!

Fang Yuan exerted all of his strength, his five fingers trembled as the icy drill stardust
flew out of his palm slowly.

Carrying Fang Yuan's hope, the icy drill stardust slowly hit Seven Star Child's back.

"Hahaha, I succeeded, I fused the seven stars into one. Hahahaha… guh!" Seven Star
Child's laughter came to a stop, he turned around but his body was shattering rapidly
like a mirror.

Fang Yuan could only see his face clearly, his entire body had collapsed.

"A good chance!" Fang Yuan's entire body relaxed, like the formless mountain pressing
on his body had been lifted.

Fang Yuan regained his mobility and immediately retreated. If he did not move, when
the dream realm recovers, he would not be able to any longer.

But Seven Star Child's dream was much more fragile that what Fang Yuan had
expected.

Not only did Seven Star Child's body shatter, the surrounding clouds and the moon in
the sky shattered. In the blink of an eye, this dream realm of Seven Star Child vanished
completely.

"How could that be? My icy drill stardust is not strong, all it could do was shatter Seven
Star Child's image, he should recover very quickly. Wait, this situation… could it be?!"

A flash of inspiration appeared in Fang Yuan's mind, he thought of a possibility.

As if responding to his thoughts, a sharp growl could be heard from within the eighth
star hall, the voice creating strong sound waves: "Who? Who disrupted my sleep!"

At the deep, dark spot of the eighth star area, high up on the throne, there were two
blue eyes shining brightly.
Soon after, a body of an immortal zombie resembling a mortal person stood up and
stepped out, furiously looking around, fixing his gaze on Star Lord Wan Xiang, Hei Lou
Lan and Fang Yuan.

At once, Fang Yuan felt extremely alert!

He moved his entire body and retreated quickly, he did not even have time to turn
around, he directly charged out of the star hall.

"It turns out that Seven Star Child had not died, but transformed into an immortal
zombie! No wonder the heavenly spirit did not appear. Hei Lou Lan, I can only help
you to this extent." Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, before leaving, he fired icy drill stardust
towards Hei Lou Lan.

"Worms, you court death!" Seven Star Child first went to Star Lord Wan Xiang.

He raised his leg and harshly stepped on Star Lord Wan Xiang's back.

Bam!

With a loud boom, he created a hole in the eighth star hall, Star Lord Wan Xiang's chest
was almost entirely smashed. His injured body was like a shooting star, flying down
and crashing into the forest.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie took large strides towards Hei Lou Lan.

But Hei Lou Lan was attacked by the icy drill stardust, under the intense feeling of pain
and cold, she narrowly woke up from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream
realm.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie snickered sinisterly, when he got to around fifty to
sixty steps from Hei Lou Lan, he pushed with his left arm.

Hei Lou Lan had yet to react before her entire body moved back subconsciously, at the
same time she raised her arms to block.

At the next moment, a huge starlight pillar shot out of Seven Star Child immortal
zombie's hand silently.

Immortal killer move — Star Billow Pillar!

The defense Hei Lou Lan created was thoroughly destroyed in the blink of an eye by
the starlight pillar.

Luckily, Hei Lou Lan had obtained a crucial moment to rest, she quickly changed her
direction.

Star billow pillar was a straight line attack, Hei Lou Lan narrowly escaped death and
avoided the range of the pillar, retreating quickly.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie halted for a moment, before twisting his left arm
and adjusting the direction of the pillar.

Hei Lou Lan dodged left and right, she narrowly avoided star billow pillar many times.
Even if she was hit by the light pillar, it was not for more than three breaths of time.

After dozens of breaths, the huge starlight pillar in Seven Star Child's hand vanished,
and Hei Lou Lan successfully escaped from the eighth star hall, rapidly descending
towards the forest.

When Hei Lou Lan got to Fang Yuan's side, she could not believe that she actually
escaped successfully, keeping her life!

She did not have strong defensive methods, even with the recovery speed of being a
strength path extreme immortal, she could not stay in the light pillar for four breaths
of time. During the process of her retreat, she was dancing on the edge of death, if
there was an accident and she stayed in it for four breaths, she would have died.

Fang Yuan grabbed her arm and ran towards the deeper parts of the forest: "Quickly
go! Seven Star Child immortal zombie had been trapped in that dream realm for too
long, his condition is abnormal and there are few thoughts in his mind, his cognition
is slow and he cannot think normally now."

Hei Lou Lan was dragged by Fang Yuan, they concealed their figures and stealthily
moved past trees after trees, running frantically in the forest.

She was still confused even now, she asked rapidly: "Dream realm! The Star Constellation
Immortal Venerable that I saw earlier was also part of a dream realm? What is a dream
realm?"

Suddenly, Hei Lou Lan's voice came to a stop, seeing the icy drill stardust marks on her
body, she shouted in anger: "Fang Yuan! You actually attacked me?"

"Shut up! I was saving you, without this icy drill stardust, would you be able to escape
from Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm? If you could not react in
time, you would have been killed by Seven Star Child immortal zombie's immortal
killer move already!" Fang Yuan did not turn around, he replied in an displeased tone.

Hei Lou Lan was stunned, but she accepted his explanation.

Fierce and ambitious people were usually easily suspicious, Hei Lou Lan did not
believe Fang Yuan, what she believed was the Snowy Mountain Alliance that they had.

The alliance stated that allies were not to harm or attack each other. When one side
was in danger, the other party must attempt to save them to the best of their ability.

If Fang Yuan's icy drill stardust was an attack trying to harm Hei Lou Lan, he would
have died from the oath already.

Seeing that he was rapidly running, and causing pain to her arm, Hei Lou Lan
understood and broke free from Fang Yuan's grasp: "I can move myself!"

Pausing for a while, Hei Lou Lan followed behind Fang Yuan as she asked: "I will
remember this favor of saving my life. The compensation that I give you should
certainly satisfy you! However, what is that dream realm? As a strength path extreme
immortal, I actually sunk into that dream realm with no way of resisting? Dream
realm, dream realm… is it that dream realm in <>? Is it connected to Great Dream
Immortal Venerable? Also, why are you running so rapidly? We have Fixed Immortal
Travel."

"Shut up!" Fang Yuan shouted, running at his full speed.

His true solid bat wings were already gone, his speed was much slower now.

"Worms that invade my territory deserve death!" At this point, Seven Star Child
immortal zombie's furious voice could be heard.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan ran as they looked up, seeing that Seven Star Child
immortal zombie had already flown out of the eighth star hall, his attention was on
the rolling rock battlefield that was in the air.
This was unavoidable, after all, the rolling rock battlefield was high in the air, it was
massive and was like a huge poisonous tumor attached to the Starry Sky grotto-
heaven, it attracted too much hostility.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie thought about it for a while, he stretched out his
left arm and burst out with another star billow pillar.

An immortal level star path killer move, it crashed onto the rolling rock battlefield.
The rolling rock battlefield shook intensely, but it did not break.

The star billow pillar was certainly an immortal killer move, but rolling rock
battlefield was also an immortal killer move. In fact, it was a killer move formed by
using three Immortal Gu that were related to each other!
Seeing that his attack did not destroy this despicable poisonous tumor, Seven Star
Child immortal zombie was stunned, he opened his mouth and roared with even more
anger, as his right arm pressed towards the rolling rock battlefield.

Following his action, a huge hand made of grand starlight formed and slapped the
rolling rock battlefield with great force.

It was another immortal killer move!

After the attack of two immortal killer moves, the rolling rock battlefield cracked
opened as a huge opening revealed the scene inside the battlefield, it had not broken
apart yet.

Fang Yuan saw this and retracted his gaze, running without rest.

Hei Lou Lan let out a breath of foggy air, her worry was mostly lifted: "Alright, Seven
Star Child immortal zombie is fighting Shi Lei now, this is the best situation. Fang Yuan,
why are you running?!"

"Saving a person." Fang Yuan's reply was extremely brief and to the point.

Hei Lou Lan was curious: "Save who?"

At this time, Fang Yuan turned around a mountain wall and stepped onto a cliff, he
pointed: "Him."

Hei Lou Lan looked and saw that there was a Gu Immortal lying on a cracked rock after
a trail of broken trees: "It is that star path Gu Immortal!"

The two came to Star Lord Wan Xiang, and saw that there was a huge hole on his chest.
Not only was it completely pierced through, he had lost almost all of his chest, only
some flesh by the two sides were holding him together.
Such heavy injuries made even Hei Lou Lan breathe in sharply.

"This is the power of Seven Star Child immortal zombie's stomp." Fang Yuan lowered
his body and his eight arms searched Star Lord Wan Xiang's body in turns.

After a while, Fang Yuan sighed in disappointment, thinking: "Although his body's
injuries are severe, it can be healed by paying a huge cost. But his soul was sucked into
the dream realm, unless Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream was broken,
this Gu Immortal's soul can only wander inside that dream realm, or transform
himself into another dream realm."

Hei Lou Lan was standing at the side, using her investigative Gu to check, she said with
some lingering fear: "There is no way to save him, even his soul is entirely missing
now, don't tell me it was because of that dream realm? If you did not save me, would I
end up in that state as well?"

"What a pity." Fang Yuan muttered, his movements did not stop: "If he was still alive,
we could still gain important information from him. In fact, we could use your slavery
Immortal Gu to make him become one of us, doing our bidding. We could even plot
against Shi Lei, and might have a chance of killing Shi Lei without taking any risks,
while also leaving us free from suspicion, obtaining the greatest benefits!"

"Hey, are you listening to my words!" Hei Lou Lan was stomping her feet in anger.

"If you have the time for that, why don't you come and help me seal the immortal
aperture in his body." Fang Yuan's words attracted all of Hei Lou Lan's attention.

This was a complete rank six blessed land!

Hei Lou Lan quickly moved ahead and sent out her divine sense, but it could only move
around the area outside the immortal aperture, unable to enter.

"He is dead, but he left behind his obsession, the blessed land now has a land spirit."
Fang Yuan's eight arms were continuing to move, planting all sorts of Gu worms on
Star Lord Wan Xiang's corpse.

Star Lord Wan Xiang's injuries continued to heal.

"I, what can I do to help?" Hei Lou Lan was stunned by the incredible techniques that
Fang Yuan was using endlessly right now.
Fang Yuan's brows were tightly locked, he was concentrating: "Sealing the blessed
land is a troublesome matter, thankfully the land spirit has just been formed. I did not
expect such a situation, I am lacking Gu worms now. You have to observe the battle
situation up there, while communicating with treasure yellow heaven to buy these Gu
worms. Remember, we cannot have a single one missing!"

Saying so, Fang Yuan transmitted his divine sense.

"I know." Hei Lou Lan obtained a list and her face was serious.

She stood beside Fang Yuan, acting as a guard while using her own immortal aperture
to communicate with treasure yellow heaven. Not just that, she even used the moving
perspective cup Gu that Fang Yuan lent her to ask for help from Fairy Li Shan.

Boom boom boom…

High in the sky, Seven Star Child immortal zombie continued to attack endlessly, his
immortal killer moves were unleashed as if they did not cost any immortal essence at
all, he used them one after another.

The rolling rock battlefield could not take the pressure and was finally broken.

The battlefield broke apart, and the zombie dragon fell from the sky helplessly, like a
dead snake with lots of injuries.

Shi Lei, who caused its injuries, was not in a good state either, he was covered in
wounds, especially the one on his chest, it extended from his shoulder to his waist, the
wound was so deep his bones could be seen.

Shi Lei was panting heavily, his face was pale. There was still a trace of grey white
zombie fire burning on his body. In order to defeat the zombie dragon, he had paid a
huge price and suffered heavy injuries.

But the more injured he was, the greater his fighting intent.

Seeing Seven Star Child immortal zombie, who was stronger than the zombie dragon,
this Gu Immortal from Combat Immortal Sect laughed loudly, he did not have any fear,
instead, his fighting intent was blazing like a forest fire.

"Intruder, die." Seven Star Child immortal zombie shouted, expressionlessly pointing
a finger at Shi Lei.

Immortal killer move — One Star Finger!

At the same time, Shi Lei snickered, flipping his palm.

Immortal killer move — Shocking Rock Break!

The two killer moves were attacking methods that had short activation time but great
offensive power. Seven Star Child immortal zombie's fingertip burst out with starlight,
in the blink of an eye, it tore through space and pierced Shi Lei's chest.

Meanwhile, a huge mountain rock pressed down on Seven Star Child immortal
zombie, with a loud bang, Seven Star Child immortal zombie was sent crashing to the
ground, buried under a small hill.

Shi Lei's blood was spewing out in a line, from the front and back of his chest. His body
shook in the air for a while, he almost fell but he managed to continue floating.

Shi Lei was stunned, the attack earlier was too fast, if he did not move his body in time,
his heart would have been destroyed.

At the area of his wound, there were countless star path dao marks, as they were near
his heart, blood was flowing out unceasingly. Ordinary mortal Gu could not help, even
mortal healing killer moves could not do anything, but Shi Lei had his own healing
Immortal Gu.

After the treatment of the Immortal Gu, Shi Lei's injuries healed rapidly, the blood
stopped spewing out, it flowed down his chest like a stream.

Right after he finished treating his injuries, the rock that was suppressing Seven Star
Child immortal zombie broke apart, a huge starlight hand pressed hard and broke the
rock into pieces, sending the shards flying.

Roar!

Seven Star Child immortal zombie shouted loudly, his body was covered in a multi-
colored star cloak.

With a loud bang, he flew up, only leaving behind an illusory figure on the spot. The
intense force caused the ground below the immortal zombie to crack, caving in to form
a crater.

Shi Lei's pupils shrunk, he was shocked by Seven Star Child's burst of speed.

Shi Lei had just summoned his defensive Immortal Gu when Seven Star Child immortal
zombie crashed towards him with a loud bang.

The Immortal Gu's defense was nearly broken, Shi Lei spat out a mouthful of blood
with his vision spinning, he was sent flying into the sky from the impact.

"Oh no, this is a movement immortal killer move!" Shi Lei could feel the wind brushing
against his ears, he tried hard to open his eyes.

Whoosh!

Hearing something with his ears, Shi Lei turned around with much difficulty, only to
see Seven Star Child immortal zombie covered in a robe of starlight, piercing the
clouds and appearing before him.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie flew alongside Shi Lei, towards the sky.

At that moment, the immortal zombie opened his left palm, aiming it at Shi Lei's head.

Immortal killer move — Star Billow Pillar!

Boom—!

The huge light pillar pierced the cloud layer from a high altitude, penetrating a
mountain peak and causing a large area to collapse and fall apart, resulting in much
dust and smoke.

A body descended from the sky like a broken sack.

It was Shi Lei.

He had endured the attack of the star billow pillar for fifteen breaths, but he was still
alive and had some battle strength left. His entire head was charred black, his facial
features were all blurry, like the melted wax of a candle.
Roar—!

Shi Lei opened his eyes, his golden pupils bursting out with an unprecedented ruthless
light.

His heart was filled with rage, he finally used his greatest trump card.

Earth path, transformation path — dual immortal killer move — Rock Mountain
Immortal Monkey King Transformation!

Seven Star Child immortal zombie charged over, but was repelled by a burst of golden
light. When the giant pillar of golden light vanished, a sixteen meter tall giant monkey
appeared.

The monkey had golden fur, like it was clad in golden armor. The muscles on its body
were bulging like huge rocks. Its golden pupils were emitting an emotionless
dominance, as the reflection of Seven Star Child immortal zombie could be seen in its
eyes.

There were a pair of huge hands with red fingernails that were sharp as swords, when
his fingers were extended, his hands looked like two fearsome claws.

Opening its mouth, fangs grew, in a moment, fangs were protruding out of its mouth,
it was as if a demonic god had descended into the mortal world.

On one end, it was the huge Immortal Monkey King, on the other end there was the
awakened immortal zombie clad in a starry cloak, the two were at a standstill, neither
of them attacked yet.

Hei Lou Lan watched with her heart shaking, she knew that the moment the two of
them attacked, it would be an overwhelming battle, she could not help but urge Fang
Yuan: "Quick, the situation is becoming more troublesome."

"Okay, okay. But without Immortal Gu, we can only last for seven minutes. Once the
time is up, the immortal aperture will have to land on the ground and take root." Fang
Yuan was extremely busy, he felt dizzy as his eight arms stopped moving in that
complex manner.

He heaved a deep sigh, looking at the sky, seeing the fearsome Immortal Monkey King,
as well as the Seven Star Child immortal zombie who was surrounded by shiny
starlight.

Immortal Monkey King moved his golden pupils, using his peripheral vision to look at
Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan.

Fang Yuan's concealment method could not deceive Shi Lei in his current state.

Fang Yuan's pupils shrunk: "He found us. Quick, hide the corpse!"

Hei Lou Lan's expression was solemn, she quickly dragged Star Lord Wan Xiang's leg
and tossed him into her immortal aperture.

At this time, Seven Star Child immortal zombie howled towards the sky.

His voice pierced heaven and earth, beams of starlight pillars shot down from the sky.

From the pillars, desolate beasts came out, diamond bear, flying sword rat, star
desolate hound, golden pangolin…

After Seven Star Child immortal zombie started thinking again, he finally used the
advantage of the grotto-heaven, he released the desolate beasts inside the seven
spaces and displayed an overpowering position!

Seeing this, Fang Yuan said nothing more, activating Fixed Immortal Travel.

Immortal Monkey King's expression changed.

Hei Lou Lan entered Fang Yuan's immortal aperture, in just a few breaths of time, the
two of them vanished.

"Fixed Immortal Travel, immortal zombie… Fang Yuan!" Three phrases appeared in
Immortal Monkey King's mind, but Seven Star Child immortal zombie charged over
again. Shi Lei was bold but he was not stupid enough to continue fighting.

He flew down, towards the walking meat tree, and placed the two segments of the tree
into his immortal aperture.

Boom!

A trace of starlight tore through the sky, piercing Immortal Monkey King's huge body.
It was Seven Star Child's immortal killer move, one star finger!

After Shi Lei was hit, his body merely shook slightly, he continued to fly towards the
flying heavenly boar corpse.

He had the intention to retreat already, he wanted to get his loot before leaving.

He endured Seven Star Child immortal zombie's attacks as he flew towards the astral
wind flying heavenly boar corpse, stretching out his arm to grab it, but he got nothing
instead!

"What?!" Shi Lei was shocked, seeing the broken mortal Gu on his arm, he understood
at once and flew into a rage, it had to be that Fang Yuan!

Bam!

At the next moment, a star billow pillar hit Immortal Monkey King directly on the back,
causing him to fall onto the ground.
Immortal Monkey King was hit directly by the star billow pillar, with a loud thud, he
crashed on the ground, with his head facing the floor.

He growled angrily, spitting out the soil in his mouth, getting up quickly.

Shi Lei did not care about the Seven Star Child immortal zombie, he only wanted to get
to the star demon bat corpse, towards the location in his memories.

He took huge steps as he ran, uprooting all of the trees in his way. He looked at the star
demon bat corpse from afar, joyful to see that it was still intact.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

Right at this moment, three golden lights flew over from the sky.

The golden lights were extremely fast and agile, they were three flying sword rat
desolate beasts.

Shi Lei snorted coldly, he did not want to engage with them, he raised his arms and
covered his face.

Clank clank clank…

The flying sword rats' nails were as sharp as swords, they scratched Immortal Monkey
King's huge body, but no blood was seen as the soft golden monkey fur blocked the
nails, emitting a loud metallic noise.

Shi Lei's current form had outstanding defense.

The three flying sword rats did not let go of Shi Lei yet, they were small and agile, they
followed him and continued to scratch and hack away at his body.

Bunches of monkey fur fell from Shi Lei's body.

Wherever Shi Lei went, monkey fur would scatter on the ground.

"Damn rats!" Shi Lei shouted, whipping his tail and using it like a golden whip.

The flying sword rats were hit by the tail, but after they were sent flying, they returned
and continued to disturb him.

Just as he was about to reach the star demon bat corpse, a diamond bear appeared.

"Scram!" Shi Lei was furious, he clenched his fists and swept with his arms, his fists
were slamming horizontally as his brute force pushed the heavy diamond bear away.

The diamond bear flew in the air for a short distance, before crashing partway up the
mountain. With a loud thud, its body which resembled diamonds had cracks on it, but
it stood up like it was uninjured.

Desolate beasts generally had strong vitality, they were durable and sturdy existences.

Shi Lei did not want to tangle with the diamond bear, he only wanted to get back his
loot.

He ignored the disturbance of the flying sword rats as he reached the star demon bat
corpse and grabbed it with his hand.

The star demon bat corpse shattered, he had been deceived once again.

Shi Lei reacted quickly, shouting in anger: "Damn, what method is this? How can it
look so real! Flying bear, right, there is still a flying bear here."

Still having some hope in his heart, the golden fur giant monkey changed directions
and continued to run.

Along the way, he was met with obstruction from desolate beasts, but with his brute
strength, he forcefully carved out a path.

During this period, Seven Star Child immortal zombie who was in the air attacked non-
stop, sending blows towards the golden fur giant monkey, even with the great defense
of the Immortal Monkey King form, his skin was torn and flesh was exposed.

Shi Lei finally got close to the flying bear corpse, but he saw that there were five flying
bears surrounding the corpse, some made mournful cries while others were licking
the blood on the ground.

There was one which used its head to nudge the flying bear corpse, but the image
flickered.

Shi Lei saw this and lost all hope, it was completely dashed as rage overwhelmed him:
"It seems that all of the desolate beasts that I killed were stolen by that despicable
thief Fang Yuan!! All of these are my loot, the fruits of my victory. He dared to steal my
possessions, the Immortal Monkey King's, how long has it been since such a thing has
happened?"

Shi Lei's huge body attracted the attention of the flying bears.

Grrr!

The five flying bears had bloodshot eyes as they charged towards the golden fur giant
monkey.

Shi Lei did not have the mood to fight with them, at this point, he knew there was
nothing to gain here, he wanted to escape.

Even though Star Lord Wan Xiang was killed and Shi Lei lost the method to leave Starry
Sky grotto-heaven, he knew the location of that grotto-heaven loophole, as long as he
can find that place, he could exert force and create a bigger hole, connecting to the
outside world of Central Continent.

Shi Lei immediately changed directions, but he realized that while the five flying bears
were still charging towards him from the front, on the left, there were three blazing
divine stallions getting closer. On the right, there was a huge ghost face tortoise, and
behind him were seven star desolate hounds.

In just a short while, he was surrounded by desolate beasts on all sides.

Shi Lei wanted to fly into the sky, but he looked up to see an iron crown eagle, a nine
palace crane, and a qi grand lion, these three desolate beasts above him. Other than
that, Seven Star Child immortal zombie was also ready to attack.

"Three desolate beasts are nothing much, but this immortal zombie…” The golden fur
giant monkey's golden pupils shined with wariness.
He lowered his head, looking around and deciding to break through from the right
side.

On his right, there was a ghost face tortoise, it was like the size of three mountains,
floating in the sky silently. It was the largest in build and had the most difficulty in
turning around. If Seven Star Child immortal zombie continued to attack, he could use
the ghost face tortoise's huge body to act as a shield!

Shi Lei made up his mind and took a huge step forward, charging towards the ghost
face tortoise.

He had transformed into the golden fur giant monkey, he was more than twice as large
as Fang Yuan's eight armed immortal zombie form. But in front of the ghost face
tortoise, he was like a pearl in front of a wolf.

The ghost face tortoise growled, as countless soul beasts emerged from the holes on
its shell.

The dark blue colored soul beasts formed into an army, huge in numbers, filling the
sky and charging towards the golden monkey like a torrential wave.

Shi Lei fought against the flow and moved up, his fists sending all of the soul beasts in
his way flying. His golden fur had great defense, although the soul beasts were huge in
numbers, they were slaughtered mercilessly.

Shi Lei managed to use this soul beast army to avoid the entrapment of the desolate
beasts. Only those three flying sword rats were still near him, causing small wounds
from time to time.

"This immortal zombie seems to be unable to think, even though he has strength, his
beasts are hindering each other, and cannot display their true power. If it was me, I
would've attacked long ago. Who cares about the lives of the soul beasts." Shi Lei had
rich battle experience, after evading the ghost face tortoise, he had an idea and
purposely slowed down.

Under the encirclement of the soul beast army, he continued to move forward. The
other beasts could only stand far away, even Seven Star Child immortal zombie was
staring blankly, as if he did not want to harm the soul beast army.

Finally, Shi Lei came to the opening of the loophole of the grotto-heaven.
He let out a breath of turbid air, he was just about to relax before he winced, as blood
poured out from his back.

"These three accursed rats!" Shi Lei growled in anger, he turned around and raised his
fist, sending the flying sword rats flying.

The flying sword rats earlier could not cause much damage, but when damage
accumulated, a small injury would grow into a large one, his back's injury was already
filled with metal path dao marks.

The flying sword rats crashed onto the ground, but they quickly flew towards Shi Lei
again.

Shi Lei's eyes shone with a ruthless light, he activated an immortal killer move —
Filthy Mud Robe.

The three flying sword rats landed on the filthy mud robe and could not free
themselves, like they were stuck in a swamp.

Shi Lei used another move, earth's root!

From the thick filthy mud robe, countless spikes shot out, stabbing and piercing the
flying sword rats.

The flying sword rats held on for over a dozen breaths of time before their tiny bodies
were pierced through by hundreds of spikes, they died at the scene.

At this time, Seven Star Child immortal zombie finally reacted, he mobilized the soul
beast army and ordered the desolate beasts to charge forward fearlessly.

"It is too late, fool." Shi Lei breathed in deeply, the sticky filthy mud robe on his body
moved rapidly, detaching from his body and covering the grotto-heaven opening.

Shi Lei placed both his palms on the filthy mud robe, pouring a large amount of
immortal essence into it.

Immortal killer move — Earth Disintegration!

The filthy mud robe scattered and flowed out, the grotto-heaven crack became a huge
hole after this attack. Shi Lei could see another sky out of this huge hole.
He laughed heartily, taking a huge step and forcing his way out.

Because it was a forceful breakthrough and was not as meticulous as Star Lord Wan
Xiang's methods, during the process of leaving, a huge invisible force squeezed at Shi
Lei's body from all directions.

Thankfully, Shi Lei had become the golden fur giant monkey, his defenses rose by more
than ten times. He resisted the pressure and went through the hole, his body was
covered in blood, especially the wound caused by the flying sword rats, his flesh was
mushy and large amounts of blood was oozing out.

Shi Lei sucked in a breath of cold air from the pain, he shouted in his heart: "Who dares
to block my way, I am out of here! That accursed immortal zombie, I will definitely
take you down. And for that Fang Yuan, the thief that stole my loot. A mere tiny rank
six immortal zombie that doesn't know what is good for him, he dared to offend me!
When I return, I will deal with you properly, and let you know the terrible fate for
offending me!"

Thoughts flashed in Shi Lei's mind, but at this time, he heard the growls of flying bears
near him.

Shi Lei quickly looked around, seeing that five flying bears had gotten extremely close
to him from five different directions.

"What is going on?" He raised his head and looked, only to see six huge star shadows
in the sky.

"Why am I still here? I had undoubtedly…” Shi Lei was extremely shocked, his mouth
was wide open.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie looked at him as he laughed coldly: "Little monkey,
did you think that my seven star space is so simple? I do have to thank you, if you did
not awaken me, I might still be stuck in that dream realm. As thanks, I will bury your
corpse below my most beloved mountain peak."

By now, Seven Star Child had actually regained his senses, he could think normally
again!

"This is bad." Shi Lei's heart sank.

Five flying bears raised their paws, attacking the golden fur giant monkey.

"Scram!" Shi Lei was just about to erupt, when starlight flickered around him, his body
became heavier and his movement became slower — Seven Star Child immortal
zombie had attacked.

This was only a mortal killer move, but its effect was amazing, it was even more
effective than the offensive immortal killer move earlier.

At once, bear paws slammed down from all directions.

Shi Lei shielded himself on his left and right, but he was unable to protect himself
thoroughly, when he finally got rid of his restraint, he rolled and escaped from the five
bears. But at this time, he was already dizzy from the beating, his muscles were
swollen, becoming green and purple, although he had no bone fractures, his body was
aching intensely.

After Seven Star Child regained his senses, his danger level escalated intensely!

"I have no choice, I will have to seek help from the sect! Hmph, to think that I, the grand
Immortal Monkey King, was forced to use seek help Gu at this moment! Where will my
reputation go after this? Fang Yuan, this is all your fault, after I am saved, I will make
sure you pay!!" Shi Lei shouted in his heart, he was going to puke blood from anger.

Fang Yuan not only stole his loot, causing his trip to be an overall loss, he even took
away Star Lord Wan Xiang and trapped Shi Lei in this Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

Woof woof woof!

Two star desolate hounds traveled over, and the ghost face tortoise also floated ahead
of him soundlessly.

Immortal Monkey King raised his head, shouting at Seven Star Child immortal zombie:
"Fight me for three hundred more rounds if you have the guts!"

Seven Star Child immortal zombie laughed arrogantly: "Sure, come here."

The golden fur giant monkey growled as sharp golden light burst out, forcing Seven
Star Child immortal zombie to squint in response.
After the golden light faded, Shi Lei regained his human form, he charged into the
forest and sped away rapidly.

The result was — he ran away!

He ran away!

The Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei famous for his bravery and ruthlessness in Central
Continent had chosen to escape. If this was known to the outside world, who knows
how many of Central Continent's Gu Immortals would gasp in shock.

Seven Star Child immortal zombie was shocked for a while before reacting, responding
angrily: "You dare to trick me? I thought you were a heroic champion who would
rather battle to the death and would never give up! Escape, go ahead and run, I want
to see where you can escape to in this grotto-heaven of mine?!"

Shi Lei did not say a word, he ran even faster.

"We are here." Fang Yuan looked around him and gave a satisfied nod.

"Where is this?" Hei Lou Lan came out of Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

The two had used Fixed Immortal Travel to escape Starry Sky grotto-heaven and
arrive at this place.

Hei Lou Lan looked around her and guessed this was either an underground cavern
or inside a hollow mountain. The light was sparse, causing the place to be dark and
gloomy, there were jagged rocks and the moisture in the air was very high, however it
was quite spacious.

"This place is Earth Abyss." Fang Yuan lightly replied.

"Earth Abyss?" Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan with an astonished gaze.

She was not unfamiliar with Central Continent, and knew that this Earth Abyss was
located in the far west of Central Continent, and was an incomparably large
underground world.

Earth Abyss was divided into tens of layers with every layer being at least hundreds
of thousands of square kilometers in size. The space was extremely large and the
underground world was deep and secluded. There were all sorts of caves and tunnels,
some were like labyrinths, some had giant underground lakes while some had flat
ground.

Earth Abyss was home to untold number of living organisms, it was full of vitality, the
unique ecology was clearly different from the surface.

"Truly a great place, the earth qi is dense in Earth Abyss and will greatly reduce the
time for the blessed land to fall."

Hei Lou Lan nodded then changed the subject: "But the main headquarters of Ancient
Soul Sect is in Earth Abyss. Ancient Soul Sect is one of the ten great ancient sects, it is
like a colossal beast that has held dominance over the far west for thousands of years.
They have occupied Earth Abyss and treat it as their own exclusive domain. If you want
the blessed land to fall here, it is like planting flowers in another person's backyard,
aren't you afraid of being found?"

Fang Yuan laughed: "Don't worry, the depths of Earth Abyss are extremely secluded,
Ancient Soul Sect has spent thousands of years but has only explored no more than
eighteen layers fully, with some brief explorations up to the twenty-seventh layer.
From the twenty-eight to thirty-sixth layers, only Ancient Soul Sect's Gu Immortals
roam about occasionally. As long as we plant the blessed land below the fortieth layer,
we do not need to be concerned about being discovered even if we make a large
commotion."

"Fortieth layer? I remember the exploration of Earth Abyss done by Ancient Soul Sect
only found thirty-six layers?" Hei Lou Lan was astonished.

Fang Yuan snickered: "That is because they are incompetent, the depth of Earth Abyss
surpasses people's imaginations. How could it stop at thirty-six layers?"

As he said this, he recalled his previous life.

In his previous life, when Fang Yuan was rank five, endless beast tides emerged from
Earth Abyss, attacking the surface and bringing disaster to Central Continent.

Ancient Soul Sect suffered the brunt of their attack, suffering such disastrous losses
that their foundation was damaged.

After the beast tides charged out of Earth Abyss, they constantly drove out beast
groups on Central Continent's surface and gradually formed into an unprecedented,
terrifying beast tide that spread over the whole of Central Continent.

In those years, there was great misery and suffering in Central Continent, countless
small sects were destroyed like stones in the path of a flood.

The ten great ancient sects organized groups of experts and rushed everywhere to
destroy the beast tide.

They spent several years before they were finally able to eradicate the beast tide from
the surface. Afterwards, both righteous and demonic path Gu Masters moved together
inside Earth Abyss.

Fang Yuan also entered Earth Abyss together with others and killed wild beasts,
obtaining resources for his cultivation.

They purged layers after layers, and entered deeper and deeper. After entering the
thirty-sixth layer, Gu Masters discovered a new passage.

Further down was an even larger underground world with territories of countless
beast groups, desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts. It was a land filled with
dangers everywhere.

Even when Fang Yuan had self-detonated, the exploration of the Earth Abyss had not
finished. They had only discovered there were one hundred and seven layers.

Ancient Soul Sect currently occupied thirty-six layers, which was just the portion that
was closest to the surface.

Fang Yuan naturally would not speak of these details to Hei Lou Lan, he only said: "Just
follow me."

Hei Lou Lan saw Fang Yuan's confident appearance and followed him deeper into
Earth Abyss.

The place they had appeared was the eighth layer. And as they moved down, they saw
many of Ancient Soul Sect's Gu Masters. These Gu Masters mostly were in groups,
some were hunting wild beasts while some were gathering underground moss.

The deeper they went, the fewer the number of Gu Masters they saw while the
cultivations of the Gu Masters increased correspondingly.

From rank two Gu Masters at the start to rank three to rank four.

How could these mortals have the ability to detect Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan's traces?
Even if they brushed past some Gu Masters in a narrow path, these mortals would not
have been able to sense anything.

When they reached the thirtieth layer, they no longer saw mortal Gu Masters. It was a
scene of darkness which greatly restricted vision, but fortunately, Fang Yuan and Hei
Lou Lan were Gu Immortals, they had all sorts of investigative Gu.
At the thirty-fifth layer, one of Ancient Soul Sect's rank six Gu Immortals was being
chased miserably by an ancient desolate beast and four desolate beasts.

This Gu Immortal had helped Fang Yuan, he and Hei Lou Lan were able to smoothly
pass through the desolate beasts' camps and enter the thirty-sixth layer.

Here, Fang Yuan walked to the key area according to his previous life's memory.

After setting up six Gu formations, Fang Yuan pointed below his feet and said to Hei
Lou Lan: "My attack power is not enough, it is better if you activate your Immortal Gu
and attack this muddy ground."

Hei Lou Lan followed Fang Yuan's instruction, she transformed into a strength path
phantom giant and punched heavily at the muddy ground three times.

Mud and stones spattered, but could not splash out of the Gu formations. Thunderous
sounds echoed, but outside the Gu formations, it was a scene of tranquil silence.

The muddy ground was not completely smashed and only formed a crater that
reached seventy to eighty feet.

"Continue, quickly!" Fang Yuan urged before jumping inside.

Hei Lou Lan took a deep breath and jumped inside, punching rapidly.

Under these continuous bombardments, the giant crater deepened further and after
thousands of feet, it finally broke open completely, forming a hole.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan entered this hole to the thirty-seventh layer.

Hei Lou Lan was covered with sweat. She raised her head and saw that the hole was
rapidly being restored under the effect of the Gu formations.

"That was the thinnest area in the thirty-sixth layer. Even so, it was nearly ten
thousand feet thick."' Fang Yuan explained.

"How did you discover this place?" Hei Lou Lan was filled with doubts.

Fang Yuan snickered. Due to the Snowy Mountain Alliance, he could not lie but could
choose to not speak.
Hei Lou Lan saw Fang Yuan's silence and snorted, but did not pursue it.

The thirty-seventh layer was filled with much more danger. After all, this place was
completely in its raw state, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan could be said to be among the
first outsiders to explore it.

When the two finally reached the fortieth layer, the seal on Star Lord Wan Xiang finally
reached its time limit.

"Your estimate was really accurate." Hei Lou Lan placed Star Lord Wan Xiang's corpse
on the ground and gazed at Fang Yuan deeply.

At Fang Yuan's will, hundreds of mortal Gu flew out from Star Lord Wan Xiang's body
like a swarm of locusts, they buzzed as they flew into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

Without the layer of suppression, Star Lord Wan Xiang's body gradually let out bright
starlight.

The starlight became brighter and brighter, at the same time, the ground started to
tremor.

Several breaths later, vast amounts of earth qi emerged like layers of dust
accumulating on the ground.

The starlight stabilized, the piercing radiance was comparable to the sun during a
summer afternoon.

A formless suction force suddenly erupted which started to absorb the surrounding
earth qi. Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had already retreated far away from the starlight.

"What is going on?"

"It is an earthquake, another earthquake!"

"Leave, the earthquake this time is quite strong, if we don't leave now we might be
buried alive."

The Gu Masters in Earth Abyss scurried off like rats, shouting in panic as they ran as
fast as they could out of Earth Abyss.
They did not feel this was strange.

The structure of Earth Abyss was not stable and there would occasionally be
earthquakes or collapse of places within. It was because of this as well that Ancient
Soul Sect did not spend a lot of energy to carry out explorations, even though they
were in control of this place.

Large amounts of stones fell down from above, even more dangerous were those sharp
stalactites that could pierce through rank three defensive Gu if they struck.

In fact, not only the Gu Masters, the numerous living beings in Earth Abyss were also
in misery. Many were crushed to death by the falling stones, while others were buried
alive.

To place the blessed land, Fang Yuan had brought about the death of at least a hundred
thousand or more lives.

After five minutes of time, the starlight slowly stopped absorbing earth qi, and formed
a large square door. The large door was completely constructed from starlight and was
hovering in the air. There was a plaque on top of the door where four words were
written - Star Form Blessed Land.

Hei Lou Lan let out a breath of cloudy air: "We finally succeeded, it seems our luck is
not bad. The commotion was huge, but it did not lead to an attack from the wild beasts
in this place."

"Let's go." Fang Yuan took the lead and opened the starry entrance.

Hei Lou Lan followed closely behind. The two entered Star Form blessed land.

It was as if it was late at night in here, the sky was pitch black and filled with stars.

The dazzling starlight shone on the ground of the blessed land, the visibility was high
and it was not dark.

The whole of Star Form blessed land's terrain was like a giant basin. In the center were
upwards sloping grounds while at the edge of the blessed land were continuous
mountain ranges, as if forming a circular wall.

"So much star fragment grass!" Fang Yuan looked at the ground, the grass underneath
him here actually entirely consisted of star fragment grass.

Star fragment grass clearly required to be planted on cloud soil, but this star fragment
grass was directly planted on the black muddy ground, yet their growth was in a much
better state than the ones Fang Yuan planted in Hu Immortal blessed land.

Fang Yuan sighed with praise: "This is the benefit of having a star path blessed land,
growing the related plants is not only easier, but also guarantees harvest."

Hei Lou Lan's gaze was, however, attracted to the spinefin star dragonfish that were
leisurely flying in the night sky.

She could only see three spinefin star dragonfish.

These giant dragon fish were about the size of a whale, but had the shape of a carp.
There were bones protruding out of their backs that extended outwards.

Their scales were blue in color, their eyes were as large as carts, with some starry
radiance in them.

However, under the keen observation of Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan, they quickly
discovered some traces of battle. Not far away, large patches of plotted grass were in
flames with black smoke rising up. The three spinefin star dragonfish had injuries on
their body. At the far end of their sight, those continuous mountain ranges also showed
unnatural holes, like cheese that was nibbled at by rats.

"It seems that this Gu Immortal had been in a fierce battle." Fang Yuan said.

"Right, if not for my main body being heavily injured by Song Zi Xing, suffering hidden
injuries to both the physical body and soul, how could my grand main body, Star Lord
Wan Xiang, perish inside the eighth star hall?" A boy suddenly appeared before Fang
Yuan and Hei Lou Lan.

His appearance was as if he was carved from jade. He was wearing pinkish blue clothes
wrapped around his chest and stomach, his small arms and legs were tender white
like lotus roots. He was hovering in the air, his small cheeks puffing in anger.
"Star Lord Wan Xiang? It's him…” Hearing the land spirit introduce himself, Fang Yuan
revealed a flash of comprehension on his face.

"Land spirit, do you still remember me?" Fang Yuan smiled lightly: "I had bought star
fragment grass and the killer move, spring star rain, from your main body previously."

Star Form Child's gaze flickered, he reassessed Fang Yuan as his expression became
more gentle: "So it is you, I have some impression."

"Just the land spirit alone cannot take care of the entire blessed land, I wonder if you
would like to seek refuge with one of us?" Fang Yuan asked directly.

Hei Lou Lan stood at the side, showing some nervousness on her face, she stared
intently at Star Form Child.

Star Form Child nodded his small head, showing some sadness, saying: "To protect
this foundation, I will need the help of others. But I have my conditions."

Although Star Form Child was formed from Star Lord Wan Xiang's lingering obsession,
it had assimilated with the blessed land and was the representative of the blessed
land's will.

If he did not have the help of other Gu Immortals, the blessed land would experience
heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities again and again, until it perishes.

Any life form had an instinct for survival, even land spirits were no exception.

"Please speak." Fang Yuan quickly asked.

Star Form Child frowned, pouting as he said angrily: "The reason my main body died
in the eighth star hall was because of Song Zi Xing. He caused a huge injury to my main
body, forcing me to expose my secret and explore the grotto-heaven with Immortal
Monkey King Shi Lei. If you want to become this blessed land's owner, you will need
to bring me Song Zi Xing's head!"

"Song Zi Xing's head?" Hei Lou Lan heard this condition and laughed bitterly.

Even though she was not a person from Central Continent, she had heard of Song Zi
Xing's reputation.

Song Zi Xing was a former disciple of Myriad Dragon Dock, after getting the blood sea
inheritance, he refused to hand it over and chose to betray them. In order to
exterminate him, Myriad Dragon Dock sent eight Gu Immortals in succession.

Five rank six and three rank seven, in the end, four were killed by Song Zi Xing, three
were crippled and one was forced to retreat.

Myriad Dragon Dock suffered a huge loss and from then on, they did not dare to attack
Song Zi Xing without preparation again.

Song Zi Xing was now roaming around scot-free, he was one of the strongest experts
among the demonic path in Central Continent, he had rank seven cultivation and used
the blood path which was extremely powerful at fighting.

People in Central Continent publicly recognized that Song Zi Xing's battle strength was
about the same as Shi Lei, while being weaker than Feng Jiu Ge. That was because
many years ago, Song Zi Xing had encountered Feng Jiu Ge and was forced to retreat
after Feng Jiu Ge used three moves to utterly defeat him.

"Alright, I will give it a try." Fang Yuan's expression was unchanged, he agreed.

"You have to hurry, try your best! Star Form blessed land's earthly calamity is coming
soon, if I cannot get through it, the blessed land will be destroyed, it will be useless
even if you meet the condition then." Star Form Child urged.

Fang Yuan's gaze shined: "If that is the case, I can help you resist the earthly calamity
first."

Star Form Child shook his head like it was a rattle: "I will not allow any external Gu
Immortal to stay in Star Form blessed land for more than seven minutes. People's
hearts are hard to read, only my master can help me to pass tribulation. Not long after,
I will use treasure yellow heaven to spread this information, and get more people to
deal with that accursed Song Zi Xing!"
Hei Lou Lan's heart sank, but she had a deeply scheming heart, her expression was
still very calm.

She thought about her words as she said: "Then you have to be careful, land spirit.
People's hearts are hard to read, you might attract greedy wolves that would come and
attack your blessed land directly!"

Star Form Child laughed: "Don't worry, I am not stupid, I will not expose this location
to them. Only those who meet my condition can enter Star Form blessed land. Leave,
and remember not to tell others the location of this blessed land."

The land spirit was sending the guests out, Fang Yuan did not stay forcefully, he bid
his farewell and left with Hei Lou Lan using the blessed land's entrance, back to Earth
Abyss.

The moment the two of them stepped into Earth Abyss, the door behind them
vanished, completely disappearing.

The blessed land was a small world, even though it was placed on the ground and took
in earth qi, as long as the entrance was not open, it was very well hidden.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were silent, after getting rid of all their traces, they used
Fixed Immortal Travel and returned to Hu Immortal blessed land.

They were in a safe environment now, the first thing they did was to split the loot.

"This journey into Starry Sky grotto-heaven was terrifying but harmless, we made a
huge profit. I am regretting it slightly now, if I knew this, I would not have agreed to
the forty percent and sixty percent split." Hei Lou Lan sighed as she took the loot out
of her immortal aperture.

"Why are there so many desolate beast corpses? This boar looks like an ancient
desolate beast. Eh, there is a lion here, it is not dead yet." At once, Little Hu Immortal's
attention was attracted to the desolate beasts on the ground.

Blazing divine stallion, flying bear, star demon bat, chestnut yak… a total of seven
desolate beast corpses and a yellow jade lion which was barely on the verge of death.

Other than these, there was the astral wind flying heavenly boar, the corpse of an
ancient desolate beast. There were also several hundred kilograms of diamond soil
dug out from the diamond bear's cave. Finally, there were around ten mysterious trees.

These trees were part of a forest, when they had first entered Starry Sky grotto-
heaven, they trapped Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan. The two could not tell the origin of
these trees and decided to take a few into her immortal aperture.

Afterwards, a star desolate hound charged over and interrupted their collection
process.

The corpse of a desolate beast was worth approximately forty immortal essence
stones. Ancient desolate beast corpses were much more expensive, they were ten
times the price of desolate beasts corpses, that was four hundred immortal essence
stones!

Looking at this, it seemed that the price of an ancient desolate beast was unreasonably
high.

But the truth was, ancient desolate beasts were hard to kill, not only was their battle
strength equivalent to rank seven Gu Immortals, their bodies were covered in dao
marks, mortal killer moves were ineffective on them. Even immortal killer moves were
not very effective.

Ordinary immortal killer moves used rank six Immortal Gu as the core, when dealing
with ancient desolate beasts, it was like using a dagger to stab an elephant. Although
it had effect, the injuries had to be accumulated over a long period of time.

Only immortal killer moves formed with rank seven Immortal Gu were an effective
method to forcefully deal with ancient desolate beasts.

Therefore, when immortal killer moves were involved, immortal essence would be
expended. The cost of killing an ancient desolate beast would be much higher as a
result. One often needed to expend several hundred green grape immortal essence
beads or tens of red date immortal essence beads.

As a result, the profit that they gained was usually only about a hundred immortal
essence stones.

Although the profit of killing ancient desolate beasts was still much higher in terms of
efficiency, two factors needed to be considered. First, there was great risk in fighting
with ancient desolate beasts. Second, not any Gu Immortal could deal with ancient
desolate beasts. Ordinary rank six Gu Immortals would choose to retreat or run away
when faced with an ancient desolate beast.

Only rank seven Gu Immortals like Shi Lei, an expert even among rank seven Gu
Immortals, had the confidence to kill ancient desolate beasts.

"Seven desolate beast corpses are worth around two hundred and eighty immortal
essence stones. The nearly dead yellow jade lion, for now we can count that as around
eighty immortal essence stones. The corpse of the astral wind flying heavenly boar is
four hundred immortal essence stones. Hundreds of kilograms of diamond soil is
around thirty immortal essence stones. These mysterious trees are of an unknown
origin, we will exclude them for now. All in all, the profit is seven hundred and ninety
immortal essence stones."

Hei Lou Lan calculated, the result made her a little tongue tied.

Almost eight hundred immortal essence stones!

Undoubtedly, this was a huge fortune!!

Hei Lou Lan's breathing became faster.

Ever since she became an immortal, she had been calculating her immortal essence
stone expenditure piece by piece. Right now, there were almost eight hundred
immortal essence stones right in front of her!

Fang Yuan was in better shape than Hei Lou Lan, using the unlimited inspiration of
wisdom Gu, he made many transactions with Lang Ya land spirit and had tens of
immortal essence stones on him as liquid currency.

But even so, with eight hundred immortal essence stones in front of him, Fang Yuan
sighed in his heart.

Even in his previous life, he had no such experience. In the five hundred years of his
previous life, the highest amount of immortal essence stones he had on hand at a point
in time was merely sixty or so.

According to the four-to-six ratio, Fang Yuan could get four hundred and seventy-four
immortal essence stones.
"This huge profit was because we looted all of this without any battle, thus we
expended no immortal essence. We merely picked them up for free." Fang Yuan calmed
his mind and said.

"Hehe, that barbarian monkey is probably fuming now. Will he attack Hu Immortal
blessed land?" Hei Lou Lan asked with a bit of worry, after all, this was a huge sum.

"No." Fang Yuan shook his head." To us, this is a huge sum, but for a rank seven Gu
Immortal like Shi Lei, he has at least several thousand immortal essence stones in his
possession!"

Normally speaking, rank six Gu Immortals could have several hundred immortal
essence stones on them, while ordinary rank seven Gu Immortals would have
thousands.

Strength and wealth were in a reasonable ratio.

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were newly advanced Gu Immortals, they had just stepped
into the world of Gu Immortals, they were working with a whole new identity, starting
from scratch, thus they were extremely poor.

As for Fang Yuan lacking money in his previous life, one reason was because blood
path was not good for the development of assets, it excelled in fighting. Secondly,
because of the five regions chaotic war, there were many fights and he had high
expenditure during that period.

Fang Yuan continued to analyze: "Furthermore, Central Continent's ten great ancient
sects are righteous sects, and even compared to super forces in the other regions, they
have a long history. These great sects have to abide by order and stability, they care
about their face and reputation. Shi Lei will definitely want revenge on us, but he
would not do it forcefully. He will use righteous methods to suppress us, after all, we
are now a part of Immortal Crane Sect."

Hei Lou Lan nodded, she agreed with Fang Yuan's perspective, she showed some pity
on her face: "It is unfortunate that we did not obtain that walking meat tree. It is an
ancient desolate plant, a thing of legend, it can be sold for a higher price than the astral
wind flying heavenly boar."

Fang Yuan said: "I do not believe so, at that time, compared to the walking meat tree,
Star Form blessed land was much more important."
"How will we split Star Form blessed land?" Hei Lou Lan looked at Fang Yuan, her
expression turning serious. In front of a huge profit, she was not going to give up on it
easily.

These desolate beast and ancient desolate beast corpses were easy to split because
their price could be evaluated. But Star Form blessed land could not be easily assessed,
immortal essence stones could not express the true value of a blessed land.

A blessed land was like a gold mine, it could produce resources endlessly. After
swallowing it, it could even improve a Gu Immortal's cultivation. It could be said that
one's blessed land or grotto-heaven was the Gu Immortal's greatest achievement in
their cultivation journey.

Fang Yuan thought about it, before saying: "Star Form blessed land is not easy to split,
how about this, we will compete for it fairly. Whoever fulfils the land spirit's condition
first will obtain Star Form blessed land. The other party has to accept the result
without any compensation. Star Form blessed land is the result of our hard work, only
the two of us can compete in this contest, we cannot interfere with each other
maliciously. Other than us, even if it was Fairy Li Shan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng who want
to fight for Star Form blessed land, we will work together and stop them. What do you
think?"

Hei Lou Lan's gaze flickered as she nodded: "That will be the best!"
Central Continent, Bai Qing blessed land.

Bright sunlight shined down on this small world.

The mountain stream flowed slowly, the tall ancient trees spread out their huge green
leaves. Sunlight penetrated between the holes amongst the leaves, because of the
breeze, beams of light would sway gently when shining down on the ground.

Feng Jin Huang was reclining on the grassy ground, her back against a tall tree. Feeling
the wind, she breathed in deeply, the clear air was mixed in with the fragrance of the
grass.

The book of <> was exquisite and beautiful, in the hands of Feng Jin Huang, she had
already flipped it to the last few pages.

Feng Jin Huang's eyes were clear as water, she stared at a page of the book without
blinking.

Although she had heard about the story of Ren Zu since her youth, due to her mystical
experience in the dream realm, when she read <> again with deeper insight, Feng Jin
Huang felt many new emotions emerging in her.

At the end of <>, it said — Ren Zu's ten children died one after another, even Ren Zu
himself was going to die of old age, he was at the end of his life. Before dying, Ren Zu
retrieved the corpses of his ten children, and sacrificed himself, sending them all into
derivation Gu's stomach, eaten by it.

Large amounts of dream realms also followed the smell of the delicious food, going
into derivation Gu's mouth along with them.

Derivation Gu's stomach was burst open, as countless light of life shone on the lands,
creating the first batch of mortals.
"Because the dream realm was involved in the derivation, the first batch of mortals
would experience dreams when they slept at night. Humans often sink deep into
dreams, like Northern Dark Ice Soul, and are unable to free themselves from it." Feng
Jin Huang thought as she stretched out her hand, closing the <> book as she stood up.

"Mother, send me back to the building. I am tired." She said softly.

"Okay." At the next moment, Feng Jin Huang heard Fairy Bai Qing's gentle voice
echoing near her.

Feng Jin Huang vanished on the spot, she reappeared in her own room inside the small
building.

In the room, Fairy Bai Qing was already waiting.

Feng Jin Huang's eyes shone with joy: "Oh, mother, why are you free today, don't you
need to blend in the earth qi?"

When a Gu Master reaches rank six and becomes a Gu Immortal, their aperture would
take in the three qi of heaven, earth, and human, elevating it into an immortal
aperture, forming a small world.

Gu Immortals manage their immortal apertures and increase their cultivation level.
But the more objects that enter the immortal aperture, gradually, the heaven and earth
qi inside the immortal aperture would become insufficient.

Like a carefully nurtured bonsai, as the tree inside grows larger, the pot becomes too
small, and the soil will seem very shallow.

At this time, Gu Immortals will place their blessed lands on the ground, taking in earth
qi, or place their grotto-heavens in the sky, taking in heaven qi.

After taking in heaven and earth qi, they would stabilize their blessed land or grotto-
heaven, increasing the foundation of the immortal aperture. After their cultivation
level stabilizes, they would be able to continue cultivating with a more stable
foundation.

Fairy Bai Qing's current condition was that she had managed the blessed land for quite
some time, it was becoming unstable. She placed the blessed land on the ground, and
she herself was inside, taking in the earth qi of the large region, Central Continent, and
assimilating it into her blessed land.

Fairy Bai Qing looked at her cute daughter with a doting gaze, praising: "Huang Er, it
seems that after this dream realm encounter, your mental state had been greatly
trained. In the past, you would have complained to me and would request for me to
accompany you. But this time, I blended in the earth qi for three days and three nights
without spending any time with you, yet you actually read books and refined Gu
quietly, your mental state is much more mature than before, mother is very happy."

"Of course!" Feng Jin Huang smiled happily, showing her white teeth, she raised her
head as the bells rang on her phoenix coronet, she said proudly: "Who am I? I am
father and mother's flesh and blood, how can I ruin both of your reputations!"

Her smile infected Fairy Bai Qing as she smiled as well: "Ever since the first batch of
mortals were born, they could dream. Almost nobody can avoid dreaming, after all
these years, countless geniuses and talented individuals, even Immortal Venerables
and Demon Venerables, they have their own dream realms. These dream realms
gather together, forming a huge hidden realm of an unprecedented size. Huang Er,
your dream wings Immortal Gu can allow you to enter dream realms at will, it is a
movement Immortal Gu that prevents you from being influenced by dream realms!
This is a huge opportunity for you, you need to make good use of it."

"I understand, mother. These recent days, I have been trying to refine Gu, I found out
that my refinement path realm had reached quasi-master level. The advantages of the
dream realm are simply too much, I had always lacked interest in refinement path, I
had never practiced it normally. But after this dream realm journey, my attainment
rose so sharply, I have exceeded many people in the sect." Feng Jin Huang sighed and
said.

"You moved about in Old Immortal Kong Jue's dream, you unknowingly obtained some
of his refinement path true meaning. But that was because Old Immortal Kong Jue
himself was a refinement path supreme grandmaster, thus you had much to gain.
Dream realms are extremely complex, you might not be so lucky next time, to
encounter the dream of someone as qualified as Old Immortal Kong Jue." Fairy Bai
Qing analyzed.

Feng Jin Huang was nonchalant, she laughed: "If I can't encounter it, then so be it. I do
not have interest in refinement path anyway, next time, all I need to do is enter the
dream of an Immortal Venerable or Demon Venerable. Sigh, it is a pity, I walk on the
metal path, yet none of the ten venerables cultivate this path."

Fairy Bai Qing heart jumped when she heard this, she became serious: "Huang Er, do
not let your guard down. You were safe and sound this time because you were lucky,
the dream realm you were in was not dangerous or harmful. If you really enter the
dream of a venerable, you have to retreat immediately, the power of a venerable is not
something you can imagine."

Feng Jin Huang's first stuck out her tongue, before she replied obediently: "Yes mother,
I understand."

Fairy Bai Qing's expression became more gentle, she took out a letter Gu: "This is a
letter from your father, he has already broken through the regional wall, and has found
a place to rest after entering Northern Plains. He has not learned of your awakening
yet, but since he has already sent us a letter, we can use this letter Gu to reply to him,
say a few words to him and relieve his worry, so that he can deal with the missions in
this Northern Plains journey."

"Father's letter?" Feng Jin Huang's eyes shined, she jumped over and took the letter
Gu from Fairy Bai Qing, her consciousness entering it.

But in the end, she could not read it.

Feng Jin Huang pouted: "Oh, it is that information path Immortal Gu, Letter Sending
Green Bird, I am still a mortal, I cannot read it."

Fairy Bai Qing patted her head: "Your father is currently in Northern Plains, how can
he cross the regional wall without using an information path Immortal Gu? What are
you anxious for, I had just praised you for becoming more mature."

Saying this, Fairy Bai Qing injected a will into Feng Jin Huang's mind.

Feng Jin Huang was familiar with this, countless thoughts generated in her mind as
she conversed with the will, instantly, she could 'see' the information in Feng Jiu Ge's
letter.

"Father…” Feng Jin Huang read Feng Jiu Ge's letter, and saw the concern and worry he
had towards her, she was so moved her eyes turned red.

"I want to see father immediately and show him my current refinement path
attainment. He had always been worrying about my refinement path realm." Feng Jin
Huang muttered.

"Don't worry, I will tell your father in the letter."

"Don't, don't tell him, I want to give father a surprise."

"Alright." Fairy Bai Qing took out a letter Gu next, it was also a letter sending green
bird Gu, but this was a rank five mortal Gu.

"This is another letter for you, it is from Fang Yuan. He had sent it long ago, take a look
at it." Fairy Bai Qing said.

"Fang Yuan!" Feng Jin Huang heard this name and gritted her teeth, her brows were
sharp like swords, and her beautiful face turned red from embarrassment.

She snatched the letter Gu and checked it.

Fang Yuan had put in a lot of information in the letter, he first praised Spirit Affinity
House extensively, his tone was like he wanted to join them, and he afterwards agreed
with Feng Jin Huang's challenge, and he even apologized for replying so late.

At the end of the letter, there was a line — I am currently in Hu Immortal blessed land,
my doors are open to await for Fairy Feng Jin Huang's visit. I have heard that Spirit
Affinity House's qingpu tea is extremely famous. If you intend to spar with me, I would
get to experience the taste of this famous tea, that would be extremely enjoyable.

"Hmph! He truly has the leisure time and mood, he wants to drink qingpu tea? He
wants to enjoy the taste of tea? Evil thief! Lecherous thief! I want to tear you into
pieces and break up your bones to feed dogs!" Feng Jin Huang's eyes were burning
with fire, she exerted some strength unknowingly, and the letter sending green bird
Gu was chirping in response.

Fairy Bai Qing quickly saved this letter Gu: "Huang Er, this is something mother wants
to talk to you about. Undoubtedly, Fang Yuan has exceeded our expectations once
again, he is no longer like before. If you spar with him now you will only lose, there is
no way to win."

"What?" Feng Jin Huang stared with her eyes wide open, looking at Fairy Bai Qing in
shock.
Fairy Bai Qing told her about the details of Fang Yuan becoming an immortal zombie,
and that he had a mysterious force behind him that managed to force Immortal Crane
Sect to retreat after attacking Hu Immortal blessed land.

"Immortal zombie? He actually became an immortal zombie?" Feng Jin Huang

muttered to herself, if it was not her mother saying this, she would not believe it
herself.

"How long has it been, he actually became an immortal already? We are about the
same age, how can he have such firm foundations to charge towards Gu Immortal
realm?" Feng Jin Huang was very perplexed.

Fairy Bai Qing replied her: "Regarding his suddenly transformation into an immortal
zombie, our ten great ancient sects have some guesses. Although raising one's
foundation is hard, it is not impossible. There is an example right in front of us, that is
dream realms. Other than that, we have guessed that the mysterious force behind him
might have some sort of special immortal ascension method, to allow a Gu Master to
become an immortal zombie."

"But becoming an immortal zombie means your cultivation level will stagnate, it can
no longer progress." Feng Jin Huang frowned.

"That is the cast. But think about it, a rank five mortal Gu Master compared to a rank
six immortal zombie, the latter is obviously much stronger." Fairy Bai Qing said.

Feng Jin Huang showed some disdain on her face: "I don't care if he was greedy
towards short term profits, or that he was forced to do so, he will definitely not be my
match in the future. He is rushing to challenge me now, it is obvious that he knows he
can only continue to bully me during this period of time, in the future, it will be my
turn. This coward is timid like a rat, he is a shameless and unscrupulous person!"

"Huang Er, do not be blinded by your own hatred and anger." Fairy Bai Qing's
expression was very solemn: "This Fang Yuan is not simple, this letter that he sent was
right before Immortal Crane Sect attacked, his real intention was to build a
relationship with us, Spirit Affinity House, it was a tactic to bring in a third party. He
has Dang Hun mountain right now, and is making transactions with our ten great
ancient sects. His name has spread far and wide in Central Continent, almost every Gu
Immortal knows of his existence now."
"Mother, I was wrong, I was too agitated." Feng Jin Huang gritted her teeth, trying to
regain her calm.

"How will you respond to this letter? Ignore it, or reply to it, I will let you decide." Fairy
Bai Qing purposely tested her.

Feng Jin Huang said immediately: "Of course we will reply! Since this challenge was
set by me, and he has already responded. If I avoid battle because he is an immortal
zombie, then I would be showing weakness."

"But…” Her eyes turned as she said: "The enemy is strong while I am weak, only a fool
will go head to head with him. Hmph, soon, the Central Continent Refinement Path
Convention is going to begin. I will use refinement path and defeat him in public! This
will soothe some of my anger. Mother, what do you think of this?"

Fairy Bai Qing nodded in satisfaction: "This is a good idea."

Feng Jin Huang gritted her teeth, her eyes shined with bright light: "In the following
days, I am going to find refinement path Gu Master dreams, and rapidly build up my
foundation in refinement path. Using him as an opponent, it will urge me and promote
the growth of my cultivation level."

Fairy Bai Qing laughed, patting Feng Jin Huang's head: "This is my good daughter."

Feng Jin Huang squinted, as she replied, she chuckled coldly: "You want to pretend to
be cultured and drink qingpu tea, sure, I will give you fifty or sixty jars of it! But if you
want to compete, we cannot do so without a bet. I will make you lose in both
reputation as well as substance!"
Northern Plains, Lang Ya blessed land.

"Land spirit, I brought you a live desolate beast, come and check it out." Fang Yuan said
as he opened his immortal aperture, activating a dozen Gu worms as he took out a lion
and placed it on the ground.

This lion was large like a giant elephant. It was brown-yellow in color, and thick fur
covered more than half of its body.

It was sleeping now, making a snoring sound. It was the yellow jade lion.

It was originally injured heavily, on the brink of death. But as long as it was still alive,
with Fang Yuan's current abilities and assets, he could heal it back to full health.

Lang Ya land spirit stroked his beard, walking around the yellow jade lion as he
observed.

He could move freely now, the qi path seals on his body were all released.

"Good lion, good lion, even if you are sleeping, you look so fierce. Not bad." Saying so,
Lang Ya land spirit stretched out his arm and opened the yellow jade lion's mouth,
seeing the tightly clenched teeth.

"Good teeth." Lang Ya land spirit praised. He continued to touch the lion along its body,
until he reached the area between its hind legs.

Throughout the process, Lang Ya land spirit had been activating Gu worms silently,
after inspecting it, he was pleased: "Not bad, it has vigor and vitality, it can reproduce
as well. It is a pity that my blessed land is a refinement path blessed land, it is not great
for raising these fierce beasts."

Lang Ya land spirit had twelve desolate beasts, he was very experienced with them
and had become quite an expert, he was not unfamiliar with desolate beasts at all.
But Lang Ya blessed land was a refinement path blessed land, refining Gu here would
have higher chances of succeeding. But there was no assistance or help for raising
beasts.

Meanwhile, Hu Immortal blessed land was an enslavement path blessed land, it was
good for raising fox groups. The fox groups inside Hu Immortal blessed land would
have greater chances of producing a desolate fox.

Blessed lands and grotto-heavens were all very different, each of them had their own
specialties.

This was because blessed lands and grotto-heavens were the immortal apertures of
Gu Immortals. When Gu Immortals undergo immortal ascension, they would take in
heaven and earth qi, and according to their understanding towards heaven and earth,
their immortal aperture world would be created relating to the path of the Gu worm
that they toss into it.

Lang Ya land spirit was very pleased with this yellow jade lion, he quickly gave Fang
Yuan eighty-eight immortal essence stones, at the same time, he gave the details of the
killer move unfamiliar face.

Fang Yuan looked through the details of it in front of Lang Ya land spirit.

This killer move had an extraordinary origin, it came from Thieving Heaven Demon
Venerable.

"As expected of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, he had an innovative idea and
went on a creative path." Fang Yuan praised: "There are only three hundred Gu worms
used here, but they involve transformation path, strength path, wisdom path, and
others, for a total of six paths. Hmm… some of the Gu worms are rare, it seems that it
will take a while to recreate this killer move, after I collect all of these Gu worms. Lang
Ya, do you have these Gu worms?"

Lang Ya land spirit shook his head, chuckling: "What would I keep these Gu for? I
cannot use this killer move. Unfamiliar face, vaguely familiar face, and familiar face,
these three killer moves are a series. What you obtained is merely the mortal killer
move, able to transform into someone people do not know. If they know the person,
you will be exposed. The latter two are immortal killer moves, even if you transform
into a familiar person, you would not be exposed. Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable
seemed to have left behind an inheritance of this, if you have the opportunity, you
might obtain the other two killer moves in your lifetime, who knows."

Fang Yuan laughed bitterly: "How could I have such luck, to coincidentally find the
other two immortal killer moves? The inheritances of these two might have been
taken by others already."

Although he said that, he was moved in his heart.

He thought about the time in Northern Plains, when he obtained the inheritance that
involved Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's Luo Po valley inheritance.

He had already refined the key to enter the inheritance — open door Gu and close
door Gu.

But he had not acted yet.

Gu Master inheritances were not easy to obtain. Especially demonic path inheritances,
they were usually much harder than righteous path inheritances, and much more
dangerous. Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's inheritance was definitely an
extremely dangerous place. With the situation being unclear, and myriad self being
unusable, Fang Yuan would rather wait a while longer than take the risk unnecessarily.

Fang Yuan did not place much expectation on this, because he had guessed long ago
— "The inheritance clue that I obtained was obviously not the only one out there.
Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable did not want his inheritance to remain
undiscovered, thus he spread the clues far and wide to increase the chances. This
inheritance had been created such a long time ago, someone might have gone there
already. Not speaking of anyone else, just look at Spectral Soul Demon Venerable, he
seemed to have used Dang Hun mountain and Luo Po valley to cultivate soul path.
Since Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's inheritance involves Luo Po valley, I'm
afraid Spectral Soul Demon Venerable has already been involved in it. In fact, he might
have taken Luo Po valley away already."

Clearing up his mind, Fang Yuan took out three completed Immortal Gu recipes and
handed them to Lang Ya land spirit: "This is the current transaction."

Lang Ya land spirit received the Immortal Gu recipes and checked them, seeing that
there were no problems, he praised Fang Yuan's talent again: "Rascal, I rarely admire
people, but your talent in deducing Immortal Gu recipes has truly made me look at
you in a different light."

"Land spirit, I was about to talk to you about this." Fang Yuan said: "Regarding the
transaction of the Immortal Gu recipes, I would like to change the details of our
transactions."

"Oh?"

"All of your Immortal Gu recipes that have a high completion rate have been deduced
by me already. The remaining ones have sixty to seventy percent completion rate, or
even under fifty percent. I want to deduce these Immortal Gu recipes, but it would
take a long time if I want to complete them. If I have to spend a month or two on them,
I would not be able to do anything else. I suggest that we change the details of our
transaction…”

Before Fang Yuan finished, Lang Ya land spirit shook his head: "Not changing, not
changing, why must we change? I've spent so many immortal essence stones, wasn't
it because you could deduce Immortal Gu recipes? You are a wisdom path Gu
Immortal, and you are so skilled at deducing Immortal Gu recipes, why do you not
want to continue? At most, I can increase the price and pay you a bit more
compensation."

"Lang Ya land spirit, don't reject me yet, listen to me, I know you will be interested."
Fang Yuan laughed confidently: "My suggestion is this, from now on, you will take
charge of deducing the Immortal Gu recipes, whenever you encounter a problem and
cannot continue, I will help you deduce the next step and get over that hurdle, each
time, I will only charge two immortal essence stones."

"What? So it is such a deal…” Lang Ya land spirit fell into deep thought.

Fang Yuan's suggestion had indeed moved him.

After all, he was Long Hair Ancestor's land spirit, his refinement path attainment was
quasi-great grandmaster, he had skills in deducing Immortal Gu recipes.

The reason he did not finish deducing these Immortal Gu remnant recipes was
because he had met with a tough problem in each of them and could not continue until
he resolved it.

If he passed this obstacle, he might be able to advance through the Immortal Gu recipe
easily, and successfully complete it. Thus, Lang Ya land spirit would only need to pay
Fang Yuan two immortal essence stones, it would be much cheaper than their former
price.

Of course, if the Immortal Gu remnant recipe was very difficult, Fang Yuan might earn
even more immortal essence stones than before.

But Lang Ya land spirit was confident, with his refinement path attainment, the first
situation would be more likely.

"This way, Fang Yuan, your income will be much lower. Ah, I almost forgot, you are
selling guts Gu now, your business is booming, is that why you do not want this work
anymore?" Lang Ya land spirit jumped to realization.

Fang Yuan laughed: "Land spirit, this transaction benefits you too. After getting so
many Immortal Gu recipes, and having regained your freedom, you can refine
Immortal Gu again. When refining Immortal Gu, the vast majority of attempts fails, the
success rate is simply too low, and you would expend an incredible amount of
resources. I am helping you to save immortal essence stones, shouldn't you be
thanking me?"

"Hmph, I knew you would say that." Lang Ya land spirit rolled his eyes, saying: "I can
agree with this, but I have a condition."

"What condition?"

"It is a long story, do you know about Qin Bai Sheng's auction?" Lang Ya land spirit
could not leave the blessed land, but he knew clearly about the things happening in
Northern Plains.

"Of course I know." Fang Yuan nodded.

Lang Ya land spirit continued: "You are aware that some time ago, a mysterious force
attacked my Lang Ya blessed land. They all failed, and during this process I captured
some Gu Immortals. I intend to sell them all, or rather, I want to sell their blessed
lands."

"Selling blessed lands?" Fang Yuan looked at Lang Ya land spirit with some shock, this
was a very big move.
"Is this business practical?"

Fang Yuan's expression was solemn: "It would be a thousand times more popular than
my guts Gu business! After Gu Immortals buy these blessed lands, they can swallow
them and raise their cultivation level, they can also skip heavenly tribulations and
earthly calamities, why did you not keep them for yourselves?"

Lang Ya land spirit shook his head: "To swallow a rank six blessed land, one needs
master level attainment in that realm. To swallow a rank seven blessed land, one needs
grandmaster level. To swallow a rank eight grotto-heaven, one will need great
grandmaster attainment. Although my refinement path attainment is high, I am not
involved in many other paths. And the most important reason is, I do not want to
devour them. My Lang Ya blessed land has already reached the limits of a blessed land,
any progress would elevate it to a grotto-heaven. A grotto-heaven's tribulations are
far more dangerous. Back then, I purposely weakened Lang Ya grotto-heaven until it
became a blessed land, why would I raise it up again?"

Fang Yuan understood: "That is true. Wait, your condition is to ask me to sell these
blessed lands at the auction in your place?"

Lang Ya land spirit raised his thumb, saying with a tone of flattery: "You are a smart
lad!"

Fang Yuan stared with wide opened eyes: "Do you want to kill me? No, this is definitely
impossible! Once I sell these blessed lands, I will become the biggest target of
everyone! It earns too much attention, how could have the ability to capture all these
Gu Immortals? If I appear like this, that mysterious force would know and associate
me with Lang Ya blessed land. Next time when they attack you, they might even attack
my blessed land! Isn't the Inkman King Mo Tan Sang your good friend, ask him to go."

"Sigh, he is an inkman immortal, his origin is not good and has always been ostracized
by humans. Furthermore, he has his family and inkman city to take care of. He is not
appropriate." Lang Ya land spirit shook his head.

"Oh! You do not want him to go die, so you want to send me to die?!"

"Don't make it sound so terrible, don't you have the killer move unfamiliar face? With
this killer move, other Gu Immortals cannot identify your true form." Lang Ya land
spirit said in a low tone.
Fang Yuan gave an assessing look at the land spirit: "I was wondering why you were
so generous, giving this precious killer move to me, so you had a plan from the start."

Lang Ya land spirit could not take it anymore, he stared with furious eyes as he
shouted: "Rascal, do you think I'm unfamiliar with you?! You have ridiculous guts,
since when have you been scared? You even destroyed Imperial Court blessed land
and toppled Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, as long as the benefits are high enough,
you are a desperado! Afraid of this matter? Just tell me, how much do you want?"

Fang Yuan snorted coldly: "We will split the profits from selling the blessed lands, at
the least, it has to be a four to six ratio."

"Four to six ratio? You are too greedy, you are asking for forty percent?!" Lang Ya land
spirit screamed.

A cold light flashed in Fang Yuan's eyes, his face was grim: "You are wrong, land spirit,
my intention is, I will take sixty percent, you will take forty!"

Lang Ya land spirit was stunned, even though he had lived for so long, he was shocked
by Fang Yuan's shamelessness and greed.

He breathed in deeply, staring at Fang Yuan's face: "Such words, you have the face to
say it?"

"Why wouldn't I?" Fang Yuan's face was thick as a city wall: "I am going to take a huge
risk involving my life, without enough profits to motivate me, I will not do it. This price
is already the lowest, I am considering this based on the fact that we are old friends,
this is a friendly price."

"Friendly price, I think you are trying to con a friend?"

"So no deal? Consider it more, this is the price I want, there is still some time until the
auction, I am leaving first." Fang Yuan opened a stargate.

"Get lost!"
Hu Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun palace.

Fang Yuan was sitting cross-legged on a cushion, looking at a pair of bat wings in front
of him with full concentration.

A pair of large bat wings was hovering in front of him, thin and small scales of an eerie
blue color with each having the size of a pinkie finger grew on the wings. As light
refracted from the scales, it seemed to be giving off starlight.

After Fang Yuan returned from Lang Ya blessed land, he started repairing the star
demon bat's wings. After nine days and nine nights of effort, it had reached the current
crucial moment.

"Whether I can fix these bat wings or not depends on this." Fang Yuan willed and
summoned a mortal Gu from his aperture.

He flicked his finger and threw this crucial mortal Gu in.

The mortal Gu turned into a drop of jade green liquid which created a layer of green
light when it shot into the bat wings.

The radiance flowed like water, the green light spread and soon covered the entire pair
of bat wings.

In the blink of an eye, the green light dispersed and was replaced by fine hair that
covered the whole of the star demon bat wings.

Fang Yuan meticulously observed and probed with his ten fingers in turn, following
his movement, the green haired bat wings also made constant turns in the air, letting
Fang Yuan observe it from all angles.

Fang Yuan spread open his fingers, the shrunken star demon bat wings also unfolded.
When he saw fine hair growing inside the bat wings, he nodded in satisfaction.
"When Shi Lei attacked and killed this star demon bat, he attacked with no restraint,
causing the wings to be greatly damaged when I obtained it. Now I have invested my
full effort into restoring it, but whether I can restore it or not, even I don't have much
confidence."

Fang Yuan heaved a sigh and stood up.

He casually waved his hand, hundreds of Gu worms flew and circled around the green
haired bat wings, tightly securing it inside.

Fang Yuan then passed by the bat wings and walked out of this secret room.

He closed the door of the secret room, darkness enshrouded the green haired bat
wings inside the secret room.

Fang Yuan stood outside the door and lightly stamped his foot, calling: "Land spirit."

"Master, master, you called for me!" Little Hu Immortal immediately appeared beside
Fang Yuan, her eyes shining and her face carrying a joyful expression of being able to
see her master.

"I asked you to pay attention to the business in treasure yellow heaven, how is it
going?" Fang Yuan walked as he asked.

Little Hu Immortal closely followed behind, replying: "Master had put the desolate
beast corpses in treasure yellow heaven for sale, but only one desolate beast corpse
was sold over these days."

Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei had already discovered Fang Yuan, thus, Fang Yuan
might as well put these desolate beast corpses up for sale openly in treasure yellow
heaven.

He had discussed matters with Hei Lou Lan, the two took what they needed first; Fang
Yuan took the yellow jade lion and star demon bat wings while Hei Lou Lan took the
flying bear corpse. Fang Yuan was put in charge of selling these beast corpses, no
matter what the result was, he would have to give forty percent of the earnings to Hei
Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan was also not afraid he would renege on his words, after all there was the
Snowy Mountain Alliance.
Under normal circumstances, these desolate beast corpses would be popular goods
that were quite rare, when they were put in treasure yellow heaven, they would be
sold within four to six hours and it was very easy to earn immortal essence stones.

However, Fang Yuan did not want immortal essence stones this time.

He arranged a will to express to other Gu Immortals: to buy these beast corpses, they
would have to exchange with specific goods.

First of all was a method for immortal zombies to turn back to human, or any
information and clues.

Second was the Gu recipe for white lotus giant silkworm Gu, the Gu worm itself, or
corresponding information and clues.

Third was the wings of bat desolate beasts.

Fourth was top tier mortal killer moves, the more outstanding they were, the better.

Fifth was bone path Gu worms like Battle Bone Wheel that could be arranged to form
the killer move, White Bone Chariot.

Last was wisdom path inheritances or information and clues about them.

These six conditions were arranged in descending order according to Fang Yuan's
needs, the ones listed first would be cheaper for the buyers when they purchase the
beast corpses.

Fang Yuan's guts Gu business was extremely thriving right now, he did not lack
immortal essence stones for the moment, thus he wanted to exchange them with
goods.

Because of this, the desolate beast corpses which were popular goods and easy to sell
had become this hard to sell. Twelve days had already passed in Hu Immortal blessed
land, but they only managed to sell one desolate beast corpse.

"Oh? What did that beast corpse exchange for?" Fang Yuan asked excitedly.

"One whole chestnut yak was exchanged for a pair of bat desolate beast wings and an
investigative killer move called hundred li eye." Little Hu Immortal replied.
Mortal killer moves normally would not exceed six immortal essence stones in
treasure yellow heaven.

There were also detailed classifications between them.

Mortal killer moves that sold for half an immortal essence stone were classified as
bottom tier goods, but they were better than nothing.

Mortal killer moves that were worth one to two immortal essence stones were
mediocre, they could provide some help to Gu Immortals if used properly.

For instance, the killer move Fang Yuan looked at before but did not buy, spiral drill
star spear, was valued at one immortal essence stone. Star Lord Wan Xiang's spring
star rain was sold at one and a half immortal essence stone. The poison breath killer
move which Fairy Li Shan gave Fang Yuan could be sold for two immortal essence
stones.

Fang Yuan's previous defensive killer move hair armor was worth two immortal
essence stones and was at the peak level of common mortal killer moves. Tai Bai Yun
Sheng's defensive killer move nine cloud ring could absorb enemy's attacks to a
certain degree before counterattacking, it was valued at two and a half immortal
essence stones.

Mortal killer moves worth three immortal essence stones were middle tier, they were
reliable methods.

For instance, Western Desert Gu Immortal Plump Lady's killer move, burial dragon
sand coffin, was valued at three immortal essence stones.

Mortal killer moves worth four to five immortal essence stones had outstanding might
and could not be looked down upon. They were considered as powerful methods that
could often change the situation to a certain extent when they were used.

Fang Yuan's icy drill stardust had mixed in Dou Min Jun's inheritance which raised its
value to four immortal essence stones. The lion fur armor which was an improved
form of hair armor was valued at four and a half immortal essence stones.

And mortal killer moves that were worth six immortal essence stones were classified
as top tier, few could be bought in the market. Fang Yuan's reinvented movement killer
move, true solid bat wings, would have the effect of this tier if three pairs of bat wings
were used.

Killer moves were one of the four main factors that influenced a Gu Immortal's battle
strength.

When Fang Yuan possessed icy drill stardust, hair armor and light illusion bat wings,
his battle strength had already reached the upper tier of rank six Gu Immortals. In his
previous life, before Fang Yuan self-detonated, he possessed more than a dozen mortal
killer moves, most of them were top tier level killer moves worth six immortal essence
stones. His battle strength had been at the peak of rank six.

However, when one reached rank seven, it was a different scene. The immortal killer
moves that consumed green grape immortal essence became common methods. And
those immortal killer moves that consumed red date immortal essence became
uncommonly used, hidden trump cards.

Most Gu Immortals did not have Immortal Gu, this was referring to rank six Gu
Immortals. Gu Immortals that could cultivate to rank seven were even fewer in
numbers, they were the elites of elites, experts among experts of rank six who would
have experienced innumerable tribulations and calamities, had excellent aptitude,
temperament and accumulation. There was no way to justify them not having
Immortal Gu.

With Immortal Gu, there would be immortal killer moves.

Immortal killer moves were evolved from using mortal killer moves as a foundation.
Like Hei Lou Lan who was trying to modify her strength path killer move to an
immortal killer move.

Often one Immortal Gu can form different immortal killer moves according to the
differences in mortal Gu. Thus, many Gu Immortals would have offensive killer moves
even if they did not have offensive Immortal Gu. For instance, Fang Yuan's myriad self
was an offensive killer move, but its core was cleanse soul Immortal Gu which was a
support Immortal Gu that helped Gu Immortals in soul path cultivation.

"Hundred li eye…” After hearing Little Hu Immortal's reply, Fang Yuan nodded and
commented, "This mortal killer move is valued at six immortal essence stones, it
allows the Gu Immortal to observe the scenery within one hundred li as clearly as the
lines on one's palm. Good, I was lacking this kind of investigative killer move. But of
course, the greatest satisfaction in this transaction is that I obtained another pair of
desolate beast bat wings."

He then asked: "Did any important things happen in the blessed land these recent
days?"

Little Hu Immortal shook her head and reported that everything was normal.

Such tranquil days were very rare to Fang Yuan after his rebirth.

However, Fang Yuan did not dare to slack even a little. Ever since he saw the external
manifestation of a dream realm in his trip to Starry Sky grotto-heaven, he felt a sense
of urgency and could vaguely tell that the waves of the new era were coming.

Over the next few days, Fang Yuan began to handle the newly obtained pair of bat
wings.

At the same time, he also arranged the old hairy men in the blessed land to refine Gu.
The airsac Gu which could store guts Gu were naturally the main focus of the hairy
men. Besides this, Fang Yuan divided the refinement procedures of group strength Gu
and small family qi Gu, he then separately taught the old hairy men and let them go
through similar practice.

These two Gu recipes could not be compared to others, they were ancient Gu recipes,
their materials were rare and not easy to find in the present age.

Thus, Fang Yuan first used other similar materials and Gu worms to raise the hairy
men's proficiency. When their proficiency reached the level Fang Yuan was satisfied
with, only then would he truly let them refine these two Gu.

Fang Yuan's doctrine was to not raise idlers. Since he had already purchased the hairy
men, he would try to squeeze every last bit of their worth.

After three days in Hu Immortal blessed land, there was still no activity in treasure
yellow heaven.

Fang Yuan had taken care of a small part of the newly obtained bat wings. But the
wings of the star demon bat was still being incubated.

Fang Yuan opened the door of the secret room and entered, standing in front of the
green haired bat wings.

Right now, the green hair on the bat wings had already grown to be extremely thick
and lush.

"Success or failure shall be determined at this moment." Fang Yuan used mortal Gu
and with a snapping sound, a spark immediately was sent flying out.

The spark flew to the green haired bat wings, a soft sound echoed, the spark set the
green hair aflame, forming a green fire.

The fire appeared quickly and disappeared just as quickly.

In a blink of an eye, the green hair on the bat wings floating in the air was already
burnt off, revealing a pair of black bat wings. There were no small blue scales on the
bat wings, instead they were replaced by a layer of thick ash.

Fang Yuan showed a trace of disappointment: "Failure."

He softly let out a breath of cloudy air, the weak breath touched the bat wings, this pair
of bat wings fell down on the ground like charcoal and broke into pieces.

The bat wings were filled with heavy injuries. Shi Lei had destroyed the star demon
bat's wings first to kill it. The wings had thus suffered serious damage, the star demon
bat could no longer display its advantage in flying, and was finally killed by Shi Lei.

"Fortunately, I have another pair of bat wings." Fang Yuan quickly got over the
disappointment, and soon he was busy in the refining process.
With the previous refinement experience, this second attempt was much easier for
Fang Yuan when refining the desolate beast bat wings.

After over half a month in Hu Immortal blessed land, he transplanted this pair of
desolate beast bat wings onto his back. In accordance with his usual practice, Fang
Yuan still chose to retain the sense of pain in the bat wings.

On this day, Fang Yuan was testing his killer moves on the top of Dang Hun mountain.

Hundred li eye.

He activated the killer move; his bright red pupils suddenly enlarged. He could see the
grassland or debris within a hundred li of his surroundings with extreme clarity, like
they were in front of him. Outside of a hundred li, his sight became blurry but was still
much clearer than seeing with the naked eye.

After four hundred li, his line of sight reached the limit. it was all blurry and he could
only distinguish some color and shadows.

"Hundred li eye is the base for thousand li eye, the latter is an immortal killer move
and requires corresponding Immortal Gu to be used." Fang Yuan nodded in
satisfaction, this killer move was valued six immortal essence stones and it indeed had
outstanding effect.

It was just that the vision could not see through stealth or bypass obstacles, if any
obstacles blocked the sight, the thing behind the obstacle could not be seen. This was
the downside of hundred li eye.

Fang Yuan remembered both the merits and demerits, as he lightly flapped the wings
on his back and flew to the sky.

He continued to maintain hundred li eye while flying, looking at the sky and ground
with clear vision.
Lion fur armor.

He willed and activated the defensive killer move.

Soon, his body was covered in a layer of bronze armor with a helmet resembling a
lion's head. Even his wings were covered with a layer of thick plate, greatly raising its
defense.

But the speed, however, became slower.

"Lion fur armor and true solid bat wings cannot perfectly complement each other.
Once I activate lion fur armor, true solid bat wings will have its speed reduced. If I
don't use it, my speed might be fast but my defense will be lacking." Fang Yuan
frowned.

This problem surpassed the range of his capabilities.

To create a movement killer move like lion fur armor, he had to balance the dao marks
of three paths and it was the limit of his master attainment realm in transformation
path.

Adding true solid bat wings on top of that was too difficult for Fang Yuan.

If he had grandmaster attainment in transformation path, there was a possibility. But

reaching grandmaster realm required large amounts of time and accumulation. This
time was not only tens of years but could be a hundred years or even several hundreds
of years.

Fang Yuan's highest attainment realms currently were blood path and strength path.

Blood path grandmaster realm was achieved by Fang Yuan in his previous life after
two to three hundred years of deep accumulation, it could be seen how difficult it was
to raise one's realm and accumulate their foundation.

His strength path attainment was also at grandmaster realm, and besides a small part
of the accumulation being from his previous life, most was from obtaining Reckless
Savage Demon Venerable's true meaning infusion. Otherwise, he would have required
two or three hundred years of accumulation to reach grandmaster realm.

At the Gu Immortal level, one had the strength to search and obtain lifespan Gu or
other methods to prolong lifespan. Ordinary mortals had lifespans of one hundred
years. But as long as a Gu Immortal put some effort, they could live several hundreds
of years or even a thousand years.

The long lifespans and time involved made the significance of 'accumulation' even
more heavy.

Why were Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan not able to beat Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei?

It was because after Shi Lei became a Gu Immortal, he relied on Combat Immortal Sect
and had accumulated all sorts of experiences and insights for close to three hundred
years! Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan had only recently advanced to Gu Immortal, how
could they compare to Shi Lei's three hundred years of accumulation?

It was normal for them to not be able to defeat him!

If so, why did Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan have battle strength at the upper tier of rank
six Gu Immortals when they advanced only recently?

Fang Yuan relied on the gains found in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, while Hei Lou
Lan relied on her mother's inheritance as well as the help of her aunt, Fairy Li Shan.

In other words, they had borrowed help from the accumulation of their predecessors!

"If I want my battle strength to improve drastically, just relying on myself to advance
step by step would no doubt be a very long and inefficient process. In my previous life,
when I walked on the blood path, I spent over two hundred years before I was able to
comprehend a dozen or so mortal killer moves and create hundreds of new blood path
Gu. I naturally need to learn from this lesson."

"In this world, heroes emerge in large numbers and geniuses are everywhere. Stars
and peaks have been shining constantly in the long history of time. If someone wants
to stick out and move forward bravely, they can only take advantage of their
predecessors' inheritances and accumulations, absorbing their essences. All rivers
flow into the sea, by being able to gather the different specialties together, only then
can one rise above the group and become a ruler of people, achieving supreme feats."

Fang Yuan's gaze flickered as he flew around, sighing deeply in his heart.

People often believed they were extraordinary when they were young, feeling they
were the main characters of the stage. After they undergo some experiences, they
would then realize and accept: many other people had talent not inferior to
themselves.

The saying goes: No matter how excellent you are, there is always someone more
excellent than you.

A person's lifespan was limited in the end, like a lone boat. Meanwhile, the mysteries
and profound meanings of heaven and earth were equivalent to a vast, limitless body
of water.

Since ancient times, those who were in some sense able to reach the peak of heaven
and earth numbered no more than ten. But even they could not reach the peak of all
fields. Thus, even Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Thieving Heaven Demon
Venerable had to request for the help of Long Hair Ancestor in the Gu refinement
aspect.

There was a record in <> —

Ren Zu started walking on the road of life, the surroundings were pure darkness and
under his feet was dirty mud.

Ren Zu asked self Gu: "Where is this?"

Self Gu replied: "This is the ordinary marsh in the lowest level of ordinary abyss."

Ren Zu knew of ordinary abyss, his eldest son Verdant Great Sun had once been
trapped inside.

Ren Zu could not help but become excited: "Since this is the bottom of ordinary abyss,
does that mean I have already left the door of life and death and returned to the living
world? Does that mean I am now reborn?"

"In a way, that is true." Self Gu said.

"But how is this possible? I have not passed Luo Po valley and have not charged
through the reverse flow river." Ren Zu said in an incredulous tone.

Self Gu said: "Oh human, you should know that you are talking about the path fate Gu
traveled. And this path you have walked on is a completely new path, a path created
by you. Where this path goes is all decided by your own intentions. Like I said before,
as long as you want to walk, there will be a road for you to step on."

Ren Zu suddenly came to a realization: "So it was like this."

He then felt doubtful: "Then how did I walk to this place?"

Self Gu: "Humans are born ordinary. Although they are the spirit of all living beings,
they do not have the claws of a tiger nor the ability to absorb nutrients from the earth
like plants, and also cannot transform like clouds and rain. You came to the ordinary
marsh, what's strange about it? It is not only you, look at the mud under your feet
carefully, you will see traces of many other footprints."

Ren Zu lowered his head close to the ground before he was able to see clearly; like self
Gu said, ordinary marsh was filled with all kinds of marks. Claws prints of wild beasts,
root imprints of vegetation, traces of water flowing and also traces of stones rolling
past.

"How can there be so many marks?" Ren Zu asked curiously.

Self Gu replied: "This is ordinary abyss, all living beings will enter here due to various
reasons. All living beings are ordinary. But the absolute majority of them will be
trapped in ordinary abyss for all their lives. Only a small portion can leave ordinary
abyss through their own efforts."

"I do not want to be trapped here for my entire life. There is nothing here, it is
completely dark and the air stinks, I want to leave this place." Ren Zu frowned.

Self Gu laughed loudly: "If you think that being ordinary is an abyss, then it is an abyss.
But if you think that being ordinary is heaven, then it shall be heaven. Since you do not
want to stay here, then leave, use your two legs to walk out of the ordinary marsh step
by step and become extraordinary."

Ren Zu took the first step.

Suddenly, his body bent, his front leg was deeply embedded into the marsh.

It was not easy to walk in the marsh, one step was deep, another was shallow. The path
which looked almost uniform had some parts that were rather solid, while some were
very loose.
Ren Zu walked several steps when his eyes suddenly brightened as he thought of a
trick.

He purposely chose to walk on the spots which had the claw marks, since these spots
could hold the marks, its soil texture was also much more solid.

Thus, Ren Zu was able to walk very smoothly almost like he was running when
compared to his previous speed.

He said with a burst of emotion: "So it turns out that in ordinary marsh, walking in the
footsteps of predecessors is much faster than finding the way on your own."

After testing true solid bat wings and lion fur armor, Fang Yuan descended onto a
slope.

Unfamiliar face.

Fang Yuan activated this newly obtained mortal killer move.

Almost all the Gu worms required for this killer move were essentially purchased from
treasure yellow heaven by Hu Immortal land spirit, while the last remaining portions
were refined by the hairy men.

Under the effect of the killer move, Fang Yuan's bat wings retracted, his eight rough
and thick arms also changed to two. His sharp teeth were greatly shortened while his
scarlet red eyes also turned lighter.

Finally, Fang Yuan's six meter tall body shrunk back to a normal person's height with
great changes to his appearance.

It was only that his immortal zombie body was still an immortal zombie body, it could
not be hidden.

Despite this, Fang Yuan could not help but praise: "Wonderful! This is only a mortal
killer move but it is able to change my immortal body to this extent. Indeed worthy of
being an invention of Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable."

Fang Yuan could imagine that if he was still a mortal, he could completely transform
to any appearance, even changing to a woman perfectly.

He now had an immortal body, his body was filled with strength path dao marks. And
as a mortal killer move, it was definitely not easy to alter his appearance to this extent.

The main thing was that this transformation was not an illusion but a real
transformation of his physical body, even involving subtle transformation of his aura.

In short, even if Fang Yuan stood in front of Tai Bai Yun Sheng right now, the latter
would not be able to recognize this immortal zombie was his own junior brother
within a short period of time.

"Master, your appearance became much better looking. Ah, this letter just came in."
Right at this time, the land spirit, Little Hu Immortal, appeared while holding a letter
Gu which she handed to Fang Yuan.

"Hmm? Letter sending green bird Gu… Spirit Affinity House finally responded?" Fang
Yuan's gaze flashed as he took the letter Gu and sent in his consciousness.

In a short while, he retracted his consciousness, a pondering expression flashed across

his face: "Feng Jin Huang actually wants me to participate in the Refinement Path
Convention to compete in refinement path? I remember she had no interest in
refinement path in her early years and her accumulation in this field could be said to
be like a blank sheet of paper right now. So why does she have so much confidence to
compete with me in Gu refinement? Could it be that she had already discovered the
true use of dream wings Immortal Gu?"

Fang Yuan's heart sank.

"Dream Wings, dream path…” Fang Yuan's eyes turned cloudy as he recalled the details
of his previous life.

In his previous life, why did he gang up with a group of demonic path Gu Immortals to
think of all sorts of ways to attack Hu Immortal blessed land? It was to kill Feng Jin
Huang and seize dream wings Immortal Gu!
"To think that more than four hundred years before the end of my previous life, dream
realms had already shown up." Fang Yuan held the letter sending green bird Gu in his
hand as he sighed in his heart.

At once, he lost the mood to test his killer moves.

In Fang Yuan's previous life, Central Continent was the first to trigger the war,
suppressing the other four regions singlehandedly, and expanding rapidly. After that,
the four regions collaborated, resisting Central Continent's invasion with much
difficulty.

The entire war had gone into a stalemate, and when the four regions joined hands and
attempted to attack Central Continent in return, dream realms appeared in all five
regions.

In this world, ever since Ren Zu produced the first batch of humans, humans began to
dream. Every time they dreamed, they would expand the dream realms, providing
strength to them.

After countless days, a vast amount of time and changes, many heroes and geniuses
rose up among humans, constantly expanding the dream realms.

The dream realms got bigger and bigger, finally attaining a qualitative change and
surfacing to the outside world.

The people soon discovered that even though the environment of a dream realm was
extreme and complex, dangerous and strange, it had great benefits. In dream realms,
people could obtain the foundations of ancient people, allowing their cultivation
realms to surge and improve rapidly.

The rise of their attainment could be in terms of decades, a century, or even centuries
of hard work.
Because of dream realms, the attainments of Gu Masters rose rapidly, this led to an
increase in their strength, and produced many amazing experts.

Previously, resources were held in the hands of clans and sects, attainment levels were
hard to raise, and unless one was an incredible genius, they would not be able to rise
up.

After dream realms appeared, their attainment levels rose, like they were standing on
the shoulders of former geniuses, Gu Masters could recreate many Gu worms and
killer moves, and on this basis, they could develop new Gu, Gu recipes, and new killer
moves that were tailored to their abilities.

That was the flourishing of a super level great era.

Many small forces lacking in prominence rose up, countless lone cultivators emerged.

The appearance of dream realms devastated the rigid system and structures. Social
order was in upheaval, the immense benefits made the people go wild!

Originally, the four regions were collaborating to resist Central Continent, but before
they even began, the plan was halted.

All the different forces, countless Gu Immortals and Gu Masters, they all placed their
attentions on dream realms.

In order to compete for all of the surfaced dream realms, the five regions fought
against each other, resulting in a thoroughly chaotic war.

In order to explore the dream realm more efficiently, many knowledgeable people,
talents and geniuses, produced the necessary Gu worms. Soon, the newly discovered
dream path was rapidly formed and developed.

The legendary rank eight wisdom path Gu Immortal — Immortal Yi Yan's 'Prophecy
of Three Venerables', was brought up once again.

He predicted that many years later, after three great eras, three venerables would
appear, two men and one woman. The first was Spectral Soul Demon Venerable,
second was Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable and third was Great Dream Immortal
Venerable. As for the problem regarding the space escape Gu, it would be solved by
Great Dream Immortal Venerable.
Spectral Soul Demon Venerable and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable had already
shown up, this made everyone believe in the prophecy more deeply.

The two were linked together, forming a common theory — the dream realm was the
opportunity to become Great Dream Immortal Venerable, whoever can control the
entire dream realm would be able to use the accumulations of past individuals to
become a historical figure that transcends sages, a king among immortal kings, a
venerable above venerables, Great Dream Immortal Venerable!

"In my previous life, the reason why I could rise up and become the lord of an area
was not only because of my fortuitous encounter involving blood path, but also
because of the five regions chaotic war. All of the super forces had much lower control
over the situation at that time, and because they were focused on exploring dream
realms, they could not pay attention to the real world situation, and that gave me the
time and freedom to develop and grow. Unfortunately, by the time I had control in the
real world, this new area known as dream realms had already been split up by all the
huge forces. Even though I could enter dream realms and explore using mortal dream
path Gu, I was lagging behind everyone as a beginner. Unless I had a dream path
Immortal Gu, that would be the only way to catch up."

Precisely because of this, Fang Yuan gathered Song Zhong and other demonic path Gu
Immortals to attack Hu Immortal blessed land, killing Feng Jin Huang. Unfortunately,
he did not get her dream wings Immortal Gu.

Lacking an Immortal Gu and only having dream path mortal Gu, this caused Fang
Yuan's exploration of dream realms to be without any important discoveries, while he
was constantly chased away and suppressed by the large forces.

Fang Yuan had obtained a blood path inheritance in his previous life, he was constantly
chased after and had an arrest warrant on him. After building the Blood Wing Demon
Sect, he had spent a lot of effort managing his sect, it took away a lot of his time and
effort. All in all, he missed the golden era of exploring dream realms.

After rebirth, he had been reflecting upon this. This was a mistake, although mostly
due to external pressure forcing him, a small part of it was due to his poor judgment.

Thus, in this life, he remembered this lesson and even though he had a foundation in
blood path, he did not dare to cultivate blood path rashly before taking that crucial
blood path inheritance.
Blood path Gu Masters were hunted down like rats, not only did the righteous path
issue warrants to arrest them, even demonic path members were wary of them. Only
during the five regions chaotic war, when law and order broke down, could blood path
emerge and prosper at a time when nobody could afford to care about them.

"It turns out that dream realms surfaced more than four hundred years earlier than
the end of my previous life. All of the super forces had interactions with them long ago,
thus, in about three hundred years, when dream realms surfaced extensively, these
forces could enter and expand their influence. They were prepared since long ago, it
was not my inability that I lost to them."

At this point of time, Fang Yuan was still a mortal during his previous life, desperately
living at the bottom level of Gu Masters, restrained by his memories and experiences
on Earth. Only after a long time did he break free of the limitations and shackles of
such a mentality.

Sometimes, the advantage of being a transmigrator can also be a disadvantage.

This caused his information to deviate from what was happening in reality.

For example, like Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

Star Constellation immortal zombie was Seven Star Child immortal zombie. What Fang
Yuan knew in his previous life was that this Star Constellation immortal zombie was a
lucky person who had gained the most benefits inside the fragment worlds of Starry
Sky grotto-heaven. But the truth was, he was the owner of Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

The reason why he called himself Star Constellation immortal zombie was most likely
because of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm surfacing inside his
grotto-heaven. This resulted in Seven Star Child obtaining some of Star Constellation
Immortal Venerable's accumulation.

"This matter regarding Seven Star Child is what originally happened. But Feng Jin
Huang understanding the true usage of dream wings Immortal Gu was much earlier
than in my previous life. Was this the effect of me snatching Hu Immortal blessed land
from her?" Fang Yuan thought.

"After Feng Jin Huang learned about the true effect of dream wings Immortal Gu, Spirit
Affinity House was sure to be alerted. And this in turn would affect the other nine great
ancient sects as well. And from the other nine sects, the entirety of Central Continent
would be affected. There is no wall in this world that can block all winds, in this way,
the speed at which the people in this world learn about dream realms would be greatly
pushed forward by me."

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan felt a strong sense of urgency.

Dream realms were an entirely new field, they were dangerous and complex, even
though there was only one type of resource in them, they were extremely profitable.
Fang Yuan would not commit the same mistake from his previous life twice.

"However, in the current situation, dream realms would not surface on a large scale.
Dream realms that have surfaced can be explored using dream path mortal Gu. Those
dream realms that have not surfaced can only be explored by using dream path
Immortal Gu."

Fang Yuan was extremely aware of the value of dream path Immortal Gu.

But currently, with Fairy Bai Qing and Feng Jiu Ge around, even though dream wings
Immortal Gu was in the hands of Feng Jin Huang, a mortal, nobody dared to target her.

Dream Travel was in the hands of the Northern Plains Gu Immortal, Lady Poison
Scorpion, she lay dormant in Zi Du blessed land, and was the first Gu Immortal who
used Dream Travel to explore dream realms, in the future, she used the identity of a
lone cultivator to become the third overlord of dream realms. Lady Poison Scorpion
was a rank seven Gu Immortal, her battle strength was even greater than Hei Cheng,
and the defense of her blessed land was like an iron fortress. It was not easy to target
her either.

As for the other dream path Immortal Gu, they were either not created yet or had not
appeared yet, their origins were unknown.

Fang Yuan thought about it for a while, he used his primeval essence and wiped away
the details on the letter sending green bird Gu, using his thoughts to fill it with words
of his own.

He agreed to Feng Jin Huang's challenge, to have a competition during the Refinement
Path Convention.

"Feng Jin Huang has dream wings Immortal Gu, she has confidence in herself. But my
refinement path attainment has advanced from master level to quasi-grandmaster
level, why would I be afraid of this junior?"

Fang Yuan snorted in his heart.

Deducing Immortal Gu recipes for Lang Ya land spirit was an opportunity, it allowed
his refinement path realm to reach a breakthrough recently.

"Refinement Path Convention, it concerns the Infallible inheritance, such a grand

event, even if Feng Jin Huang did not challenge me, I would have gone there to get a
share of the rewards. However, joining the Refinement Path Convention will need me
to prepare my own Gu refinement materials. If I want to have any gains, I will need to
start collecting materials now.

Fang Yuan had the experience of participating in the Refinement Path Convention
from his previous life.

To get a good ranking, he would need to prepare a huge amount of materials, worth at
least five hundred immortal essence stones. A clever wife cannot cook without rice,
even the best Gu recipe could not proceed without the relevant materials.

"Other than this, I have to attend the huge auction that Qin Bai Sheng is organizing
with Fairy Li Shan as well." According to the newest information, this auction would
have a segment for exchanging Immortal Gu.

Immortal Gu could not be bought, commonly speaking, they could only be exchanged.

When Gu Immortals obtain Immortal Gu, they might not suit their own path. At this
time, they would undergo exchange with other Gu Immortals, to get an Immortal Gu
that was suited for themselves, to display greater effect when used.

Just like Fang Yuan's worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, this was a water path Immortal
Gu, the effect was much weaker when Fang Yuan used it as compared to a water path
Gu Immortal.

This was because worldly wave trace Immortal Gu had the law of water path,
meanwhile, Fang Yuan was a strength path Gu Immortal, his body was filled with
strength path dao marks, strength path and water path interfered with each other,
reducing the normal capability of this Immortal Gu.

During the five regions chaotic war in Fang Yuan's previous life, because battles were
common, these Gu exchange sessions became much more frequent as well. But now
was still a long time away from the war.

This grand auction in Northern Plains would probably be the only large scale
Immortal Gu exchanging opportunity for the next two hundred years. Fang Yuan
naturally had to make use of it.

Other than that, he was also very interested in the luck path inheritance.

"Auction and Refinement Path Convention, both of them need huge amounts of
immortal essence stones. I have only two hundred immortal essence stones on me
now, I can barely join in either of the grand events. It seems I can only rely on Lang Ya
land spirit's idea of selling blessed lands of Gu Immortals."
Even with the sale of guts Gu, it had been too short of a time period, Fang Yuan had
not accumulated enough immortal essence stones yet.

Furthermore, he had been refining Gu and tempering his bat wings, all these expenses
caused his accumulation of wealth to be very slow.

The auction and Refinement Path Convention were two huge events, they would be
held one after another. The former was already right around the corner. The only way
to obtain a huge amount of immortal essence stones now would be through the Gu
Immortals' blessed lands in Lang Ya land spirit's possession.

"It is a pity that my immortal aperture is dead, I cannot swallow other blessed lands.
Otherwise, the first person to buy the blessed lands would be me!" Fang Yuan sighed
in his mind.

The immortal apertures were small worlds, they could swallow each other, but there
were requirements.

Firstly, dead apertures could not swallow apertures, they could only break down
constantly until they vanish completely.

Secondly, a smaller immortal aperture could not swallow a bigger one.

Lastly, to swallow a rank six blessed land, one needed master attainment realm, to fuse
the two different worlds together without problems. To devour a rank seven blessed
land, grandmaster attainment realm is needed. To swallow a rank eight grotto-heaven,
great grandmaster realm is needed.

That is to say, if Fang Yuan wanted to swallow immortal apertures, he would first need
to become alive again, making his blessed land regain life force. Secondly, he could
only devour strength path, refinement path, enslavement path, and transformation
path blessed lands. Although strength path and blood path were at grandmaster
attainment realm, he was only rank six and could only devour rank six blessed lands.

But even with such limitations, Gu Immortals were never hesitant towards blessed
lands they could swallow.

The immortal aperture was the base and foundation of a Gu Immortal's cultivation,
swallowing blessed lands was like taking someone else's foundation, it caused one's
own cultivation level to surge extremely quickly.

As long as one was a Gu Immortal, they would know the value of the blessed land.
Regarding the auction of blessed lands, it was sure to whip up a huge storm during the
auction.

In the following days, Fang Yuan refined group strength Gu and small family qi Gu,
while using the light of wisdom to try and improve the transformation path killer
move unfamiliar face.

At the same time, he was still continuing to sell desolate beast corpses in treasure
yellow heaven.

Half a month had passed in Hu Immortal blessed land, the sole rank seven corpse in
Fang Yuan's possession — astral wind flying heavenly boar, was successfully sold.

Fang Yuan obtained a wisdom path inheritance that he had been wanting since a long
time ago.

"Malicious thought Gu…” A few days later, Fang Yuan held a rank five mortal Gu in his
hands with a complex expression.

This malicious thought Gu was refined by him using the Gu recipe in the wisdom path
inheritance.

It had a huge body, around the size of a washing basin, it was like a spider but the eight
legs were like needles, the tips were extremely sharp. On the body of the spider, there
was tough and long prickly hairs. If not for Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body,
ordinary flesh and blood would bleed upon touching this Gu.

Fang Yuan injected primeval essence, and malicious thoughts appeared in his mind
one after another.
These malicious thoughts were like bubbles with sharp spikes on the surface. Fang
Yuan tried to use these malicious thoughts, as they started to collide into each other
instantly.

The scene of their collision was very peculiar.

The bubbles had spikes, they hooked up to one another, before getting destroyed or
fusing into even bigger thoughts after that.

Soon, these malicious thoughts were consumed.

Fang Yuan opened his eyes, showing some joy in his gaze.

"Even for wisdom path Gu Immortals, their main method for deduction is to use
thoughts. When using malicious thoughts to scheme or plot against others, the effect
would be much greater. In that case, one malicious thought could be equivalent to tens
of joyful thoughts, star thoughts, or empty thoughts."

Fang Yuan had used delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu to create a huge
amount of joyful will in the past to assist his thinking. That was a wrong move.

Although wills were made of thoughts, their real use was not for thinking, but to act
independently after splitting from the main body.

Gu Immortals create many different wills, sending them into treasure yellow heaven
to sell items. Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's will was left behind to defend Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building, this was the real use of wills.

To make a comparison, thoughts were like cleavers, while wills were like sabers. When
thinking about how to cut vegetables, one would obviously use a cleaver, which chef
would choose to use a saber for that?

Different professions are like separate worlds, wisdom path was the most mysterious
path, Fang Yuan did not know this in the past, thus he used joyful will to think, the
effect seemed reasonable, but he had, in fact, resulted in much expenditure, he was
better off using joyful thoughts.

"I now have the Gu recipes of malicious thought Gu and malicious will Gu, I can mass
produce these two mortal Gu. As an immortal, I have unlimited primeval essence.
Activating a huge number of malicious thoughts would be the best value for me.
Expending green grape immortal essence to activating delight in water and mountain
Immortal Gu is simply too expensive."

In the past, Fang Yuan only had a small number of wisdom path mortal Gu in his
possession, most of them were bought in treasure yellow heaven.

The thoughts produced when using these mortal Gu were simply too few, and they
varied in types, they could not sustain the expenditure when deducing Immortal Gu
recipes.

Thus, he had to use delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu.

But now that Fang Yuan had the Gu recipes for wisdom path mortal Gu, his first plan
was to mass produce these mortal Gu. The thoughts produced by one mortal Gu were
few, but with enough quantity, the numbers of the thoughts would be very significant.

Activating delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu was not only expensive, it was
a waste of a precious resource.

"It is a pity that this wisdom path inheritance appeared a little late. I have already
entered the next stage in my transaction with Lang Ya land spirit. If this appeared
earlier, I would have been able to save a huge amount of green grape immortal essence.
After saving green grape immortal essence, my costs would fall, the profits from each
deal would increase and it would definitely not be twenty-six immortal essence stones
like before."

Fang Yuan thought of this and felt a little regret.

He could not help it, life is like this.

Not everything would happen at the exact time you needed it to, life did not go so
smoothly.

It was bound to include imperfection, dissatisfaction, and untimely events.

Like the wisdom path inheritance that Fang Yuan obtained, it was not complete, it was
quite lacking.

All in all, it was already a very fortunate thing that Fang Yuan could obtain the mortal
Gu recipes of malicious thought Gu and malicious will Gu. Other than these two Gu
recipes, he also obtained a wisdom path killer move, called harboring malicious heart.

The Gu Immortal who sold the Gu recipe seemed to have a great need for the astral
wind flying heavenly boar's corpse, and it seemed that he was a bit tight on finances
as well.

If not for that, even if an ancient desolate beast's corpse was worth several hundred
immortal essence stones, he would not have sold the wisdom path inheritance.

Even if this wisdom path inheritance was not complete, it was still very rare in the
market.

Thus, in the following days, Fang Yuan stayed in Hu Immortal blessed land peacefully
and refined malicious thought Gu non-stop.

"Even though malicious thought Gu is not a consumable Gu, it is still a mortal Gu, it
has limits. Even though my primeval essence is unlimited, if I activate it too many
times, after a while, these malicious thought Gu would be damaged."

With that in mind, Fang Yuan knew that his need for malicious thought Gu would be
kept at a certain level in the future.

But the refinement of Gu would always take a long time. The higher the rank of the Gu
worm, the longer the time it would take. Gu Immortals often spend decades, a century,
or even centuries to refine one Immortal Gu.

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan decided to put in a large investment and purchase hairy
men.

During this time, he had sold more batches of guts Gu, each batch earned him forty-
eight immortal essence stones of profit.

He only kept fifty immortal essence stones, he spent the rest to purchase hairy men
without restraint. This caused the price of hairy men in treasure yellow heaven to
surge for a brief period of time.

Fang Yuan wanted the hairy men inside Lang Ya blessed land the most. These hairy
men were not only well trained, they were also much better in quality than those in
treasure yellow heaven, but after he asked Lang Ya land spirit, he was sternly rejected.
Not only that, Lang Ya land spirit scolded him fiercely and said that Fang Yuan was not
being a good friend.

Although Fang Yuan was scolded, he was happy.

Lang Ya land spirit saying he was not being a good friend meant that Lang Ya land
spirit acknowledged him as a friend already, even though their friendship could not
compare with Lang Ya land spirit and Inkman King Mo Tan Sang's relationship.

However, Mo Tan Sang and Lang Ya land spirit's friendship had not started in this
generation, it began with a former city lord long ago in inkman city. After countless
generations, inkman city had been maintaining this relationship with Lang Ya land
spirit secretly. This friendship had accumulated to an immense amount through time.

"Lang Ya land spirit has just been released, and has obtained so many completed
Immortal Gu recipes. According to his temperament, he is definitely going to refine
Immortal Gu. But refining Immortal Gu requires a vast amount of resources, even the
affluent and rich Lang Ya blessed land cannot sustain such costs. Gu Immortals cannot
enter treasure yellow heaven physically, after this auction, he would have no chance
to sell them. If he wants to sell the Gu Immortals' blessed lands, then to him, it is an
urgent matter as well."

Fang Yuan knew that Lang Ya land spirit was already anxious deep down. When he
loses his cool, he would find Fang Yuan personally.

Lang Ya land spirit's connections were too shallow, he only had Mo Tan Sang.

But Mo Tan Sang had inkman city to take care of, and he was a variant human, he had
lots of restraints, how could he appear personally to sell these Gu Immortals' blessed
lands?

The status of variant humans was lower than normal humans. The same applied to
variant human Gu Immortals.

Seeing that the variant human Gu Immortal was selling human Gu Immortals, it would
ignite the animosity of the human Gu Immortals against a common enemy.

That is to say, other than finding Fang Yuan, Lang Ya land spirit had no other
candidates.

This was really not his fault, after all, a land spirit could not leave the blessed land.
Furthermore, Lang Ya blessed land was a land of treasures, it was filled with wealth
and would draw out people's greed, since blessed lands could be swallowed, it was
Lang Ya land spirit's method of self-preservation to have minimal contact with Gu
Immortals.

Lang Ya land spirit was internally anxious, this made Fang Yuan much less anxious
about it.

For the next two months, Fang Yuan stayed in Hu Immortal blessed land, building
another Fang Yuan stone nest, and also filling up all of the rooms in the stone nests
with hairy men.

These hairy men were quite skilled in refining Gu, they were the higher quality goods
in treasure yellow heaven.

High grade hairy man slaves, even though Fang Yuan could buy them, they were low
in numbers. When Fang Yuan bought this group of hairy men, he not only needed to
care about the quality, but also have sufficient quantity.

With the second stone nest, the production of airsac Gu would increase, which meant
that the production and sales of guts Gu would also increase, each time Fang Yuan
made a transaction, he would earn more immortal essence stones.

But Fang Yuan did not order all of the hairy men to refine airsac Gu for now.

The second stone nest was meant to refine malicious thought Gu!
If malicious thought Gu were used to replace delight in water and mountain Immortal
Gu, the quantity of the former would definitely have to be enormous.

Fang Yuan needed a lot of malicious thought Gu and not just several hundreds of them.
He made an initial estimation that he required at least two thousand, by
simultaneously activating them, the amount of malicious thoughts they produced
could barely be sufficient for use under the light of wisdom.

Most importantly, these two thousand malicious thought Gu must be rank five.

Fang Yuan had the recipes of rank one to rank five malicious thought Gu. Rank one to
rank five malicious thought Gu had similar effects in producing malicious thoughts.
The only differences were the amount of thoughts they could produce in one
activation and the vast difference in the quantity of primeval essence they consumed.

"Gu refinement is not easy, the higher the rank, the more difficult it is to refine.
Especially rank five malicious thought Gu which cannot be obtained immediately but
requires the refinement to be one step at a time, from rank one to rank two, rank two
to rank three and so on. This means, in addition to a low success rate, the amount of
resources consumed will be extremely large."

Fang Yuan's initial plan was to first refine two thousand malicious thought Gu. As for
malicious will Gu, he did not need it at the moment, as he still had a lot of joyful will
left in his mind.

Refining two thousand rank five malicious thought Gu was no doubt an enormously
time-consuming project.

If Fang Yuan had not purchased hairy men and built the second stone nest, the hairy
men in the first stone nest could only take on this project when there was spare time
from refining airsac Gu. This meant they would at least need ten years of time to reach
the target of two thousand rank five malicious thought Gu.
Now, Fang Yuan had the second stone nest and large numbers of hairy men, this time
period was greatly shortened to about sixteen months.

"If I can improve the Gu recipe within this time and think of a completely new rank
five Gu recipe that can directly refine rank five malicious thought Gu, then the sixteen
months will be further reduced greatly." Fang Yuan thought inwardly.

His refinement path realm had already advanced to quasi-grandmaster, but he had
almost no foundation in wisdom path.

However, he still had confidence.

The source of this confidence was none other than Wisdom Gu.

Relying on the light of wisdom, he could get endless inspiration. Even if his attainment
level was lacking, it was not of much concern and he could forcibly make deductions.

"The might of rank nine Immortal Gu is indeed extremely terrifying." Fang Yuan was
becoming increasingly aware of the power of rank nine Wisdom Gu.

Using the light of wisdom, he could deduce Immortal Gu recipes. And these Immortal
Gu recipes had perplexed even the quasi-great grandmaster Lang Ya land spirit,
unable to make progress.

Fang Yuan could also use the light of wisdom to deduce immortal killer moves.

Vicious Lightning Fiend comprehended the immortal killer move Lightning Deity from
a remnant recipe of Blood Deity, after using up several years of time in closed
cultivation.

If it were Fang Yuan and he possessed the corresponding lightning path attainment,
using the Wisdom Gu, he would require at most a month to accomplish this.

Hei Lou Lan was currently trying her best to advance her mortal killer move, self
strength phantom, to an immortal killer move. Unfortunately, even if she had the
foundation of a mortal killer move and the strength path attainment level, she would
require at least years of time to reach her target.

Were it Fang Yuan, he could probably accomplish this in half a month.

In actual fact, Fang Yuan have been intermittently deducing immortal killer moves.
The immortal killer move he was deducing was none other than myriad self.

Myriad self's core was cleanse soul Immortal Gu but because it was starving, it could
not be used. Fang Yuan's main goal in deducing myriad self was to replace cleanse soul
Immortal Gu with other Gu worms.

Unfortunately, once this sole Immortal Gu was gone, the power of the killer move
greatly fell. Even if he used a lot more mortal Gu, it could not reach the original might.

In the long history of Gu Masters, since ancient times till now, there was only one
mortal killer move that had the offensive power of an Immortal Gu.

That was white bone chariot!

This killer move came from Proud Bone Demon Lord Shen Jie Ao, it was a peerless
creation standing high above in both ancient and present times.

Thus, Fang Yuan had listed as one of the exchange conditions for buying a desolate
beast corpse in treasure yellow heaven, to use a desolate beast corpse to exchange for
rank five bone path mortal Gu like Battle Bone Wheel.

Battle Bone Wheel was one of the mortal Gu required to form the white bone chariot
killer move. Fang Yuan only had one of it, which he obtained from the battlefield where
Wolf King Chang Shan Yin had hidden himself in Northern Plains.

Fang Yuan's talent could not match Shen Jie Ao, if he got rid of cleanse soul Immortal
Gu, myriad self would simply not have enough power.

Over the next half of a month, Fang Yuan tried hard to improve malicious thought Gu's
recipe and besides this, he also did not give up in improving his immortal killer move
myriad self.

In this time period, he sold another two desolate beast corpses in treasure yellow
heaven.

He exchanged them for the second pair of bat desolate beast wings as well as dozens
of immortal essence stones.

Fang Yuan had not wanted to use desolate beast corpses to exchange for immortal
essence stones. But he only had fifty immortal essence stones remaining on him as
most of his wealth had been used to purchase hairy men. Now, he was refining rank
five malicious thought Gu on a large scale, which required extremely great resources.
Thus, he had no choice but to exchange for immortal essence stones in order to barely
be able to cope with his expenses.

With this, Fang Yuan only had three desolate beast corpses remaining on sale in
treasure yellow heaven.

The immortal essence stones on him also reached a number of just over twenty. And
since he was constantly making deductions, his green grape immortal essence also fell
down to thirty-six beads.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan's plan of improving malicious thought Gu's recipe succeeded.

It was a completely new malicious thought Gu recipe, although it did not reach his
previous expectations, it already was reduced by a number of steps. Previously, the
rank five malicious thought Gu could only be refined step by step from rank one to
rank two and so on. Now, the rank five malicious thought Gu only required two steps.
The first step refined a half-finished malicious thought Gu while the second step
completed the refinement.

Although the success rate did not improve, the procedure had shortened; the
materials required decreased by a lot and time was also saved.

"According to this speed, the estimated sixteen months has been directly reduced by
half. I will have two thousand rank five malicious thought Gu in just eight months.
However, I am already tight on immortal essence stones. At this rate, even with the
support from the transaction of guts Gu, I won't be able to make my ends meet. Do I
have to slow down for the moment and let the second stone nest refine airsac Gu,
raising the production of guts Gu to earn immortal essence stones?"

Just as Fang Yuan was having this thought, the good news he had been waiting a long
time for had finally arrived.

"Brat, you win! I agree to your condition. We will split in a four to six ratio!" Lang Ya
land spirit said furiously, his emotions in a mess.

Fang Yuan lacked money to refine mortal Gu on a large scale, while Lang Ya land spirit
was refining Immortal Gu, the resources he had to expend amounted to more than
hundred times what Fang Yuan required, so he lacked money even more so!

Just like Fang Yuan expected, Lang Ya land spirit did not have other channels and only
had Fang Yuan to accomplish this task.

Thus, he had no choice but to accept, even though he knew this was an extremely large
loss.

Fang Yuan also did not want to push his luck; such a sharing of profits was already the
limit of the land spirit. If he did not accept this and angered Lang Ya land spirit, there
would not only be no transaction, even the relationship he had built with much
difficulty would collapse.

Northern Plains, Bai Zu grotto-heaven.

The hall was lit with bright lights, beautiful women were dancing without rest; fine
wine and delicacies were presented at the table in a row.

"Eat this, I personally like this dish very much, it is made of the rank five Gu, Flying
Vajra Centipedes, which are roasted over a charcoal fire, making its flesh delicious and
tender." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu said with light laughter from the main seat, inviting the
two Gu Immortals in the hall.

The two Gu Immortals were none other than Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan.

Although the dishes were made by others, the two immortals had no misgivings. Qin
Bai Sheng picked up a long piece of meat and threw it in his mouth.

He chewed it loudly, his lips shone with oily luster. He raised his thumb in praise:
"Indeed a delicacy! Not bad, not bad."

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu laughed loudly before looking at Fairy Li Shan: "I wonder how
fairy finds it?"

Fairy Li Shan's eating manner was much more elegant than Qin Bai Sheng; she took a
few bites then appreciated the taste before smiling: "It is delicious, not only is there
the smell of coal, there is also a nice chewy taste with a creamy and refreshing texture.
It truly is a masterpiece."

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu laughed heartily with extreme satisfaction: "I won't conceal it
from you two, I thought painstakingly and tested for eight days and eight nights to
create this dish. This is one of my most satisfying works during this year."

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was a rank eight Gu Immortal and a lone cultivator. He had a
hobby which was famous throughout the world of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals; he
liked to cook gourmet food and create new fine dishes.

"In this visit, we not only succeeded in inviting Heavenly Lord to participate in the
auction, but also tasted such a delicacy, it is truly our honor." Qin Bai Sheng spoke at
an appropriate time.

"I shall engrave Heavenly Lord's hospitality in my heart. Now, we have already signed
an alliance treaty, please forgive Li Shan for not being able to stay longer." Fairy Li Shan
said.

"Hehehe." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu nodded while all smiles, "Good. There are only a few
rank eight seniors in Northern Plains. You two have already invited me, as well as Yao
Huang, Five Elements Grandmaster and Old Ancestor Xue Hu. If only Prince Feng Xian
is left out, it won't be good."

"Heavenly Lord has penetrating insight, we were going to invite Prince Feng Xian."

"Go, go. Organize this auction properly, this old man has great expectations."

Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan left Bai Zu grotto-heaven, then hurried towards the
southeast direction.

Midway, Fairy Li Shan's expression suddenly changed. In her immortal aperture, Fang
Yuan's message had arrived through moving perspective cup Gu.

Fairy Li Shan slowly came to a halt.

Qin Bai Sheng asked curiously: "Fairy, why are you stopping?"

Fairy Li Shan gave a light smile: "There is a person I want to introduce to you."

"Eh?" Qin Bai Sheng's interest rose.

At this moment, Fang Yuan came out of Fairy Li Shan's immortal aperture, he quickly
scanned his surroundings before looking at Qin Bai Sheng: "Lord Qin, your mighty
name has long since resounded in my ears."

Qin Bai Sheng was a rank seven Gu Immortal with outstanding battle strength at the
level of Shi Lei. Right now, as he saw Fang Yuan was only an immortal zombie with the
lowest cultivation of rank six, his interest that had been roused just before rapidly
disappeared.

However, remembering Fang Yuan had directly come out of Fairy Li Shan's immortal
aperture, it could be seen that Fang Yuan's relationship with Fairy Li Shan was not
shallow. Qin Bai Sheng did not become arrogant, and only nodded and smiled lightly:
"You flatter me, you are?"

"My name is Sha Huang, I have a large transaction that I want to discuss with Lord
Qin." Fang Yuan smiled.

"What large transaction?"

When Fang Yuan spoke of the matter of selling Gu Immortals' blessed lands, Qin Bai
Sheng and Fairy Li Shan both turned pale.

In the letter from the moving perspective cup Gu, Fang Yuan had not explained things
clearly and only said he wanted to participate in the auction.

Fairy Li Shan was endlessly shocked: "Sha Huang, you really have blessed lands of Gu
Immortals to sell?"

"Haha, they are not mine, I am only running an errand." Fang Yuan smiled. He and Fairy
Li Shan were under the Snowy Mountain Alliance, so he must speak the truth.

However, this indeed was the truth, just that he had only said part of it. He naturally
would not say that he, this errand boy, had more of a share of the profits than the
owner.

Qin Bai Sheng's mood calmed down only then, as he deduced that Fang Yuan was a
subordinate of some great person. In the open, Northern Plains had five rank eight Gu
Immortals, but it was rumored there were some old monsters who were apparently
still alive.

Immediately, Qin Bai Sheng reevaluated Fang Yuan; he was still smiling, but his tone
had a slight change now: "It is indeed a huge transaction. Brother, since you think
highly of me and have confidence in this auction, then how could I refuse?"

"Many thanks to Lord Qin for making an exception." Fang Yuan's smile turned even
bigger.

"What exception, honestly speaking, I am just glad it was not too late. Gu Immortals'
blessed lands, tsk tsk, this will definitely heighten the climax of the auction. Haha, this
auction I am holding will definitely be one of the few grand auctions over several
hundred years in Northern Plains!"

Qin Bai Sheng laughed loudly and passionately patted this small rank six immortal
zombie, Fang Yuan's shoulder: "Honestly, I am a boorish person! Lord Qin is a strange
way to address me, brother, if you think I am worthy, then even if I am older by some
years, how about calling me brother."

Qin Bai Sheng was already over seven hundred years old, he was indeed older than
Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan directly cupped his fists with a smile: "Brother Qin."

"Haha, Brother Sha." Qin Bai Sheng returned the greeting.

Qin Bai Sheng was quite the character.

His battle strength was on par with Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei, but he did not have
any arrogant attitude. Not only that, when he conversed with Fang Yuan, he kept a cool
demeanor and was very amicable, not only did he laugh grandly, he even gave people
a feeling that he was very open-minded.

This time, Fang Yuan had obviously appeared under the disguise of the mortal killer
move unfamiliar face.

He had to conceal himself.

Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun were in the hands of Qin Bai Sheng, if they had
revealed the details or had their souls searched, Qin Bai Sheng would have known
about Fang Yuan's eight arm heavenly zombie form already.

Be it Hei Lou Lan, Tai Bai Yun Sheng or Fang Yuan's eight arm heavenly zombie figure,
they could not appear openly in Northern Plains.

Because the three of them were key surviving members of the Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building incident.

Right now was a sensitive time.

Ever since Northern Plains' number one wisdom path Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Chang
Fan, deduced before his death that the culprit was not a person from Northern Plains
and was an outsider, Northern Plains had formed an attitude of resisting a common
enemy.

Countless forces and experts wanted to take revenge. Especially the ten or so super
forces in Northern Plains, their benefits were heavily affected. They wanted to
slaughter the culprit, to chop them into pieces and slice their skin and bones, to
torture them for endless years to appease their hatred!
Once Fang Yuan and the others showed up, even if their crimes were not exposed, it
would sure to stir great attention and Northern Plains' Gu Immortals would
immediately make their moves, wanting to use Fang Yuan and the others as the key to
obtaining more inside information.

Thus, Fang Yuan came here using the fake name of Sha Huang, at the same time, his
eight monstrous arms turned into ordinary zombie shoulders, his terrifying six meter
tall body had turned into that of a normal person's build, or even shorter. The fangs in
his mouth were also completely retracted, he no longer looked ruthless but instead
gave off a weak and powerless feeling.

Of course, Fang Yuan had informed Fairy Li Shan already regarding his disguise in his
letter. When they established the Snowy Mountain Alliance earlier, they had
considered such a situation, thus, this was Fairy Li Shan and Fang Yuan collaborating
to deceive outsiders, he did not go against their agreement at all.

But even if Fang Yuan was so insignificant, an immortal zombie with stale cultivation
and a grim future, Qin Bai Sheng did not look down on him at all, he talked with Fang
Yuan on equal terms, in fact when they conversed, he spoke with an affectionate tone.

Qin Bai Sheng's attitude made Fang Yuan praise him inwardly: "This person is really
quite a character, no wonder he could turn this around and forcefully change this
situation of being attacked by Northern Plains' Gu Immortals to one that benefits him
greatly."

Qin Bai Sheng was also thinking: "This small rank six immortal zombie has an ordinary
appearance, but even after I probed him for so long, he has not slipped and exposed
anything. Even now, I do not know his origin and background, while he can still talk to
me, Qin Bai Sheng, calmly and normally, he is not simple, not simple,"

Fairy Li Shan was at the side, squinting as she smiled, watching Fang Yuan and Qin Bai
Sheng talk.

Fairy Li Shan saw that they were talking with more enthusiasm as she laughed lightly:
"The way you two are talking, it is a shame that you have only met now, you actually
left me in a corner, you look like long lost brothers who had just met each other."

"I am ashamed." Fang Yuan quickly said.

Qin Bai Sheng heard this and his eyes brightened up: "Fairy said it well, that was
fabulous! Brother Sha and I feel like old friends, we really hit it off, why don't we
become sworn brothers. With Fairy's mountain pledge Gu, from now on, as long as I
have meat to eat, I will not let little brother starve!"

Fairy Li Shan was shocked, she did not expect Qin Bai Sheng to be serious.

After the shock, she flustered: "Is Qin Bai Sheng's discernment superior to mine, he
has already seen through Fang Yuan's disguise?"

Fang Yuan gasped, immediately showing an expression like that of a 'youngster with
poorly concealed temptation': "I am not worthy, I am not worthy."

"Oh, what is brother saying, there is no such thing as worthiness. This is fate! Unless…
even though brother is showing this on the surface, you actually look down on me, a
person without a force?" Qin Bai Sheng's eyes shined brightly, he looked at Fang Yuan
tightly, showing a half-smiling expression.

"Oh no, my unfamiliar face is only a mortal killer move, Qin Bai Sheng has felt
something amiss already. It boils down to the excessive strength that I displayed, I
actually had Gu Immortal prisoners and was going to sell Gu Immortals' blessed lands.
Although Qin Bai Sheng is a lone cultivator, he is skilled at gathering allied forces and
is organizing an auction, thus he wants to use me to latch onto the force behind me."

"Of course, there is a possibility that he suspects that I am the culprit who toppled
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. No matter which one it is, I can see the troublesome
and powerful methods of this person."

These thoughts flashed by in Fang Yuan's head quickly, as he gave a bitter smile: "To
speak the truth, I really hit it off with brother Qin, but I am a small character, I cannot
decide this, I am not like brother Qin and Fairy Li Shan who are free. The matter of
becoming sworn brothers, it is not that I do not want to, but I cannot."

Of course they could not, once they did, making an oath before the mountain pledge
Gu, Fang Yuan would be at his mercy.

The most simple way was for Qin Bai Sheng to suggest that brothers cannot lie to each
other.

What can Fang Yuan do then? How could he reject him?

"So that is the case. Brother has his difficulties, I understand. Not only do I understand,
I can even help you, brother." Qin Bai Sheng patted his chest, while speaking, he still
continued to try probing Fang Yuan's background.

Fang Yuan cupped his fists to thank him, before turning around and looking at Fairy
Li Shan: "Fairy, I came here this time with another task, that is to borrow and make
use of your mountain pledge Gu."

"This…” Fairy Li Shan looked at Qin Bai Sheng, hesitatingly saying: "Sha Huang, you
might not know, but we are going to find Prince Feng Xian to invite him to attend the
auction. Our time is tight, I am not sure if Prince Feng Xian will be angry. After all, he
is the last person we are visiting."

Qin Bai Sheng said instead: "Prince Feng Xian is a model of the righteous path, how
can he be so small-minded? Anyway, we are going to take some time in flying there, it
is not a problem to lend it to brother Sha Huang."

"It's fine, I am not in a rush." Fang Yuan cupped his fist: "In that case, Fairy and brother
Qin should go first, we will split up here."

"Why doesn't brother Sha Huang come with us? It is a rare opportunity to be able to
meet Prince Feng Xian." Qin Bai Sheng invited.

How could Fang Yuan dare to go to a rank eight Gu Immortal? Especially when this
Prince Feng Xian had an investigative Immortal Gu that was at least rank seven.

Even though unfamiliar face came from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, it was just
a mortal killer move, in front of an investigative Immortal Gu, it was insufficient.

Fang Yuan rejected Qin Bai Sheng's invitation and watched them fly away, as their
figures vanished into the sky, his expression turned cold.

He had finally learned how troublesome Qin Bai Sheng was to deal with.

Compared to the brutish Shi Lei, this person had a exquisite mind, who knew how
many thoughts were in his head, while he could appear on the surface to be grand and
full of passion, as if it came from the bottom of his heart.

Just this acting ability alone was on par with Fang Yuan.
If not for Fang Yuan being a reborn old monster, he might not be able to see Qin Bai
Sheng's true colors.

"This person is a lone cultivator, yet he was able to make a network of alliances and
influence the entire world of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals, his methods were truly
incredible, he has some real skill. Unfortunately, his luck in my previous life was bad,
just when Blood Hunter came out of seclusion, he unfortunately met with and engaged
in fierce battle, succumbing to that monster's methods." Fang Yuan recalled as he
turned around, flying towards another direction.

Not long later, he met with a group of azure ostriches.

This bird had a swollen back, like that of a camel, it had azure feathers and its body
was as strong as a grown man. Often gathering in groups, they were the overlords of
the sky.

This group of azure ostriches were not few in numbers, they were a myriad beast
group.

Fang Yuan did not care about them, he continued to fly forwards.

The azure ostriches found the 'prey' Fang Yuan and were very excited, they first
screeched before getting close to him, but the moment they got close to him and
sensed his immortal zombie aura, they ran away in fear.

All living beings had survival instincts in them to avoid danger, even beasts and birds
had this insight and would not send themselves to death.

If this had been Fang Yuan when he stepped into Northern Plains for the first time in
his previous life, if he met the azure ostrich group, he would need to dig a hole and
bury himself to avoid them.

But now, even without doing anything, he had chased this group of azure ostriches
away.

"Even though I became an immortal zombie, compared to my previous life's

achievements, my cultivation level has greatly exceeded what I had been during this
time. In my previous life, at this point, Qing Mao mountain had been destroyed by Bai
Ning Bing's self-detonation, because clans are united by bloodline, they spurn
outsiders. Before I became a lone demonic cultivator, I joined a caravan and was often
at the front lines, trying to earn a living like this."

In his previous life, Fang Yuan had moved around Southern Border, Western Desert,
Eastern Sea for over three hundred years before becoming a rank five Gu Master in
Central Continent.

But now, only decades had passed and Fang Yuan was already an immortal, even
though he was an immortal zombie, his battle strength was already upper-tier among
rank six Gu Immortals.

Firstly, the rebirth advantage he had was huge. Secondly, Fang Yuan took part in many
dangerous situations, the higher the risks, the greater his rewards.

"But as time passes, the influence of my rebirth would become bigger and bigger. This
auction had never happened in my previous life. Hopefully, when I join Northern
Plains Zombie Alliance this time, there will be fewer accidents and my plans would go
smoothly."

Having unfamiliar face, Fang Yuan decided to try joining Zombie Alliance.

Plans could not keep up with changes.

His original plan was to first take dark limit Immortal Gu. But Xue Song Zi and Hei
Cheng's incident had inadvertently served as an alert, afterwards, Fairy Jiang Yu had
disappeared mysteriously, even Fairy Li Shan could not find her.

He also had another plan, to kill Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. But now that they
were captured by Qin Bai Sheng, they were watched by almost all of the Gu Immortals
in Northern Plains, how could Fang Yuan kill them now?

After these two plans succeeded, his third plan was to join Zombie Alliance. But with
the current situation, Fang Yuan had insufficient control of the circumstances, he had
to take a risk and join Zombie Alliance, even if it was dangerous.

As he flew, Fang Yuan considered the plan for joining Zombie Alliance again.

Along the way, he met many bird groups, but they were all repelled by Fang Yuan's
immortal zombie aura. Only once, he met a desolate beast flying snake. Fang Yuan did
not want to waste time and avoided it.
Although Northern Plains was huge, having five billion square kilometers of surface
area, ten times that of Earth, but Fang Yuan's current location was not far from his
destination. After half a day, he saw a mountain on the horizon.

It was Ku Mu mountain.
Ku Mu mountain, rather than a mountain, it looked more like a giant dead wooden tree
that extended into the clouds.

The name of the wood was old earth.

Old earth wood had a long lifespan, this particular pillar of old earth wood had more
than a million years of history. From Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's era, to Red
Lotus Demon Venerable, Genesis Lotus Immortal Venerable, Thieving Heaven Demon
Venerable, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable, and then to Spectral Soul Demon Venerable
and Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable. Even after Paradise Earth Immortal
Venerable died, it was still alive.

When it had lush leaves, the greenery covered the entire sky, and it produced
countless fresh fruits. On its strong branches, unique tree farms could be created.

During its golden years, it was usually owned by the strongest Gu Immortals or the
most powerful forces in Northern Plains.

But as the river of time continued to flow, the lush green leaves wilted, its strong trunk
decayed, its glorious days were over, and it became a gloomy and silent structure.

Long ago, countless forces had fought over it, fighting with their lives or even dying
due to the old earth wood, but eventually, its late years were lonely. The barren tree
branches could only create a shade over a small area, attempting to pitiful recreate its
former glory.

Right now, the old earth wood tree's main trunk was mostly dead, only a small portion
still had a little bit of life left.

From a mystical treasure that everyone was after, to a monument that nobody visits,
it was like an aged giant, bending its back and sitting on the ground calmly, awaiting
the end of its life.
Fang Yuan did not come here to admire the old earth wood tree, he was here for the
immortal zombie who was living on top of the old earth wood.

This immortal zombie was a wood path Gu Immortal during his life, his name was Gu
Ye. If Fang Yuan wanted to join Northern Plains Zombie Alliance, he would need an
immortal zombie's recommendation.

Fang Yuan had already gotten the details of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance from
Fairy Li Shan. The reason why he chose Gu Ye was not because this person was special,
but because he was the closest.

As he got close to the old earth wood tree, Fang Yuan slowed his speed, but he did not
see Gu Ye appearing.

He frowned slightly, this Gu Ye's alertness was simply too terrible.

Finally, when he arrived at the old earth wood tree, Fang Yuan shouted: "Is Old Earth
City Lord around? My name is Sha Huang and I am here to visit."

His voice echoed through the old earth wood tree, causing the wilted leaves to scatter
onto the ground. From a deep part of the old earth wood, a figure came out: "Why are
there more people?! Do you really think I, Gu Ye, am easy to bully?"

His tone was filled with anger and helplessness.

Gu Ye appeared before Fang Yuan.

He was yellowish in color, tall and skinny, resembling the old earth wood. There were
wooden markings on his skin, it was an immortal zombie body that resembled dead
wood.

Seeing Fang Yuan, Gu Ye was stunned, the anger vanished on his face as he said
hesitantly: "Sir is?"

"I am Sha Huang, I have turned into an immortal zombie recently without much choice.
I wanted to join Northern Plains Zombie Alliance, I wonder if Old Earth City Lord may
give me a recommendation?" Fang Yuan cupped his fists as he expressed his intention
directly.

"Oh, you are a newcomer who wants to join Zombie Alliance. A pleasure to meet you."
Gu Ye's expression changed, he quickly greeted back while smiling: "I thought it was…
forget it, let's not talk about it. We are all in the same boat, please come in."

Fang Yuan slowly flew up, under Gu Ye's lead, they traveled past many rotten leaves
and branches, arriving at a deep part of the branches of the old earth wood tree.

This was a city.

It was completely built on the old earth wood branches, it resembled a carved wooden
city, it was quite unique.

Countless wooden houses were lined up, some were tall while some were short, not
only were there common squares, there were towers and city walls, all sorts of streets
and paths were interconnected like blood vessels, moving along the countless
branches.

There were also all sorts of vine ladders, either drooping or hanging from one branch
to another.

It was a pity that this wooden city was half destroyed, large numbers of houses had
collapsed. The yellow vine ladders were no longer green, they could not sustain any
weight. When the cold winds blew, the vines might break, landing on the branches and
causing a loud sound.

"This is Old Earth City. Although it is like this, the atmosphere still remains. Back in
the day, this was a popular area and countless famous characters gathered here. This
was once the heart of Northern Plains." Fang Yuan looked around as he sighed casually.

"The city is dead, there is nothing left. Brother Sha is calling me Old Earth City Lord,
but that title is very hollow now." Gu Ye laughed bitterly at the side: "To speak the
truth, if not for this place still producing a wood path resource called wilted essence,
who would care about it?"

Fang Yuan nodded, agreeing: "That is indeed the case."

Gu Ye sighed deeply: "Sigh, if I knew that this place was so barren, I would not have
accepted this mission from Zombie Alliance. But the duration of my mission is almost
over, I can leave this painful place already. Brother, look at my pathetic state and learn
from it. When you enter Zombie Alliance, do not choose the mission of guarding old
earth wood."
Fang Yuan had already guessed that Gu Ye was injured, seeing him say this, he placed
his gaze naturally on his face.

Gu Ye's face was swollen, it looked like a pink peach was growing on one side of his
cheeks. The other side of his face was caved in, filled with many cracks. Looking at
him, his entire head was in a strange shape, like a deformed melon.

Not only that, there was a long scar on his chest.

Although the scar was shallow, the injury was big. There was poisonous gas that were
dark purple in color spiralling it.

"Even if brother Gu didn't mention it, I was going to ask. Where did you get your
injuries from?" Fang Yuan asked.

"Sigh, brother. Seeing that you have just turned into an immortal zombie, you still do
not know the pain of immortal zombies…” Gu Ye sighed pitifully, he was about to start
his story when there was a loud sound outside, the entire old earth wood tree shook
intensely as wilted leaves flew, even the rotting branches that seemed like tall pillars
collapsed, they came crashing down.

Gu Ye's expression changed.

Next, Fang Yuan heard someone shouting from outside: "Gu Ye, come out now, this
Divine Lord is here to make a transaction with you!"

Gu Ye's expression became uglier, his eyes were spewing fire as he gritted his teeth:
"Divine Lord Tian Du again!"

Bam!

Another loud bang.

Old earth wood shook again, leaves fell from the branches like a huge rain. The
beautiful wooden houses collapsed, causing dust and smoke to rise.

Outside, there was another Gu Immortal shouting: "Gu Ye right? Come out now, I am
Shi Hou, come out, I have a matter to discuss with you."

Saying so, there was another loud bang, causing a distressing noise in the old earth
wood.

Looking at their actions, they were not going to give up until Gu Ye showed up.

Gu Ye's expression was very ugly, he clenched his fists as he took a few deep breaths,
smiling forcibly at Fang Yuan: "Brother Sha, take a seat first, I will be back shortly."

"No worry, I will go with you." Fang Yuan said.

Gu Ye showed a touched expression as he cupped his fists, thanking sincerely: "Then I

will thank brother in advance."

The two walked out of the old earth wood tree, seeing the two rank six Gu Immortals
in the sky.

One had a strong muscular body, his skin was bronze in color as lightning coiled
around his body, his name was Divine Lord Tian Du.

The other had messy hair, he looked like a brute carrying a skull, it was Shi Hou.

Seeing Fang Yuan, Divine Lord Tian Du was stunned before laughing: "To think that Gu
Ye found a helper. But it is a pity, you found an immortal zombie."

In his speech, he did not hide the disdain towards immortal zombies.

"You!" Gu Ye flew into a rage, about to speak.

Divine Lord Tian Du waved his hand, saying impatiently: "I will not talk trash with you,
I know that you have some wilted essence with you, my friend has an immortal
essence stone, he will buy a hundred and fifty kilograms of wilted essence from you."

"One immortal essence stone for one hundred and fifty kilograms of wilted essence,
why don't you just rob us instead?!" Gu Ye was stomping his feet in anger, shouting.

"Robbing is possible too, but seeing that you are Divine Lord's friend, I wanted to do
him a favor." Shi Hou snickered, his attitude was very arrogant, as if Gu Ye was helpless
against him.

"You two are shameless, you are basically bandits!" Gu Ye stared with wide opened
eyes, his lungs were about to explode.
He did not attack in the end.

He was furious, but also extremely helpless.

The other party were two rank six Gu Immortals, but he was only a rank six immortal
zombie, his blessed land was dead and he only had over a dozen immortal essence
stones. Even though he would fight with them, what would he do after that?

Ignoring the question of whether he could win, even if he won, he would expend a lot
of green grape immortal essence, without the blessed land's replenishment, he could
only use immortal essence stones to replenish it.

After one battle, he would go bankrupt.

Gu Ye was full of worries, he looked at Fang Yuan beside him.

Actually, Divine Lord Tian Du and Shi Hou were also looking at Fang Yuan. Divine Lord
Tian Du had extorted Gu Ye many times already, he knew about Gu Ye's background,
but he did not know anything about Fang Yuan.

Furthermore, it seemed like Fang Yuan was Gu Ye's helper.

But why would Fang Yuan help Gu Ye for no good reason?

His gaze flickered, he showed a hesitant expression as he asked Gu Ye in a weak tone:

"Brother Gu, what is going on? Who is the other party, such absurd demands, why isn't
the Zombie Alliance interfering?"

Seeing Fang Yuan's hesitation, Gu Ye lost all hope, he sighed deeply: "The Zombie
Alliance can interfere, but I cannot afford it. It was better when leader was around, but
now… sigh! Forget it, after you join the Zombie Alliance, you will learn about it,
brother."

"Is that so…” Fang Yuan's face showed a perfect mix of shock, disappointment, and
even worry towards the future.

Hearing their conversation, Divine Lord Tian Du and Shi Hou could see the joy in each
other's faces.

"So this newly emerged immortal zombie wants to join the Zombie Alliance."
"We are going to successful extort him again!"

The two transmitted.

As they expected, Gu Ye was helpless but to accept their demands. Eventually, he sold
one hundred and fifty kilograms of wilted essence for one immortal essence stone.

"Hahaha, this was a pleasant business deal!"

"Gu Ye, when you ask for help next time, at least invite a living person."

The two left while laughing loudly.

"Sigh, this rotten place, I do not want to stay here for even one more second." Gu Ye
showed disappointment, his head was sinking even lower now.
Fang Yuan watched as Divine Lord Tian Du and Shi Hou disappeared into the horizon,
before retracting his gaze, looking at the immortal zombie Gu Ye beside him with a
slightly flickering gaze.

With a trembling and hesitant voice, he said: "Brother Gu… may I ask… how many
times has this happened?"

Gu Ye restrained his grieving expression, and patted Fang Yuan's shoulder, comforting
him on the contrary: "Not too many. It is just that with the nearing of Qin Bai Sheng's
auction, some shameless scumbags are trying everything they can to get the capital to
participate in this level of grand event."

Fang Yuan had not helped him, but Gu Ye did not blame him. He did not have any hope,
thus his disappointment and grief had no relation to Fang Yuan.

With this, even though they had just met each other, Gu Ye was even more certain that
Fang Yuan's situation was similar to his and even slightly worse, as a fallen Gu
Immortal who had helplessly turned to becoming an immortal zombie.

"But this behavior is too ugly." Fang Yuan pretended to be indignant.

This expression looked like his true feelings in Gu Ye's eyes.

"At least there is something to cover the humiliation." Gu Ye looked at the immortal
essence stone on his hand with irony.

This immortal essence stone was the 'price' Shi Hou and Divine Lord Tian Du had paid
for one hundred and fifty kilograms of wilted essence.

He shook the immortal essence stone: "Look, Divine Lord Tian Du and Shi Hou might
be strong, but they still are apprehensive of Zombie Alliance behind us and had to give
us face in this way."
"Could it be… could it be that Zombie Alliance's face is only worth one immortal
essence stone?" Fang Yuan expression was aghast, as he made an inquiry.

Gu Ye laughed.

His laughter was bitter, mixed with helplessness, sadness and grief.

He looked at Fang Yuan, and felt he was looking at himself back when he had just
joined Zombie Alliance.

He patted Fang Yuan's shoulder again: "Brother Sha, you have reached this point and
also know the hardships and disadvantages of immortal zombie. Blessed lands of us
immortal zombies are already dead and cannot be operated, and cannot produce
immortal essence. If I have to say it bluntly, we are on our dying breaths. Thus, we have
to rely on external resources even more than those living Gu Immortals."

"You also might have already heard about it, Zombie Alliance indeed has many
immortal zombies like you. But if you want to rely on these people as support and to
help maintain your face, you have to pay the price." Gu Ye's words had deep
implications.

"Price?" Fang Yuan pretended to not understand.

"Yes. If you want to request a rank six immortal zombie to help you, you need two
immortal essence stones, and this is only the initial price, the concrete amount will
depend on how intense the fight is. If you want to request a rank seven immortal
zombie, you need twenty immortal essence stones. Similarly, this price is only the
initial price. If you have sufficient immortal essence stones, you can even request the
whole of Zombie Alliance to support you. But if you don't have money or don't want to
pay the price, then your face can only be worth this much."

When Gu Ye said this, he slightly raised that immortal essence stone and intentionally
shook it.

Blessed lands of immortal zombies were already dead, it was hard to engage in
business to generate income and they had to rely on more external resources; this
made immortal zombies have to meticulously plan and often choose to endure as
opposed to fight. Only like this could they barely maintain their livelihoods.

Like with Fang Yuan previously, he could not produce green grape immortal essence
by himself and could only use immortal essence stones to substitute. The pressure
was too high; in that intense battle with Hei Cheng, his finances almost collapsed and
fell into a plight again.

Fortunately, Fang Yuan had Hu Immortal blessed land, which reduced the significance
of his immortal aperture being dead.

What was even more fortunate was that he had wisdom Gu's help. And there were
extremely large benefits to using the light of wisdom with an immortal zombie body.

First was the Immortal Gu recipe transactions with Lang Ya land spirit, which allowed
Fang Yuan to get out of the mire. Then with the help of the light of wisdom, he was
able to innovate airsac Gu and engage in the guts Gu business, making Immortal Crane
Sect compromise, and greatly improving his entire living environment.

'If I didn't have these, my situation might be extremely dismal just like Gu Ye's.' Fang
Yuan sighed inwardly, while on the surface he showed a look of realization and took a
step back, bowing and cupping his fists: "Brother Gu Ye, I have received your
teachings."

Gu Ye shook his head: "Even without me speaking of these truths, you would
understand it for yourself after some time. No need for thanks. Come, I will bring you
to Zombie Alliance."

Fang Yuan followed Gu Ye to the depths of the old earth wood branches at that
exquisite wood city again.

Gu Ye flew ahead to a large plaza in the center of the wood city.

The plaza was in ruins, from the damaged floor tiles to the surrounding destroyed
flower beds and dried up fountain; one might be able to only get a glimpse of its past
prosperity.

Gu Ye and Fang Yuan stood in the center of the plaza.

"Rise." Gu Ye mobilized his primeval essence, the plaza's surface instantly brightened.

The thick and solid floor became translucent like a giant jade.

The green jade light circulated around, shadows of countless Gu worms fluttered
within the light.

At the same time, large numbers of mortal Gu flew out of Gu Ye's body, mostly being
rank five space path Gu and rank four wood path Gu. These Gu worms flew above Fang
Yuan and started to rapidly revolve like a hurricane, in the dusky surroundings, rays
of brilliant light gradually appeared.

Gu Ye continued to mobilize his primeval essence unceasingly, these flowing lights

rapidly increased in number and soon created a vast bluish-green patch.

Untold numbers of mortal Gu, under some wondrous rhythm, converged their powers,
overlaying on top of one another and mutually amplifying themselves, finally forming
a might display.

"This is a top tier mortal killer move our Zombie Alliance researched, green crystal
hero's path. It can span across hundreds of thousands of li, directly connecting the old
earth wood and Zombie Alliance's garrison. You know us immortal zombies are Gu
Immortals as well, our bodies are filled with dao marks, thus normal methods are
unable to transport us." Gu Ye explained at the appropriate moment.

Fang Yuan nodded.

Immortal zombies might have weaker battle strength causing their status to lower,
and their thoughts to slow down, but their accumulations and foundations still
remained for the most part.

Especially when immortal zombies are in a similar situation, they could cast aside
prejudices unlike normal Gu Immortals and cooperate with each other. Thus, being
able to research a peak tier mortal killer move was not strange.

Gu Ye continued: "I looked after the myriad poison date tree in Zombie Alliance for
two years before I was able to get enough contribution points to exchange for this
Green Crystal Hero's Path. Ah, right, you might be confused. Brother Sha, if you choose
tasks which needs you to go outside, Zombie Alliance's prerequisite is that you have
to grasp the killer move Green Crystal Hero's Path. Only with this can you reach
Zombie Alliance at any time."

They did not have Fixed Immortal Travel, did not have Stargate and also did not have
moving perspective cup Gu.
Normal Gu Immortals could use connecting heaven Gu and hole earth Gu; but
immortal zombies could not because of their dead apertures.

Connecting heaven Gu and hole earth Gu were only mortal Gu, the reason they could
connect between blessed lands or grotto-heavens was because the two small worlds
involved would silently consume heavenly power. And an immortal zombie's blessed
land or grotto-heaven was already dead, and was unable to expend heavenly power.

To set up connecting heaven Gu and hole earth Gu required the consent of both sides.
Only with this, the immortal apertures could use heavenly power. If they were secretly
set up, they would not be able to connect because of the absence of heavenly power.

Connecting heaven Gu and hole earth Gu also could not be used if they were set up
outside in the five regions.

"Ah, so green crystal hero's path was this important!" Hearing Gu Ye explain again,
Fang Yuan showed an appropriately admiring and envious look.

Gu Ye caught Fang Yuan's expression and felt refreshed, the grief from the forceful
transaction earlier eased up by a lot.

Happiness often comes from comparison.

Instantly, Gu Ye felt Fang Yuan was much more pleasing to the eyes.

A thick green light soared to the skies from the dense dried yellow old earth branches
and leaves.

After a while, in Dark Flow City, over a hundred thousand li away, on the plaza in the
southeast section, a dark green light suddenly fell down.

The light engulfed the plaza, dying the surroundings green. Wind surged, and the
hanging iron lanterns in the plaza constantly shook and squeaked.

The light quickly disappeared, in the originally empty plaza appeared Gu Ye and Fang
Yuan.

"Let's go, we should not stay here for long." Gu Ye composed himself and walked
forward, with Fang Yuan closely following behind.
This giant city was named Dark Flow; it was pitch black, resembling a giant beast
sprawled on the ground.

The sun was setting to the west and there was still a source of light.

However, every tile and brick of the giant Dark Flow City emitted a dense darkness
that dyed the surroundings black.

Especially, the closer one got to the center of Dark Flow Giant City, the denser this
darkness became.

Fang Yuan and Gu Ye walked ahead, but saw no humans in their path. The long path
had street lamps erected every few hundred steps. But these street lamps let out weak
dusky yellow light which only lit some dozens of steps, leaving behind long stretches
of darkness in between the gaps of the street lamps, making the darkness of the giant
city even more conspicuous.

The large Dark Flow City felt like an abandoned city.

However, there were still some faint clamoring noises coming from below the giant
city.

"This is the main headquarters of our Zombie Alliance in Northern Plains, and it is
almost as large as a mountain. It is divided into seven floors; the lower five floors are
the residences of mortal Gu Masters and are very bustling and clamorous. One floor
above is where immortal zombies and people with some relation to us reside. The
highest floor has the conference hall where three rank seven immortal zombies are
stationed throughout the year." Gu Ye gave an appropriate explanation.

Fang Yuan nodded without being surprised.

Zombie Alliance was not an organization that was only formed from immortal level
members, but also covered mortal Gu Masters.

These Gu Masters, for the most part, made use of dark path; raising zombies,
commanding zombies and even transforming into zombies.

The two walked for a while, arriving in front of a large hall without seeing anyone in
the way.
Tall stone statues stood on either side of the large hall, they were taller and bulkier
than even Fang Yuan's eight arm immortal zombie physique.

Fang Yuan carefully observed them. His eyes narrowed slightly as he discovered these
stone statues were not as simple as they looked.

"You find it strange too? This is Yin Liu Gong's immortal killer move Stone Casket,
inside them are not ordinary zombies but immortal zombies." Gu Ye said this, then
said in a lower voice, "Yin Liu Gong is one of the experts of our Zombie Alliance. When
the city lord left Northern Plains, they assigned three deputy city lords; he is one them
and can command immortal zombies to fight for him."

"Yin Liu Gong…” Fang Yuan silently engraved this name to his mind.

This name was not in his previous life's memories. But just based on the fact Yin Liu
Gong could command immortal zombies to fight, he needed to be attached
importance.

"In my previous life, my rise was a matter that occurred three to four hundred years
later. And in this period of time, it was not that no outstanding characters emerged,
but due to all sorts of reasons, they were washed away by the river of time." Fang Yuan
was cautious, with no hint of carelessness.

"Come and push the door." Gu Ye suddenly moved to the side, "So long as you can open
this large door, you will have the qualifications to join Zombie Alliance."

Fang Yuan quietly put his two arms on the door and softly pushed, opening the door
by a sliver.

Instantly, over twenty sharp, gloomy or dull gazes followed the crack and shot towards
Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan intentionally changed his expression slightly, then he took a deep breath
and fiercely pushed open the door completely.

Gu Ye laughed heartily while patting Fang Yuan's shoulder: "Being able to push open
this large door means you are a person of Northern Plains. Come, your timing is really
exquisite, our Zombie Alliance's meeting is held today!"
Central Continent.

White egrets flew in the sky, the weather was pleasant today.

Three rank seven Gu Immortals who came from Combat Immortal Sect had gathered
within this sky.

"According to Immortal Monkey King's request for help, it should be this place." Qian
Zhu Xian looked around as he said.

He was dressed in a green robe, he had a slim figure and his eyes were dark like an
abyss, as if incapable of being alarmed.

"Although this place looks ordinary, it is evident that the grotto-heaven opening that
was stated in the letter has closed up. But to check if it is really this place, we will need
Divine Mother's help." Valley Lord Ming He, who was dressed in a white robe, looked
over.

Beside him was a female Gu Immortal.

Beautiful and elegant, she was dressed in a golden robe and radiated majesty and
dignity. She was a space path Gu Immortal, known as Divine Mother Jue Kong. Among
these three, she was the oldest Gu Immortal, being over nine hundred years old.

Divine Mother Jue Kong closed her eyes, using her mysterious method, her aura
remained calm and there was not even any trace of fluctuation.

In a short while, she opened her eyes, letting out a breath of foggy air: "It is here
indeed, Starry Sky grotto-heaven is located at this place."

The other two immortals heard this and their spirits lifted.

"Seven Star Child did not have much reputation back then, he actually cultivated to
this extent without making a sound. In fact, his grotto-heaven even absorbed a
fragment of blue heaven. Precisely because of this, Starry Sky grotto-heaven could still
exist now. It is incredible." Qian Zhu Xian sighed.

During the Immemorial Antiquity Era, the world of Gu Masters had nine heavens in
the sky.

Red, orange, yellow, green, azure, blue, purple, white, black, they formed the
immemorial nine heavens.

But seven of the nine heavens were destroyed by Ren Zu's children, right now, only
black and white heaven were left alternating in the sky.

Seven Star Child had a fortuitous encounter in the past, he secretly absorbed a
fragment of blue heaven, this allowed his grotto-heaven to exist to this day, and not
become a dead aperture due to his state.

The immemorial nine heavens were nine different worlds.

The immortal apertures of Gu Immortals were also worlds, worlds could swallow one
another, the most famous example was treasure yellow heaven.

Back then, treasure yellow heaven's owner — rank eight Gu Immortal, Daoist
Countless Treasures, unexpectedly obtained a fragment world of yellow heaven. Thus,
after he fused it into his grotto-heaven, it formed treasure yellow heaven.

After treasure yellow heaven was formed, it became extraordinary, and continued
existing even until today.

"Once a grotto-heaven absorbs a nine heavens fragment, the benefits are really great.
Not only will they gain some unpredictable mystical power, the immortal aperture's
heavenly power would become unlimited. Furthermore, calamities and tribulations
would weaken greatly, or completely vanish. If I can obtain such a fragment world, I
might even wake up laughing in my sleep." Valley Lord Ming He was full of envy.

"Dream on, Ming He. Get your cultivation level to rank eight first. Only a grotto-heaven
of a rank eight Gu Immortal can absorb a nine heavens fragment world." Qian Zhu Xian
laughed.

Valley Lord Ming He heard this and laughed bitterly: "I want to get to rank eight too,
but I have no confidence in surviving the second grand tribulation. Thinking about
how rank eight Gu Immortals have to undergo a grand tribulation every fifty years, I
shudder at that thought. As for the myriad tribulation that is even more terrifying than
grand tribulations, I simply cannot imagine them! Maybe, only someone like Shi Lei
has no fear…”

Blessed lands had fortune, but heaven and earth was balanced, thus, once in a while,
calamities and tribulations would befall.

Rank six Gu Immortals experience an earthly calamity every ten years, and a heavenly
tribulation every one hundred years. Thus, when assessing a Gu Immortal's
cultivation level, they often used the heavenly tribulation as the standard. Fang Yuan
was a two heavenly tribulations expert in his previous life.

After a rank six Gu Immortal goes through three heavenly tribulations, their blessed
land would expand to another level, and they would become a rank seven Gu
Immortal.

Rank seven Gu Immortals face an earthly calamity every ten years, a heavenly
tribulation every fifty years, and a grand tribulation every one hundred years. Qian
Zhu Xian and Valley Lord Ming He were one grand tribulation Gu Immortals, while
Divine Mother Jue Kong was a level higher than them, being at two grand tribulations
cultivation level.

As for rank eight Gu Immortals, they no longer experienced any earthly calamities, but
they faced a heavenly tribulation every ten years, a grand tribulation every fifty years,
and a myriad tribulation every one hundred years.

Myriad tribulations were far more scary than heavenly tribulations, they were known
as 'hopeless myriad tribulations' among Gu Immortals, the difficulty was extremely
high.

Thus, nine heavens fragments were much more precious.

Because the immemorial nine heavens were a part of the large world of Gu Masters.
Calamities and tribulations would only descend upon blessed lands and grotto-
heavens as they were immortal aperture worlds, this did not happen in the five
regions or the immemorial nine heavens.

After the grotto-heaven devours the nine heavens fragment, in a way, they become a
part of the large world of Gu Masters. This could greatly reduce the size and power of
the calamities and tribulations, and the grotto-heaven would not die if the Gu
Immortal dies. For example, Starry Sky grotto-heaven was still intact despite Seven
Star Child already becoming an immortal zombie.

If the nine heavens fragment that was absorbed was big, calamities and tribulations
could vanish for good. For example, treasure yellow heaven had never experienced
any calamities or tribulations, it was now the biggest trading area in the Gu Immortal
world.

"The benefits of absorbing a nine heavens fragment are huge. But don't forget, this
method has a weakness too. Even if you absorb just a bit of the nine heavens fragment,
you will take in the aura of the greater world. Once the grotto-heaven is rooted into it,
it can never be placed into your body again." Divine Mother Jue Kong reminded them.

Qian Zhu Xian nodded, agreeing: "Simply put, by absorbing the nine heavens fragment,
the Gu Immortal loses their freedom. They can only stay inside their immortal
aperture world and cannot move about in the outside world. This is truly a huge loss.
But if a nine heavens fragment appears before me, I would choose it without
hesitation!"

"That's right." Valley Lord Ming He agreed: "Calamities and tribulations are too hard
to survive, sometimes, I would want to become an immortal zombie, at least their dead
lands would not experience any calamities or tribulations."

"Alright, handling the task is the most important matter. We purposely wasted so many
days, I'm sure that Monkey King has learned his lesson." Divine Mother Jue Kong
slowly closed her eyes.

Valley Lord Ming He fell into silence.

Qian Zhu Xian laughed: "Heh, after we save Shi Lei, I want to see if he can still act
arrogant again?"

Divine Mother Jue Kong could no longer keep a calm aura, her golden robe fluttered
as the aura of Immortal Gu burst out from her.

"Open." Suddenly, she opened her eyes, her gaze was sharp as it pierced a hole into the
void before her.
The hole was about the size of a man, through this hole, the three Gu Immortals could
directly see the scenery inside Starry Sky grotto-heaven.

The three immortals did not speak, Qian Zhu Xian charged ahead and entered it. Next,
Valley Lord Ming He entered, followed by Divine Mother Jue Kong.

But at the next moment, the three Gu Immortals appeared in the sky again.

"What is going on?" Qian Zhu Xian and Valley Lord Ming He showed some shock on
their faces.

Divine Mother Jue Kong's expression was solemn, her relaxed appearance was gone
as she muttered: "In is not in, out is not out, space is interchanging, swapping around…
this is the mystical ability Starry Sky grotto-heaven obtained after absorbing the blue
heaven fragment?"

"Yes. Shi Lei mentioned this in his request for help as well." Valley Lord Ming He
recalled.

"It is not strange, why would it be simple if it could trap this monkey?" Qian Zhu Xian
said.

Divine Mother Jue Kong snorted coldly: "This is only a minor problem."

At the same time, in Northern Plains, Zombie Alliance branch, inside Dark Flow Giant
City.

This place had densely accumulated darkness, even the clear skies could not shine any
sunlight into here.

Fang Yuan pushed open the door and was inspected by more than twenty gazes.

He purposely showed a scared and hesitant expression as he stepped into the

discussion hall.

He paid his respects, shouting: "I am Sha Huang, greetings to my fellow brethren."

"Fellow brethren… you used a good phrase. We members of Zombie Alliance are in the
same situation, we should help each other." On the main seat of the discussion hall,
there was an immortal zombie smiling as he said.
He was a fatty, he was over six meters tall, just like Fang Yuan's eight arm immortal
zombie form, but he was at least three times fatter than Fang Yuan. His skin was like
bronze, his stomach was like a wine vat, big and round. Not just his stomach, his face,
arms, fingers, they were all extremely round.

Fang Yuan saw him and thought of the information he had: "Flesh bronze zombie body,
Yin Liu Gong…”

Before Fang Yuan came to the Zombie Alliance, he had gotten the relevant information
from Fairy Li Shan.

Immortal zombie Gu Ye beside him thought that Fang Yuan was a newbie, he quickly
paid respects: "Gu Yu pays respects to Lord Yin Liu Gong, Lord Dragon Commander Ye
Cha, and Lord Huang Quan Weng."

Fang Yuan followed after him: "I greet Lord Yin Liu Gong, Lord Dragon Commander Ye
Cha, and Lord Huang Quan Weng."

Saying so, he gave Gu Ye a look of gratitude.

Gu Ye smiled at him.

Yin Liu Gong was seated at the center seat, on his left was Dragon Commander Ye Cha,
he was sitting up straight with a ruthless expression, his fangs were pale and sharp,
on the right was Huang Quan Weng, he looked old and had a hunched back.

Even though they had overflowing death energy, their rank seven aura could not be
concealed.

These three immortal zombies had true rank seven cultivation level, they were
stationed in Dark Flow Giant City.

"Sha Huang… is this your real name?" Dragon Commander Ye Cha asked, his words
were like steel, once he spoke, a strong wave of killing intent burst out, making one
feel as if they were in the middle of a terrifying battlefield.

This was due to his experiences.

Dragon Commander Ye Cha was a lone cultivator, he had joined the Imperial Court
contest and had used some of the opportunities inside Imperial Court blessed land to
accumulate his foundation and become a Gu Immortal.

In other words, he had very rich battle experience, nobody dared to look down on him.

He opened his mouth, and his tone showed his imposing nature, it made people feel
like he was pressuring them heavily.

"Of course not." Fang Yuan laughed bitterly: "Sha Huang was the name I gave myself
on the second day after I became an immortal zombie. It signified a new beginning,
for me to temporarily forget my past glory. I had once sworn to heaven, only when I
regain my real body and get rid of my immortal zombie status would I use my former
name again."

Once he said that, all of the immortals in the discussion showed varying expressions.

There was disdain, sneers, silence, sadness, but mostly, understanding.

Fang Yuan's current performance and his mental state was just like theirs in the past.
But after so many years, their grand ambitions were gone, their hopes and desires
were almost completely burnt out. They were still immortal zombies now, life had not
changed for the better.

"Alright, since Sha Huang opened the door, then he is a Northern Plains Gu Immortal.
We in Zombie Alliance would be stronger with one more member. He has already
proven himself. One has to know, previously, even Yao Huang did not manage to push
open this door. Guh, guh guh guh…” Huang Quan Weng said as he started coughing,
showing his old and weak state.
Speaking of the door of the discussion hall, it had quite the origin, it was created by
the founder of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.

This predecessor's name was already lost in history, but his methods were simply
divine.

The door was filled with all sorts of dao marks, some people had guessed that
consumable Immortal Gu were used on it.

Only immortal zombies in Northern Plains could be acknowledged by the door, and
would be able to push it open. If it was not someone who ascended to a Gu Immortal
in Northern Plains, their immortal aperture world would have the heaven and earth
qi of other regions. Once their hand is placed on it, they would be repelled. If one was
a Northern Plains Gu Immortal, but not an immortal zombie, this door would heavier
than a mountain, they would not be able to push it at all.

Although Fang Yuan was not born in Northern Plains, after reaching Northern Plains,
he had adapted to the environment and had ascended to an immortal in Northern
Plains, thus this door did not hinder him at all.

Dark Flow Giant City had expanded many times throughout history, but this door had
been preserved intentionally.

The members of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance were very confident in this door.
When they heard Huang Quan Weng's words, their gazes towards Fang Yuan became
milder.

Yin Liu Gong nodded: "Huang Quan Weng is right, you two, take a seat, you are just in
time for the meeting. In addition, give Gu Ye some credit, he recommended a new
member, according to the rules, he should be given three hundred contribution
points."

Fang Yuan knew that recommending a new member had benefits, but after hearing
this, he immediately turned his gaze towards Gu Ye beside him.

Gu Ye felt ashamed when he was stared at, like he had taken major advantage.

He pulled Fang Yuan's arm: "Come, brother Sha, sit beside me."

Everyone saw this and felt a deeper impression of Fang Yuan's ignorance.

In the discussion hall, the immortal zombies sat nearly in a circular manner.

Only the direction that led to the discussion hall's door was left empty, forming a path
for them to walk in and out, the other directions were filled with seats.

These seats were not in one row, from high to low, there were three rows.

The lowest row was for rank six immortal zombies, there were the most number of
people on this row.

The center row was for rank seven immortal zombies, only a few were present.

The highest row was empty, it was for rank eight immortal zombies.

Gu Ye dragged Fang Yuan with much enthusiasm towards his seat. His seat was not
empty, there was a will there, the appearance of the will greatly resembled Gu Ye.

Gu Ye waved his hand and the will entered his mind, he immediately asked Fang Yuan
to sit down.

"The meeting is not always attended in person, if we are busy, we will use a will to
participate instead of our main bodies. Brother Sha, do you have wisdom path Gu
worms? If you do not, I will give you one." Gu Ye said in a low voice.

"Of course I do." Fang Yuan replied. He expressed ignorance in relation to Zombie
Alliance, but he did not want everyone to think that he was a complete newbie.

The effect of wisdom path Gu worms was common knowledge among Gu Immortals,
he had to know them.

Fang Yuan answered as he sat to the left of Gu Ye.

The two seats beside Gu Ye were empty.

There were so many seats, most of the immortal zombies were seated far from each
other. Although there were more than twenty of them, most were wills, only a small
number attended in person.

Seeing that Fang Yuan and Gu Ye had sat down, Yin Liu Gong coughed: "Alright, now
we will start the meeting. First, we will talk about the important affairs."

Saying this, he pointed at the table.

An image was shown, a spherical figure rose up from the center, turning into a volcano.

This volcano was quite strange, it was short like a gourd. It shook intensely, spewing
lava out at times. Above the volcano, thick smoke was rumbling, almost forming a dark
cloud and blocking out the sunlight.

"The flame furnace has erupted, I'm sure everyone knows this. This is a troublesome
affair, we have to settle this by suppressing it as soon as possible. The longer it is
dragged out, the harder it is to deal with. Our initial assessment is, if anyone can
successfully suppress the flame furnace, they will get a thousand Zombie Alliance
contribution points." Yin Liu Gong said.

The immortal zombie began to converse with each other softly.

Gu Ye introduced for Fang Yuan: "This flame furnace is a great place for Gu refinement,
it is especially good for refining fire path Gu worms. In the history of Zombie Alliance,
there was once a refinement path immortal zombie who refined Immortal Gu in the
flame furnace. But for the last few hundred years, we have not seen any refinement
path grandmaster in Zombie Alliance. The flame furnace was left forgotten, at most
the leader only used it several times, because it was unused, it was also not
maintained, thus it is erupting more regularly."

Fang Yuan nodded.

Gu Ye continued: "The flame furnace is extremely hot, especially the inner core area,
it is like a sea of fire. Often when the issues happen, fire path immortal zombies would
go. But the fire path immortal zombie has to have some refinement path background.
They have to preserve or even fix the Gu formation that was set up, otherwise, forceful
suppression would destroy it, they might as well not do anything. If the mission fails,
not only would they earn nothing, they might even lose out."

Fang Yuan mentally understood this clearly.

They had to be of fire path cultivation and have refinement path attainment, this
resulted in very few eligible people. No wonder those in the hall only discussed it for
a while before keeping quiet, turning their gaze towards a certain will in the hall.

Yin Liu Gong broke the silence, he looked at the will, saying: "In the past, leader went
to suppress it personally, but now that leader is in Eastern Sea, within our Zombie
Alliance, you are the most suitable person, Craftsman Huo De. Huo De, what do you
think?"

This red will thought about it before saying: "My cultivation level is too low, it is very
hard to suppress the flame furnace. But if everyone agrees, I will not reject it. Except
that a thousand contribution points is simply too low."

Yin Liu Gong nodded: "A thousand contribution points is only an initial estimation, in
that case, we will raise it to one thousand and two hundred, are you willing to accept
that?"

"I am willing." Huo De's will said.

"Good, now, onto the second matter." Yin Liu Gong did not drag on, he changed the
topic: "A yaksha octopus has appeared in Earth Trench, it is wrecking havoc. It is
seriously affecting our extraction of the black oil. A while ago, Doctor Yin Xuan and
Landlord Lei Yu were injured by this ancient desolate beast, if you can chase this beast
away, you will get a thousand contribution points. If you can kill this beast, you will be
given two thousand contribution points."

Fang Yuan heard this and his heart jumped.

The treasure that he wanted to take was deep within Earth Trench, and was guarded
by a group of yaksha octopuses.

This treasure was the reason why he joined Northern Plains Zombie Alliance now.

In the circular area, the image of the volcano changed, it became an octopus monster,
roaming around in Earth Trench. Large numbers of tentacles were moving around,
causing waves in the thick black oil.
Seeing this, the discussion hall became much quieter.

It was not easy to deal with an ancient desolate beast.

Not only did ancient desolate beasts have rank seven Gu Immortal battle strength, the
immortal zombie themselves were inferior to ordinary Gu Immortals, they had much
to worry about. An intense battle carried great risks. If they could not gain something,
they would return with a huge loss. Even if they won, they would need to weigh it with
their condition before battling.

Winning the battle, but losing out in terms of profits, they might as well not fight.

All of the immortal zombies here were astute.

Seeing no answers, Yin Liu Gong turned his head towards Dragon Commander Ye Cha
beside him: "Dragon Commander, this yaksha octopus is compatible with your
business, why don't you take on this task?"

But Dragon Commander Ye Cha shook his head, rejecting on the spot: "I'll not hide it
from you, I received Qin Bai Sheng's invitation and have planned to attend the auction.
There are some items in the auction that I have been searching for years. Now is a
crucial time, I cannot take the risk. But I am willing to hand out an additional six
hundred contribution points to this mission."

Once he said that, many of the rank six immortal zombies' eyes flashed.

Killing this yaksha octopus was not easy for rank six immortal zombies. But to force it
to retreat, it would not be difficult for several rank six immortal zombies teaming up.

But this mission only awarded a thousand contribution points earlier, when split
among them, it was too little. Now that Dragon Commander Ye Cha took out six
hundred contribution points on his own, some people were moved.

Battling with an ancient desolate beast was risky undoubtedly, but as long as the
benefits were enough, risks were not an obstacle.

Immediately, three groups of people stated that they could accept this mission. The
first two groups were alliances of rank six immortal zombies. The third was a single
rank seven immortal zombie.
After some negotiations, this mission was taken by the rank seven immortal zombie.

Seeing that this troublesome mission was taken by someone, Yin Liu Gong sighed in
relief mentally: "Next is the last mission, it involves the Red Fiend Divine Boat."

"Red Fiend Divine Boat?" Fang Yuan's gaze shined, he quickly thought of that glorious
and huge flying boat that charged freely in the battlefield during the five regions
chaotic war.

Gu Ye beside him explained softly: "You just joined Zombie Alliance, it is normal that
you do not know. Red Fiend Divine Boat is a famous Immortal Gu House in history, it
is very powerful. Earlier, a Northern Plains lone cultivator coincidentally obtained the
entire recipe for the Red Fiend Divine Boat, but because he did not have the ability to
refine it, he tried selling it everywhere. Leader tried to buy this boat's recipe, paying a
huge price and buying about half of this recipe."

Fang Yuan thought: This Northern Plains Zombie Alliance leader had quite the
ambition.

Immortal Gu Houses were more complete than immortal killer moves, they were the
symbol of super forces.

Basically, every super force owned an Immortal Gu House.

Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's leader wanted to obtain an Immortal Gu House,

that was obviously an intention to elevate this branch to the level of a super force.

"We encountered some problems." Yin Liu Gong said in a low tone: "The Gu Immortal
who sold the Divine Boat's recipe broke the agreement and did not want to deal with
us anymore. He wants to sell the Red Fiend Divine Boat's recipe and the core Immortal
Gu's recipe in the auction for a good price. How will Zombie Alliance deal with this
problem?"

The immortal zombies started discussing again.

"The auction again! These recent days, I have been extorted many times, all because
of this auction." An immortal zombie was full of grievance, but it was not Gu Ye.

"This Gu Immortal has quite the guts, merely a lone cultivator but actually breaking
the agreement with our Zombie Alliance."
"Kill him, we have to kill him, otherwise if news spread, all of our Zombie Alliance's
face will be lost!"

"Although Zombie Alliance is weaker than a super force, lone cultivators have no place
to bully us."

The immortal zombies shouted, most wanted to battle.

Fang Yuan nodded secretly, although immortal zombies had much to worry about,
when huge benefits were involved, they would still dare to fight it out. But he did not
favor Zombie Alliance's chances, because in his previous life, the force who controlled
the Red Fiend Divine Boat was not them.
The lone cultivator who sold the complete recipe for the Red Fiend Divine Boat was
only rank six without any background.

Eventually, the Zombie Alliance decided to send a rank seven immortal zombie and
two rank six immortal zombies to search for this person, in order to maintain Zombie
Alliance's reputation. Of course, the most important reason was to obtain the
complete recipe of the Red Fiend Divine Boat.

But in truth, Zombie Alliance had already gotten most of it, only the few remaining
core Immortal Gu recipes and the secret methods on how to coordinate the Gu worms
were left.

Flame furnace, Earth Trench, Red Fiend Divine Boat, after these three matters were
settled, the atmosphere in the discussion hall was relaxed.

Yin Liu Gong continued, pointing at the table: "Next, we will talk about other matters."

His finger tapped the table, emitting a buzzing noise.

The immortal zombies looked at the formerly empty space, as the image changed
again, turning into four huge pillars. On each of the pillars, there were lines of words
moving around.

"Are there still any missions that have not been reported by everyone?" Yin Liu Gong
said.

Everyone looked around, no one stood up.

Missions could be turned in at any time, they did not need to wait until a meeting.

Gu Ye did not want to do the mission of guarding old earth wood, but the time limit
was not up yet, handing in the mission early would cause some of his contribution
points to be deducted.
"Very well, now you can put up your own requests." Yin Liu Gong said.

Once he said that, the entire discussion hall became heated. Voices overlapped each
other, they were talking about Gu recipes for Gu refinement, collecting certain
materials, appraising a certain Gu worm, getting information on certain matters, all
sorts of requests were put up, with varying content.

Fang Yuan spoke too, he wanted to ask for a method to get rid of his immortal zombie
status, a method that could revive him.

This caused much laughter around him.

"Brother Sha, you have not made an oath yet, you do not have a Zombie Alliance token
yet, without contribution points, how can you put up a mission?" Gu Ye reminded him.

"So that's it." Fang Yuan frowned.

"Don't be anxious, after the meeting ends, I will bring you to get your new identity
token. This token can record all of the contributions you have done for the alliance.
Furthermore, your request is the request of all of us immortal zombies, you do not
need to purchase it specially. Look at the few missions at the top." Gu Ye pointed at the
ever-changing image.

Fang Yuan's gaze turned around, and he saw that at the top of the mission board, there
were several missions. One of them had much larger font than the rest.

"Selling the research results of how to get rid of the zombie status and regain life
through generations of work in Zombie Alliance." Fang Yuan read it.

"There are prices stated there, but even the smallest research results need twenty
contribution points." Gu Ye was very familiar with this information.

In truth, every immortal zombie was very familiar with the details of this mission.

What was the reason most immortal zombies joined Zombie Alliance?

Was it not to find a method to get rid of their immortal zombie status and revive
themselves?

The reason for creating Zombie Alliance was also to research on how to revive
immortal zombies.

"Brother Gu, are there any immortal zombies in Zombie Alliance who have revived
due to these research findings?" Fang Yuan asked again.

"According to rumors, there seems to be cases of it." Gu Ye said in an uncertain tone.

"Seems to be?" Fang Yuan frowned.

"You have to know, a lot of the research findings here are priced at a thousand
contribution points or more to exchange them. After you join the alliance, you have to
sign an agreement and will not be allowed to sell these research findings on your own."
Gu Ye laughed bitterly as he said.

He saw Fang Yuan frowning even more deeply, stating: "You do not need to worry too
much, at least I can guarantee that these findings are not fake. I had exchanged for one
of them previously, it had great use. If you can obtain these findings, you will be able
to step on the foundation of these predecessors, you will save much effort."

Fang Yuan nodded.

Zombie Alliance was an organization that responded to the mentality of the members.
By using the research findings as the bait to keep the members working, almost no
immortal zombies could stay away.

Even if the immortal zombie exchanges for many findings, as long as they have not
revived, they would still need to work for Zombie Alliance.

The most amazing thing was that Zombie Alliance preserved some hope for the
immortal zombies — even if this research finding did not work, maybe the next one
could help them to revive?

Fang Yuan did not need to ponder upon it to know that the prices would be extremely
high, they had to use an immense amount of contribution points to exchange for most
of the research findings.

"But thankfully, the inheritance in Earth Trench was left behind by a great expert
immortal zombie. There are research findings inside for the rebirth of immortal
zombies as well. In my previous life, because Northern Plains' immortal zombies
obtained this, their battle strength surged rapidly. In fact, for a period of time,
Northern Plains Zombie Alliance closed themselves away from the rest of the regions,
it was even more powerful than the main branch, Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance."

The reason why Fang Yuan entered Northern Plains Zombie Alliance was to obtain
that inheritance.

Fang Yuan had little interest in working hard normally and accumulating contribution
points slowly in order to exchange for the research findings in Zombie Alliance.

After all, the time and effort expended was too much.

After a while, the discussion hall became silent again.

All the immortal zombies had put up their missions and stated the contribution points
for them. Everyone's gazes were fixed on the image in front of them, some were
looking around while others were thinking.

Yin Liu Gong continued to direct the meeting: "We will now issue missions. Do it one
by one, do not be noisy. First, it will be the mission of feeding the ancient desolate
beast half moon qilin in Zombie Alliance."

"I'll do it!"

"I'll take this mission."

"Mm, I want to compete for this mission."

The moment Yin Liu Gong spoke, several immortal zombies responded, fighting for
this mission.

Gu Ye explained to Fang Yuan softly: "The half moon qilin is an ancient desolate beast,
it is not easy to feed. But its pregnancy period is about to end, it is going to give birth
to a half moon qilin soon. These young qilin are born as desolate beasts. As they grow
up, they would develop into ancient desolate beast half moon qilin. Many members in
Zombie Alliance are trying to take advantage of this. They want to be close to the young
qilin to gain an advantage, making it their own, and establish a strong relationship
between them before paying the contribution points."

"So that is it." Fang Yuan understood, so this was the reason. No wonder so many
people were fighting over the mission, after all, the half moon qilin would grow into
an ancient desolate beast after maturing, it had battle strength equivalent to rank
seven Gu Immortals.

Even Fang Yuan was slightly moved.

But he was only moved, he had just arrived and had a secret motive. Blindly contesting
now would attract unnecessary animosity and attention, it was not good for him.

Regarding the half moon qilin's feeding, everyone fought over it intensely. Eventually,
Yin Liu Gong lowered the contribution points of this mission to three hundred, before
some people gave up and the sole winner emerged.

Feeding the half moon qilin was not an easy task. Sometimes, when the qilin has a bad
temper, ordinary rank six immortal zombies could not handle it, they might even get
injured.

Most importantly, when the qilin is pregnant, it would feel great pain, it would damage
the surroundings to divert its attention. This was a dangerous process, just three
hundred contribution points made many immortal zombies back out.

And even if the half moon qilin was born, the immortal zombie feeding it would only
be the first to establish a relationship. This was only a head start, when they truly
competed for it later, they would still need to bid a high price.

After the mission of feeding the half moon qilin, was a mission to gather ruyi fungus.

"Ruyi fungus' collection area is between Zombie Alliance and Liu tribe. Every year,
when the ruyi fungus ripes, the two forces would split them. But because Liu tribe's
power is bigger, they would take advantage of us. The difficulty of this mission is on
that point, an immortal zombie with high cultivation level is needed to hold the
ground, but they cannot be too overbearing." Gu Ye explained.

With Gu Ye beside him, it was much more convenient for Fang Yuan.

This mission was also quite popular, it fell into the hands of Granny Yuan.

This immortal zombie old lady not only had rank seven cultivation level, she was also
closely related to Liu tribe. With her presence, Liu tribe would not go overboard.

"Next is a request from the super force Yao tribe, they want us to provide another
immortal zombie for Yao Huang to do research, to improve his healing Immortal Gu.
The remuneration for this request is quite a sum." Yin Liu Gong said.

Seeing this mission, most of the immortal zombies showed an indescribable

expression on their faces.

Letting someone else do research on them, it was quite hurtful to one's pride, they
would lose face. But on the other hand, the researcher was Yao Huang, one of the five
great rank eight Gu Immortals in Northern Plains. Furthermore, the reward for this
mission was truly profitable.

Everyone looked around, they did not speak.

Yin Liu Gong expected this scene, he smiled lightly as he looked at Fang Yuan: "I
wonder if Sha Huang is interested in this mission?"

Fang Yuan immediately shook his head, giving a forced smile: "I have no interest."

He had too many secrets on him, simply the two apertures alone could not be easily
exposed.

Yin Liu Gong nodded, no longer urging him. But his intention, other than to probe Fang
Yuan's personality and foundation, was to induce some of the other immortal zombies
to make a move.

As he expected, soon, several immortal zombies spoke up, wanting to accept this
mission.

These few people competed, but their voices were not loud, they spoke softly with
expressionless faces, after all, being used as research material was very damaging to
one's reputation.

Gu Ye was beside Fang Yuan, explaining this to him.

Fang Yuan knew the situation of these immortal zombies, they were those bottom-tier
immortal zombies, because they were stuck between reputation and benefits, they
chose the latter.

The following missions were of all different aspects, there was a huge number of
different missions.
There was a mission requesting the super force Yuan tribe to return an Immortal Gu,
back then, Zombie Alliance's leader had loaned an Immortal Gu to Yuan tribe. Before
the leader went to Eastern Sea, she instructed them to urge Yuan tribe to return the
Immortal Gu.

But Yuan tribe had long exceeded the loan period, yet they refused to return it. Zombie
Alliance would send members there every year to request for it, but they had always
ended in failure. Not only did Yuan tribe find excuses for themselves, they even chased
away Zombie Alliance members using force when the situation escalated.

Initially, no immortal zombie wanted to take this mission, Yin Liu Gong had to raise
the contribution points and it was finally accepted by someone.

There were also requests for purchasing glass soil and diamond soil, missions to
capture beast groups or collect souls. The final mission was related to Fang Yuan, it
came from Fairy Li Shan who was looking for souls everywhere for the production of
guts Gu, she even went to Zombie Alliance.

The most popular mission was to enter deep into Earth Trench and collect black oil.

Black oil was extremely helpful to immortal zombies. Spreading the black oil in the
dead aperture could slow the speed of the disintegration of the blessed land. In the
outside world, or to other Gu Immortals, it was a very useful Gu refinement material
that was widely used, it had a huge market.

Black oil from Earth Trench was the most important trading item in Zombie Alliance,
it was akin to the sale of guts Gu for Fang Yuan.

But the scale of the black oil trade was much larger than the guts Gu trade.

Every time immortal zombies went deep into the Earth Trench to extract black oil,
other than handing up the amount required by the mission, they would keep the rest
for themselves. Thus, the profit of this mission was publicly recognized as among the
best for immortal zombies.

As a result, almost everyone fought for this mission.

Fang Yuan wanted to compete for it as well, if he could enter Earth Trench through
this and secretly take that inheritance, it would be ideal.
But it was a pity that he had just arrived, he did not have the Zombie Alliance token
yet, it was not wise or realistic to fight for it blindly. Furthermore, this mission had a
time limit too, Fang Yuan was busy with the auction and Refinement Path Convention,
he did not have time to deal with this mission.

Eventually, this mission was taken by three immortal zombies.

In winning the three spots on this mission, not only would these three victors not have
any contribution points as rewards, they even had to pay several hundred
contribution points to Zombie Alliance.

From this, one could see how profitable the extraction of black oil was.
"Black oil is valuable in itself, but as it can delay the shrinking of blessed lands, its
value is a level higher to immortal zombies." Fang Yuan pondered inwardly, he was
also coveting the black oil.

His blessed land was constantly disintegrating and a lot of space inside had already
dissipated. Black oil was similarly useful to him.

However, he needed to go through Zombie Alliance to get this black oil.

Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's main headquarters, Dark Flow Giant City, was
located above the entrance of Earth Trench and they used much of the alliance's
strength to guard this entrance.

Zombie Alliance sent large amounts of black oil out every year, but they had fixed
quantities sold for this. There were few goods but the demands were high, it was
completely a seller's market like the business of guts Gu, thus Fang Yuan could not
meddle in this aspect.

He had allied with Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan, but their force was too small and
could not match with super forces.

"So I need to make my move from inside Zombie Alliance, accepting this task is one
way." Fang Yuan engraved the mission of gathering black oil in his mind.

The conference continued. The conference hall had dim lighting, even if most of the
over twenty immortal zombies had participated with their wills, it still seemed dark
and gloomy.

The whole conference continued for close to a day and a night; Fang Yuan participated
in the whole process, roughly understanding the position of Zombie Alliance in
Northern Plains.

Roughly speaking, Zombie Alliance's position in Northern Plains was only slightly
lower than super forces. But from the missions, one could see the righteous path super
forces were clearly in tacit agreement to suppress Zombie Alliance. Zombie Alliance
had a much more cooperative relationship with demonic path Gu Immortals,
especially with Snowy Mountain blessed land, a demonic path headquarters in
Northern Plains.

Zombie Alliance could be considered both a righteous and a demonic force.

This position was related to the higher ups. Zombie Alliance's higher ups were all
immortal zombies. There were almost no immortal zombies that did not want to
regain their living states. These immortal zombies came from all walks of life with all
sorts of identities when they were alive, and after death, they gathered for similar
purposes.

As long as it was related to the goal of revival, Zombie Alliance would be interested
and do everything possible to get it. This infringed upon many of the righteous path's
interests, and many methods that could not be exposed openly in the righteous path,
Zombie Alliance also frequently used.

This led to another characteristic of Zombie Alliance, they had a lot of members but
they also had a loose structure.

There were over twenty immortal zombie level members in Zombie Alliance, even
Snowy Mountain blessed land could not compare to this amount. Even if immortal
zombies were weaker than living Gu Immortals, over twenty of them was a great
power, and if they were to truly be united, they would have already been a super level
force.

However, Zombie Alliance's barrier for entry was low, this could be seen from Fang
Yuan's admission to the alliance. The immortal zombies had varying origins and it was
very difficult for them to be united.

This was the reason there were many cases of immortal zombies being extorted by Gu
Immortals recently.

After the conference ended, Fang Yuan left behind a malicious will in the conference
hall. He then followed Gu Ye to another hall, where he received his Zombie Alliance
token.

This token not only represented his identity, it also recorded Fang Yuan's
contributions to Zombie Alliance.

Besides the token, there was also a set of information path mortal Gu used to transmit
information of tasks from Zombie Alliance, information about new members or
members leaving the alliance, or important information like the death of the
members.

Gu Ye wanted to take his leave, and suggested for Fang Yuan to stroll around Dark Flow
Giant City. Now that Fang Yuan had the token, he could freely move around Dark Flow
Giant City.

However, Fang Yuan did not let go of him and dragged him around, walking and
chatting, probing out some information from him.

Fang Yuan focused on inquiring about the leader of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance.

She was a female immortal zombie called Blazing Heaven Demoness, her cultivation
was rank eight and her behavior was tyrannical and rampant. Her battle strength was
especially prominent.

Fang Yuan asked how it was prominent and Gu Ye replied one sentence which allowed
Fang Yuan to understand — "Her lifespan had not reached its end, but she
intentionally turned into an immortal zombie just to break through."

Most immortal zombies were Gu Immortals that were on their last breaths and had
no other choice.

Naturally, there was many other methods other than to turn into immortal zombie for
Gu Immortals on their last breaths. Like wood path Gu Immortals turning into
treemen.

However, these methods often had limitations. For instance, strength path Gu
Immortals and fire path Gu Immortals could not turn into treemen.

Turning into an immortal zombie was the most common method which could be done
by Gu Immortals of every path.

This Blazing Heaven Demoness was not someone who had no choice but to turn into
an immortal zombie, instead she had done it intentionally. It was to make a
breakthrough and increase her battle strength.
If one thought just a bit: What was the extent of the increase in battle strength, the
extent of the breakthrough, that made Blazing Heaven Demoness not hesitate to turn
into an immortal zombie?

Clearly, the extent of this breakthrough was sure to be extremely high and shocking.

"There is a rumor going around Zombie Alliance, it is said that the leader already has
a method to revive." In the midst of the conversation, Gu Ye lowered his voice and
carefully told Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan smiled.

This rumor was not groundless, since she turned into an immortal zombie of her own
accord, who is to say she did not have a method to revive herself.

Fang Yuan was able to extract much useful information from Gu Ye. Combined with
the information Fairy Li Shan gave him and his own experiences, Fang Yuan was able
to quickly gain a rough idea of Zombie Alliance.

Gu Ye still had the mission of guarding old earth wood, and finally bade farewell to
Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan also left soon after, before leaving, he climbed high and looked at the giant
gully being guarded below Dark Flow Giant City.

The giant gully was like the bloody mouth of a vicious beast, quietly opening up in the
dense darkness. This was the entrance of Earth Trench which was strictly guarded by
Zombie Alliance; Yin Liu Gong, Dragon Commander Ye Cha and Huang Quan Weng,
three rank seven immortal zombies took turns in watching over it.

Fang Yuan was using hundred li eye to observe this clearly.

He knew that following deep into this entrance, the gully would expand by tens of
times and even hundreds of times. Earth Trench was extremely grand, with such large
space that it would not be a problem to contain innumerable Dark Flow Giant Cities.
It was also extremely deep and dark, Zombie Alliance still had not explored its true
depths.

"One day, I will explore deep inside and take the inheritance, adding it to my
foundation for a much brighter future. But now is not the time." Fang Yuan inwardly
said.

Even if he had not transformed into an immortal zombie, he would have tried all sorts
of methods to get this inheritance.

Fang Yuan retracted his gaze, his body rapidly rose higher and left Dark Flow Giant
City like a large bird.

After flying a huge distance, Fang Yuan finally left the darkness covering Dark Flow
Giant City and saw the bright sunlight again.

He changed his direction and flew high up in the sky before he finally confirmed there
were no pursuers. Only then did he land down in an inconspicuous forest, arranged
mortal Gu and activated Fixed Immortal Travel.

Jade green light flashed and he disappeared from the spot.

The mortal Gu left behind moved about, removing as many traces of the Immortal Gu
aura as possible.

Fang Yuan returned to Hu Immortal blessed land. While waiting for news from Fairy
Li Shan's end, he started researching the wisdom path killer move — Harboring
Malicious Heart.

This mortal killer move was not meant for attacking. Instead, it used wisdom path
methods to transform a Gu Immortal's heart, causing the heart to be filled with
wisdom path dao marks inside and out, turning into a 'malicious heart'.

If it succeeded, not only could it use one's blood essence to automatically create large
numbers of malicious wills, it could also reduce the amount of malicious wills
consumed by a large extent when Fang Yuan used them to ponder.

Unfortunately, this mortal killer move might be good but it fit a normal Gu Immortal.
Fang Yuan was a strength path immortal zombie, his heart was already filled with
strength path dao marks and he was not a wisdom path Gu Immortal. The crucial point
was his physical body was already dead, and was unable to nourish malicious will with
his blood essence, even transforming his heart into a malicious heart was an
enormous barrier.

Although Fang Yuan could not use the killer move harboring malicious heart, he was
able to gain much inspiration from its workings. In particular, the inner contents of
the killer move had several similarities to a killer move Fang Yuan obtained previously.

This killer move was poison breath, which he obtained from Fairy Li Shan.

Poison breath killer move could let poisonous breath be emitted each time one
breathed, and as it accumulated, it could injure enemies. And harboring malicious
heart could let every heartbeat transform blood essence into malicious will. There
were indeed similarities between the two.

"I am not a poison path Gu Immortal, and I am lacking in a wisdom path foundation,
but since there is a common point, I might as well use wisdom Gu to test it."

Northern Plains, Feng Xian grotto-heaven.

In the guest hall, the rank eight Gu Immortal, Prince Feng Xian, was sitting upright,
while Fairy Li Shan and Qin Bai Sheng bowed, requesting to leave.

"Go. I have many Immortal Gu that do not suit my path and need to be exchanged in
the auction. You both are holding a good event for Northern Plains, preventing many
fights and massacres, very good." Prince Feng Xian allowed them to leave, his tone full
of encouragement.

"Lord Prince being unable to be present at the auction is truly a matter of regret for
all of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals." Fairy Li Shan flattered.

Prince Feng Xian shook his head: "There is nothing to be done about it. I was mediating
the heaven and earth qi in my immortal aperture when I was forced to come out
because of the Immortal Gu. Now, it is the crucial time to manage my immortal
aperture world, I cannot go out. But when the time comes, I will send someone to
represent me. You Lan, send them off."

Two attendants were standing beside Prince Feng Xian, these two were actually rank
six female Gu Immortals.

One was cool and refined like ice and snow, the other was delicate and beautiful, like
a yellow flower in a lush valley.

At Prince Feng Xian's command, that cool and aloof female Gu Immortal stood up and
first bowed to Prince Feng Xian, before saying to Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan:
"Guests, please follow."

"We have troubled Swordmaster You Lan." Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan did not
dare to be conceited, and quickly replied.

This Swordmaster You Lan was famous in Northern Plains. She cultivated sword path,
and though her cultivation was only at rank six, her battle strength was very strong
and moreover, she had grandmaster attainment in sword path.

Swordmaster You Lan led the two in silence. The three walked along a long corridor
and through several doors before they finally stepped out of the entrance of the grotto-
heaven and returned to the world of Northern Plains.

"Swordmaster You Lan, please stay, you don't need to send us off any longer." Qin Bai
Sheng politely said. His cultivation level and battle strength were higher than
Swordmaster You Lan, but the latter had one of the few rank eight Gu Immortals of
Northern Plains behind her, he naturally would not be arrogant.

Swordmaster You Lan nodded and closed the entrance of the grotto-heaven.

Once the entrance was closed, there was no strangeness in the sky and there was no
difference between the sky and the surroundings.

Fairy Li Shan let out a breath of cloudy air: "We have paid visit to five rank eight
powers and also came to an agreement with all of them using mountain pledge Gu,
and have successfully invited them. Now, the situation is set, the auction is a certain
event."

"It is all thanks to fairy's mountain pledge Gu." Qin Bai Sheng with a smiling
expression.

Saying this, he took out an Immortal Gu and handed it to Fairy Li Shan.

"As per the agreement, this is the remuneration to fairy." Qin Bai Sheng said with
sincerity and gratitude.

Fairy Li Shan was moved, the auction had yet to start, but Qin Bai Sheng already gave
the remuneration to her in advance. Even though Fairy Li Shan had seen a lot and had
done dealings with all sorts of Gu Immortals, right now, she could not help but
inwardly praise Qin Bai Sheng's social conduct.
"Then I shall not stand on ceremony." Fairy Li Shan laughed, receiving the Immortal
Gu.

She inspected it and placed the Immortal Gu into her immortal aperture: "This matter
has been settled, we should split up and meet half a month later."

Half a month later was the agreed date to hold the auction. The location was in Qin Bai
Sheng's Bai Sheng blessed land, it was situated inside Crimson Reed Marsh.

The two immortals went their separate ways on the spot, choosing different directions
as they flew.

Not mentioning Fairy Li Shan, who was using moving perspective cup Gu to contact
Fang Yuan while she traveled right now. After Fairy Li Shan and Qin Bai Sheng left,
someone appeared in the entrance hall of Feng Xian grotto-heaven.

This person was dressed in a red and white robe, standing straight like a spear or
sword. His eyebrows were sharp like swords, a divine light was flashing in his eyes,
under his amicable appearance, he was unbelievably self-confident, he had the
disposition of a roaming, fierce dragon.

His lips were curled up into a gentle smile, he was very gentlemanly but also
domineering. His arms were behind his back, he faced the rank eight Prince Feng Xian
with no pressure on his face, as if they were of equal status.

But from his unconcealed aura, he was merely a rank seven Gu Immortal. Even Qin Bai
Sheng could not help but lower his head when facing Prince Feng Xian.

Prince Feng Xian looked at this person as his attitude also changed, he was no longer
mildly arrogant like when he faced Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan, he really acted as
if the two were of the same level.

This rank eight Gu Immortal spoke: "Feng Jiu Ge, have you really decided to take my
place and join this auction?"

The rank seven Gu Immortal dressed in a red and white robe smiled as he nodded:
"That is exactly the case."

Prince Feng Xian frowned: "You became an immortal in Central Continent, the heaven
and earth qi of your immortal aperture world come from Central Continent, it is
different from Northern Plains. There are powerful experts going to the auction, even
rank eight Gu Immortals will be present. If you are discovered, it would be terrible.
You have to know, all of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals are furious right now, they are
trying to find the culprit who caused the downfall of Imperial Court blessed land.
Before Dong Fang Chang Fan died, he deduced that the culprit is not from Northern
Plains, but from the other regions. If your identity as a Central Continent Gu Immortal
is discovered at this time, it will have huge implications."

When Prince Feng Xian said this, he did not hide it from the two Gu Immortal
attendants. The two female Gu Immortals, including Swordmaster You Lan, had no
change in expression when they heard this.

Feng Jiu Ge laughed brightly: "Prince, don't be anxious, look at my method."

Saying so, a bright light flashed on his body, as his appearance changed.

Prince Feng Xian gasped lightly, while Swordmaster You Lan, who had a cold attitude,
stared with wide opened eyes. The other female Gu Immortal, named Le Yao, opened
her mouth as she looked repeatedly between her female companion and Feng Jiu Ge.

It turns out, Feng Jiu Ge transformed into an exact copy of Swordmaster You Lan, he
resembled her perfectly, as if they were twins.

"What method is this?" Prince Feng Xian smiled, praising: "Not only is the outer
appearance flawless, you even disguised your dao marks, they really resemble sword
path dao marks. Your aura is also no different from any Northern Plains Gu Immortal."

"This is vaguely familiar face." Feng Jiu Ge said the answer.

"So that's it, no wonder, no wonder." Prince Feng Xian realized, he then exclaimed:
"Only Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable could produce something so mystical and
breathtaking."
Feng Jiu Ge nodded: "Unfamiliar face, vaguely familiar face, and familiar face, this
series of killer moves originated from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable. The former
is a mortal killer move, it is nothing much. Vaguely familiar face is an immortal killer
move with three Immortal Gu as the core, among them are two transformation path
Immortal Gu, when used, deception will truly be hard to tell."

"I obtained this killer move long ago in a chance encounter, but it has a flaw, that is, I
need acting skills. If I act poorly, my tone could expose flaws in my transformation."

"As for familiar face killer move, there is no such flaw. Even if the acting is not precise,
others will not feel sudden strangeness, it can even affect other people's perceptions
and mentalities. Even if you transform into a non-existent person, others will still feel
like you are their friend or acquaintance."

Feng Jiu Ge explained.

The immortals realized now why Feng Jiu Ge transformed into Swordmaster You Lan
out of everyone here. That was because this woman barely spoke normally, there was
not much acting skill needed to disguise as her.

Prince Feng Xian nodded over and over: "Rank nine venerables are all incredible
geniuses, their methods are out of this world. With this move, I will not be afraid of
you getting exposed."

Feng Jiu Ge laughed arrogantly: "Even if I get exposed, who can stop me from leaving?"

Prince Feng Xian thought about a few days ago when he sparred with Feng Jiu Ge, he
could not help but smile, praising: "That is true, your immortal killer move has
incredible power, even I, a rank eight Gu Immortal, would not want to take the hit
directly. Feng Jiu Ge, your reputation is well deserved, you really have the power to
roam freely in this world."

Feng Jiu Ge cupped his fists, speaking with sincerity: "It is nothing compared to senior
brother and junior sisters, you chose to ascend to immortal in Northern Plains for the
sake of Spirit Affinity House's major task, staying hidden here for hundreds of years, I
am truly full of admiration towards you."

Prince Feng Xian's expression turned dark, he clenched his fist as he said: "It is a pity
that someone used our methods before I activated our plans, taking the fruits of our
labor. This is definitely the doing of someone in the ten ancient sects, don't let me find
out who it is, otherwise… hmph."

The truth was, the great Prince Feng Xian, one of the few rank eight experts in
Northern Plains, was actually a spy sent by Spirit Affinity House!

Spirit Affinity House made a huge move.

In order to set up Prince Feng Xian, Spirit Affinity House undoubtedly gave up a lot of
benefits in Central Continent, if Spirit Affinity House had one more rank eight Gu
Immortal stationed in Central Continent, they would be able to fight for more benefits
when contesting with the other nine sects.

But Spirit Affinity House was the leader of the plan to topple Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building, to complete this plan, they had to send Prince Feng Xian to Northern Plains.

In Fang Yuan's previous life, Prince Feng Xian might have made many contributions
and provided much help for the Central Continent Gu Immortals to destroy Eighty-
Eight True Yang Building. But in this life, Prince Feng Xian had not done anything yet
and the plan was already ruined.

The culprit of this matter, the immortal zombie Fang Yuan, was already in Lang Ya
blessed land.

He borrowed mountain pledge Immortal Gu.

Of course, he borrowed it for a fee.

Fang Yuan paid Fairy Li Shan three immortal essence stones for this.

Three was an extremely good deal due to their relationship, if it were another person,
Fairy Li Shan would not casually lend it even if they paid ten immortal essence stones.

Lending Immortal Gu carried risk.

There was an example right here, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's leader, Blazing
Heaven Demoness, lent Yuan tribe an Immortal Gu. Blazing Heaven Demoness was out
in Eastern Sea, thus Yuan tribe had been holding onto this Immortal Gu, refusing to
return it to Zombie Alliance, who had been asking every year.

After using mountain pledge Gu to make an agreement with Lang Ya land spirit, more
than ten coffins emerged from the cloud soil with a cry from Lang Ya land spirit.

These coffins were oozing with immortal auras, they were pure white as clouds, on
the surface there were clouds forming and breaking down, it was the manifestation of
a certain immortal killer move.

After opening the coffin, the sleeping Gu Immortal could be seen inside.

In each coffin, there was a Gu Immortal captive. A total of thirteen coffins, that was
thirteen Gu Immortals!

Even though Fang Yuan was mentally prepared, after seeing this number, he was still
shocked.

"So many captives?" Fang Yuan opened his eyes wide, he displayed a somewhat
exaggerated expression.

Lang Ya land spirit laughed smugly, he loved to see Fang Yuan shocked, he shook his
head as he said: "Who am I? Think about it! These Gu Immortals were simply courting
death, they dared to attack my blessed land. Selling them is the punishment they
deserve."

Fang Yuan looked at Lang Ya land spirit deeply.

On the surface, there were only twelve desolate beasts in Lang Ya blessed land. To
defend against the three waves of attacks from a mysterious force, the group of
desolate beasts was insufficient. Lang Ya land spirit's true methods were likely to be
his prized Immortal Gu collection.

"I have some ideas, the number of Immortal Gu in Lang Ya blessed land definitely
exceeds the number of Immortal Gu I have. Also, it seems that among his Immortal Gu,
or among the immortal killer moves that Lang Ya land spirit owns, at least one of them
has the ability to capture Gu Immortals." Fang Yuan thought.

Such a number of captives was not normal.

Most of the Gu Immortals who attacked were captured, only a small number died from
battle.

Fang Yuan looked at the coffins one by one.

He saw some familiar faces, like the three Hua Hai immortals, Loner Hong Yu, and Gui
Wang. As for the others, Lang Ya land spirit introduced them to him, there was the
metal path Gu Immortal Tie Jia Zi, enslavement path Gu Immortal Great Immortal Xue
Xiong, wood path Gu Immortal Mu Dian Cang, a famous lone cultivator in Northern
Plains, Carefree Four Sages, and a rank seven Gu Immortal, Wu Hao, known as Rushing
Thunder Hand, he had rank seven middle-tier battle strength.

Fang Yuan's horizons were broadened, be it his previous life or this life, this was the
first time he had seen so many captives of such strength gathered together.

It was as if the Gu Immortals were not worth anything, they were like cabbage sold in
the market.

Fang Yuan's joy gradually faded, and he showed some worry and solemness.

To be able to gather such power and attack Lang Ya blessed land multiple times, this
mysterious force hidden behind the scenes made Fang Yuan's heart shudder.

"The moment I sell them, I will become a thorn in that mysterious force's sight." Fang
Yuan touched the coffin as he sighed.

But before such huge profits, no matter how strong the mysterious force was, Fang
Yuan had decided to do it.

He was not someone afraid of trouble, someone afraid to take risks.

He was a person in the demonic path, he was a risk taker.

If he chose to not take the risk, that meant that the benefits related to that risk were
not enough to move him.

Fang Yuan asked Lang Ya land spirit: "You had interrogated them intensely, using many
methods, did you have no gains from it?"

Lang Ya land spirit waved his hand: "None. These Gu Immortals were gathered due to
various reasons. There were three crucial people who contacted them and organized
the attack, while also providing information on Lang Ya blessed land. But these three
Gu Immortals have already died in battle, even though I controlled my attacks, I could
not stop their deaths. After they died, the situation became a little strange, their souls
perished completely, I could not even find a fragment of their souls."
Towards the end, Lang Ya land spirit gradually frowned.

Fang Yuan frowned as well, looking at the Gu Immortal captives sleeping in the coffins,
he was silent.
Fang Yuan planned to bring all thirteen cloud coffins back to Hu Immortal blessed
land.

Because they had made the mountain pledge, not only did Lang Ya land spirit not stop
him, he even gave Fang Yuan eight mortal killer moves.

"These killer moves are the 'key' to unsealing the immortal killer move sleeping cloud
coffin. Remember the order that I told you, that is the only way to unlock the coffins,
otherwise, it will be destroyed along with the Gu Immortals inside." Before Fang Yuan
left, Lang Ya land spirit instructed him.

Fang Yuan nodded, memorizing all of the mortal killer moves. These mortal killer
moves had no names, their only use was to act as the key to opening the coffins.

But towards cloud path Gu Immortals, it had some reference value.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng had cultivated cloud path on the side, Fang Yuan planned to give
these mortal killer moves to Tai Bai Yun Sheng for reference.

Fang Yuan brought the thirteen Gu Immortal captives back to Hu Immortal blessed
land successfully.

He first summoned Hu Immortal land spirit and asked for the latest news.

Hu Immortal blessed land was doing well, Hu Immortal land spirit had been steadily
doing what Fang Yuan had instructed her. She was progressively selling the rockmen
in the blessed land and buying some fox groups.

Hu Immortal herself was an enslavement path Gu Immortal skilled at manipulating

fox groups to fight. Her immortal aperture, Hu Immortal blessed land, was most suited
to raise fox groups. By following this route, eventually, desolate beast level fox groups
would appear, it was a huge benefit. The profit was even higher than three
transactions of Fang Yuan's guts Gu.
But this method took a long time to see effect, it needed a long, sustained effort.

Hu Immortal was a lone cultivator, she was in a terrible state back then, after several
earthly calamities, her finances collapsed, her losses could not be recouped and her
battle strength fell, eventually dying in the hands of the blue charm lightning shadow.

The Gu Immortal's immortal aperture would experience calamities and tribulations

at certain intervals, it was like rounds of challenges that strongly limited the number
of Gu Immortals in the five regions.

There was another huge obstacle, that was the limitation of lifespan.

Back then, Hu Immortal had Dang Hun mountain, she wanted to use this unique
resource to generate great income for herself.

Her method was a wise choice. Even though raising fox groups was in line with the
proper management of Hu Immortal blessed land, the effect took too long to nurture.
The longer it took, the more accidents could occur. Especially when Hu Immortal's
circumstances were getting worse by the day, she could not afford to develop slowly.

However, she did not have wisdom Gu, she could not think of a method like using
airsac Gu, she could only use the guts Gu to raise the number of rockmen and sell the
rockmen.

Fang Yuan had used this method before, there was not much benefit and it was very
troublesome. The rockman market was saturated, why would it be as profitable as
directly selling guts Gu?

Eventually, Hu Immortal failed and died in the earthly calamity. The fortune she left
behind assisted Fang Yuan. At the crucial moment, it provided him with immeasurable
help.

Hu Immortal blessed land could be said to be Fang Yuan's initial start-up fortune, the
foundation of his rise. In his past life, Fang Yuan destroyed Hu Immortal blessed land
in order to kill Feng Jin Huang, in this life, he became the owner of Hu Immortal
blessed land. This was a wondrous contrast.

Right now, since Fang Yuan could sell guts Gu directly and had enough money, he could
start to develop Hu Immortal blessed land again, going on the 'proper path' that even
the previous owner, Hu Immortal, could not accomplish, slowly accumulating fox
groups and raising desolate beast foxes.

This business was a long term plan. Fang Yuan was in no rush, and he was not looking
for short term profits in this aspect either.

After looking over the situation of Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan placed his
attention on Immortal Crane Sect and Combat Immortal Sect.

Hu Immortal blessed land was Immortal Crane Sect's subsidiary force in name, he had
to pay some attention to Immortal Crane Sect.

As for his younger brother, Gu Yue Fang Zheng, who was inside Immortal Crane Sect,
Fang Yuan had stopped paying attention to him long ago.

A mere mortal Gu Master, even if he was rank five, what could he do? Just like back
then on Qing Mao mountain, as long as he did not hinder Fang Yuan's path, he would
not even bother to stomp on him.

He was too busy.

Mortals were like ants, there was no need to waste time and effort to stomp on them.

"That dear brother of mine is probably dead now?" Fang Yuan had a guess.

Earlier, Fang Zheng had used mutual sense Immortal Gu to connect with Fang Yuan.
This allowed Fang Yuan to gain much information, learning about Fang Zheng's
predicament and 'seeing' that he was in a blood pool, and the sad sight of demon
flowers growing on his body.

During this period of time, Immortal Crane Sect's situation was quite calm. They
successfully resolved the problem of Great Heavenly Sword Sect.

Great Heavenly Sword Sect had a newly emerged third Gu Immortal and was ready to
get rid of their status as a subsidiary force of Immortal Crane Sect. Immortal Crane
Sect was a righteous sect, even though their strength greatly exceeded Great Heavenly
Sword Sect, because of the rules of the righteous path, they could not attack forcefully,
they could only recruit the Gu Immortal in Great Heavenly Sword Sect.

Eventually, they succeeded in recruiting a Gu Immortal in Great Heavenly Sword Sect,

it was that new third Gu Immortal.
Great Heavenly Sword Sect controlled limited resources, it was tough enough to
provide for two Gu Immortals, a third was too much for them.

The newly advanced Gu Immortal was given alluring conditions by Immortal Crane
Sect, joining them in the end.

Great Heavenly Sword Sect lost the crucial person and their strength fell, they no
longer had the foundation to detach from Immortal Crane Sect, they could only sign
the subsidiary contract once again.

However, even though Immortal Crane Sect stabilized the situation in the northwest
area, they were heavily suppressed in the reincarnation battlefield. Lei Tan, who was
the Gu Immortal stationed there, was heavily injured, he had no choice but to return
to the sect to recuperate.

Reincarnation battlefield was the publicly recognized number one battlefield killer
move in the world, it was set up by Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable himself. The
ten great ancient sects had taken control of this area for many years, engaging in fierce
competition.

Immortal Crane Sect's attention went back to the reincarnation battlefield again, for
the time being, they had no energy to think of new ideas to deal with Hu Immortal
blessed land.

He Feng Yang, who was in charge of taking down, Hu Immortal blessed land had been
busy recently in trying to find a way to heal his beloved nine palace crane, Little Nine.

This was undoubtedly good news to Fang Yuan, he could attend the auction in peace
without caring too much about Central Continent.

Fang Yuan paid attention to Combat Immortal Sect next.

From some unimportant looking news from Combat Immortal Sect, Fang Yuan sensed
something strange.

This news could deceive the other nine great ancient sects for the time being, but to
Fang Yuan, who was aware of the inside story, he could tell what was going on.

"It seems that Combat Immortal Sect has indeed deployed the battle strength of Gu
Immortals to attack Starry Sky grotto-heaven." Fang Yuan thought.
What he did not know was, after he left, Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei was trapped
inside Starry Sky grotto-heaven. Combat Immortal Sect sent three Gu Immortals to
reinforce him, but after they entered Starry Sky grotto-heaven, they met with some
obstacles as well.

"In this case, the dream realm in Starry Sky grotto-heaven has been exposed to Combat
Immortal Sect. The dream realm of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable has a
connection to the predictions of Great Dream Immortal Venerable, Combat Immortal
Sect will definitely attack the grotto-heaven in secret. I have to make good use of my
time, the advantages of my rebirth are shrinking rapidly."

Fang Yuan felt a sense of urgency again.

Ever since he started selling guts Gu and had made contact with all the large and small
forces in Central Continent, it had become much easier for him to gather information
compared to before.

But this information was very general, there were no secrets involved. It could not
compare to Fairy Li Shan's intelligence, those that came from Northern Plains.

Fang Yuan did not mind this at all.

Many Gu Immortals placed importance on collecting information, every year, they

would invest a huge amount of funds to search for critical information or to sustain
the avenue of their source of information.

But Fang Yuan did not need it.

He saved a huge sum from this, because with his rebirth advantage, he had a lot of
intelligence about his previous life, compared to the information that these Gu
Immortals obtained through hard work and resources, it was much more
comprehensive and important.

After confirming the situation around Hu Immortal blessed land, Fang Yuan was at
ease. He looked at Tai Bai Yun Sheng's letter as well as Hei Lou Lan's situation.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was currently exploring Yu Lu blessed land with Shark Demon and
some others. Immortal Gu Landscape as Before had completely restored Yu Lu blessed
land's entrance, it made Tai Bai Yun Sheng gain the favor of the others, and he
successfully mixed in with the exploration group.
As for Hei Lou Lan, she had recently undergone tribulation.

Gu Immortals faced calamities and tribulations once in a while. Rank six Gu Immortals
faced one earthly calamity every ten years.

Ten years was not in terms of the time of the five regions, it was the time in the Gu
Immortal's immortal aperture.

Because the branch of the river of time was different in every immortal aperture, the
time flow was also different when compared to the outside world.

Hei Lou Lan went through immortal ascension with the Great Strength True Martial
Physique, she obtained a super grade blessed land, the flow of time in her blessed land
was extremely fast, even faster than Tai Bai Yun Sheng who was a time path Gu
Immortal, it was at one to thirty-eight.

That was to say, one year in the five regions would be thirty-eight years in Hei Lou
Lan's blessed land. During this time, she would need to undergo three earthly
calamities, with only two years left until the fourth.

More than half a year had passed in five regions time since the destruction of Imperial
Court blessed land.

Hei Lou Lan's blessed land had already undergone two earthly calamities, this was the
third.

Each tribulation was a trial, but Hei Lou Lan had Fairy Li Shan's help, and with several
Immortal Gu in her possession, if she met with any real difficulties, she could ask Fang
Yuan for help. No news from her currently meant good news.

After confirming the situation of the people around him, Fang Yuan had no more
reservations, he fully committed to his plans.

He calculated, only half a month was left until the auction. In Hu Immortal blessed
land, because the flow of time was five times as fast, that was approximately slightly
less than two and a half months.

The transaction of guts Gu had to continue.

At the same time, Fang Yuan planned to use the light of wisdom to try to follow up on
that burst of inspiration that had emerged earlier.

Time passed quickly, two months went by in Hu Immortal blessed land's time.

Fang Yuan came out from the underground cave with a satisfied look.

He had made great achievements in using the light of wisdom for deductions this time.
He successfully fused the details of poison breath and harboring malicious heart to
form a new, incomplete immortal move, Fang Yuan named it poison spit.

Using Immortal Gu Woman's Heart as the core, it was called 'immortal', but this was
not complete yet, because each time it was activated, large amounts of poison would
remain in the body, causing backlashes due to the toxicity. Thus, this was only an
'incomplete move'.

"With my immortal zombie body, I can activate poison spit three times. More than that,
and the remaining poison would be able to kill even my soul. The two killer moves are
the crystallization of my wisdom path and poison path attainment, it is a solid
foundation. With the unlimited inspiration brought about by the light of wisdom, I
could use this foundation to create something new."

Fang Yuan had already used the light of wisdom many times.

The more he used it, the more he felt the benefits and convenience of the light of
wisdom, he could tell that wisdom Gu had immense value and an even more incredible
effect.
A few days later, Tai Bai Yun Sheng returned to Hu Immortal blessed land.

Fang Yuan met with him and saw the joy in his eyes, saying: "Old Bai, it seems that you
have obtained something great in this journey to Eastern Sea."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed heartily: "Junior brother is sharp as ever, that is right. Guess
what gains I made this time?"

Fang Yuan said in curiosity: "Fairy Yu Lu was a female attendant of Paradise Earth
Immortal Venerable, she cultivated earth path and water path, she was skilled in
defense and healing. I know about the group that you went with to attack the blessed
land, did you unexpectedly succeed in one try, and manage to take down Yu Lu blessed
land?"

In truth, Fang Yuan did not think well of the prospects of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's trip.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression turned stiff, he sighed: "So junior brother did not
expect us to succeed, you were right after all. In this attempt, we attacked the blessed
land for seven days and seven nights, but we were defeated by the land spirit, and
suffered huge losses. A Gu Immortal nearly died, but I used man as before Immortal
Gu to save this person."

"Oh?" Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows. He knew about the value of man as before
Immortal Gu, once Tai Bai Yun Sheng exposed this Gu, his value would greatly rise
among this group of people.

As expected, Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued: "After my man as before Immortal Gu was
exposed, I gained a lot of attention and respect. Next, Shark Demon invited me
enthusiastically to go to Eastern Sea Zombie Alliance as a guest. Why would I dare to
go to other people's base all alone? Thus, I rejected him. In the end, Shark Demon and
two other immortal zombies hosted me in Hai Shi blessed land, and during the
banquet I heard an important piece of news."

Saying so, Tai Bai Yun Sheng paused, halting his words as he looked at Fang Yuan with
shining eyes.

Fang Yuan laughed mentally, he followed his intention and asked: "Hehehe, what
important news is it? For you to leave me hanging like this?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression was solemn, he said: "It is a method that can revive
you, junior brother, it is a method to break free of your immortal zombie body!"

"Oh?" Fang Yuan's eyebrows rose.

He had made no progress after joining Northern Plains Zombie Alliance. To think that
Tai Bai Yun Sheng would make more progress before Fang Yuan even gained anything.

"What method is it?" Fang Yuan asked.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng said: "Shark Demon has a wife called Su Bai Man, she is also an
immortal zombie. A long time ago, she obtained a time path Immortal Gu from an
opportunity after defeating strong foes, its name is Time Anchor. This Gu can leave a
mark in the river of time, even though that is useless on its own, when paired with
other time path Immortal Gu, the effect is incredible."

Fang Yuan heard this and understood what Tai Bai Yun Sheng was going to say.

His eyes shined, but they quickly dimmed: "Old Bai, I understand what you mean. I've
heard of time anchor Immortal Gu long ago, if paired with your Landscape as Before,
it can indeed make a mountain or river be restored to a certain period in time. If used
with Man as Before, it can theoretically send a target back to their body condition at a
certain time period as well. But the requirement for this is, time anchor Immortal Gu
has to leave a marking in advance."

"That is correct, my man as before Immortal Gu can only go back by an instant in time,
but with time anchor Immortal Gu, we can exceed that limit of a single instant. Junior
brother, with this method, you might be able to get rid of your immortal zombie
status." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was excited.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's words were not wrong.

Gu are the essence of heaven and earth, they each have one effect, all being different.
Immortal Gu are unique, although they are powerful, they have weaknesses and
limitations.

Man is the spirit of all beings, they were most skilled in wisdom and creation. Using a
combination of different Gu worms, they could raise the overall effect and make up for
the respective Gu's weaknesses.

"With time anchor Immortal Gu's assistance, man as before Immortal Gu can break
free of the single instant limitation, but…” Fang Yuan shook his head, continuing: "The
coordinated usage of two Immortal Gu is not as simple as just using them, many
mortal Gu are needed at the same time. In fact, other Immortal Gu might also be
needed, in order to form an immortal killer move. Time Anchor and Man as Before can
indeed coordinate theoretically. But you do not have a corresponding immortal killer
move, I think Shark Demon is providing you such hospitality because he wants you to
help them, to contribute Man as Before so that they can research the immortal killer
move, right?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded continuously, praising: "Junior brother is smart, you
guessed accurately, that was indeed the case."

"It is a pity, it is a pity." Fang Yuan shook his head again.

"A pity what? I think this method has high hopes." Tai Bai Yun Sheng looked at Fang
Yuan uncertainly.

"Old Bai, you should know, the fact that I have become an immortal zombie has long
since been set in stone. Maybe Shark Demon and others had used time anchor
Immortal Gu before becoming immortal zombies, and left a marking in the river of
time, but I did not. Thus, even if you research this killer move successfully, it is useless
for me." Fang Yuan sighed.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng laughed: "Junior brother, your concern is right. But I have good news
for you, that is, Su Bai Man and Shark Demon had not used time anchor Immortal Gu
to leave a marking."

"Oh?"

"Back then, Su Bai Man forced back her enemies and obtained time anchor Immortal
Gu, but she did not know its usage. Su Bai Man was heavily injured at that time, she
had no choice but to become an immortal zombie. After Shark Demon learned about
this, in order to accompany his wife, he became an immortal zombie even though he
had ample lifespan. Years after the two became immortal zombies, they finally learned
about the origin and usage of time anchor Immortal Gu."

"So that's it." Fang Yuan's expression changed.

Getting a mysterious Immortal Gu and spending a few years or even over ten years to
learn about the origin and use of it, this was quite common.

Previously in Imperial Court blessed land, Fang Yuan obtained many Immortal Gu as
well, but he did not dare to test them recklessly.

Thankfully, there was Lang Ya land spirit to clear up the information regarding those
Gu.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued: "When they found out about the use of time anchor Gu,
they were in deep regret, but it was too late. I had the same concerns as you, junior
brother, and asked them during the banquet. Shark Demon and the other immortal
zombies mentioned another method, that was Spring Autumn Cicada."

"Oh?" Fang Yuan had a curious but suspicious expression: "Spring Autumn Cicada is
that mystical Gu? Legends say that it can travel up the river of time, and return to the
past. But that has never been confirmed."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not suspect anything: "Spring Autumn Cicada is not reliable,
mentioning Spring Autumn Cicada was only as an example. Shark Demon was trying
to say that even though they missed the timing to use time anchor Immortal Gu, if they
could use Immortal Gu like Spring Autumn Cicada, they could bring the Gu Immortal
in front of the river of time. By then, using time anchor Immortal Gu to leave a marking
upstream, one could use man as before Immortal Gu successfully. I think that this
method has a high chance of success."

Fang Yuan shut his eyes slightly, he fell into deep thought and did not speak.

What Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not know was, Fang Yuan in front of him was the owner
of Spring Autumn Cicada. Be it Shark Demon or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they were not
familiar with Spring Autumn Cicada, they only knew about it from rumors.

Fang Yuan thought: "If I could directly use Spring Autumn Cicada, I would have used
it. Why would I need to use an additional step with time anchor Immortal Gu? But this
method, in theory, is possible."

Fang Yuan had an agreement with wisdom Gu, in a way, he controlled wisdom Gu.

He could rise up quickly despite being an immortal zombie, charge forward in over
half a year, rapidly changing his situation and finances, half of the reason was due to
wisdom Gu.

If Fang Yuan wanted to use Spring Autumn Cicada to be reborn and get rid of the
immortal zombie trouble, he would have used it long ago. That is, leaving aside for
now the failure chance of Spring Autumn Cicada.

But during the Northern Plains journey, Fang Yuan was too weak, even if he was
reborn and did it again, there were too many variables. Fang Yuan did not even have a
five percent confidence of getting greater benefits from it.

The agreement with wisdom Gu was truly due to the perfect time and place, that
moment was simply too unique! The rank nine wisdom Gu was Fang Yuan's greatest
profit. If he did not obtain wisdom Gu, there would be no better benefits in
comparison.

"Other than Spring Autumn Cicada, there are other time path Immortal Gu. Like
looking back Immortal Gu and vivid recollection Immortal Gu, they can allow a Gu
Immortal to stand in the present and observe the past, except that the two have
differences. Using Looking Back in the area of the old earth wood would allow one to
see the former glorious scenery. Using vivid recollection Immortal Gu would allow one
to inspect their own past. By refining the two Immortal Gu together, one could obtain
the rank eight Immortal Gu Extreme Past, the Gu Immortal's will can be drawn out
and observe all that has happened in the past through the river of time."

Fang Yuan deduced in his mind: "If I had the time path investigative Immortal Gu
Extreme Past, using it with the time anchor Immortal Gu, I might be able to form a
time path immortal killer move, standing in the present and marking the past. Next, I
can use man as before Immortal Gu to return to my human body and restore my living
state, without losing wisdom Gu. Of course, extreme past Immortal Gu is just an
example. There might be other time path Immortal Gu that are more compatible with
Time Anchor."
Fang Yuan thought over it before opening his eyes.

"Old Bai, thank you." He thanked Tai Bai Yun Sheng sincerely: "Although this method
is innovative, it would expend a lot of time, effort, and resources, it is at least a hundred
year project. But it is a form of hope at least."

"We are like family, there is not need to say thanks." Tai Bai Yun Sheng responded
immediately.

However, Old Tai Bai understood what Fang Yuan was saying, he sighed as he
continued: "Exactly, it is at least some hope. Even though it will take a long time, during
this period, junior brother, you can use the black oil in Zombie Alliance to slow the
destruction of your blessed land. Even though black oil is hard to get, with my
cooperative relationship with Shark Demon, I will be able to get enough."

Fang Yuan laughed: "During the period when you were gone, I had already used a fake
identity, called Sha Huang, and made my way into Northern Plains Zombie Alliance."

"So junior brother had such a plan."

Fang Yuan continued: "I want to attend the auction in Northern Plains, come along
with me. This is the mortal killer move unfamiliar face, it came from Thieving Heaven
Demon Venerable. I have a few cloud path killer moves, you can take a look, aren't you
cultivating cloud path now as well?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng received these killer move as a warm feeling emerged in his heart:
"When I was thinking about my junior brother's problems, he was also looking out for
my benefits!"

Fang Yuan showed him the Gu Immortal captives and the deal he had with Lang Ya
land spirit.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was shocked, he said with worry and excitement: "It seems that this
auction will be a great show! I will go with you, it would be best if Hei Lou Lan and
Fairy Li Shan also are there."

"They will definitely go. But although our alliance was exposed to Hei Cheng, now is
not the time to openly travel with them." Fang Yuan said.

"Junior brother makes sense." Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded.

The mountain stood high above the clouds, on the peak, there was a mirror-like pond,
reflecting the traces of clouds in the sky.

This was Zhen Wu blessed land, the headquarters of Northern Plains' Yuan tribe.

The surname Yuan was not rare, it was very ordinary, in Southern Border, Eastern Sea,
Western Desert, it existed in all five regions. But in Northern Plains, the surname Yuan
was much more significant, it represented a super force, a supreme authority.

In the sky above the water, a white robed old man was waving his spear, his aura was
grand as he whipped up wind currents that moved the clouds.

The old man was white haired but greatly spirited, his body was moving around,
sometimes fast as lightning, sometimes slow like a rock. With the spear in his hand,
he extended it like a dragon's movement, it was very surreal.

But regardless of how much commotion he caused, the lake on this mountain peak did
not even have any ripples, it was calm like a mirror.

The lake water had much life, the seaweed was moving without any currents in it. A
large group of carps watched the white robed old man wave his spear under the water,
they were opening their mouths continuously as they spoke one by one.

"Old man Yuan, you danced pretty well, it was a good sight."

"These spear skills are not bad, you had a trace of Daoist Spear's shadow."

"Mm, the spear was swept too greatly though, the angle was a little off."

Hearing the carp's words, the old man stopped his movements, landing beside the
pond.

The long spear in his hands was still giving off a bright white light, it turned into a Gu
and went into his robe. Next, he paid respects to the carp in the pond as he inquired:
"May I ask, the horizontal sweep earlier, why was the angle off?"

"You used too much strength!"

"Too brutish, you lost your grace."

"Old man, you are too old and yet feisty, you should eat some seaweed to lower it."

The carps spoke incessantly, criticizing with no restraint.

These carps were not ordinary, their skin was white as snow, while their scales were
black like ink. The black and white formed a clear contrast, there was no other color.
People called them true martial carp, they were born from heaven and earth, each of
them was a mutated beast king.

The old man thought about it before raising his finger, using his arm instead of a spear,
and practicing his moves: "Is this okay?"

"No."

'Wrong."

"Old man, you are so stupid!"

The carps spoke one after another, scolding the old man.

At this time, a Yuan tribe Gu Immortal, Yuan Chi, came running, hearing the true
martial carps' criticism, he did not feel anything strange. He paid respects to the old
man as he said dutifully: "Greetings to first supreme elder."

The white robed old man was Yuan tribe's first supreme elder, having rank seven
cultivation level with peak battle strength. Seeing someone come, he frowned
unhappily: "Junior Yuan Chi, why are you here? Didn't I say that when I am practicing
my martial arts, I do not want anyone to disturb me."

"Lord, you instructed me earlier, so I am here to remind you not to miss the auction."
Yuan Chi was extremely respectful.

"Oh? There was such a thing, I nearly forgot… that means the auction is happening
soon?" Yuan tribe's first supreme elder patted his forehead.

Yuan Chi laughed bitterly: "Lord, today is the day of the auction."

"Ah? Time flies so quickly! Lad, thank you for reminding me, when I return, I will
reward you. Off I go." Saying so, Yuan tribe first supreme elder waved his sleeves and
an Immortal Gu flew out of the pond.

This Gu was called Human Language, it could turn the words of beasts into human
words.

Human language Immortal Gu left, and the discussions of the true martial carps came
to an end. One could only hear the slight bubbling when they opened their mouths.

Yuan tribe first elder collected the human language Immortal Gu and flew away,
turning into light.

The carp group swam around one another, after some discussion, they felt bored and
swam away.

Yuan Chi looked at first elder's figure as he vanished into the horizon.

"First elder is still the same." He sighed, waving his sleeves at the pond.

Winds blew and clouds moved, a thick white cloud covered and concealed this
important place in Yuan tribe's territory.

"Magnolia pulp boat returns to the homeland of the lotus flower, singing in the hall
lasts till late into the night."

"The lake reflects the willows surrounded by light fog, mountains far away resemble
the contours of a beard that curls beautifully like a yellow moon."

A scholar moved his head around as he held his scroll, sitting in a pavilion with lotus
flowers in the water, he recited in this calm night, as wind blew and a fragrance spread.

A female attendant was beside the scholar. Her facial features were picturesque, her
skin was white like snow, she was holding a small vessel as she poured wine into the
wine cup.

After the scholar finished reciting his poem, he held his scroll as he looked at it while
grabbing the wine cup on the table. He drank the wine without even looking at it, after
gulping it down, he said: "Although the wine is good, there is not much left. During this
auction, we should request for a few more jars from that person. Hong Xiu, you will go
with me on this trip, let Tian Xiang stay here and guard the blessed land."

"Yes, young master." The female attendant was overjoyed as she replied quickly.

Ding ding ding…

Immortal Gu Heavenly Gong's sound resonated in the mind of Gu Immortal He Lang

Zi.

He sat on the ground, opening his eyes as blood flowed out of his seven orifices.

"This Immortal Gu Heavenly Gong is very powerful. I had only activated five percent
of its power, but my five intestines shifted and my blood flowed backwards, even
though I had also been activating a top tier defensive mortal killer move."

He Lang Zi laughed sinisterly, his blood flow went back to normal, in a few breaths of
time, it was like he had never been injured.

"Such power, I do not need to worry about the Immortal Gu not being traded by
anyone." He stood up and flew towards crimson reed marsh.

"This is crimson reed marsh? The scenery is great here." A rank eight Gu Immortal
wearing a tall hat and with a common face was looking down at the crimson reed
marsh below him.

But all he saw were reeds growing, with water pathways that were complex and
interweaved, resembling a maze.

What was most eye catching here were not the water ducks, the gulls, or the fish, it
was the crimson red reed.
Countless reeds surfaced from the water vigorously, seemingly carrying grandness
and boldness, they were imposing and expanded without restraint, with the attitude
of a king, they subdued all of the living beings here and took them for themselves.

The rank eight Gu Immortal observed before saying with some amazement: "This
scenery has both delicateness and grandness, the outstanding nature is hidden deeply.
Based on such a sight, this Qin Bai Sheng clearly is a meticulous person despite his
grandness, he is unrestrained but also has a scheming mind. No wonder he could
cause such a commotion and hold this grand auction."

"Esteemed guest has brilliant judgment." A rank seven Gu Immortal beside him
nodded in agreement: "Qin Bai Sheng's actions were truly the source of a huge
commotion, it was a great method to protect himself. I, Murong Jin Xiao, admire his
actions greatly."

"I am looking forward to it, this auction that involves almost all of Northern Plains'
heroes!" The rank eight Gu Immortal greeted as the esteemed guest retracted his gaze,
his tone becoming excited.

"Hahaha, Eastern Sea is rich in resources, countless heroes emerge from there.
Esteemed guest is an overlord of a region, controlling the entire glass sea, although
Northern Plains has many talents, there are few that are worthy of receiving your
compliment." Murong Jin Xiao said respectfully.

From his words, it seemed that this mysterious guest was not a Northern Plains Gu
Immortal, he came from Eastern Sea!

"Brother Qin, we meet again." Fang Yuan cupped his fists, greeting Qin Bai Sheng.

"Hahaha, brother Sha, I have been waiting for you. But I did not expect you to come
directly from Fairy Li Shan's side." Qin Bai Sheng was very enthusiastic, he grabbed
Fang Yuan's arms, like he really regarded him as a brother.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng went together, they did not travel in Northern Plains,
instead, they entered Fairy Li Shan's blessed land and used hole earth Gu to reach Bai
Sheng blessed land.

With their earlier agreement and the mountain pledge Gu, Fairy Li Shan's and Qin Bai
Sheng's blessed lands had been set up with a pair of hole earth Gu, allowing them to
connect.

Fang Yuan brought the thirteen sleeping cloud coffins and arrived in the blessed land
through this path, meeting Qin Bai Sheng once again.

"There's no choice. I have such valuable treasures with me, with my low cultivation
level, I can only come here through this method to reduce the risk." Fang Yuan
purposely laughed bitterly.

"Don't be humble brother, you are so well hidden, your depth is unfathomable. With
just you and Fairy Li Shan's relationship, who would dare to target you?" Qin Bai Sheng
said respectfully.

"No matter how good you are, there is always someone better than you. But if I have
brother's battle strength, I would have no fear." Fang Yuan quickly replied, in terms of
interpersonal skills, he was not inferior to Qin Bai Sheng.

"I wonder who this is?" Qin Bai Sheng turned around, looking at Tai Bai Yun Sheng
who was next to Fang Yuan.

Right now, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had used unfamiliar face and turned into an ordinary old
man, his appearance was very different from before.

"This is my good friend, Gu Immortal Bai Sheng." Fang Yuan introduced fearlessly.

"Bai Sheng… forgive my ignorance, I did not know that a person of your caliber was
hidden in our Northern Plains." Qin Bai Sheng took the initiative to greet.

"No, no, I am flattered." Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly responded.

Qin Bai Sheng brought Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng to the auction hall.

"For this auction, I purposely altered my blessed land to form this huge auction hall."
Qin Bai Sheng introduced.

"It is quite extraordinary, there is a very magnificent aura, as expected of brother Qin's
setup." Fang Yuan smiled as he praised.

Qin Bai Sheng showed a hint of worry and doubt, saying: "I have no choice, many huge
forces and countless experts in Northern Plains were all invited to this auction. As the
person in charge, if the auction is too run-down, I will be offending them. Honestly
speaking, there had been a huge pressure on me these recent days, I could barely
sleep. Thankfully, with brother Sha, the blessed lands will definitely be a popular item
when up for auction, I can't wait to see that commotion. I wonder if you have many?"

Fang Yuan did not say a number, only smiling as he said: "Brother Qin, you can be at
ease about it, no need to worry."

"Haha, of course I'm not worried." Qin Bai Sheng's gaze flashed, since he could not
probe the answer, he changed the topic: "In this auction, I have the main hall, single
rooms, and secret rooms. The main hall can allow free interaction, the single rooms
are for those Gu Immortals with strange temperaments or who enjoy being alone. The
secret rooms will hide everything about the Gu Immortal's identity. These three
arrangements have been written in the alliance content long ago, brother Sha does not
need to worry that I have done some tricks behind the scenes. I wonder which location
brother Sha would choose?"

"These three locations, can they be swapped at will during the process of the auction?"
Fang Yuan asked first.

"Of course. But if a secret room is already occupied, unless the owner agrees, nobody
can get in." Qin Bai Sheng answered.

"Then I will choose a secret room." Fang Yuan said.

"I will choose a secret room too." Tai Bai Yun Sheng followed behind.

Qin Bai Sheng nodded: "The first nine secret rooms have been booked already. I'll give
you the tenth and eleventh rooms respectively, how about that?"

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng had no reason to say no. After they entered their
secret rooms, Bai Sheng blessed land opened its entrance and invited many Gu
Immortals in.
In the secret room, Fang Yuan was playing with the Gu worms in his hands.

These mortal Gu were owned by Qin Bai Sheng, but currently they were lended to the
secret room's owner, thus Fang Yuan could activate them.

He activated his primeval essence and tried to inject it, as the environment in the
secret room changed at once.

"It seems that Qin Bai Sheng really put in some effort. Even though it is a secret room,
it is like a small world in here, it is larger than a garden. These mortal Gu can be used
to change the environment, it can become a mountainous or river-like area, or even
become an ocean or lake, a pavilion or a terrace."

As Fang Yuan continued to use the Gu, the environment in the secret room continued
to change. At times, it was a lush mountain and he was at the peak of the mountain in
a pavilion. At times, there were huge rivers and he was in a boat docked at the side of
the river.

Of course, these changes were just illusions, they were not real. If they were real, such
terrain changing abilities would definitely come from Immortal Gu, he would need to
spend a lot of immortal essence.

Fang Yuan retrieved the Gu worms and browsed one with his mind.

This east window Gu had many of the auction items listed in it, they were all precious
treasures. Fang Yuan was dazed upon seeing the huge catalog.

Some of the auction items had the conditions written in the description, other than
using immortal essence stones to bid for them, one could also trade for them using
resources.

Evidently, these resources were what the owner of the auction item were looking for.
Fang Yuan swept through the content of the list and focused on the latter portion.

This portion's information listed a variety of Immortal Gu, they had all sorts of effects
and were from all kinds of different paths. The information on how to trade these Gu
were all written on the back.

Unlike the previous content, Immortal Gu were unique, they could not be bought using
immortal essence stones. This rule was practically set in stone, even during the five
regions chaotic war it was still in place.

Thus, to buy an Immortal Gu, one needed to use another Immortal Gu as the price.

Fang Yuan's focused his mind and quickly saw that his Immortal Gu were also listed
there.

There were four Immortal Gu, Rising Azure Cloud, Worldly Wave Trace, Calamity
Beckoning, and Delight in Water and Mountain.

The former two were movement Immortal Gu, one was cloud path and the other was
water path, they were incompatible with Fang Yuan's strength path. Although Tai Bai
Yun Sheng cultivated cloud path as well, he was a time path Gu Immortal, Rising Azure
Cloud was also not suitable for him.

As for calamity beckoning Immortal Gu, it was rank seven, but the effect could be said
to be harming oneself, it was practically a luck path suicidal weapon. Even though Fang
Yuan had conceived some uses for it, if he could exchange it for other Immortal Gu,
that would be more worthwhile.

The final one was delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, it could produce huge
amounts of joyful will. But Fang Yuan was already prepared to mass produce malicious
thought Gu, in that case, it could replace the use of joyful will. He might as well put it
up for auction and see what Immortal Gu he can get from it. If there is no suitable
trade, he could just take it back.

After the four Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan naturally listed the conditions for exchanging
them.

What was worth mentioning was that these four Immortal Gu were all put up using
Fairy Li Shan's channel, he was not associated with them.
Even though calamity beckoning Immortal Gu was quite troublesome to sell and might
even attract trouble, if it could be traded for a useful Immortal Gu, the benefits
exceeded the cost.

If he missed this golden opportunity, he might not have an equivalent one for several
hundred years, until the five regions chaotic war.

Fang Yuan was a vigilant person, but he was also resolute, when he needed to take
risks, he would not cower in fear and doubt.

"Other than these four Immortal Gu, I still have Spring Autumn Cicada, Cleanse Soul,
Connect Luck, Woman's Heart, and in a way wisdom Gu." Fang Yuan counted, he
needed these remaining five Immortal Gu, he would not put them up at the auction, or
even give any chances of exposing them if possible.

Spring Autumn Cicada's actual effect would only be known by the user, even though
there was a chance of failure, Fang Yuan obtained a lot of benefit from it and gained
much experience, he could not do without it. Even with wisdom Gu in Hu Immortal
blessed land, Spring Autumn Cicada was still his biggest trump card.

Fang Yuan had already decided that Spring Autumn Cicada would remain as his vital
Gu in his first aperture. In the future, if he had a chance, he would choose time path in
undergoing immortal ascension.

Cleanse soul Immortal Gu was the core of the immortal killer move myriad self,
although it was hungry and could not be used, he would not sell it.

Connect luck Immortal Gu could make up for Spring Autumn Cicada's weakness, Fang
Yuan had already experienced the power of luck path, he would not let go of this
Immortal Gu.

Wisdom Gu was out of the question, if he took it out, it would cause a huge commotion
and make countless people go after his life.

As for woman's heart Immortal Gu, it was originally something Fang Yuan wanted to
get rid of. But due to a coincidence, Fang Yuan deduced the poison spit killer move,
this woman's heart Immortal Gu was its core, and was now placed at the right part of
Fang Yuan's chest.

It was like a heart, beating continuously. It was small like a baby's fist, it looked purple-
black and was surrounded in poisonous energy, it was already connected to Fang
Yuan's bloodstream. Every time he breathed, the zombie blood would flow slowly,
carrying the poison and circulating in Fang Yuan's body.

From this point, one could see traces of the wisdom path killer move 'harboring
malicious heart'.

But the mortal Gu assisting Woman's Heart were like a Gu formation for reverse
refinement. Through reverse refinement, they were extracting Woman's Heart's
strength.

This was due to Immortal Gu Woman's Heart's special property — refinement and
nurturing in one.

This Gu needed the hearts of women to feed it, after it is full, the more it is fed, the
stronger the poison. Right now, Fang Yuan was using a reverse refinement process to
draw out that poison.

Man is the spirit of all living beings.

Although Woman's Heart is a consumable Immortal Gu, and would be expended in one
use normally, through his own method, and combining it with other Gu worms, it could
be used repeatedly by extracting its power slowly and continuously.

"Poison spit is only an incomplete immortal move, it needs to be improved later. With
wisdom Gu, it should not be a problem." Fang Yuan gathered his thoughts as he put
down the east window Gu, he willed and the view in front of him became clear, Fang
Yuan could see the auction hall.

The auction was split into the main hall, single rooms, and secret rooms.

Fang Yuan could not see the latter two, he could only see the main hall.

Right now, on the seats in the main hall were more than twenty Gu Immortals, they
were talking openly without fear of eavesdroppers.

"Old Lu, it has been a while, I trust that you have been well."

"Oh, Qing Xuan Zi, you have gone through the second heavenly tribulation already,
right."
"I am ashamed, my foundation is too weak, I was scared and have placed my blessed
land in the outside world of Northern Plains these recent years. After spending a lot
of resources and borrowing a time path Immortal Gu, I have slowed the flow of time
in my blessed land, right now, I still have one heavenly tribulation cultivation."

"The earthly calamities are hard to survive, the heavenly tribulations are even harder
obstacles. You are very stable and careful, not taking huge risks, this is a very safe
method."

"Shi You Yan, you are here too?"

"Your words are too funny! If you, Wu Rong, can come, why can't I?"

"Hmph! The grudge of you snatching my Gu back then, I will take revenge. Just you
wait."

"Hehehe, I know this Immortal Gu is suitable for your use, but I am going to auction it,
let's see if you have the ability to bid for it!"

Some Gu Immortals were catching up on old times, some were building relationships,
but there were others with great animosity, they were like barrels of gunpowder.

At this moment, a white robed old man walked into the main hall.

"Haha, there are quite a number of people." The white robed old man was Yuan tribe's
first supreme elder, he looked around and laughed heartily.

His laughter soon attracted the attention of the people in the hall, as talks became
softer.

Fang Yuan directed his gaze as well, this first supreme elder of Yuan tribe was a rank
seven Gu Immortal, the leader of the super force, Yuan tribe, of Northern Plains, he
had exemplary battle strength and financial power, he was a strong contender in this
auction.

Qin Bai Sheng was standing at the entrance inviting guests inside, he went up and paid
his respects: "It is truly my Bai Sheng blessed land's great fortune that Lord Yuan is
here to grace our auction with his presence."

"Don't call me lord, call me by my name, Yuan Rang Zun!" Yuan tribe's first supreme
elder saw Qin Bai Sheng and his eyes shined, he patted Qin Bai Sheng's back with much
enthusiasm.

Long ago, he had fought with Qin Bai Sheng, the latter's strength had gained his
acknowledgment.

"But, I had some gains after practicing my spear skills recently, is there any time we
can spar once again?" Yuan Rang Zun's changed the topic and he showed his true
nature as a martial arts fanatic.

"Senior Yuan's dao mark spear arts are still vivid in my memories. I wonder if senior
Yuan would like to sit in the main hall, or get a single room or a secret room?" Qin Bai
Sheng laughed, he did not reply to the invitation.

"Give me a single room." Yuan Rang Zun knew that now was not the time for this, he
thought about it and gave his response.

Just as Yuan Rang Zun stepped into his single room, a handsome scholar walked into
the auction with a female Gu Immortal following behind him.

"Unfettered Scholar came too?" The gazes of the Gu Immortals in the main hall were
attracted again.

"I had heard that Unfettered Scholar has great luck with women, having two Gu
Immortal attendants, named Tian Xiang and Hong Xiu. I wonder who came with him?"
Many male Gu Immortals turned around to look at the female Gu Immortal.

"She wears a red dress that looks like fire, it should be Fairy Hong Xiu. If it was Fairy
Tian Xiang, who was born with a certain fragrance, the main hall would have already
been filled with fragrance if she was here." A certain Gu Immortal who knew a lot
about them said with much enthusiasm.

Fang Yuan's mind rapidly went through the information.

This Unfettered Scholar was a lone cultivator, he had quite a few obstacles in life. His
ancestors were not from Northern Plains, he came from a clan in Central Continent
that had gone downhill.

Central Continent was full of sects, it was tough for clans to survive. If they could, they
would cross the regional walls and live in the other four regions.

Alone in another region, Unfettered Scholar's clan was ostracized and lost a lot of their
strength, they were barely surviving in Northern Plains, their situation was turning
worse. After several generations, they had finally mixed into Northern Plains, but at
that time, they were on their deathbed, like a dying old man.

By Unfettered Scholar's generation, the clan had already been thoroughly destroyed.
Unfettered Scholar brought along his two attendants and they escaped for their lives,
living a tough life. In their most difficult moments, even though they were in danger of
dying, Unfettered Scholar had never abandoned his two attendants, eventually, he
obtained an opportunity and became a Gu Immortal.

After becoming an immortal, he spent a lot of money and effort to make his attendants
immortals as well. This was quite a story in Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world.

Be it Yuan Rang Zun, Unfettered Scholar, or the other Gu Immortals, they each had
their own exciting stories, they were the main characters of their own legendary tales.

Gu Masters who were able to become immortals naturally were exemplary characters.
Before this auction had even begun, before all of the Gu Immortals had entered,
brilliant heroes and geniuses had already appeared like shining stars in the sky.
"Brother Qin, go ahead with your work, we can choose a room for ourselves."
Unfettered Scholar waved to Qin Bai Sheng as he spoke in a tone that revealed his close
relationship with Qin Bai Sheng.

Next, Unfettered Scholar walked away slowly, into a room with Fairy Hong Xiu.

After he left, more Gu Immortals arrived, some chose single rooms, but most chose the
main hall. As for those who chose the secret rooms, they entered through secret
channels, into their respective rooms. This could not be seen from the main hall.

"Although Qin Bai Sheng is a lone cultivator, he has great strength and yet shows great
respect for people, he has a wide network and relationships with many experts." Tai
Bai Yun Sheng transmitted from the eleventh secret room.

This was the first time he had met Qin Bai Sheng, yet he had a high evaluation of the
man.

Fang Yuan looked at the hall as he analyzed: "It is not entirely Qin Bai Sheng's credit.
Earlier, when Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed, Northern Plains' Gu
Immortals obtained many Immortal Gu, they need to trade them and satisfy their own
requirements. There is also the essence of the luck path true inheritance. In addition,
with Imperial Court blessed land's destruction, Northern Plains' situation has rapidly
changed, all the super forces need to establish new rules. Because of this specific
timing and situation, the auction could become so huge. Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li
Shan were able to invite rank eight Gu Immortals not only as a result of their own
reputations."

As time passed, more and more Gu Immortals arrived.

In the hall, Gu Immortals were talking and created lots of noise.

Although Gu Immortals were powerful and had unlimited primeval essence, capable
of crushing mortals, they were busy with managing their immortal apertures and had
to make lots of preparations for the calamities and tribulations, they had very limited
time.

Furthermore, the world was huge and Gu Immortals were small in numbers, it was
rare for them to interact with each other. Especially an opportunity like this which
gathered so many Gu Immortals, it was very rare.

Gu Immortals needed to interact, they placed great emphasis on their social network.

Immortal Gu were unique. Often, Gu Immortals needed to borrow Immortal Gu to

settle their problems. Furthermore, the economy of this world was not developed,
many precious resources could not be bought using immortal essence stones, they
could only be traded with rare goods at times.

This auction gathered almost all of the Gu Immortals in Northern Plains. Such an
opportunity to interact was extremely rare. In the main hall, Gu Immortals talked and
exchanged information. Even several enemies had their grudges temporarily
mediated and resolved.

Gu Immortals were so rare, their social network was only so big. If one was not a
friend, they would be an enemy, even if they were a stranger, they would still be
connected somehow in this social network as long as they talked about their friends.

After Unfettered Scholar, an old man carrying a walking cane walked into the auction
hall slowly.

Qin Bai Sheng saw this and his expression brightened, he quickly walked forward and
paid respects: "Qin Bai Sheng pays respects to Lord Yao Huang!"

Yao Huang — one of the five rank eight Gu Immortals in Northern Plains.

The hall was silent, many Gu Immortals could not sit any longer, they stood up and
greeted.

"Lord Yao Huang, you are my benefactor, please accept my respects."

"If not for Lord Yao Huang, I would still be injured now."

"Lord Yao Huang, do you remember me? I am Xiao Si, who searched for the bean
sprout worm for you back then."
…

Even the Gu Immortals who were in the single rooms walked out and greeted Yao
Huang.

"Hello everyone, good day, good day." Yao Huang had an amicable expression as he
nodded, he did not put on airs and was not acting arrogantly.

Like Tai Bai Yun Sheng, Yao Huang was a healing Gu Immortal and was famous in the
righteous path, he had a pure Huang Jin bloodline, being the first supreme elder of the
super force, Yao tribe, he had a lofty reputation in Northern Plains, it could be said to
be the highest of the five rank eight Gu Immortals of Northern Plains.

Stories regarding Yao Huang was numerous, they would take more than three days
and three nights to read.

The following story was closely connected to Fang Yuan, it happened decades ago.

Yao Huang created a new healing Immortal Gu, for the last one hundred years, he had
been asking for immortal zombies in Zombie Alliance to do experiments on them.

As his research got deeper, Yao Huang had some results and actually managed to turn
himself into an immortal zombie. Many Gu Immortal experts were unable to learn
about the truth. They were deceived and thought that Yao Huang's lifespan was almost
used up, forcing him to become an immortal zombie.

Yao Huang thus proclaimed that he wanted to join Zombie Alliance. At the same time,
Zombie Alliance's leader, Blazing Heaven Demoness, already had left and entered
Eastern Sea. Without the leader, Zombie Alliance only had Yin Liu Gong and the other
two rank sevens to guard the headquarters.

No one in Zombie Alliance could expose Yao Huang's methods, but at the final
moment, he lost to the entrance of the discussion hall. No matter how Yao Huang
pushed it, he could not open the door, this made the immortal zombies only able to
look at each other in dismay.

Eventually, Yao Huang could not get in and could only laugh loudly, removing his
disguise and explaining the truth.

Even though he had lied to everyone, he had a great reputation and high cultivation
level, none of the immortal zombies dared to offend him. In the end, they even sent
him back courteously.

Just as Yao Huang walked in, Yin Liu Gong arrived as well.

"Oh, Little Liu." Yao Huang looked back and greeted.

"Junior pays respects to Lord Yao Huang." Yin Liu Gong had a flattering expression as
he went up and greeted.

"Right now, Zombie Alliance took up the mission just in time, that immortal zombie
came to Yao tribe and my research was not held up. Speaking of which, it is all thanks
to the cooperation of your Zombie Alliance." Yao Huang thanked while smiling.

"I am flattered, it is our honor to work with Lord Yao Huang. In the future, when Lord
Yao Huang succeeds in the new healing Immortal Gu, it would benefit the Gu
Immortals in Northern Plains as well." Yin Liu Gong was skilled at social relations, he
spoke appropriate words.

Yao Huang stretched out his wrinkled arm, grabbing Yin Liu Gong: "Come Little Liu,
sit together with me."

Before Yin Liu Gong could reject him, he said to Qin Bai Sheng: "Little Qin, give us a
single room."

Thus, under everyone's envious gazes, the two entered the single room.

Yao Huang was the first rank eight Gu Immortal to enter, next, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu,
Five Elements Grandmaster, and Old Ancestor Xue Hu appeared.

Each of their appearances unavoidably caused a huge commotion.

Before the appearance of Great Dream Immortal Venerable, rank eight was the peak
of the Gu Immortal world's battle strength.

The five rank eight Gu Immortals in Northern Plains were noble existences that earned
much reverence from people. Among them, Old Ancestor Xue Hu was the number one
person in the demonic path, he was the leader of Snowy Mountain blessed land. Yao
Huang was the first supreme elder of Yao tribe, he was a rank eight of the righteous
path. Heavenly Lord Bai Zu and Five Elements Grandmaster were lone cultivators, they
were neither righteous nor demonic, they were in the neutral faction.

Lastly, there was Prince Feng Xian, he was also a righteous path Gu Immortal. But he
was only an external supreme elder of the super force Gong tribe. He did not have the
Huang Jin bloodline in him, his status was rather awkward. Because he had some
grievances with Gong tribe, he had been living outside for many years. He did not work
for Gong tribe, only when Gong tribe encounters a huge crisis would he help out.

Among the five rank eights, two were righteous, one was demonic, and two were
neutral. Such a relationship was also the current balance of power in Northern Plains.

The next three rank eight experts all chose single rooms.

In the hall, there were already forty to fifty people.

"Among the five rank eights, four have already appeared. Only Prince Feng Xian is left."

"This is really a rare event that is hard to witness in hundreds of years, it is an eye-
opening experience! To be able to leave an impression on these experts, this trip was
worth it."

"Rank eight great experts are all glorious and have naturally imposing auras. I wonder
what Prince Feng Xian's demeanor would be like?"

As everyone waited in anticipation, a cold-looking female Gu Immortal walked in

silently.

It was Feng Jiu Ge, who had disguised himself as Fairy You Lan.

Many people knew about Fairy You Lan and Prince Feng Xian's relationship, their
attention was quickly drawn over.

Qin Bai Sheng quickly attended to him.

"Master is blending his grotto-heaven's qi, I will be representing him for this auction."
Feng Jiu Ge said, without laughing or smiling. He had huge guts, as an outside region's
Gu Immortal, he dared to attend the Northern Plains auction at this sensitive time.

The moment he appeared, he announced this loudly, it was to deter the others, by
using Prince Feng Xian as a shield, it would help him during the process of the auction.
Hearing that Prince Feng Xian was not coming, a wave of disappointment came over
the main hall.

Feng Jiu Ge had a calm expression, vaguely familiar face was really an amazing killer
move, none of the Gu Immortals in the hall could see any flaws in his disguise. Of
course, this also was because the Gu Immortals were respecting each other and did
not use investigative Gu to peek at one other for no reason.

Especially when Fairy You Lan, who Feng Jiu Ge was disguised as, had a rank eight
great expert behind her. In addition, nobody would expect him to be so daring.

Under everyone's shining gazes, 'Fairy You Lan' walked into a single room.

Like Fang Yuan, he toyed around with the mortal Gu and changed the environment in
the room. Next, he grabbed the east window Gu and looked inside.

"Oh?" The moment he looked at it, Feng Jiu Ge's heart jumped.

"Worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu… aren't
these the core Gu worms for an Immortal Gu House, Water Pavilion, of my sect? They
actually appeared here!"

Shock flashed across Feng Jiu Ge's eyes, but it quickly calmed and disappeared, this
showed his supreme control over his own mental state.

"It seems that the supreme elders in the sect guessed correctly. Back then, our sect's
saintess, Mo Yao, had brought Water Pavilion into Imperial Court blessed land.
Without Water Pavilion's help, she would not have been able to enter Imperial Court
blessed land. Now that Imperial Court blessed land was destroyed and Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building collapsed, it seems that Water Pavilion also broke apart and the
core Gu were taken by Northern Plains' Gu Immortals."

"Oh? There is calamity beckoning Immortal Gu! According to the sect records, saintess
Mo Yao had once obtained the essence of luck path in Eighty-Eight True Yang Building,
refining calamity beckoning Immortal Gu to help her husband, Bo Qing. But Bo Qing's
tribulation was too great, even though calamity beckoning Immortal Gu drew away
part of the tribulation, they could not survive, both of them perished. Calamity
beckoning Immortal Gu was also destroyed in the process, to think that there is a new
calamity beckoning Immortal Gu!"
This discovery gave Feng Jiu Ge further suspicions.

How did calamity beckoning Immortal Gu come about? Who refined it? The person
auctioning it? Or did it scatter into the outside world after Imperial Court blessed land
was destroyed, thus being taken by someone? What did this have to do with Mo Yao?
According to rumors, Mo Yao left behind an inheritance, would this inheritance
contain the way to refine calamity beckoning Immortal Gu?

At once, Feng Jiu Ge fell into deep thought, many ideas appeared in his mind.

"Hehe." He suddenly laughed: "This auction was really worth coming to, the moment
I entered, I obtained so many clues. In any case, I have to take back Delight in Water
and Mountain and Worldly Wave Trace, Spirit Affinity House has lost Water Pavilion
for too long! As for calamity beckoning Immortal Gu, it is rank seven, the price for
exchanging for it is very high, I'll see how things go first."
Things progressed stably with the passage of time. The Gu Immortals entering became
fewer and fewer. After a while longer, Qin Bai Sheng closed the entrance of his blessed
land.

He walked to the raised platform in front of the main hall, proclaiming briefly and to
the point: "Ladies and gentlemen, the time has arrived, the auction will officially
start!"

"Strange, why have Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan not arrived?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng
transmitted a message to Fang Yuan.

"Yes, I am also puzzled. According to Fairy Li Shan's nature, she should be sitting in
the main hall after she arrives. However, there is not even a trace of her." Fang Yuan
replied.

"The auction currently has three spaces for participants; the main hall, single rooms
and secret rooms. If they had chosen a secret room, they would have entered directly
through secret pathways and not made a public appearance. But even if Fairy Li Shan
entered a secret room, she would not have done so without even greeting us. Have you
noticed this, there are no Gu Immortals of Hei tribe present." Tai Bai Yun Sheng
pointed it out.

Fang Yuan mumbled: "We should first send a letter inquiring about the situation. Fairy
Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan are bound to us by the Snowy Mountain Alliance, the
possibility of them betraying us is not likely. If they encountered an ambush from Hei
Cheng and others, with the strength of those two, they should have been able to send
a message to request for support."

While the two were secretly discussing, the first auction item was already displayed
on the platform.

"Everyone should know, these are sky chief clouds. When they are spread out, they
can stretch out for over a thousand and three hundred square kilometres. Such a large
amount of sky chief clouds are rare even in treasure yellow heaven! The starting bid
is twenty immortal essence stones, every bid should be an increase of at least five
immortal essence stones. Please start!" Qin Bai Sheng announced.

"Sky chief clouds, this is useful for my Tai Bai blessed land." Tai Bai Yun Sheng's
attention was immediately attracted, and he subconsciously utilized the prepared
mortal Gu in the secret room to make his bid.

Qin Bai Sheng sensed the bid and immediately announced: "The eleventh secret room
bids thirty immortal essence stones."

The next moment, a cloud path Gu Immortal in the main hall shouted: "Thirty-five
immortal essence stones."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng chuckled as he activated the mortal Gu to bid again. He directly
raised the price by ten, to forty-five immortal essence stones.

Forty-five immortal essence stones were enough to buy a desolate beast corpse.

The cloud path Gu Immortal who had made the bid gritted his teeth, hesitating for a
while but not making another bid.

On the ground, there was the earth chief beast, in the sky, there was the sky chief beast.
Within the immemorial nine heavens, sky chief beast groups more or less lived in each
of the heavens.

The so-called sky chief clouds were formed from the breath of the sky chief beast;
condensing slowly over long periods of time.

These clouds could construct an environment in the immortal aperture that could
greatly increase the production of cloud path Gu worms. If a group of sky chief beasts
live in this cloudy environment, the effect would be even more wondrous, and if it was
managed properly, there would be a never-ending flow of sky chief clouds.

However, the intact parts of the immemorial nine heavens could only be explored by
powerful rank seven or rank eight Gu Immortals.

Every sky chief beast was at least a mutated beast king, comparable to an ordinary
beast emperor. And the king of every group of sky chief beasts was essentially at
desolate beast level.
"Forty-five immortal essence stones, going once." Qin Bai Sheng spoke, seeing that
there were no more bids.

"There are already large numbers of float ball tea in my blessed land. I will have the
first batch of harvest at the end of this month. I intend to bring in jade hummingbirds
later on. If I can add sky chief clouds, I will have the building blocks to smoothly bring
in sky flowers and floating sparrowhawks. Junior brother, you advanced to Gu
Immortal later than me, but you already have experience in managing blessed lands
through Hu Immortal blessed land. Can you tell me what you think of my plan?" Tai
Bai Yun Sheng chuckled as he transmitted his voice to Fang Yuan.

On the platform, Qin Bai Sheng shouted again: "Forty-five immortal essence stones,
going twice."

Fang Yuan pondered for a moment and replied to Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "Sky flowers
indeed grow on clouds, and floating sparrowhawks often are the host for cloud path
Gu worms. Old Bai, are you thinking of cultivating both time path and cloud path?"

"Yes. My time path abilities are specialized in healing, if I can add in cloud path, it can
make up for the other shortcomings." Tai Bai Yun Sheng said without reservation.

He was originally skilled with cloud path in movement ability, his attainment reaching
flying master realm using it. Later, he had dealings with Northern Plains' Inkman King,
Mo Tan Sang, who sold him the killer move nine cloud ring for a low price, this
deepened Tai Bai Yun Sheng's interest in cloud path. Fang Yuan did not feel this choice
was abrupt.

At this moment, Qin Bai Sheng shouted for the third time: "Forty-five immortal
essence stones for over one thousand three hundred square kilometres of sky chief
clouds, going thri…”

"Hold on, fifty-five immortal essence stones." The bid was just about to be decided,
when suddenly a Gu Immortal spoke up.

His voice came from the seventeenth single room.

"Eh." Tai Bai Yun Sheng had not expected such a change as he hurriedly made a bid,
"Sixty immortal essence stones."

This price finally dispelled any thoughts of buying from everyone present, allowing
Tai Bai Yun Sheng to get his wish.

"The second item for auction is a group of rare black spirit antelopes. The beast
group's size reaches three hundred and twenty thousand, and has five beast emperors.
The lowest price is ten immortal essence stones, every bid should be at least four
immortal essence stones higher. The price can be lowered if you use vertical rainbow
ointment to trade." Qin Bai Sheng announced.

Black spirit antelopes were already hard to find in Northern Plains, this beast group's
size was so large, it should have been reared in some Gu Immortal's immortal
aperture. The Gu worms residing in black spirit antelopes were mainly soul path Gu
worms, thus this especially attracted the attention of soul path Gu Immortals.

The Gu Immortal putting this group of black spirit antelopes up for sale required a Gu
refinement material, vertical rainbow ointment. Thus the bidding could be done using
immortal essence stones or vertical rainbow ointment.

A round of bidding passed, and this black spirit antelope group was purchased by a
Gu Immortal for twenty-eight immortal essence stones.

"The third item is a set of Gu recipes that came from the Medieval Antiquity Era, its
name is inch of time. It contains all the recipes from rank one to rank five, and the
crucial point is that these Gu recipes have already been improved. All of the refinement
materials can be found commonly. The lowest price is twenty-two immortal essence
stones and you can also use the desolate beast, six headed snake's skin to reduce the
price." Qin Bai Sheng announced.

"Twenty-three immortal essence stones."

"Isn't it disgraceful to add only one immortal essence stone? Thirty immortal essence
stones!"

"I bid thirty-two."

This time, there were clearly more Gu Immortals bidding than the previous two times.

Inch of time was a time path Gu worm which could not be used on humans but could
be used on other targets, and was extensively used in Gu refinement. For instance, if a
Gu worm required three days and three nights to be refined, and the inch of time Gu
was used, it would quickly reach the state that required three days and three nights of
time, by accelerating the growth and transformation of the Gu worm. And the amount
of time the Gu Master would have to spend probably would only be few short
moments.

Fang Yuan had obtained the Gu recipe for the Olden Antiquity Era's group strength Gu,
the market price of which was only two immortal essence stones. Inch of time was
only a Gu recipe from the Medieval Antiquity Era, but it was a complete set, from the
rank one Gu, one inch of time, to the rank five Gu, five inches of time.

The most important point was that this Gu recipe had already been improved by the
Gu Immortal! All the Gu refinement materials required also conformed to the present
situation and were not difficult to obtain. It was not like the original Gu recipe, in
which many refinement materials would be extremely scarce, expensive or extinct.

This point determined the explosive increase in the price, reaching the base price of
twenty-two immortal essence stones. Soon, the bidding reached forty-eight immortal
essence stones.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng also made his bid at this time: "Fifty-eight immortal essence stones."

He increased the price by ten immortal essence stones at once, attempting to scare off
the competitors.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was rich, even more so than Fang Yuan.

He had Landscape as Before and Man as Before, two great time path healing Immortal
Gu, and therefore was very much sought after in Eastern Sea. Especially in the
exploration of Yu Lu blessed land, they might have failed, but he had used Man as
Before to save a Gu Immortal. This Gu Immortal gave him a hundred or so immortal
essence stones as remuneration, and also said he owed Tai Bai Yun Sheng a favor
which he would pay in the future.

Most crucially, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's blessed land was healthy and produced green grape
immortal essence at every fixed interval of time. His green grape immortal essence
was accumulating day by day, to the extent that he could not use them all up.

His Tai Bai blessed land's time flow was thirty-three times faster than the outside
world, nearly the same as Hei Lou Lan's super grade blessed land.

This was because his was a high grade blessed land and he was also a time path Gu
Immortal. Thus, in the aspect of time path resources, it was rather outstanding.

One day in the outside world would be a month in Tai Bai Yun Sheng's blessed land. In
theory, blessed lands would produce green grape immortal essence every month. In
the same given time for the outside world, the amount of green grape immortal
essence Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtained was several times or even ten times higher than
ordinary rank six Gu Immortals!

On the contrary, Fang Yuan might have guts Gu business, but he had to handle all sorts
of expenses, especially the constant converting of immortal essence stones to green
grape immortal essence.

His immortal aperture was dead and could no longer produce immortal essence,
moreover it would crumble and shrink every set interval of time, which was an
extremely large setback to him.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's bid indeed scared off most of the competing Gu Immortals. But
there was still some who persisted.

As the bid increased with two additional offers, the price had slowly risen to sixty-six
immortal essence stones.

"Sixty-six immortal essence stones to purchase a set of mortal Gu recipes!" Some of

the low-level Gu Immortals in the main hall were tongue-tied.

"It can't be considered expensive. Inch of time cannot be used on oneself, but it can be
used to save time and has wide range of applications like reducing the duration of Gu
refinement. If you consider it in the long-term, especially for those Gu Immortals who
also cultivate refinement path, they can use inch of time to slowly accumulate savings
worth sixty-six immortal essence stones." A Gu Immortal calmly analyzed.

"This price is already at the peak. It would be unwise to raise the price further. Unless
you have a special requirement for it." Another Gu Immortal added his analysis.

"Sixty-six immortal essence stones, going once." Qin Bai Sheng started to close the
bids.

At this moment, Fang Yuan transmitted his voice to Tai Bai Yun Sheng: "Old Bai, let's
split the immortal essence stones and make the bid together?"
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was happy: "Junior brother, you also have the intent to get it, that is
good."

He thus raised the price directly to sixty-eight. Only one other Gu Immortal continued
to bid, adding one immortal essence stone.

Finally, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng paid an expensive price of seventy immortal
essence stones to finish the purchase of Inch of Time.

Time passed by, one after another, treasures continued to be auctioned off.

The competition in the main hall was getting more fierce and the atmosphere had also
turned fiery. Many Gu Immortals lost their bearings and started arguing. Although
they had sense and calmness, with large profits in front, they could not help being
flushed with agitation.

After dozens of items were auctioned off, some low leveled Gu Immortals already
became powerless to continue fighting, some were perspiring, some were pale, while
many were exhausted.

The bidding did not only compare wealth but also involved psychological battles.

Gradually, rank six Gu Immortal bidders became sparser.

Rank six Gu Immortals usually had several hundreds of immortal essence stones of
savings, while rank seven would have several thousands or over ten thousand directly
in their hands. At rank eight, having several tens of thousands available was a
certainty. And those who had accumulated over the years would have hundreds of
thousands of immortal essence stones in hand.

The stronger the cultivation, the more resources they owned. Ordinary rank sixes had
too weak of a foundation, fortunately, they could lower the price with other goods,
otherwise most of them would have already been completely out of the game.

Fang Yuan also only had few hundred immortal essence stones. He had made bids, but
there were very few successes while most failed, and he was still waiting patiently for
the main show.

Finally, he heard Qin Bai Sheng announce: "Next, we shall begin the auction of
Immortal Gu."
"The most important part is here!" Fang Yuan's eyes brightened.

Not only him, other Gu Immortals were also invigorated.

The previous auction could only be considered the prelude, the true event had just
taken stage!

Immortal Gu trade!
Qin Bai Sheng stood on the stage and took out several mortal Gu, passing them around
the hall.

A few Gu Immortals received these mortal Gu, showing doubt on their faces.

Qin Bai Sheng spoke slowly: "The auction of Immortal Gu is extremely important. The
ones that are auctioned first have a greater advantage, they can be exchanged for more
varieties of Immortal Gu. Thus, for fairness, this auction will not go according to the
listed order, I have specially prepared these mortal Gu, once you activate them, they
will point to one of the Immortal Gu up for auction. As for which one, it is completely
random, nobody can manipulate them, go ahead and inspect these mortal Gu."

These words attracted quite a pleased response.

The Gu Immortals inspected the mortal Gu in turn as they discussed softly.

"This method is great, I was worried that my Immortal Gu would be auctioned later
and be at a disadvantage."

"Qin Bai Sheng is not simple, he considered everything carefully for this auction."

"If he really did something secretly, I cannot complain. My inspections say that there
are no problems at all."

These mortal Gu were inspected by the Gu Immortals and were sent to the secret
rooms.

Soon, it was Fang Yuan's turn, he personally inspected them and discovered nothing
wrong with them.

After the Gu Immortals in the secret rooms inspected the Gu, the mortal Gu went to
the single rooms again. The rank eight Gu Immortals were almost all in single rooms.
After inspecting, the mortal Gu were passed back to Qin Bai Sheng.
Qin Bai Sheng did not continue the auction, he asked: "Is there anyone else who is still
uncertain, would you like to go ahead and inspect it again?"

As expected, there were Gu Immortals who said that they needed to inspect it again.

Among them, some had already inspected the Gu before.

This set of mortal Gu had no problems earlier, but it was passed around. What if
someone did something to them while they were passed around?

Gu Immortals were wary and meticulous, thus they wanted to take another look.

After inspecting it again, they found nothing wrong. At this point, the true purpose of
this auction was about to begin.

Qin Bai Sheng activated this set of mortal Gu in front of everyone, they shined in a
bright light as smoke rose, the smoke gathered in the air and formed into the two
words 'conceal luck'.

"It has been chosen, the first Immortal Gu is conceal luck Immortal Gu." Qin Bai Sheng
shouted.

"Conceal luck Immortal Gu was originally numbered at the end of the auction, to think
that it became the first now." Tai Bai Yun Sheng grabbed the east window Gu as he
muttered after checking.

At the same time, many other Gu Immortals were doing the same thing.

The sequence in the east window Gu was not the real order. Their own Immortal Gu
could possibly be the next one up for auction. If they happened to be at the end, they
could only blame their luck.

This was a fair rule, none of the immortals had any disagreements, even the rank eight
Gu Immortal great experts agreed with this.

On the stage, the screen was changing as it turned into the appearance of the conceal
luck Immortal Gu.

Qin Bai Sheng introduced when the time was right: "As everyone can see, this Gu looks
like a white skinned beetle, it is half the size of a palm and is a rank six luck path
Immortal Gu, it can conceal one's own luck. The seller wants a metal path defensive
Immortal Gu. Whoever has a metal path defensive Immortal Gu can bid for it. There is
no lower limit for this."

"Conceal luck Immortal Gu, concealing one's own luck…”

"Luck path has luck inspection Gu, it can inspect another person's luck. There is also
conceal luck Gu, it can hide one's own luck and prevent others from seeing it."

"This conceal luck Immortal Gu is rank six, it can defend from rank six luck inspection
Gu. Although the effect is good, its use is too narrow."

In the main hall, Gu Immortals were discussing softly, but no one bid for it.

If luck path was flourishing and widely used, so be it. But since Giant Sun Immortal
Venerable created luck path, he had been secretive and hidden it for himself, this
caused the number of luck path mortal Gu to be very low.

Especially conceal luck Immortal Gu, it could only have value against someone who
had luck inspection Immortal Gu.

This Immortal Gu's use was too narrow, it had little value. Gu Immortals were not
stupid, why would they bid randomly?

"Damn it…” The person who had conceal luck Immortal Gu was a female Gu Immortal,
she sat in a single room as she bit her lips, she helplessly watched her conceal luck
Immortal Gu go without bidding, nobody wanted it.

The first Immortal Gu was not successfully sold, this was out of everyone's
expectations, Qin Bai Sheng's face was a little dark as he used the mortal Gu in his
hands to start the bidding for the second item.

The image changed, and showed a cicada-like Immortal Gu.

This cicada was not as exquisite as Spring Autumn Cicada, it had a big head and was
shining in silver light.

"This is heavenly gong Immortal Gu, a sound path rank six Immortal Gu, to be traded
with a transformation path related Immortal Gu." Qin Bai Sheng said.
In the main hall, a Gu Immortal saw this Gu and flew into a rage, shouting: "Heavenly
gong Immortal Gu! Hmph, this Gu was mine, but He Lang Zi snatched it. He Lang Zi,
come out now!"

"I'll come out, do you think I'm afraid of you?" From a secret room, He Lang Zi walked
out with a ruthless smile.

"It is He Lang Zi indeed, a famous loner of the demonic path in Northern Plains!"

"Rumors say that he had obtained an inheritance of Thieving Heaven Demon

Venerable, thus he can snatch other people's Immortal Gu."

"This person was raised by a female wolf since he was young, his nature is like that of
a wild animal, he is cruel and insidious, and is a loner, being very different from normal
people. Old Ancestor Xue Hu had once attempted to recruit him, but he rejected him."

The Gu Immortals discussed enthusiastically.

He Lang Zi crossed his arms as he walked towards the main hall, sitting in front of the
shouting Gu Immortal.

The Gu Immortals around him quickly moved away, choosing other seats.

"You, you!" The shouting Gu Immortal pointed at He Lang Zi as his face turned red, he
was trembling from anger.

"Me what?" He Lang Zi licked his lips, he had a cruel and mocking gaze: "Old man Xiong
Yuan, you are a sound path Gu Immortal, if you do not bid now, when will you?"

"Transformation path Immortal Gu, I have one here, it is called demon ferret skin.
After using it, one's skin can turn into the skin of the heart demon ferret." Unfettered
Scholar's voice came from a single room.

A heart demon ferret was a desolate beast, there were normally wisdom path Gu
worms in its body. The demon ferret skin could provide resistance against wisdom
path attacking methods.

After Unfettered Scholar killed a heart demon ferret, he used it to refine this Gu. But
he already had methods to defend against wisdom path, thus this Gu was redundant
to him, therefore he took it out.
"Demon ferret skin… if one can gather demon ferret bone, demon ferret blood, and
other related Immortal Gu, one can unleash the immortal killer move, heart demon
ferret transformation." He Lang Zi's gaze shined as he thought.

Transformation path was different from other paths, their killer moves were easy to
form. As long as one gathered a set of Immortal Gu, they could form an immortal killer
move.

Thus, there was much to consider when trading for transformation path Immortal Gu
compared to other paths.

He Lang Zi had three immortal wolf transformation killer moves, it could allow him to
transform into three different desolate wolves, they had great battle strength. If he
transformed into the heart demon ferret, even though it was similar to the form of a
wolf, what He Lang Zi wanted was to develop his fighting ability in water.

Thus, He Lang Zi slightly shook his head, not speaking.

Qin Bai Sheng had been observing silently, he said: "Any other Gu Immortals want to
bid?"

"I have a moon demon bat claw Immortal Gu, it can transform your hands into the bat
claws of a moon demon bat." Feng Jiu Ge said loudly.

"This is Fairy You Lan who is representing Prince Feng Xian."

"Isn't Fairy You Lan a sword path Gu Immortal, why does she want the sound path
heavenly gong Immortal Gu?"

"She is representing the rank eight great expert, Prince Feng Xian, this bid is likely to
be Prince Feng Xian's intention."

The Gu Immortals started guessing.

Nobody knew that the so-called Swordmaster You Lan was actually Feng Jiu Ge. He
was a sound path Gu Immortal, thus he desired the heavenly gong Immortal Gu.

He Lang Zi did not speak, he shook his head.

Moon demon bat claw Immortal Gu could bring about a future possibility — immortal
killer move, moon demon bat transformation.

But He Lang Zi was not good at aerial combat, he even hated the sky. This was because
he had lived in a wolf's den in his youth, he learned to move on all fours from his wolf
mother, and was skilled in using his teeth to bite objects.

Most wolves were land based creatures, they could not fly.

Qin Bai Sheng obtained a transmission, afterwards he said: "The Gu Immortal in the
first secret room has bid a grand smoke sea turtle shell Immortal Gu, together with
verified information regarding Ascending Heaven Plain."

He Lang Zi's gaze shined, he raised his head. Grand smoke sea turtle was a desolate
beast of the sea, it suited his needs. But this turtle was skilled in using illusions to
conceal itself, it did not have high speed or strong defenses, this was quite different
from He Lang Zi's battle style.

"Ascending Heaven Plain, what is that?" He Lang Zi asked. Although he had high battle
strength, he was a loner and did not trust any human Gu Immortals, thus he was
lacking in information.

"Hmph, a frog in a well!" Gu Immortal Xiong Yuan laughed as he refused to give up any
chance of mocking He Lang Zi.

"Ascending Heaven Plain is a place, anyone who passes it, even if it is a mortal, can
enter the immemorial nine heavens. In the legends, Northern Dark Ice Soul, who was
able to enter black heaven, went through Ascending Heaven Plain to reach it." Qin Bai
Sheng explained patiently.

"So that's it." He Lang Zi was moved.

He was a rank seven lone cultivator, he needed to fight for every piece of resources
personally. But Northern Plains had limited resources, and the super forces were
holding onto them.

Meanwhile, the immemorial nine heavens had the heavenly wind qi wall, only very
strong Gu Immortals could force their way in and explore the nine heavens.

Even though in the immemorial nine heavens, only white and black heaven were left
intact, while the other heavens were utterly broken, or even completely destroyed, be
it the intact heavens or the nine heavens fragment worlds, they had abundant
resources.

"My battle strength is enough to break through the heavenly wind qi wall, but I cannot
fly. If I can get the information regarding the Ascending Heaven Plain…” He Lang Zi
was increasingly moved.

As he thought about it, two more Gu Immortals took out their transformation path
Immortal Gu and entered the bidding.

One was the shouting Gu Immortal who wanted to tear He Lang Zi into pieces, Gu
Immortal Xiong Yuan.

A total of five Gu Immortals bid for one Immortal Gu.

They continued to increase their bids, or added in immortal essence stones, even
providing rare resources, lost Gu recipes, or a large group of beasts.

Eventually, He Lang Zi chose the offer of the first secret room, obtaining grand smoke
sea turtle shell Immortal Gu, as well as a large group of water wolves.

The two sides made the transaction in public. Because the Gu Immortal in the secret
room could not show up, Qin Bai Sheng was the middleman for this.

After He Lang Zi got the intelligence about Ascending Heaven Plain, he looked at it in
anticipation, but when he saw it, he stared with furious eyes as he started to shout in
anger.
"Why, is there an issue with the Ascending Heaven Plain information?" Qin Bai Sheng's
expression changed as he asked. This was his auction, according to the oath, neither
buyer nor seller were allowed to lie. Verified information was given, which meant that
there was a true location.

"No." He Lang Zi's expression turned grim, he refused to speak, but it looked like he
had suffered a huge loss.

"That batch of water wolves?" He asked.

"It is already in the blessed land." Qin Bai Sheng said.

"Bring me there." He Lang Zi said stiffly.

Qin Bai Sheng waved his hand and teleported He Lang Zi away. After the latter checked
the goods and found no mistake, he collected the wolves and left the auction in
advance, without returning to the auction hall.

"Hahaha, seeing this wolf rascal suffer a loss, it is truly quite gratifying." In the first
secret room, Murong Jin Xiao laughed.

Next to him, the rank eight Gu Immortal from Eastern Sea was playing with the
heavenly gong Immortal Gu.

"Thanks to esteemed guest's help, even though He Lang Zi saw the location of
Ascending Heaven Plain, it was in Eastern Sea and he could not go there, one could
only imagine his anger." Murong Jin Xiao thanked.

"No need to thank me, my daughter is skilled in music, she cultivates sound path, I
bought it for her. I was not targeting He Lang Zi personally." The Eastern Sea rank eight
Gu Immortal waved his hand.

…
"Ascending Heaven Plain is in Eastern Sea, I know the location of it. How did the Gu
Immortal in the first secret room learn about it?" Fang Yuan was suspicious.

"I vaguely remember that there is a super force in Northern Plains that has
connections with Eastern Sea, it was Murong tribe, right?"

Soon, Fang Yuan set aside his suspicions.

Because Qin Bai Sheng had chosen the third Immortal Gu that was up for auction, it
was Fang Yuan's rising azure cloud Gu.

Qin Bai Sheng announced clearly: "Immortal Gu Rising Azure Cloud, rank six cloud
path, specialized in ascending and descending in the air, the seller wants a strength
path Immortal Gu. Anyone interested can start bidding!"

Fang Yuan was now a strength path Gu Immortal, this was a fact that could not be
changed. Even though strength path was declining now, he could only push on in this
direction.

Because of Spring Autumn Cicada, ever since rebirth, his plan had been to become a
time path Gu Immortal using his first aperture.

In regards to this, he was quite helpless.

In the earlier stages of this life, Fang Yuan simply chose strength path as a transitory
measure. In the end, because he was forced by circumstances, he ascended to an
immortal using strength path. And because of Reckless Savage's true meaning, his
strength path attainment rose to grandmaster level, becoming equal with Fang Yuan's
blood path. This was unexpected.

Fang Yuan would rather give up blood path than Spring Autumn Cicada. He was
undoubtedly a blood path grandmaster, but there was more than one blood path
grandmaster other than him. On the other hand, there was only one Spring Autumn
Cicada in this world, and it was Red Lotus Demon Venerable's vital Gu.

Looking at the two, the choice was clear! But if Fang Yuan wanted to walk on time path,
he would need to walk on a long journey. He lacked a time path foundation, and he
was not a time path Gu Immortal either.

The current situation was: Fang Yuan was an immortal zombie, he did not know when
he could regain his living status, in a short time, if he wanted to gain more battle
strength, he could only choose strength path Immortal Gu.

"This is the star desolate hound strength Gu, it can grant you the strength of a star
desolate hound!"

"I have the iron crown eagle strength Gu, I'll throw in another one hundred and fifty
kilograms of great lake soil."

"A qi grand lion strength Gu, and five drops of rule eye blood!"

As the bidding continued, a Gu Immortal's bid made the hall go into a commotion.

"Rule eye blood! Did I hear wrongly?"

"One of the ten great catastrophes, rule eye tribulation, only by piercing the rule eye
can one obtain this blood."

"This blood is genuine immortal material, it can be the main material to make a rank
six Immortal Gu, or a supplementary material for a rank seven Immortal Gu!"

Fang Yuan shook his head, although rule eye blood was precious, five drops was too
little.

He sighed, although strength path was declining, the number of strength path
Immortal Gu was not few. But if not for this auction, he would not have seen so many
strength path Immortal Gu.

Northern Plains Gu Immortals, compared to the other four regions, had the lowest
financial power. But even so, after many years of accumulation, they still had quite the
sum. Gu Immortals had many precious goods, but they usually kept it to themselves,
hiding their wealth from others. Especially Immortal Gu, once these were exposed,
they might get targeted, thus, they hid Immortal Gu even more deeply.

Only during this auction would Gu Immortals expose these Gu voluntarily.

Otherwise, why would he say that the auction was a rare chance and a precious
opportunity that he could not miss?

A total of five Gu Immortals bid for rising azure cloud Immortal Gu. After a few rounds,
two Gu Immortals backed out, not long after, the third stopped. Only two were left.

But before they decided on the victor, Fang Yuan had sent a message to Qin Bai Sheng:
"Enough, I'll choose the third person. the one with iron crown eagle strength Gu."

This auction involving Immortal Gu was different from normal auctions. Firstly,
Immortal Gu were unique, secondly, there was no developed economy, they did not
have a common currency, thirdly, Gu Immortal's resources were all different, most of
the precious immortal materials were hard to evaluate.

Thus, during the auction, the seller could choose any buyer. Even though buyers
competed with each other, it was only to attract the seller and move them. The winner
who outbids the rest might not necessarily get the auction item.

To simplify it, this was a seller's market. Immortal Gu were unique, if I did not sell it,
where could you buy it?

A moment later, Fang Yuan and that Gu Immortal completed the transaction, the latter
obtained the rising azure cloud Immortal Gu, while Fang Yuan obtained the iron crown
eagle strength Gu, as well as a batch of immortal materials that were listed on Lang Ya
land spirit's list.

The reason why he chose iron crown eagle strength Gu was because this was the only
one which was a flying beast, the rest were all land based creatures.

Fang Yuan had true solid bat wings now, it was compatible with the strength of a flying
beast. If he could unleash the iron crown eagle strength Gu while flying, it would have
an effect on par with immortal movement killer moves.

After Rising Azure Cloud was the fourth auction item, it was a fire path Immortal Gu.

Once this Gu appeared, a small surge erupted in the auction, even the rank eight Gu
Immortal, Five Elements Grandmaster, joined the bidding.

In terms of wealth, how could rank six Gu Immortals and ordinary rank seven Gu
Immortals compare to a rank eight Gu Immortal? But in the end, Five Elements
Grandmaster returned empty handed.

The seller did not choose him, even though he was the eventual winner of the bidding.
He would rather risk offending a rank eight great expert, that was because the
immortal materials offered by the buyer were too valuable to him. Immortal materials
all varied greatly, the different types available were like the numbers of stars in the
sky, not even Five Elements Grandmaster could possess all of them.

But that was exactly why the auction was so interesting, because everyone had a
chance.

The fifth and sixth items were both metal path Immortal Gu.

The auction hall became much more heated now, metal, wood, water, fire, earth, these
were the five most mainstream paths, they were even more popular than cloud path
and sound path. Strength path and qi path were much less so.

Eventually, Five Elements Grandmaster obtained one of the metal path Gu worms, the
last one was won by Qin Bai Sheng. Not only was he the organizer of the auction, he
was also a participant.

As time passed, Immortal Gu after Immortal Gu were bought and sold. This was a rare
scene that had not happened in a few hundred years of time in Northern Plains. There
were records in history regarding such auctions, but they were smaller in scale.

The most important thing was that the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building
caused all the Gu Immortals to have some form of profit, this caused the auction to be
at such a scale.

Rarely seen Immortal Gu appeared one after another, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals
were trying to take advantage of this rare situation.

"Next is the twenty-third auction item, Worldly Wave Trace, this Gu is rank six and is
used for movement…” Qin Bai Sheng was still introducing it when two Gu Immortals
already began staring with shining eyes.

"Finally! Worldly Wave Trace, one of the core Immortal Gu of Water Pavilion. I have to
get it no matter what!" Feng Jiu Ge clenched his fists.

Meanwhile, in the first secret room.

"Worldly Wave Trace, very good, I did not waste my efforts after all. I already have the
relevant Immortal Gu recipe in my hands, once I get it, I have a high chance of refining
worldly horizon Immortal Gu. World horizon Immortal Gu can allow me to enter the
immemorial nine heavens freely, it can reduce the cost of breaking through the
heavenly wind qi wall." The Gu Immortal from Eastern Sea was already excited and in
anticipation.

The use and value of an Immortal Gu varied from one person to another.

To Feng Jiu Ge, this was one of the cores to construct the rank seven Immortal Gu
House, Water Pavilion.

To the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, it was a path towards the immemorial nine heavens,
the way to immense benefits.

These two choices had their own advantages, it was hard to say which was a better
way.

"I have a star desolate hound strength Gu."

"A peach wolf strength Gu."

"A wailing whale strength Gu."

The Gu Immortals bid rapidly.

Feng Jiu Ge waited patiently, seeing that the rank six Gu Immortals in the main hall
were bidding, he could not help but smile. Using Swordmaster You Lan's voice, he said:
"I have a strength path Immortal Gu here, called Pulling Mountain. It will allow your
strength to pull up a mountain, I will also add in a hundred and fifty kilograms of
heaven metal."

"Heaven metal? Incredible, this is an immortal material that is on par with the rule eye
blood. It is only produced in the immemorial nine heavens."

"A hundred and fifty kilograms from the start, this is much more than five drops of rule
eye blood, did I hear wrongly?"

There was a commotion in the main hall.

Feng Jiu Ge took out a huge sum to bid, with one move, he scared off most of his
competitors. A hundred and fifty kilograms of heaven metal was not a small sum, it
was extremely valuable!

But he only scared off 'most' of them.

In the first secret room, Eastern Sea Gu Immortal snorted unhappily, using his mortal
Gu to bid again.

A strength path Immortal Gu, Overturn River, as well as two hundred and fifty
kilograms of crack divine water!

"Is he crazy, two hundred and fifty kilograms of crack divine water? This is possible
supplementary material for rank seven Immortal Gu."

"Crack divine water is on par with heaven metal, it can only be extracted from the
deepest part of a great lake, in a hundred years, there might only be about ten to fifteen
kilograms.

"Oh?" Feng Jiu Ge was slightly shocked, he did not expect such a fierce competitor to
appear.

He gave an arrogant laugh, using Swordmaster You Lan's identity, he had less
reservations, he said: "Whatever the seller needs, be it materials, Gu recipes, beast
groups or variant human slaves, just tell me."

The instance these words came out, the whole hall went in an uproar.

Most Gu Immortals immediately thought of Prince Feng Xian who was backing Fairy
You Lan.

"It seems that Prince Feng Xian wants this Immortal Gu." Even that Eastern Sea Gu
Immortal could not help but guess.

But he quickly laughed, his fighting spirit had been triggered: "Prince Feng Xian is rank
eight, but am I not rank eight too?"

Soon after, in the auction hall, his voice could be heard: "My request is the same as
Fairy You Lan's. Can the seller give us an indication?"

The hall went into an uproar again, they were trying to guess who was in the first
secret room, by directly competing with Swordmaster You Lan, they were trying to
contest with Prince Feng Xian.

"Oh?" In the tenth secret room, Fang Yuan showed an expression of shock as well.

His eyes turned as he laughed lightly: "It seems that both sides are not ordinary, they
really desire this Gu. In that case, if I do not accede to their request, it would not be
fitting."

He directly took out Lang Ya land spirit's list, after multiplying the base amounts on it
by several times, he handed it to Qin Bai Sheng.

Qin Bai Sheng received it and showed a strange expression, before displaying it to
everyone.

The hall went into a third uproar.

"Isn't this list of items way too absurd?"

"Three thousand kilograms of heaven metal and crack divine water, who is this seller,
does he think these materials are grass growing on the ground?"

"This is an exorbitant amount, he is really asking for an absurd price!"

At once, even Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal were stunned.
"Oh? Interesting." Seeing the list of immortal materials given by Fang Yuan, Feng Jiu
Ge's gaze shined as he restored his calm.

The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal's expression was like it had never changed, he sat on the
chair with a disposition of being in control, he asked Murong Jin Xiao beside him:
"How many refinement path grandmasters are there in Northern Plains?"

On the list, most of them were refinement path immortal materials, the varieties were
huge, and the types of materials were chaotic, one could become dizzy from looking
at it. Fang Yuan could take it out in an instant, he had evidently prepared it long ago.

Only refinement path Gu Immortals would bother to prepare such a list, to try and
gain something from the auction.

Murong Jin Xiao replied without thinking: "There are four major refinement path
grandmasters in Northern Plains. The greatest one is Yao tribe's rank eight Gu
Immortal, Yao Huang, rumors say that his refinement path attainment has exceeded
grandmaster and perhaps even quasi-great grandmaster level. The second is a Gu
Immortal of my Murong tribe, Murong Xue Xiang, she had once refined a snow path
Immortal Gu successfully. The third is the second leader of Snowy Mountain, Lady
Wan Shou, she has refined Gu for many demonic path Gu Immortals. The fourth is a
lone cultivator, she is called Lady Miao Li, she is skilled at refining enslavement path
Gu worms."

The Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal heard this and nodded, not saying anything
further.

"The Gu Immortal in the tenth secret room is not simple."

"By asking for so many Gu refinement materials, even if this is an exorbitant amount,
one can see his ambition and unique characteristics!"

In the main hall, after the Gu Immortals regained their senses, they realized this.
"Right now, this situation has become interesting. Both buyers are quite the
characters, they have ample purchasing power. The seller is not to be underestimated
either, he has a mysterious background, he is simply unfathomable." Qin Bai Sheng
watched with anticipation as he thought about this.

He was the organizer of this auction, he knew that the rank eight Gu Immortal in the
first secret room came from Eastern Sea.

The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, even if he was rank eight, had to restrain himself in
Northern Plains. Especially in a place like the auction, outsiders were likely to get
targeted.

Thus, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal and Murong Jin Xiao chose to hide their identities,
choosing this secret room.

Since they wanted to join the auction, they had to interact with Qin Bai Sheng, who
helped them to hide their identities and gave them the first secret room, this was a
form of respect.

"Immortal zombie Sha Huang, he might look ordinary but he may possibly have a rank
eight monster backing him up. And this rank eight great expert is skilled in refining
Gu. I'm afraid Fairy Li Shan knows this as well. Otherwise, why would he, a mere rank
six immortal zombie, be so close to the third leader of Snowy Mountain?"

Qin Bai Sheng was making a guess.

In a way, he was correct.

Because it was Lang Ya land spirit who was behind Fang Yuan, in the past, Long Hair
Ancestor was certainly a rank eight Gu Immortal.

"In that case, I will add in a hundred and fifty pieces of thunder sound leaves." After a
bit of silence, Feng Jiu Ge was the first to speak.

In the hall, gasping noises could be heard.

Thunder sound leaves were not common, they did not exist in the outside world, they
could only be created from strong lightning tribulations. It was the essence formed
from thunder and lightning.
But thunder sound leaves were very rare, they were hard to obtain.

This was because ordinary Gu Immortal already found it hard to undergo their
immortal aperture tribulations, they would not have the ability to pick the thunder
sound leaves during their tribulations.

Even if they had the ability, they needed a specific method to pick the thunder sound
leaves.

Thus, even in treasure yellow heaven, thunder sound leaves were very rare. But now,
Feng Jiu Ge was offering a hundred and fifty of them.

"Hehehe." The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal laughed: "Is Prince Feng Xian so petty? This
list clearly states that the seller wants two hundred and eighty thunder sound leaves."

After pausing for a while, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal shouted: "I have three hundred
and sixty heaven flying jades!"

"Heaven flying jade, this is a type of jade that can allow a person to fly in azure heaven,
of the immemorial nine heavens."

"This jade has some mystical senses, it is like a bird or beast, it can avoid capture on
its own."

"Who is the person in the first secret room? He offered three hundred and sixty heaven
flying jades at once, it directly fulfills the amount on the list."

In the hall, murmurs could be heard again.

Actually, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal was also feeling heartache. He had once had an
opportunity and entered a large azure heaven fragment world for exploration,
obtaining more than four hundred heaven flying jades in the process, while getting
injured.

Right now, to compete for worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, he offered the majority of
them, to deal a huge blow towards his contender.

In the single room, Feng Jiu Ge snorted, his expression turned solemn.

The other party's actions made him realize, they were just like him, they were
determined to get worldly wave trace Immortal Gu.

Offering three hundred and sixty heaven flying jades at once, this showed their
immense wealth, they were a powerful foe!

But who was Feng Jiu Ge?

He was the person publicly recognized to have the highest battle strength in Central
Continent's ten great ancient sects. Even though he was rank seven, he could
withstand rank eight Gu Immortals, with Spirit Affinity House backing him, and the
many years of accumulation, his foundation was immensely abundant.

If there were any rank six or seven Gu Immortals in this auction who could contest
with rank eight great experts, then Feng Jiu Ge would definitely be number one
amongst them!

Adding more!

Feng Jiu Ge did not hesitate, he continued: "I'll add ten thousand pieces of star pupils."

Star pupils, a rare material of the immemorial nine heavens, not able to be found in
the five regions.

It was an immortal material that originated from blue heaven.

In blue heaven, stars flew around in carefree fashion, raining down endless stardust.
Among these uncountable stardust fragments, some were eight-sided, some were five-
sided, seven-sided, sixteen-sided…

There were also stardust fragments with no edges, they were round. These edgeless
fragments were like round jewels, the starlight gathered into the shape of an iris, thus,
they were known as star pupils.

Feng Jiu Ge's offer was shocking to the Gu Immortals.

"When this list first appeared, I had thought that there would not be a buyer so foolish
as to pay such a huge price for an Immortal Gu. I was wrong!"

"The list only needs eight thousand edgeless stardust fragments, but Swordmaster You
Lan is offering ten thousand! This is evidently a counterattack against the competitor."
"Too wealthy, they are too wealthy. Is this the accumulation of a rank eight?"

"Compared to these people, I am like a pauper. Such a feeling is really not good."

The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal heard Feng Jiu Ge's offer and his breathing stopped for
a moment. Honestly speaking, he did not expect that he would attract a fiercer
counterattack, an even stronger backlash.

"Although there are a lot of star pupils, I must remind the seller. Star pupils, after all,
vary in quality, a fragmented star pupil and an intact star pupil have very different
value." The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal said.

Fang Yuan heard this and thought about it, the voice from the first secret room was
correct, this was true.

But on Lang Ya land spirit's immortal material list, he did not mention this.

The reason was, Lang Ya land spirit did not expect such a situation to occur. He
thought: It was hard enough to collect star pupils. It was good if they could find any,
the quality was not an issue, that was a secondary concern.

"You've said so much, but can you actually make a new offer. If not, I have a lot more
here." Feng Jiu Ge smiled coldly, he continued his attack, mentioning region sand, sun
salt, star galaxy wind, plain fire, and three other immortal materials, although the
amount did not fill up the list, the variety was enough to be shocking.

A Gu Immortal immediately sighed: "Fairy You Lan is cold and arrogant, she is going
all in. Before the opponent made an offer, she raised it once again."

A Gu Immortal beside him analyzed: "This is a bidding tactic. In my opinion, the

mysterious Gu Immortal in the first secret room is a formidable person as well, he will
not give up easily."

Feng Jiu Ge's offer gave the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal in the first secret room a
reminder.

"That's right, the seller can take out such a list, they definitely cultivate refinement
path. Refining Gu requires a large variety of materials, a large quantity of one material
is not enough. The other party is making such an offer to attract them, I need to change
my tactics as well." The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal thought about it before shouting
again.

He competed with Feng Jiu Ge, offering huge amounts of immortal materials, this
made the Gu Immortals present listen with dazed expressions, like they were
dreaming.

After a few rounds, be it Feng Jiu Ge or the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, they started
breathing roughly.

In the secret room, Gu Immortal Murong Jin Xiao, who was at the side, could not say
anything further.

"These two lunatics." In a single room, the rank eight Gu Immortal, Five Elements
Grandmaster, shook his head, sighing helplessly.

He cultivation included metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, he needed Gu worms from
all the five paths. He wanted to participate in the water path Immortal Gu Worldly
Wave Trace's auction, but looking at this competition, his desire dwindled.

Fang Yuan was quite surprised.

If he added Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal's bids together, then half of
the materials listed would be collected already!

Of course, Fang Yuan could only choose one of them. There cannot be two victors in
this bid.

Fang Yuan was not overly happy, his gaze was shining uncertainly.

The other parties were not idiots, they were going after worldly wave trace Immortal
Gu so fiercely, that proved that for them, they could derive much greater benefits from
this Immortal Gu.

"I'll offer five kilograms of drunk immortal qi!" At one side, the Eastern Sea Gu
Immortal had made another offer.

The auction hall started whirring, as if a small explosion had happened.

"What is drunk immortal qi?"

"It is also an immortal material, but its use is quite obscure. It can make even Gu
Immortals drunk, it can only be created in a special environment."

"This drunk immortal qi is usually sold in traces. Even in treasure yellow heaven,
condensed drunk immortal qi that are in liquid form are sold in grams. Since when are
they sold in kilograms?"

The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal was really wealthy, with this heavy blow, even Feng Jiu
Ge's expression became solemn.

Feng Jiu Ge knew the value of this drunk immortal qi, five kilograms of it was simply
extraordinary!

Feng Jiu Ge was hesitant, if he made an offer again, he would need to provide value
equivalent to five kilograms of drunk immortal qi.

He calmed down and thought about it, asking himself: "For solely worldly wave trace
Immortal Gu, is such a price worth it or not?"

Of course it was worth it!

Rebuilding Water Pavilion had been a wish of Spirit Affinity House for ages. Although
Spirit Affinity House had the complete recipe of Water Pavilion, they could refine only
the mortal Gu, the Immortal Gu were unique.

For Water Pavilion, Spirit Affinity House had put up detailed missions, recovering each
of the core Immortal Gu would have an immense reward!

"In that case, so be it!" Feng Jiu Ge thought about it rapidly, after making up his mind,
he took out another Immortal Gu while gritting his teeth.

"This is the strength path Immortal Gu, Pulling Water." He reported.

The entire hall became silent.

The silence did not last for long, the auction hall exploded into a commotion soon
afterwards.

The Gu Immortals talked among themselves, as many of the Gu Immortals in the hall
directed their gaze towards a single room.

This single room was the place where 'Fairy You Lan' was inside.

Everyone subconsciously wanted to see what expression 'Swordmaster You Lan' had
when she made such a shocking decision.

Even the organizer, Qin Bai Sheng, was a bit stunned, he asked: "Exchanging two for
one, is that what you mean, Fairy You Lan?"

"That is the case." Feng Jiu Ge made the decision already, he had no more hesitations.

Hearing Feng Jiu Ge's confirmation, the discussions in the hall became softer.

Feng Jiu Ge was a sound path Gu Immortal, why did he have two strength path
Immortal Gu in his possession?

In truth, he had many more Immortal Gu than just these two.

Feng Jiu Ge led the ten Gu Immortals into Northern Plains secretly, he had important
missions assigned to him. The first was to find the culprit behind the collapse of
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, the person who activated Central Continent's
arrangements in advance. The second one was to collect as many Immortal Gu as he
could. To achieve this target, the Central Continent Gu Immortals prepared many
methods.

One of the ways was to exchange Gu, thus they brought along many Immortal Gu from
their sects.
After all, Gu worms were hard to snatch. A Gu Master can destroy their own Gu worms
in an instant with just a thought. The same applied to Immortal Gu.

The Immortal Gu that they brought over were mostly from unpopular paths, like
strength path, qi path, and others.

Intelligence on Northern Plains was always in the grasps of the ten great ancient sects.
Qin Bai Sheng had not concealed the matter of him holding the auction, he even
promoted it greatly. Thus, Feng Jiu Ge and the others had heard about this even when
they were in Central Continent.

It could be said that Feng Jiu Ge's appearance in the auction was not a last minute
decision, he had planned for it long ago.

In the current world, strength path was not doing well, it had been weakening, those
with enough wealth and ambition would certainly not choose to cultivate in strength
path.

Using these Gu worms to exchange for Gu worms of other paths, to the ten sects, this
was a form of victory.

Although the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal was a rank eight great expert, when they truly
competed, he still lost to Feng Jiu Ge.

After all, Feng Jiu Ge was backed by the ten great ancient sects. Meanwhile, the Eastern
Sea Gu Immortal entered Northern Plains secretly and attended this auction, it was
his personal matter.

Feng Jiu Ge had the resolution to do a two for one exchange, but he did not.

But he was not resigned.

He made a final effort, bidding: "I will add… a sandalwood sacred elephant egg!"

A small commotion occurred in the hall again.

"A sandalwood sacred elephant is an ancient desolate beast, after it grows to

adulthood, it can rival rank seven Gu Immortals."

"The most important thing is to raise it from a young age, establishing a deep
relationship, there would be a low chance of betrayal."

"A living ancient desolate beast's value is very high. If managed well, it is like a treasure
trove with endless value. The blood of the sacred elephant is a good immortal material,
the tusks of the sacred elephant will grow back even if they are removed."

"The Gu Immortal in the first secret room is using another approach. This is quite
impressive, an Immortal Gu versus an ancient desolate beast, comparing the two, they
each have their advantages and disadvantages, it is hard to decide."

"Immortal Gu are indeed unique, but ancient desolate beasts are useful too. Especially
when the seller seems to have interest in refinement path, he might be moved and
choose the ancient desolate beast."

The people discussed.

At this point, Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal stopped bidding.

The situation was uncertain now.

Feng Jiu Ge was exchanging two for one, he had great resolution and had a better
chance. But the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal's offer was similarly enticing, he had a
chance of victory too.

As the auction hall turned silent, everyone was waiting for Fang Yuan's decision.

This was an unexpected climactic moment of the auction, how would it end, who
would be the winner that obtains worldly wave trace Immortal Gu?

Everyone was waiting in anticipation.

Fang Yuan thought about it before making his decision, informing Qin Bai Sheng
secretly.

Qin Bai Sheng nodded, announcing publicly: "The seller has decided, they will sell
worldly wave trace Immortal Gu to Fairy You Lan!"

Once he said that, everyone breathed out in relief, starting their discussions.

"It was logical that Fairy You Lan won."

"It was a two for one trade after all."

"If it was me, I would choose the ancient desolate beast. After all, the immortal essence
expenditure of using two Immortal Gu is high."

"Which lucky person does this worldly wave trace Immortal Gu belong to? He actually
sold it for such a good price, one Immortal Gu in exchange for two!"

"Indeed, if I had not witnessed this personally, I would never believe it."

"Fairy You Lan, or rather, Prince Feng Xian definitely has other objectives. They are not
fools, since they are offering such a high price, then the benefits they can gain must
also be higher!"

"As long as there is demand, there is a market, and profits can be gained. The greater
the demand, the greater the profit."

Not just them, even Fang Yuan was trying to decipher the reason why 'Swordmaster
You Lan' was buying worldly wave trace Immortal Gu at such a high price.

"Prince Feng Xian…” The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal muttered this name as his
expression turned slightly dark.

As the auction continued, an earth path Immortal Gu appeared next.

But the atmosphere was far beneath that of earlier, most of the Gu Immortals were
still thinking about the earlier situation, they were still discussing it.

What was the meaning of affluence and wealth, they had finally seen it clearly.

Even though many people were suspicious, why would Prince Feng Xian, a fire path
cultivator, be interested in a water path Immortal Gu?

But the mind of a rank eight great expert was hard to decipher, it was not something
an outsider could guess so easily.

A mainstream path Immortal Gu was rapidly sold after several rounds of bidding, the
quick deal gave people a relatively boring feeling.

Towards this, Qin Bai Sheng was helpless, he could only smile bitterly.
After the climax, it would be the downturn. After all, Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea
Gu Immortal's bids were too imposing, it weakened a lot of the Gu Immortals' desires
to bid.

Fang Yuan sat in a secret room, playing with the two strength path Immortal Gu as he
paid attention to the auction.

Transactions involving Immortal Gu were done on the spot.

Fang Yuan looked through those immortal materials, he checked that there was no
issue with the quantity.

Through Feng Jiu Ge's cooperation, the two strength path Immortal Gu were
completely refined by Fang Yuan, they were now his.

At the same time, worldly wave trace Immortal Gu was in Feng Jiu Ge's hands.

"This is worldly wave trace Immortal Gu… after so many years, it is finally back in
Spirit Affinity House's hands." Feng Jiu Ge sighed softly, he felt some emotions.

As Immortal Gu were auctioned off one by one, as time passed, the atmosphere of the
auction hall became heated once again.

"Next is the thirty-fourth auction item, strength path Immortal Gu — Cauldron

Strength, this is a rare strength path defensive Immortal Gu. Once activated, it can
create a strength cauldron, protecting oneself. The seller wants a wisdom path
Immortal Gu." Qin Bai Sheng said.

Most of the Gu Immortals in the hall had little interest.

Strength path was declining, few people cultivated it, thus its demand in the market
was small.

Just as the owner of cauldron strength Immortal Gu was anxious, a hoarse and unique
voice came from a single room: "Wisdom path Immortal Gu Loving Affection."

"This voice, it's Domination Immortal Chu Du!" Immediately, someone in the hall
shouted.

"That's right, it should be him, his voice is hoarse like this."

"To think that Domination Immortal came."

"What is so strange about it, Lord Chu Du is a famous strength path expert, why would
Qin Bai Sheng not invite him?"

"Domination Immortal Chu Du…” In a single room, Feng Jiu Ge drank his tea as his eyes
shined.

Before he came to Northern Plains, he had obtained some information. The

information regarding Domination Immortal Chu Du was rich and had a lot of details,
Feng Jiu Ge placed great emphasis on him.

Chu Du was a rare strength path Gu Immortal, not only did he have great battle
strength, he even had overflowing talent, creating a side branch of strength path
personally.

Strength path was a huge path, it had once flourished. Right now, strength path was
split into beast strength phantom branch, atmospheric heaven and earth branch, as
well as human strength jun strength branch.

The beast strength phantom branch included bull strength, tiger strength and others,
the strength path Immortal Gu, iron crown eagle strength Gu, that Fang Yuan had
obtained some time ago was in this branch.

Atmospheric heaven and earth branch was the strength of nature, like wind strength,
water strength, fire strength and others. Or for example, Pulling Mountain and Pulling
Water that Fang Yuan obtained from selling worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, both
belonged to this branch.

Human strength jun strength branch referred to the jin strength Gu, strength of ten jin
Gu, jun strength Gu, strength of ten jun Gu, strength of hundred jun Gu and others.

This small branch was created solely by Chu Du, he brought strength path onto
another track and revitalized this dying path using his own methods.

Right now, the human strength jun strength branch was already the mainstream
strength path cultivation in Northern Plains. All the Gu Masters in Northern Plains had
a strength path foundation, they had all used jin strength Gu, strength of ten jin Gu,
jun strength Gu, strength of ten jun Gu and others.
One could say that Domination Immortal Chu Du had singlehandedly turned around
the situation of strength path, affecting all of the Gu cultivator paths in the world.

Feng Jiu Ge naturally had to pay a lot of attention to such a person, in fact, it was
particularly great emphasis.

"Northern Plains is constantly engaged in battles, it is also a place where heroes

emerge. If there is a chance, I have to meet this Domination Immortal." Feng Jiu Ge's
mouth curled into an excited smile.

Meeting all of the heroes in this world, that was the ambition of a true man!

At this time, a voice echoed: " Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, and five
thousand kilograms of cloud soil."

Guh.

Feng Jiu Ge spat out the tea in his mouth, his eyes stared widely as he lost his calm.

"Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu!" He shouted: "Damn it, my worry came
true."

Immortal Gu could be placed up for auction, they could naturally be used to trade for
other Immortal Gu as well. If not for this, all of the registered Immortal Gu would be
held up and not available for trade, this would greatly affect the auction's success.

Feng Jiu Ge understood this rule, and thus he was worried about it.

Whatever you worried about was bound to happen.

Fang Yuan wanted strength path Immortal Gu, he had been paying attention to this
strength path Immortal Gu since long ago. Right now, he offered delight in water and
mountain Immortal Gu, this was part of his original plan.

"One heaven pillar wind." Facing Fang Yuan's competition, Domination Immortal Chu
Du raised his offer.

Heaven pillar wind was quite special, it originated from green heaven. It was like a tall
pillar, extremely tall and long. When it blows, it will not cause movement, only blowing
on the spot, from outside, it resembled a giant pillar that extended into the sky.
One heaven pillar wind had high value, it did not lose to Feng Jiu Ge's earlier bid of a
hundred and fifty thunder sound leaves.

"Domination Immortal Chu Du…” Fang Yuan muttered, immediately understanding:

"It seems that you are my biggest competitor this time!"
"The tenth secret room bids an intact skeleton of a sky dragon, along with one
thousand five hundred grams of fury powder." Qin Bai Sheng stood on the platform
and shouted loudly.

Chu Du frowned.

He had just bid a heaven pillar wind, and the Gu Immortal in the tenth secret room
immediately marked up the price with no hesitation.

"This is a strong foe." Chu Du sighed inwardly.

In the previous bidding war of Feng Jiu Ge and the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, the price
was settled by exchanging two Immortal Gu for one, from which the tenth secret room
had profited greatly. Everyone in the auction knew of this.

Chu Du could not help but feel pressure.

He was also a veteran Gu Immortal with rank seven cultivation and a deep foundation.
In his peak period, the immortal essence stones he had on hand to spend greatly
surpassed several tens of thousands!

But the situation now was different from the past.

Chu Du recently succeeded in undergoing a tribulation of his immortal aperture, but

as a result, his foundation had thinned. Thus, he broke through the heavenly wind qi
wall and entered deep within white heaven to explore and replenish resources.

He did make some profits, but he suffered injuries, and to heal these injuries he had
to borrow Immortal Gu from others which cost him a lot, overall, he still ended up at
a loss.

The immemorial nine heavens had plentiful resources, but were also danger zones.
The benefits there were accompanied with risks.
Thus, at this moment, Chu Du was quite short on money available to spend.

"But strength path defensive Immortal Gu are rare. I have been a strength path Gu
Immortal for so long, but only today have I come across one. If I don't try my best to
obtain it, I might regret it in the future."

Chu Du thought of this, and gritted his teeth as he continued to bid.

However, no matter how much he added, Fang Yuan also kept on adding.

Several rounds later, Chu Du finally could not persist with this and sent a message to
Qin Bai Sheng secretly, wanting to communicate with the tenth secret room.

Qin Bai Sheng was surprised, but without any change in expression, he sent the
message to Fang Yuan.

With Fang Yuan's permission, Chu Du was able to send a letter to the tenth secret
room.

In the letter, Chu Du wrote, if Fang Yuan to retreat from the bidding war, he would owe
Fang Yuan a favor and would do a task of equivalent value for Fang Yuan in accordance
to the future circumstances. If Fang Yuan did not believe him, they could use an
Immortal Gu to create a vow. Not only this, Chu Du also said he would provide Fang
Yuan precious information regarding Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's true
meaning.

Fang Yuan was surprised and also happy as he read this letter.

There was no doubt Chu Du wrote this letter because he wanted to obtain cauldron
strength Immortal Gu, and because of his insufficient financial condition, he wanted
to talk things over with Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan certainly would not agree!

He was a strength path Gu Immortal as well, and naturally wanted to obtain this rare
cauldron strength Immortal Gu. As for Reckless Savage Demon Venerable's true
meaning, Fang Yuan already had a rough understanding of it, he even obtained
benefits personally.

"I had originally thought Domination Immortal Chu Du had deep pockets, but who
could have thought he would make a fool of himself this quickly. It seems his fortune
is at rock bottom. Hehehe." Fang Yuan snickered while making another high bid.

Chu Du gritted his teeth as he proceeded with the bidding, but the items he used to
bid were a mish-mash of different goods.

Fang Yuan increased his bid again, adding on rank seven immortal materials, which
could act as the main refinement material to refine a rank seven Immortal Gu, their
value was very high.

Chu Du sighed but still was not resigned to giving up, as he again added bits and pieces
from here and there, bidding many rank six immortal materials. The overall price was
similar to Fang Yuan's rank seven immortal materials.

The Gu Immortals in the hall began to notice the clues now.

"Strange, Lord Chu Du seems to be in a strained situation."

"I had vaguely heard that Domination Immortal had undergone a tribulation few
months ago, it seems the injuries from the tribulation were quite heavy."

"Chu Du had borrowed healing Immortal Gu from Yao Huang, and reportedly had to
pay a considerable price."

The Gu Immortals quietly spoke to one another while sighing.

Chu Du was feeling anxious, but there was someone else who was more anxious - Feng
Jiu Ge.

"This Domination Immortal also cannot handle the situation!" Feng Jiu Ge felt
disappointment. He had been hoping Chu Du could pressure the tenth secret room
with his might and overwhelm them to achieve victory.

But despite Chu Du's reputation, currently his poor financial capacity was making a
scene that Feng Jiu Ge could not bear to continue witnessing, he had no choice but to
think of a way to stop Fang Yuan from winning.

"Worldly Wave Trace and Delight in Water and Mountain, these two Immortal Gu both
belong to the Gu Immortal in the tenth secret room. This person is mysterious and
seems to have a major origin, it is even possible that they are the main culprit of the
Imperial Court case. I know them, but they don't know about me, the enemy is in the
open while I am in the dark right now. It won't be appropriate if I directly buy Delight
in Water and Mountain from him or her. Not to mention the chance of inadvertently
alerting them, if they infer some clues and decide to not sell the Immortal Gu, that
would be anything but good."

Feng Jiu Ge kept on thinking.

He also had a strategic mind, he had both brains and brawn. If not for this, Spirit
Affinity House would not entrust him with such an important task and send him as
the leader of the group infiltrating Northern Plains.

"If I directly interfere and participate in the bidding, that would be inappropriate as
well! I am under the identity of Swordmaster You Lan, but I have already bought
Worldly Wave Trace, if I openly buy Delight in Water and Mountain again, in the case
that the person in the tenth secret room knows of the secret of Water Pavilion, the
possibility of exposing myself increases greatly."

Feng Jiu Ge had secretly infiltrated into Northern Plains and also disguised his identity,
even if he was very powerful, he would be fighting in foreign territory, so he had some
misgivings.

"The most troublesome thing is even if someone outbids others in this auction, if the
seller does not choose them, it would still be a failure. Even if I interfere and suppress
others, there won't be much significance."

Moreover, there was another point as well, even if Feng Jiu Ge succeeded in the bidding
and bought cauldron strength Immortal Gu, what would he use it for?

He did not want a strength path Immortal Gu, instead, he wanted to sell strength path
Immortal Gu in exchange for other, more suitable Immortal Gu.

Feng Jiu Ge's mouth dried, he took a sip of tea while having a regretful feeling in his
heart: "If I was not alone and had someone to help me, it would be much simpler to
deal with this problem."

However, on one hand, his move, vaguely familiar face, was an immortal killer move
and it could not be easily passed on to others. On the other hand, he also could not use
the Gu Immortals at Prince Feng Xian's side. The logic here was simple: If, by any
chance, Feng Jiu Ge's identity was exposed, Prince Feng Xian would not be greatly
implicated.

Prince Feng Xian could proclaim he knew nothing of it, and keep on lurking
undercover.

With these thoughts in mind, Feng Jiu Ge made the decision and quietly got in contact
with Domination Immortal Chu Du.

The Gu Immortals in single rooms and the main hall could directly contact each other,
unlike the secret rooms, where Chu Du could only contact Fang Yuan with Qin Bai
Sheng as the middle man. As long as either party within a secret room did not want to
make contact, there could be no way to send a message.

Chu Du felt strange as he received Swordmaster You Lan's letter. He was fairly close to
Yao Huang, but he had only met Prince Feng Xian once.

In the letter, Feng Jiu Ge said he was willing to fund Chu Du to help him win cauldron
strength Immortal Gu. However, he made a request, saying that he hoped Chu Du could
sell the immortal material, true heaven silver.

"It seems that there is some value for the injuries I had in the exploration of white
heaven. I obtained three hundred kilograms of true heaven silver, which is extremely
rare even in treasure yellow heaven! With Swordmaster You Lan's help, I can still
compete!" Chu Du naturally was somewhat doubtful of Feng Jiu Ge's true intentions.
But he was feeling urgency in obtaining cauldron strength Immortal Gu.

Chu Du immediately replied to Feng Jiu Ge, thanking the other party for the help and
also stating that after this event, he would give detailed information on the exact
location of true heaven silver.

With Feng Jiu Ge's help, Chu Du gained confidence and made a bid again.

Changes occur in matters within the world, producing mysterious and interesting
results. In Fang Yuan's previous life, Chu Du died in battle and the killer had been Feng
Jiu Ge. Now, because of Fang Yuan, these two people joined hands by a stroke of fate!

The collaboration between the two was mutually beneficial.

To Chu Du, he needed cauldron strength Immortal Gu, and Feng Jiu Ge's help was
opportune assistance.
To Feng Jiu Ge, the financial aid he provided Chu Du with would be returned to him in
the future. He could pay a low price to obstruct Fang Yuan's target.

The bidding price continued to increase higher and higher.

Chu Du seemed to have been revitalized, having increased confidence as he made bids
with no hesitation.

Fang Yuan was surprised at this. After using up the immortal materials from Lang Ya
blessed land, he had no choice but to start bidding with the immortal materials he had
obtained earlier.

Feng Jiu Ge could not help but feel vexed.

These immortal materials had been his previously. He had not thought that after
taking them out, they would be used against him so quickly.

However, Feng Jiu Ge had no choice but to continue, while also calculating the
situation.

"It seems the situation of worldly wave trace Immortal Gu is going to be repeated!"

"Domination Immortal Chu Du seems to be bent on getting this strength Immortal

Gu!"

"The tenth secret room has been requesting strength path Immortal Gu since the
beginning, and is now competing with Chu Du, with neither side having the slightest
intent to retreat. It seems there is going to be another surge in the auction."

The Gu Immortals discussed with one another in the main hall.

Fang Yuan finally could not keep being seated, he left his seat and paced around in the
secret room.

"Chu Du clearly had no hope and thus sent the letter, but how, in that case, did he get
such a boost in his wealth? Could it be that he was pretending to be weak? Impossible!
There would need to be a hole in his brain for him to use such a clumsy plan. That
means, someone is helping him."

Fang Yuan frowned, he had a hunch, but he could not precisely grasp it.
Who was this person helping Chu Du?

Why was this person helping him?

On the surface, it was a competition between two people, but Fang Yuan felt that there
was someone meddling in the dark.

Fang Yuan tapped at his immortal zombie head, as he sat down on his seat again and
started to use the wills in his mind to help him in thinking.

While he thought, he continued bidding.

After two more bids, he suddenly opened his eyes.

A sharp light flashed in his eyes, the thinking just now had given him some results, as
he formed some conjectures.

"I must have this cauldron strength Immortal Gu!" Fang Yuan suddenly shouted,
making an empty show of power, "Whatever the seller wants, speak, I will do my best
to satisfy it."

"The same goes for me, whatever the seller wants, please speak." Chu Du was silent
for a moment before he followed suit, showing no weakness.

The hall was in a commotion.

"The person in the tenth secret room is not simple, directly challenging Chu Du."

"Sure enough, it has started again, the second climactic moment of the auction."

"The auction of Worldly Wave Trace was also like this. Now, let's see what the seller
wants."

The seller did not think for long, immediately speaking of a new requirement — a
wisdom path inheritance.

Chu Du gave a bitter smile when he heard this request, where would he find a wisdom
path inheritance.

Wisdom path has been around for a long time, but it had always been passed down
from generation to generation in a single line, and was extremely mysterious and rare.
The seller saw the heated bidding war and got greedy, making such an excessive
request.

Feng Jiu Ge also gave a bitter smile, he had many Immortal Gu with him, but the seller's
request of a wisdom path inheritance caused things to be awkward for him.

Wisdom path was rare, even among the ten great ancient sects, only a few wisdom
path inheritances were possessed by them.

Fang Yuan had asked for a wisdom path inheritance in treasure yellow heaven for a
high price, but this had not been fulfilled! Finally, when fortune arrived for him, he
only received an incomplete inheritance, that was also because the other party had an
urgent need for the ancient desolate beast corpse.

There were many wisdom path Gu worms, but wisdom path inheritances were rare.

For a while, Fang Yuan and Chu Du went silent.

The seller was requesting for a wisdom path inheritance, this was really an excessive
demand. Previously, in the immortal material list that Fang Yuan threw out earlier, at
least Gu Immortals would more or less have something within it, but wisdom path
inheritances were extremely rare.

Even if it was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, they would not sell their own inheritance,
something that is of utmost importance to themselves.

Chu Du did not have a wisdom path inheritance, and neither did Feng Jiu Ge.

Fang Yuan only had an incomplete wisdom path inheritance, it was extremely
incomplete, it could not meet the requirements.

He sat on the seat, licking his dry lips as he kept quiet, but his heart was growing with
anticipation.

At once, be it the tenth secret room or Domination Immortal Chu Du, they did not
speak, the hall fell into a peculiar silence.

Eventually, discussions arose in the hall again.

"Requesting for a wisdom path inheritance, this condition is too much."

"A wisdom path Immortal Gu is good enough, they were still greedy for a wisdom path
inheritance? Hehe."

"This is simply being blinded by greed, such a condition, the tenth secret room and
Domination Immortal are unable to satisfy it. The heated bidding earlier was ruined.
This cauldron strength Immortal Gu might end up going unsold!"

"But this is nothing much, unsold Immortal Gu will be in the second round of the
auction according to the sequence."
This seller of the cauldron strength Immortal Gu also found something amiss, he was
anxious and quickly added.

Qin Bai Sheng received his transmission and announced again: "The wisdom path
inheritance does not need to be complete, an incomplete wisdom path inheritance is
fine too. Of course, the more complete it is, the better it would be."

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, he had a rather incomplete wisdom path inheritance.

His bid came from within the tenth secret room: "I have an incomplete wisdom path
inheritance."

Chu Du heard Fang Yuan's bid and his heart jumped, he did not even have an
incomplete inheritance. But he still had hope in his heart, he placed his hopes on
Swordmaster You Lan. In his perspective, Swordmaster You Lan was backed by Prince
Feng Xian, they had incredible foundation and would likely have a wisdom path
incomplete inheritance.

Feng Jiu Ge laughed bitterly.

Spirit Affinity House indeed had collected incomplete wisdom path inheritances. But
he did not have any currently. He quickly used the hole earth Gu in his immortal
aperture and communicated to the other nine Central Continent Gu Immortals.

The nine Central Continent Gu Immortals knew about Feng Jiu Ge's actions. In truth,
they were secretly lurking near crimson reed marsh, waiting to reinforce Feng Jiu Ge.

After receiving Feng Jiu Ge's message, two of them had an incomplete inheritance. One
was from Old Oracle, he came from Ancient Soul Sect and was a wisdom path Gu
Immortal. The other was Chen Zhen Chi from Myriad Dragon Dock, he was a flying
grandmaster and had once explored an inheritance ground, obtaining one by chance.

Feng Jiu Ge received their message and was overjoyed, quickly interacting with them.

Wisdom path inheritances, even if incomplete, were quite valuable. Old Oracle and
Chen Zhen Chi were not from the same sect as Feng Jiu Ge, even if they were, they still
had to properly balance the books.

In a moment, Feng Jiu Ge finished discussing with Chen Zhen Chi and paid some price
to buy the incomplete wisdom path inheritance from him.
But after getting it, Feng Jiu Ge became hesitant.

He could naturally provide the incomplete wisdom path inheritance to Chu Du. But
doing it in this way was too obvious.

He had lied to Chu Du earlier, saying that he wanted Chu Du's immortal materials, the
true heaven silver. But now, just for the true heaven silver, he was providing him the
valuable incomplete wisdom path inheritance, this was like giving up gold for silver, it
did not make sense.

Feng Jiu Ge could imagine, once he showed this inheritance, Chu Du would begin to
suspect his true motives!

"Oh, if I had a companion that understood the situation alongside me, they would be
able to bid now." Feng Jiu Ge sighed again: "In this situation, there is an eighty percent
chance that the seller would choose the tenth secret room! Unfortunately, in regards
to the seller who is auctioning the Immortal Gu, I cannot contact them."

Just as Feng Jiu Ge was about to risk Chu Du's suspicions and take out the incomplete
wisdom path inheritance, Chu Du spoke: "I do not have an inheritance, I'll back out
from this bid."

Feng Jiu Ge was stunned.

The truth was, after waiting for a while, the tiny hope in Chu Du's heart vanished.

He thought over it, his relationship with Swordmaster You Lan and Prince Feng Xian
was not deep, the other party was only helping him because of the true heaven silver.
Even if they had a wisdom path inheritance, why would they make such a huge
sacrifice to help him? Just for that three hundred kilograms of true heaven silver?

It was evidently impossible.

Chu Du was a smart person, even though he was a lone cultivator, he needed his face.
Fang Yuan had made his offer long ago, so many people were watching, Chu Du could
not stall this by keeping silent.

Thus, he announced his intention to back out from the current bid.

Feng Jiu Ge's expression sunk, when Chu Du announced that he was backing out, he
understood the reason behind it.

At once, Fang Yuan's victory was imminent, Feng Jiu Ge did not know what to say.

Should he blame Chu Du for being too smart, thus making deductions in advance? Feng
Jiu Ge himself had hesitated, because he lacked a companion, his hands were tied and
it was tough for him to manipulate anything.

"But, even if delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu is handed over, there is still
hope. After the open auction, there is still the free transaction period." Feng Jiu Ge
consoled himself, his mental state quickly returned to normal. He had braved through
many storms and difficulties in life that had improved him, they were on par with Fang
Yuan's. If not for them, he would not be the Feng Jiu Ge he was today.

Feng Jiu Ge was a type of person with much in common with Fang Yuan, they never
gave up and would not mind temporary failure or loss, and they could lower their
statuses if needed.

The result of the competition for cauldron strength Immortal Gu had become quite
clear.

Domination Immortal Chu Du conceded while Fang Yuan provided an incomplete

wisdom path inheritance.

But just as Qin Bai Sheng was about to announce the bid going to Fang Yuan, a third
competitor appeared.

"Eleventh secret room is bidding as well, they are taking out a wisdom path Immortal
Gu, an incomplete wisdom path inheritance, as well as immortal materials that are on
par with those of tenth secret room!" Qin Bai Sheng suddenly announced.

This was an unexpected situation, the Gu Immortals in the main hall were very
interested.

"Another mysterious Gu Immortal has entered the bidding competition."

"Eleventh secret room… they are able to make such a high bid, the auction has invited
some formidable characters indeed."

"Since when were strength path Immortal Gu so popular, everyone is fighting for this?"
Qin Bai Sheng felt more confusion than the others, he knew that Tai Bai Yun Sheng and
Fang Yuan arrived together, they should be allies. Why were they competing with each
other now?

Not only him, even the bidder, Tai Bai Yun Sheng, was confused.

He had just received Fang Yuan's transmission earlier, asking him to do this bid.

Since the seller could only choose one person to deal with, whether they chose Fang
Yuan or Tai Bai Yun Sheng, they would only receive one of the bids. From start to finish,
Fang Yuan did not violate the auction's rules.

Fang Yuan sat in the tenth secret room, his finger was tapping on the armrest of his
seat. His eyes were closed until only a slit remained, he continued bidding and
competing with Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

After several rounds, Tai Bai Yun Sheng pieced random materials together, showing
his limited finances.

Next, he purposely hesitated before bidding, displaying a changing mind.

After several more rounds of bidding, Tai Bai Yun Sheng obtained a notification from
Qin Bai Sheng, after approving of it, he received a letter from another person.

This letter's content was similar to the one written to Domination Immortal. Using
one of the immortal materials that Tai Bai Yun Sheng had as an excuse, he saw that Tai
Bai Yun Sheng could not afford to continue bidding and was willing to fund him in
exchange for the immortal material.

"Junior brother, just as you had expected, someone is willing to fund me." Tai Bai Yun
Sheng reported this to Fang Yuan in secret.

"Oh?" Fang Yuan opened his eyes, straightening his back subconsciously: "Who?"

"Swordmaster You Lan."

"Swordmaster You Lan?" Fang Yuan's eyes shone with brilliance.

"Swordmaster You Lan… Prince Feng Xian…” He could not sit any longer, he started
pacing around in the room.
Fang Yuan's plan earlier was only to ascertain a guess in his mind. Now that he saw a
result from his test, Fang Yuan was a little surprised.

"Domination Immortal Chu Du obtained funding, thus he could continue competing

with me. This person is likely to be Swordmaster You Lan."

"If it is her, then why did she fund Chu Du and Tai Bai Yun Sheng? It is definitely not
for the immortal materials, but to prevent my delight in water and mountain Immortal
Gu from falling into other people's hands."

"Delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu has no use in my hands, thus I am selling
it. But if it falls into the hands of the seller of cauldron strength Immortal Gu, then he
would not sell the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu again because he wants
to have it."

"Swordmaster You Lan spent a huge sum earlier and used two strength path Immortal
Gu to obtain worldly wave trace Gu. Now, she is trying all sorts of methods to prevent
me from selling delight in water and mountain Gu, why is that?"

The answer had already been flickering in his mind, that was the rank seven Immortal
Gu House — Water Pavilion.

Fang Yuan paced in the room as he thought about it.

After a while, he stopped in his tracks, raising his head.

The scene in the secret room was like a painting, but Fang Yuan's gaze was like the
abyss, it was as if it pierced through the layers of illusions and saw the Gu Immortals
in the main hall, he saw Swordmaster You Lan who was in the single room, he even
saw the region outside of Northern Plains, it was Central Continent!

Fang Yuan's gaze was like ice, he laughed coldly in his heart: "Impressive, a great move!
In my previous life, during the five regions chaotic war, a certain supreme elder of
Spirit Affinity House managed to sway Prince Feng Xian's heart and recruit him. Prince
Feng Xian suddenly joined Spirit Affinity House, it caught people off guard, it almost
killed Ma Hong Yun who had become a rank seven Gu Immortal, causing Northern
Plains' situation to become dramatically worse. Northern Plains sacrificed large
numbers of Gu Immortals, countless territories were lost, and Spirit Affinity House
was in the forefront, at number one among the ten great ancient sects. To think that
Prince Feng Xian all along had been a tool of Spirit Affinity House."
Feng Jiu Ge had used vaguely familiar face, Fang Yuan could not decipher the truth.
The ten great ancient sects of Central Continent had ordered Feng Jiu Ge and the other
Gu Immortals to enter Northern Plains, it was a top secret mission, several wisdom
path Gu Immortals had worked together to eliminate all evidence of their actions. In
accordance with Fang Yuan's intelligence gathering methods, he naturally would not
be able to find out anything.

Fang Yuan did not know these matters, but Feng Jiu Ge was using Fairy You Lan's
identity, it instead helped Fang Yuan figure out the important secret that Spirit Affinity
House had been hiding!
"This Swordmaster You Lan has quite impressive methods, if Chu Du did not send me
a letter earlier, I might not have found out the flaw. If I did not have my previous life's
memories, I would not have connected it either." Fang Yuan sighed in his mind.

Feng Jiu Ge's scheming ability was not inferior to Fang Yuan's.

Thus, when he struck, it was like a natural process, there was no traces.

But in this contest of wits, Fang Yuan had come out marginally ahead.

Firstly, Chu Du was the cause of Feng Jiu Ge's flaw.

Feng Jiu Ge did not know that Domination Immortal had sent a letter to Fang Yuan. If
he knew, he would not have acted this way.

But Chu Du would not tell the other party for no reason. After all, this matter would
cause a loss in reputation, at the same time, Chu Du had thought that Feng Jiu Ge really
wanted his true heaven silver.

Feng Jiu Ge's second weakness was that he did not have accomplices. He was also using
a fake identity, he had a lot of worries and restrictions binding him. He was not like
Fang Yuan, who had Tai Bai Yun Sheng assisting him, it could save a lot of trouble.

Feng Jiu Ge's third misfortune was that his opponent, Fang Yuan was not normal, he
was a reborn person. With his previous life's memories, even if he did not know the
truth, he could deduce some secrets based on the huge events that had happened.

Fang Yuan sat down and continued to think while bidding against Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

The situation had changed again.

Earlier, Fang Yuan was in the dark, but now he had a grasp of the situation, he found
out Swordmaster You Lan's motive.
Even though he did not know about the true identity of 'Swordmaster You Lan', Fang
Yuan had the initiative now, Feng Jiu Ge did not know that Fang Yuan had seen through
his motives, this was a great opportunity where the enemy was exposed while he was
hidden.

Right now, Fang Yuan was pondering over an issue. Should he keep Delight in Water
and Mountain, causing Spirit Affinity House's plans to fail, or trade it for the cauldron
strength Immortal Gu, or directly sell the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu
to Swordmaster You Lan?

Fang Yuan was open-minded, he was not against others gaining advantages. If he could
satisfy Spirit Affinity House and gain a huge amount of benefits, Fang Yuan would do
it.

But on the other hand, Fang Yuan did not want to give up cauldron strength Immortal
Gu.

Such a strength path defensive Immortal Gu was very rare, once he missed it, he might
not find another again.

Just as Fang Yuan was hesitating, a voice came from a single room.

"A wisdom path Immortal Gu, kindness thought Gu, an incomplete wisdom path
inheritance, and twice the immortal materials for this cauldron strength Immortal
Gu."

The entirety of the hall gasped.

The Gu Immortal who had entered the bidding competition was not a normal person,
it was one of the five rank eight experts in Northern Plains, refinement path Gu
Immortal Yao Huang!

"Yao Huang is bidding too?"

"He is a refinement path Gu Immortal, why does he have needs for strength path too?"

"Maybe this cauldron strength Immortal Gu involves some immense benefits that we
do not know about."

In a single room, next to Yao Huang, one of the current leaders of the Northern Plains
Zombie Alliance, Yin Liu Gong, was seated.

Yin Liu Gong said: "Senior Yao Huang, are you really buying this cauldron strength
Immortal Gu?"

Yao Huang chuckled: "Indeed, I want to refine an Immortal Gu, Resurrection From The
Dead, there is an important stage where I need a formless vessel to act as the container
during refinement. This vessel needs to be formless and ethereal, and cannot have any
trace of the five elements, light or darkness. Thus, fire, ice, wood, metal, qi and other
paths would not work. The best path for this is phantom path, followed by strength
path, space path, and finally, rule path."

Yin Liu Gong realized: "Phantom path Immortal Gu are extremely rare, they are like
wisdom path inheritances. Phantom path Immortal Gu that can act as a formless
vessel are even rarer. This cauldron strength Immortal Gu, even though it uses
strength to create a cauldron, it does not have the five elements or light or darkness
in it, it is formless and ethereal, but it can defend against attacks. It is really a top tier
vessel for Gu refinement."

Yao Huang nodded: "Nurture, use, refinement, they all depend on the person.
Immortal Gu are a tool, their use varies from person to person. Little Liu, you should
believe my sincerity now, right?"

Yin Liu Gong smiled bitterly.

Earlier, when Yao Huang invited him and pulled his hand when entering a single room,
it showed that their relationship was close and many Gu Immortals were very envious.

But the outsiders did not know the details, Yao Huang had his own motives.

These recent years, Yao Huang had been conducting research on an entirely new
Immortal Gu, it was called Resurrection From The Dead.

Like the name suggested, this Gu could allow a dead person to regain their life.

Yao Huang walked on the refinement path, he was also most skilled at refining healing
Gu worms. Right now, resurrection from the dead Immortal Gu was a new innovation,
it would consume a lot of his effort and wealth.

"In the past, I had been collaborating with your alliance, using immortal zombies as
the test subjects to research on the law of life and death. These years, following my
accumulations, I've made great gains. I have thirty percent confidence of refining the
Immortal Gu, Resurrection From The Dead, successfully." Yao Huang said with much
pride.

"Thirty percent!" Yin Liu Gong showed admiration on his face, a thirty percent chance,
this was extremely high for refining Immortal Gu.

"Once I refine the Immortal Gu, the biggest beneficiary is not me, but your Zombie
Alliance instead." Yao Huang made a bid as he said this to Yin Liu Gong.

Yin Liu Gong's heart jumped: "Senior means?"

"That's right." Yao Huang admitted: "This Gu involves the law of life and death, turning
from dead to alive, it is suitable for you immortal zombies to regain life, and get rid of
your statuses as immortal zombies!"

"There is actually such an incredible use… as expected of Lord Yao Huang." Yin Liu
Gong was stunned, but he quickly concealed his shock: "But if Lord has this Immortal
Gu, not only would the benefits be immense, you could also use it on yourself to extend
your lifespan, correct?"

"Hahaha, Little Liu, you are so smart. Your thinking is right, lifespan Gu are hard to
find, I do not have too much life remaining, I have to find other ways to extend my
lifespan. How about it, collaborate with me." Yao Huang smiled as he spoke, admitting
openly.

Yin Liu Gong smiled bitterly: "Lord Yao Huang has seen that I was moved, but to
collaborate with senior, junior will have to provide at least ten immortal zombies.
Although I am one of the leaders of Zombie Alliance, there are still two others. Even
the three of us together are only left to administer the Northern Plains Zombie
Alliance branch. This matter is very important, I need to inform Leader Blazing
Heaven."

"Ten immortal zombies are the least required. To refine resurrection from the dead
Immortal Gu, I will need something that can interact with the life and death dao marks,
that is why immortal zombies are the most optimal Gu refinement material. I know
that in Earth Trench, your Zombie Alliance has a graveyard. Past generations of
immortal zombies are all buried there." Yao Huang frowned.
Yin Liu Gong rapidly waved his hands: "Lord Yao Huang, that is not possible. The dead
should rest in peace, because we in Zombie Alliance are in this physical state, we place
great importance on that. If I dig up their corpses, I will attract the rage of the entirety
of Zombie Alliance, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's reputation would be ruined.
After all, if we make use of even our own members' bodies, who would join such a
callous organization? I have two immortal zombie bodies in my possession, they are
traitors of Zombie Alliance. But even so, I used my killer move, stone casket, to seal
them up and place them as defenses for the discussion hall's doors, they will not be
mobilized under normal circumstances!"

"Hmph, you immortal zombies are so stubborn. If I can refine resurrection from the
dead Immortal Gu, it will greatly benefit all of you as well." Yao Huang showed an
unhappy expression, he exerted pressure on Yin Liu Gong.

Precisely because Zombie Alliance was stubborn regarding this, Yao Huang had once
disguised himself and attempted to enter Zombie Alliance in order to steal some
immortal zombie bodies.

Unfortunately, his plans were ruined by the door of the discussion hall.

Yin Liu Gong was enduring the huge pressure but he did not dare to relent on this
matter, he thought over his words and said: "How about this, senior, this matter is too
serious, I cannot make the decision alone. In fact, even us three leaders cannot decide
this ourselves. We need to inform Leader Blazing Heaven, she will decide! In a few
months, I will definitely give you a reply."

Yao Huang was unhappy: "You three leaders are really loyal to Blazing Heaven."

Yin Liu Gong felt as if cold sweat was pouring from him, listening to Yao Huang's
words, it seemed like he had talked to the other two leaders as well?

Meanwhile, he said to Yao Huang: "To speak of loyalty, I am ashamed. Honestly

speaking, we immortal zombies agree with Zombie Alliance's rules. After all, most Gu
Immortals ostracize us immortal zombies, they look down on us. Zombie Alliance is
our home."

Yao Huang snorted coldly, he made an offer in the auction again, directing his
unhappiness towards the auction itself.

"I'll back out." In the tenth secret room, Fang Yuan spoke.
Soon after, Tai Bai Yun Sheng in the eleventh secret room also said: "I would not dare
to compete with senior Yao Huang, I admit defeat."

Yao Huang was after cauldron strength Immortal Gu, this was not his only goal, he also
wanted to show Yin Liu Gong his resolution.

To obtain cauldron strength Immortal Gu, he exposed a portion of his own wisdom
path inheritance, and even took out an Immortal Gu to bid.

The transaction was quickly completed.

Yao Huang held the cauldron strength Immortal Gu in his hand and sighed: "This is
still rank six, it seems I will need to spend some effort to get it to rank seven. That will
increase the chances of success when I refine resurrection from the dead Immortal
Gu.

Yin Liu Gong's heart jumped, he knew that these words were for him. After entering
the single room, Yao Huang had been urging him and showing his resolution

This was the will of a rank eight great expert!

If he did not settle this properly, he might attract the rage of Yao Huang, the attack of
a rank eight great expert would cause an all out war between Yao tribe and Zombie
Alliance!

The Gu Immortals did not expect that this cauldron strength Immortal Gu's auction
would end up with Yao Huang as the winner.

Fang Yuan backed out when he understood the tough situation, Feng Jiu Ge sighed in
relief secretly.

This situation was good for Feng Jiu Ge's benefits as well.

If Fang Yuan succeeded and the seller obtained delight in water and mountain
Immortal Gu, Feng Jiu Ge would have much greater difficulty in obtaining it.

The seller wanted the wisdom path Immortal Gu, they would not sell it, and most
importantly, Feng Jiu Ge could not find the seller! From start to finish, this person did
not expose their location or identity, they had been asking Qin Bai Sheng to represent
him.
With this, one could deduce that the seller was likely a bottom tier Gu Immortal and
had weak strength, otherwise, they would not act so timidly and carefully.

Cauldron strength Immortal Gu's auction ended, everyone's attention was drawn to
the next Immortal Gu.

"This is the third luck path Immortal Gu." A Gu Immortal said.

The mysterious luck path Immortal Gu were very famous outside. Because of Giant
Sun Immortal Venerable, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals had a unique attachment to
luck path Immortal Gu.

The second luck path Immortal Gu was called Peach Blossom Luck, it was sold at a
high price. The luck path Immortal Gu currently up was called Good Luck. It was a
storage Immortal Gu that could gather and store all of the ownerless good luck that
dissipated from heaven and earth.

The seller wanted a fire path Immortal Gu.

The Gu Immortals fought over it, eventually reaching a deal at a high price.
The following auction was like it had been set up in advance, several luck path
Immortal Gu showed up consecutively.

Leave luck Gu which could rapidly expend luck, seal luck Gu which could seal luck,
transfer luck Gu which could transfer luck, as well as the break luck Immortal Gu that
Fang Yuan was after!

Unfortunately, the sellers of all these Immortal Gu had their own desires, they
requested for metal, wood, water, fire, earth and other Immortal Gu of mainstream
paths. This was a weak point of Fang Yuan, if he could not fulfill this basic requirement,
he could not even join in the bidding.

Fang Yuan had suffered at the hands of luck path previously, but he had also obtained
great benefits from luck path. He wanted to observe the situation and see if he could
obtain a few luck path Immortal Gu, but now it seemed that he had no chance at all.

The most regrettable thing was that he missed break luck Immortal Gu by a hair's
breadth.

Fang Yuan had already obtained connect luck Immortal Gu, it could work in
conjunction with break luck Immortal Gu. But unfortunately, his opportunity to obtain
it went by unsuccessfully.

This auction was not set up specifically for him, Fang Yuan had gains, and naturally
missed opportunities as well.

"The next Immortal Gu is a rank seven luck path Immortal Gu, it is called Calamity
Beckoning…” It was finally time for calamity beckoning Immortal Gu to be auctioned,
Qin Bai Sheng spoke slowly as he introduced it.

Rank seven Immortal Gu were quite rare. Most of the Immortal Gu in the auction were
rank six Immortal Gu.
Although it was a difference of just one rank, there was a great disparity in value. This
was because the chance of raising a rank six Immortal Gu to rank seven was very low,
and the cost of refinement was very high.

As for rank eight Immortal Gu, they did not appear in this auction.

The Gu Immortals in the hall heard that it was a rank seven Immortal Gu and showed
some interest, they looked over with gazes of anticipation.

But after learning about calamity beckoning Immortal Gu's use, they all shook their
heads.

Calamity beckoning Immortal Gu's use was to help others by harming oneself, helping
another person undergo tribulation, and attract the calamity or tribulation to oneself.

Giving up oneself to save others, this was not impossible, but often benefits and
exchanges were involved.

Calamity beckoning Immortal Gu did not have zero demand, some large forces needed
it to help their own members. Furthermore, some Gu Immortals were moved, they
could use this Gu to help others and earn some profits from it.

But Fang Yuan wanted a rank seven strength path Immortal Gu, in the entirety of the
auction hall, nobody made an offer.

Fang Yuan saw that the situation was not going well, he quickly informed Qin Bai
Sheng that they could also use rank seven time path Immortal Gu to trade for it, but
there were no responses.

"It really is calamity beckoning Immortal Gu, I wonder if this Immortal Gu came from
the Gu Immortal in the tenth secret room?" Feng Jiu Ge thought over it before
communicating with Qin Bai Sheng, requesting to talk to the owner of calamity
beckoning Immortal Gu.

"Fairy You Lan, you finally lost your patience…” Fang Yuan snorted, he rejected this
request unhesitatingly.

Eventually, because nobody bid for it, calamity beckoning Immortal Gu was not sold.

Fang Yuan was mentally prepared for this result. After all, he was asking for a rank
seven Immortal Gu,and he wanted a strength path Immortal Gu at that, there were few
of such Immortal Gu. Most importantly, compared to other Immortal Gu, calamity
beckoning Immortal Gu was not as attractive, thus nobody bid for it.

Fang Yuan's calamity beckoning Immortal Gu was not the only Immortal Gu that went
unsold.

At the start, there was the conceal luck Immortal Gu that went unsold, after that,
several other Gu suffered the same fate.

There was still a chance left for these unsold Immortal Gu.

After the auction, there was still an event, the open transaction.

During the open transaction, they could still sell these Immortal Gu.

As time continued to pass, more and more Immortal Gu were showcased and bought.
The anticipation of the Gu Immortals also accumulated gradually.

There were few Immortal Gu left on the list, they soon would all be presented. The
most important item in the auction was about to be showcased, it was the essence of
the luck path true inheritance that Qin Bai Sheng obtained!

"The following Immortal Gu is called delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, it is
of wisdom path and rank six. The seller is requesting for a rank six strength path
Immortal Gu, it would be best if it is a defensive Immortal Gu." Qin Bai Sheng
announced.

When there were only a few Immortal Gu left, it was finally time for Fang Yuan's
delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu to be auctioned.

This time, he still asked for strength path Immortal Gu.

He did not say a word about the immortal zombie body or the method to regain new
life. In fact, he did not even mention the white lotus giant silkworm Gu.

Once these two matters were mentioned, combined with the strength path Immortal
Gu, the clues would be too obvious.

Fang Yuan had Fixed Immortal Travel, this was known by everyone.
Even if Fang Yuan did not know about the relationship between Prince Feng Xian and
Spirit Affinity House, he would not be brainless enough to make such a request.

Rank six delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu in exchange for a rank six
strength path Immortal Gu, the requirement for this auction was much lower than
calamity beckoning Immortal Gu previously.

Once Qin Bai Sheng spoke, several Gu Immortals started bidding.

Strength path was declining, but wisdom path was mysterious and unfailingly stable
over the ages. In the eyes of many Gu Immortals, a rank six wisdom path Immortal Gu
was much more attractive than a rank six strength path Immortal Gu.

At once, regarding the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, the auction hall's
atmosphere became incredibly heated.

Fang Yuan carefully listened to the bids as he remained unmoved, he was waiting for
Swordmaster You Lan to bid.

Before long, 'Swordmaster You Lan' indeed entered the bid: "I have an eat strength
Immortal Gu with me. This Gu is not only of strength path, but also of food path, it is a
strength path cultivation type Immortal Gu, one may consume beast meat or
vegetation related to strength path, in order to allow strength path dao marks to grow
naturally on the Gu Immortal's body, they would fully fit with one's own body."

Once he said that, almost all of the Gu Immortals' attentions were drawn over.

"This is a good Immortal Gu."

"For a strength path Gu Immortal, this is really hard to come by!"

"Food path has long since vanished, its condition is worse than strength path. At least
strength path had flourished once before, but food path did not, it has almost
completely disappeared now. All that I've heard of it is that it is very useful for
nurturing Gu."

Hearing the discussions of the Gu Immortals in the main hall, Feng Jiu Ge smiled lightly.

This Immortal Gu did not come from the ten great sects of Central Continent, Feng Jiu
Ge had requested it from Prince Feng Xian not long ago because he knew that Fang
Yuan would make such a requirement.

Although he had many Immortal Gu, regarding strength path, he only had Pulling
Mountain and Pulling Water.

Meanwhile, Prince Feng Xian happened to have this.

It turned out that after Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed, a formless hand
flew out and landed near Prince Feng Xian's grotto-heaven. After Prince Feng Xian
broke the formless hand personally, he captured the eat strength Immortal Gu.

This Gu was very useful to strength path Gu Immortals, but to Prince Feng Xian, it had
little use. After receiving Feng Jiu Ge's letter regarding requesting assistance, as people
from the same sect, Prince Feng Xian used his method to secretly send this Immortal
Gu into Feng Jiu Ge's blessed land.

"Fairy You Lan, I wonder if you can sell this Gu to me? I am willing to use another
strength path Immortal Gu to exchange for it, I will provide valuable immortal
materials as well, and I will not interfere with you in the bid for delight in water and
mountain Immortal Gu." Soon, Chu Du sent a message.

"Domination Immortal was moved, but that is natural. However, how can the Gu that
he wants to exchange with it be more attractive than eat strength Gu, even if they are
both of strength path?" Feng Jiu Ge replied, rejecting Chu Du's request.

He smiled more confidently now, since the tenth secret room's mysterious Gu
Immortal wanted a strength path Immortal Gu, he was likely to be a strength path Gu
Immortal. Even if he was not, the allure of eat strength Immortal Gu would definitely
be very high to this person.

Everything went as Feng Jiu Ge had expected, after Fang Yuan heard the description
for eat strength Immortal Gu, he was surprised and overjoyed.

This eat strength Immortal Gu was too suitable for him!

Regarding a Gu Immortal's cultivation, it mainly involved undergoing tribulations in

their immortal aperture. With each successful tribulation, the Gu Immortal's body
would have an increase in dao marks of their own path.

The more dao marks on a Gu Immortal's body, the closer they would be to heaven and
earth, and the closer to the laws of the Great Dao. The stronger the tribulation, the
more dao marks would be etched on them after completing it.

Thus, when assessing a Gu Immortal's cultivation level, they would usually use
standards like one heavenly tribulation, or two heavenly tribulations.

The more numerous their dao marks, the greater resonance they could cause when
using the corresponding Immortal Gu, and the greater effect that Immortal Gu could
unleash.

When Fang Yuan used worldly wave trace Immortal Gu, the strength path dao marks
on his body were unrelated to Worldly Wave Trace's water path dao marks, there even
was conflict. Thus, the result was not great, he could only use about sixty to seventy
percent of its power.

But if Fang Yuan used a strength path Immortal Gu like Pulling Mountain or Pulling
Water, his own body and the Immortal Gu would resonate, not only would he be able
to amplify the effect of the Immortal Gu, he could even unleash a hundred and thirty
percent of its power! Furthermore, the more they resonated, the more Fang Yuan
would be able to comprehend the laws of strength path personally when he used the
Immortal Gu. The more his understanding grew, the more his strength path
attainment will deepen, and his foundation would accumulate gradually. One day, he
would achieve a qualitative breakthrough.

But despite that!

Fang Yuan's greatest problem was that he was an immortal zombie, his immortal
aperture was dead. Every once in a while, a portion of his blessed land would
disintegrate, but he would also face no tribulations.

The way of heaven was to be balanced and fair, calamities and tribulations would only
be unleashed on small worlds that had blessings. The greater the fortune, the stronger
the calamities and tribulations.

Immortal zombies did not need to face tribulations, that was a good thing. After all,
with a dead aperture, if they had to undergo calamities and tribulations as well, there
was no way to survive.

But to Fang Yuan, without any calamities and tribulations, he would not have any
growth of dao marks, and his cultivation level would stagnate.
"Of course, to increase my dao marks, I can use Immortal Gu like iron crown eagle
strength Gu to form dao marks on my body. But such beast strength Immortal Gu are
not suited for the human body, and the number of dao marks is very sparse, there is
little effect. The dao marks generated by two or three beast strength Immortal Gu are
less than the amount gained from undergoing one earthly calamity."

Fang Yuan had the experience of using beast strength Gu worms.

Beast strength did not suit the human body, they were not easy to use. Beast phantoms
could only be unleashed sometimes, but not always.

Like the iron crown eagle strength Gu, it could carve a portion of the iron crown eagle's
strength path dao marks onto his body. But these dao marks did not suit Fang Yuan's
physical body, because the structure of the human body was different from an eagle.

When the dao marks of the iron crown eagle resonated with Fang Yuan, only then
would he be able to unleash the strength of an iron crown eagle, along with
summoning an iron crown eagle strength path phantom.

Unless he had all-out effort Immortal Gu.

All-out effort's true effect was to allow complete resonance of the strength path dao
marks carved on a person's body.

But Fang Yuan's all-out effort Gu was only rank four. Although it was a vital Gu, he had
no idea how to refine it into an Immortal Gu. The Immortal Gu recipe of all-out effort
Gu had been lost over the course of the long river of time.

In this regard, Fang Yuan's greatest hope was Lang Ya land spirit. There were several
thousand Immortal Gu recipes in Lang Ya blessed land, there was hope that one of
them was the Immortal Gu recipe of all-out effort Gu.
But at the moment, Fang Yuan and Lang Ya land spirit's relationship had not deepened
to the point of trading Immortal Gu recipes between them. Even when it came to
mortal Gu recipes, Lang Ya land spirit treasured them greatly and refused to sell them.

When it was related to matters involving the refinement of Gu, Lang Ya land spirit was
always very stingy. Earlier, Fang Yuan was willing to pay a high price to buy his hairy
men. However, these hairy man slaves were involved with the refinement of Gu, Lang
Ya land spirit treated them like treasures and would not sell them, not to mention Gu
recipes.

But if Fang Yuan obtained eat strength Immortal Gu, the situation would improve
drastically for him.

Eat strength Immortal Gu could allow a Gu Immortal to grow strength path dao marks.
Because of that, the dao marks that they gained would definitely be perfectly suited
for their own body. Fang Yuan's cultivation level had stagnated, he could certainly rely
on this Immortal Gu to make some form of compensation in that regard.

Fang Yuan was moved now.

One could say that as long as one was a strength path Gu Immortal, they would
definitely be moved when they saw the eat strength Immortal Gu!

"With this strength path Immortal Gu, I am not afraid that the other party will remain
unmoved." Feng Jiu Ge sat down calmly, feeling very confident in his heart.

Once this Gu appeared, almost all of the bids of the competitors for the Immortal Gu
seemed much inferior. As long as one was not an idiot, they would be able to see the
benefits of eat strength Immortal Gu.

"If I did not find out the flaw, I might have traded for this Gu already. What a pity for
you…” Fang Yuan was laughing coldly to himself internally.
At this time, from the twenty-third secret room, someone reported a price: "One iron
crown eagle strength Immortal Gu, as well as fifteen drops of the immortal material
rule eye blood."

Hearing this voice, Fang Yuan's smile became wider.

Earlier, he had used rising azure cloud Immortal Gu to exchange for an iron crown
eagle strength Immortal Gu. But during that process, he did not expose his identity. He
had confirmed the buyer through informing Qin Bai Sheng.

Thus, other than Qin Bai Sheng himself, none of the other Gu Immortals present knew
who the iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu ended up with.

Qin Bai Sheng had signed an agreement, he would naturally not leak any information
on this.

Thus, Fang Yuan could use it to bid freely.

As for the person inside the twenty-third secret room, it was none other than Tai Bai
Yun Sheng.

In order to obtain delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, Feng Jiu Ge had made
many preparations earlier, asking Prince Feng Xian for help. How could Fang Yuan not
make some prior arrangements himself?

He had already asked Qin Bai Sheng and secretly changed Tai Bai Yun Sheng's room to
another secret room.

Even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng did not expose his or Fang Yuan's identity when he was
in the eleventh secret room, it was undoubtedly much safer for him to change his room
now.

After Tai Bai Yun Sheng made the bid, Fang Yuan did not make any response for a long
time.

As time passed slowly, Feng Jiu Ge started to inwardly frown. Domination Immortal
Chu Du had also started bidding. He offered another beast strength Immortal Gu, while
also adding some immortal material in the bid.

Chu Du did not want delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, but he had a use for
it. He was a strength path Gu Immortal, the reason why he was giving up a strength
path Immortal Gu was because he wanted the eat strength Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan chuckled lightly, he immediately understood Chu Du's intentions.

It was Chu Du's own fault for exposing his identity, it forced him into a passive
situation.

Regarding Chu Du's sudden interference, Fang Yuan was happy to see such a situation,
he remained silent as he allowed the auction to continue proceeding.

Under his request, Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued to raise his bid again.

Feng Jiu Ge frowned even more deeply, he had no choice but to start raising his bid as
well.

The moment he spoke, Tai Bai Yun Sheng would follow up and make a bid, his attitude
was imposing, as if he definitely had to obtain this Immortal Gu no matter what.

Feng Jiu Ge could not help but become suspicious: Was this eat strength Gu too
unattractive to the person inside the tenth secret room? Or was he just trying to be
greedy and was waiting for the bid to rise?

Feng Jiu Ge did not fall into the trap easily, he was the shining exemplar of a generation
after all, he decided to pause now. That way, he could analyze the situation more
clearly from the outside, he would also be able to probe Fang Yuan's true intentions.

Swordmaster You Lan stopped bidding, it was as if she did not want to lose eat
strength Immortal Gu, thus she had backed out of the competition.

Such a situation quickly attracted the attention of all the Gu Immortals.

The happiest one was obviously Chu Du, he sent a message again and urged Feng Jiu
Ge to sell the eat strength Immortal Gu to him.

Feng Jiu Ge laughed lightly, rejecting him once again.

Meanwhile, Fang Yuan instructed Tai Bai Yun Sheng to continue raising his bid.

As the price increased steadily, it became very expensive, most of the Gu Immortals
started backing out of this, they were stating that this price was too high.

Eventually, only Chu Du and Tai Bai Yun Sheng were left bidding.

Chu Du was currently having a tough time. His real motive was to obtain eat strength
Immortal Gu, but Feng Jiu Ge refused to sell it to him, it seemed like he still wanted to
bid for the delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu.

Chu Du did not dare to be complacent, he quickly followed along with the bidding. On
one hand, he wanted to prevent the eat strength Immortal Gu from falling into
someone else's possession, and on the other hand, if he obtained delight in water and
mountain Immortal Gu, he would have a huge chance of using it to trade Gu with
Swordmaster You Lan.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's intentions were very simple and pure. He just did whatever his
junior brother asked him to do. Even if he won the delight in water and mountain
Immortal Gu, that was fine! After all, whatever price he paid would still return to his
own pockets.

Feng Jiu Ge's strategy was also very simple. That was to sit this out for now and reap
the spoils later, by the time the competition was almost over, he would jump in and
raise the price by a huge margin, winning all at once.

These three people, because of their own goals and intentions, created a stalemate by
pure chance.

As the situation continued to stall, after a few more rounds, someone among the Gu
Immortals in the main hall came to a sudden realization, he shouted subconsciously:
"Why is this delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu so popular now? There are
so many immortal materials listed, the bid has reached such a high price!"

The others quickly became aware of this fact as well.

"That's right, it is so high now."

"A wisdom path Immortal Gu that can only produce joyful will is actually reaching such
a high price, this is a rare sight."

"In my opinion, the only reason why this is reaching such a high price is due to the
involvement of Lord Chu Du. He is willing to give up a strength path Immortal Gu in
order to obtain Delight in Water and Mountain, I am sure he has his motives."

Chu Du, who had just been mentioned, was not in a good state currently.

His face was full of worries, his financial power right now was truly lacking.

"Sigh, if I had known this, I would have stalled my tribulation." The intense pressure
coming from Tai Bai Yun Sheng made Chu Du feel very uncomfortable.

"Since when did I, the great Domination Immortal, get into such a pathetic state?" Chu
Du had incredible battle strength, but in this huge auction, battle strength was not the
key, it was one's financial power.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng got instructions from Fang Yuan and continued to raise his bid.

Chu Du gritted his teeth and hung on.

After severals rounds like this, delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu's price
continued to rise under the eyes of all the Gu Immortals present.

Qin Bai Sheng had been observing quietly, by this point, he could not help but praise
inwardly: "This Sha Huang is really a brilliant person despite being an immortal
zombie, he is not simple! But Chu Du's financial limits are already clear now, he is
hesitating when bidding. If it were me, I would take the opportunity and sell it now."

Qin Bai Sheng knew: Although Fang Yuan's plan seemed simple, executing it was no
easy feat. Having to plan matters out while simultaneously executing them, it required
a lot of foresight and the ability to read people's minds. If he went overboard even a
little, his profits would vanish like a puff of smoke.

However, it seemed like Fang Yuan did not know what 'going overboard' meant, he
continued getting Tai Bai Yun Sheng to raise the bid, acting imposingly.

Chu Du was finally unable to continue, his forehead was full of sweat.

His gaze pierced into the single room, looking at the direction of the twenty-third
secret room, he was thinking about the person inside, he probably had a special need
for delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu, otherwise he would not bid at such a
high price with an attitude of an unrelenting, fierce tiger.
"So be it." Chu Du sighed deeply, keeping quiet as he stopped bidding.

At this point, only Tai Bai Yun Sheng was left.

But even so, Tai Bai Yun Sheng continued to report a bid, raising the price by another
margin.

Meanwhile, Swordmaster You Lan did not make a single sound, it was as if she had
already backed out of the current bid.

Fang Yuan laughed coldly, transmitting his decision to Qin Bai Sheng.

Qin Bai Sheng heard this news and was first stunned, why was he selling it to his ally?
But he quickly understood that perhaps Sha Huang and Bai Sheng were not as intimate
as they appeared to be.

He thought about this and his mind cleared up. But deep down, he still felt that there
was something weird going on.

Qin Bai Sheng shook his head mentally, he was on the stage and had no time to waste,
he announced: "Twenty-third secret room, going once."

After pausing for a short while, he continued: "Twenty-third secret room, going twice."

The Gu Immortals in the main hall talked to themselves softly.

"It seems that the victor of this round is the twenty-third secret room."

"That's right, they seem to have great interest in Delight in Water and Mountain, even
after Domination Immortal backed out, he still continued to raise the bid alone, his
motive was to pull some distance and prevent the seller from having any intentions to
sell the Immortal Gu at the last moment to Domination Immortal."

"This price is truly very high, many of the immortal materials are making me drool. To
think that towards the end of the auction, there is still such a high price being sold,
this can squeeze into the top ten most expensive auction rounds."

The situation was now set, Fang Yuan started to get nervous.

He squinted his eyes as his heart wavered slightly: "Maybe… my analysis earlier was
wrong?"

"Twenty-third secret room, going thri…” Qin Bai Sheng shouted until here, before
someone interrupted him.

Feng Jiu Ge spoke: "Eat strength Immortal Gu, and on top of what the twenty-third
secret room is bidding, I will add in another four hundred kilograms of red refinement
metal!"

Four hundred kilograms of red refinement metal, this elevated the price again. This
was a huge bid that exceeded what Tai Bai Yun Sheng had done earlier in his individual
bids.

Everyone gasped sharply, they did not think that at the last moment, there would be
such a huge change.

Qin Bai Sheng was also stunned for a while.

Chu Du's expression turned pale, but he soon sighed to himself gloomily.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Great, Swordmaster You Lan, you were truly very
patient!"

From the twenty-third secret room, Tai Bai Yun Sheng's voice could be heard, he
sounded like he was extremely annoyed at his plan being thwarted, he continued to
bid in an angry tone.

Feng Jiu Ge laughed bitterly to himself, after observing for so long, he had already
believed that the person inside the twenty-third secret room was serious about
bidding.

"My luck this time was truly horrible. The two Immortal Gu that I wanted to buy were
both met with tough competitors. The most important thing was, these two
competitors were very affluent and wealthy."

"No, the auction did not disallow the exchanging of secret rooms. There is also another
possibility, that the secret rooms all belong to one person. Maybe he knows about the
matter of Water Pavilion? After all, Mo Yao did leave behind an inheritance… or maybe,
it is the other nine sects of Central Continent that do not want to see my Spirit Affinity
House regain…”
Feng Jiu Ge was a very intelligent person, but intelligent people tended to overthink
matters.

"Regardless of the situation, for the sake of Water Pavilion, I need to obtain this delight
in water and mountain Immortal Gu no matter what!" Feng Jiu Ge quickly made up his
mind, bidding again.

He and Tai Bai Yun Sheng bid back and forth, both refusing to relent.

Under the shocked gazes of the Gu Immortals, delight in water and mountain
Immortal Gu's price continued to soar higher. It soon went into the top five prices.

Soon after, it climbed to the second spot at an alarming rate.

The highest price was naturally Feng Jiu Ge's two for one exchange to buy Fang Yuan's
worldly wave trace Immortal Gu.

"Don't tell me I have to do a two for one exchange again?" Feng Jiu Ge's expression was
cold and solemn, he finally experienced what Chu Du was feeling earlier, this was an
overbearing pressure that was exerted on him constantly.

No matter what price he bid, the person in the twenty-third secret room would
immediately bid at a higher price.

Feng Jiu Ge could not sit anymore, he started to pace around in his secret room.

If a two for one exchange would guarantee him victory, he would do it even if he had
to grit his teeth. But he felt something amiss deep within himself, yet he could not state
clearly where the problem was.

"If I do a two for one exchange again, someone who is paying attention might find out
my true motive. That will be a huge hindrance when I try to find water harmony Gu in
the future."

Feng Jiu Ge's target was Water Pavilion, but only two of the three core Immortal Gu
appeared in the auction. He naturally wanted to obtain water harmony Gu as well.

The weird feeling in Feng Jiu Ge's heart was making him feel a hint of unrest as well.

He sat back in his seat, deciding to go on the offensive. He shouted his bid again, this
time, he requested for the seller to state what he needed, and he would try to fulfill
those demands.

Fang Yuan purposely paused for a moment, to give a false impression that he was in
deep thought.

Next, he gave Qin Bai Sheng a new requirement: a complete wisdom path inheritance.

Everyone gasped loudly, this price was too high, to think that this person had the guts
to say it!

Feng Jiu Ge was dumbfounded, he indeed had a wisdom path inheritance, but it was
incomplete. The seller was acting like this, were they trying to prevent the Immortal
Gu from being sold?

Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly shouted: "I have an incomplete wisdom path inheritance in
my hands."

Feng Jiu Ge rapidly followed up: "An incomplete wisdom path inheritance, I have that
too."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng snorted coldly, he continued: "May the seller list another request,
please!"

The Gu Immortal looked around at each other, did they hear wrongly, the price was
still going to increase further?!

Qin Bai Sheng was silent for a moment before replying for Fang Yuan: "The seller is
requesting a killer move that can disguise one's identity, the one which is superior will
win."

Feng Jiu Ge's heart tightened, the seller said that, they were obviously putting more
emphasis on the disguising killer move.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly said: "I have a complete killer move, although it is a mortal
killer move, it originated from Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable, it is called
unfamiliar face!"

Unfamiliar face? Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable!

The main hall went into a huge commotion.

Feng Jiu Ge's forehead was sweating, his arms were tightly grabbing the handle of his
seat as his gaze shined anxiously, he hesitated for a moment before shouting as well:
"I have a killer move, it is an incomplete immortal move, originating from Thieving
Heaven Demon Venerable, called vaguely familiar face!"

Everyone cried out in shock.

Fang Yuan stood up from his seat excitedly, his eyes shining with brilliance: "It seems
that the rumors in my previous life were not baseless, Spirit Affinity House does
indeed have the immortal killer move vaguely familiar face!"

Spirit Affinity House had many good things, but most of their signature collection
could not be extorted. Once he did, the other party would understand matters at once.
Furthermore, this killer move was the most useful one to Fang Yuan himself.

Even in his previous life, Spirit Affinity House had the killer move vaguely familiar face,
but they did not spread any information about it. During the five regions chaotic war,
when spies were abundant, they entered enemy territories and obtained many gains.

After many times, Gu Immortals among both enemies and allied parties continued to
analyze, and confirmed that this was the killer move, vaguely familiar face.

But Spirit Affinity House refused to admit it.

After all, as one of the ten great ancient sects, a leader of the righteous path, using a
Demon Venerable's killer move was damaging to their reputation.

What Fang Yuan did not know was, this immortal killer move belonged to Feng Jiu Ge.
In his previous life, Feng Jiu Ge had contributed this killer move to his sect, thus, the
rumors from his previous life were started.

Fang Yuan did not know this fact, and he did not guess that the person bidding was
Feng Jiu Ge. But that did not stop him from extorting this killer move.

Of course, Feng Jiu Ge would not hand over the entire complete immortal killer move
to Fang Yuan.

But an incomplete immortal killer move was already much better than the mortal
killer move unfamiliar face.

Fang Yuan confirmed it on the spot, selling delight in water and mountain Immortal
Gu to Swordmaster You Lan!

In this way, not only would he receive a huge amount of immortal materials, filling up
half of his list, he even obtained eat strength Immortal Gu, an incomplete wisdom path
inheritance, as well as the incomplete immortal killer move vaguely familiar face.
Fang Yuan and Feng Jiu Ge quickly connected and completed the transaction, Qin Bai
Sheng had already started the auction of the next Immortal Gu.

Feng Jiu Ge was expressionless as he looked at the delight in water and mountain
Immortal Gu in his hands, his gaze flickering slightly.

The strange feeling he had was still lingering around.

"After repeated twists and turns, I finally obtained this Immortal Gu. Even if I had to
spend quite a lot, but considering the rewards for the sect's missions, they should be
enough to cover for it and even more."

Eat strength Immortal Gu might be precious, but it only has use to strength path Gu
Immortals.

"Even though I had to sacrifice vaguely familiar face, it was only a portion of it. Even if
I had to give the complete version, the core Immortal Gu are still with me, so I don't
have to fear the other side using it."

Feng Jiu Ge thought it over for a while, his expression gradually easing up.

In the main hall, many Gu Immortals were bidding for the Immortal Gu. While Fang
Yuan, similar to Feng Jiu Ge, did not have his attention on the platform, but on the
goods he obtained.

Feng Jiu Ge had let go of eat strength Immortal Gu of his own accord, thus Fang Yuan
was able to easily refine it and store it into his immortal aperture.

This incomplete wisdom path inheritance was slightly more intact than Fang Yuan's
malicious thought inheritance. It had the Gu recipes from rank one to rank five of
memory thought Gu, and an Immortal Gu recipe for reminiscence Immortal Gu, as well
as several mortal killer moves.

"This memory thought Gu is rather suitable for me. I can only recall my previous life's
memories roughly, with the help of this Gu, I should be able to recall more clearly. If I
can refine the reminiscence Immortal Gu, it would be even better."

Fang Yuan checked them and stored this wisdom path inheritance with satisfaction.

For the time being, he was not planning to try and refine Immortal Gu. There were
extremely large costs involved in refining Immortal Gu and the risks were also very
high, moreover, Fang Yuan already had many Immortal Gu with him, reminiscence
Immortal Gu was not necessary and would only be an additional bonus.

The most urgent matter at hand for Fang Yuan was to get rid of the immortal zombie
body and restore his living status.

Even though he obtained eat strength Immortal Gu, which could increase dao marks,
it was only a slight offset and could not compare to passing tribulations.

Undergoing tribulation was dangerous but the increase in dao marks from doing so
were extremely high. Were it not for this, Hei Lou Lan would not risk her life to pass
tribulations.

Fang Yuan carefully inspected vaguely familiar face.

This was an incomplete immortal killer move, his initial estimation was that this was
only fifty percent complete.

However, Fang Yuan was already satisfied.

He knew the other party would not take out the complete immortal killer move and
sell it wholly to him. Obtaining this much was already good enough.

Especially since the contents within did not conceal the crucial core Immortal Gu.

"The core Immortal Gu are the foundation of the killer move. They are in Spirit Affinity
House's possession, although I can't obtain it, I can remodel the killer move."

Fang Yuan's intention was this.

He had attainment in transformation path, and wisdom Gu's help along with the
foundation of vaguely familiar face — the entirety of unfamiliar face.

With the addition of fifty percent of vaguely familiar face's contents, he had high
confidence.

"The three stages of familiar face are famous methods of Thieving Heaven Demon
Venerable, but I can take references from them. We are all humans in the end, if others
can do it, why can't I? So there is no need to copy other's thoughts directly." Fang Yuan
was optimistic about this.

After a while, Qin Bai Sheng had already auctioned the final few Immortal Gu. Among
them, the second last Immortal Gu unfortunately went unsold.

The anticipation of the Gu Immortals were already pouring out of their gazes.

Everyone was aware the next would be the main highlight of the auction — auctioning
the essence of the luck path true inheritance!

After secretly getting in contact with Qin Bai Sheng, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng
changed their secret rooms.

Not only them, many Gu Immortals also did the same.

After all, the essence of the luck path true inheritance had enormous value, many Gu
Immortals hoped others would not know what Immortal Gu they obtained.

Truthfully, the Gu Immortals were allowed to casually change their secret rooms, and
it could be said to be one of the loopholes of the auction rules.

This auction was held in a hurry because of the situation, the loopholes were
numerous, nowhere near as watertight as during the time of the five regions chaotic
war in Fang Yuan's previous life.

Regarding this point, Qin Bai Sheng was actually aware of it, but he was helpless.

He held this auction to protect himself. If he put in too many rules, he would be
offending many forces and many people.

To him, holding the auction was enough. He naturally would not go offend others for
this.

"Now it is time for the auction of the first item of the essence of the luck path true
inheritance, it is a set of Gu recipes for luck inspection Gu." Qin Bai Sheng had just
spoken and already attracted the intense attention of many Gu Immortals.

"Luck inspection Gu!"

As the name implied, it was an investigative Gu worm that could detect luck.

Luck was formless and could not be detected by naked eyes or ordinary methods. It
could only be done by using this luck inspection Gu.

It could be said that luck inspection Gu was one of the main foundations of the luck
path true inheritance.

This luck inspection Gu was even more useful to those Gu Immortals who had bought
some luck path Immortal Gu beforehand, like leave luck Gu, seal luck Gu, transfer luck
Gu, break luck Gu and so on.

Qin Bai Sheng intentionally placed this set of Gu recipes for luck inspection Gu towards
the end because he had thought it through.

Looking at the restless Gu Immortals, Qin Bai Sheng continued: "This set of luck
inspection Gu recipes does not only include the Gu recipes of the mortal Gu from rank
one to rank five, it also has a remnant Immortal Gu recipe for rank seven luck
inspection Immortal Gu."

"Hmm, is there not any luck inspection Immortal Gu?" Heavenly Lord Bai Zu asked.

Qin Bai Sheng smiled: "There is indeed a luck inspection Immortal Gu which is rank
six and is with me, but I don't want to sell it. But I can guarantee that apart from this
Immortal Gu, everything related to luck inspection Gu is being auctioned off."

Because of the previous agreement, Qin Bai Sheng's words were convincing.

"Not selling luck inspection Immortal Gu?" Immediately, a Gu Immortal in the main
hall frowned and showed his dissatisfaction openly.

Qin Bai Sheng snorted as he gave the speaker a deadly stare: "This is merely a rank six
luck inspection Immortal Gu, I am confident of having the ability to protect it. Guo
Rong, do you have an opinion? If you buy this Immortal Gu, can you keep it safe?"

Gu Immortal Guo Rong's expression changed, and he kept quiet.

He was only a rank six Gu Immortal while Qin Bai Sheng was a rank seven expert, the
two could not be mentioned to be at the same level.

Guo Rong looked around, and broke into cold sweat, inwardly cursing his mistake! He
wanted to borrow everyone's power to force Qin Bai Sheng. But the other Gu
Immortals were just observing like spectators.

Qin Bai Sheng was indeed forced into holding the auction, but he still had the ability
to keep a rank six luck inspection Immortal Gu safe.

His strength allowed him to do so.

After this small interlude, Qin Bai Sheng listed the requirements for trade: "Because
this does not involve Immortal Gu, you can use any resource to trade for it. Be it
immortal essence stones or the immortal materials in the list."

Saying so, he took out a list.

There were a dozen or so immortal materials mentioned on the list, and the
requirements for their quantities was not high like the shocking list that Fang Yuan
brought out earlier.

Qin Bai Sheng did not specialize in Gu refinement, Gu refinement consumed extremely
large amounts of resources, very few lone cultivators would go down this path, unless
they had extremely high talent.

Fang Yuan guessed that these immortal materials were very likely to be food for
Immortal Gu.

The auction began with an extremely intense atmosphere.

Because it did not involve Immortal Gu, the threshold for the bidding was low and for
a while, most of the Gu Immortals made bids one after the other.

In the main hall, the sounds of the bids being called out rose and fell, the speed of the
bids being called out could be said to be at the peak since the auction began.

The price quickly soared in the intense atmosphere.

Qin Bai Sheng looked at all this with a smile on his face. Since he held this auction, he
naturally made arrangements that were more profitable to himself.

Fang Yuan also made bids a few times but was quickly surpassed by others.

"I have one luck inspection Gu, unfortunately, mortal Gu are not effective against
Immortals. This set of mortal Gu recipes has no benefits to me. Qin Bai Sheng has
admitted he has the luck inspection Immortal Gu. So, even if I obtain the rank seven
remnant recipe and perfect it, Immortal Gu are unique, I won't be able to refine the
rank seven luck inspection Immortal Gu." Fang Yuan sensibly chose to stop bidding.

He was merely one of those who retreated.

The intense bidding soon eliminated a large group of people.

Finally, only some experts like Yao Huang, the Eastern Sea rank eight Gu Immortal,
Feng Jiu Ge and Yuan Rang Zun were left.

These people all had a common point — they were all members of large forces.

To them, mortal luck inspection Gu were much more attractive than the rank seven
remnant recipe.

Mortal luck inspection Gu could be used to observe the luck of mortals. With them,
these forces would have a completely new standard of detecting talents.

For a long time, the Gu Master world had used aptitude as the standard for inspection.

Besides the aptitude, there were also individual talents, disposition and fortuitous
encounters.

Talents consisted of battle talent, comprehension, refinement talent and so on, it

would gradually be revealed as one continued to cultivate.

Disposition could be observed through interaction.

Only fortuitous encounters were hard to measure. Many times, Gu Masters with poor
aptitude and talents would soar to the sky, or have an unexpected rise due to
fortuitous encounters. This was a common event. Especially in this world, where Gu
Masters left behind their inheritances.

If these forces had this Gu, there was no doubt they could make a more comprehensive
inspection of talents and raise more geniuses.

The individual lone cultivators retreated from the bidding war. But to large forces, the
luck inspection Gu had extremely strong attraction, and each of them made fierce bids
without conceding.

Finally, this mortal Gu recipe had reached a high price, and leaders of several forces
were almost going to exchange with Immortal Gu.

It was then that Yao Huang said: "I will guarantee on my name, if I purchase it first, I
will put this Gu recipe for sale in the open transaction later."

Yao Huang was one of the five great rank eights of Northern Plains with extremely high
reputation. He was also a leader of the righteous path, and with his assurance,
everyone retreated. Qin Bai Sheng felt very dissatisfied with this, but showed a smile
on the surface, not daring to offend Yao Huang.

"Next, is the second item. A rank seven Immortal Gu of luck path called Reverse
Misfortune! As the name implies, this Gu can change a person's bad luck to good luck!"
Qin Bai Sheng introduced loudly.

This Immortal Gu was similar to Calamity Beckoning Gu. Both were of luck path and
both were rank seven, but comparing the responses, they were as distinct as heaven
and earth.

Many rank seven Gu Immortals as well as rank eight great experts made their bids.

This Immortal Gu was extremely practical and there was no need to use luck
inspection Gu with it. It was indeed worthy of being an essence of the luck path true
inheritance.

A fierce competition resulted for Reverse Misfortune, the intense competition was no
inferior to a bloodbath in a battlefield.
Because the starting bid for Reverse Misfortune was a metal path rank seven Immortal
Gu, Fang Yuan could only watch from the sidelines.

Finally, the price kept on soaring till it surpassed the high price records of Worldly
Wave Trace and Delight in Water and Mountain, and took the first position.
The intense bidding had finally ended.

In the end, the rank eight Gu Immortal, Five Elements Grandmaster, used a rank seven
metal path and a rank six metal path Immortal Gu, along with countless immortal
materials to become the eventual winner.

Five Elements Grandmaster's cultivation included the five paths of metal, wood, water,
fire, earth. Thus, he had some metal path Immortal Gu as well.

But this time, he was discarding a portion of his prized collection, it was like he was
throwing away a meat filled bun for a less tasty plain bread.

Fang Yuan found it regrettable, but he had no way to compete in the bidding. Even if
he had Gu Immortal captives, in terms of value, they could not compare to this
extremely unique Immortal Gu.

In fact, reverse misfortune Immortal Gu was very suitable with Spring Autumn Cicada.

The weakness of Spring Autumn Cicada was that it gave the user bad luck. But after
using this Immortal Gu, not only could this weakness be solved, the user's luck could
even be improved, turning into good luck.

Undeniably, the effect of reverse misfortune Immortal Gu was much more convenient
than connect luck Immortal Gu.

Unfortunately, Fang Yuan's financial power was at a completely disadvantage

compared to people like Five Elements Grandmaster and Yao Huang.

Fang Yuan had only been an immortal for such a short time, from the point he obtained
Hu Immortal blessed land, only two years had passed according to the time of the five
regions. Looking at Southern Border, the great battles at Yi Tian mountain had not
even begun yet!
Honestly speaking, Fang Yuan was able to become an immortal zombie in such a short
time, developing himself to this point was already very difficult.

As for Five Elements Grandmaster, Yao Huang, and Feng Jiu Ge, they had already
accumulated their wealth for countless years. They had hundreds of thousands of
immortal essence stones, in addition to precious immortal materials. The amount of
resources their immortal aperture worlds created each year could pile up into a
mountain! The resources that they provided could even heavily affect the market in
treasure yellow heaven.

These were all powerhouses, be it their battle strength, financial power, connections,
or status, Fang Yuan could not compare with them at this moment.

After Reverse Misfortune, it was another rank seven Immortal Gu, called Blessing in
Disguise.

This Gu's ability was quite mystical, it targeted the immortal aperture's calamities and
tribulations.

After a Gu Immortal undergoes tribulation, the dao marks on their bodies would
increase in numbers, causing their cultivation level to progress. This was common
knowledge in Gu Immortal cultivation.

Blessing in disguise Immortal Gu targeted this point. After using it, when a Gu
Immortal completes a tribulation, the increase in the number of dao marks on them
would be twice that of the original amount!

This was a terrifying number.

The reward of one tribulation would be equal to the amount normal people get from
two tribulations.

But this Gu had a flaw, it had to be activated before the calamities and tribulations. It
could only stop after the calamities and tribulations had ended. Through the effect of
this Gu, the calamities and tribulations would have a thirty to forty percent increase
in strength, based on their original power.

This weakness dampened the enthusiasm in the Gu Immortals slightly. But they could
still not resist the temptation.
Up to forty percent more power in the tribulation in exchange for twice the amount of
dao marks, the benefit outweighed the cost.

For those experts confident in surviving a tribulation, this Immortal Gu had much
greater attraction to them.

A terrifying auction thus unfolded.

As a metal path Gu Immortal, Qin Bai Sheng naturally requested for a rank seven metal
path Immortal Gu as the base bid.

Eventually, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu had sweat on his forehead as he defeated his
competitors, obtaining this Gu.

The following auction items caused surges in turn.

Fortuitous encounter Immortal Gu that could allow opportunities to arrive for the Gu
Immortal themselves.

Immortal Gu from the five mainstream paths, metal, wood, water, fire, and earth, that
were helpful to Gu Immortals.

An Immortal Gu that operated in both luck path and wisdom path — luck deduction
Immortal Gu, it could consume one's own luck to make deductions on dangers or
opportunities in the future.

Luck suppression Immortal Gu that could suppress the loss of one's own luck from
other Immortal Gu.

These Immortal Gu were indeed the essence of the luck path true inheritance, not only
were they incredible, they had useful effects that broadened everyone's horizons.

But these Gu fell into the hands of Yao Huang, Feng Jiu Ge, and the other powerhouses.

This was an expected situation.

Fang Yuan wanted to interfere, but he did not have any metal path Immortal Gu.

This was a helpless matter.

The other rank six Gu Immortals and most rank seven Gu Immortals were like Fang
Yuan, only able to watch these powerhouses compete for Immortal Gu.

The prices of the auction items created new records, Fang Yuan's records from the two
Immortal Gu he sold were already pushed out of the top ten.

"The next item is the final, and most important item in this auction." Qin Bai Sheng
introduced it as such.

His way of speaking immediately attracted the attention of the Gu Immortals.

Just as everyone was guessing to themselves what Immortal Gu it was, Ma Hong Yun
and Zhao Lian Yun, who were unconscious, appeared on the stage.

Qin Bai Sheng spoke at an appropriate time: "Please do not be alarmed, I am sure a lot
of Gu Immortals have guessed it already. That is right, these two are the crucial people
who were protected by the luck path true inheritance previously. This girl is called
Zhao Lian Yun, she was very intelligent since a young age, and had experienced the
crucial battle in Imperial Court blessed land. Although she was not the true inheritor,
she had obtained a lot of benefits inside the luck path true inheritance light lump, she
had obtained a portion of the luck path inheritance. As for this young man, he is Ma
Hong Yun, the one and only recognized inheritor of the luck path true inheritance! Not
only did he experience the battle in Imperial Court blessed land, he even has had the
fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu used on him."

Once he said that, the commotion was like a huge wave.

Countless heated gazes were tightly fixed on Ma Hong Yun.

"Did I hear wrongly? It is really fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu?"

"Fortune Rivalling Heaven! This is the trump card Gu of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable.
Although it was not recorded in history, there were many rumors that praised this
Immortal Gu endlessly!"

"But this fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu seems to be a consumable Gu, it can
only be used once."

"Since it is the rank eight Fortune Rivalling Heaven, could brother Qin use the rank six
luck inspection Immortal Gu to check it?" In the main hall, a Gu Immortal suddenly
questioned.

Qin Bai Sheng smiled as he replied: "According to the information that I obtained in
the true inheritance, unless it is the rank eight luck inspection Immortal Gu, one
cannot see the true appearance of Fortune Rivalling Heaven. Luck inspection
Immortal Gu below rank eight can only see a portion of it. And that is only because the
other party did not use any concealment method. Honestly speaking, I have already
used the rank six luck inspection Immortal Gu to find out some traces of Fortune
Rivalling Heaven. As for why I am so certain that Fortune Rivalling Heaven was used
on Ma Hong Yun, that is because I have searched their souls."

"If you buy one of them and conduct soul searching, you will be able to see what
happened inside Imperial Court blessed land. By then, you will know that my words
are true. At the same time, these two inherited a huge portion of the luck path true
inheritance. During the process of soul searching, you will be able to learn what they
had learned in the inheritance."

Saying this, Qin Bai Sheng paused and said in an enticing tone: "I have bad news to
share with everyone first. The luck path true inheritance is undoubtedly incomplete,
the details do not contain the Immortal Gu recipe of fortune rivalling heaven Immortal
Gu. But there is good news, in the inheritance details, there is a method to take back
Fortune Rivalling Heaven. It is possible to reverse refine the used fortune rivalling
heaven Immortal Gu and obtain the original Immortal Gu. Of course, during the
process of refinement, the main material would be this young man, Ma Hong Yun."

Hearing these words, most of the Gu Immortals had eyes shining like they were going
to burst out in fire, some even gulped, as everyone was filled with anticipation and
desire!

Qin Bai Sheng's lips curled, he showed a confident smile: "I feel that these two
youngsters can best represent the essence of the luck path true inheritance. I will not
be setting a base price for them, because they are not Immortal Gu. You can bid for one
of them, or both of them at the same time. We will start now!"

"No base price? I will offer three hundred immortal essence stones!" One person
shouted within the hall of enthusiastic Gu Immortals.

"Thirty thousand immortal essence stones." Feng Jiu Ge said coldly, multiplying the
bid by a hundred times!
But this price could not stop the enthusiasm of the other experts, it could only deny
most of the bottom tier Gu Immortals.

Yao Huang, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, Five Elements Grandmaster, Old Ancestor
Xue Hu, and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, they were still bidding, and the representatives of
the super forces were not showing weakness either.

The price skyrocketed at an extremely fast pace!

Fang Yuan sighed to himself.

His financial power was like an ant compared to these giants. Unless he put all of his
Gu Immortal captives on the line, he could not contest with them.

But Fang Yuan would not do this.

He was already on the strength path, and was planning to go into time path, he was
not going to develop his luck path attainment. And he was also the main culprit of the
Imperial Court blessed land incident, he had experienced more of that series of events
than Ma and Zhao, he knew most of the inner details.

Regarding the information of the luck path true inheritance as well as the reverse
refinement of fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu, they were very tempting indeed.

But fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu was rank eight, Fang Yuan was only rank six,
how could he refine it? His finances would definitely be unable to support it.
Furthermore, even if he succeeded, he did not have the ability to keep it.

The bidding of Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun lasted for much of the hour.

Eventually, two unthinkable prices stood at the top two spots, at the record highest
prices in this auction.

The second spot was Feng Jiu Ge, he had bought Zhao Lian Yun.

The one who obtained Ma Hong Yun was the rank eight great expert Old Ancestor Xue
Hu. The leader of Snowy Mountain blessed land, the number one person in the
demonic path, had shown his incredible wealth at the end of the auction.

Before this, he had always concealed himself, barely buying anything. Towards the
end, he dealt a heavy blow and swept his enemies away.

Many Gu Immortals, especially the representatives from the super forces who had the
Huang Jin bloodline, had no choice but to watch as Ma Hong Yun fell into the hands of
the demonic path.

Yao Huang sighed, he had bought many things already and expended a large amount
of wealth, at the final moment, he lost to Old Ancestor Xue Hu.

"But thankfully, Zhao Lian Yun is still in the hands of our Northern Plains' righteous
path." The Gu Immortals that had the Huang Jin bloodline consoled themselves.

What they did not know was, Swordmaster You Lan, who was representing Prince
Feng Xian, was an imposter called Feng Jiu Ge.

Speaking of which, this was really ironic.

During his life, Giant Sun Immortal Venerable had kept the luck path true inheritance
as a deep secret, setting up layers of protection and thinking of passing the complete
version down to his descendants. In the end, the luck path true inheritance became
incomplete and was split up by everyone, circulating into the entire world. The most
important inheritors were even held in the hands of people who were not part of the
Huang Jin bloodline.
"The main auction has ended. Next, there will be a two hour break for everyone to
move around in the auction hall. Two hours later, we will have the open transaction."

After Qin Bai Sheng said that, he left the stage.

He was tired, as the host the entire time, especially when he auctioned the essence of
the luck path true inheritance, because his own benefits were at stake, he made many
schemes during the process.

Even though there were many traces and most of the Gu Immortals present could tell,
the profits were too immense, Qin Bai Sheng could not care less.

"After this auction is over, I will escape and hide from the world. After managing and
processing my gains for most of a century, I will roam the world after that." Qin Bai
Sheng decided in his head.

He was the biggest winner of this auction. The immortal materials he obtained could
pile into a mountain, he also obtained many metal path Immortal Gu that were
compatible with him.

The saying goes: Humans die for wealth and birds die for food. Profits could move the
human heart, even if Gu Immortals ordinarily appeared to be unconcerned with
worldly matters, that was only because mortal materials cannot satisfy their desires.

Auctioning the essence of the luck path true inheritance was extremely profitable, it
was greatly heated. Even the rank seven expert, Qin Bai Sheng, had felt uneasy.

In the main hall, discussions soon commenced. Many Gu Immortals came out of the
single rooms and mixed into the group, engaging in conversations together.

Qin Bai Sheng left a two hour break for everyone, he had his own intentions.

It was not really a time to rest, but it was for the Gu Immortals to communicate with
each other and interact.

From the auction earlier, everyone had gained a certain level of understanding
towards each other's resources. Now, to exchange for the things they wanted, they
would naturally need to interact first.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng sat in the secret rooms and did not move.

Unfamiliar face was a mortal killer move, it had limited effect and the two had to be
careful, they could not expose themselves.

Fang Yuan felt some regret that he was unable to obtain anything in the luck path true
inheritance. Especially Ma and Zhao, the people who knew the truth of the Imperial
Court incident, Fang Yuan wanted to deal with them. But he did not have enough
strength, he could only watch and could not interfere, there was nothing he could do.

Thankfully, he had not sold the Gu Immortal captives in his hands yet, there was the
open trading later, he could still look forward to that.

Two hours later, Qin Bai Sheng stepped onto the stage again, announcing the start of
the open transactions.

For the sake of fairness, he did the same thing again, using Gu worms to choose a lucky
person to enter the stage first.

This first Gu Immortal took out a large amount of an immortal material, broken wave
flowers, his request was — prosperity soil.

Broken wave flowers grew in large rivers, they were magical flowers born during the
moments where waves appeared and vanished. Because they had a short lifespan,
they were hard to gather.

As for prosperity soil, diamond soil, green fist soil… these soils were highly sought
after items by Gu Immortals.

Gu Immortals develop their immortal apertures, they use the resources produced in
their immortal apertures to cultivate, the fertility of their soil played a huge role in
this. Prosperity soil could grow all sorts of flowers, diamond soil could grow minerals,
while green fist soil could accumulate and gather the fertility to prevent it from
vanishing, it was suited for immortal apertures with terrain resembling barren lands,
like deserts.

Gu Immortals who owned prosperity soil were not few. Immediately, they started
speaking, asking how much was needed for the trade.

The seller on the stage actually had large numbers of broken wave flowers. After
trading for one thousand and five hundred kilograms of prosperity soil, he waved his
hand and left the stage.

The difference between the auction and the open transaction was very obvious.

The auction was for valuable items, they had a huge prerequisite for bidders. The open
transaction often involved scattered trades, the entry level was low.

But this was not universal.

After several Gu Immortals, a Gu Immortal who did not want to expose themselves
showed an Immortal Gu and asked Qin Bai Sheng to sell it for them.

This Immortal Gu was one that did not get sold earlier, the seller had lowered their
requirements greatly.

But even so, the request was still an Immortal Gu. There were a few people who
responded, they wanted the price to be lower. The seller refused and eventually, the
trade failed and this Immortal Gu returned to the seller's hands.

When it was Fang Yuan's turn, more than thirty rounds had passed.

"The thirty-seventh secret room is selling a Gu Immortal captive." Qin Bai Sheng said
as he displayed the sleeping Gu Immortal inside the sleeping cloud coffin.

Immediately, the auction hall went into a commotion.

The slave trade industry was well known by every immortal. But to sell Gu Immortals
like they were slaves, this was an extremely rare event! For many Gu Immortals, this
was the first time they had seen it.

At once, Gu Immortals discussed as their expressions varied.

When Qin Bai Sheng announced it again, the scattered conversations in the hall
became softer.

Someone asked for the details.

Qin Bai Sheng introduced: "This Gu Immortal captive might be familiar to some of you,
he is Loner Hong Yu, a rank six fire path Gu Immortal. His cultivation is at one heavenly
tribulation. This is the situation inside his blessed land, you can all take a look."

Saying so, the image on the stage changed, reflecting the situation of Loner Hong Yu's
immortal aperture.

"This blessed land is a little barren."

"Yes, managing his blessed land so poorly, no wonder he was captured alive."

"Don't forget, the Gu Immortal who captured him must have already looted his blessed
land already."

"To us fire path Gu Immortals, isn't it better if this Loner Hong Yu's cultivation is
lower?"

The Gu Immortals were moved.

Fire path Gu Immortals had great demand for Loner Hong Yu's immortal aperture.
Once they swallowed his blessed land, they could skip one heavenly tribulation, many
earthly calamities, and gain cultivation levels out of nowhere, the foundation of their
blessed land would surge by a huge amount!

Even if one was not a fire path Gu Immortal, most of the Gu Immortals also wanted the
blessed land.

Even if their paths were different and they could not swallow the blessed land, they
could still occupy this owner-less blessed land after killing him, and obtain a good
territory to manage.

If they managed it well, the blessed land would be like a source of treasures, producing
resources endlessly, sustaining the Gu Immortal's cultivation needs.

Just as Qin Bai Sheng had expected, Loner Hong Yu became a sought after commodity.
Fang Yuan listed a broad range of requests. First, he listed a large amount of immortal
materials, next was killer moves from strength path, poison path, time path and
wisdom path. Next was all sorts of Gu recipes, the rarer they were the better. After
that, he asked for desolate beast corpses, food path inheritances or clues for them,
wisdom path inheritances or clues, time path inheritances or clues. Finally, he asked
for battle bone wheel Gu, the recipes for white bone chariot, lifespan Gu and others.

Eventually, Loner Hong Yu went into Five Elements Grandmaster's hands.

Five Elements Grandmaster cultivated metal, wood, water, fire, earth, all five paths,
Loner Hong Yu's immortal aperture was useful to him.

After selling Loner Hong Yu, the next person was up.

According to the rules of the open transaction, each Gu Immortal could only sell one
thing in each round.

This was for fairness.

Fang Yuan was not anxious, he patiently waited. After some rounds, he had sold more
than half of his Gu Immortal captives. Not only did he finish Lang Ya land spirit's
checklist, he even had extra. Not only this, Fang Yuan also obtained the corpse of a
desolate beast bat.

During this period of time, he noticed that he was not the only one selling Gu Immortal
captives.

Old Ancestor Xue Hu and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu sold them openly. The Eastern Sea Gu
Immortal sold three immortal zombie bodies, causing the displeasure of Yin Liu Gong
and Dragon Commander Ye Cha. But in the end, Yao Huang joyfully bought these three
immortal zombie bodies.

After seeing this, Fang Yuan relaxed a bit.

Lang Ya land spirit was not the only one capable of capturing Gu Immortals. No matter
how excellent you are, there is always someone more excellent than you, there were
more capable people among other Gu Immortals.

During this period of time, Fang Yuan had changed his room continuously, obscuring
his traces and preventing others from finding out that he was the person who was
selling most of the Gu Immortal captives.

Gradually, more and more Gu Immortals stopped trading, they chose to watch on the
sidelines.

They had basically accomplished their respective goals.

The remaining Gu Immortals, even though they were few in number, the goods they
were selling were getting more precious and valuable.

By the ninth round, Gu Immortals were starting to leave. Just as Fang Yuan thought
that the last of his Gu Immortal captives would be sold routinely, Qin Bai Sheng's
expression changed, as he received a major request from a lone cultivator.

He raised his voice as he said: "Next, we will be selling the complete Gu recipe of the
Immortal Gu House, Red Fiend Divine Boat, as well as the method to use it. The seller
is requesting for anything that can assist them in cultivating wood path."

"What? Red Fiend Divine Boat?!"

"They are selling this Immortal Gu House?"

"Why are they selling it now? The auction is nearing its end!"

"Haha, the people who left earlier must be dying of regret."

In two single rooms, Yin Liu Gong and Dragon Commander Ye Cha had very ugly
expressions.

Zombie Alliance was trying to eliminate the Gu Immortal who was selling the Red
Fiend Divine Boat recipe, but this lone cultivator was very good at hiding, they could
not find a chance to strike. At the auction, Zombie Alliance could not make a move on
him, they could only urge him and offer a high price.

But this lone cultivator was swayed by the atmosphere of the auction, he became
greedy and demanded even higher prices, extorting and threatening Zombie Alliance.

Finally, just earlier, their discussions had ended in failure, with the lone cultivator
immediately putting up the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe for sale.
"I will pay six thousand immortal essence stones and one thousand five hundred
kilograms of red refinement metal to buy it all!"

"Immortal farmer soil! I have four thousand kilograms of immortal farmer soil, I will
use it all to exchange for the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe."

"You bunch of fools, didn't you hear brother Qin's words? The seller wants wood path
resources, I have jade fallen grass here!"

"So what if it is jade fallen grass, I have instinct roots!!"

At once, everyone's moods were riled up, as the representatives of the super forces
and the rank eight great experts joined in.

The two leaders of Zombie Alliance were furious, but they had to join in the
competition.

At once, the calm open transaction had turned into a battlefield, like they were back
in the auction rounds. The allure of the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe was obvious from
this.

"I am willing to pay with a wood path Immortal Gu, in exchange for the Red Fiend
Divine Boat recipe." Soon, the representative of a super force, Meng tribe, shouted.

"My Yuan tribe also has a wood path Immortal Gu, we will also add in three hundred
true martial carps!" Yuan Rang Zun shouted, the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe was too
alluring, he even used his precious true martial carps as part of the bid.

"If you let my Zombie Alliance purchase this, I, Yin Liu Gong, will vow this on my
reputation, I will definitely resell this recipe." Yin Liu Gong said coldly.

"I, Yao Huang, can attest for that." Soon after, Yao Huang spoke, adding weight to these
words.

"Hmph, I have a wisdom path Immortal Gu, Unravel Mystery, it can deduce all traces
of any inheritance. I will add in three vats of lingzhi liquid!" Heavenly Lord Bai Zu
shouted.

At once, shouting could be heard everywhere, it was a chaotic scene.

Fang Yuan's heart was moved, his eyes burst with brilliant light!

If he did not hear wrongly, that was the unravel mystery Immortal Gu, correct?!
"Unravel mystery Immortal Gu… unravel mystery Immortal Gu…” Fang Yuan muttered,
his finger was tapping on the handle of his seat as it made soft noises.

Bidding could be heard all over the auction hall. At the end of the auction, such a huge
treasure like the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe appeared, this was an unexpected
surprise.

Ordinary lone cultivators did not need to consider it, only the rank seven Gu Immortals
in super forces or rank eight great experts could have any chance in competing for it.

Especially the super forces, the allure of the Immortal Gu House was extremely great
for the super forces.

The price rose at an absurd speed, climbing rapidly. Even though this was the open
transaction, everyone was fighting for the good, they subconsciously returned to the
auction format that was used previously.

Qin Bai Sheng laughed bitterly.

The regulations were set by him, but seeing these experts screaming their lungs out,
he chose to watch on the sidelines. At this point, talking about regulations would just
offend all of these powerhouses.

"Do you see, this is the attraction of the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe, your Zombie
Alliance was simply too stingy!" The seller acted arrogantly upon seeing this, sending
a message to the two leaders of Zombie Alliance.

Dragon Commander Ye Cha's face darkened.

Yin Liu Gong was sighing helplessly, looking at this price, it was already higher than
what the Zombie Alliance was planning to pay. And this was not the end, the price was
still climbing.
Yin Liu Gong was a sensible person, he knew that at this point, the Red Fiend Divine
Boat recipe could not belong to Zombie Alliance. When leader returns, who knew
would she criticize him, for being so incapable in handling this matter.

As Fang Yuan listened to the bids, he assessed quietly in his mind.

"I have four Gu Immortal captives left. One of them is Wu Hao, known as Rushing
Thunder Hand, he is the only rank seven captive I have. There are three others, they
are the three Hua Hai immortals, they cultivate wood path."

Evidently, there was little chance of success if he wanted to use these four Gu Immortal
captives to trade for Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's unravel mystery Immortal Gu.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was an enslavement path Gu Immortal, with a different path, the
allure of these four Gu Immortal captives was greatly lowered.

The other point was, Immortal Gu were unique, and unravel mystery Immortal Gu was
very useful, if not for the attraction of the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe, Heavenly Lord
Bai Zu would not have exposed such a good Gu.

"If I try to trade it directly, it would not work. The strength path Immortal Gu that I
just obtained have no use to Heavenly Lord Bai Zu. If I use calamity beckoning
Immortal Gu, I will be exchanging a rank seven for a rank six, that exchange would be
at a loss. As for Fixed Immortal Travel and Connect Luck, they are indispensable to me,
I cannot trade them away."

But Fang Yuan did not want to give up on unravel mystery Immortal Gu.

If he missed this chance, if he missed this situation, even if he had the resources in the
future, it would be hard to trade for it.

Unravel mystery Immortal Gu was not a necessity to Fang Yuan. But in his memories,
he had to way to use this Gu as the core, in combination with other rare supplementary
Gu worms, he could conjure a dream path killer move!

A dream path immortal killer move!

At this time, the prophecy of the three venerables had spread throughout the five
regions, because of Great Dream Immortal Venerable, almost all of the super forces
and rank eight powerhouses were researching dream path.
Although their research results were shallow, dream realms were already starting to
manifest.

There were already two dream path Immortal Gu he knew of in this life.

One was in Feng Jin Huang's hands, the other was in Lady Poison Scorpion's
possession. To speak of it, the latter was more problematic. Feng Jin Huang was still a
mortal lass, but Lady Poison Scorpion was in her blessed land, slumbering as she
explored a dream realm.

Everyone knew that dream path was the trend of the future. Thus, they treasured
anything relating to this path greatly, many dream path mortal Gu that they refined
were not shown to the world, they were the greatest mysteries of each force.

Those who were able to become Gu Immortals were dragons among men, they had
good foresight and were very shrewd individuals.

Even in an auction of such scale, there had been no dream path related treasures sold.

Fang Yuan knew about the Gu recipes of many dream path mortal Gu. But mortal Gu
were not helpful towards the exploration of dream realms. Otherwise, the major
forces would have started exploring dream realms en masse already.

The truly useful ones were dream path Immortal Gu.

But the amazing thing was, be it the two that appeared now, or the dream path
Immortal Gu that appeared in the future according to Fang Yuan's memories, they
were all in the hands of women.

Perhaps this was explained by the Prophecy of Three Venerables, stating two male
Venerables and one female Venerable. With this, one could deduce that Great Dream
Immortal Venerable would be a female Immortal Venerable.

Within a short time, Fang Yuan would not be able to obtain a dream path Immortal Gu.
But if he had a dream path immortal killer move, then that could substitute for the
effect of a dream path Immortal Gu!

Gu are the essence of heaven and earth, man is the spirit of all living beings.

One could say — the use of Gu depended on the user. There was no strongest Gu worm,
only a strongest Gu Master. Genius Gu Masters could often match different Gu worms
together, unleashing a greater effect from that.

For example, Fang Yuan did not have a strength path Immortal Gu previously, but he
used the soul path cleanse soul Immortal Gu, combined with other mortal Gu, to form
the immortal killer move myriad self, creating a starting point of the path formed from
the convergence of enslavement and strength.

This dream path immortal killer move was the same case, the core Immortal Gu was
of wisdom path, Unravel Mystery, but it was a dream path killer move.

"If I can obtain this Gu, I will be able to collect dream realm Gu materials and refine
the various mortal Gu. Even though it would spend some time, but once I succeed in
forming my killer move, the rewards will be immensely more profitable! I will be able
to make up for the regret during my previous life, becoming a pioneer in the
exploration of dream realms, being ahead of all the forces in this world, being ahead
of the superpowers!"

Fang Yuan's mouth turned dry as he thought about it.

He estimated, the potential value coming from this dream path killer move was in no
way lower than wisdom Gu. It was only beneath what had come from Spring Autumn
Cicada and Hu Immortal blessed land, but higher than all-out effort Gu.

Among the countless opportunities in Fang Yuan's previous life, the most valuable one
was Spring Autumn Cicada. Even though it was rank six, far inferior to wisdom Gu's
rank nine, it could allow Fang Yuan to be reborn and start again. Even if there was a
chance of failure, didn't he succeed every time until now? If he failed the first time, it
would have been the worst opportunity he ever had. But it had succeeded, it was
deserving of being his greatest fortune.

Next was Hu Immortal blessed land. It had allowed Fang Yuan to have the foundation
of a Gu Immortal despite being a mortal, standing on the shoulder of a former Gu
Immortal. After becoming an immortal zombie, it made up for his weakness in his
aspect. It was because of this blessed land that Fang Yuan had ample foundation. The
cultivation of Gu Immortals was not just about fighting and killing, economic
management was the biggest foundation base.

Third was wisdom Gu, using the light of wisdom, Fang Yuan gained unlimited
inspiration, it rapidly pulled him out of his slump. But that was built on the blessed
land and his own foundation. In the future, if he truly controlled it, it might bring Fang
Yuan a pleasant surprise. But for now, it was third.

The fourth was all-out effort Gu, even though this mortal Gu was only rank four, he
obtained it at a very crucial moment. It was the first springboard since Fang Yuan's
rebirth. Without all-out effort Gu, Fang Yuan would not have had such incredible battle
strength. Without his battle strength, he would not have been able to participate in
the three kings inheritance.

As for the dream path killer move, if he obtained it, Fang Yuan would be able to use it
well and the value would be equal to the current use of wisdom Gu.

After this time period, the value of dream path killer moves would fall drastically.
When dream realms undergo complete external manifestation, and dream path would
be thriving all over, this killer move's value would fall beyond belief.

The value of opportunities depended on the timing.

Spring Autumn Cicada was very valuable, but if Fang Yuan became a Demon Venerable
and was invincible in the world, why would he need it?

This was also the case for Hu Immortal blessed land, if Fang Yuan obtained it after
becoming a Gu Immortal and had his own healthy blessed land, the value he received
from it would be far lower.

The same logic applied to wisdom Gu, all-out effort Gu, and this dream path killer
move.

"But I definitely need the core Immortal Gu, Unravel Mystery, to use this dream path
killer move, otherwise, all of this is empty talk." Fang Yuan looked at the auction again.

At this moment, there were few competitors left.

Feng Jiu Ge and Old Ancestor Xue Hu were out of the competition. These two had spent
a great amount to buy Ma and Zhao, their foundations were shaken and they no longer
were able to compete.

Yao Huang had backed out regrettably as well. He had purchased some refinement
path Immortal Gu, as well as many Gu Immortal captives. With the huge resource
consumption of refinement path, all sorts of restrictions forced him to back out.

Five Elements Grandmaster had stopped long ago, he had bought many Immortal Gu
of the mainstream paths, and he was also a lone cultivator.

The last ones remaining were Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, the Eastern Sea rank eight Gu
Immortal, and three super forces, they were: Yuan tribe, Murong tribe, and Chanyu
tribe.

Soon, Chanyu tribe left the competition as well. Even though Yuan tribe's Yuan Rang
Zun was screaming that he wanted to sell all of the true martial carps away, he could
not make up his mind. After all, Yuan tribe already had their own Immortal Gu House.

Thus, only Murong tribe, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal, and Heavenly Lord Bai Zu were
left.

"Murong Jin Xiao, my force has no Immortal Gu House to defend it, this is very
dangerous. If you can let go today, I will definitely compensate you well." In the secret
room, the Eastern Sea Gu Immortal urged.

Murong Jin Xiao shook his head, paying respects as he smiled: "Lord, my Murong
tribe's Immortal Gu House is lacking a core Immortal Gu, everyone in Northern Plains
know that. This matter involves huge benefits for my tribe, please forgive me for my
insolence, I want to fight for it, whether it ends in success or failure, I do not want to
be resigned."

The Eastern Sea Gu Immortal sighed faintly, he no longer said anything apart from
raising the bid.

"It seems that I still have some hope!" The price was already at two Immortal Gu, it
had far exceeded the value of four Gu Immortal captives, but Fang Yuan's gaze was
becoming more excited.

"Even though the Red Fiend Divine Boat is good, no core Immortal Gu are being sold.
The Immortal Gu that the three of them are offering are rank six, they have little use.
Two Immortal Gu are the limit, those three are already thinking hard, their bids are
increasing very slowly. After all, even if they obtained this Red Fiend Divine Boat
recipe, it only involves the entirety of the Immortal Gu recipes, they still needed to
spend a huge sum refining the Gu."
"The seller is a wood path cultivator, he wants resources useful to his cultivation.
Among these six Immortal Gu, only one is wood path, it comes from Murong tribe, but
it is an investigative Immortal Gu. Hehe, this is great. Forget about the last Gu
Immortal, Rushing Thunder Hand Wu Hao, that I still have, but the three Hua Hai
immortals are wood path Gu Immortals, I can make good use of this situation in a
plan."

Fang Yuan moved quickly, he immediately informed Qin Bai Sheng and contacted
Heavenly Lord Bai Zu.

"The three parties are in a stalemate now, I do not have a wood path Immortal Gu, and
Murong tribe has the greatest chance now, maybe I can use this to break the
stalemate?"

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was moved, he changed his bid, he first took down unravel
mystery Immortal Gu and put up the three Hua Hai immortals.

The seller's eyes brightened, he hesitated for a bit before choosing Heavenly Lord Bai
Zu.

He was an astute person.

To him, even though the other two sides had an additional Immortal Gu, only one of
them had a wood path Immortal Gu. But in Heavenly Lord Bai Zu's bid, there was a
movement Immortal Gu and three wood path immortal apertures, he could swallow
them and gain a huge boost in cultivation level!

He sold the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe, he had already offended Zombie Alliance,
his current concerns were to protect his life and develop in secret.

What suited himself had the greatest value.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu did not have any interest in the three Hua Hai immortals, but
the seller needed them urgently.

As for Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, he did not make any losses, he still paid a price of two
Immortal Gu. Since he had already decided to give up unravel mystery Immortal Gu,
did it matter who it ended up with? Selling it to Fang Yuan, he broke the stalemate and
obtained the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe.
As for Fang Yuan, he finally obtained unravel mystery Immortal Gu.

"This is a mutual win for three parties. Hahaha." He laughed heartily.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu became the final winner of the intense bidding war, obtaining
the complete recipe for Red Fiend Divine Boat. And the beneficiary of the back-door
deal, Fang Yuan, also successfully obtained unravel mystery Immortal Gu.

Fang Yuan was very satisfied with this transaction.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu became the focal point of everyone's attention, and apart from
a few related people, no one knew unravel mystery Immortal Gu had landed in Fang
Yuan's hands.

Red Fiend Divine Boat's recipe could be considered as an unexpected final climactic
moment of the auction.

Time passed, four hours later, this auction which included various outstanding people
finally ended.

"There is still no reply from Fairy Li Shan's end?" Fang Yuan secretly asked Tai Bai Yun
Sheng.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng quickly sent his message: "Nothing until now. Fairy Li Shan actually
missed such a grand event, it seems there is definitely some issue on her end. Do we
return through the previous route?"

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng came to Qin Bai Sheng's blessed land through the
hole earth Gu established between Qin Bai Sheng and Fairy Li Shan.

Now, the situation on Fairy Li Shan's end was unclear, and rashly using hole earth Gu
to return was undoubtedly an unwise move.

"No, we will first leave along with the others, then use Fixed Immortal Travel. We need
to be careful, though, there will definitely be turmoil soon." Fang Yuan reminded.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng nodded with a serious expression.

The auction might have ended, but there were sure to be many who were not satisfied
with the results. With the end of the auction, the previous agreement signed by all
parties would expire.

Without the restriction, people's hearts and minds would be moved by wealth;
robbery, extortion and ambushes would be the next event.

Most of the Gu Immortals had the same thoughts as Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng.
Thus, they left the blessed land in a hurry and full of caution.

"We must get that guy! He actually dared to sell the Red Fiend Divine Boat recipe
openly, our Zombie Alliance's face had been lost completely!"

"We could let go if it was only our face, but the key thing is that the leader had
repeatedly reminded us of the importance of this task before she left. But now, we
have screwed up. When the leader comes back and hears the news, who knows how
she will punish us!"

Yin Liu Gong and Dragon Commander Ye Cha discussed as they looked at their target
hurriedly leaving.

In the sky above crimson reed marsh.

"Heavenly Lord, I wonder if you are interested in selling the Red Fiend Divine Boat
recipe to my Yao tribe?" Yao Huang stayed behind and persuaded Heavenly Lord Bai
Zu.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu chuckled: "Lord Yao Huang is jesting, how can such a treasure
be sold easily? I won't conceal it from you, I have a lot of descendants and they are
filling up my grotto-heaven. Recently, I have been planning to establish a tribe, perhaps
we can have many opportunities to collaborate with Yao tribe."

The leaders of various forces in the surroundings had changes in their expressions as
they heard this.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was a rank eight powerhouse. A tribe he established, with his
support, was certain to thrive.

Not only this, with the support of a rank eight Gu Immortal, even if the new tribe's
foundation was lacking, it would still be a super force!
Northern Plains was Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's homeland, the place where he
rose up and established a hereditary monarchy. For a long time up to now, the super
forces in Northern Plains were almost all of Huang Jin bloodline.

Heavenly Lord Bai Zu was trying to poke his nose into this by establishing a super
force, which no doubt was going to create an enormous impact on those Huang Jin
descendants.

At the same time, with the lone cultivator, Heavenly Lord Bai Zu, becoming the first
supreme elder of a righteous path force, it would have huge impacts on both the
demonic path and lone cultivator camps.

Yao Huang's smile became even brighter: "Since Heavenly Lord has such an intention,
who could stop you in this huge world? It is very difficult for us old fellows to gather
together, no time is better than the present, how about we have a chat today?"

"Haha, this is also what I wanted to say." Heavenly Lord Bai Zu laughed heartily.

Yao Huang opened up his Immortal Gu House, Medicine Cottage, and invited all the Gu
Immortals present to join.

Most of the super forces entered in the end, including Five Elements Grandmaster, who
represented the benefits of lone cultivators.

However, Old Ancestor Xue Hu refused.

In this auction, Old Ancestor Xue Hu had invested a lot to buy Ma Hong Yun, as well as
precious contents of the essence of the luck path true inheritance.

What he most wanted to do now was to use Ma Hong Yun as the primary material in
refining Fortune Rivalling Heaven and use its effects on himself.

The person representing Prince Feng Xian's will — Feng Jiu Ge, who had disguised
himself as Swordmaster You Lan, also refused this gathering and left on his own.

In a hidden area among the reeds, he quietly met with the Central Continent Gu
Immortals.

"I have sent you the message regarding the auction." Feng Jiu Ge looked at everyone
with a smile.
"Lord Jiu Ge made a really good move, such courage, I am in admiration."

"With Zhao Lian Yun, we can search her soul and find many precious clues regarding
the main culprit of the Imperial Court incident!"

"I still have to thank lord for trading a suitable Immortal Gu for me."

"What should our actions be next?"

The Central Continent Gu Immortals talked one after the other, clearly treating Feng
Jiu Ge as their leader.

Feng Jiu Ge smiled. In this trip, he first used his tyrannical strength to subdue
everyone, and now he had taken the risk to enter the tiger's den and trade Immortal
Gu for them. Through Feng Jiu Ge's methods and charisma, a stick in one hand and a
carrot in the other, he was finally able to lead this group of experts!

Of course, Feng Jiu Ge knew that behind this harmonious atmosphere, everyone still
had their own thoughts.

It was only that all the experts were astute, now that they were in Northern Plains
with a heavy mission on their shoulders, even if they had any hidden thoughts, they
suppressed it deep within themselves for the time being, choosing to sincerely
cooperate.

To Feng Jiu Ge, this was enough.

"Everyone, although we obtained Zhao Lian Yun, the clues available to verify the true
culprit are probably not enough. If there were enough clues, Northern Plains' Gu
Immortals would have already discovered the truth and the perpetrator would have
nowhere to hide. However, I found someone who is suspicious." Feng Jiu Ge said.

Everyone's spirits rose at hearing this information.

Feng Jiu Ge continued: "But this person has hidden themselves too deeply, I never was
able to find out their true identity, to find this person, we must start from the host of
this auction."

"Lord is talking about Qin Bai Sheng?"

"He is a famous expert of Northern Plains, a rank seven metal path Gu Immortal."

"I also know of this person, he is a lone cultivator. Creating such an achievement today
with just his own strength is truly rarely seen."

"Qin Bai Sheng not only has outstanding strength, he also has many favorable social
connections. If we are going against him, we need to use all our strength to strike as
quickly as possible. If we let him escape and ask for assistance from his allies, the
situation will turn for the worse."

Everyone was discussing vigorously.

They were the representatives of the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent,
powerful and with lot of methods, but they were fighting in enemy territory. Once their
identities were exposed, it was likely that Northern Plains' Gu Immortals would band
together to attack them.

Fortunately, they still had Prince Feng Xian to aid them secretly.

In another area, a fight had already started.

"He Lang Zi, you really have guts, you actually dared to attack our Chanyu tribe!" The
Gu Immortal who was ambushed shouted in fury.

"Hmph, what is there to not dare? So what if you are from Chanyu tribe? No matter
how powerful the immortal killer move winged blade is, can it save you now? Just be
obedient and hand over that sandalwood sacred elephant egg, and I shall let you go."
A giant wolf, the size of a small hill, spoke with an eerie gaze, in a human voice.

This egg came from the mysterious rank eight Gu Immortal of Eastern Sea. It had fallen
into the hands of Chanyu tribe's representative at a certain point of the auction.

He Lang Zi had left previously, but actually had other intentions. He carefully set up an
ambush outside and waited for someone to fall into it, capturing this unlucky fellow.

"He Lang Zi, you have hidden your cards well. You actually have an informant in the
auction! Didn't you call yourself a lone wolf, moving alone and disdaining interaction
with other Gu Immortals? Hmph, if you have the guts, then place a stake against me in
battle. If you win, I will immediately hand over this sandalwood sacred elephant egg
to you. If you lose, then join our Chanyu tribe and serve for a hundred years!" The
Chanyu tribe Gu Immortal shouted.

He had just spoken, when he heard the sound of a woman's laugh coming from nearby.

A black light flashed, and three Gu Immortals appeared.

The Chanyu tribe Gu Immortal was startled; the other party had approached this
closely, but he did not notice in the slightest until they intentionally revealed
themselves.

"You are Hei Cheng?" The Chanyu tribe Gu Immortal carefully observed and quickly
recognized their identities, "Also Fairy Jiang Yu, hmm? Why is Xue Song Zi of the
demonic path with you?"

"Chanyu Zhong Er, I know you have the immortal killer move, immemorial flame axe.
But thinking of using this move to battle He Lang Zi and recruit a rank seven as a goon
for your tribe is too naive." Fairy Jiang Yu continued to smile.

Chanyu Zhong Er's expression sank, as the other party had spoken accurately.

It was because of this immortal killer move, immemorial flame axe, that he had the
confidence to participate in this auction as Chanyu tribe's representative.

But who could have thought that he had still greatly underestimated human desire,
and also overestimated Chanyu tribe's stature.

"Hei Cheng, you are a Hei tribe Gu Immortal and are of Huang Jin bloodline, like my
Chanyu tribe. But you are actually colluding with demonic path outsiders to harm us
righteous path Gu Immortals! Don't make such a huge mistake, it is still not too late to
turn back." Chanyu Zhong Er thought rapidly and tried to persuade Hei Cheng.

Xue Song Zi laughed loudly: "If it was your big brother here, Chanyu Shang Yi, we
would have a headache. If it was your younger brother, Chanyu Xia San, we would have
dispelled any intention of ambush. Unfortunately, you don't have the defensive
prowess of your big brother, neither do you have the speed of your younger brother,
today your defeat is certain!"

Chanyu Zhong Er's expression became more unsightly, he stared fixedly at Hei Cheng
and shouted: "Hei Cheng, you are a righteous path Gu Immortal, you built your
reputation over so many years, do you not want it? If this matter were to be exposed
or just a rumor of it is spread, you will be condemned by the public and hunted down
like a rat!"

Hei Cheng's eyes flickered with hesitation, but Fairy Jiang Yu transmitted him a
message, making him firmly resolute.

Without saying anything, he waved an arm, from which a dark arrow flew out, straight
towards Chanyu Zhong Er. He used action to show his resolution!

Snowy Mountain blessed land.

Third branch peak.

Jade green light shined and extinguished, Tai Bai Yun Sheng appeared in the room.

At almost the same instant which he appeared, he activated his defensive killer move,
nine cloud ring.

One of the disadvantages of Fixed Immortal Travel was that other Gu worms could not
be used during the process. Another disadvantage was that the amount of immortal
essence consumed would depend on the strength of the target. Previously, Fang Yuan
was still a mortal with few dao marks on his body, thus the immortal essence
consumed was much lower. However, when transporting a Gu Immortal, the minimum
consumption was at least one bead of green grape immortal essence.

After finding no dangers, Fang Yuan came out of Tai Bai Yun Sheng's immortal
aperture.

This room was the place where Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan had met with them
previously.

"There has been no response from either Fairy Li Shan or Hei Lou Lan, in accordance
with the alliance, we must look into this."

"The most probable place is here!"

Shortly, the two found Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan in a bedroom.

"They are lying on the bed… sleeping?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng was dazed.
He was about to walk closer but was stopped by Fang Yuan: "Don't approach them, it
is dangerous!"

"What danger?"

Fang Yuan's eyes let out a sharp light: "They are in a dream realm. If we approach
them, we will also be ensnared."
"Dream realm?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard Fang Yuan's words and his gaze flickered, he
showed a grim expression.

Earlier, when Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan collaborated to explore Starry Sky grotto-
heaven, he had met with danger in a dream realm of Star Constellation Immortal
Venerable. Fang Yuan had explained this matter briefly to Tai Bai Yun Sheng.

Thus, when Tai Bai Yun Sheng heard the term dream realm, he knew the severity of
the situation.

He sighed: "No wonder Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan did not attend the auction, they
were trapped in a dream realm. I had been guessing earlier if Hei Lou Lan's tribulation
was causing them trouble."

Fang Yuan nodded: "Old Bai, you guessed correctly. Most likely, the tribulation caused
them to be stuck in a dream realm, unable to free themselves."

"When Gu Immortals undergo tribulation, there can be dream realm calamities?" Tai
Bai Yun Sheng asked in suspicion.

Fang Yuan sighed: "Not in the past, but now that dream realms have manifested, such
calamities and tribulations have appeared gradually."

Especially in the five hundred years of his previous life, towards the second half of the
five regions chaotic war, dream realms manifested on a large scale, showing up in all
corners of the five regions. The phenomenon of dream realms becoming tribulations
also became more frequent, countless Gu Immortals were harmed in the process.

"What do we do now? According to the Snowy Mountain Alliance, we cannot abandon

them." Tai Bai Yun Sheng was helpless, he asked Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was silent, his eyes were shining with a murky light.
At this moment, Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan had little to no defenses, it was not hard
to kill them now.

But because of the alliance agreement, Fang Yuan could not attack them, he even had
to save them.

"The Snowy Mountain Alliance was made using mountain pledge Gu, if I want to break
it, I will need to destroy Snowy Mountain. Unfortunately, I do not have enough strength
now, it will be hard to do so. Even if I could destroy it, Tai Bai Yun Sheng is too kind, he
might be an obstacle if I try to attack them." Fang Yuan felt some regret.

This indeed was a golden opportunity.

By killing Hei Lou Lan, he would obtain strength qi Immortal Gu, self strength
Immortal Gu, flying bear strength Gu, and slavery Immortal Gu. The first three were
strength path Immortal Gu, while the last one was enslavement path. They all suited
Fang Yuan very well.

Especially self strength Immortal Gu, if he obtained it, he could use it as the core and
elevate the power of the immortal killer move myriad self by several levels!

As for Fairy Li Shan's mountain pledge Gu, with it, Fang Yuan would have the same
advantage as Fairy Li Shan. Helping other Gu Immortals make agreements, this was
an extremely popular service, the benefits could surpass the guts Gu trade.

That was because using mountain pledge Gu to make agreements for others not only
was highly profitable, he could also establish connections.

Fairy Li Shan was able to mingle in both the righteous and demonic paths, a lot of that
was due to this Immortal Gu.

Mountain pledge Gu was not an attack type Immortal Gu, it could not provide defense
or movement abilities to the Gu Immortal. But whoever held it will gain a huge
advantage.

It was only an assistance type Immortal Gu, but Gu Immortals were not only
concerned about fighting and killing.

Gu Immortals placed emphasis cultivation, management were their biggest priority.

Realistically, fighting was just a small portion of a Gu Immortal's life. Only with the five
regions chaotic war would fighting become the general focus.

Just as Fang Yuan was pondering, Snowy Mountain blessed land shook.

A rank eight Gu Immortal's immense aura emanated and filled the surroundings.

"We welcome Old Ancestor's arrival." Soon, several demonic path Gu Immortals spoke
from their respective mountain peaks.

"It is Old Ancestor Xue Hu! He has his own grotto-heaven, he almost never comes here,
why is he here now?" Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression changed.

The moment he said that, he heard Old Ancestor Xue Hu's voice, resonating through
the blessed land: "All of you, come to the main hall and see me now, I have an important
matter to discuss with everyone."

"As you command, Old Ancestor." The demonic path Gu Immortals shouted in unison.

Figures of Gu Immortals rapidly flew out from the mountain peaks.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng's expression paled, he said: "Oh no, Fairy Li Shan is still in a dream!
If she does not appear or say anything, Old Ancestor Xue Hu will definitely get
suspicious and come here to check. We can escape with Fixed Immortal Travel, and
Fairy Li Shan would not be attacked. But Hei Lou Lan is the problem, she is not a
member of Snowy Mountain and is a key character who has experienced the True Yang
Building incident. Once she is captured and has her soul searched, we are all doomed!"

Bam bam bam!

While an intense explosion sounded out, a pathetic figure was fleeing rapidly.

Behind him, there was a huge wolf sprinting out of the smoke, opening its bloodthirsty
mouth and speaking a human language: "Chanyu Zhong Er, where are you trying to
escape to?"

The pathetic figure was Chanyu Zhong Er, he continued to escape as he yelled with a
panicked expression: "He Lang Zi, Hei Cheng, don't go too far, otherwise, I will drag
you guys down with me! Immemorial flame axe!"

His body shuddered, his put his palms together as he turned around, exerting a
chopping motion with them.

Immediately, fire rose as they gathered to form an axe in midair, attacking the huge
wolf.

Before the attack even landed, the scorching flames already burned some of the wolf's
fur.

The huge fiery axe caused the surrounding sky to glow red, it was powerful and
carried an aura of destruction with it, as if it could rampage to kill innumerable beings.

This was an immortal killer move, it had incredible offensive power.

But facing such a powerful attack, He Lang Zi's gaze shined with disdain and mockery.

Swoosh.

The huge wolf vanished, evading the immemorial flame axe and blocking Chanyu
Zhong Er's escape route.

"No matter how fierce the attack, what good is it if you cannot hit?" Fairy Jiang Yu
appeared, floating in the air. She had taken action just now, teleporting He Lang Zi
away using an immortal movement killer move

"Damn!" Chanyu Zhong Er gritted his teeth, his heart sank as his angry and helpless
face showed a hint of despair.

"You are distracted." Suddenly, a black robed Gu Immortal appeared behind him.

Chanyu Zhong Er was shocked, quickly retreating as he created some distance.

The mysterious Gu Immortal remained on the spot, stretching out his right arm while
his palm was aimed at Chanyu Zhong Er: "This distance is enough, now, have a taste
of my soul suction Immortal Gu's power."

Chanyu Zhong Er's movements froze, his body turned stiff as his soul shook, it was like
there was a huge force trying to pull his soul out of his body.
"Oh no!" Chanyu Zhong Er was shocked, ordinary defensive measures could not
defend against such soul path methods.

He tried to stabilize his soul, momentarily going into a deadlock with the mysterious
black robed Gu Immortal.

"Quickly assist me." The black robed Gu Immortal said.

The moment he said that, Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi flew towards him, placing their
arms on his shoulders. By surreptitiously using some Gu worms, all three of their souls
worked together and formed an even greater force.

Soul suction Immortal Gu was used in this way, it was like drawing in a river,
disregarding all other aspects, it was a direct contest between souls.

At this moment, the black robed Gu Immortal, Hei Cheng, Xue Song Zi collaborated,
they had a huge advantage against Chanyu Zhong Er.

"I am unresigned! I am full of hatred, ah, let me go…” Chanyu Zhong Er was unable to
resist them, his soul was pulled out eventually.

Without his soul to control it, his body fell downwards from the air rapidly, like a
puppet with its strings cut.

But soon after, Fairy Jiang Yu caught it.

She searched it and laughed: "As expected, this fire path Immortal Gu is in Chanyu
Zhong Er's blessed land."

"So your real motive was my fire path Immortal Gu! What do you guys actually want?!"
Chanyu Zhong Er's soul was held by the black robe Gu Immortal, he continued to shout
furiously.

"No, we did not lie to you. The sandalwood sacred elephant egg was also our target.
But compared to the Immortal Gu, it is like the icing on the cake." Fairy Jiang Yu smiled.

Their scheme had succeeded, her mood was great, but just as she was about to
continue speaking, her expression changed.

Not only her, at the same time, even the black robed Gu Immortal's hands shook.
He was wearing a black robe, his head was covered by a huge hood, his face was
shrouded in darkness, he said with a hoarse voice: "Qin Bai Sheng was ambushed,
hmph! So this Swordmaster You Lan is an imposter, a Gu Immortal from Central
Continent."

"Qin Bai Sheng cannot be lost, quickly go and save him!" Fairy Jiang Yu said anxiously,
soaring away without any hesitation or pause.

The black robed Gu Immortal and He Lang Zi followed suit.

Only Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi were left.

"Lord Hei Cheng, do we follow?" Xue Song Zi was hesitant.

Hei Cheng looked at the black robed Gu Immortal and felt a lot of wariness. Not long
ago, this person had appeared, showcasing many different methods, he had great
power and had an extraordinary relation to Fairy Jiang Yu!

Xue Song Zi was hesitant, but was he, Hei Cheng, any different?

"It seems that this black robed Gu Immortal is also a member of Shadow Sect. He Lang
Zi might be the same as us, being a collaborator. Shadow Sect, and Central Continent's
Gu Immortals…” Hei Cheng's gaze flickered, his body flew up in pursuit of Fairy Jiang
Yu and the others.

Xue Song Zi snorted coldly, he quickly followed them.

"Huff huff huff…” Qin Bai Sheng breathed roughly, there were dozens of wounds on
him, some were bleeding, some were so deep one could see bones, some of his skin
had turned black, emitting a foul odor.

"As expected of a famous expert of Northern Plains, we attacked together and

ambushed you, but you still managed to heavily injure three of us." Feng Jiu Ge crossed
his arms as he watched, praising with a gaze of admiration.

"Northern Plains Gu Immortals truly have excellent battle strength. Your methods and
ours seem to have little discrepancy, yet you managed to make such great battle
results."

"Qin Bai Sheng, you are an outstanding person, give up and surrender."
"Our words earlier were truthful. As long as you tell us some people's identities, we
will let you leave."

There were Central Continent Gu Immortals all around Qin Bai Sheng.

They opened their mouths as they urged him.

Among them, Fairy Ling Mei and Fairy Ao Xue of Heaven's Envy Manor, as well as a
young-looking Gu Immortal, Old Oracle from Ancient Soul Sect, were quite heavily
injured.

"You want me to surrender?" Qin Bai Sheng raised his eyebrows, spitting out a
mouthful of bloody saliva: "Bah! Outsiders from another region infiltrating us in
Northern Plains. Intruders! I'm tell you, we of Northern Plains are not cowards! Come
at me if you have the guts, don't worry, before I die, I will certainly drag one of you
down with me!"

Feng Jiu Ge sighed helplessly: "In that case, the rest of you can stand down, I will
handle it myself."

Qin Bai Sheng's gaze was heavy as he stared at Feng Jiu Ge.

He did not know who Feng Jiu Ge was, but he knew that he was the leader, during the
battle earlier, he did not participate, he stood aloof.

"I will only use one move, if you can take it, I will let you leave." Feng Jiu Ge flew
towards Qin Bai Sheng slowly, his expression was calm as he spoke lightly.
"One move?" Hearing Feng Jiu Ge's words, Qin Bai Sheng laughed with a provoked
tone: "I have roamed the region freely for hundreds of years, I defeated Liu Hao,
Chanyu Xiong, Nu Er Du, killed Bai Chan Zi, Jade Fire Farmer, Mountain Lord Tian Qing,
had a draw with Yuan Rang Zun, and managed to escape with my life from Five
Elements Grandmaster. In the entirety of Northern Plains, only the five rank eight Gu
Immortals can defeat me easily. But to kill me, even they would not find it easy. There
are very few rank seven Gu Immortals that can rival me. You are also a rank seven Gu
Immortal, you want to defeat me in one move? Hahaha!"

Qin Bai Sheng laughed loudly, his laughter was filled with great confidence towards
himself.

Feng Jiu Ge's words indeed were greatly arrogant. At once, even the Central Continent
Gu Immortals around him were starting to get worried.

Feng Jiu Ge smiled lightly, he slowly narrated: "When I was young, I loved music, when
I started cultivating, I had a grand aspiration, that was to create a total of nine songs,
to express myself, to express all living beings, and to express heaven and earth. Up to
this point, I have created six songs in total. If you can finish listening to this song of
mine, then I will admit defeat and let you leave."

Qin Bai Sheng's laughter gradually came to an end, he had a serious gaze as he stared
at Feng Jiu Ge unblinkingly.

Looking at Feng Jiu Ge, who had a earnest tone and a smiling face, Qin Bai Sheng felt
an immense threat deep within himself.

He thought for a moment and greeted Feng Jiu Ge solemnly: "I have not asked for your
name yet."

Feng Jiu Ge greeted back: "I am Feng Jiu Ge."

Qin Bai Sheng's expression changed: "So you are the number one person of Central
Continent's ten great ancient sects, no wonder. Hahaha, in that case, let me see what
you can do."

Feng Jiu Ge's fighting prowess had long since been famous, even to a Northern Plains
Gu Immortal like Qin Bai Sheng, the name and reputation were instantly recognizable.

But after learning about Feng Jiu Ge's identity, Qin Bai Sheng instead felt an
immeasurable surge of battle intent within himself — We are both rank seven Gu
Immortal, what qualifications do you have to defeat the other Gu Immortals in the ten
great ancient sects and become known as the strongest? I will see how strong you
truly are!

Feng Jiu Ge breathed in deeply, bowing slightly: "This song, is known as Green Jade
Song, please enjoy it."

The rest of the Central Continent Gu Immortals backed off and created a wide open
space for them.

"Come." Qin Bai Sheng shouted, his gaze was like lightning as his battle intent rushed
out, he was oozing with grandeur.

Snowy Mountain blessed land.

Third branch peak.

"Just now, this lucky escape was truly thanks to you. If Old Ancestor Xue Hu found out,
even I would not be able to preserve Little Lan's life." In the secret room, Fairy Li Shan
spoke to Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng, expressing her gratitude.

Hei Lou Lan was a crucial person in the collapse of True Yang Building, she was more
important than Ma Hong Yun and Zhao Lian Yun. Once she was discovered, the entire
world of Gu Immortals would hunt her down.

"The situation was really dangerous, we were trying to guess why you missed the
auction." Tai Bai Yun Sheng said while sighing.

If Hei Lou Lan was discovered, Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng would be involved as
well, the three of them were tied together on a string.
"Oh!" Fairy Li Shan sighed: "I did not think that a dream realm could become a
calamity. Do you have any ways to save Little Lan?"

Tai Bai Yun Sheng shook his head, looking at Fang Yuan who was beside him.

Fang Yuan said solemnly: "It's difficult! The dream calamity's target is Hei Lou Lan,
Fairy Li Shan, you were only pulled in because you touched her. Thus, I just had to hurt
you and make you feel pain. But Hei Lou Lan is deep inside the dream realm, even if
you kill her, she will not awaken."

Fairy Li Shan's eyes shined with hope: "It's only 'difficult', that does not mean it is
impossible, Fang Yuan, it seems you have a plan!"

Fang Yuan chuckled: "Hei Lou Lan is fortunate, I obtained a Gu in the auction that can
form a dream path killer move to resolve this problem. But to form the killer move,
the core Immortal Gu is not enough, I need the assistance of many mortal Gu."

Fairy Li Shan was overjoyed, saying: "I can help with that, what refinement materials
do you need to refine Gu, just tell me, I can satisfy that request!"

But Fang Yuan shook his head: "These dream path mortal Gu refinement materials can
only be found in dream realms. Refining dream path Gu is different from other paths,
the entire process needs me to execute it personally."

"So dream path has such specifications." Fairy Li Shan blinked, this was the first time
she had heard such news.

Dream path Gu worms were different from Gu worms in other paths.

One of the points was the refinement material, they were not material objects, they
were obtained from inside dream realms.

And the dream realm could only be of one's own dream, not others.

Only the materials from one's own dream realm could refine these dream path Gu
worms.

Fang Yuan had his previous life's memories, even though he developed slowly in
dream path and had limited achievement, he still knew common knowledge like this.
Currently, what was his common knowledge was now the most top tier research
results, the few forces treated them as their own treasures, sealing all the knowledge
deeply.

Because of the Snowy Mountain Alliance, Fairy Li Shan did not doubt Fang Yuan's
words. But deep inside, she saw Fang Yuan in a different light again.

She knew some parts of Fang Yuan's experiences and circumstances, especially the
guts Gu trade, she obtained part of the profits.

"Fang Yuan is truly an impressive junior, it is almost as if he has a method to solve any
problem. Earlier, he developed the airsac Gu to hold the guts Gu. Now, he even has such
research in dream path. This is not something a lone cultivator can come up with, it
seems his background is not simple after all."

Fairy Li Shan was thinking over it when Fang Yuan spoke again: "Fairy, you know that
my nature is straightforward, I like to talk openly and not beat about the bush. If I can
save you both, what compensation will I get?"

Fairy Li Shan's eyes rolled, she was long since familiar with Fang Yuan's personality,
she was not surprised, she smiled: "The favor of saving a life is as heavy as a mountain.
Fang Yuan, how many immortal essence stones or Immortal Gu recipes do you want,
or even immortal materials, just tell me."

Her tone was very courteous, after all, she was requesting his help.

Fang Yuan raised his head: "I do not want anything else, what I have in mind is Hei Lou
Lan's self strength Gu and strength qi Gu. Two lives for two Gu."

Fairy Li Shan's smile vanished without a trace: "These two Immortal Gu are Little Lan's
core Gu worms. A gentleman would not take what others love, Fang Yuan, this
condition is a little too harsh."

Fang Yuan raised his eyebrows: "Are both of your lives not even as valuable as two Gu
worms?"

"That is not accurate." Fairy Li Shan shook her head: "Even if we were discovered, only
Little Lan would be in danger, I would be fine. In fact, when Little Lan gets into trouble,
you two would be implicated too. We are on the same boat now, helping us is also the
same as helping yourselves."
Fang Yuan smiled, nodding in agreement: "Fairy makes perfect sense, I am full of
admiration. Forget my previous condition, I will go prepare now. I promise you, within
three to five years, I can surely save Hei Lou Lan! I have to go now."

Saying this, Fang Yuan stood up and was ready to leave.

Although the two had an agreement, and he could not leave her in the lurch, they also
made rules such that one side could not force the other to save them using the
agreement, they had to come up with an appropriate arrangement regarding
compensation.

Fang Yuan was not abandoning her, he was just taking a bit of time, thus, his actions
were not against the alliance agreement.

Fairy Li Shan felt a huge headache, she stood up and urged him: "Wait, Fang Yuan, we
can discuss this."

"What does fairy have to enlighten me with? I am all ears!" Fang Yuan's attitude was
very modest, he spoke very humbly.

"Oh, Fang Yuan, don't act like this. These two strength path Immortal Gu do not belong
to me, I cannot promise you anything." Fairy Li Shan sighed deeply as she said this.

Fang Yuan showed an understanding expression: "That's right, I find this condition
overboard too, pretend I never said it. Fairy is right, Self Strength and Strength Qi are
very important Immortal Gu to Hei Lou Lan, how can you decide for her? Never mind,
we are allies, I will definitely help her. But you need to know, refining dream path Gu
worms is very troublesome because it takes a long time and I need to do a lot of
preparation. During this period of time, fairy can try to find other ways to save Hei Lou
Lan. Although my method will definitely succeed, it will take a long time. In this time
period, if Hei Lou Lan is discovered by others, that would be bad. But thankfully, Tai
Bai Yun Sheng and I are in Central Continent, even if anything happens to Hei Lou Lan,
we will act as good allies and avenge her."

These words made Fairy Li Shan roll her eyes in anger.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was laughing madly deep in his mind, he did not forget to add in:
"Speaking of the alliance, we have about two years left. Once the time is up, and Hei
Lou Lan is still unconscious, how would we continue the agreement? Oh, this is a
troublesome matter."
Tai Bai Yun Sheng was a kind person, but when it came to key benefits, he had a firm
attitude, he was not a pushover.

"You two!" Fairy Li Shan was furious.

Hei Lou Lan's identity was a secret, even though Hei Cheng knew, he had his own
motives and would not dare to expose Hei Lou Lan's identity. But because of this, Fairy
Li Shan could not find helpers easily.

Regarding dream path, most of the super forces had done their research and obtained
some results, but they would not give it to Fairy Li Shan to save Hei Lou Lan.

Thus, for the problem Fairy Li Shan was facing, the most likely possibility with an
effective method was to rely on Fang Yuan.

Regarding all of this, Fairy Li Shan was deeply aware. Seeing that Fang Yuan was
unwilling to relent, she had no better option but to take a step back, breathing in
deeply before saying: "Never mind, maybe we simply had bad luck. I will do it your
way, two Immortal Gu. But you can only pick either one of Self Strength and Strength
Qi, I can take responsibility for this much in regards to Little Lan. The other Immortal
Gu will be provided by me. I'll speak the truth, this is my limit, don't force me any
further."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was moved, gasping: "Hei Lou Lan is truly blessed to have fairy as
her aunt."

Fairy Li Shan smiled bitterly, looking at Fang Yuan. She knew that although Tai Bai Yun
Sheng was Fang Yuan's senior brother, Fang Yuan was the leader between them.

To save Hei Lou Lan, she needed Fang Yuan to help.

Fang Yuan thought about it, he knew that although he could continue forcing her, that
would cause their relationship to be greatly damaged. The amicable atmosphere that
he had created earlier by splitting the profits with them would be completely ruined.

Although Self Strength and Strength Qi were two excellent Gu, Fang Yuan had obtained
several strength path Immortal Gu, he no longer had such an urgent need for them.

"Alright, I will listen to fairy. I have always been interested in fairy's mountain pledge
Gu." Fang Yuan spoke with a smile.
"What, you want mountain pledge Gu?" Fairy Li Shan stared with wide opened eyes,
her expression was furious.

Mountain pledge Immortal Gu was extremely important, it was Fairy Li Shan's source
of revenue. The saying goes, ruining a person's wealth is akin to killing their parents,
it would mean deep hatred!

Not only this, mountain pledge Immortal Gu was the reason why Fairy Li Shan could
make connections everywhere and work with Gu Immortals from the righteous and
demonic paths in Northern Plains without much trouble.

Once she lost mountain pledge Gu, Fairy Li Shan's advantage would disappear.

Fang Yuan laughed, waving his hand, "It is a joke, a joke, don't mind it."

Of course he knew of the importance of mountain pledge Immortal Gu, he was only
probing her just now, he did not think he would succeed.

Fairy Li Shan gritted her teeth, her tone turning cold: "Fang Yuan, that joke was not
funny at all. I have several Immortal Gu here, pick one of them as the compensation.
As for the other half, Little Lan will pass it to you when she wakes up."

Fang Yuan was originally thinking about Hei Lou Lan's slavery Immortal Gu. But after
seeing Fairy Li Shan's Immortal Gu, his eyes shined as he changed his mind.

"This Immortal Gu is not bad, I will choose it."

Fairy Li Shan saw the Immortal Gu that Fang Yuan picked and she sighed in her mind,
filled with a bitter feeling deep inside.

She had just obtained this Immortal Gu, she had not even used it yet and Fang Yuan
was already taking it away.
This Gu's name was Time Luck, it was a luck path and time path Immortal Gu, it
consumed immortal essence and time to gain a boost in one's luck.

Fairy Li Shan was very reluctant, she tried to explain to him: "Fang Yuan, if you really
want to choose this Gu, I have some words for you. I obtained this time luck Immortal
Gu as the payment from Qin Bai Sheng. If ordinary Gu Immortals use this Gu, they will
need to expend their own lifespan. But you are a zombie, in a half-dead state, you
cannot use this Gu. You might as well choose another Gu."

"Oh? So that's it…” Fang Yuan's showed some interest in his gaze.

When Gu Immortals cultivate, they gained no lifespan during the process.

In this world, ordinary people had approximately a hundred years of lifespan. They
would die of old age when they exceeded that.

When Gu Masters became immortals, this time limit would not change. Only by using
lifespan Gu could they increase their lifespan without leaving behind any backlash.
Other than that, there were methods like turning into a zombie, treeman, or the yin-
yang life extension method, possession, or to sleep for most of the time to reduce their
expenditure, but these were all suboptimal methods that went against nature to
extend their lifespan.

Because of this, Gu Immortals treasured their lifespan more than Gu Masters.

When Qin Bai Sheng held this auction, almost all of the heroes and experts in Northern
Plains' Gu Immortal world showed up. But even so, no lifespan Gu were sold.

In contrast, in auctions held by mortal Gu Masters, there were lifespan Gu sold

occasionally.

This was understandable.

When Gu Masters become immortals, they naturally would understand the difficulty
of cultivating, it was not easy to become a Gu Immortal, they would even more treasure
this feeling of being above mortal concerns, having such a high status and standard of
living. As a result, they treasured their lives, often roaming the five regions. Unless
there was a need, they likely would not live inside their grotto-heaven or blessed land.

Because the time flow in the grotto-heaven or blessed land was faster, a Gu Immortal's
limited lifespan would be expended even more quickly than if they were in the five
regions.

Mortal Gu Masters did not know how precious lifespan was, they would often use
some forbidden techniques that expended their lifespan, to raise their battle strength.
The higher the rank one reaches, the broader their horizons, the more they treasured
their life, and they would try all sorts of ways to extend their lifespan. For example,
like First Gen Gu Yue, and Century Boy.

Such situations, in regards to Gu Immortals, were much more severe. This was like the
contrast of rich and poor people. Ordinary people were busy trying to earn a living,
they disregarded their health. Rich people however, treasured their lives and paid
great attention to sustaining their health.

At the end of the day, it was not that rich people were superior to poor people, it was
because of their circumstances and statuses that they could act and think differently.

Fairy Li Shan was obviously a Gu Immortal. Time luck Immortal Gu expended

immortal essence and lifespan to boost the user's luck. Since she took it, she naturally
had a way to make up for this flaw.

Fang Yuan was a shrewd person, he immediately guessed that Fairy Li Shan had such
a crucial method.

Fairy Li Shan saw that Fang Yuan was looking at her with shining eyes, she knew that
she could not hide it and said helplessly: "I will not hide it from you, I have a method
to use time luck Immortal Gu as the core, to form an immortal killer move. It can draw
upon another person's lifespan, expending it and amplify one's own luck."

Fang Yuan had suffered at the hands of luck path before, but he had also benefited
greatly from luck path, he immediately asked: "I wonder if fairy may sell this immortal
killer move to me?"

"Don't even think about it." Fairy Li Shan replied extremely quickly.

Fang Yuan knew this would happen, he was not upset, he laughed instead: "That being
the case, I still want this Immortal Gu."

Fairy Li Shan's expression turned cold: "Fang Yuan, are you trying to ruin my plans?"
"I would not dare to." Fang Yuan's expression turned solemn, he said with sincerity,
explaining: "Even if you did not have this killer move, I would still choose this
Immortal Gu. The reason is solely because I obtained an improved mortal Gu recipe of
inch of time. Time luck Immortal Gu needs an immortal killer move and time to
activate, if I use inch of time, I might be able to replace it as the expenditure and
prevent my lifespan from being affected."

"Is that so…” Fairy Li Shan was stunned, she did not know this.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng chuckled, explaining for Fang Yuan: "When we bought this Gu recipe,
we did not think that fairy would have time luck Immortal Gu. It seems that we can
fortunately coordinate them together."

Regarding this matter, Tai Bai Yun Sheng had the right to speak.

He was a time path Gu Immortal, time luck immortal gu and inch of time were both
time path Gu worms, since he had the feeling and predicted that these two Gu worms
could coordinate, then that was probably going to work.

Fairy Li Shan's expression relaxed, but her tone was still stiff: "Even in that case, to
think of a brand new immortal killer move using time luck Immortal Gu and inch of
time as the foundation will be a huge project. Why don't you leave the time luck
Immortal Gu with me first, and I will use the immortal killer move to improve your
luck, isn't that a better result?"

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, immediately replying: "Precisely because you have the
immortal killer move, we thought about the method to use Time Luck and inch of time.
We can also lend the time luck Immortal Gu to you, fairy. At that point, you can activate
the immortal killer move and improve our luck, that works the same."

Fairy Li Shan's expression froze, she thought: 'Immortal Gu are unique, if time luck
Immortal Gu is in your hands, you hold the initiative. Who knows what will happen in
the future? The Snowy Mountain Alliance has a time limit, whether we continue it or
not is unknown. If we become enemies, would you lend the time luck Immortal Gu to
me?'

As Fairy Li Shan thought of this, she understood.

Wasn't her worry exactly what Fang Yuan was concerned about?
If time luck Immortal Gu was in her hands, and she had the immortal killer move, she
would hold the initiative. In the future, if the alliance expired, even if she helped Fang
Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng improve their luck, wouldn't she be the one deciding on
the price?

"Fang Yuan, this lad is tough to deal with." Fairy Li Shan gritted her teeth secretly,
regretting her decision to take out time luck Immortal Gu.

Her plan was to use time luck Immortal Gu and this immortal killer move to create a
new source of revenue. Improving the luck of other Gu Immortals would definitely be
a popular service.

But Hei Lou Lan was stuck in the dream realm, and Fairy Li Shan needed their help.
Since she was unwilling to allow both strength path Immortal Gu to fall into Fang
Yuan's hands, she was in a passive spot.

Even though Fairy Li Shan had a huge network, Hei Lou Lan's identity could not be
exposed, she could only rely on Fang Yuan's help, thus he had her firmly in his grasp.

Fang Yuan saw the chance and extorted her. This was a ruthless blow, he struck at the
crucial part and bit off a huge chunk of flesh.

"Forget about it. With Fang Yuan's craftiness, if I did not take out time luck Immortal
Gu, he might not want the other Immortal Gu. Even if he wanted both strength path
Immortal Gu, what could I do? Can I let Little Lan remain in the dream realm forever?
Little sister left behind a familial emotion along with a large amount of green grape
immortal essence, they are still in Little Lan's immortal aperture. That was the reason
why Little Lan was able to use Immortal Gu when she was a mortal. However, with this
dream realm calamity, the familial emotion has instead made it even stronger. With
such a close relationship, the dream realm cannot be broken, it is grasping Little Lan
tightly and preventing her from escaping. As time passes, her soul might disappear."
Fairy Li Shan sighed, Fang Yuan was her only hope now.

She was an astute person, she had her own plans and did not expose Hei Lou Lan's
secret of having Su Xian Er's familial emotion.

She did not lie, she just hid it from them.

In the future, even if Fang Yuan could not save Hei Lou Lan, because of the agreement,
he had to find a new method.
One could say, no matter the results, Fairy Li Shan had Fang Yuan on their side. At least,
when it came to saving Hei Lou Lan, they were in agreement.

Thinking of this, Fairy Li Shan had to let go despite her reluctance, she allowed Fang
Yuan to take time luck Immortal Gu.

This transaction ended with both sides fulfilling their own needs.

Fang Yuan used the chance to extort two Immortal Gu, because it happened to suit his
new plans, it could be said that he greatly profited. But he had not found out Fairy Li
Shan's true bottom line.

In truth, even if Fang Yuan wanted the two strength path Immortal Gu, it was not
impossible. But Fairy Li Shan's acting was impeccable, Fang Yuan could not probe her
true bottom line.

Meanwhile, Fairy Li Shan paid two Immortal Gu to break free of the dream realm and
save their lives. Their lives were naturally more valuable than the Immortal Gu.

Thus, they formed a new agreement and completed this transaction.

Fang Yuan and Tai Bai Yun Sheng immediately returned to Hu Immortal blessed land,
trying to refine the various dream path mortal Gu, to form the immortal killer move
and save Hei Lou Lan.

Meanwhile, Fairy Li Shan rushed to the first peak of Snowy Mountain.

There, Old Ancestor Xue Hu had already gathered most of the demonic path Gu
Immortals, and had urged Fairy Li Shan multiple times already.

Before going, Fairy Li Shan said with a look of concern, urging Fang Yuan: "I am only
leaving Little Lan here temporarily, the third peak is not safe, Fang Yuan, I hope you
can do your best, the longer this drags on, the more dangerous it gets. If Little Lan is
in trouble, you will not be safe either!"
Fang Yuan activated Fixed Immortal Travel, returning to Hu Immortal blessed land,
but at the same time, at a certain battlefield in Northern Plains, a fight was coming to
an end, the victor had been decided.

More than ten Gu Immortals surrounded the two people at the center.

Qin Bai Sheng landed on the ground, bending his back as he pushed his knees
upwards, preventing himself from kneeling down.

He was no longer in the previous bold and heroic state. Even his intense battle intent
earlier had dissipated, it had completely transformed into shock and dejection.

"This, this immortal killer move is called green jade song?" Qin Bai Sheng raised his
head and looked at Feng Jiu Ge, speaking as he spat out blood.

His blood was no longer red, it had turned into an eerie green.

As the green blood was spat out, it solidified rapidly, turning into beads of jade pearls
while falling to the ground.

These jade pearls collided with the ground and emitted a crisp sound.

The surroundings within a huge area had completely been turned into a domain of
jade. The soil on the ground used to be extremely ordinary, but now it had been turned
entirely into green jade.

Not just that, the reeds on the ground had also become jade-like objects. As the wind
blew, the jade stems swayed with the wind, as the reed leaves shook slightly.

Meanwhile, there was a jade will emitting from Qin Bai Sheng's body. Not only were
his clothes turned into jade, half of his hair had turned jade too. Even most of his skin
had frozen into jade. The blood in his body could not flow smoothly, there was the
contaminated jade blood in his body. Qin Bai Sheng was now trying to get them out of
his body. Thankfully, his organs and intestines were protected by his defensive
immortal killer move, they managed to resist the green jade song.

After personally witnessing the process of Qin Bai Sheng losing to one attack, the
remaining Central Continent Gu Immortals had a grim expression, their gazes towards
Feng Jiu Ge were full of wariness.

Feng Jiu Ge floated in the air, looking at Qin Bai Sheng as he said with a tone of
admiration: "That's right, this is my own creation, green jade song, it can convert
everything into jade. You were able to resist it for fifteen minutes, that is very rare.
Alright, you are truly strong and courageous, it is too much of a pity if you die here,
searching your soul is too disrespectful too. How about this, I will ask you a few
questions, just answer me truthfully."

The Central Continent Gu Immortals heard Feng Jiu Ge's words and felt some surprise.
This was not in line with their earlier plans.

"Lord Feng Jiu Ge."

"Qin Bai Sheng is a Northern Plains expert, if you let him go so easily, you might be
leaving behind a future danger."

"This person could resist green jade song for fifteen minutes, he is a strong adversary
and a lone cultivator, why don't we…”

Everyone spoke out, hoping that Feng Jiu Ge would kill Qin Bai Sheng. On one hand,
they were wary of his battle strength, but on the other hand, they were coveting Qin
Bai Sheng's great wealth.

Qin Bai Sheng was one of the biggest winners in the auction. To make a comparison,
the total amount of immortal materials that Fang Yuan obtained after selling all of the
Gu Immortal captives was less than one percent of his earnings.

But Feng Jiu Ge waved his hand: "I have already made up my mind, there is no need to
say anything else. Old Oracle, I will need you to use the killer move, gentleman's
bamboo."

Facing Feng Jiu Ge's firm attitude and insistence, the Central Continent Gu Immortals
were silent.
The green jade battlefield in front of them was the greatest deterrence. They were all
experts of the ten great ancient sects, but they had all found out now that they could
not even take one attack from Feng Jiu Ge. If they swapped places with Qin Bai Sheng,
they would end up in an even poorer state!

Feng Jiu Ge's strength was so great that all the Gu Immortals here lost their vigor. Qin
Bai Sheng had lost his battle intent, while the Central Continent Gu Immortals were
thinking: No wonder Feng Jiu Ge was acknowledged to be at first place in Central
Continent! Six songs meant six immortal killer moves, green jade song was only one
of them. With such battle strength, he was simply terrifying, even against a rank eight
Gu Immortal, he might not be inferior.

The young-looking wisdom path Gu Immortal that was called by Feng Jiu Ge was from
Ancient Soul Sect of Central Continent.

He breathed in deeply, walking out towards the center of the battlefield.

He stretched out his fist from his wide sleeve, opening his five fingers as a colorless
crystal bamboo grew out of his palm.

"My immortal killer move, gentleman's bamboo, uses the rank six Immortal Gu
Bamboo Gentleman as the core, with six hundred and sixty mortal Gu complementing
it, it is used specially for detecting lies. Even though the core Immortal Gu is rank six,
this killer move can work against rank seven Gu Immortals. But against rank eight, it
will not be effective."

Old Oracle's explanation sounded modest, but it was actually a threat to Qin Bai Sheng
to not play any tricks.

Qin Bai Sheng's expression was very ugly, he understood what Old Oracle was trying
to say.

"I lost to one move, Feng Jiu Ge, you are really amazing. My skill was inferior, I admit
my defeat, ask away. But you can only ask three questions." Qin Bai Sheng said.

"You!" A few Central Continent Gu Immortals were unhappy, they frowned as they
emitted killing intent.

Feng Jiu Ge smiled: "No problem, three questions are enough."

"Ask quickly, I have no time to waste." Qin Bai Sheng spat out the last mouthful of jade
blood, regaining a bit of his grandeur.

"The first question, who is the person who sold these Immortal Gu, Delight in Water
and Mountain and Worldly Wave Trace?"

Qin Bai Sheng was stunned, he imagined Fang Yuan's appearance, feeling sour and
bitter within: Sha Huang, oh Sha Huang, you were the one who brought harm to your
brother!

Thoughts flashed across his mind as Qin Bai Sheng replied plainly without hesitating:
"This seller is called Sha Huang, he is an immortal zombie."

"Sha Huang… immortal zombie…” Feng Jiu Ge muttered: "Continue speaking."

Qin Bai Sheng continued: "I only met this person recently, because I used my rank six
luck inspection Immortal Gu and saw that this person's luck was greater than normal,
I befriended him. This person has a mysterious origin, it seems he has a backer. In this
auction, he sold thirteen Gu Immortal captives. Among them, there was a rank seven
Gu Immortal, Rushing Thunder Hand Wu Hao. Furthermore, he has a close
relationship with Fairy Li Shan, that is all I know."

Once he said that, Qin Bai Sheng's body shook as his skin burst open, blood poured
out like a fountain with no sign of stopping!

Qin Bai Sheng growled in pain, concentrating as he activated his healing Immortal Gu.

After a dozen breaths, he stabilized his injuries, but the pain was too unbearable, his
body was still shivering slightly.

This was due to the previous alliance agreement. Now that he leaked the information,
he had broken the agreement and was facing an intense backlash, his life was in
danger.

Feng Jiu Ge looked at Qin Bai Sheng, then turning around to look at Old Oracle.

The colorless bamboo in Old Oracle's hands was swaying without a trace of a change
in color. This proved that Qin Bai Sheng's words were all truthful.

Thus, Feng Jiu Ge continued to ask: "The second question is regarding the collapse of
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, tell me all that you know."

Qin Bai Sheng heard this and his expression became very ugly.

An hour later, the Central Continent Gu Immortals watched as Qin Bai Sheng flew into
the sky, becoming a small black dot as he vanished from their vision.

One of them was not satisfied: "Lord Feng Jiu Ge, are we really letting him off? He has
so many Immortal Gu with him, he even has almost half of the immortal materials
traded in the auction!"

Feng Jiu Ge shook his head: "It is not that I do not want to strike, but I found out that
he has a method to detonate his soul, just the aura of it alone is terrifying. If we force
him, he will probably drag a few of you down with him. By then, our plan to get
information would fail."

"It's actually like this?!" The Gu Immortals were uncertain.

Feng Jiu Ge said with deep meaning: "Look at this colorless crystal bamboo, you can
tell if I lied."

Everyone kept quiet.

Old Oracle smiled sheepishly, retracting his immortal killer move.

He changed the subject: "Thanks to Lord Feng Jiu Ge, we obtained these clues, it will
really help in deducing the true culprit."

Feng Jiu Ge nodded: "We will split into two groups now, one will protect Old Oracle
and let him deduce in peace. The other will follow me and go to Northern Plains
Zombie Alliance, finding out news about Sha Huang. If Sha Huang is a member inside
Zombie Alliance, we will capture him on the spot, that would be the best outcome."

The Central Continent Gu Immortals listened to him, they split into two groups and
retreated rapidly.

Fifteen minutes later, several blurry silhouettes landed here.

"This… how can this be?" Looking at the green jade field in front of them, He Lang Zi
could still sense the power of this killer move, wariness flashed in his eyes.
"Oh no, Qin Bai Sheng was ambushed, they have already fought." Hei Cheng had rich
experience, his expression sank when he saw this.

Fairy Jiang Yu quickly took out a set of investigative Gu, after checking, she let out a
breath of turbid air: "Thankfully, even though they fought, Qin Bai Sheng was not
captured, he has already escaped in that direction."

Fairy Jiang Yu's investigative method made Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi gasp in shock
in their minds.

When the Central Continent Gu Immortals left, they had erased all of their traces, but
when Fairy Jiang Yu used her method, she managed to expose more than ten Gu
Immortal auras.

These auras all differed, they were in all kinds of sizes, among them, the aura that Feng
Jiu Ge left behind was the largest, far greater than the rest.

"Qin Bai Sheng managed to escape from the ambush of more than ten Gu Immortals?"
Xue Song Zi was surprised: "We are only five people, how can we trap Qin Bai Sheng?"

"Don't worry, I have a method." The mysterious black robed Gu Immortal said in a
hoarse voice.

Fairy Jiang Yu retrieved her Gu worms, she showed an anxious expression: "Go, in that
direction, let's chase him!"

Lang Ya blessed land.

"What a huge piece of spiky metal! Wow, a thousand and five hundred kilograms of
death water! This, these are actually jade wood eggs, wow… so many! Fang Yuan, you
are so crafty and scheming, you did not disappoint me at all." Lang Ya land spirit looked
at the mountain of immortal materials, while having a joyous expression mixed with
pain.

Not only were the quality of the immortal materials in front of him good, they were
huge in quantity, the land spirit was pleased. But when he thought about the four to
six split between him and Fang Yuan, he felt bitter deep inside.

Those thirteen Gu Immortal captives were all from Lang Ya land spirit's work. But now,
Fang Yuan was gaining a huge profit from them, he felt very uncomfortable.
"Actually, if you want the immortal materials, it is not impossible." Fang Yuan said.

Lang Ya land spirit stared with his eyes wide open, he was not happy, instead, he
showed intense alertness: "Rascal, what scheme are you up to now?"

He was scared of falling into Fang Yuan's trap.

"You have a lot of hairy men in your blessed land, they are raised well and are good at
refining Gu. But mine are quite inferior. I have a lot of mortal Gu to refine, help me
refine these Gu and I'll pay for it using immortal materials. Don't be afraid, this is a fair
trade." Fang Yuan said warmly.

Lang Ya land spirit's eyes rolled, without thinking for too long, he agreed: "Alright,
since I often help that inkman lad anyway, I'll take your business too."
Hu Immortal blessed land.

A crystal mountain stood high at the center of Hu Immortal blessed land; it was
recorded in <> — Dang Hun mountain.

Fang Yuan was hovering above Dang Hun mountain in his original form, with a height
of six meters, a green face with sharp fangs, imposing build and eight monstrous arms.

However, when compared to Dang Hun mountain, he was minuscule like an ant.

Fang Yuan's eyes let out bright light as he looked at Dang Hun mountain below him,
and suddenly gave a shout: "Pulling Mountain!"

Next moment, a formless, majestic force erupted from within him and moved towards
Dang Hun mountain.

Fang Yuan opened up his eight arms in an embracing pose, as if he was hugging a giant
object. He gritted his teeth and exerted all his strength, like he was lifting a very heavy
item.

Rumble…

At first, the sound was only a slight noise. But soon, the sound kept on increasing till
the surroundings started to tremor slightly.

The object that was causing the sound was Dang Hun mountain.

Under the activation of Fang Yuan's Immortal Gu, this large crystal mountain began to
slowly rise, leaving the ground.

Fang Yuan gritted his teeth, the muscles in his eight arms bulged up like lumps of
rocks.
Not only his arms, the muscles in his entire body were being exerted. Creaking noises
started echoing from his body, with his bones being under extremely heavy pressure.

With his great efforts, Dang Hun mountain was lifted higher, gradually rising five to six
inches from the ground.

Hu Immortal land spirit was watching this with a shocked expression, with her mouth
slightly agape.

"Rise." Fang Yuan wanted to properly test the Immortal Gu, and did not stop even at
this stage.

Rays of light started to gradually shine from his body.

These rays were all over his whole body, but were not close together and looked
extremely sparse.

The rays of light started getting brighter; at the same time, the speed at which Fang
Yuan raised Dang Hun mountain was also becoming faster.

At first, the mountain was only raised by inches, now it was ascending foot by foot.

While activating the Immortal Gu Pulling Mountain, Fang Yuan observed his body as
well.

These shiny rays of light on his body were strength path dao marks.

Strength path dao marks covered his whole body without any particular order; some
got entangled and gathered into one ray, while some occupied certain parts of his skin
by themselves.

"I activated the Immortal Gu, Pulling Mountain, with all my strength, and the strength
path dao marks on me resonated with the Immortal Gu. The power of the Immortal
Gu did not change, but I could bring out close to twenty percent more strength from
this resonance!"

Fang Yuan persisted for a while longer, until all the bones on his body started cracking;
Dang Hun mountain was lifted to a height of two to three hundred feet, before he
slowly placed it back down.
The enormous and heavy mountain landed on the ground, producing a reverberating
noise, like that of muffled thunder, and raising a billowing wave of dust.

Fang Yuan breathed roughly, his whole body was worn out and limp, there were many
injuries to his muscles as well.

However, a few breaths later, with an immortal zombie's powerful regenerative ability,
all his injuries, whether they were in bones or muscles, recovered rapidly.

Fang Yuan's breathing stabilized. He slowly closed his eyes, meticulously recalling the
sensation from just earlier, while still hovering in the air.

Before using the strength path Immortal Gu, Pulling Mountain, Fang Yuan had gone
through many kinds of deductions. Now that he was using it, his understanding was
deepened, after all, true knowledge was derived from practice.

"Ever since I became a strength path Gu Immortal, there has been no increase in the
strength path dao marks on my body. Thus, even after using all my effort and under
the resonance of strength path dao marks, I could only increase my power by close to
twenty percent."

"Activating pulling mountain Immortal Gu will continuously consume immortal

essence. Just this period of time already used up three beads of my green grape
immortal essence."

"The consumption seems very high, but considering that the target was Dang Hun
mountain, it is not much."

Dang Hun mountain was a wondrous place that could produce guts Gu, it was unique
in the entire nine heavens and five regions. Not even Snowy Mountain could match the
value of such a precious treasure.

Based on this, Fang Yuan speculated that it would be much easier for him if he pulled
other ordinary mountain ranges compared to Dang Hun mountain.

"Pulling Mountain is good." After a while, Fang Yuan opened his eyes and softly
praised, extremely satisfied deep inside.

No mountains were easy to pull or move.

Trees had tree roots, while mountains had mountain roots. If they were casually
moved, the roots could be broken and result in their destruction.

According to theory involving qi path, the whole world constituted of heaven and
earth qi. The two qi converged, freely and unceasingly, forming all kinds of natural
landscapes.

For instance, wind, rain, thunder and lightning were caused by abundant heaven qi
mixed with occasional earth qi.

Mountains and hills were the condensation of earth qi with a bit of heaven qi blended
in.

Destruction was always much easier than construction.

Mountains and rivers were easy to destroy, but could not be easily shifted. Mountain
roots were connected to the earth, interlinked by earth qi. The earth qi was like the
foundation of a tall building, if the mountain was forcibly pulled, it could directly break
the earth qi and destroy the mountain.

However, Pulling Mountain had a mysterious ability of directly breaking the

connection with the earth qi without damaging the body of the mountain. After the
mountain was placed down, it could connect with the earth qi again, this was not
something achievable through ordinary methods.

"Pulling Mountain, Pulling Water… let's try this strength path Immortal Gu next."

Fang Yuan left Dang Hun mountain and with Little Hu Immortal's help, he instantly
arrived at the blessed land's eastern area, hovering in front of a lake.

The eastern part of Hu Immortal blessed land was covered in lakes of all sizes. It was
the result of Fang Yuan linking the east and the north, using water to extinguish fire in
the past. At that time, countless rockmen had been sacrificed.

Now, the lakes here were supporting the habitats of large amounts of blue jade carps,
many air bubble fishes and a few water wolf groups.

Above the lakes, there were many dark clouds linked continuously.

Large numbers of star fragment grass were planted on the dark clouds, forming
grasslands in the sky. In the grasslands, groups of starlight fireflies were fluttering
about. Among the ordinary firefly groups, there was a higher than average proportion
of starlight firefly Gu mixed in them.

Thus, although there were thick dark clouds over the eastern part of the Hu Immortal
blessed land, starlight shined brightly all over the area. In the sky was a grassland of
starry clouds, while on the ground were lakes spread all over, sparkling and reflecting
the starlight.

Fang Yuan flew above the largest lake, activating pulling water Immortal Gu.

A similar formless force penetrated into the lake.

Fang Yuan slowly raised two hands and immediately with a splashing sound, large
amounts of lake water were lifted into the air.

Compared with pulling Dang Hun mountain, Fang Yuan felt that pulling the lake water
here was as easy as picking up paper. There was an enormous difference between the
two.

The lake water's state was still the same as before with no change. Large numbers of
fish, shrimps, eels and turtles were freely moving around inside.

It was only that they were not able to swim beyond the periphery — a formless force
held up the lake water in place of the lake shore.

Underneath the floating lake, the bottom of the lake had completely dried up, without
a trace of water left behind. Large amounts of water plants were piled up on the lake
bed, along with stones, shells, and so on.

Fang Yuan moved his ten fingers in different ways, causing the formless force to
change. The giant lake water was like a piece of muddy clay that allowed Fang Yuan to
mold it according to his will; occasionally, it took a form of a long strip of dough, round
like a ball another time, and the next moment it was finely molded into a hexahedron.

After transforming it for a while, Fang Yuan stopped moving his fingers, before
exerting the thoughts in his mind.

The lake water shook nonstop, displaying all sorts of weird and strange shapes, like a
deer flying, a cloud moving… but regardless of the changes, the fish groups and other
living beings inside were covered by the formless force, unable to get out.

"Nice, nice!" Little Hu Immortal, who was watching from the side, laughed joyfully
with bright eyes.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng was also watching, and heaved a sigh: "Moving mountains and
overturning rivers, it truly is the sight of an immortal's power."

Fang Yuan's thoughts moved again, and the enormous lake water slowly and gently
landed back into the lake. Fang Yuan retrieved the formless force, stopping pulling
water Immortal Gu. This lake was restored to its previous state, but there were waves
churning on the surface of the lake, lasting for a long while.

"These two strength path Immortal Gu have specific forces. One is targeted at
mountain ranges, while the other is for water. If used with kind intentions, one can
bring in rain, and move mountains to open a path. If used with malicious intention,
mountains can capsize and giant waves could rise up to the sky." Fang Yuan inwardly
praised.

This was the battle strength of Gu Immortals.

They could directly steamroll through mortal Gu Masters like crushing ants.

"I obtained two Gu and my battle strength immediately rose explosively. But to
integrate them in my immortal killer move, myriad self, won't be an easy matter. I will
definitely need time and effort. Unlike the Immortal Gu, Self Strength and Strength Qi,
which can almost directly merge with myriad self because myriad self's concept
matches with them."

Designing a killer move was not simple.

The lightning path Gu Immortal, Vicious Lightning Fiend, had gone into secluded
cultivation for several years before he was able to draw references from the blood
deity Immortal Gu recipe to create the killer move, lightning deity.

Hei Lou Lan already had the mortal killer move, self strength phantom, even with this
foundation, making it an immortal killer move was difficult. She had been trying so
hard at it, but still had little success.

In his previous life, Fang Yuan had created blood path killer moves, and it was a result
from racking his brains, spending long periods of time and making painstaking efforts.

Fang Yuan still did not have any clue on how to merge these two strength path
Immortal Gu into myriad self.

But he was not worried and was even confident.

One part of this confidence came from his strength path attainment. More of it came
from his incomparable confidence in rank nine wisdom Gu.

The light of wisdom could produce unlimited inspiration. This was a supreme tool in
deducing Gu recipes, Immortal Gu recipes, mortal killer moves, immortal killer moves
and many other things!

Looking back at this auction, Fang Yuan lost Worldly Wave Trace, Rising Azure Cloud,
Delight in Water and Mountain, and gained Iron Crown Eagle Strength, Pulling
Mountain, Pulling Water, Eat Strength and Unravel Mystery.

Every Gu was good, the main matter was whether they suited oneself.

Fang Yuan's battle strength had increased by a very large scale with this auction.

"Junior brother, you gained a lot in this auction. When you completely process them,
your battle strength will surely increase by several times!" Tai Bai Yun Sheng slowly
flew over, praising Fang Yuan happily.

Fang Yuan nodded: "Right, I now have a desolate beast bat corpse and can add in the
third pair of bat wings. Eat strength Immortal Gu and iron crown eagle strength Gu
can be used to cultivate, increasing the strength path dao marks in my body. The more
dao marks there are, the more power I can bring out when I use strength path
Immortal Gu. There is also inch of time, memory thought Gu, malicious thought Gu
and others which I need to urgently produce in large numbers. I have to combine the
complete unfamiliar face and the incomplete vaguely familiar face to design an
entirely new method of disguise. There is much work to be done and they all need to
be carried out."

In the coming days, Fang Yuan was definitely going to be extremely busy.

But this was a good thing.

The auction was an excellent opportunity which Fang Yuan tightly grabbed onto and
made the best use of, bringing progress in more or less every aspect.

Tai Bai Yun Sheng reminded: "Don't forget your agreement with Fairy Li Shan, the
main task is to refine dream path mortal Gu to form the immortal killer move which
can awaken Hei Lou Lan."

"I understand this, you should go to Eastern Sea."

Tai Bai Yun Sheng smiled: "Shark Demon has already urged me several times over
these last days. Junior brother, if there is anything, just notify me and I will
immediately return."

Fang Yuan frowned: "Be careful. We have revealed many things in this auction, also,
Ma and Zhao have fallen into the hands of others, this is not good for us!"

At this moment, he was still not aware that his immortal zombie Sha Huang identity
was already exposed.
Amidst the light drizzle, Qing Mao mountain appeared even greener than usual.

Fang Yuan sat in his room, facing his younger brother Fang Zheng.

"Brother, why are you still so stubborn? Uncle and aunt had raised us with great
difficulty these last years, yet you reported them to the elders, this is really an
ungrateful act!" Fang Zheng puffed up his chest, standing in front of Fang Yuan as he
scolded with a righteous tone.

Fang Yuan's expression was calm, his gaze was cold as ice as he looked around,
thinking: "This dream realm is very realistic."

Soon after, he inspected his body, seeing that in his rank three aperture, he had liquor
worm, all-out effort Gu and others.

Fang Yuan's mind settled, he thought: "This body's cultivation level is the same as
before the Three Kings blessed land time period."

At this time, Fang Zheng said with agitation: "Right now, there is still some time before
the elders' trial, it is still possible for brother to withdraw your case. If you really put
up a case against them, your reputation will be ruined, everyone will look down on
you, I will not acknowledge you as my brother!"

Fang Yuan chuckled, he stood up and walked towards Fang Zheng.

Fang Zheng took a step back: "Brother, what are you trying to do?"

Seeing him like this, Fang Yuan felt a strong sense of disgust in his heart.

"This is the dream realm's entanglement." Fang Yuan knew this in his heart, he held in
his disgust as he walked past Fang Zheng, walking out of the door.

"Brother!" Fang Zheng turned around, grabbing Fang Yuan's arm.

Fang Yuan could not enter or leave, he turned around and looked at his brother, the
sense of disgust deep inside was growing. He had an urge to give Fang Zheng a slap
before moving away.

But Fang Yuan became calmer, he grabbed Fang Zheng's arm as he exerted strength,
attempting to free himself.

But soon after, Fang Zheng's other arm grabbed Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan sighed helplessly, a sharp light flashed in his eyes as he raised his leg,
kicking Fang Zheng onto the ground.

Fang Zheng was sent crashing onto the ground, he could not get up for the time being.

Fang Yuan was freed and turned around, taking large steps and walking out of the
door.

The moment he left, the scene in front of him changed.

He was in the Gu Yue clan's discussion hall.

The elders were all seated on the two rows at the sides. The clan leader was at the
center, looking down at Fang Zheng and Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan inspected himself, finding that he was kneeling on the ground along with
Fang Zheng beside him.

Fang Yuan's was fully aware, he knew that when he kicked Fang Zheng earlier, his
emotions had been moved and it caused the dream realm's entanglement to become
stronger.

Previously it was the first scene, it was just a room with two people. But now in the
discussion hall, it was larger than the room, and there were around ten people. Most
of their faces were blurry, only Fang Zheng's face was clearly visible.

Fang Yuan looked around, he only gazed at the clan leader for a short period of time
before his face suddenly became clearer.

Fang Yuan quickly looked away, not daring to keep gazing.

The longer he looked, the more his memories would be pulled out, and the more
realistic the dream realm would be. The bigger problem was getting his emotions
involved, the moment emotions he invested, he would fall further into the dream
realm's entanglement.

Fang Yuan did not have any dream path Immortal Gu to help him, if he lost himself in
the snare, it would be hard for him to free himself.

"Where is the Gu refinement material in the dream? Don't tell me it is not in this
second scene, but the third?" Fang Yuan looked around as he searched, but there was
no result. Just as he was thinking, the clan leader spoke.

Soon afterwards, a clan elder stood out and announced to everyone that Fang Yuan
was suing his aunt and uncle for trying to embezzle his parents' inheritance.

Fang Zheng was the witness, speaking for his uncle and aunt.

As Fang Yuan listened to them, the disgust and hatred deep inside him grew, even a
sense of anger was hidden within.

As the elders spoke, they were all siding with Fang Zheng, they did not treat Fang Yuan
well at all.

Fang Yuan's situation was getting more dangerous, but he still remained extremely
calm. He paid careful attention to these emotions, deep within himself, he was
sneering in disdain at them from beginning to end.

"The accused may enter now." At this moment, the clan leader spoke.

Uncle and aunt appeared, they had an angry expression. The moment they spoke, they
chided Fang Yuan, saying that he had an unfilial attitude. They said that this was
completely a baseless accusation, there was no such thing, but all of the elders
believed their words, smiling coldly at Fang Yuan.

"We will give you one last chance, do you have anything else to say?" At the end, the
clan leader opened his mouth, asking Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan coldly smiled, this was the trap of the dream realm, once he spoke and
triggered his emotions, he would be in danger.
Thus, he kept quiet and shook his head.

The clan leader's expression changed, he sneered as he pointed: "You are truly guilty,
you have no words to rebuke us. I will now declare, you will return the nine leaf vitality
grass Gu back to your uncle and aunt."

The nine leaf vitality grass appeared very fresh and lifelike, it was taken out of his
aperture and handed to his uncle and aunt.

Fang Zheng kowtowed continuously, thanking: "Thank you lord clan leader, thank you
elders for your clear judgment, you protected my innocent uncle and aunt's
reputation."

Fang Yuan felt faint anger and sadness in his heart, but he controlled them.

His gaze was shining, he stared at the nine leaf vitality grass.

The Gu refinement material had appeared in the dream, it was this 'nine leaf vitality
grass'.

"That really was full of hidden danger, the key item is involved in all sorts of ways to
trigger my emotions. The more I focus on this dream material, the more my emotions
would be drawn out, I would sink into the dream realm's entanglement."

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan made a move, using his primeval essence and injecting
them into his Gu.

Several strength path phantoms appeared, attacking his uncle and aunt.

He took the 'nine leaf vitality grass' immediately, not staying afterwards, charging out
of the door without hesitation.

"Scoundrel!" The clan leader smiled in spite of his anger, he charged out as well.

"You dare to offend your seniors, you are too audacious, you deserve death!" The
elders shouted angrily, following the leader and chasing after Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had just stepped out of the door when the scene in front of him changed.

He was in a cave with countless pale white bones around him, this reminded Fang
Yuan of Southern Border's Bai Gu mountain.

Because of Grey Bone Scholar's inheritance, Fang Yuan and Bai Ning Bing worked
together, eventually escaping Bai Gu mountain and hiding from the assault of Bai clan.
This was a vivid memory etched in the depths of his heart.

The moment he had this recollection, the surroundings of the cave became clearer,
they even changed and became exactly like Bai Gu mountain back then.

Fang Yuan was alerted, he stopped recalling his memories.

At this moment, Gu Yue clan leader brought close to ten clan elders, entering Fang
Yuan's vision and chasing him.

Fang Yuan quickly retreated.

Once he died in the dream realm, his soul would take great damage, or he might even
die because of the dream. In the five hundred years of his previous life, who knows
how many Gu Masters fell into a dream realm's entanglement and lost their lives
inside dream realms.

According to Fang Yuan's soul foundation, death was not possible, but his soul could
get heavily injured.

Fang Yuan was not afraid of soul injuries, because he was in control of the exclusive
guts Gu transaction. The problem was, if he left the dream realm due to injuries, the
dream material that he had searched for with much difficulty would vanish. His work
would be wasted, Fang Yuan did not want that.

As Fang Yuan escaped, he checked the nine leaf vitality grass Gu in his pocket.

The grass Gu was realistic and lifelike, Fang Yuan had a sensation deep within himself,
reminding him that this was a high tier ingredient for refining dream Gu.

Fang Yuan moved about left and right, escaping into a small cave. He released a few Gu
worms as a danger detection method, before sitting on the ground and refining Gu
using the Gu recipe in his memories.

Halfway through the refinement, Fang Yuan was discovered by some pursuers, they
blocked the only exit of the cave.
Fang Yuan sighed helplessly, he activated several strength path beast phantoms and
forced his way out.

During the intense battle, he restrained his emotions and only forced them out, not
killing them.

A moment later, he found a second cave and entered it to refine Gu again.

This time, the refinement was even shorter, he only finished thirty percent before he
was discovered by Fang Zheng.

"He is here!" Fang Zheng shouted loudly.

Fang Yuan snorted, kicking and sending Fang Zheng flying.

At this time, an elder had arrived already, assaulting Fang Yuan from behind.

Every time he got injured in the dream, it was a huge hit to his soul.

Fang Yuan was in a dangerous situation, he turned around and summoned several
beast strength phantoms, turning this elder who attacked him into meat paste.

"Fang Yuan, you will die terribly!" Before dying, this elder cursed as he shouted. His
blurred face turned clearer, turning into the academy elder's appearance.

Fang Yuan sighed deeply to himself.

During the dangerous moment earlier, he was distracted and his control over his
emotions weakened, it caused him to fall deeper into the dream.

This was also the reason why he did not kill the pursuers all along.

The dream scenario could go on endlessly, it could be said to be infinite. Even if Fang
Yuan killed the pursuers, new ones would appear, even if they did not appear, there
would be new disturbances.

Especially when he engaged in life and death brawls, he had to concentrate, his
emotions were more likely to influence his actions. There were all sorts of dreams,
they involved drawing out a person's emotions, so that they could not distinguish
reality and illusions, eventually sinking into the dream realm's entanglement, unable
to wake up.

Thankfully, Fang Yuan had his previous life's experiences, even though his
achievement in the field of dream realms was pitiful, it was enough to deal with this.

After getting rid of the pursuers, Fang Yuan came to a hall, it was exactly the same as
the area where he refined bone flesh unity Gu.

Here, Fang Yuan finally refined his dream path Gu worm.

As the pursuers came, Fang Yuan laughed as he muttered to himself: "Time to wake
up."

As he said this, the scene in front of him vanished and turned into pure darkness.

Fang Yuan gradually opened his eyes, the darkness faded and turned into the scenery
of Dang Hun palace, just like before he entered the dream. Meanwhile, Fang Yuan was
sitting on the bed, his arms grabbing at a space, it was the same as the motions of his
arms in the dream.

In the dream, he was grabbing the newly refined dream path mortal Gu. Now that he
was back in the real world, the dream path mortal Gu vanished.

Fang Yuan was not shocked, he checked inside his mind.

In his mind, a dream path mortal Gu was floating, the thoughts around it were like
bubbles, popping and vanishing.

"The first dream path mortal Gu is finally done." Fang Yuan smiled in satisfaction.

Dream path was different from other paths, the mortal Gu did not have physical forms,
they only existed in the mind. Only dream path Immortal Gu could turn from
immaterial to solid.
"Scoundrel, where are you trying to run to?" Dragon Commander Ye Cha led three
immortal zombies as he flew in the air, they were very fast, as if like lightning.

The person they were chasing was none other than Feng Jiu Ge.

He disguised himself as an immortal zombie and tried to mix into Northern Plains
Zombie Alliance, but at the last moment, he was blocked by the dao mark door at the
discussion hall entrance.

Because of this, the secret that he was not a Northern Plains immortal zombie was
exposed, and Dragon Commander Ye Cha, one of the three leaders of Dark Flow Giant
City, personally went after him.

Suddenly, Feng Jiu Ge stopped his movements, he turned around and looked at the
pursuers, smiling as he said: "Are you having a hard time chasing me? Why don't you
stop, I just have a few questions, if you answer me truthfully, I might spare your lives."

"What?" The immortal zombies flew into a rage.

"Scoundrel, you will not be able to escape, you dared to scheme against us, worm!" A
brawny male immortal zombie said in an malicious tone.

"There might be a trap." A female immortal zombie immediately used her investigative
method, scanning the surroundings.

Almost at the same time, the female immortal zombie's expression became stupefied,
she screamed in shock.

Three Central Continent Gu Immortals appeared, together with Feng Jiu Ge, they
surrounded the immortal zombies in a circle.

Feng Jiu Ge laughed lightly, he got rid of his disguise and restored his original
appearance, his rank seven Gu Immortal aura emanated with no room for doubt.
The immortal zombies were all stirring anxiously.

"Rank seven Gu Immortals!" Dragon Commander Ye Cha's face was grim, he tried to
raise the morale: "So what if it is an ambush? We both have four people, the numbers
are the same. You are a rank seven Gu Immortal, but I am also rank seven. Do not think
that immortal zombies have low battle strength, we just refuse to do unnecessary
battles normally. You Gu Immortals from another region are really daring, you dare to
target Northern Plains Zombie Alliance? Hmph!"

"That's right, don't think I'm afraid of you!"

"A battle it will be."

"You are all challenging our Zombie Alliance, have you thought of the consequences?"

The immortal zombies spoke, they were united as one.

Feng Jiu Ge clapped as he smiled: "By now, your letter to request support should have
reached Dark Flow Giant City through your blessed land, right?"

As he said that, the other three immortal zombies' facial expressions changed, even
Dragon Commander Ye Cha's gaze flickered.

Immortal zombies were in an awkward state, if they could avoid battle, they would try
to do so. This place was not far away from Dark Flow Giant City, thus, the moment the
Central Continent Gu Immortals appeared, the four immortal zombies sent the
information back. This was not because they were afraid of dying, but rather, why
would they not ask for reinforcements if they could?

The more people there were, the greater their advantage, even if they battled
intensely, they would suffer fewer losses, and the benefits after the battle would be
higher.

Those who could become Gu Immortals were astute people.

Even a battle maniac would not fight brainlessly. If that was really the case, even if they
became a Gu Immortal, they would not live long.

Feng Jiu Ge looked at their expressions and cupped his fist as he praised: " Your
esteemed alliance's dao mark door is truly impressive, I am full of admiration. Even
though I have heard rumors about it, I wanted to try it for myself. But the dao mark
door was left behind by a predecessor, now that I am here, I have the confidence of
taking all your lives before your reinforcements arrive. I am sure that you have already
noticed, even though this area seems normal, it is a battlefield killer move, isolating
us from the outside world. I'm afraid your letter will not reach the alliance after all."

The four immortal zombies' expressions changed again.

Feng Jiu Ge sighed, his tone became more gentle, he spoke with a sense of sincerity
that could move people: "I have a soul searching method, but I do not have the
intention to kill you. If you cooperate with me and speak the truth, I will let you off
intact."

"Hmph, those are big words. Let's see your methods first." Dragon Commander Ye Cha
interjected during Feng Jiu Ge's words, if he continued speaking, the morale that he
had built up might fall apart.

Other immortal zombies might give up, but Dragon Commander Ye Cha had a high
status, he had his concerns — if he gave in without even trying to fight, his reputation
would be ruined. How would he command his subordinates in the future? How would
he remain as one of the three leaders of Dark Flow Giant City?

Dragon Commander Ye Cha charged out first, the three immortal zombies behind him
split up, towards his left, behind him, and to the right, instantly forming a simple
diamond formation.

Feng Jiu Ge's smile was unchanged, nevertheless he retreated in relaxed fashion.

His opponents were too weak, he did not have the desire to fight!

From his left and right, two Central Continent Gu Immortals laughed and attacked
from either side.

An intense battle of two against four unfolded, the Central Continent Gu Immortals
were having the upper hand, expanding their advantage as time passed. Even though
Dragon Commander Ye Cha furiously roared all the while and fought back bravely, he
could not reverse the situation.

But from start to finish, the two battling Central Continent Gu Immortals did not lose
control over the situation.
After fifteen minutes, Dragon Commander Ye Cha's face turned dark, he stopped the
fighting. The other three immortal zombies had little battle intent remaining, they
showed a faint expression of fear.

"What questions do you have, as long as they do not infringe on the core benefits of
my Zombie Alliance, ask away." Dragon Commander Ye Cha said coldly.

"A wise man submits to circumstances, it is good that you have such an
understanding." Feng Jiu Ge's smile became wider, he asked: "I need to know about
immortal zombie Sha Huang."

"Sha Huang?" Dragon Commander Ye Cha was stunned.

"That immortal zombie who just joined." The female immortal zombie behind him
said.

"Oh?" Feng Jiu Ge's eyes flashed with joy, he asked earnestly: "I would like to hear
more."

At almost the same time, another intense battle was coming to an end.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh…

Fairy Jiang Yu and the others had injuries as they breathed heavily, in a rough state.

"Hmph! It was due to my inferior skills you captured me today, you are free to kill me
at your own convenience! But if you want my Immortal Gu or immortal materials, you
can keep dreaming." Trapped in the middle, Qin Bai Sheng, who failed to escape, was
bathed in blood as he maintained his final stance.

Fairy Jiang Yu smiled bitterly as she shook her head: "Lord Vice Envoy, we would not
dare to take your life. We have said it already, you are our leader."

"Hmph!" Qin Bai Sheng's face was cold as ice, he was very alert: "Nonsense! In order
to obtain my Immortal Gu and immortal materials, you are making up such a terrible
lie. Do you think I am a child?"

"Lord Vice Envoy, you are a member of Shadow Sect. The reason why you cannot
remember things is because your soul was modified." Fairy Jiang Yu explained
patiently.
"Bullshit!" Qin Bai Sheng rebuked angrily: "Even if something was done to my soul, it
is precisely my own soul, how can I not detect anything wrong? When you make a lie,
try to ensure it's convincing."

Fairy Jiang Yu's smile became even more bitter, the black robed Gu Immortal said:
"Lord Vice Envoy, think of this from another angle. We are not stupid, why would we
use this lie out of all excuses? The reason why your soul looks like it's unmodified is
because we used our sect's supreme methods. Even a rank nine Gu Immortal cannot
find any issues with it. But there is a problem, because the person himself cannot
detect it due to the perfection of the modification. As time passes, he would become
another person entirely."

"Lord, you had personally designed this plan from the beginning. I had warned you
that this was dangerous. After all, Lord Envoy himself was a great example. But lord
was insistent on this, you said that to deceive the enemy, you need to deceive yourself.
Inside this soul path Immortal Gu, your remnant soul is inside. As long as you fuse it
into yourself, you will learn about the truth." Fairy Jiang Yu said, taking out a soul path
Immortal Gu.

Qin Bai Sheng looked at this Immortal Gu silently.

Fairy Jiang Yu continued: "Actually, Lord Vice Envoy, you must have noticed. In the
battle earlier, we did not use any fatal methods, even when you injured us heavily, we
did not have any intention to kill you. I'll give this Immortal Gu to you, you can inspect
it yourself."

The soul path Immortal Gu flew slowly, landing in front of Qin Bai Sheng.

"She really gave it to him." Xue Song Zi, who was at the side, watched in shock.

Hei Cheng was expressionless, he healed his injuries as he watched.

Qin Bai Sheng was extremely alert, he used many methods to inspect it, after
confirming that the Immortal Gu had no issues, he placed it in his hands and looked
into it mentally.

Soon, he realized that there really was a lump of soul inside this Immortal Gu.

Furthermore, this lump of soul vaguely seemed to have a close relationship with him.
Qin Bai Sheng hesitated for a moment before chuckling, he squeezed with his fingers
and broke the Immortal Gu: "Scoundrels! This method was your trump card, right?
Even using all my knowledge and experience, I could not see any flaws, but your
attempt to trap me, even with your glib tongues, will end in failure!"

"This!" Xue Song Zi shouted reflexively, he felt heartache. This was an Immortal Gu, he
actually destroyed it.

Hei Cheng was a little surprised, towards Qin Bai Sheng's action, he couldn't help but
feel a sense of admiration.

This was absolute self-confidence that could allow this action of his.

Even in a desperate situation, Qin Bai Sheng's confidence towards himself had never
wavered.

Hei Cheng thought to himself: If it were him, facing such words from his enemies, what
would he choose to do?

"Lord Vice Envoy, you!" The black robed Gu Immortal shouted, he became anxious:
"How will we salvage this now?"

"No worry." Fairy Jiang Yu's lips curled up: "As expected, Lord Vice Envoy understands
yourself best. If this was any other place, when the Immortal Gu was destroyed, the
soul would dissipate. But thankfully, we spent a lot of effort and moved you here."

"Hmph, where are we now?" Qin Bai Sheng shouted as he asked.

The surrounding fog was thick, as Fairy Jiang Yu waved her sleeves, wind blew as they
scattered, revealing a mountain wall.

Qin Bai Sheng, Hei Cheng, and Xue Song Zi realized that they were in a valley now.

"Luo Po valley?!" Qin Bai Sheng took a few glances and his heart jumped.

"As expected of Lord Vice Envoy." Fairy Jiang Yu waved her sleeves, countless Gu
worms flew up from the valley, using an immense number of white lotus giant
silkworm Gu as the foundation, they formed a super Gu formation.

The Gu formation activated, the force in it shocked He Lang Zi, Hei Cheng, and Xue
Song Zi.

"Ah—!" Qin Bai Sheng shouted in pain.

After a dozen breaths of time, everything ended.

Tens of Gu worms, including a good number of Immortal Gu, flew up from the valley,
returning to Qin Bai Sheng's immortal aperture like birds returning to their nest.

Qin Bai Sheng regained his full strength!

"Finally, I am back…” Qin Bai Sheng looked at his hands, he said in a low voice, his
expression was cold.

"Subordinate pays respects to Lord Vice Envoy, congratulations to lord for returning
safely." Fairy Jiang Yu and the black robed Gu Immortal knelt on the ground, while Hei
Cheng and Xue Song Zi bowed slightly. Only He Lang Zi was still acting rebellious,
crossing his arms and watching coldly.

Qin Bai Sheng recalled everything that happened, snorting coldly: "Feng Jiu Ge… I will
remember this, sooner or later, I will settle the score with you. Jiang Yu, you only found
these people? Just them alone will not be able to take down Lang Ya blessed land."

"I have performed poorly in this task." Fairy Jiang Yu rapidly lowered her head and
admitted error.

Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi's expressions changed, but He Lang Zi opened his mouth
and showed his sharp teeth, growling: "Qin Bai Sheng, never mind that you are acting
so mysteriously, you actually dare to look down on me?"
BOOM!

Amidst an intense explosion, He Lang Zi was like a pile of mush as he collapsed in the
huge pit.

He tried to get up, but it was like there was a huge formless mountain pressing down
on his body, the immense weight prevented him from moving at all.

He Lang Zi's eyes were blood red, his expression was distorted, he growled
unceasingly.

Qin Bai Sheng's arms were lowered, he looked at the pit expressionlessly, at the
struggling He Lang Zi.

"One move, just one move, he completely immobilized He Lang Zi!" Xue Song Zi's eyes
were full of shock.

Hei Cheng squinted, he hid the intense shock in his mind as he thought: "What
immortal killer move is this? Once he used it, He Lang Zi was unable to use a single
killer move! He Lang Zi was completely immobilized, but his body is unharmed, this
should be a soul path killer move…”

As for Fairy Jiang Yu, she showed no sign of surprise.

Meanwhile, the mysterious black robed Gu Immortal's face was covered by his hood,
his expression could not be seen.

"If, if you have the guts, let me use my killer moves! Sneak attacking me from the start,
how strong can you be? I refuse to accept this!" He Lang Zi almost cracked his teeth,
he was sprawled in the pit as he looked at Qin Bai Sheng, speaking with much difficulty
and anger.

Qin Bai Sheng snorted in disdain, he looked down at He Lang Zi as he smiled slightly:
"Striking first gives you the advantage, does a demonic path Gu Immortal like you not
know that? It seems that I overestimated you, in a real battle, who would care if you
accept it or not? As long as the enemy is defeated, that is true ability!"

As he said this, Qin Bai Sheng paused, his expression turned cold: "Right now, you are
meat on the chopping block, you are at my mercy. You are to accept this whether you
like it or not. I will give you three breaths of time, submit to me, or I will kill you right
here."

He Lang Zi did not hesitate: "I submit!"

Qin Bai Sheng laughed, releasing the restraint.

He Lang Zi felt the pressure lifting, he laughed fiendishly as he used his immortal killer
move.

At once, a piercing bright light shone out. The light came as quickly as it faded, soon
after, a huge and menacing wolf appeared.

The huge wolf opened its mouth, pouncing on Qin Bai Sheng.

Qin Bai Sheng stood at the edge of the pit, his size was a huge contrast to the huge
wolf.

Before the huge wolf reached him, a strong burst of wind blew, causing several of the
Gu Immortals' robes to flutter in the wind.

He Lang Zi turned into a huge wolf, he attacked with rage, he had an imposing aura.
Xue Song Zi and Hei Cheng retreated, afraid of getting caught up in it.

Qin Bai Sheng was very close to him, seeing the huge wolf approaching, he did not
move, he showed a cold smile on his face, evidently, He Lang Zi's attack was not out of
his expectations.

BOOM!

Another loud bang entered everyone's ears.

The huge wolf cried out, falling from the sky, its four paws were on the ground, a huge
force was pressing down on the wolf's body.
He Lang Zi was now just like earlier, completely immobilized again.

In his huge wolf eyes, he showed unbelieving shock, he looked at Qin Bai Sheng as he
shouted: "This move again! What is this move called?"

"It is not a big deal to tell you." Qin Bai Sheng laughed: "This immortal killer move is
called soul suppression. It uses the foundation of my soul to suppress your soul. Even
though your body is strong, this move directly targets your soul. Without any immortal
transformations that can resist soul path techniques, whatever beast you turn into
cannot defeat me. He Lang Zi, I give you one final chance now, submit to me… or die."

Facing Qin Bai Sheng's immense power, He Lang Zi turned silent.

Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi looked at each other, they sensed this series of events was
anything but reassuring.

"Sha Huang…” Feng Jiu Ge looked at Dragon Commander Ye Cha and the others who
were leaving, his mouth muttering unendingly.

"The information we obtained this time has no practical use." Around Feng Jiu Ge, the
Central Continent Gu Immortals were mumbling in unhappiness.

"No, we obtained a lot of information." Feng Jiu Ge chuckled: "Firstly, this immortal
zombie, Sha Huang, was able to enter the Zombie Alliance, it proves that he is a
Northern Plains Gu Immortal. Even if he is not born here, he definitely ascended into
an immortal here. Since he disguised himself, that means that his true identity cannot
be known to others. Finally, he has a huge force or some great expert backing him up.
This force might be the one which caused the collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building!"

"Lord Jiu Ge makes much sense." Towards Feng Jiu Ge's deduction, the other three
immortals nodded in agreement.

"What should our actions be next?"

Feng Jiu Ge thought for a while before saying: "We will meet up with Old Oracle's group
and tell the new information to them, allowing them to do further deductions."
…

Snowy Mountain blessed land, first peak.

"What? Soft jade sand hasn't been fully collected yet?" Old Ancestor Xue Hu looked at
the list as he questioned unhappily.

The person he was questioning was the owner of the fourth peak of Snowy Mountain,
Li Peng Wang.

Li Peng Wang, who had a fierce reputation and rebellious nature, lowered his head,
saying politely: "Old Ancestor, please appease your anger, I met with a group of sky
chief beasts, I had to stop my collection. If I go to white heaven again, I will definitely
succeed."

"Mm, go ahead and prepare. I am not targeting you, but this is the first round of
immortal material collection, and you already had such a problem. How will you prove
yourself and remain as the fourth peak's owner? I raised you to this spot personally,
with this poor performance, what will the other peak heads think of me?" Old
Ancestor Xue Hu said a few more sentences before waving his sleeves, asking Li Peng
Wang who was apologizing to leave.

"Li Peng Wang had bad luck, he was attacked by a sky chief beast group. He was heavily
injured, but he still brought back a portion of the soft jade sand, it was already not
easy." After Li Peng Wang left, a female immortal walked out from the hall behind.

In the entirety of Snowy Mountain blessed land, only this female immortal could speak
to Old Ancestor Xue Hu with such a tone.

Old Ancestor Xue Hu looked over at the female immortal, his expression became more
gentle: "Wife, you do not know the crucial information in this, thus you think I am
overly harsh on the peak heads. I searched Ma Hong Yun's soul, I know all of this lad's
history. Fortune rivalling heaven Gu's power is truly fearsome. Do you think Li Peng
Wang's encounter was coincidental? That is not the case. Not just him, the other peak
heads also faced difficulty when collecting the materials. All this is due to Fortune
Rivalling Heaven affecting us secretly. Any acts that would harm its owner would cause
a backlash from Fortune Rivalling Heaven, suppressing our luck."

"There is such a thing?" The female immortal, Lady Wan Shou, asked.
"According to the theory of luck, us Gu Immortals have extraordinary luck that
protects us. But Fortune Rivalling Heaven is the emperor of luck, thus, we are still
affected by it. The longer this drags on, the more uncertainties would occur. In the end,
not only would the Gu refinement fail, we might even attract a huge disaster." Old
Ancestor Xue Hu explained slowly.

As the owner of the second peak, Lady Wan Shou understood now, she thought about
it before frowning: "If that is the case, wouldn't it be a huge obstacle when I refine Gu?"

Lady Wan Shou was one of the four most famous refinement path Gu Immortals in
Northern Plains, according to Old Ancestor Xue Hu's plan, she was supposed to use
Ma Hong Yun as the main material and refine fortune rivalling heaven Gu at the end.

Old Ancestor Xue Hu nodded: "That is why this time, not only do we need to prepare
several sets of Gu refinement immortal materials, we also need to use other luck path
Immortal Gu to protect our luck. Thankfully, Ma Hong Yun is the main material, we
saved a lot of immortal materials compared to refining Fortune Rivalling Heaven from
scratch."

"Even so, we prepared way too many immortal materials, we are almost going to
exceed Snowy Mountain's capability. This refinement is way too important, we almost
used up all of our life savings." Lady Wan Shou frowned as she said.

Old Ancestor Xue Hu laughed, holding her waist, he consoled: "Wife, you're afraid that
the refinement will fail?"

Lady Wan Shou nodded, looking at her husband: "Even a refinement path great
grandmaster could fail, let alone me?"

"Hahaha, just go ahead and refine it, wife, whether it succeeds or fails, I will accept the
result without any hatred or anger. I have already used up all of my potential to reach
this level, I have no confidence in my future calamities and tribulations. Fortune
rivalling heaven Gu is my hope of breaking this situation, oh, hopefully, it will succeed
in time." Old Ancestor Xue Hu said as he sighed.

"Fang Yuan, go and carry that box of goods." The caravan steward pointed at a box,
shouting loudly.
"Yes." Fang Yuan replied, climbing onto a black skin fat beetle as he moved that
wooden box from the very top.

"This lad actually has strength path cultivation, I totally missed it." Seeing Fang Yuan
completing his mission easily, the caravan steward's eyes shined with a cold light: "No,
I already promised second young master, I cannot fail!"

Thinking so, the caravan steward raised his whip and lashed at Fang Yuan's back.

With a loud cracking sound.

Fang Yuan's shirt was torn open, a deep whip scar was imprinted on Fang Yuan's back.

The intense pain assaulted his heart, Fang Yuan fell on the ground and shivered as
blood quickly oozed out of his wound.

In his previous life, in the caravan, because he rejected a certain young master's
recruitment, he was heavily suppressed and humiliated, the memories were surfacing
again.

A sense of rage rose deep within Fang Yuan, but he quickly suppressed it.

"Why are you wasting time, move quickly!" The caravan steward was simply finding
trouble with him, he scolded Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had rank three cultivation level, but he did not use it.

After all, with enough power, he would have killing intent, that was the dream realm's
trap, luring him to attack so that his rage could be drawn out.

After enduring for a day, facing difficulties from the steward, Fang Yuan went into the
tent and refined his dream path mortal Gu.

"Five scenes had passed in this dream realm, I am going to succeed." Fang Yuan looked
at the Gu worm that was forming, feeling pleased.

But during the night, just as he was refining the Gu, a group of beasts charged into the
caravan's camp, even with Fang Yuan's defensive methods, he could not defend himself
from the assault of the beast group, he ended in failure.
Fang Yuan opened his eyes, leaving the dream realm, he was still in Dang Hun palace.

Checking his immortal aperture, he found a message from Fairy Li Shan.

It explained her current circumstances, Old Ancestor Xue Hu had ordered all of the
peak heads to collect immortal materials. Fairy Li Shan had left Snowy Mountain
blessed land and it was not safe to leave Hei Lou Lan alone. Thus, Fairy Li Shan urged
Fang Yuan to hurry up, and she also told him about the situation in Northern Plains
Zombie Alliance, someone was investigating Sha Huang's identity.

"They have investigated to this extent already?" In the dim room, Fang Yuan frowned
and sighed faintly.
Originally, when Fang Yuan joined the auction, he had expected that there would be
many clues left behind, it would give others many important clues to investigate.

But the other party's investigation was faster than Fang Yuan's expectations.

But compared to his gains, this was an inconsequential cost.

Fang Yuan quickly focused his mind, using the dream realm mortal Gu in his mind to
enter the dream realm again.

Ever since he refined the first dream realm mortal Gu, because he had an advantage
of using dream path Gu, his dream realm exploration became easier, and his efficiency
became higher.

Dream realms were deep, traps were everywhere. Because of Fang Yuan's experience
from his previous life, he avoided most of the dangers, in his first ten dream realm
trips, he could refine three dream realm mortal Gu.

But as the number of dream path mortal Gu increased, his success rate rose from thirty
percent to fifty percent.

Fifty percent success rate was one of the highest in the present-day five regions.
Because dream realms had just started manifesting, although most of the forces had
some gains, they were starting from scratch, exploring step by step.

Like this, he refined Gu endlessly without any rest, half a month later in Hu Immortal
blessed land, Fang Yuan finally succeeded in refining enough dream path mortal Gu.
Using these dream path mortal Gu, he used unravel mystery Immortal Gu as the core,
managing to form an immortal killer move — Unravel Dream!

With this trump card, Fang Yuan immediately informed Fairy Li Shan.

Fairy Li Shan was out for the moment, collecting immortal materials for Old Ancestor
Xue Hu. When she heard Fang Yuan's news, she stopped her work, disregarding Old
Ancestor Xue Hu's chastisement, and returned to the third peak.

After seeing Fang Yuan, Fairy Li Shan did not continue to hide that secret, she told him
about it.

Before Su Xian Er died, she had left behind a familial emotion with her daughter, Hei
Lou Lan. Precisely because of this familial emotion, Hei Lou Lan could use Su Xian Er's
green grape immortal essence. This allowed Hei Lou Lan to use Immortal Gu in
Imperial Court blessed land when she was a mortal.

When Fang Yuan heard this secret, he was not surprised.

In truth, he had made many guesses towards the cause of Hei Lou Lan's ability to use
Immortal Gu as a mortal.

Right now, his guess was confirmed, it was not out of Fang Yuan's expectations.

Even so, Fang Yuan still frowned: "This is bad! One should not be influenced by their
emotions in a dream realm, otherwise they will sink deeper into it. With this familial
emotion's influence, my immortal killer move's power will be greatly reduced!"

"What do we do?" Fairy Li Shan's expression changed, her worry was oozing on her
face.

She was not worried about Fang Yuan lying to her, because of the Snowy Mountain
Alliance, both sides could not lie to each other.

Fang Yuan did not lie, the killer move unravel dream had limited power. Right now,
with her being deeper in dream realm, unravel dream killer move's power became
more limited.

Fang Yuan's expression was grim: "Right now, we can only give it a try. Sigh, I had
seventy to eighty percent confidence earlier, but now I only have twenty to thirty
percent. All in all, this was too short of a time period, I have limited dream path mortal
Gu."

"Twenty to thirty percent… what if you fail?" Fairy Li Shan immediately asked.

"If I fail, my soul will take major damage. But Hei Lou Lan is the owner of the dream,
she will still be deep in her dream without any damage. But there is a benefit, once I
use unravel dream, the dream realm will weaken, towards Hei Lou Lan, this is a good
thing without a drawback." Fang Yuan spoke the truth.

"That's good…” Fairy Li Shan let out a breath of cloudy air, relieved. But suddenly, she
realized her words were inappropriate, she turned to look at Fang Yuan apologetically,
lost for words.

Fang Yuan waved his hand, stopping Fairy Li Shan from speaking: "Say no more, fairy,
I am not a petty person. The situation is urgent now, our identities are being searched.
To prevent any issues from arising further, saving Hei Lou Lan is a top priority. Even if
I fail, once I weaken the dream realm, it will help for the next time I enter it. Alright,
enough talk, will you guard my surroundings?"

"That is only natural." Fairy Li Shan thanked him courteously.

Next, Fang Yuan sat beside Hei Lou Lan who was lying in her bed, activating the dream
path mortal Gu in his mind.

These mortal Gu were in his mind, arranging themselves into a mystical Gu formation.

As they activated one by one, the Gu formation started.

At the last step, Fang Yuan used his green grape immortal essence and activated
unravel mystery Immortal Gu.

Unravel mystery Immortal Gu gave off a bright light in his immortal aperture.

The light rushed up into his brain, after being converted by the dream path Gu
formation, it turned into a green-purple light.

Fang Yuan opened his blood red eyes, as a green-purple light flickered in his pupils.

Immortal killer move — Unravel Dream!

A loud sound rang out in Fang Yuan's mind.

The scenery in front of him changed drastically, Fang Yuan was still sitting on the
ground, but he was not in Fairy Li Shan's secret room, but in a hall instead.
"I am inside Hei Lou Lan's dream realm." Fang Yuan's body shook slightly, he had an
understanding deep within himself, he diverted his gaze and looked around.

A banquet was being held in the hall.

The higher-ups of Su tribe were hosting a young Gu Master enthusiastically.

Su tribe leader raised his cup, laughing loudly: "Young master Hei Cheng, a toast to
you."

Hei Cheng was sitting at the front of the left row, he raised his cup with both hands:
"Thank you, Su tribe leader."

Saying this, he raised his head and gulped the drink in one mouthful.

The rank three elders around him were cheering at Hei Cheng for having such a candid
attitude.

Hei Cheng cupped his fists, his tone carried the aura of pride that a young genius was
meant to have.

Fang Yuan saw this and had a thought in his mind.

Looking at himself, he was an elder of Su tribe in this dream realm. His aperture was
full of wood path mortal Gu, there was quite a number. Fang Yuan just need one look
to know that he was a rank three wood path healing Gu Master.

Fang Yuan frowned, wood path was not his specialty, even more so a healing Gu Master.

He sighed mentally, consoling himself: "This is not my own dream realm, as an

outsider, having rank three cultivation level is already quite good. But I wonder where
Hei Lou Lan is?"

Just as he was thinking that, a female came out of the back of the hall, wearing an
attendant's attire, she resembled Hei Lou Lan and had an incredibly beautiful
appearance. But she was less dominating and more gentle, her aura was quite
different from Hei Lou Lan.

"It is Su Xian Er." Fang Yuan thought, recognizing this woman.

Su tribe leader's cup was empty, Su Xian Er carried the wine and was about to pour it,
but Su tribe leader chided her instead: "You must be blind, go pour wine for our Su
tribe's esteemed guest!"

Su Xian Er replied meekly, walking over to Hei Cheng's table.

Hei Cheng's gaze was shining, he looked at Su Xian Er's face, only until she finished
pouring the wine did he jolt to awareness.

Looking at Su Xian Er's retreating back, he stood up and asked: "May I know your name
miss?"

Su Xian Er turned around, bowing as he lowered her head, replying softly: "My name
is Su Xian Er."

"Su Xian Er… Xian Er…” Hei Cheng muttered, he only sat down after Su Xian Er entered
the hall and left his vision.

"Hahaha." Su tribe leader saw all of this, he laughed: "Xian Er is a girl I brought back
from the battlefield many years ago. My wife had been raising her all these years,
watching her grow up, even though she has the status of an attendant, we treat her
like our own daughter."

"Is that so." Hei Cheng muttered, he continued feasting, but the food felt flavorless.

After the banquet ended, Hei Cheng was given a high class guest room to stay in.

Su tribe leader gathered the elders, discussing about the plan to kill Hei Cheng in the
secret room.

"Tribe leader, are we really striking? They are Hei tribe, a super force that has Gu
Immortals." An elder was worried.

Su tribe leader's expression turned sharp: "So what if they are Hei tribe? Once this
deal is done, our entire tribe will move to Snowy Mountain blessed land to live. By
then, there will not be the Imperial Court contest or the ten year blizzard. Hei tribe is
a super force, but Snowy Mountain blessed land is the headquarters of the demonic
path!"

The elders were all fantasizing from these words, Su tribe leader looked around and
saw everyone's hesitant expressions, he said harshly: "At this final moment, why are
you hesitating? Even if we do nothing, or even snitch to Hei tribe, what can we do? If
we offend Snowy Mountain, they will not let us off! Do not forget that our entire Su
tribe's lives were saved by that fairy. If that fairy could save us so easily, she could also
slaughter us all without difficulty!"

Being shocked by these words, the secret room became chilly, the elders saw this fact
and finally faced reality.

"Tribe leader is right! We had already made that Hei Cheng lad drunk, I will strike now
and take his head!" The battle hall elder shouted.

"It will not be easy to kill Hei Cheng, don't think that he is alone, there are hidden
experts in the background protecting him. Hei tribe is a super force, while Hei Cheng
has great talent, he will have no less than five people guarding him." Su tribe leader
spoke about the information he had.

Fang Yuan was among them, he understood what to say when he heard this: "Then we
will execute the orders of lord tribe leader!"

"Yes, lord tribe leader, go ahead and give the orders!" The elders were enthusiastic.

"Alright!" The tribe leader was overjoyed, giving out orders straight away. He had
obviously thought this over, he almost said them out of reflex immediately.

Because Fang Yuan was the medicine hall elder and was a healing Gu Master, he had
weak offense and defense, he was ordered to deal with the strongest enemies by
supporting two other Gu Masters.

The moment he left the secret room, the dream realm changed again, entering the
second scene.

The night had a bright moon and strong, howling winds.

A rank three Hei tribe Gu Master stood arrogantly, looking at the surrounding people
with much anger: "Your Su tribe is really daring, you dare to attack young master Hei
Cheng of our tribe!"

"Don't waste time speaking with him!"

"Kill him first, then go and help the others."

The two Su tribe elders were acting as offense and defense respectively, charging
towards the Hei tribe Gu Master, only Fang Yuan was left behind to back them up.

"I have not discovered Hei Lou Lan yet, it seems she is not here. Judging by this scene,
I can only enter the third scene after killing the Gu Master here." Fang Yuan thought
about it as he activated his wood path Gu worms, healing the Gu Masters on his side.

Initially, the Hei tribe Gu Master was strong and had the upper hand. But after an
intense battle, because of Fang Yuan's healing, the two sides mutually sustained
injuries and entered a deadlock.

Suddenly, the Hei tribe Gu Master shouted angrily, charging out while injured and
attacking Fang Yuan.

"Oh no, stop him!"

"Medicine hall elder, dodge!"

The two Su tribe Gu Masters were shocked and furious, they lost their bearings.
Dream realms were dangerous.

In dream realms, every time one got injured, their soul would suffer great damage.

If their soul injuries were severe, they would feel sluggish, they would feel irritation
within themselves, their emotions would be drawn out more easily, thus sinking
deeper into the dream and be unable to free themselves.

Seeing that the Hei tribe Gu Master was attacking, Su tribe's two Gu Masters' hearts
sank.

The Hei tribe Gu Master had strong fighting strength, even with them joining forces,
they could only fight with him evenly. As the medicine hall elder, Fang Yuan's strength
was not high. The two Su tribe Gu Masters could only hope that Fang Yuan could last
long enough until they could reinforce him.

But the Hei tribe Gu Master had been plotting this for a while, even if he had to risk an
injury, he wanted to kill the healing Gu Master, he certainly had a strong offensive
method left.

"Quickly dodge it!"

"Persevere for a few breaths, we are coming!"

The Hei tribe Gu Master quickly shortened the distance between him and Fang Yuan,
but Fang Yuan remained unmoved, causing the two Su tribe Gu Masters to feel anxious.

Fang Yuan was not scared at all, he laughed coldly.

He dared to enter Hei Lou Lan's dream realm not because he was rash, but because he
had prepared his trump card.

This trump card was the immortal killer move — Unravel Dream!
"Unravel." Fang Yuan stretched out his right hand, his palm facing the Hei tribe Gu
Master.

At the same time, his eyes flashed with a green-purple light.

Hei tribe Gu Master's eyes shined with intense despair, amidst his anger and shock,
his body faded and his speed became slower, when he was a few steps away from Fang
Yuan, he vanished into thin air.

"What, what method is this?" The two Su tribe Gu Masters behind him were staring
with shocked expressions.

"A killer move that I thought of, it is nothing important." Fang Yuan lowered his right
arm, making a random excuse.

"Nothing important!" One of the two Gu Masters stared with wide opened eyes, Fang
Yuan seemed like a desolate beast in his eyes.

"Killing him in one move, had we known this, why would we fight to the death?"
Another Gu Master sighed, he had a complex tone, it was a joyful yet begrudged tone.

"Alright, let's move quickly, go and reinforce the others. The most important matter
now is to kill Hei Cheng." Fang Yuan reminded.

Su tribe's two Gu Masters nodded, now was not the time to talk about Fang Yuan's
killer move, the three quickly moved and went to the deeper parts of the grassland.

Fang Yuan followed the two Gu Masters of Su tribe, sprinting as the scene changed
again.

The night was dark, the sky had no moon, only several stars were shining.

Fang Yuan and Su tribe leader, all four people, charged towards the direction of Hei
Cheng.

"I see him, after flipping over that mountain, we can reach Hei Cheng." In their rush,
an elder used his investigative Gu worm as he spoke.

"I said long ago, he was hit by my tracking Gu, no matter where he does, he will not be
able to run away." Battle hall elder said proudly.
"Academy elder died in battle, we must take revenge for her."

"Since it is a battle, there will be wins, losses, life and death. Academy elder sacrificed
herself for us, she will definitely be praised. On the other hand, Su Xian Er betrayed
our tribe, helping that Hei Cheng lad escape, this is an unforgivable crime!"

Saying this, Su tribe leader's expression was dark: "Even though Su Xian Er is my
goddaughter, in the name of justice, I cannot be selfish. When we capture her, we will
punish her according to the tribe rules!"

Hearing this, the other elders let out a sigh of relief, they said: "Tribe leader is wise."

"Wise? Hehehe." A cold laugh came from the mound behind everyone.

"Who is it?" Everyone stopped in their tracks.

A figure slowly appeared on the mound.

Su tribe leader and the others' hearts sank, it was an enemy. With just this hiding
ability, it was incredible, if they did not show up intentionally, with just their
investigative methods, they would not discover them.

The question was, did they use a Gu worm or a killer move?

"To think that there was still an expert like you protecting Hei Cheng!" Su tribe leader
tried to stall for time, as several elders moved out, ascending up the mound in an
encircling formation.

The mysterious Gu Master looked around, but did not move, remaining at the same
spot.

Suddenly, the battle on the mound erupted.

Two other mysterious Gu Masters ambushed Su tribe's Gu Masters, striking ruthlessly

and viciously. In one move, they heavily injured one, while lightly injuring the other.

The Su tribe Gu Master who was heavily injured retreated quickly, while the lightly
injured one was still fighting partway up the mound.

"There was a helper!" Su tribe leader's heart jumped when he saw this, having a bad
feeling in his heart.

The three Gu Masters who suddenly appeared were experts, they had above average
battle strength. They probably made many arrangements when they ambushed at this
location, it would be difficult to break through their obstruction and catch up to Hei
Cheng!

"Hei Lou Lan!" Fang Yuan, as the healing Gu Master, was behind Su tribe leader, his
eyes shined when he saw the Gu Master partway up the mound.

The appearance of Hei Lou Lan's body was the one she had when she was Hei tribe
leader, she had broad shoulders and a thick waist, she was rough and fierce.

At this moment, she was fighting with the lightly injured Su tribe leader, they were
engaged in fierce battle, her great battle strength was beating the opponent back.

She was not like Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was an outsider in this dream realm. There was no identity allocated to him
in the dream originally, thus, when he entered the dream, he needed to take the place
of another character.

But Hei Lou Lan was the owner of the dream, as the dream owner, she was part of the
dream realm's creation. As for her appearance, this was how Hei Lou Lan saw herself
in the depths of her heart.

"Hei Lou Lan, it's me, Fang Yuan!" Fang Yuan did not hesitate, he shouted and went
past Su tribe leader, running towards Hei Lou Lan.

"Medicine hall elder!" Su tribe leader shouted in shock.

Fang Yuan did not care about him, he rapidly ascended the mound.

"Scoundrel, so you are an imposter. No wonder you had such a strong killer move!" A
Su tribe Gu Master who was in the second scene with Fang Yuan exposed his identity.

"Fang Yuan?" Hei Lou Lan heard this name and her expression was dazed, but ruthless
light shined in her eyes soon afterwards: "All of you, scram!"

Saying this, she waved her hand and shot a dark vortex killer move at Fang Yuan.
At the same time, the other two mysterious Gu Masters also charged at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan snorted coldly, saying: "Unravel dream!"

Green-purple light shined in his body, be it the dark vortex or the two Gu Masters, they
vanished into thin air within a few breaths of time.

"What killer move is this?!" Seeing this, all of the remaining Gu Masters stared with
wide opened eyes.

Hei Lou Lan's gaze shined, she was very wary of Fang Yuan.

She suddenly retreated, leaving this small mound.

"Hei Lou Lan!" Fang Yuan shouted helplessly, chasing after her.

Hei Lou Lan was the dream owner, since she was dreaming now, unravel dream could
not affect her.

"Chase! We must kill Hei Cheng!!" Su tribe leader and the others gritted their teeth,
they had no other way now, they had to follow.

Hei Cheng seemed to be injured, he was moving slowly not far away. Beside him, Su
Xian Er was holding onto him, limping forward at a slow speed.

Fang Yuan saw this and his heart jumped — this seemed like a trap!

Hei Lou Lan quickly met up with Hei Cheng and Su Xian Er.

"Strong warrior, please leave with young master, I will hold them off." Su Xian Er did
not recognize Hei Lou Lan, she shouted anxiously.

"You are a mere mortal woman, you have no Gu Master cultivation, how can you block
these Gu Masters? Now that you have betrayed your tribe, you are dead meat!" Hei
Lou Lan had a complex expression when she looked at Su Xian Er.

"It is too late, strong warrior, quickly leave!" As Fang Yuan got closer, Su Xian Er
shouted as she turned back.

Hei Lou Lan sighed, she stretched out her palm and slammed at Hei Cheng's head.
With a loud smash, Hei Cheng's head broke apart like a watermelon, the brain matter
flew everywhere.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked.

Hei Lou Lan raised her head, shouting: "Hei Cheng, I finally killed you with my own
hands! Nobody can stop me from taking your life! Hahahaha!"

"Oh no!" Hearing Hei Lou Lan's shout, Fang Yuan's heart sank.

At once, the dream realm's scene changed.

In the hall, among the toasting of wine cups, Su tribe leader and Hei Cheng were
drinking together, it was a lively atmosphere.

Su tribe leader raised his cup, laughing loudly: "Young master Hei Cheng, a toast to
you."

Hei Cheng was sitting at the front of the left row, he raised his cup with both hands:
"Thank you, Su tribe leader."

"This is a recurring dream, the three scenes are looping non-stop." Fang Yuan looked
around, and inspected himself again.

He found that he was no longer that medicine hall elder, he was a rank two metal path
Gu Master guard. He was standing at the door of the hall, guarding the door.

"As expected, from rank three to rank two peak stage, my strength fell." Fang Yuan's
was bitter inside: "This is bad, Hei Lou Lan has sunk into the dream, she had no
reaction even after hearing my name. The more dream realm cycles that occur, the
deeper we will sink into the dream. This dream had already pulled out Hei Lou Lan's
killing intent and hatred towards her father. The more Hei Lou Lan wants to take
revenge, the deeper she will sink into the dream realm. How can I wake her up?"

For a while, even Fang Yuan had no idea.

Seven days and seven nights later, in Snowy Mountain blessed land time.

Hei Lou Lan, who was lying on the bed, opened her eyes with a shift in her aura. Her
lost gaze became clearer, looking at the eight armed immortal beside her bed, she
understood in her heart: "So it was a dream realm, I was saved by Fang Yuan."

Fang Yuan opened his eyes forcefully, his aura was weak and his soul had suffered a
huge blow, his mind was extremely drained.

After dozens of rounds in Hei Lou Lan's dream realm, using the killer move unravel
dream, he accumulated experience and failed repeatedly. After many attempts, Fang
Yuan killed Hei Cheng before Hei Lou Lan could, ruining her goal.

But the dream realm did not dissipate, Hei Lou Lan's hatred was not resolved, the
dream realm changed again.

Only until the seventeenth change, Fang Yuan roused Hei Lou Lan's consciousness, and
she realized she was dreaming.

When Hei Lou Lan understood this, Fang Yuan gained the initiative.

After eight more rounds, the two finally overcame the difficulties, breaking the dream
realm and escaping.

"I am going back now, as for the compensation, Fairy Li Shan will explain it to you."
Fang Yuan's soul was heavily injured, he did not dare to stay for long, even when he
used Fixed Immortal Travel, it was with much difficulty.

"Compensation?" Hei Lou Lan was about to thank him, but when she heard these
words, an ominous feeling rose in her heart.
Western Desert.

"Guh—!" Gu Immortal Tang Miao's body shook, she opened her eyes and spat out a
mouthful of blood.

"Another failure." Tang Miao's expression was pale as paper, compared to the injuries
on her body, she felt even more despair towards the failure in exploring the dream
realm.

Tang Miao's soul was heavily injured, her head was spinning as her body felt heavy,
she sighed in her heart: "Brother, I was useless and could not save you! Even after
exploring the dream realm deeply, I could not find you."

She shut her eyes, bitter tears flowed down her cheeks, forming two streams of tears.

A moment later, the anxious Tang clan Gu Immortals rushed over, coming to the secret
room and standing in front of Tang Miao.

Tang clan's first supreme elder, Tang Yang, frowned, he looked at Tang Miao who was
sitting on the bed as he said heavily: "I did not think that after spending so much effort
to borrow the rank seven emotion Gu from Xiao tribe, the dream realm exploration
still suffered a heavy loss."

"Sigh, dream realms in themselves are mystical and strange, moreover, this is Thieving
Heaven Demon Venerable's dream realm." Gu Immortal Tang Lan sighed.

The Prophecy of Three Venerables had spread throughout the world, the information
regarding Great Dream Immortal Venerable was known to not just Central Continent,
but the super forces of the other four regions as well, most of them were exploring
dream realms, accumulating experience and developing new Gu worms.

As a super force of Western Desert, Tang clan had accidentally discovered Thieving
Heaven Demon Venerable's dream realm many years ago.
This discovery triggered the enthusiasm of Tang clan in researching dream path.

In order to explore this dream realm, Tang clan's number one genius Gu Immortal,
Tang Fang Ming, had taken this important mission from the clan, but he suffered a
great loss and was still lost in the dream realm now.

His sister, Tang Miao, in order to save her brother, had tried many times but failed
repeatedly.

This loss was even more severe.

In order to explore the dream realm this time, Tang clan spent a huge sum to borrow
the emotion path Immortal Gu and entrusted hope in her. The result was ice cold
disappointment.

"Although the Immortal Gu was useful and could suppress my emotions, preventing
the dream realm from drawing them out, this also made me an outsider. I was always
in the outskirts of the dream's core, this time, I did not even manage to discover
brother's identity." As she sat on the bed, Tang Miao tended to her injuries as she said
solemnly.

"Sigh, it seems that dream path Gu worms are needed to explore dream realms. But
our Tang clan has already explored the dream realm for sixty years, we have only
created over a dozen dream realm mortal Gu, they are all rank three and below. More
than half of them have extremely limited use. More specifically, only four or five are
suited for dream realm exploration."

The hardest part was the start, especially at this initial stage, it was extremely difficult.
The pioneers were moving forward without certainty, every small step was a huge
success.

Regarding dream path, nobody had any experience, their knowledge was like sheets
of blank paper. Once they passed this difficult initial step, and accumulated enough
experience, their advantage would become larger, like a rolling snowball.

Towards the middle to late stage, their advantage would be clear, the difficulty of
researching dream path would be greatly reduced. In Fang Yuan's memories, there
was a time when a new dream path Gu worm was created every day, the varieties were
as numerous as the stars in the sky. That was a time when dream path was flourishing
like flowers in spring.
In human history, each of these grand eras would lead to the birth of a supreme expert.

According to the Prophecy of Three Venerables, this grand expert should be Great
Dream Immortal Venerable. But Fang Yuan did not live until Great Dream Immortal
Venerable appeared.

Speaking of which, at this initial stage, Tang clan was already at the lead of the era.
Even when compared to the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent, their
progress was among the highest.

But the limitations of this era greatly restricted them. It was like a blind man walking
down a path, without any clues, they could only explore step by step, after endless
effort was spent, they only had a small result — over a dozen dream path mortal Gu.

And among these results, the truly useful dream path mortal Gu were extremely few.

For example, on Earth, a newly created experimental product would be very far from
military usage, and even further from civilian use.

Moreover, this innovation and exploration was not possible for every Gu Immortal —
one needed talent and aptitude.

In this aspect, Gu Immortals who only followed certain rules were useless, without a
creative mind, they were inferior to even mortal Gu Masters.

Tang clan had many Gu Immortals, but only Tang Fang Ming was suited for this. These
dozen or so dream path mortal Gu were mostly his creation. One could say that he was
the main force behind Tang clan's dream realm exploration.

The regretful thing was, Tang Fang Ming was trapped in the dream realm now. Because
of this, Tang clan's progress had come to a halt.

Tang Fang Ming's body was intact, the clan's Gu Immortals were protecting it. But his
soul that was in the dream realm had already left his body, it had vanished. Once one
was trapped in the dream realm, their soul would weaken continuously, weakening
until they died.

The Tang clan Gu Immortals, especially Tang Miao, were extremely anxious, but there
was nothing they could do.
"How is my brother now?" After stabilizing her injuries, Tang Miao asked.

The supreme elders looked at each other, one of them spoke with much difficulty: "We
can protect his body, but there are almost no guts Gu in the market. We… can't buy
them any longer."

Tang Miao frowned, asking anxiously: "What is going on?"

The Gu Immortal from earlier replied: "You know that there is only one person selling
guts Gu, it is a monopoly. But not long ago, this seller stopped releasing the product
into the market for an unknown reason. Even though there are still guts Gu in the
market, without the source supplier, it is drying out. Right now, the market cannot
satisfy our demands."

Guts Gu was among the best methods to strengthen the soul, and had no drawbacks,
and most importantly it took effectiveness quickly.

Spectral Soul Demon Venerable had once commented, this was the number one soul
strengthening method in the world, he was absolutely right.

For Tang Fang Ming, guts Gu was the method to save his life.

"Without guts Gu, brother will…” Tang Miao was anxious, her tone was flustered as she
said with a shred of hope, asking: "Why are they not selling it? Is there so little
circulation in the market?"

This time, Tang clan first supreme elder spoke: "We had contacted the seller and
promised huge profits, but there was no response. These last days, the guts Gu that
are preserving Tang Fang Ming's life are the remaining guts Gu in the market that our
tribe is purchasing with a huge sum. By now, the guts Gu supply has dried out, barely
any is left."

Tang Miao heard this and her heart sank to rock bottom, her breathing became rough.

Tang clan had ordinary soul strengthening methods. Earlier, before guts Gu were sold
in treasure yellow heaven, they used these methods to preserve Tang Fang Ming's life.

But now, Tang Fang Ming was too deep in the dream, his soul was weakening too
quickly, these methods were becoming useless, the recovery could not keep up with
his weakening.
Without guts Gu, Tang Fang Ming would die in his dream.

What could they do?

Tang Miao gritted her teeth, she frowned as she stared at these Gu Immortals deeply:
"I don't care! If you guys didn't give brother that mission back then, he would not be
like this. Now that he is this state, are you going to just watch?"

"You can't say that, what do you mean just watch? These years, we in Tang clan had
spent so much effort and finances to preserve Tang Fang Ming's life, you are also one
of us, you saw everything for yourself…” Third supreme elder retorted. He listed many
examples, they were not false, he had the evidence and proof of their actions.

"I don't care!" Tang Miao's eyebrows were in a frown, her indigo color eyes were
gathering rage, even though the surface was calm, it was deep like an abyss.

"Third supreme elder, say no more." First supreme elder stretched out his hand and
stopped him.

Third supreme elder stopped speaking, as first supreme elder sighed deeply while
gazing at Tang Miao, who was extremely furious and stubborn.

Tang Fang Ming and Tang Miao had a close sibling relationship, all of the Tang clan Gu
Immortals knew this.

This pair of siblings were once stripped of their statuses and mercilessly abandoned
when they were young. The siblings went through much hardship and survived, due
to a fortuitous encounter, the brother, Tang Fang Ming, became a Gu Immortal, while
his sister, Tang Miao, became a rank five peak stage Gu Master.

The two charged back to Tang clan to take revenge.

The Tang clan Gu Immortals appeared and mediated with Tang Fang Ming. Eventually,
they sacrificed a band of mortal higher-ups and managed to obtain the return of Tang
Fang Ming.

Compared to a Gu Immortal, even if the sacrifice was a huge number of mortals, what
was that worth?

Tang Fang Ming understood the situation, he joined Tang clan and used the clan's help
to make his sister, Tang Miao, a Gu Immortal.

But Tang Miao was not as big hearted as her brother, she still had negative
preconceptions against Tang clan, she had hidden resentment and indignation.

Right now, when her brother's life was at stake, any sort of explanation was useless to
her.

Thus, first supreme elder said to Tang Miao with a sorrowful expression: "I discussed
this with the elders for three days and three nights, there are only three ways to help
Fang Ming now."

"What three ways?" Tang Miao's expression softened, she immediately asked.

"The best method is to find an ancient soul beast and kill it. By fusing its soul into Fang
Ming's body, we can use killer moves to nourish his soul with that soul, allowing Fang
Ming to survive this ordeal."

"The second best method is to use the blood path Immortal Gu in the clan to use a
method of sensing, forcibly retrieving Fang Ming's soul."

"As for the worst method, it is to find that lone cultivator, White Sea Shatuo, for help."

After first supreme elder finished his words, the bitter expression on his face
intensified.

Tang Miao listened and fell into deep silence.

After a while, she laughed grimly, raising her head and sending them out: "I need to
think about this, elders, please go back first."

As the Gu Immortals left one by one, only Tang Miao was left.

She laughed again, tears falling from her eyes, they were showing a cold, mocking
expression.

"What best method? Once we use it, even if we succeed, the souls would fuse and you
will be neither man nor beast. As for the second method, the chances of success are
less than thirty percent, even if we do not fail, the soul called back would be greatly
damaged, you might not even recognize me, your own sister. As for the last solution,
there is some hope in that! Although that White Sea Shatuo is a lone cultivator, he has
incredible dream path proficiency, even brother praised him many times in private.
But to ask him for help, we will have to pay a huge price. These old fogies are saying
that only because they are concerned about the Paradise Earth Immortal Venerable
inheritance that us siblings have in our hands! Indeed, only this inheritance can move
White Sea Shatuo."

Thinking of this, Tang Miao wiped the tears on her face.

"Brother, I will not give up, even if I have to sacrifice this inheritance, I will save you."

Tang Miao sat on her bed, even in the dim lighting, she still had the beauty of a flower.
Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land, Dang Hun palace.

Fang Yuan opened his eyes slowly, his red eyes shining with a ruthless light.

Inspecting his own body, Fang Yuan nodded in satisfaction, he could not help but
praise: "I've used it so many times already, these guts Gu are truly the best in
strengthening the soul. In Hei Lou Lan's dream, I suffered such heavy soul injuries, yet
I have already recovered in such a short time."

He breathed in deeply, his mind was refreshed, his head was no longer as dizzy as the
time when he was heavily injured.

"Land spirit, where are you?" Fang Yuan called out.

"Master, master, have you recovered from your injuries already?" At the next moment,
the lively Little Hu Immortal asked as she appeared before Fang Yuan, her crystal-like
eyes were overflowing with intense concern.

"Mm." Fang Yuan, who had a green face and sharp fangs, nodded: "Tell me what
happened when I was healing my injuries during this time period."

Little Hu Immortal shook her head: "There were many things that happened, but none
were major matters."

A moment later, after Little Hu Immortal reported everything, Fang Yuan remained
seated in his bed, not speaking.

His mind was working intensely as he tried to process the information.

In Central Continent, Immortal Crane Sect was busy trying to salvage the situation in
the reincarnation battlefield, He Feng Yang was still busy trying to save his desolate
beast flying crane, Little Nine, moving about all over the region.
The ten great ancient sects each had their restrictions, they mutually restrained and
balanced each other.

The person currently in the limelight was Myriad Dragon Dock's Vicious Lightning
Fiend. After coming out of his closed cultivation, he used the immortal killer move
Lightning Deity and challenged a lot of people. Right now, he had battled more than
twenty Gu Immortals, he only had one draw and one loss, with such amazing results,
his reputation was soaring. Many meddlesome Gu Immortals were already comparing
him with Immortal Monkey King Shi Lei.

These people did not have good intentions, because in accordance with Shi Lei's
nature as a battle maniac, he would find Vicious Lightning Fiend and engage in a huge
battle with him.

But Shi Lei gave no response.

The Central Continent Gu Immortals were troubled, why did Immortal Monkey King's
behavior change? Even Combat Immortal Sect had become much quieter recently.

The other nine sects found something wrong, they tried to investigate secretly.

Fang Yuan knew long ago — Shi Lei discovered Starry Sky grotto-heaven, and inside
the grotto-heaven, there was Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm.
Right now, they must be attacking the grotto-heaven at full force.

Thinking of Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, Fang Yuan was
moved.

Earlier, he had no methods against it, he could only escape pitifully from Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm. But now that he had the immortal
killer move unravel dream, this was the supreme weapon to deal with the dream
realm!

"During this period of time, dream path exploration is still in its initial stages. Any
super force is still stuck at the stage of starting up, every step is extremely difficult, it
is a path filled with thorns. The best methods are naturally dream path Immortal Gu,
but the number of these dream path Immortal Gu could probably be counted on one's
hands. Meanwhile, I have a dream path immortal killer move, even without a dream
path Immortal Gu, I am far ahead of these forces."
Fang Yuan was getting excited.

Unravel dream was effective in dealing with dream realms. Each time he used it, Fang
Yuan gained a huge advantage.

For example, just earlier, Fang Yuan saved Hei Lou Lan, after unraveling her dream
realm, he obtained a lot of Hei Lou Lan's understanding towards strength path. This
added to his strength path foundation, causing it to become more abundant.

There is always something to learn from someone else, especially when Hei Lou Lan
had the Great Strength True Martial Physique, she was a naturally formed strength
path immortal seed, her natural talent in strength path was beyond Fang Yuan's reach.

A portion of her strength path understanding was fully assimilated by Fang Yuan,
allowing him to have great gains.

"If I can unravel Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, my wisdom
path attainment will improve greatly. Even without a complete wisdom path
inheritance, I might be able to create my own one." Fang Yuan thought.

Hei Lou Lan was only a newly advanced strength path Gu Immortal, but Fang Yuan had
great gains after unraveling her dream.

If he could unravel Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm, Fang Yuan's
wisdom path attainment would shoot up like a rocket!

"However, to snatch the Immortal Venerable's dream realm from Combat Immortal
Sect is too dangerous, it is nearly impossible." Fang Yuan shook his head.

To unravel a dream, he had to be in Starry Sky grotto-heaven, and get close to that Star
Constellation dream realm.

If he did that, he would certainly be discovered.

Based on his current battle strength, even if it increased, he would not be Shi Lei's
match. Tai Bai Yun Sheng and Hei Lou Lan, compared to the rest of Combat Immortal
Sect, were an even greater mismatch.

"Unless I have Tang clan of Western Desert's immortal killer move — Steal Dream. I
would be able to steal the dream realm directly from the grotto-heaven, moving it
elsewhere and slowly dealing with it, devouring it at my own pace."

In the five hundred years of Fang Yuan's previous life, Western Desert's Tang clan was
the super force with the deepest foundation in dream path among the five regions.
Originally, Tang clan was not outstanding among the dozen or so super forces in
Western Desert, it was at a middle to lower tier.

But based on the rise of dream path, during the five regions chaotic war, Tang clan
became Western Desert's strongest force, even among the five regions, it was a power
that could stand tall, creating what Western Desert people called the 'Great Era of
Tang'.

Central Continent's current situation, even though there was slight turbulence, was
still peaceful.

Even though Fang Yuan really desired Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream
realm, his battle strength was still much lower than Combat Immortal Sect, he could
only watch covetously for now.

Fortunately, at the moment, dream path was still in its initial stages of exploration,
even if Combat Immortal Sect captured Starry Sky grotto-heaven, they would not be
able to do anything to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's dream realm.

To make a comparison, this was like a juicy piece of meat, but it was submerged in
boiling hot oil, even though Combat Immortal Sect knew that it was delicious, they
could only watch for now, they could not eat it yet.

Compared to Central Continent, Fang Yuan was more concerned about Northern
Plains' situation.

He had committed a huge crime, it was still being investigated. The other party had
great strength and plenty of methods, soon after the auction ended, they discovered
Fang Yuan's identity of Sha Huang, they were not simple, it was giving Fang Yuan huge
mental pressure.

But when hearing Little Hu Immortal's report, he learned that Northern Plains'
situation was much more calm than Central Continent.

Almost all of the Gu Immortals who attended the auction were trying to assimilate
their gains from it, converting them into their own strength.
Old Ancestor Xue Hu mobilized the number one demonic force in Northern Plains, the
full power of Snowy Mountain blessed land, to join in the plan to refine rank eight
fortune rivalling heaven Immortal Gu, it was well known in Northern Plains' Gu
Immortal world already.

As the number one righteous refinement path Gu Immortal in Northern Plains, Yao
Huang had deepened his collaboration with Zombie Alliance. This collaboration
caused Zombie Alliance's status in Northern Plains to rise up rapidly.

Qin Bai Sheng vanished without a trace, and Prince Feng Xian, who Fang Yuan was
most concerned about, also made no movements.

This calm situation did not lower Fang Yuan's unease, he was getting increasingly
worried.

The other party would certainly not let him go, once his identity was exposed, be it
Central Continent or Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world, they would want to kill Fang
Yuan, Hei Lou Lan and the others.

Since it involved the huge benefits of Giant Sun Immortal Venerable's inheritance, even
if Fang Yuan escaped to Eastern Sea or Western Desert, they would definitely pursue
him, he would have no peace.

"The other party is in the dark, I wonder if it is Central Continent or Northern Plains
investigating me." Fang Yuan sighed mentally, in this period of time, he had no
solutions, he could only deal with the situation by continuing with his former plans.

The only consolation was that he had made the right move by allying with Fairy Li
Shan.

With Fairy Li Shan's information network, Fang Yuan could learn about any changes
in Northern Plains' situation rapidly. With an advantage in information, he could deal
with anything that happens.

"Ultimately, the issue is that I am too weak. If I was a rank eight Gu Immortal, I would
be able to protect myself. Even if Giant Sun's true inheritance was exposed to the
world, so what? Oh… that is not right."

Fang Yuan thought about the rank nine wisdom Gu and frowned.
If news that he had wisdom Gu leaked out, even if he was a rank eight, he might have
rank eight Gu Immortals attacking him from all sides.

"No matter what, the urgent matter now is to absorb my gains from the auction,
rapidly raising my strength, that is how I can deal with future situations."

A few days later, Fang Yuan left the secret room in an unkempt state, but he had a
joyous expression.

He expanded his wings and flew into the sky.

The large bat wings on his back had reached three pairs. It gave him a strong flying
ability, his speed rose rapidly.

During the auction, he obtained a bat desolate beast's corpse. Fang Yuan's killer move,
true solid bat wings, had finally been completed.

Iron Crown Eagle Strength!

While flying, he suddenly unleashed the iron crown eagle strength.

Suddenly, Fang Yuan's speed rose drastically, earlier, he was like a stream of black
smoke, but now he was like a flash of lightning. At once, Fang Yuan's vision became
blurry, the intense winds blew at him, like they were sharp daggers.

The iron crown eagle strength lasted for a short time before his speed fell back to the
original level.

Fang Yuan's vision cleared, looking back, he had moved three li from his original spot.

Flying three li in a flash!

Fang Yuan was pleased, but yet not pleased.

He was pleased because this speed was really fast, it was on par with some movement
immortal killer moves. He was not pleased because the iron crown eagle strength was
not controlled at will, he did not know when he could summon it.

"Unless my second core Gu — all-out effort Gu, is refined all the way up to Immortal
Gu level, at that point, I will be able to unleash the iron crown eagle strength at will."
Fang Yuan thought about this and sighed.

His all-out effort Gu was still at rank four. Fang Yuan had solid finances now, but he did
not have the corresponding Gu recipe.

Not long ago, he had asked Lang Ya land spirit, the answer was partly good and partly
worrisome.

Lang Ya land spirit indeed had all-out effort Gu's recipes, from rank one to five, he had
them all. But Lang Ya land spirit refused to sell Gu recipes.

Even if Fang Yuan tried his best to convince him, there was no result.

Fang Yuan intended to use a dream path mortal Gu recipe to trade for it. But Lang Ya
land spirit had become more astute, he did not want to trade it for any Gu recipe, he
gave Fang Yuan a mission.

This mission required Fang Yuan to go into immemorial purple heaven, to search for
a rank six immortal material, poisonous flowers, and collect their petals.

Fang Yuan was so busy currently, he had no time for that, with strong foes pressuring
him, if he exposed his identity accidentally, he would become a fugitive, the entire
world would hunt him down. Fang Yuan did not dare to relax, he was trying his best
to raise his battle strength, how could he go search for poisonous flowers?

Furthermore, immemorial purple heaven was already destroyed. Even the fragment
worlds was hard to find. Even if he found one, it was extremely dangerous, desolate
beasts and desolate plants were very common. Fang Yuan's current battle strength
was insufficient. If he forced himself into conducting an exploration, it would simply
be a difficult and unrewarding task.
This matter gave Fang Yuan a reminder.

Even in regards to land spirits, they were not to be underestimated, they could grow
with time, gaining wisdom or experience.

Ever since Lang Ya land spirit met Fang Yuan, he had suffered minor disadvantages
many times, especially in this auction, the four to six profit ratio was a huge loss to
Lang Ya land spirit.

As the saying goes, suffering a loss is a blessing, this was shown in Lang Ya land spirit,
he had become more intelligent.

Lang Ya land spirit thought about it hard, analyzing his relationship with Fang Yuan,
he finally recognized their individual strengths and weaknesses, by using Fang Yuan's
weakness in Gu recipes, he could regain the upper hand when working together with
Fang Yuan.

He was, after all, the obsession of Long Hair Ancestor after he died, this time, Fang
Yuan's neck was grasped by Lang Ya land spirit, it was a terrible feeling.

But Fang Yuan could do nothing to Lang Ya blessed land.

Small advantages came at a price, Fang Yuan obtained such a profit from selling the
Gu Immortal captives in the auction, the backlash was showing up now, his mouth was
filled with a bitter taste.

Landing on the peak of Dang Hun mountain, Fang Yuan retracted his three pairs of bat
wings as he stood on the spot, looking into the distance as he thought.

"All-out effort Gu is just a small setback, it is not an Immortal Gu recipe anyway, even
if I cannot get it, with my strength path attainment and wisdom Gu's help, I will be
able to deduce the mortal Gu recipe. The problem is that it would use a lot of time and
energy, at this crucial time, I cannot deduce Gu recipes if I want to raise my battle
strength."

Actually, even if Fang Yuan had a complete all-out effort Immortal Gu recipe, he had
no time to refine it.

The real problem was regarding Hei Lou Lan.

The compensation that Fang Yuan asked for after saving her was self strength
Immortal Gu.

After Hei Lou Lan heard about it from Fairy Li Shan, she was so angry she jumped up
from her bed. Self strength Immortal Gu was her vital Immortal Gu, it was the most
important core in her self strength phantom killer move!

Fang Yuan asking for this Gu was simply crippling her foundation. Without self
strength Immortal Gu, Hei Lou Lan's battle strength would fall drastically. Not only
this, self strength Immortal Gu was the memento that her mother, Su Xian Er, left
behind for her, to Hei Lou Lan, it was also a sentimental item that she could not give
up.

But she, Fang Yuan and Fairy Li Shan had the Snowy Mountain Alliance, in order to
save Hei Lou Lan earlier, Fairy Li Shan had represented her and signed an agreement
with Fang Yuan, she could not go back on it.

Unless Hei Lou Lan had a heart of stone and ignored Fairy Li Shan's life, forcefully
keeping self strength Immortal Gu. In that situation, there was nothing Fang Yuan
could do, after all, the agreement was not signed by Hei Lou Lan herself.

But how could Hei Lou Lan force herself to endanger Fairy Li Shan?

Fairy Li Shan was the blood related sister of her mother, Su Xian Er, when Hei Lou Lan
was still a mortal, Fairy Li Shan took great care of her. After she became an immortal,
Fairy Li Shan nurtured Hei Lou Lan without regard for the cost, treating her like her
own child.

Hei Lou Lan was determined to exact revenge, but at the same time, she felt great
gratitude, love, and admiration for this aunt.

Fang Yuan was using this key point when he formed the agreement with Fairy Li Shan,
he was not afraid that she would go back on this.
Regarding her vital Immortal Gu, Hei Lou Lan did not give up easily.

Ever since she learned about it, she had tried negotiating with Fang Yuan over ten
times, she threatened and screamed, begged and gave softly spoken requests, talked
about the benefits and drawbacks, and tried coercing him with the bigger picture, all
sorts of methods were used to try and keep her self strength Immortal Gu.

But would Fang Yuan give in?

Self strength Immortal Gu was Hei Lou Lan's most important core, but to Fang Yuan,
it was a similar situation.

Fang Yuan's trump card was the immortal killer move, myriad self. Self strength
Immortal Gu was extremely compatible with it, it was not like Pulling Mountain or
Pulling Water, in which they needed him to deduce and modify the killer move.

Hei Lou Lan refined self strength Immortal Gu during her ascension, when Fang Yuan
heard of this, he felt immense regret and pity.

Immortal Gu were unique, since Hei Lou Lan had this Gu, as her ally, there was no way
Fang Yuan could obtain it.

But the tides of fortune were unpredictable, heaven worked in mysterious ways, Hei
Lou Lan wanted to take revenge and did her best to raise her cultivation level, in the
end, she fell into a dream realm and gave Fang Yuan a chance.

Fang Yuan was devious and heartless, he was like a shark that smelled blood, he bit
down hard.

Even if they were allies, so what? His own strength was the most important matter.
Others were unreliable, only one's own self was to be considered the most reliable.

Fang Yuan had a firm attitude, Hei Lou Lan made many attempts but failed in all of
them. In her anger, she purposely stalled the handing over of self strength Immortal
Gu and refused to use strength qi Immortal Gu to create the airsac Gu for Fang Yuan.

Hei Lou Lan's action was very ruthless, this act gave Fang Yuan huge pressure.

If Hei Lou Lan did not use strength qi Immortal Gu, Fang Yuan would have no airsac
Gu. Without airsac Gu, he could not sell guts Gu.
Earlier, in order to heal himself, Fang Yuan stopped the guts Gu trade, using it for
himself. Without this revenue, and with the two stone nests refining Gu continuously,
his funds had dried up, he had less than a hundred immortal essence stones left.

To break through Hei Lou Lan's restrictions, Fang Yuan could use wisdom Gu to
deduce a new airsac Gu recipe.

But this had problems too.

Fang Yuan had already sold delight in water and mountain Immortal Gu in the auction,
he was using malicious thought Gu as a substitute, the quantity was still low. Even if
he had an entire stone nest of hairy men, refining malicious thought Gu unendingly,
under the light of wisdom, the expenditure of thoughts was too high.

Fang Yuan had some early expectations of this kind of situation, his original solution
was to raise the scale of production.

But to raise the production and build the third or even fourth stone nest, he would
need funds. Hairy men, especially those slaves skilled in refining Gu, were priced even
higher.

Fang Yuan had insufficient funds, he could not raise his production. The problem went
back all the way to the first issue, it seemed to be a deadlock.

Fang Yuan went to find Lang Ya land spirit and tried to use immortal materials to lure
him into refining malicious thought Gu using the hairy men in his blessed land.

But Lang Ya land spirit rejected him.

His request remained the same, for Fang Yuan to go into immemorial purple heaven,
to search for the rank six immortal material, poisonous flowers, and collect their
petals.

It seemed that this immortal material was very important to Lang Ya land spirit.

Thus, Fang Yuan could not resolve the situation through this.

With airsac Gu restricted, there was no guts Gu trade. The sale of guts Gu was Fang
Yuan's top source of revenue. Without funds, there was no malicious thought Gu, so
Fang Yuan could not use the light of wisdom.
This greatly affected Fang Yuan in the assimilation of his loot, slowing the plan to raise
his battle strength.

Fang Yuan was fully aware that Hei Lou Lan was attempting to compel him — forcing
him into giving up self strength Immortal Gu and choosing strength qi Immortal Gu.

"Hmph, Hei Lou Lan… I'd like to see who can outlast the other?" Fang Yuan snickered,
focusing his mind. He summoned Hu Immortal land spirit and went to Dang Hun
palace again.

Sitting on the bed, he shut his eyes and went into the dream realm.

Earlier, to save Hei Lou Lan, Fang Yuan used the immortal killer move unravel dream,
it expended a lot of dream path mortal Gu. In order to activate unravel dream killer
move again, he had to go into a dream to refine dream path mortal Gu.

At the same time, at a secret hideout in Northern Plains.

The wisdom path Gu Immortal, Old Oracle from Ancient Soul Sect, one of the ten great
ancient sects of Central Continent, walked out of the secret room slowly.

He looked exhausted, trying to deduce the culprit behind the collapse of True Yang
Building had left him in deep fatigue. His sideburns had turned white, his young face
had become much older and wrinkled.

"How was it?" Hong Chi Ming and the other immortals saw that he was outside and
quickly approach him with concerned expressions.

Old Oracle knew that they were not concerned about him, but the results of his
deduction.

There were many crucial pieces of evidence deduced this time, especially when Zhao
Lian Yun's soul was searched and they witnessed the scenes that happened in Imperial
Court blessed land, it was of great help for his deduction.

But Old Oracle shook his head, having a gloomy expression: "My attainment were
insufficient, I have disappointed all of you."

"How could this be?"

"You could not deduce anything even at this stage, the culprit is not simple, they are
hiding too deeply…”

"It seems we still need to collect information."

The immortals were all elites of their sects, after slight disappointment, they quickly
accepted the results and started to discuss their future plans.

After some discussion, Feng Jiu Ge spoke: "Right now, we have no clear target, we
should split up and do our own missions. It was not easy to come to Northern Plains
from Central Continent. I am sure you all have private matters aside from investigating
the truth. For the time being, while you settle your private affairs, try to collect more
information."

Feng Jiu Ge's reputation was the highest, nobody dared to question him.

Right now, with no clear target, everyone had to settle their own matters, they quickly
split up and left, in order to resolve the missions from their respective sects.

Old Oracle and Feng Jiu Ge stayed behind.

"Lord Jiu Ge." Old Oracle was hesitant.

In truth, he had made a huge breakthrough this time in his deduction, but after telling
Feng Jiu Ge, the latter ordered that the information was to be concealed. That was why
Old Oracle lied to everyone earlier, telling them that his deduction failed.

Feng Jiu Ge looked at him and smiled with deep meaning: "The culprit who caused the
collapse of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building was already most likely to be from the ten
great sects of Central Continent. Now that you obtained the deduction that 'the culprit
is a member of the ten sects of Central Continent', I allowed the rest to act freely, in
the case that a mistake is made in concealing it, we would be able to find the culprit."

"But the result of my deduction could be wrong from the start." Old Oracle lowered his
head.

"Don't worry, if it is really a traitor in the ten sects, after causing such a huge incident,
no matter how they try to conceal it, there are bound to be clues left behind." Feng Jiu
Ge consoled him, while also seemingly giving a warning.
Old Oracle raised his head, his gaze was clear as he stared at Feng Jiu Ge: "Lord Jiu Ge
is hiding this from the other Gu Immortals, do you not suspect my sect?"

Feng Jiu Ge laughed heartily, he frankly admitted: "Honestly speaking, I naturally was
suspicious since long ago. You can go now, I am sure Ancient Soul Sect gave you secret
missions as well."

Feng Jiu Ge's tone was that of one who had confidence in grasping the entire situation.

Old Oracle's heart shook, he lowered his head: "That is indeed the case, I will leave
now."

Saying this, his body was like lightning as he vanished into the sky.

Only Feng Jiu Ge was left in his original spot, his gaze was dark and eerie, and his
expression was calm, it was impossible to tell what he was thinking.
More than ten days later, in Hu Immortal blessed land.

Time luck Immortal Gu was silently floating above Fang Yuan's head, it was moving
from side to side.

Time luck Immortal Gu was like a jade centipede, it was pale green and was swimming
about in the area above Fang Yuan's head, coiling around and giving off a watery sheen.

Fang Yuan was injecting green grape immortal essence into it, while inspecting the
inch of time Gu worms in his immortal aperture.

Earlier, he had made an agreement with Lang Ya land spirit, asking him to refine inch
of time in bulk using the hairy men. The time flow in Lang Ya blessed land was faster
than Hu Immortal blessed land, the quality of the hairy men was much higher, it could
be considered of the highest grade.

Thus, after Fang Yuan paid with immortal materials, a large number of inch of time
Gu, like a small golden mountain, accumulated in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

As the saying went, time was money, an inch of time was an inch of gold.

Although inch of time Gu was a mortal Gu, it had an appearance like that of a gold bar.
The higher the rank of inch of time Gu, the longer and thicker the gold bar.

But at this moment, when Fang Yuan activated time luck Immortal Gu, inch of time Gu
was used up rapidly. The gold mountain had vanished completely in just a few breaths
of time.

Without inch of time's support, the time luck Immortal Gu above his head stopped
activating.

Fang Yuan sighed in regret: "It seems that it is quite tough to use inch of time to
activate time luck Immortal Gu in the place of lifespan. I only activated it for such a
short period of time, I gained almost no additional luck."

Like what Fairy Li Shan said earlier, activating time luck Immortal Gu involved
expending immortal essence and the Gu Immortal's lifespan to gain a boost in luck.

But Fang Yuan had barely any lifespan left, how could he waste it so easily?

During the final moments of Imperial Court blessed land's battle, when he was forced
to become an immortal zombie, he was already extremely old. He had not used any
lifespan Gu before, thus he only had a hundred years of lifespan. Right now, he had
only around ten years or less remaining.

If one day, he could get rid of his immortal zombie body and become a living person
again, his lifespan would not change.

"That is to say, even if I recover, my body would be extremely old, that is a problem.
Before that, I need to find lifespan Gu and use it on myself."

Fang Yuan thought about this and couldn't help but frown.

Lifespan Gu were hard to find, they were extremely precious.

Ordinary Gu Immortals would not sell them when they were obtained. In the Northern
Plains auction earlier, not a single lifespan Gu was sold.

Lifespan Gu were only mortal Gu, the conditions for their production were greatly
variable, for Gu Immortals to find lifespan Gu almost meant relying on luck. In many
situations, lifespan Gu were often obtained by mortal Gu Masters, Gu Immortals could
not control where they appeared.

Fang Yuan being able to find lifespan Gu and extend his lifespan by several hundred
years in his previous life was due to this.

"Up to this point, the best way to search for lifespan Gu would have been through using
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Unfortunately, I only obtained one lifespan Gu in this
Immortal Gu House, and Tai Bai Yun Sheng already used it. It is basically impossible to
rebuild Eighty-Eight True Yang Building now."

Fang Yuan's thoughts moved, time luck Immortal Gu turned into a flash of light,
entering his immortal aperture.
Even though his immortal aperture had turned into a dead land, once in a while, a
small amount would break off, but for Gu worms, there was still a lot of space.

Time luck Immortal Gu eventually floated onto another 'gold mountain'.

This second 'gold mountain' was naturally made up of inch of time Gu.

Fang Yuan had obtained a huge amount of inch of time Gu from Lang Ya land spirit,
they had piled into two mountains. One had already been expended earlier.

The last remaining one was here.

Even though the test result previously was not satisfactory, it gave Fang Yuan a lot of
precious and useful inspiration.

"Earlier, I was only using inch of time and time luck Immortal Gu alone, if I add in other
Gu worms, or even turn it into an immortal killer move, the expenditure of inch of time
Gu might be greatly reduced, allowing it to become more feasible and desirable.
Unfortunately, even though the light of wisdom gives me unlimited inspiration, this
deduction involves time path, I have no attainment in it."

With such a restriction, Fang Yuan could only keep his thoughts in mind for now rather
than making an attempt.

He still lacked dream path mortal Gu, Fang Yuan was not going to waste any more time.
After regulating his breathing for a few moments, he remained seated on his bed and
closed his eyes, entering his dream realm.

After going through three dream realms, he refined two dream path mortal Gu, storing
them in his mind.

Such a success rate was much higher compared to when he initially started. But during
the third refinement, Fang Yuan failed and his soul was injured.

Dream realms themselves were risky, not to mention refining Gu in a dream.

"If I lose my focus, I will fall into the dream's trap. Thankfully, guts Gu can strengthen
my soul." Fang Yuan felt relieved, he opened his eyes and walked out of Dang Hun
palace.
On Dang Hun mountain, there were guts Gu everywhere.

Fang Yuan used a few and healed the injuries to his soul.

Just as he was about to return and continue refining dream path mortal Gu, his
expression changed, as a letter was sent into his immortal aperture using moving
perspective cup Gu.

Fang Yuan looked at it and his face flashed with joy.

He immediately stopped the plan of refining Gu, he chose a scenic location on Dang
Hun mountain and sat down, taking out an elephant's leg and using fire Gu to roast it.

A moment later, a figure flew over from the southeast direction.

It was a female immortal, with black hair and black pupils, she had a divine beauty
and a dominating aura, it was Hei Lou Lan.

Hei Lou Lan flew in the air, landing before Fang Yuan with a cold expression. She
looked at the elephant leg on Fang Yuan's hand, recognizing that it was the flesh and
bones of a desolate beast, drought elephant, she said sarcastically: "So the immortal
materials in your hands can be wasted to this degree already?"

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, he looked at Hei Lou Lan before his gaze landed back onto
the elephant leg.

After a short while, because of the high heat, the elephant leg was half cooked already,
it was oozing with fragrance.

"It has been a while, Fairy Lou Lan, please take a seat." Fang Yuan said politely.

Hei Lou Lan snorted, remaining standing, unmoving as she emitted a faint anger.

Fang Yuan found it funny: Although she was a formidable character, she was still a
young woman. But if he was in her place, if someone wanted his Spring Autumn
Cicada, would he give it up? Perhaps he might have already fallen out with the person
and fought already?

Thinking of this, Fang Yuan mentally alerted himself.

Hei Lou Lan's mistake was right in front of him, he could not ignore it.

Hei Lou Lan desperately wanted to take revenge, she took risks in undergoing
tribulations, in the end, she was careless and almost died. Right now, she could not
stall any longer, she had to hand self strength Immortal Gu over.

By this stage, one could not advance prematurely and underestimate risks. A Gu
Immortal's calamities and tribulations, are they so easy to pass? Even if one was
overflowing with talent, and had an arrogant nature, they had to admit the facts. Hei
Lou Lan was a youngster who was not afraid of death, by charging forward blindly, she
had suffered a loss, now she would start becoming careful.

"But it was thanks to her that I could obtain self strength Immortal Gu, right?" Fang
Yuan thought about this and laughed in his heart, putting the elephant leg in front of
his mouth as he bit off a huge chunk, eating it with pleasure.

Hei Lou Lan saw this and snickered: "You are already an immortal zombie, you have
no sense of taste. Now that there is no hope of restoring your body again, you are doing
this to reminisce your past?"

Fang Yuan said slowly and calmly: "Fairy Lou Lan, you did not come here to see me eat
meat, right?"

Hei Lou Lan's expression was still as water, there was anger in her tone as she said
with deep meaning: "You are so gluttonous, are you not afraid of bursting your
stomach?"

"Don't worry, my appetite is good, dying of overeating is better than dying of

starvation."

"Hmph!" Hei Lou Lan was gritting her teeth in rage, she suppressed her anger as she
said with a calmer tone: "Actually, what's wrong with changing what you eat? That
way, we can all have meat to eat. Fate is unpredictable, who would not have downturns
in life?"

Fang Yuan understood her words.

Hei Lou Lan wanted to use strength qi Immortal Gu to replace Self Strength as the
compensation to Fang Yuan. But Fang Yuan would not agree.
He swallowed the food in his mouth as he sighed deeply, exclaiming: "Precisely
because fate is unpredictable, I try all sorts of ways to become stronger, so that I can
deal with any desperate situation in the future. Hei Lou Lan, you understand me, once
I make up my mind, I won't change it."

Hei Lou Lan's eyes squinted, Fang Yuan was such a person, she was of a similar kind.
Just as she was about to speak, her pupils shrunk.

Only seeing that on Fang Yuan's body, a bright light had appeared in a flash.

This light was horizontal across his chest, it was a faint shadow at first, but it soon
became brighter and more solid, carving itself onto Fang Yuan's body.

"A strength path dao mark?!" Hei Lou Lan's expression changed.

Just earlier, she witnessed with her own eyes that Fang Yuan gained a strength path
dao mark.

She quickly calmed down, thinking of the answer, her eyes twitched as she said dryly:
"So the eat strength Immortal Gu that appeared in Northern Plains' auction is in your
hands. How do all the good things end up in your hands?"

Eat strength Immortal Gu had low value to other Gu Immortals, they even would not
dare to use it much.

But to strength path Gu Immortals, it was undeniably a treasure.

Especially in Hei Lou Lan's case, her cultivation had met with an obstacle, she could
not raise it by undergoing tribulation. At this time, eat strength Immortal Gu, which
carried zero risks, became very important.

Fang Yuan did not speak, he bit down at the bones.

He had already eaten the meat on the elephant leg, but the bones also contained
natural strength path dao marks. Even though the elephant leg bones were tough, his
sharp teeth chewed them up and he swallowed.

Soon afterwards, Fang Yuan gained a new strength path dao mark.

He was not afraid of Hei Lou Lan going back on her words.
Because the agreement for saving her had already reached the time limit. Hei Lou Lan
came at the last moment to give it one last try.

But in this matter, from start to finish, Fang Yuan had no way to lose.

Once they went back on the contract, Fairy Li Shan would die. How could Hei Lou Lan
watch that happen?

"Come, sit, I'll treat you to some meat." Fang Yuan took out another strength path
desolate beast's leg from his immortal aperture.

After cooking it, he gave the leg to Hei Lou Lan, at the same time, he willed and eat
strength Immortal Gu flew into Hei Lou Lan's hands.

Hei Lou Lan received it without hesitation, after swallowing the flesh and bone, she
activated eat strength Immortal Gu to digest them.

A moment later, a strength path dao mark appeared in her body.

Even though the gains were barely one-tenth of a percent compared to a tribulation,
this method had no risks, it could be accumulated continually.

After eating half of it, Hei Lou Lan sighed deeply and gave self strength Immortal Gu
to Fang Yuan.

The two traded on the spot, self strength Immortal Gu changed owners!
Fang Yuan put away self strength Immortal Gu, his expression did not change, he
turned to Hei Lou Lan and said: "From now on, Fairy Lou Lan, if you want to borrow
eat strength Immortal Gu for cultivation, you just need to pass me a certain sum of
immortal materials as payment."

Hei Lou Lan nodded.

This was his response, Hei Lou Lan was a formidable person, the moment she saw
Fang Yuan display his eat strength Immortal Gu purposely, she knew his intentions.

He did not want to sever their relationship, he chose to deepen their cooperation!

Fang Yuan forcefully asked for self strength Immortal Gu, it bit open a huge, bloody
wound on their alliance, blood was oozing and the bones could be seen.

However, in contrast to the precious self strength Immortal Gu in sole possession,

Fang Yuan was lending eat strength Immortal Gu, this was giving Hei Lou Lan a way
out.

Hei Lou Lan ate the leg that she had, letting out a heavy sigh as she looked at Fang
Yuan without a trace of anger on her face.

"Let's go to a stone nest." Hei Lou Lan set out, taking the initiative to help Fang Yuan
refine the airsac Gu.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, it seemed like Hei Lou Lan was having a hard time. Just
now, she underwent tribulation and went into great danger, after being saved by Fang
Yuan, her blessed land was sure to have suffered heavy damage.

Fairy Li Shan had always been helping Hei Lou Lan with her cultivation, regardless of
costs. But now, she was in trouble too. She had to help Old Ancestor Xue Hu refine
fortune rivalling heaven Gu, all of the demonic path Gu Immortals of Snowy Mountain
were kept extremely busy in collecting immortal materials. This was an important and
burdensome task, Fairy Li Shan had no choice but to spend all her efforts on it.

Fang Yuan wanted to continue selling guts Gu, didn't Hei Lou Lan have the same
desire?

Fang Yuan's earlier action of splitting profits with Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan was
an extremely wise decision. At this point, it had taken effect. Profits were a form of
restraint, even if Hei Lou Lan was furious internally, because of the big picture and her
own circumstances, she had to cooperate with Fang Yuan.

On this day, Hei Lou Lan summoned large amounts of strength qi, allowing the
refinement of airsac Gu to restart.

Before leaving, she gave Fang Yuan another idea for cooperation.

Right now, Fang Yuan did not have the funds to increase his production, but Hei Lou
Lan was willing to invest in this, building a third stone nest and obtaining ample hairy
men. Her condition was that Fang Yuan must give her a higher profit ratio.

Fang Yuan agreed immediately.

The transaction of guts Gu had restarted, it was like a fresh current of water flowing
into a drying river.

The management of the blessed land was almost stale, now it was operating again.
Like a horse carriage, the huge wheels were rolling and moving it forward.

Several days later, the third stone nest was built in Fang Yuan's Hu Immortal blessed
land.

Right now, Fang Yuan had several Gu worms to mass refine: airsac Gu, malicious
thought Gu, memory thought Gu, and inch of time.

Three stone nests were insufficient to meet his needs.

This invited a key question, how could he most effectively make use of his limited
resources.

Eventually, Fang Yuan ordered the first and third stone nest to refine airsac Gu. The
second stone nest would refine malicious thought Gu.
He had a large number of deductions to do, thus, he had to refine either memory
thought Gu or malicious thought Gu. Malicious thought Gu was good for plotting
against others, while memory thought Gu was useful for extracting information from
his memories. But in terms of deduction, the two had no clear difference.

As for why he was mainly refining airsac Gu, that was because Fang Yuan realized that
he could sell a lot of guts Gu without any issues.

Times had changed.

The market for guts Gu had been steadily growing.

Especially when Fang Yuan had stopped the trade of guts Gu not long ago, he had used
it solely for healing himself. This act had cut off the supply to the market, causing a
shortage to occur, thus the price of guts Gu had been skyrocketing.

This phenomenon made Fang Yuan realize that the market for guts Gu had truly
expanded, he could totally raise the prices.

He thought about this, thus he did it.

The guts Gu trade earlier was done monthly, his profit was forty-eight immortal
essence stones.

After raising the price, and excluding the profits given to Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan,
Fang Yuan earned a total of ninety-two immortal essence stones. This was almost
double his previous earnings.

"A monopoly is truly useful for earning profits." Fang Yuan's circumstances became
much easier because of this, he sighed to himself, also being deeply alerted.

Because the greater the profits of the guts Gu trade, the greater the prospects, the
more Immortal Crane Sect and the other forces would inevitably become restless.

Maybe because Fang Yuan displayed a huge amount of strength earlier, and because
Immortal Crane Sect was restricted in other aspects, they could not find the time or
effort to deal with Fang Yuan.

Right now, the profits of guts Gu transactions were going up, one day, Immortal Crane
Sect would make up their mind and put in more strength to try and 'regain' Hu
Immortal blessed land.

A man's wealth is his own ruin by stirring another's greed.

Be it the righteous path or demonic path, they pursued profit. The difference was, the
righteous path had nicer looking methods on the surface.

As for the cultivation of Gu Masters, or rather, the core of it — it was about a person's
survival, it was always to defend one's own interests while devouring other's interests.

Fang Yuan knew this clearly, he did not deny that there was no difference between
him, any other person, or any force. In the face of profits, they were all wolves.

"To deter Immortal Crane Sect, there is only one method. That is to increase my
strength unceasingly, to cause their actions to fail, to make them feel threat."

With such urgency and drive, Fang Yuan successfully integrated self strength Immortal
Gu into the immortal killer move, myriad self, a few days later.

Although self strength Immortal Gu was very compatible with myriad self, Fang Yuan
still spent several days to adjust the complementary mortal Gu. After testing it, he
received an almost perfect result.

"I cannot use Cleanse Soul, but I added in Self Strength, with this, my battle strength
is back to first rate within rank six. In fact, the killer move myriad self is even stronger
than before. Maybe it is time to explore that Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable
inheritance."

Fang Yuan was thinking carefully.

He had assimilated much of the gains from the auction.

Myriad self returned to having an immortal killer move's strength, true solid bat wings
paired with iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu was on par with a movement
immortal killer move. To deduce vaguely familiar face and the others, he needed a
huge amount of malicious thought Gu. In Hu Immortal blessed land, there was only
one stone nest fully refining it, it would still take a long time before the quantity was
accumulated to a sufficient degree.

As for how to solve the immortal zombie problem, even though Tai Bai Yun Sheng was
making some progress in Eastern Sea, Shark Demon's method was too costly and took
too long.

In terms of Northern Plains Zombie Alliance, because Feng Jiu Ge forcefully asked
them for information, his Sha Huang identity could not be used anymore, that plan
was halted.

"Speaking of it, I have already obtained this Thieving Heaven inheritance for quite
some time. If I can get Luo Po valley, together with Dang Hun mountain, my soul
foundation would rapidly grow. That is a good method to raise my battle strength as
well. In the future, I can even undergo the transaction of bewilderment fog and Luo Po
wind, increasing my revenue."

At the same time, in Luo Po valley.

A negotiation had reached its most crucial moment.

Qin Bai Sheng had a light smile as he looked at Hui Feng Zi.

Hui Feng Zi was dressed in a green robe, he lowered his head and thought about it,
suddenly laughing as he looked up: "Qin Bai Sheng, to think that I treated you as my
best friend, you actually lured me into this trap to harm me. With your strength, you
cannot take down Lang Ya blessed land, you want me to be cannon fodder?"

Qin Bai Sheng's gaze shined, he said lightly: "With your wind escape move, you can
retreat as you wish, you are famous in Northern Plains, how could you end up as
cannon fodder?"

"Even if wind escape is an immortal killer move, the best in movement within
Northern Plains, it cannot penetrate blessed lands or grotto-heavens. Qin Bai Sheng, I
cannot accept your invitation." Hui Feng Zi rejected as he shook his head.

He was a rank seven wind path Gu Immortal, he was a famous and established
character. Even if he had a superb skill, he was still very vigilant. Perhaps that was the
reason he could live up to this point and have such an achievement.

Qin Bai Sheng nodded, Hui Feng Zi's reply was not unexpected: "In that case, I will be
forced to make you come."

"You want to stop me?" Hui Feng Zi's expression tensed, his eyes shined with a sharp
light: "Very well, let us spar, it will dispel some unrealistic thoughts in your mind. I,
Hui Feng Zi, am not someone who can be ordered around easily."

As he said that, he struck.

Boom!

Hui Feng Zi opened his mouth, he flicked with his tongue as a huge wind blade shot
towards Qin Bai Sheng.

Immortal killer move — Death Wind Flying Blade!

"Good timing." Qin Bai Sheng did not move, he only laughed.

The wind blade hit Qin Bai Sheng who did not move at all, at once, golden light burst
out.

As the golden light faded, Qin Bai Sheng remained unharmed.

"What defensive killer move is this?" Hui Feng Zi was shocked, he asked in
astonishment: "My death wind flying blade did not even cut a single strand of your
hair?"

Qin Bai Sheng smiled without speaking.

"How can I fight him like this?" Hui Feng Zi's eyes twitched, his battle intent fell, he
wanted to retreat.

Immortal killer move — Wind Escape!

He used his signature method, famous within Northern Plains, at once, Hui Feng Zi
turned into a gust of wind as he flew towards the sky of Luo Po valley.

This movement killer move had helped Hui Feng Zi escape danger countless times, it
made his enemies sigh in helplessness. The most memorable occasion was when Hui
Feng Zi used this move to escape from the rank eight Gu Immortal, Yao Huang, who
was pursuing him.

But Qin Bai Sheng did not move as he looked at Hui Feng Zi escape, he was
expressionless.
Rumble…

On top of Luo Po valley, thunder was booming as clouds rumbled.

Whoosh whoosh whoosh!

The intense wind blew, countless ghostly figures, at a quantity of millions, flew around
below the clouds.

Hui Feng Zi spit out a mouthful of blood, it was like he rammed into an iron wall, he
was forced out of his wind state.

"What Gu formation is this?" He was uncertain, his wind escape could not break out
of this area.

Qin Bai Sheng smiled without answering Hui Feng Zi's question, he asked: "Does sir
want to consider joining us and attacking Lang Ya blessed land?"

This time, Hui Feng Zi only thought about it for a few breaths before landing: "Qin Bai
Sheng, you were superior after all. Never mind, I will join you in this."

Qin Bai Sheng laughed, he was not surprised.

Hui Feng Zi was famous for knowing his place, he was a wise man who submitted to
circumstances.

Since he could not escape, Hui Feng Zi's greatest advantage was gone. Furthermore,
Qin Bai Sheng's alliance conditions were not too harsh, even though he was slightly
unhappy, he still joined in helplessly.
Central Continent, Heavenly Court!

The silver-white sky shined with a bright and pure luster.

Countless exquisite halls made of white jade could be seen everywhere, empty and
tranquil.

Amongst the halls, there was an old white tower covered in blemishes, standing tall
and conspicuous like a crane in a flock of chickens.

The tower's name was Heaven Overseeing, it originated from Star Constellation
Immortal Venerable, as the name suggested, one could observe the whole world from
this tower!

However, winds never stop blowing, the events of the world were turbulent and
changeable. Even though Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's talent and wisdom
could rival that of the heavens, she still could not escape the fate of dying from the end
of her lifespan. Later, Heavenly Court experienced the attacks of three Demon
Venerables, and when Giant Sun Immortal Venerable and Spectral Soul Demon
Venerable ruled the world, they also had the intention of taking possession of
Heavenly Court, but for some reason, they dispelled that thought.

Over three million years!

Countless marks of history had deeply been imprinted onto Heaven Overseeing Tower.

Splendid brilliance or deep gloominess, the vicissitudes of all kinds of experiences had
merged into Heaven Overseeing Tower, turning it into an imposing structure,
resembling an ancient tree that has lived since ancient times. Or like a bronze cauldron
that had stood witness to the changes of the world, and still stood tall without
collapsing.

Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord walked up the stairs holding a walking cane, his back
was bent.

He was a rank eight Gu Immortal, but his majestic aura revealed an intense aura of old
age.

His hair had turned white, wrinkles covered his body like an old tree's bark. His eyes
were blurry and his gaze cloudy.

He slowly lifted his foot, or rather, dragged. He was like an old insect, tottering up the
endless stairs with difficult steps.

He walked forward step by step.

Every step he walked, the white jade stairs under his feet would shine with a slight
light and let out a beautiful sound, like that of a xylophone.

The next change was to the walls beside the old man.

Images changed constantly on the walls, sometimes there was a lump of vague, foggy
figures, sometimes there were innumerable colorful lines, and rarely, there would
appear clear pictures.

The old man paid close attention to the pictures on the walls.

Whenever he went up a step, a bead of the immortal essence inside him would be
consumed, and changes would occur to the pictures on the walls.

The old man's movement paused.

A picture on a wall vividly portrayed a valley.

"Luo Po valley." The old man softly muttered, a flash of brilliance appeared and
disappeared in his blurry eyes.

Two Gu Immortals were fighting at the center of the picture. A wind path Gu Immortal
and a metal path Gu Immortal.

At the periphery of the picture, several Gu Immortals were standing, looking at the
battle in the center.
The picture continue to change.

The battle of the two Gu Immortals was not intense, they stopped after exchanging
one or two moves.

Finally, the picture froze at this scene — the wind path Gu Immortal slowly lowered
his head at the metal path Gu Immortal.

The old man inwardly engraved this scene in his mind.

In the innumerable steps that led to the top of the tower, those that could show such
clear pictures would only number a dozen or so.

Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord continued to move up the tower.

He saw a deep sea, in which a group of Gu Immortals, consisting mostly of immortal

zombies, were attacking a blessed land.

A female immortal was kneeling on sandy ground, pleading for assistance from an
elderly male Gu Immortal.

A young Gu Master was unconscious in a bed. A spirit incubating flea was lying on his
forehead, slightly shaking.

He saw a Gu Immortal with white clothing and blue pupils, quietly moving through a
forest in Southern Border.

He also saw an eerie dark swamp, huge rays of blood-colored light were enshrouding
it, within which a blood path Gu Immortal was cultivating.

The more the old man saw, the more chilly his face became, and the more fury
accumulated in his blurry eyes.

"These people, they have all escaped the judgment of fate!"

Finally, he walked to the top of the stairs and stepped onto the peak of the tower, where
an Immortal Gu appeared in front of him.

Rank nine Immortal Gu — Fate!

It looked like a spider, colored in black and white. Its aura was weak, there was a
scarlet wound on its body that almost cut it in two.

The old man gazed at this Gu for a long while before he heaved a sigh.

Heaven Overseeing Tower was a rank nine Immortal Gu House, unfortunately, its most
important core, Fate, had suffered a fatal injury and was close to destruction.

"Red Lotus Demon Venerable!" The old man gritted his teeth, his gaze revealing deep
enmity.

The person who inflicted such an injury onto Immortal Gu Fate was none other than
a famed character in history, Red Lotus Demon Venerable.

Red Lotus Demon Venerable broke Fate, destroying the chains of fate and allowing all
living beings in the world to grasp their own destiny. But Immortal Gu Fate was not
completely destroyed.

However, despite the care and protection from all immortals in Heavenly Court, the
injuries Fate had suffered had yet to recover even after a million years.

This situation was caused by the attack of Red Lotus Demon Venerable.

The injuries on fate Immortal Gu were not only represented in its physical wounds, it
was also reflected on all the living beings who had escaped the judgment of fate.

The existence of these people in themselves signified the breaking of fate.

Thus, healing the Immortal Gu Fate had to be done in two aspects. One was to deal
with the wound on the Gu. The other was to clear the obstacles for Immortal Gu Fate
by eliminating all those who had escaped the judgment of fate.

No matter which aspect, both were troublesome issues.

Especially the second aspect, the five regions were extremely vast, every moment,
there would be someone who escaped their fate. It was extremely difficult for
Heavenly Court to eliminate these existences.

Even if Heavenly Court was the most powerful Gu Immortal organization, it only
controlled Central Continent. The remaining four regions were linked to Central
Continent through regional walls, the higher the cultivation of the expert, the more
difficult it would be for them to pass the regional wall.

The regional walls of each of the regions were like protective layers that isolated the
five regions from each other and made them independent territories.

In the beginning, when fate Immortal Gu had just been injured, Heavenly Court was
still seeing some efficiency in eliminating escapees of fate. But merely some years
later, there were countless escapees like waves formed in a sea, appearing repeatedly,
to the extent that they could not be fully attended to.

More than ten years later, this situation spread like a wildfire throughout the five
regions.

Dozens of years later, immortal zombies appeared, humans that were supposed to be
dead but were still living, this was the classic example of escaping fate's judgment.
Back then, this situation had shocked, angered and shaken the whole of Heavenly
Court.

As such a practice grew more popular to this day, a branch of immortal zombies
appeared even in Central Continent. Survival was a basic human instinct, even
Heavenly Court could not resist such a trend.

The goal of restoring fate Gu seemed to be getting more distant day by day, and there
seemed to be no hope.

However, Heavenly Court had never given up.

Because every generation of Heavenly Court Gu Immortals firmly remembered the

dignity of Heavenly Court during the Olden Antiquity Era, and its glory during the
Remote Antiquity Era.

And the greatest cornerstone in building this was fate Gu.

Star Constellation Immortal Venerable's arrangements used fate Gu as the core.

Therefore, allowing resistance against three Demon Venerables and ensuring
Heavenly Court did not fall.

Completely healing fate Gu was akin to grasping the paths in life for all living beings.
This also meant that Heavenly Court would once again be paramount, becoming the
supreme immortals among immortals, rulers among countless rulers!

All their efforts had provided some results.

Under generations after generations of efforts from Gu Immortals of Heavenly Court,

and enormous prices paid over the course of history, fate Gu was recovering bit by bit
until the current state, where although it was dying, it could be barely used.

It was because of this that pictures appeared on Heaven Overseeing Tower's walls.

Fate escapees and fate Gu were irreconcilably opposed. However, those that had
escaped the judgment of fate were truly too many in numbers. The ones that appeared
in Heaven Overseeing Tower were only the strongest ones, while also not being inside
blessed lands or grotto-heavens, in addition to not using wisdom path methods to
conceal themselves, therefore they were easy to deduce.

"Soon, soon. Using the latest Refinement Path Convention to heal fate Gu's injury will
result in a qualitative breakthrough. All the investments we made will be worth it.
Countless years of accumulation will be brought about to fruition from this. After the
Refinement Path Convention, fate Gu should be able to display fifty percent of its
might!"

Heaven Overseeing Tower Lord mumbled while caressing fate Gu.

His expression gradually eased up, the anger in his heart temporarily pacified.

"But before this, we still need to eliminate these main sinners who had escaped the
judgment of fate! All lives have their trajectory and destiny predetermined since they
are born. This is the law of heaven and earth, the rule of nature, how can we allow you
to leisurely escape? This is life that does not belong to any of you."

While thinking of this, the old man recalled the clear pictures which he had engraved
in his mind when he moved up the stairs.

"Before Fate recovers, I will act in the capacity of heaven and eliminate the tallest of
these weeds!"

Central Continent, Hu Immortal blessed land.

The light of wisdom filled the underground cave.

Fang Yuan was inside the light with his eyes tightly closed. behind him was the biggest
lingzhi in the cave, it was the king of the zhi forest and had already grown to the size
of a fat, mature small tree with lush mushroom heads.

Bright colored lights shined on Fang Yuan's face.

His breathing was deep and slow, malicious thoughts rose up and down in his mind
like waves, constantly crashing against each other.

After a while, Fang Yuan opened his eyes.

"I took such a long time in accumulating malicious thought Gu, but they were used up
like this." He frowned, unsatisfied with this result.

He had first attempted to deduce how to add Pulling Mountain and Pulling Water into
the killer move myriad self. The result was that he used up half of the stock of
malicious thought Gu, but only made less than ten percent progress.

This progress was too slow, Fang Yuan then tried to deduce immortal killer move
vaguely familiar face.

He used up all malicious thought Gu, but the progress was only a little over ten percent.

"In the end, it was because my transformation path attainment is too low." Fang Yuan
sighed.

At this moment, he suddenly felt something, a moving perspective cup Gu came out of
his immortal aperture.

The Gu brought a letter.

Fang Yuan opened it; there were only four words on it — the time has arrived.

Fang Yuan's gaze flashed as he stood up.

The sender was Fairy Li Shan.

Fang Yuan had originally intended to follow Thieving Heaven Demon Venerable's
inheritance clues to find Luo Po valley. But not long ago, Fairy Li Shan had suddenly
sent news which caused Fang Yuan to dispel the plan of Luo Po valley.
This news was regarding Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance.

After Dong Fang Chang Fan died, Dong Fang Yu Liang was his legacy successor. But the
latter was only a mortal Gu Master, thus to stop the intention of other Gu Immortals,
Dong Fang Chang Fan did not directly hand over the wisdom path inheritance to Dong
Fang Yu Liang, instead arranged it at a hidden place.

Fairy Li Shan had vast connections and specialized in getting intel.

This time, the intel was that Dong Fang Yu Liang had secretly headed off to an
unknown location, attempting to inherit the wisdom path inheritance!
Northern Plains, Tai Qiu.

An intense battle was reaching its climax.

On one side, there were three Gu Masters, on the other side, it was a myriad beast
sized goat group.

Two Gu Masters were in front, retreating under the fierce attacks of the goat group.
Behind, one person had a robe filled with bloodstains, even though his face was like
jade, he had a tired expression, he was breathing roughly as his eyes were drooping.

Suddenly, with a loud call, the myriad beast coiling mountain goat king led its group
of elite goats as they attacked the three Gu Masters.

The assault became faster and faster, the goat group attacked from both sides,
resembling ripples from a sea's waves, splitting up and leaving a path in the middle.

In a few breaths of time, the goat king was right in front of them.

"Young master, quickly retreat!"

"The situation is dangerous, we will stay here, young master, think of the future."

The two Gu Masters saw this desperate situation, their eyes were wide open as they
shouted.

But the person behind them was in bad shape, it was as if he did not hear them.

One of the Gu Masters had a resolute expression as he made a decision, speaking:

"Dong Po Kong, you are a flying master, quickly escape with young master. I will stall
them!"

The other Gu Master, Dong Po Kong's body shook, looking at his ally, he hesitated: "Tan
Wu Feng…”

The Gu Master who wanted to stay behind was Tan Wu Feng.

Previously, he was a demonic path Gu Master, he, together with Hao Ji Liu, were known
as the Wind and Water Demons, they were very famous.

Hao Ji Liu went to Hei Lou Lan, in the end, he died in there, along with everyone else
later due to Fang Yuan destroying Imperial Court blessed land. On the contrary, Wind
Demon Tan Wu Feng went to Dong Fang Yu Liang, even though they lost in the Imperial
Court contest, his life was preserved. He converted from demonic to righteous,
becoming a subordinate of Dong Fang tribe's previous leader, Dong Fang Yu Liang.

But right now, Tan Wu Feng wanted to stay behind and singlehandedly resist the
myriad beast goat group. He was using his life to gain precious time for his allies, for
them to escape!

There was no hope of surviving, this was truly a suicide mission.

Dong Po Kong's heart shook, he felt moved.

Even though Tan Wu Feng was strong, as a righteous path member, he felt suspicious
towards Tan Wu Feng's motives and intentions for converting. Other than that, he also
felt disdain and contempt.

But right now, in Dong Po Kong's heart, these suspicions, disdain, all vanished, turning
into an emotion of tragic guilt.

Under the influence of his genuine emotions, he spoke: "Good brother, I will bring
young master away now!"

Tan Wu Feng was staring with wide opened eyes, seeing the approaching goat group,
he was anxious, shouting loudly: "Why aren't you scramming?!"

Dong Po Kong turned around and left, two streaks of tears falling from his eyes.

He knew that he had to fight against time, if they wanted to escape, Tan Wu Feng's
sacrifice was not enough, they needed his flying master attainment to be fully
displayed along the way.
Even then, they had less than a thirty percent chance of success.

However, at this moment.

The blood bathed white robed Gu Master opened his eyes, raising his head as he
shouted: "Seven star light!"

Saying this, his entire body shot upwards, seven lumps of light of all colors were
floating around him, rapidly circling around his body.

Swoosh!

A huge lump of star thoughts, under the support of the seven star light, burst out.

In an instant, the surroundings were dyed in blue, starlight shined brightly and hit the
surprised goat group.

The coiling mountain goat group's myriad beast king shouted loudly, but their
momentum was too great, the goat group rammed into the countless star thoughts.

"Young master!"

"Lord Yu Liang!"

Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong saw this and were excited and joyful.

An immense amount of star thoughts formed a star cloud as it rumbled endlessly. A

moment later, half of the star thoughts were destroyed, but as they dispersed, the
myriad beast goat king had died, along with dozens of elite goat beasts.

The goat group lost their goat king and broke apart. Splitting into multiple smaller
groups let by thousand beast goat kings, the huge goat group had turned into
numerous smaller groups that scattered everywhere.

The blood bathed white robed Gu Master descended slowly to the surface, his body
shuddered as he almost fell on the ground.

Even though he dealt a fatal blow and overturned the situation, he was barely hanging
on now.
"Young master!" Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong came up, holding this Gu Master's
arms.

This Gu Master was Dong Fang Yu Liang, after Northern Plains' number one wisdom
path Gu Immortal, Dong Fang Chang Fan, died, he was his chosen inheritor!

His face was extremely pale, he controlled his dizziness as he forced a laugh: "Alright,
we finally beat this myriad beast goat group, we have time to rest now."

"Young master…” Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong looked at each other, they were
moved and in admiration.

Dong Po Kong was holding Dong Fang Yu Liang as he sat down slowly, he could not
help but urge: "Young master, Tai Qiu is one of the ten great fierce areas, after entering
this place for three days, we had already encountered more than ten waves of beast
groups. Originally, we had more than ten people, now only us three are left. It is not a
big deal if I die here, but young master is precious, if something happens to you, what
will we do? Looking at this situation, why don't we retreat first before coming here
again?"

Dong Fang Yu Liang sat on the ground, smiling bitterly to himself, shaking his head:
"You do not know the situation, this is my last, and only chance. I had already put
everything into this attempt, it is like an arrow that has been shot, we cannot turn
back any longer. We need to make use of our time now and rest, trying to recover our
battle strength."

Saying so, he shut his eyes, grabbing two primeval stones as he entered a state of rest.

Dong Po Kong and Tan Wu Feng looked at each other, seeing the determination in each
other's eyes, they nodded as they sat around Dong Fang Yu Liang, taking out their
primeval stones and meditating.

At the outskirts of Tai Qiu, Gu Immortal Lu Qing Ming retracted his gaze as he praised:
"To think that as a mortal, Dong Fang Yu Liang could advance so deeply into Tai Qiu.
This time, he expressed weakness and lured his enemies in, causing the coiling
mountain myriad beast goat king to charge up and letting him kill the leader, he
actually managed to survive this difficulty."

Standing beside him, Gu Immortal Han Dong snorted coldly: "This Tai Qiu is one of the
ten great fierce areas, there are desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts living
here, even us Gu Immortals do not dare to charge in recklessly. Dong Fang Chang Fan
placed his inheritance ground here, he was guarding against us."

Gu Immortal Su Guang added: "That is right, Dong Fang Yu Liang and the others are
all mortal Gu Masters, they have weak auras and do not attract the attentions of the
desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts. With the route that Dong Fang Chang Fan
planned for them, they would only meet some ordinary beast groups while entering
the deep parts of Tai Qiu. If we go, our Gu Immortal auras would leak and cause the
resistance of desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts. Hmm? More Gu Immortals
are coming to the outskirts."

The other two Gu Immortals heard this and sensed something, they looked towards
the southeast direction.

Only to see that three Gu Immortals had just approached towards them, they were
wearing black robes and had masks on, only showing their eyes.

"Heh, more people that want to have a share of the profits." Han Dong's eyes shined
ominously, his tone was eerie.

The three black robed Gu Immortals descended.

They were none other than Fairy Li Shan, Fang Yuan, and Hei Lou Lan.

Fairy Li Shan was a famous Gu Immortal in Northern Plains, previously, she had agreed
to an alliance with Dong Fang Chang Fan, she could not covet his possessions openly,
thus she had to hide her appearance.

Meanwhile, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were involved in the collapse of Eighty-Eight
True Yang Building, they had to conceal their appearances.

The three slowly descended, floating in the air outside of Tai Qiu, they were not
planning to go inside. They first glanced at Dong Fang Yu Liang and the others before
looking around.

Hei Lou Lan chuckled, "Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance is truly
attractive. The outskirts of Tai Qiu had so many Gu Immortals hiding around. Just with
my methods, I found more than twenty."

Fairy Li Shan continued: "I found twenty-six, most of them are demonic path Gu
Immortals, but there are also Gu Immortals from Dong Fang tribe."

Fang Yuan took a look, but he only found nineteen.

Although his battle strength had been raised, his investigative methods could not
compare to an established veteran Gu Immortal like Fairy Li Shan. As for Hei Lou Lan,
her investigative methods exceeded his, this made him internally alert.

"No wonder Dong Fang Yu Liang is rushing to obtain the wisdom path inheritance. It
seems that Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals are also after this inheritance. After all,
with this inheritance, one has a chance of becoming Northern Plains' number one
wisdom path Gu Immortal. Even their own Gu Immortals cannot resist this
temptation." Fairy Li Shan sighed.

"Did Dong Fang Chang Fan make any mistakes? He signed an agreement with the
righteous path super forces, so that they would not come after this, but he missed his
own tribe's Gu Immortals." Hei Lou Lan said, she frowned slightly, she felt that Dong
Fang Chang Fan would not be so careless.

"Dong Fang Chang Fan is the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal in Northern
Plains, he left the inheritance clues in Dong Fang Yu Liang's mind. Such wisdom path
techniques cannot be broken easily. Right now, the Gu Immortals are all waiting here,
it seems that they are biding their time until Dong Fang Yu Liang opens the
inheritance, before they start robbing it." Fang Yuan said.

His motive in this journey was to get a complete wisdom path inheritance.

Wisdom path inheritances had greater value the more complete they were.

But currently, it seemed like his goal was going to fail. There were so many Gu
Immortals after the inheritance, when they obtained it, they might form a situation
where the inheritance gets split up.

"Thankfully, my battle strength rose a lot just now, I have a chance at competing. Later,
when we snatch it, I should avoid being the center of attention, so that the crowd
would not attack me together, I need to strategize."

Fang Yuan made his tactics.

Although he had high battle strength, there were many Gu Immortals, he could not
fight them together. Of course, he was not stupid enough to attempt doing that anyway.

However, a change occurred right at this moment!

A blinding flash appeared, as the light faded, Dong Fang Yu Liang, Tan Wu Feng, and
Dong Po Kong vanished from their original spots.

"This is a teleportation Gu formation?"

"It was hidden underground, we didn't discover it."

"Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements are indeed not simple, this Tai Qiu was not the
true inheritance ground, it was just a place to hinder us."

"Quick, while the Gu formation still has some aura remaining, quickly search for clues
before it dissipates!"

The Gu Immortal realized at once, showing up and charging towards the deep parts of
Tai Qiu.

Grrr!

Desolate beasts, and even ancient desolate beasts were stirred, they rushed out from
all areas of Tai Qiu.
Seeing a large number of desolate beasts appearing in their sights, with several
ancient desolate beasts among them, the Gu Immortals flying in the sky slowed down,
their expressions turning dark.

They were indeed worthy of being Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements, meticulously
set out and interlinked, he had completely deduced today's situation, even after he
died, he created huge problems for these Gu Immortals.

The desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts that were alerted felt that the Gu
Immortals were intruders.

Originally, they were resting in Tai Qiu, peacefully in their respective territories.

Dong Fang Yu Liang and the others' intrusion was like a few butterflies flying into their
garden, the beasts were not disturbed.

But the Gu Immortals were like bandits entering their homes, they were alerted and
went all out, even working together to protect their territory, Tai Qiu.

To humans, Tai Qiu was one of Northern Plains' ten great fierce areas. But to these
desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts, the ten great fierce areas were their
sanctuaries, they were places where humans could not take over.

Seeing so many desolate beasts charging over at once, the Gu Immortals were
apprehensive.

Although there was a good number of them, they were not united, instead, they were
wary of each other due to the wisdom path inheritance, it was hard to work together
sincerely.

They could not battle with the desolate beasts either.

Once they fought, the chaotic battle would cause damage to Tai Qiu, if they destroy the
traces left behind by the teleportation Gu formation, the Gu Immortals would have
even greater trouble tracking them.

Those who could become Gu Immortals were not fools.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's plot was very obvious, they all understood it clearly in an
instant.

"These desolate beasts and even ancient desolate beasts are not the point."

"We cannot spend too much time with these beasts and lose our clues."

"Get past them and find the traces, following the clues to the inheritance ground…”

The Gu Immortals were still flying towards the area where the teleportation Gu
formation was, but they had to slow down.

Desolate beasts were a huge problem, but the surrounding Gu Immortals were worse.
If it was convenient, these demonic path Gu Immortals would certainly not mind
exterminating some of the competitors around them.

Howl! A desolate beast flying at high speed engaged with a female Gu Immortal.

This rank six female Gu Immortal's name was He Ruo, also known as Peacock Flying
Immortal, she was skilled in transformation path. She shouted a curse, she felt sullen
inside, but she could not blame anyone, she could only blame herself for being unlucky
and placed in a bad position.

Seeing that the desolate beast was charging over, she did not fight it, she turned into a
blurry green-grey bird, spreading her wings and flying away, towards the crucial
location.

The desolate beast was unable to catch up to her, it turned around and targeted
another unlucky person.

The green-grey bird flew past the other Gu Immortals, becoming the Gu Immortal
closest to the crucial location.

Other Gu Immortals did not watch this without doing anything.

"A mere mortal killer move, you dare to stand out?" Waves were crashing as a rank
seven Gu Immortal rode on a huge wave and blocked the green-grey bird.

This Gu Immortal had a strong aura, but he was so thin his bones could be seen, his
skin was wrinkled and dry, sticking close to his bones. Veins could be seen on his skin,
they were everywhere.

Seeing this person, most of the surrounding Gu Immortals showed a wary expression
on their faces.

This was a rank seven Gu Immortal, Pi Shui Han, he was a member of the demonic
path and cultivated ice path and water path, he was a famous expert.

Peacock Flying Immortal He Ruo saw that Pi Shui Han was obstructing her, she did not
evade him, instead, she snorted lightly and an Immortal Gu aura burst out from her.

He Ruo activated her Immortal Gu, the green-grey bird she had transformed into
turned from blurry to clear.

In an instant, the green bird's body expanded by thirty percent, three golden peacock
tails grew on her back, her speed rose sharply as she flew past the waves, towards the
Gu formation.

Pi Shui Han's actions failed, he laughed instead of getting angry, saying in a mocking
tone: "Indeed after attending the Northern Plains auction, you think you have some
ability now, hehe."

Saying this, he raised both his arms.

Gurgle gurgle, with two loud sounds, the water waves surged up, emerging from
nowhere, blocking the green bird like two huge walls.

Meanwhile, Pi Shui Han's speed did not decrease, he rode on the currents and charged
towards He Ruo.

He Ruo did not dare to fight with Pi Shui Han, she raised her head and spread her
wings, rising into the sky. But no matter how high she flew, the waves grew alongside
her.

Pi Shui Han smiled coldly, he rapidly got close to her.

But He Ruo did not want to battle, she put all her efforts into escaping, Pi Shui Han
could do nothing to her within a short period of time.

Just as the two were fighting, one figure emerged from another side, like a flash of
lightning.

This person was brawny and muscular, his skin was bronze in color, lightning was
coiling around his body, his speed was faster than He Ruo. Fang Yuan felt some
familiarity upon seeing him saw, he thought over it for a moment and realized that this
person was Divine Lord Tian Du.

This immortal cultivated lightning path, he alongside Shi Hou had once coerced an
immortal zombie of Zombie Alliance, buying a hundred and fifty kilograms of wilted
essence with one immortal essence stone.

Divine Lord Tian Du saw Pi Shui Han and He Ruo chasing and fleeing, he found a
chance and activated his movement killer move, gaining a huge boost in speed.

Soon, he surpassed everyone and quickly became the person closest to the Gu
formation.

"Hahaha!" Divine Lord Tian Du saw that he was getting closer to the Gu formation and
was overjoyed, laughing loudly.

"Divine Lord, hold up." Accompanying a calm and slow voice, one white robed scholar
appeared before Tian Du.

"Ah, Unfettered Scholar!" Divine Lord Tian Du saw this person and his expression
changed, his speed fell drastically.

He knew that he was not the rank seven Gu Immortal, Unfettered Scholar's match, he
shouted quickly: "Shi Hou, quickly lend me a hand."

Shi Hou's eyes twitched, he had no choice but to show up beside Divine Lord Tian Du.
He was a muscular man, looking very rugged and brutish, his hair was in a mess and
he held a skull in his hands.

Divine Lord Tian Du cried out, pushing with his hands as a lightning dragon was
unleashed.
At the same time, Shi Hou activated his mortal killer move, attacking Unfettered
Scholar.

The two were not weak in battle strength among rank six Gu Immortals, otherwise,
they would not dare to extort a Zombie Alliance member. At this moment, they joined
forces and had an impressive attack, it attracted much attention.

"Come then." Unfettered Scholar smiled lightly, he moved his hand as two Immortal
Gu flew out.

Boom!

In an intense explosion, Shi Hou and Divine Lord Tian Du flew back after spitting
blood, but Unfettered Scholar stood on the spot, having a calm demeanor.

He was fighting two against one, beating back Shi Hou and Divine Lord Tian Du, the
Immortal Gu he used had great power, but they were already placed back inside his
immortal aperture, nobody had seen them clearly.

"Let's go!" At this moment, from another direction, Gu Immortal Lu Qing Ming
shouted, as the Gu Immortals Su Guang and Han Dong followed after him.

Their advance caused gasps among the crowd.

"It is the Traveling Three Elites!"

"Block them!"

"Be careful, when they join forces, their battle strength can match rank seven."

The three elites gave off bright lights each, it was a dazzling scene, forming an image
of a chariot. This was a killer move that could only be unleashed when all three Gu
Immortals worked together!

The killer move had great power, the three elites could charge forward fearlessly,
nobody could stop them for the moment, they got close to the Gu formation.

There were five publicly well known rank eight Gu Immortals in Northern Plains.
There were more rank seven Gu Immortals, but they were not in large numbers.
People like Qin Bai Sheng, Fairy Li Shan, and others, they were famous people who had
been around for a long time.

In the Gu Immortal world, most Gu Immortals were rank six.

When the three elites joined up, they had rank seven battle strength, this made people
wary. Furthermore, they had chosen their specific direction and had no strong foes of
rank seven. Whether it was by coincidence or not, the three of them managed to
become the ones closest to the Gu formation.

They were extremely fast, Pi Shui Han, Unfettered Scholar and the others could not
stop them, they could only watch as the three elites landed on the Gu formation that
was set up earlier.

However, a change occurred right at this moment!

The figures of the three elites vanished, while a huge bat desolate beast flapped its
wings and flew away.

"This is a ruin bat!"

"Ruin bat is a space path desolate beast, there were actually concealment type Gu on
this beast, the three elites were engulfed by it."

"Hahaha, although they are not in mortal danger, they lost precious time and the
valuable opportunity."

Some Gu Immortals were shocked, some were taking pleasure from their misfortune.

Ruin bat was not an exception, at this moment, the desolate beasts in Tai Qiu had
surrounded the Gu Immortals, ready for a huge battle.

The peach wolf, which was pink, cute and had a tiny body, moved extremely quickly
like light, the white hoof ink horse was stalwart like a mountain, the blood tongue tree
had bloody and long tongues. And also, the qi path ancient desolate beast, primeval
return peacock, that could absorb the primeval energy of a huge surrounding area,
three desolate beast coiling mountain goats, and a lawless antelope that could give
even a rank seven Gu Immortal a headache.

The scene became chaotic at once, desolate beasts and Gu Immortals fought in intense
battles, while the Gu Immortals were wary of each other. But no matter how chaotic it
was, the Gu Immortals were protecting one crucial location, they tried to preserve all
traces of the teleportation Gu formation.

"Follow me." With Fairy Li Shan at the lead, Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan were in the
chaotic battle, fighting carefully and moving around agilely, they stealthily had gotten
close to the Gu formation.

Grr!

A bull shaped desolate beast blocked Fang Yuan and the other's path.

"You dare rob me?!" Gu Immortal Zhuo Zhan carried a huge hammer and wore a red
bronze suit of armor, he rode on a fat boar as he charged towards Fang Yuan and the
others.

At the same time, Divine Lord Tian Du, who was far away laughed coldly, an Immortal
Gu flew out, turning into lightning as it shot over, it was known as Thunder Shuttle.

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan were about to strike, when Fang Yuan stopped them:
"Please don't worry, let me use my method."

As he said this, countless Gu worms flew up in his immortal aperture.

Rank four all-out effort Gu, bitter strength Gu, borrow strength Gu, self-reliance Gu,
refine essence spirit Gu, earth strength Gu, water strength Gu, wind strength Gu,
lightning strength Gu, fire strength Gu, lurking soul coat Gu, breath concealment Gu…

Countless mortal Gu flew up like butterflies, circling around one spot.

An Immortal Gu was proudly at the center, it was the strength path Immortal Gu —
Self Strength!

From the mesmerizing flying, the mortal Gu created traces of light in the air. Self
strength Immortal Gu burst out with a blinding light, connecting all of the traces of
light into one, forming a light lump resembling a small sun.

The light shined on the ground in the immortal aperture.

On the ground, there were hundreds of thousands of Fang Yuan's strength path
phantoms standing and waiting silently!
Before coming here, Fang Yuan made his preparations, he summon his strength path
phantom army prior to this trip.

"Immortal killer move, Myriad Self — First Style — Giant Hand!" Fang Yuan mentally
called out.

Tens of thousands of phantoms of Fang Yuan stretched out their right hands, raising
them up high, palms facing the huge light lump in the sky.

Around the light lump, there were a hundred group strength Gu entering it.

At the same time, Fang Yuan in the outside world stretched out his right hand.

Boom—!

A strength path giant hand appeared out of nowhere.

The air within dozens of meters around him was pulled.

The giant hand pushed, the bull shaped desolate beast was pushed away and into the
air.

The giant hand gripped, thunder shuttle Immortal Gu was trapped inside.

The giant hand closed into a fist, it punched at Gu Immortal Zhuo Zhan.

Zhuo Zhan was stunned, his eyes were wide open and staring, after shouting in shock,
he escaped in panic!
Once Fang Yuan's giant hand was unleashed, the effect was shocking, countless Gu
Immortals looked over with surprised gazes.

In truth, such a method of accumulating quantity and unleashing it all at once was a
very common way of designing killer moves.

Like the very common fire pellet Gu, it can summon one fireball. How could one
increase its strength? Normal people would think like this: By accumulating fireballs,
during battle, they would unleash it all at once.

This way, by raising quantity, the power of their move will increase.

This was the most common and simply train of thought.

But most things were easy to plan, yet the execution was not easy at all.

If they formed the fireball beforehand, how could they store it? Even if they stored
many fireballs, how can they shoot these fireballs at the same time? Even if they fire
it, how can they ensure that the aim is accurate, and that the fireballs are not shot in
random directions?

Only after resolving all of these questions would the Gu Master truly own what was
known as — a killer move.

That was why the nurture, use, and refinement of Gu worms were deep fields.
Especially in terms of using Gu, one needed creativity. Even if killer moves were
created, because people were all different, each killer move would naturally have their
own strengths and weaknesses.

When Fang Yuan conceived the immortal killer move myriad self, it could be said that
he had broken traditional confinements and fused enslavement path and strength
path, making a great and rare achievement.
He had a strength path foundation originally, and when he underwent immortal
ascension using his second aperture, he queried heaven and earth, gaining a deeper
foundation.

Next, he made a huge sacrifice, taking a near death risk, eventually using the rank nine
wisdom Gu, gaining unlimited inspiration and creating the immortal killer move
myriad self.

Throughout the process, Fang Yuan played the most crucial role. But his environment,
wisdom Gu, immortal ascension, destruction of Imperial Court blessed land, they were
all unique stimuli.

The immortal killer move, myriad self, which successfully fused enslavement path and
strength path, due to the nature of its design, had surpassed most immortal killer
moves!

With this starting point, if Fang Yuan explored it in the future and developed it, he
might be able to create a completely new path.

Thus, even though the killer move, myriad self, was still in its initial stages, its
potential was shocking.

Enslavement path was the pinnacle of attrition battling, commanding an army and
using the tactic of cannon fodder to drown the enemies in sheer numbers.

Strength path created an individual champion, by adding great strength to oneself, one
can kill whoever stands in their path, if they rage, the battlefield would be bathed in
blood, in this aspect, a single person was a huge force!

The two extremes fused into one, creating the killer move, myriad self.

Fang Yuan could use his own strength to create innumerable strength path phantoms
that he could manipulate at will. When he battled with Hei Cheng, the strength path
phantom army forced back Hei Cheng and Xue Song Zi, there was nothing they could
do.

In the killer move myriad self, this was the manifestation of strength path supporting
enslavement path.

Right now, was the opposite, it was enslavement path supporting strength path.
What caused this crucial effect was group strength Gu. This ancient Gu worm was sent
into the light lump for the killer move at the end, transferring the strength path army's
strength, and adding it all to Fang Yuan's own body.

There was also one key point, that was self strength Immortal Gu.

If it was cleanse soul Immortal Gu, he would not be able to summon the giant hand.

The so-called giant hand was only a giant strength path phantom's hand.

Hei Lou Lan had once controlled self strength Immortal Gu, her killer move's strongest
transformation was a giant strength path phantom.

Fang Yuan used the immortal killer move, unravel dream, and saved Hei Lou Lan,
obtaining her strength path true meaning afterwards. This true meaning became the
final catalyst to create the giant hand.

With all these causes, the move 'giant hand' was formed.

Self strength Immortal Gu was indeed the best suited core for the immortal killer move
myriad self. With it, myriad self developed a step further, it could finally interchange
between the main and support roles for either path.

Fang Yuan used this move instead of unleashing the strength path phantom army in
his immortal aperture, he had his reasons.

These strength path phantoms had his appearance, now that he was the culprit of a
huge crime, he needed to hide his traces.

Especially after the auction, his identity was exposed to a degree, and he had not
deduced the killer move, vaguely familiar face, yet.

Giant hand was the move most suitable for Fang Yuan currently — it had incredible
power and would not expose his identity.

The huge fist continued to punch at Zhuo Zhan.

Zhuo Zhan was breaking out in cold sweat, he retreated more quickly as he created
some distance from the giant hand.
Swoosh, the Immortal Gu Thunder Shuttle, which was immobilized, broke free from
the giant hand, flying towards its owner, Divine Lord Tian Du.

Fang Yuan was not surprised.

The design of the giant hand was indeed influenced by the formless hands.

But the two were very different.

Giant hand was a strength path killer move, but formless hand was the essence of theft
path. Formless hand could capture Immortal Gu, but giant hand could only immobilize
them for a short period of time, that already could be considered very good.

After attacking once, Fang Yuan stopped his offense, in a few breaths of time, the giant
hand vanished into thin air.

During the entire process of the attack, his right arm was making cracking noises. Even
with his immortal zombie body, it was hard for him to sustain the attack.

Now that he stopped the move, his strong arm drooped down weakly. The tendons
and muscles under his skin were almost all torn. His bones were full of cracks, and his
arteries burst, mushing together with his muscles.

Giant hand extracted strength from all of the strength path phantoms, gathering it into
Fang Yuan.

Because the strength was too great, and Fang Yuan was like the foundation holding it
together.

"This time, I activated giant hand using twenty thousand strength path phantoms. But
the giant hand's power can only be at this level temporarily. Even though it has room
for improvement, my body had reached its limits."

Fang Yuan sighed to himself mentally.

His arm was slowly drooping down, but concealed by his wide black robe.

In a short time, using the recovery ability of the immortal zombie body, his arm
completely recovered.
Even so, giant hand's power was too shocking, Zhuo Zhan was covered in cold sweat
as he retreated a great distance, his gaze towards Fang Yuan carried immense fear.

The surrounding Gu Immortals subconsciously created some distance from Fang

Yuan.

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan's faces were hidden under their black hoods, they both
showed complex and surprised expressions.

The power of giant hand had made them inwardly apprehensive and alert.

But currently, Fang Yuan was their ally, they were on the same side, the two felt glad.

These two emotions mixed together, it was a strange feeling, their states of mind were
complex.

Especially Hei Lou Lan, after sensing that giant hand had a hint of her own killer
move's design, she felt a slight sense of dejection.

Far away, Unfettered Scholar pushed Divine Lord Tian Du back as he grabbed at
thunder shuttle Immortal Gu.

Divine Lord Tian Du was anxious, he used his method and successfully took back
thunder shuttle Immortal Gu.

Unfettered Scholar did not achieve his goal, he was not upset, he smiled serenely as he
turned his gaze towards Fang Yuan: "An impressive immortal killer move."

Deep within his gaze, there was a solemn feeling.

"This is truly battle strength reaching rank seven!" Lu Qing Ming and the others killed
the ruin bat and returned to the outskirts of Tai Qiu, seeing this, they had wary
expressions.

"Who is this?" Pi Shui Han was guessing. This was the first time giant hand was used,
it was obviously not a well known immortal killer move.

"This is a strength path immortal killer move, is the person Domination Immortal Chu
Du?" Many Gu Immortals could not help but guess.
A strength path Gu Immortal with such battle strength, there was only one well known
in Northern Plains.

But soon, everyone shook their heads, with Chu Du's demeanor, he would not conceal
his identity like this.

After Divine Lord Tian Du took back thunder shuttle Immortal Gu, he looked around.

He did not want to fight Unfettered Scholar anymore. Now, even Fang Yuan was a tough
opponent, and the Traveling Three Elites were back as well.

He knew that with his strength, he could not take advantage of the situation, his
expression turned ugly.

Even though there was much going on, this all happened in a short period of time.

After Fang Yuan used giant hand, he had retracted his hand and his arm drooped by
his side, under everyone's gaze, he went back to beside Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan.

He purposely kept his head low, not making any noise, it was like he did something
insignificant.

Fairy Li Shan was in front, he was walking behind her, together with Hei Lou Lan.

Seeing this, everyone was shocked and suspicious.

Fang Yuan and the others were dressed in black robes, they wore the same clothes and
were very mysterious. Seeing Fang Yuan's attitude, everyone guessed — Hei Lou Lan,
who was beside him, could have the same battle strength as him. As for the one
walking in front, Fairy Li Shan, who was acting like the leader, might have even greater
strength than Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan was very familiar with people's minds, this small action by him was much
more terrifying to other Gu Immortals compared to his giant hand!

Even though the other immortals knew that he might be bluffing, but as Fang Yuan
and the others landed on the ground and reached the Gu formation, as they were
searching for clues to capture Dong Fang Yu Liang, nobody stopped them.

Everyone acknowledged the strength of Fang Yuan's group.

Of course, the bigger reason was that the wisdom path inheritance was nowhere to be
seen. The immortals were shrewd people, they did not want to truly fight now. They
fought earlier with probing as their intention, they did not use their real trump cards,
or any all out attacks.

Fang Yuan and the others were searching for clues together.

A few breaths' later, they all gasped.

"What a teleportation Gu formation!" Fairy Li Shan's voice was very hoarse.

"Truly worthy of Dong Fang Chang Fan, he purposely left behind a Gu formation and
misled us…” Hei Lou Lan said.

"The clues here can help point out the correct direction, but to find Dong Fang Yu
Liang, we need to rely on luck." Fang Yuan continued.

"What do you mean?" A Gu Immortal did not understand, he asked loudly.

Fang Yuan and the others did not answer, they rose into the sky suddenly. They left Tai
Qiu, moving in three different directions and rapidly vanishing from everyone's eyes.

A moment later, Unfettered Scholar landed as well.

He inspected it and realized Fang Yuan and the other's words were not lies.

As it turned out, Dong Fang Chang Fan did something to the Gu formation. He did not
make arrangements to destroy the Gu formation, since this formation could only
teleport mortal Gu Masters, it could not transport immortals.

If he destroyed the Gu formation, there would be Gu Immortal experts who could

capture all sorts of clues and traces, following them and finding Dong Fang Yu Liang.
After all, Dong Fang Chang Fan was skilled at plotting and deductions, he was not an
expert in teleportation Gu formations.

Thus, he intentionally left behind many trails, while concealing the real route within
them, making it hard for people to decipher what was real amongst the fake.

This way, the Gu Immortals would have to split up to find him, even if someone found
Dong Fang Yu Liang, his pressure would be much lower.
Earlier, Fang Yuan and the others chose the three most probable directions.

Unfettered Scholar thought over it before choosing a fourth direction, rapidly leaving
Tai Qiu.

After he left, the immortals landed one by one, getting their own clues and leaving in
the directions they chose.

In the end, only Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals were left.

"These Gu Immortals are so crafty, no one destroyed the teleportation Gu formation."

"Even if they destroyed it, clues would still remain. These demonic path Gu Immortals
have survived until today, they are not people who would do such strenuous and
unrewarding tasks."

"That's right, they are hoping that even if they went the wrong direction, someone
would find the real route. By then, if there is any commotion, they would rush over
immediately."

"Alright, let's go down and see what clues there are."

"Alright, let us go down as well and see what clues there are." Dong Fang Wan Xiu
dispelled his concealment methods and moved to the spot where Dong Fang Yu Liang
disappeared.

"Wasn't first supreme elder given special care by Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan before
death?" A Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortal asked with some doubts.

"Yes, first supreme elder specially convened us to come together, there are none of us
Gu Immortals currently with the tribe."

"I was still thinking first elder would already have some clues."

The Gu Immortals expressed their worries.

Dong Fang Wan Xiu heaved a long sigh, speaking in a bleak tone: "Don't call me first
supreme elder, in my heart, only Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan can be our tribe's first
supreme elder."

"We all know Lord Wan Xiu was nurtured by Lord Chang Fan. But now, Lord Chang
Fan has already passed away, who can avoid dying in this world? In my opinion, we
should focus on the present."

"Right. Now, Lord Chang Fan's wisdom path inheritance has attracted so many
demonic path Gu Immortals. Our tribe might be one of the super forces, but any
carelessness could result in a catastrophic danger. We need to handle this prudently
and safely."

"If not for Lord Wan Xiu honestly explaining that these are Lord Chang Fan's
arrangements before death, we would have left behind at least one Gu Immortal to
guard against any accidents and protect our tribe's seeds. Unlike now, where we have
all gathered here."
The Gu Immortals followed closely behind Dong Fang Wan Xiu, speaking one after
another.

Dong Fang Wan Xiu waved his hand: "There is no need to worry, I might not have the
correct clues, but I know the method to get those clues."

He then closed his eyes and probed clues from the aura left behind by the teleportation
Gu formation.

The Gu formation's aura kept on changing, Dong Fang Wan Xiu got different results
every time he checked.

Dong Fang Wan Xiu followed the instructions Dong Fang Chang Fan gave him before
death, engraving these aura clues in memory, comparing and examining them.

After a while, he slowly opened his eyes and flew to the sky, saying to the rest: "Follow
me."

"Where is this?" Dong Fang Yu Liang slowly woke up from his state of unconsciousness,
his gaze turned from blurry to clear.

He had a terrible headache, and in fact, not only did his head hurt, his entire body was
covered in wounds of all sizes, blood flowed from his internal organs and bones were
fractured in many areas.

"According to the map left by Lord Chang Fan, we have only traveled half the path, how
did we suddenly arrive here?" Dong Fang Yu Liang was puzzled, pondering on this
while treating the wounds.

With his rank five peak stage cultivation and methods, the injuries on his body were
soon being healed.

"I remember that when we meditated to absorb primeval energy from primeval
stones, the teleportation Gu formation suddenly activated and sent us here. Could it
be that the map Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan gave me is actually fake? Maybe the latter
half is fake and the true final point is midway through it."

Dong Fang Yu Liang felt his guess could be correct.

From his understanding of Dong Fang Chang Fan, the latter indeed had such a way of
doing things.

These arrangements were set up to block the methods of other wisdom path Gu
Immortals.

Gu Immortals of other paths would be afraid of causing inadvertent damage, afraid

that the clues with Dong Fang Yu Liang would be ruined as well as being wary of each
other, thus they chose to stay behind and wait for the chance to move.

Wisdom path Gu Immortals, however, could search thoughts and extract the true clues
of the map.

"Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong were teleported along with me, but I see no traces of
them right now. Maybe they are nearby, who knows. I should first look for them before
exploring this hall."

After a while, Dong Fang Yu Liang healed the injuries on his body, then started
searching around.

He had found that this place was like a group of large halls, and he was inside a hall.

The halls were beautiful but ruined, and could be considered to be a giant site of ruins.

Dong Fang Yu Liang moved with caution, but there was no one in the hall, not to
mention enemies.

"Tan Wu Feng!"

"Young master!"

After walking a while, Dong Fang Yu Liang met Tan Wu Feng, who also had been
looking for him.

Not long after the two met, they found Dong Po Kong at the exit of the hall.

Dong Po Kong was lying on the ground, still unconscious.

Dong Fang Yu Liang and Tan Wu Feng used some methods to awaken him, the three
were happy at having reunited.
Naturally, Dong Fang Yu Liang was still the leader, he thought for a while and decided:
"If I am not wrong, this should be where Lord Chang Fan set the inheritance. We have
already searched the first hall but did not discover any clues, let's take a look at the
second hall."

Sure enough like he expected, when the three entered the second hall, they met with
a test at the center of the hall.

This was a complicated puzzle, involving a complex mystery.

There were clues and evidence given, of which both truths and falsehoods were
included. There was also a time limit, under which Dong Fang Yu Liang had to use
wisdom path methods to not only search through the false clues, he also had to deduce
the truth of the case.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was indeed worthy of being the successor Dong Fang Chang Fan
chose, in less than one-third of the time limit, he passed the test and was richly
rewarded with a set of rank five wisdom path Gu worms.

With greatly increased strength, Dong Fang Yu Liang entered the third hall.

This test was a remnant Gu recipe. It required Dong Fang Yu Liang to deduce the recipe
within fifteen minutes.

Boom!

A giant strength path hand smashed down like a mountain.

"Baaa!"

The giant horned sheep let out miserable bleats, filled with injuries and completely
suppressed by the giant hand.

This desolate beast struggled hard several times but the giant hand still pressed down
on it firmly, finally, the giant horned sheep's energy was used up and it gave up on
resisting, not moving any more.

Fang Yuan let out a breath of cloudy air, a pleased look flashing past his eyes.
He had followed the clues in his search, but the clues turned out to be false. And when
he followed the fifth clue, he came across this desolate beast, giant horned sheep.

Fang Yuan was interested in it and started a huge battle with the giant horned sheep.

Ever since he connected luck with Ye Fan, Hong Yi and Han Li, Fang Yuan did not have
a deficit in luck. This giant horned sheep he fought did not have any difficult to handle
Gu worms.

Giant hand was extremely useful, he repeatedly used it to subdue the giant horned
sheep and soon restrained it.

There were no twists and turns during the entire battle.

Fang Yuan's superiority kept on accumulating until it turned into complete victory,
capturing the giant horned sheep alive.

"Giant horned sheep is purely a strength path desolate beast, I will raise it in the
blessed land. At every set interval of time, I can cut off some of its flesh and use eat
strength Immortal Gu to increase the strength path dao marks on my body. Who would
have expected that I would be able to capture a giant horned sheep alive in this place,
it is truly a surprise blessing."

Fang Yuan relaxed his breathing, the injuries on his immortal zombie body had already
healed.

He willed and the giant hand grabbed the giant horned sheep and transported it to his
immortal aperture.

Ever since Fang Yuan obtained eat strength Immortal Gu, he had frequently purchased
strength path related food in treasure yellow heaven which came out to be a
significant expense. Once or twice was okay, but as it continued on, even Fang Yuan
was feeling the effect of the huge expenses.

He had already planned to raise some strength path desolate beasts as long term
investment. But the transactions of desolate beasts were rare even in treasure yellow
heaven, not to mention that Fang Yuan only wanted pure strength path desolate
beasts.

"I truly made a good move by extorting self strength Immortal Gu. My battle strength
has reached rank seven and the giant hand is somewhat more practical than the
strength path phantom army. Ordinary desolate beasts like giant horned sheep are no
longer my match. Even regarding the swamp crab which once damaged Dang Hun
mountain, I should be able to face it head-on. Even if it had gruel mud Immortal Gu, I
could ensure the safety of Dang Hun mountain!"

Fang Yuan clenched his monstrous claws, enjoying the pleasure of having the situation
in his grasp.

He rested and reorganized himself leisurely with no hurry.

He was aware of the situation: there were many wolves but only one prey. Only relying
on his strength, the chances of devouring Dong Fang Chang Fan's wisdom path
inheritance were too low.

"If nothing unexpected happens, even if this wisdom path inheritance lands in my
hands, it will only be an incomplete part. Sigh, I wonder when I would be able to obtain
a truly intact wisdom path inheritance?"

As Fang Yuan thought over this, Fairy Li Shan's message appeared in his immortal
aperture.

Fairy Li Shan's information gathering ability was indeed superior to Fang Yuan's.
There were already some people who had discovered the true location of Dong Fang
Chang Fan's inheritance ground, and an intense battle was already underway at that
area!

Because of this loud commotion, more and more Gu Immortals were heading there.

Fang Yuan met with Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan, when they arrived at the place, a
dozen or so Gu Immortals were pacing around the outer perimeter.

"Ah, it is them."

"Careful, these three are extremely mysterious."

"I just returned from the area to the southeast, and saw that person using a giant hand
to capture a desolate beast giant horned sheep alive!"

Demonic path Gu Immortals prioritized strength.

The strength Fang Yuan displayed made them apprehensive.

Thus, when they slowly flew over, these Gu Immortals subconsciously parted to make
way for them in the air.

"This is the inheritance ground? Dong Fang Chang Fan indeed put much thought into
this." Fang Yuan observed from above, and soon said in a moved tone.

Below him was the corpse of a ruin bat.

This ruin bat was not simple, while alive, it was an immemorial desolate beast with
the battle strength of a rank eight Gu Immortal.

It was a space path desolate beast with countless space path dao marks on its body.
These dao marks were influencing this space, constructing a land of illusory large
halls.

As long as someone stepped into its range, they would be dragged into the halls. Only
if they were rank eight Gu Immortal, would they be able to resist this huge force.

This ruin bat died in the depths of Tai Qiu, its presence caused there to be no desolate
beasts around a huge surrounding range.

This was a forbidden place within a forbidden place, a fierce area among fierce areas.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was also only a rank seven Gu Immortal, but he was actually
able to arrange his wisdom path inheritance at this place, this was indeed another
clear indication that he was worthy of being called the number one wisdom path Gu
Immortal of Northern Plains, it was truly extraordinary!

Right as the Gu Immortals were hesitating above the ruin bat's corpse, Dong Fang Yu
Liang had already been smoothly succeeding and was charging into the eighth hall.

"My chosen inheritor, you have finally arrived." A lump of star will condensed into
Dong Fang Chang Fan's appearance, in front of Dong Fang Yu Liang and the others.

"Master!" Dong Fang Yu Liang prostrated with tears in his eyes.

The star will slowly nodded and looked at Dong Fang Yu Liang: "Being able to come
here shows your superior talent. This is not the final hall but it is the end of the
inheritance. As long as you are able to perfect this Gu formation and successfully
activate it, you can be said to have completely obtained this wisdom path inheritance
and receive my wisdom path Immortal Gu!"

"Master, I will definitely do my best." Dong Fang Yu Liang showed an intense fighting
spirit.

"You need to be quick, there is not much time left." The star will raised its head, gazing
at the sky.
Bam bam bam!

Intense explosions continued to occur.

In the sky, Gu Immortals were fighting everywhere.

Since they had now found the true inheritance ground, the demonic path Gu
Immortals were all practical and straightforward, without much hesitation, someone
flew down.

Since Dong Fang Chang Fan chose the corpse of an immemorial ruin bat as his wisdom
path inheritance ground, he naturally had his own reasons.

The huge phantom beast army was stirred, like a giant black cloud, they rose from
beneath the feet of the demonic path Gu Immortals.

These phantom beasts were all of strange appearances, they attacked fearlessly. They
were skilled at dodging, and there were several desolate beast level phantom beasts
blocking the demonic path Gu Immortals.

"Phantom beasts are normally rare, they only appear in places with numerous space
path dao marks. There are so many here?" Hei Lou Lan was fighting fiercely as she
cursed.

She lost self strength Immortal Gu, her battle strength plummeted. Even though she
could use strength qi Immortal Gu to replace it, and still summon the giant strength
path phantom killer move, she could not show her appearance now, thus, when
fighting, she was very restricted.

"Stay calm." Fairy Li Shan consoled: "Phantom beasts have the natural ability to turn
into phantoms and avoid attacks. Inspiration for the phantom path of Gu Masters was
obtained from phantom beasts by Gu Immortal Xu Wu Xie. As long as an ancient
desolate beast level phantom beast doesn't appear, we will be able to enter the corpse
of the immemorial ruin bat eventually."

As she said this, a large group of phantom beast birds flew over.

Fang Yuan snorted, keeping them away from the other two as he used myriad self first
style, giant hand.

A strength path giant hand appeared, stretching its fingers and grabbing.

The strength path hand had great power, but when it grabbed, it caused little damage.
In this thousand phantom beast group, only some dozens had died.

Most of the phantom beasts had turned vague, they became nearly invisible, as they
remained in their places.

When Fang Yuan retracted his strength path hand, these phantom beasts appeared
again, they became solid and had real bodies, charging towards Fang Yuan and the
others again.

Fang Yuan snorted coldly, next to him, Fairy Li Shan waved a hand as a sea of fire
spread out.

The fire burned in the air, over the entire surroundings, they formed a large barrier.

The phantom beasts charged into the sea of fire, using the same ability again and
avoiding the flames by turning into phantoms, their advancement did not slow down.

But the moment they ran out of the fire, Fang Yuan had been waiting for them, he
grasped with his strength path giant hand.

Splat!

This time, Fang Yuan grabbed onto them.

Hundreds of phantom beasts were turned into meat paste, they lost their lives.

The hand slowly opened up, as flesh and blood rained down from the gaps between
his fingers, blood was pouring like a drizzle of rain. This group of phantom beasts had
around a thousand in number, with this grasp from Fang Yuan, most of them died, the
remaining ones lost their fighting spirit when faced against the imposing Fang Yuan,
they scattered and escaped.

Fang Yuan killed this group of phantom beasts so easily, but he was not smug, he had
a grim expression: "The ordinary phantom beasts are still fine, they can only turn into
phantoms for a short while, we can eradicate them with some cooperation. But the
problem lies in the desolate beast level phantom beasts."

Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan nodded.

They were observing the surroundings and paying attention to the battles elsewhere.

Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, the two rank seven Gu Immortals were fighting
with two desolate level phantom beasts each. Desolate level phantom beasts were
truly special, they could turn into phantoms for a long time. Thus, even though they
were rank six, they were hard to deal with, Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han could
not take them down even though they hurried to do so.

But the two had rich experience, after fighting for a while, they recognized the
situation and became less rash, they started to deal with the situation calmly.

In contrast, Lu Qing Ming's side was in a dangerous situation.

One desolate level phantom beast turned phantom, its speed rose quickly as it charged
towards Gu Immortal Han Dong, who was beside Lu Qing Ming.

Han Dong was caught off guard, he was inside the phantom beast's body.

After turning phantom, Han Dong could not touch the phantom beast, but the
phantom beast also could not touch Han Dong.

But at the next moment, the phantom beast became solid.

Han Dong was inside the phantom beast's body, once this happened, he entered the
phantom beast's stomach.

The phantom beast growled proudly, it flew away and left with Han Dong, leaving Lu
Qing Ming and Su Guang behind.
Lu Qing Ming, Han Dong, and Su Guang were the Traveling Three Elites, when they
joined forces, they could match a rank seven Gu Immortal. But they were cooperating
when doing that, they were not as powerful individually.

Once Han Dong was gone, the remaining two Gu Immortals' battle strength fell
drastically, they were no longer as imposing as before.

The two were anxious, they chased and attempted to save Han Dong.

The phantom beast that engulfed Han Dong flew down rapidly, it endured Lu Qing
Ming and Su Guang's attacks without turning phantom again.

Han Dong was attacking it from within its stomach as well, this phantom beast was
attacked from both inside and outside, along the way, it was clearly troubled, it was
spitting blood.

"Why is this phantom beast so stubborn? Earlier when we fought, they would all turn
phantom the moment any attacks got close. Quickly turn phantom now!" Su Guang
shouted anxiously.

Lu Qing Ming's face was grim: "Can you still not tell? There is a mastermind behind
this. Dong Fang Chang Fan, I underestimated you…”

In a hall within the ruins, Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will watched the sky with his
hands behind his back.

His body was shining in starlight, his thick and condensed body was shrinking rapidly,
becoming more dispersed.

This was the ability of the number one wisdom path immortal in Northern Plains.

Even though he had died, the methods he left behind could still be used, controlling
this phantom beast army, to fight for precious time for his inheritor.

"Quick, faster! Just a bit faster!" Behind him, Dong Fang Yu Liang was full of sweat as
he squeezed out all of his potential, trying to finish this Gu formation.

This Gu formation was the final test.

After he passed it, he would obtain Dong Fang Chang Fan's Immortal Gu, the core
essence of the wisdom path inheritance!

In the air, seeing that the desolate level phantom beast was bringing Han Dong back
to its home, Su Guang, who could not catch up, showed a look of despair: "To think that
Dong Fang Chang Fan had such incredible enslavement path methods, he really
concealed them deeply. Brother Han Dong will be in deep trouble if he can't escape,
what shall we do?!"

"Enslavement path, wisdom path, and soul path are all very similar, they almost have
the same origins, that is not strange." Lu Qing Ming's eyes shined with a determined
light: "But Dong Fang Chang Fan, we feared you when you were alive, avoiding you and
your deductions. Now that you are dead, you are still causing trouble for us, but do
you think such methods are enough to take us down, you are looking down on the
talents of this world!"

Saying so, his body shook as his arms spread open, resembling a bird spreading its
wings.

At the next moment, his arms swung in front of his chest, without bending at all, as his
hands clapped in front of him.

With a loud, crisp sound, an intense wind blew from the force of his clap.

The wind danced in the air, forming tens of thousands of wind blades in the air!

The wind blades spun around each other, forming a ball shaped mass resembling dark
green vines, they intertwined together as they were sent attacking at the desolate level
phantom beast.

"It's here! Brother Lu's immortal killer move — Entangled Wind!" Su Guang's
expression lightened.

He knew the power of this immortal killer move, if used on the phantom beast, it
would definitely suffer a huge blow, Han Dong would be saved.

Furthermore, this move, entangled wind, was strong and incredible, it was a famed
move of Lu Qing Ming, it could be manipulated at will, the wind blades could gather
and separate with just his thoughts.

That was why, even if the phantom beast turned phantom the moment it was hit,
causing entangled wind to hit Han Dong, Lu Qing Ming could still separate entangled
wind in time using his own strength.

Once entangled wind was split up, even though the attack range would increase, its
power would reduce, Han Dong would survive it.

But just when he was about to succeed, a vine dragon flew over, targeting the
entangled wind.

"Unfettered Scholar, don't even think about it!" Su Guang saw this and stared with a
furious expression, he hurriedly used his killer move to block the vine dragon.

A water lotus appeared below the entangled wind all of a sudden.

This was the action of the rank seven Gu Immortal, Pi Shui Han, who freed himself for
a moment.

Lu Qing Ming snorted coldly as the entangled wind split up, a small portion of it could
not dodge and entered the water lotus. But most of the wind blades dodged the water
lotus and gathered together again, forming a smaller entangled wind, and charging
towards the desolate level phantom beast.

But right at this moment, a strength path giant hand came out of the clouds and
grabbed the entangled wind.

With a loud bang, the strength path giant hand and the entangle wind both dissipated.

The desolate level phantom beast found an opening and landed on the palace below.
With a ripple in space, it vanished.

"Ah!" Success had been just around the corner, Su Guang growled loudly in anger,
turning towards Fang Yuan with a furious expression: "I will kill you!"

Fang Yuan snickered coldly, he waved his finger at Su Guang.

Su Guang was about to attack, but Lu Qing Ming flew over and stopped him in time.

"Stay calm, Su Guang!" Lu Qing Ming's eyes were blood red: "We will definitely take
revenge for this later, but now, the urgent matter is to save Han Dong."
Thinking of Han Dong, Su Guang controlled his anger and clenched his fist, veins could
be seen on his forehead: "Brother Lu is right, only after finding Han Dong, we would
have rank seven battle strength by combining our strength!"

Before this, only the two of them were left. Finding trouble with a rank seven battle
strength expert like Fang Yuan was just asking for humiliation.

The two talked at a low volume for a while, before turning around and attacking the
palace below.

The palace was unmoving from start to end, it was only a mirage. As space rippled
again, three new desolate level phantom beasts flew out, blocking Su Guang and Lu
Qing Ming.

But this time, Su Guang and Lu Qing Ming wanted to save someone, they went all out
and stopped preserving their strength, the three desolate level phantom beasts were
pushed back.

Pi Shui Han saw this and laughed coldly, this was the result he wanted to see.

Demonic path Gu Immortals were wary of each other, until the last moment, nobody
would go all out. With Lu Qing Ming and Su Guang leading the way, everything would
be much easier.

"Most importantly, they lost their rank seven battle strength. I have one less true
competitor now." At another side, Unfettered Scholar smiled, as he dealt with the
desolate level phantom beast, he looked at Pi Shui Han and Fang Yuan.

Especially when he saw that Fang Yuan and the others were still standing in a spot
without a desolate level phantom beast fighting them, a solemn gaze flashed across
his eyes.

"These three are having it easy, this is not a good thing." Unfettered Scholar moved as
he thought, luring the desolate level phantom beast towards Fang Yuan and the others.

Fang Yuan had already been paying attention to the surroundings, seeing this, his gaze
was cold.

He retreated as he stretched out both hands.

Two giant hands flew out, charging towards Unfettered Scholar without any
restraints.

At the same time, a third giant hand appeared behind him, protecting him from his
surroundings.

"He can actually use three hands at once?" Unfettered Scholar's movements paused,
the wariness in his mind intensified.

Just as they were all harrying and plotting against each other, an elderly Gu Immortal
appeared silently behind Dong Fang Yu Liang, who was in the large hall.

His eyes were shining with divine brilliance, his gaze swept across Dong Fang Chang
Fan's star will, as well as Dong Fang Yu Liang who was working hard, he stared at the
walls of the hall and the huge Gu formation on the ground.

"Good formation, good formation. Even I, Old Lord Can Yang, am seeing this for the
first time in my life." He praised continuously.
"Who are you?" Dong Fang Yu Liang saw Old Lord Can Yang and was shocked.

Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong were vigilant, the aura Old Lord Can Yang naturally
sent out made them feel a strong sense of fear.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will slowly turned around, saying to Old Lord Can Yang
calmly: "You are also here to inherit my wisdom path inheritance?"

Old Lord Can Yang was slightly stunned, after assessing the star will, he said with a
tone of surprise: "Oh, I am also qualified?"

"You could pass the test, you are a capable person. Since you appeared at this moment,
you have an affinity with the inheritance. The wisdom path inheritance that I, Dong
Fang Chang Fan, left behind cannot be passed down to those cowardly and useless
people, that would just be ruining my reputation, and letting our descendants laugh
at the great wisdom path Gu Immortal who can't even arrange his posthumous
matters properly, isn't that right?"

The star will paused for a moment before continuing: "Since you have shown your
outstanding skill, you naturally have the qualifications to inherit my wisdom path
inheritance. But this lad was picked by my main body, now that he is in the test, you
cannot obstruct him. If he succeeds, you will not be able to get it. But if he fails, you
are allowed to try."

"Dong Fang Chang Fan, you are indeed peerless within Northern Plains, you had such
a disposition." Old Lord Can Yang looked at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will, sighing
as he spoke matter-of-factly: "I was going to snatch it forcefully, but since this is the
case, I do not mind waiting."

Old Lord Can Yang was indeed powerful, but this place was arranged by Dong Fang
Chang Fan, even if he snatched it, he would only get an incomplete wisdom path
inheritance.
For wisdom path inheritances, the more complete they are, the more valuable they
will be.

Since there was a possibility of obtaining a complete wisdom path inheritance, Old
Lord Can Yang did not want to lose it.

His gaze went from Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will to Dong Fang Yu Liang, after
looking at him for a while, he turned to Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong.

Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong had been completely on alert since he appeared.

Old Lord Can Yang's gaze was very calm, but for Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong, they
felt as if a fire alarm was blaring. An immense sense of danger was filling them.

"What are you thinking of doing?" Dong Fang Yu Liang sensed something amiss, he
shouted loudly.

Old Lord Can Yang snickered, he did not move, but Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong's
bodies had ignited on the spot!

"Ah—!" The two screamed out shrilly, they collapsed on the floor and struggled
intensely. But the yellow-green flames continued to burn, it roasted these two rank
five Gu Masters and made them feel pain that could make one wish for death.

Old Lord Can Yang's face showed a cold and cruel smile.

His intention was to deal with Dong Fang Yu Liang. If he failed, the opportunity would
come.

But if he wanted to exterminate Dong Fang Yu Liang, the star will at the side would not
allow it, this would cause Old Lord Can Yang to lose his opportunity. Thus, Old Lord
Can Yang targeted Dong Po Kong and Tan Wu Feng.

To Dong Fang Yu Liang, these two people were loyal subordinates, they were his right-
hand men.

He was naturally affected greatly, he was also an astute person, he knelt down and
begged Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will for help: "Master, without these two, I would
not have made it here, please save them!"
Star will waved its sleeves, it said coldly: "Mercy does not suit an army commander,
kindness does not suit scheming. Dong Fang Yu Liang, you are the disciple of my main
body, but my main body is dead, I am only a star will left behind, my main purpose is
to find a suitable inheritor for this inheritance. The help I gave you has already reached
its limit, there is no use even if you beg me. Rather than wasting time here, I would
rather you use your time well and complete the Gu formation, passing the test."

The star will said that out loud, but at the same time, a voice was transmitted into
Dong Fang Yu Liang's mind: "Yu Liang, oh Yu Liang, the situation is extremely
dangerous, this Gu Immortal is a huge threat, he has great battle strength, even my
main body would be wary of him. Furthermore, I am only a will now, I deceived and
managed to stall him, you have to quickly complete this Gu formation. This formation
is both an inheritance and also a way to deter enemies. If you can complete it in time,
you will be able to use it to challenge Gu Immortals! By then, you might be able to save
your two subordinates' lives!"

Land spirits were pure, they never lied, their actions and words were all truthful. But
the star will was a will, it could lie.

Dong Fang Yu Liang heard the star will's transmission and his heart shook, he finally
understood the star will's difficulty, he shouted loudly as he stood up, he screamed at
Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong: "Brothers, you have to hang in there! I will definitely
save your lives!"

Saying this, he turned back with tears in his eyes, continuing to complete the Gu
formation.

Old Lord Can Yang frowned, he willed and the fire became larger, Tan Wu Feng and
Dong Po Kong's faces contorted from pain, their painful cries became twice as loud.

Even though they cried out in grievous pain, they could not die. Rank five Gu Masters
were at the peak of the mortal world, but in front of a person like Old Lord Can Yang,
they were like wooden puppets, they were completely controlled, they could not die
even if they wanted to!

As Dong Fang Yu Liang heard the cries, his mind became clearer, his gaze became more
firm, he was not overrun by anger and hatred, instead, his eyes started bleeding, this
was the result of him deducing intensely and expending his mental strength.
Old Lord Can Yang tortured the two and saw no effect, instead it made Dong Fang Yu
Liang try even harder. The incomplete Gu formation was being constructed at a faster
pace.

Old Lord Can Yang's face showed some worry.

At this rate, if Dong Fang Yu Liang succeeds, his plans would be ruined.

Dong Fang Yu Liang had quite a chance to succeed, not only because he was doing well
now, but because he was the person chosen by Dong Fang Chang Fan, he had to have
potential.

If Dong Fang Yu Liang obtained the inheritance, with Old Lord Can Yang's battle
strength, there was a possibility that he could snatch it.

But the problem was his Central Continent identity, he was a Central Continent Gu
Immortal, coming to Northern Plains was risky in itself.

The five regions in this world, no matter which one, were hostile to foreigners.

Especially in Northern Plains, now that Eighty-Eight True Yang Building had collapsed,
there was a huge wave of commotion, if his Central Continent Gu Immortal identity
was exposed, there would be huge trouble.

Thus, Old Lord Can Yang would rather move secretly, trying to save time and keep
himself concealed, he would want to avoid any battle.

Old Lord Can Yang took a look at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will, his gaze flickering
with uncertainty.

He felt an urge to attack Dong Fang Yu Liang secretly! But he was afraid that he would
lose the opportunity because of this, if he lost this chance, in the end he would only
obtain an incomplete inheritance, it had little value.

But he was afraid of the star will lying.

With Old Lord Can Yang's experience, he knew the difference between wills and land
spirits.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was a wisdom path Gu Immortal after all, even the star will that
he left behind after dying could influence a strong foe like Old Lord Can Yang and make
him uncertain with just a few words.

Outside in the sky, Gu Immortals and phantom beasts were fighting chaotically.

Unfettered Scholar saw Fang Yuan's three hands, his wariness increased. He only froze
momentarily, soon, he raised his speed and charged towards Fang Yuan.

Even though he was facing two strength path hands, he did not have any intention of
retreating, he wanted to force Fang Yuan and the others into trouble, to probe their
true abilities.

Fang Yuan saw that he did not manage to deter Unfettered Scholar, he was not upset,
he manipulated the two hands and without any scruples, attacked Unfettered Scholar.

"He dared to attack?"

"He really attacked, hehe, between two rank seven battle strengths, this will be a good
show!"

"I have to hide far away, to not get dragged in."

The surrounding Gu Immortals retreated, leaving a huge space for Fang Yuan and
Unfettered Scholar to fight.

Unfettered Scholar was agile, even though Fang Yuan's two hands grabbed, they could
not touch even his clothes.

Unfettered Scholar was dressed in a white robe, he wore a tall hat and had black hair,
he flew like an agile crane, free and unrestricted.

Seeing the two hands fail in getting him, Fang Yuan's body shook as two more hands
showed up.

Along with the strength path giant hand protecting his body, he summoned a total of
five giant hands!

Each of his strength path giant hands took the strength of twenty thousand strength
path phantoms in Fang Yuan's aperture, gathering and focusing on one of Fang Yuan's
arms.
This was his current limit.

In accordance with Fang Yuan's current body toughness, he could only take the
strength of twenty thousand phantoms each. Any more and his arms would break
apart even before attacking.

But do not forget, Fang Yuan's immortal zombie body was an eight armed zombie!

He had eight arms, if he used all of them, he would be able to summon eight strength
path giant hands!

Five was not his limit yet!

Four of the strength path giant hands flew in the air, attacking Unfettered Scholar.

The latter was still safe and sound even though it was harder now, he laughed loudly,
shouting at Fang Yuan: "Sir, is that all you can do?"

He called himself unfettered, he was naturally skilled at movement. Fang Yuan's

strength path giant hands were powerful, but they were not fast, they could do nothing
to Unfettered Scholar.

Unless Unfettered Scholar made a mistake, there was no chance of Fang Yuan capturing
him.

This was the limitation of giant hand.

Giant hand was powerful, but it had weaknesses.

Every immortal killer move had their own strengths and weaknesses.

Although Unfettered Scholar was leading in the battle, he was shocked inside.

The battle strength that Fang Yuan displayed made him feel heavy. Especially with
Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan standing behind Fang Yuan, fighting with minimal force,
could those two be even more powerful?

"Even if Unfettered Scholar himself fought, he could not force out the true strength of
these three people?" At another side, Pi Shui Han was also suspicious: "This can't
continue!"
His gaze was determined, the waves below his feet split, a wave that was more than a
hundred feet tall crashed at Fang Yuan and the others.

Actually, Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar were not on good terms, they even had
fought with each other previously, they had old grudges. But right now, after seeing
Fang Yuan's strength, Pi Shui Han was not an ordinary character either, he put down
his grudge and turned his firepower towards Fang Yuan, assisting Unfettered Scholar.

The two rank seven Gu Immortals attacked Fang Yuan, the other Gu Immortals quickly
retreated.

"Come then!" Fang Yuan laughed loudly, he had no fear, three more hands flew out.

A total of eight strength path giant hands, three were blocking Unfettered Scholar,
three were flying at Pi Shui Han, the last two were floating around him, prepared and
ready to strike, it gave others a huge sense of threat.

Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan's bodies also gave off Immortal Gu auras.

These Immortal Gu auras were not just one each. They each had at least two auras,
they oozed out, unconcealed.

But just this could not scare off Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han.

The two looked at each other before one of them shouted: "Having so many Immortal
Gu, you three must be famous experts, you are hiding your identities so deeply, don't
tell me you are righteous path Gu Immortals?"

The other person, Unfettered Scholar, shouted: "I am familiar with many Northern
Plains Gu Immortals. I wonder which old friend could be playing a joke on me? Or
perhaps none of you are Northern Plains Gu Immortals!"

Both of their words were deadly, one was slandering them to be righteous path Gu
Immortals, they were trying to set them apart from the demonic path cultivators. The
other was more ruthless, he said that Fang Yuan and the others were not people from
Northern Plains, he was trying to stir up the feeling of a common enemy in these
demonic path Gu Immortals.

Gu Immortals were all calculating and scheming people, when they fought, it was not
just using swords and blades, they fought using words, they competed in terms of
wisdom and strategy.
Ever since Eighty-Eight True Yang Building collapsed, and Imperial Court blessed land
was destroyed, the entirety of Northern Plains' Gu Immortal world had stirred up in
shock, they were trying to find the culprit behind this.

Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han had malicious intentions, not only did they join up
and attack Fang Yuan together, they even slandered and tried to isolate him.

By now, Fang Yuan had to speak: "Are you two trying to slander me into doing
something foolish? Hehe, you are looking down on me, you are looking down on all
our fellow immortals here. I am a true Northern Plains Gu Immortal, my Northern
Plains aura is clear for everyone to see. If you want to defame me, you should at least
make a credible lie."

The other demonic path Gu Immortals retreated even further now.

Hei Lou Lan's mouth twitched.

Fang Yuan obviously was the culprit behind it all, but he was speaking now like he was
innocent, with such confidence.

Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han did not know that although they were deliberately
making slander, they actually hit the truth. The one who caused Imperial Court blessed
land's destruction, who else could it be but Fang Yuan?

The contest of words was countered by Fang Yuan, Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han
did not speak, they attacked even more fiercely.

Being attacked at once by two rank sevens, Fang Yuan's forehead became covered in
sweat quickly, he defended himself from all directions, he was barely holding on.

After all, he was only a rank six immortal zombie, while his opponents were true rank
seven Gu Immortals.
In terms of cultivation level, there was a huge difference.

Fang Yuan relied on the immortal killer move myriad self to display rank seven battle
strength, but the longer the strength path giant hands were used, the more Fang
Yuan's arms would be unable to sustain the burden, they would gradually reach the
point of exploding into meat paste.

"I have a wood path killer move, but it is a trump card of mine, I barely use it normally.
It can be used on one of the enemies, and possibly gravely injure them. But I will need
you to restrict them and move the location elsewhere." Fairy Li Shan saw that Fang
Yuan was at a disadvantage, she was anxious and transmitted this to him.

Fang Yuan shook his head as he smiled bitterly, replying: "The strength path giant
hands have incredible power, but they are slow, it is extremely difficult to trap any one
of them, there is little hope. Fairy, you can wait for a moment, I still have a plan. If this
fails, it will not be too late for you to strike."

"Oh?" Fairy Li Shan heard this and held in her anxiety.

After several rounds, Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar were closing in, Fang Yuan's
disadvantage was getting higher.

"Now is the time." A bright flash shined across Fang Yuan's eyes, he manipulated six
strength path giant hands as he slammed down.

Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar were both below the giant hands, they felt a strong
pressure coming down from above, slamming towards them.

At once, the air seemed to have frozen.

The giant hands whipped up strong winds, causing Unfettered Scholar's clothes to
flutter, as Pi Shui Han's expression tensed.

The strength path giant hands slammed down together, they were so fierce that the
onlookers' hearts jumped.

But Pi Shui Han and Unfettered Scholar were already familiar with the strength path
giant hands, the former scoffed while the latter smiled lightly, they used their
movement killer moves and avoided the hands.
But Fang Yuan acted differently from before, he did not stop his attack, he continued
exerting force, slamming the six giant hands down on the ground.

This change caught everyone off guard, even Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will below
became stunned.

"Oh no." The star will's expression changed, he wanted to stop it but it was too late.

Boom!

Six strength path giant hands slammed down in the air, causing ripples to appear in
the space, the loud sound was like the boom of thunder.

Countless space path dao marks embedded in the air were smashed by the strength
path giant hands.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements were destroyed, the concealment illusion was
gone, the immemorial desolate beast level ruin bat corpse's true appearance was
exposed.

What a huge ruin bat!

Its body was sprawled flat on the ground, but it was still hundreds of meters in size.
Its wings were thick and huge, covering a few li of sand.

The bat wings were slightly lower, while the head was the highest, looking upon it
from a high altitude, it resembled a small mountain.

On the ruin bat's back, there was a huge wound.

The wound was extremely deep, Fang Yuan looked at it and knew that it was the ruin
bat's fatal injury, but he did not know which existence caused it.

At the periphery of the injury, the flesh and fur of the ruin bat was corroded, showing
its white bones. On the skeleton, there were extremely thick space path dao marks,
interweaved together to conjure a small space.

Inside this space, there was a hall that was so run-down it looked like ruins.

Fang Yuan's six strength path giant hands had already broken into this small space, it
was connected to the outside world now.

"Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements were broken!"

"His inheritance is inside, whoever snatches it first gets it!"

"Fight, fight our way in."

Wealth moved people's hearts, the inheritance of Northern Plains' number one
wisdom path Gu Immortal in this generation, to the demonic path Gu Immortals, it
was extremely attractive.

Fang Yuan opened a pathway directly, it triggered the greed in all of the demonic path
Gu Immortals.

The first demonic path Gu Immortal flew down, causing the other demonic path Gu
Immortals to feel an intense sense of urgency, they rushed down one after another.

Unfettered Scholar was hesitant, while Pi Shui Han had already given up on Fang Yuan,
he flew into the tunnel below.

Unfettered Scholar sighed lightly, looking at Fang Yuan deeply, he turned into a white
light and fought his way into the tunnel.

But at the next moment, six brand new desolate level phantom beasts, as well as an
ancient desolate level phantom beast flew out of the small space, colliding with all of
the demonic path Gu Immortals.

The two sides fought in a chaotic mess again.

"There is definitely someone manipulating this." Fang Yuan saw this and squinted,
slightly shocked inside.

Old Lord Can Yang was also shocked, the situation was getting more urgent, seemingly
thoroughly sobering him.

Snorting coldly, a cruel smile appeared on his face, as a huge flame turned Tan Wu
Feng and Dong Po Kong into charcoal.

These two poor rank fives, at the peak of the mortal world, they had a tough journey
in following Dong Fang Yu Liang, reaching this stage. In the end, they were killed by
Old Lord Can Yang in an instant, burnt to death.

At the same time, as Old Lord Can Yang snorted coldly, Dong Fang Yu Liang, who was
working hard, spat out blood like he was struck by lightning, he knelt on the ground.

"Old scoundrel, you killed my subordinates, and still dare to attack me!" Dong Fang Yu
Liang struggled to get up, he was shouting in anger and hatred.

Old Lord Can Yang's eyes darted around, he sneered: "Don't frame me, I did nothing."

In saying this, the corners of his eyes were locked on Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will.

This was Old Lord Can Yang's probe, to see if this star will's methods were real or not.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will saw this and heaved a long sigh, saying: "It has gotten
to this point, so be it, everyone come out."

Once he said that, a change occurred.

In the hall, a mysterious light burst out.

When the light faded, eight Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals appeared together, they
were surrounding Old Lord Can Yang in the middle as they shouted:

"Old scoundrel, you dare to target our tribe's inheritance, your death date will be
today."

"Although this old scoundrel is despicable, the traitor in our tribe is even more
deplorable!"

"Quickly tell us, who was the one who informed you in secret?"

Old Lord Can Yang was no longer calm, panic flashed across his eyes as he looked at
the star will with much rage and shock: "So this was a plot against me!"

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will nodded: "Indeed. Before my main body died, I had
instructed Dong Fang Wan Xiu and taught him the correct method. Using this, he
obtained the secret passageway from the teleportation Gu formation. He told the
seven Gu Immortals around him this secret passageway. After that, on the way here,
they met with my arrangements and were attacked by the desolate beasts, keeping
them busy."

"Meanwhile, the traitor in my tribe is evidently among these eight. The traitor was
stalled by the desolate beasts and could not come here. Afraid that the wisdom path
inheritance would end up in the hands of others, he sent this secret information using
a certain method to you. After receiving the information, you surpassed the other
demonic path Gu Immortals and arrived here first."

Old Lord Can Yang's expression was grim, he stared at the star will as he said eerily:
"So that is it. Even though you knew that Dong Fang tribe had a traitor, you did not
know who it was."

"That is correct." Star will nodded: "But now it seems, the traitor is among these eight."

"Who was it, who betrayed our bloodline, who betrayed our tribe!" Dong Fang Wan
Xiu screamed.

"At this point, you have already exposed some clues, it will only take some effort to
find you, why are you not owning up?" Dong Fang Yi Kong clenched his fists in anger.

The other Gu Immortals looked at each other, some had solemn expressions while the
others had a furious look.

The situation was in a deadlock.

Dong Fang tribe had eight Gu Immortals, but they were all rank six. Old Lord Can Yang
was a true rank seven, and an expert even among rank sevens.

Even though Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals were greater in numbers, they knew that
one of them was a traitor, that caused them to be wary of each other, they did not
attack directly.

Old Lord Can Yang frowned slowly, looking at the star will: "Wait, since you saw
through the plot and were targeting me from the start, you could have triggered the
arrangements before I entered, why did you wait until now?"

The star will stood on the spot, refusing to answer him.

Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals also did not speak.

The hall fell into silence, noises of the intense battles from above could be heard.

Old Lord Can Yang twitched in sudden understanding: "I get it, you want to borrow
my strength to deal with these demonic path Gu Immortals. All you need to do is to
intentionally make Dong Fang Yu Liang fail, and I would think that I could compete for
this inheritance. By then, all of the demonic path Gu Immortals outside would be my
enemies. Of course, with your wisdom, you can certainly think of another, better
method to make me your pawn. When these demonic path Gu Immortals and I fight it
out and become weakened, your Gu Immortals would be able to reap more profits. It
is a good plan, what a great scheme…”

"Unfortunately, any sort of arrangement is not safe from accidents." The star will said,
acknowledging Old Lord Can Yang's guess.

This accident was Fang Yuan's six strength path giant hands.

"Teacher…” Dong Fang Yu Liang was standing stunned on the spot, the scene in front
of him made him feel helpless, he was both joyful and sorrowful.

He was joyful because the enemy was restricted, the tribe was prepared for it. He was
sorrowful because he was just bait, he was a pawn meant to attract the enemy. His
hard work, Tan Wu Feng and Dong Po Kong's sacrifice, they seemed like foolish,
laughable jokes.

As if he sensed Dong Fang Yu Liang's thoughts, the star will turned around and looked
at the inheritor that he chose: "Yu Liang, you do not need to think too deeply about it,
I was using the wisdom path inheritance to trap our strong foes and exterminate the
traitor in our tribe. But the arrangement here is real, the wisdom path inheritance is
also real. This enemy has a huge background, he is from Immortal Crane Sect, one of
the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent. They also have their wisdom path Gu
Immortals. It is only when I place the true wisdom path inheritance here, that I would
not leave behind any flaws that would allow the enemy's wisdom path Gu Immortals
to find out."

"So that's it!" Dong Fang Yu Liang's heart shook, he felt ashamed but also deep
admiration.

He was ashamed about his own foolish thoughts, he was also admiring his teacher
Dong Fang Chang Fan. The latter taught him painstakingly, even after death, he plotted
and attempted to protect Dong Fang tribe, eliminating their traitor.

The enemy was so strong, Dong Fang Chang Fan made such an arrangement due to his
wisdom, but also because he was helpless against such a strong foe.

After experiencing the difficulty that his teacher was feeling, Dong Fang Yu Liang felt
even more deeply ashamed of himself.
"Alright, Yu Liang, go and complete the Gu formation, as long as you go through this
last round, you will be able to obtain my main body's true inheritance. As for you, Old
Lord Can Yang, you will die here today." Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will said slowly.

Old Lord Can Yang took a step back, he spoke arrogantly: "Hmph, although I am alone,
you are only a group of rank six along with a mere will, you want to take my life? Don't
forget that my ally is among you. There are also demonic path Gu Immortals outside,
they are like hungry wolves, your phantom beasts can't hold them off for long."

Although he said that, his face showed a vigilant and alert expression.

To live to his age, and obtain such accomplishments, a vigilant nature was a necessary
trait.

Old Lord Can Yang's words were true, he attacked Dong Fang tribe's weakness.

That was also why Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals did not attack rashly despite
having an advantage in numbers.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will laughed: "During the Remote Antiquity Era, Star
Constellation Immortal Venerable, the creator of wisdom path, died, but she deduced
matters over a million years after her death. It caused three future Demon Venerables
to return empty handed, protecting Heavenly Court. Although I, Dong Fang Chang Fan,
am far inferior to Star Constellation Immortal Venerable, I can still somewhat deduce
matters within a hundred years after my demise. Since I made such an arrangement,
I have my trump cards."

Saying so, an illusory Gu formation appeared in the hall.

Countless Gu worms flew around, they were like the threads of countless spiders,
weaved in the large hall.
Compared to this new formation, the Gu formation that Dong Fang Yu Liang was
completing resembled a baby in front of an adult.

Old Lord Can Yang saw this and his expression turned ugly: "This is a phantom
formation! To think that you, Dong Fang Chang Fan, had such deep attainment in
phantom path, you can actually set up a phantom formation!"

Ordinary Gu formations, once exposed, were easy to target and destroy.

That was because the Gu worms that made up the Gu formation were of solid form.

The Gu worms themselves were very fragile, even the immortal level Spring Autumn
Cicada could be destroyed by Fang Yuan if he squeezed it between his fingers lightly.

But this phantom formation was a high level method involving phantom path, it made
all of the Gu worms in the Gu formation turn phantom, while not obstructing the effect
of the Gu formation itself.

The phantom beasts could hold off Fang Yuan and the other demonic path Gu
Immortals for so long because of their ability to turn phantom. Once they turned
phantom, no moves would have any effect on them.

The star will displayed the Gu formation outright, not afraid of Old Lord Can Yang
destroying it, that was because the Gu formation had turned phantom, Old Lord Can
Yang could only watch it activate, there was nothing he could do.

As the Gu formation started to activate, a blinding light filled the hall.

"Hahaha." Old Lord Can Yang laughed loudly: "Since I cannot do anything to the
phantom formation, I will kill all of you instead!"

"Everyone, be careful!"

"He is attacking!"

"Beware of the traitor, do not be too careless. This is a life-and-death moment for our
tribe!"

"That's right, as long as we survive this, all will be smooth sailing."

The Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were all waiting in seriousness, they were deeply
focused.

"Everyone, don't be anxious, for the time being, he can't get here." Dong Fang Chang
Fan's star will was very calm.

At the next moment, Old Lord Can Yang charged over, but his movements were very
slow.

The fire that he shot out was originally very fast, but now it was slow like a snail.

"This is?" Old Lord Can Yang quickly realized that he did not become slower, instead,
a mystical change had occurred to the space in front of him that could not be observed
with the naked eye.

The distance seemed short, but the space was condensed.

"I spent decades and immense effort to design this. Although this hall looks ordinary
and is no different from the other halls, I had shifted most of the space path dao marks
on the corpse here. Although we and Old Lord Can Yang are only tens of steps apart,
our true distance is gigantic." The star will said slowly.

"As expected of Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan!" Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were
relieved, their eyes were shining as they looked at the star will with much admiration.

The star will nodded: "Now is the crucial moment, I will tell you the truth. This
formation is a large formation. With my wisdom path Immortal Gu as the core, and
blood path Immortal Gu as support, once activated, the power will be overwhelming,
it can shake heaven and earth. Furthermore, because of the blood path Immortal Gu,
it has an amazing effect against Gu Immortals. As long as the Gu formation is activated,
not only can it kill Old Lord Can Yang, it can even slaughter all of the demonic path Gu
Immortals in the sky. After this battle, my Dong Fang tribe will be renowned in
Northern Plains, both the righteous and demonic paths, and the other major forces
would be greatly wary of us. After this battle ends, your can move this formation back
to our blessed land. If Yu Liang can obtain my inheritance, he will be the person in
charge of controlling this formation."

Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals heard this and became excited.

In contrast, Old Lord Can Yang's expression was unable to conceal his suspicion and
wariness.

The star will continued: "My main body had formed an agreement with the righteous
path super forces before dying, creating an alliance, but in this world, only power that
one has in their own hands can best ensure safety. You must remember, do not
unnecessarily place hope in other's hands."

Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals nodded, they expressed that they had learned a
lesson.

Dong Fang Yi Kong shouted: "Lord Chang Fan, our tribe still has that traitor. No matter
how vigilant we are, we can't defend against an internal threat!"

"Don't be anxious." The star will laughed: "I'm not finished yet. Everything has its
advantages and disadvantages, gains and losses. This Gu formation is very powerful,
but it has a severe drawback. To activate this Gu formation, it will need to use the
immortal aperture origin core of Gu Immortals."

"What?" Many of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals shouted in shock.

The immortal aperture origin core was the foundation of the immortal aperture, the
base of it all.

Once it was drawn out, the painstakingly developed immortal aperture would reverse
its progression, the space would shrink and the primeval energy would dwindle,
lifeforms within would die en masse.

The Gu Immortal themselves would weaken instead of progressing, once the time
comes, heavenly tribulations or earthly calamities in the immortal aperture would be
devastating.

The shrinking of the immortal aperture would mean the weakening of the Gu
Immortal, they would die from disasters if they were not vigilant.

Since their lives were at stake, Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals lost their bearings.

But soon, one Gu Immortal stood up.

It was Dong Fang Wan Xiu.

The people in the hall heard him speak: "There cannot be benefits without losses, Lord
Chang Fan had planned this with much difficulty, creating this situation now. For Dong
Fang tribe, what reasons do I have not to make such a sacrifice?"

"That's right! Truly worthy of Lord Wan Xiu. I, Dong Fang Yi Kong, will accompany
you!" Soon after, Dong Fang Yi Kong also stood up.

The star will smiled, he was silent as he looked at the others.

The other Gu Immortals looked at each other, nodding quickly, they decided to
eliminate the tribe's strong foes by sacrificing themselves.

"No need to rush." The star will waved his hand, he said slowly: "I have something else
to tell all of you. Once you enter the Gu formation, the immortal aperture origin core
would start being extracted, by then, none of you would not be able to move or leave
forcefully. Your lives and deaths will be in my control. Are you still willing? If you are
not, you can step out now."

The Gu Immortals' expressions changed again.

Dong Fang Wan Xiu's eyes were shining with a lively light, he looked around and
smiled coldly: "Traitor, you should reveal yourself now, if not, it will be too late."

Star will's words were naturally for the traitor.

As long as one thought about it, they would realize: If there was really a traitor, after
hearing this, they would feel great mental pressure. Once they entered the formation,
their life would not be in their own hands. If they were exposed when attacking Old
Lord Can Yang later due to panic, then they would not be able to fight back at all!

If there really was a traitor, they would have other goals and would not want to attack
Old Lord Can Yang. They would not want their lives to be in the star will's hands.

After that, a few breaths later, none of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals in the hall stood
out.

"Alright, at this point, I, Wan Xiu, have to admire you. No wonder you could conceal
yourself in the tribe for so long, and so deeply." Dong Fang Wan Xiu said with much
hatred.
The star will laughed lightly: "In that case, enter the formation."

The phantom Gu formation had eight core points, the Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals
entered and occupied one each.

The Gu formation activated slowly, the Gu Immortals' expressions changed as they felt
their immortal apertures tremble, a strong suction force was emitting from the
formation.

"Relax your mind, cooperate with the formation, let it run fully." The star will was
solemn.

The Gu Immortals were hesitant, but they eventually opened their immortal apertures
and allowed traces of their immortal aperture origin cores to be drawn out, flowing
out from the eight core points of the formation.

In the phantom formation, a faint blood-colored light quickly surfaced.

Under the effect of the blood-colored light, these eight different immortal aperture
origin cores converged in the Gu formation, they were actually fusing into one.

"This formation is really mystical!" A Gu Immortal saw this and could not help but
praise.

"This is because all of you have Dong Fang tribe's bloodline in you. Your bloodlines are
close, your origins are the same. Therefore, your bloodlines can mix, and your
immortal aperture origin can could fuse. Only by fusing could they accumulate in
quantity, and summon a huge force!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will slowly
explained.

The eight Gu Immortals in the formation nodded, Dong Fang Wan Xiu's eyes were
shining with brilliance, he looked around but could not find out any flaws that could
expose the traitor.

"No matter." The star will laughed lightly: "In this situation, regardless of who the
traitor is, they are already under my control, they are putting in strength for our tribe.
Everyone, relax, I am going to extract more of your immortal aperture origin cores."

"Go ahead!"
"Right, we will kill all of these accursed demonic path Gu Immortals! They dare to
target our Dong Fang tribe!!"

The phantom formation burst out in a bright light, the Gu Immortals snorted as their
expressions turned dark, some of them were frowning while others were feeling
discomfort and pain.

The immortal aperture origin cores were like lumps of water as they fused in the
phantom formation, converging into a huge force, they resembled a slumbering fierce
beast. No matter who it was, anyone could feel that this force was huge, even the
surrounding air had ripples it in, as if it could not hold such power.

The Gu Immortals in Dong Fang tribe had red faces, some of their bodies were
trembling, some of them had ruthless expressions, they were all looking forward to
this rampaging power.

But this power was not unleashed yet under the control of the star will, it was
prepared for release but remained in place.

"No need to rush." The star will looked into the sky, at the chaotic battle.

The phantom beasts that obstructed the demonic path Gu Immortals were all
slaughtered, almost none were left.

The star will was like a flood dragon, hiding in the river, waiting for the best time to
strike.

Once the time was right, the flood dragon would soar into the sky, overturning rivers
and seas. By then, the unfortunate people would be the one charging at its front.

Right at this time, Dong Fang Yu Liang stood up, shouting loudly: "Master, I did it, I
succeeded in completing this Gu formation, I completed your request!"

The star will's gaze swept towards him, he showed a pleased smile: "Very good. Yu
Liang, you did not disappoint me. Enter the formation too, stand at the center.
Although you are a mortal, you will need to ascend to immortal eventually. When the
battle begins, you will experience the power of a Gu Immortal, it will be of great help
for your future."

"Yes, master. I will listen to you!" Dong Fang Yu Liang's eyes were red, he was so moved
he was choking back tears.

He leaped, jumping into the air, with the power of the phantom formation, he stood in
the formation's central core as he floated in the air.

In the sky, despite Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han's heavy disturbances, Fang Yuan
finally found a chance.

The sky in front of him was clear, there was nothing stopping him, the chance was only
momentary, he latched onto it and flew down with minimal attention to his safety!

Seven strength path giant hands slammed down, only one was left protecting his body.

"It is time." The star will saw this and sighed lightly.

Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals were all looking into the sky with much blood lust.

At the next moment, they saw Old Lord Can Yang flying up, blocking Fang Yuan's attack
as he force the latter back into the sky.

"Eh?!" This turn of events made all of the Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals look on with
stunned expressions.

"All of my efforts were not in vain, in forming this plot to regain my life through
possession, now is the moment!" The star will laughed loudly, he was extremely
excited.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul suddenly appeared, charging into the phantom
formation's center as he entered Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.

"Hahaha, you bunch of fools! I will tell you the truth, the true traitor in Dong Fang tribe
is that beloved Lord Chang Fan of yours, hahahaha." Old Lord Can Yang was laughing
maniacally.
"What?" Dong Fang Wan Xiu stared with wide open eyes.

"This is not possible!" Dong Fang Yi Kong firmly denied.

"How could it be Lord Dong Fang Chang Fan? Everyone, be careful, this is likely to be
an illusion! The enemy cannot break the formation, so he is trying to confuse us!!"

All the Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe had incredulous expressions, unable to accept
this shocking fact.

Old Lord Can Yang scoffed: "Confuse you guys? Laughable, all of you are incapable of
moving, you aren't even worth confusing. You have already become meat on the
chopping board, unable to free yourselves, it is funny how you still cannot see the
truth. Hehehe."

These words were like shocking strikes of lightning that ruthlessly assaulted the Dong
Fang tribe's Gu Immortals.

Everyone looked at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will.

Dong Fang Wan Xiu shouted: "Lord Chang Fan, this is not real!"

Dong Fang Yi Kong asked: "Lord Chang Fan, please speak up!"

"Lord Chang Fan, Dong Fang Chang Fan! What are your intentions?!"

Countless questions and shouts echoed in this hall.

The star will chuckled, seemingly at leisure. He was only a will, but had condensed
into the image of his body back when he was alive, his frame was upright, his face like
that of jade, his eyes full of splendor and a graceful aura of a great commander was
revealed.
However, right now, this sight, this attitude and demeanor, caused a chill to emerge in
the hearts of Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals.

The phantom formation transformed again; the enormous power which it had
condensed was finally being released at this moment.

It was like a surge of waves; blood-colored light shot out everywhere, forming a thick
bloody veil that covered the main location in the ruin bat's corpse.

At this sight, Dong Fang Wan Xiu and the rest finally had a huge change in their
expressions.

They had thought this formation was used for attacking the enemies, but its true use
was to defend.

This chilling fact was displayed in front of everyone's eyes, tearing apart the lies told
by the star will.

"Dong Fang Chang Fan, why are you doing this? Why are you harming us!?" Dong Fang
Wan Xiu looked malevolent, his expression filled with pain and grief.

"What could it be for? Being alive is the foundation for everything, who would want to
die? Who doesn't want to live? As long as there is a sliver of a hope to survive, who can
resist the temptation?" Old Lord Can Yang sneered, staring at the phantom formation
intently without blinking.

Looking at the phantom formation operating normally, Old Lord Can Yang could not
help but take a deep breath: "This possession technique really has an extremely high
price. It needs the sacrifice of Gu Immortals every time it is activated?"

If it was true, this possession technique could not be used widely as the activation
conditions were too costly.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will slowly shook its head: "Old Lord, you don't need to
worry. I previously obtained this possession technique in Eighty-Eight True Yang
Building. The contents inside allow one to possess mortals and even Gu Immortals.
But to possess Gu Immortals, one's cultivation must be higher than the target.
Moreover, after possession, the immortal aperture would be the target's immortal
aperture. This is akin to a raven taking over a seagull's nest, it is unfitting and has great
disadvantages. While alive, I was a wisdom path Gu Immortal, but I did not have a
suitable wisdom path Gu Immortal as the possession target. Thus, I exerted effort to
think and plan for so many years before I finally obtained this formation."

"This formation was created with the possession technique as the foundation. It can
let me possess a mortal and at the same time, it can mobilize the origin cores of Gu
Immortals of the same bloodline and create a completely new wisdom path immortal
aperture, allowing me to immediately become an immortal after possession and avoid
the dangerous stage of having weaker cultivation initially."

Hearing the star will's explanation, Old Lord Can Yang sized up the star will while also
being inwardly shocked: 'This Dong Fang Chang Fan concealed his abilities really well,
not only is his wisdom path attainment enough to be known as the best in Northern
Plains, he also can use space path dao marks and manipulate the phantom beast army.
Now, it seems his blood path attainment is also not low!'

The star will did not know of the churning of Old Lord Can Yang's inner thoughts, still
continuing its explanation: "Don't underestimate this formation. With these eight Gu
Immortals sacrificing themselves, they will be supplying me with abundant resources!
My newly formed immortal aperture will absolutely be the best within high grade!
There is also another key point - the immortal aperture will automatically produce
resources like flowers, birds, fish, insects and so on. It would be as if I had managed
the blessed land for many years, this would save hundreds of years of hard work. Thus,
after I complete possession, not only would my cultivation be restored, I will also have
enough resources, much more than when I was alive! Old Lord Can Yang, feel free to
observe and ask questions as you desire. I will explain the key content of every step."

A heated expression flashed across Old Lord Can Yang's face.

He laughed heartily, looking deeply at Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will: "You truly
made a good plan, wanting me to keep you safe from danger. My presence here was to
help you resist these demonic path Gu Immortals. And when you succeed in advancing
to Gu Immortal, there will definitely be a heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, at
that time, I will be by your side, forced to take action even if I don't want to."

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will smiled without any shame from having his scheme
exposed. He looked at Old Lord Can Yang and said with a quiet and deep voice: "If you
want to gain something in this world, you need to be prepared to pay the price. How
can there be free things? In particular, the more you want to obtain, the higher the risk
will be. What is Old Lord's decision, please confirm it quickly."
Old Lord Can Yang snickered, but inwardly, he deeply admired Dong Fang Chang Fan
for being decisive in what to give up.

Back then, when Dong Fang Chang Fan obtained the possession technique from
Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's true inheritance secluded domain, he had also
discovered the arrangements of Central Continent's ten great sects.

Meanwhile, Immortal Crane Sect had been infiltrating Dong Fang tribe. After Dong
Fang Chang Fan became a Gu Immortal and joined the higher ups of the tribe, he
secretly discovered this fact.

But he did not expose this, instead following this clue to covertly engage in
cooperation with Immortal Crane Sect.

He used the possession technique to make a transaction with Immortal Crane Sect.

Lifespan Gu were hard to find, any Gu Immortal would scramble for any methods for
life extension. Let alone when this possession technique came from Giant Sun
Immortal Venerable!

Immortal Crane Sect was one of the ten great ancient sects of Central Continent and
had long history with deep foundations, but even it could not resist the temptation of
the possession technique.

The two sides had their own needs, Dong Fang Chang Fan slowly released the contents
of the possession technique while obtaining resources from Immortal Crane Sect.

He used these resources to quickly advance and successfully passed many

tribulations. He also supported the next generations of the tribe and formed schemes
directed everywhere, bringing the declining Dong Fang tribe to glory!

In cooperating with a person like Dong Fang Chang Fan, Old Lord Can Yang was very
cautious, not relaxing his guard, even though he was stronger.

He did not think for long, nodding and accepting.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will gave a laugh: "Good, I will explain the first step…”

Old Lord Can Yang listened, paying full attention.

It was clear to him that Dong Fang Chang Fan was using him, but Old Lord Can Yang
had come as a representative of Immortal Crane Sect's will, thus he also had no other
choice.

Old Lord Can Yang thought of the heavy reward from the sect for completing this
mission, and that was his motivation to continue.

Dong Fang tribe's eight Gu Immortals were already cursing loudly.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was unconscious and motionless, his eyes closed.

Meanwhile, in the outside world, Fang Yuan looked down at another sight.

He saw an incomparably large blood veil which covered the ruin bat's corpse like a
mountain. The blood veil was extremely thick, with greatly plentiful quantities of
blood colored light, and the terrifying might it showcased could make one's heart
palpitate.

The demonic path Gu Immortals turned their attentions to the blood veil, and stopped
their internal conflicts.

Some among them tried using their methods in attacking the blood veil, but it was like
pebbles being thrown into a large lake, there were only slight ripples on the blood veil,
and it stood unmoved, stable like a mountain.

"Such a strong defense!"

"What Gu formation is this? I have neither seen it nor even heard of it before."

"Dong Fang Chang Fan truly left behind an endless number of arrangements."

The demonic path Gu Immortals were making guesses.

Fang Yuan also frowned. Even though he was an expert in blood path and had his
previous life's memories, he had never seen nor heard of this Gu formation.

"Who cares what Gu formation this is, it will break with one smash from my hammer!"
Gu Immortal Zhuo Zhan shouted and charged forward.

He was riding a flying boar desolate beast, his body was covered in armor and he was
holding a giant hammer. He had a burly build and was easily irritable, but he bullied
the weak while fearing the strong.

Everyone's gazes gathered on him.

Zhuo Zhan felt very proud for being in the limelight, his expression turning even more
fierce.

But several breaths later, his fierce expression was gone completely, replaced by shock
and fear.

As he approached the blood veil, the blood in his body went out of his control, and
started flowing out of his body.

Gu Immortals were called immortals, but their bodies, for the most part, still retained
the normal workings and functions of the human body. Blood supported the
movement of the body and was a crucial part.

Zhuo Zhan was still a far distance from the blood veil, but half the blood in his body
had sprayed out.

If he continued, before he even reached the blood veil, his blood would completely
seep out and he would turn into a dried out corpse.

"Such an odd formation!"

"This is the effect of menses blood Gu, it can draw out blood."

"Menses blood Gu is one of the blood path inheritances of Blood Sea Ancestor, who
could have thought that the rumor of Dong Fang Chang Fan obtaining it was not only
true, he also raised this menses blood Gu to Immortal Gu level!"

The demonic path Gu Immortals showed moved expressions.

Several Gu Immortals tried all kinds of methods, but everyone failed.

Everyone was aware that unless they used methods that targeted defensive abilities,
they would not be able to break this blood veil.

Fang Yuan frowned tensely. He, himself, was an expert in blood path during his
previous life, but he currently did not have any blood path Immortal Gu and he
cultivated strength path. Without the necessary starting components, one couldn't get
anywhere, he was unable to do anything to this formation.

The situation was troublesome and everyone was feeling anxious. Dong Fang Yu Liang
had been inside for so long, he might have already completely obtained the
inheritance.

"The current plan should be to use long range killer moves! Everyone, attack together,
let's destroy Dong Fang Chang Fan's arrangements first before we fight for the spoils.
Otherwise, under the eyes of numerous immortals, a mortal would seize the
inheritance. If that really happens, I, Unfettered Scholar, would have no face left to
continue living in Northern Plains!" Unfettered Scholar suddenly shouted.

He immediately made his move after shouting.

The demonic path Gu Immortals agreed.

For a while, water and fire converged, lightning and wind struck, colorful lights
sparkled, and countless explosions struck the blood veil, reducing its mass.

Everyone had joyful expressions before they soon turned grave.

The blood veil continuously shrunk but also unceasingly regenerated. Especially for
the parts further inside, the demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks clearly showed
insufficient damage.
The blood veil firmly covered the ruin bat's corpse, resisting the wanton attacks of the
demonic path Gu Immortals.

Having not expected such resistance from the blood veil and under the urgent
situation, Pi Shui Han shouted: "Make way!"

He was a rank seven Gu Immortal and had already formed a reputation within the
demonic path. Everyone parted ways and opened up a space for him.

Water path and ice path killer move — Flood Glacier!

Inside Pi Shui Han's immortal aperture, over ten thousand Gu worms were activated,
while his rank seven red date immortal essence was being consumed bead by bead.

Rumble!

Endless waves started surging out of thin air from the space within hundreds of steps
of Pi Shui Han.

Surging waves, like innumerable raging dragons, roared and crashed down with a
catastrophic momentum!

The giant wave was still crashing down when it underwent another transformation.

Crackle… The giant wave started condensing into ice from inside to outside. Within
several breaths, the monstrous giant wave turned into an enormous glacier and
pressed down like a giant whale, or a pillar falling from the heavens.

The ice-cold chilly air could make one tremble.

The terrifying attack made people hold their breaths subconsciously.

In the hall, Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will no longer had the leisurely attitude from
before, and all his focus was on raising the defensive power to the maximum.

The previous demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks were fierce, but they lacked
coordination, and although they were numerous in quantity, they had limited
qualitative increase in power. Now that Pi Shui Han used this trump card, his strength
was united as it was his own power, and was stronger than the earlier chaotic attacks
by at least ten times.

Rumble…

The glacier heavily smashed at the blood veil.

The blood veil deformed from the enormous weight, but was still able to rigidly resist
the pressure of the glacier and the corrosion of the cold aura.

Immortal killer move flood glacier was powerful, but Dong Fang Chang Fan's blood
veil was arranged from the origin cores of eight Gu Immortals' immortal apertures
and also was aided by the arrangements prepared at this location. Pi Shui Han, alone,
could not break through the blood veil.

But this killer move was still astonishing.

The demonic path Gu Immortals looked down from above, and saw that with the ruin
bat at the center, the entire surroundings had turned into a glacier.

The dead immemorial ruin bat was huge, like a mountain, and now that it was covered
by the glacier, it was as if it wore a heavy suit of ice armor, looking even more gigantic.

Inside the translucent glacier was a giant red blood veil.

The bone-chilling cold air was still spreading everywhere, frost had covered the
vegetation on the periphery and was expanding.

For a while, everyone looked at Pi Shui Han with astonished gazes.

Although the killer move had not broken the blood veil, its power still left a deep
impression on everyone.

"Even if I used all eight strength path giant hands together, I wouldn't be able to resist
this killer move head-on." Fang Yuan's gaze flickered.
This was the true strength of an veteran rank seven Gu Immortal.

Compared to this, Fang Yuan was still lacking greatly.

Previously, Fang Yuan had been able to fight against two, blocking Unfettered Scholar
and Pi Shui Han, because the two had not used their trump cards.

Gu Immortals were rational; they all came for the wisdom path inheritance, and had
no deep hatred against each other, they would have to be mentally handicapped to
fight each other to the death.

But now, the Gu Immortals realized something was wrong, only then did Pi Shui Han
use a trump card and put out his full strength!

"Although I have rank seven battle strength with my immortal killer move myriad self,
it is only barely at that level. If I had to truly fight an expert like Pi Shui Han to the
death, the one who is likely to lose is me. But if I had to confront this move, I would
not face it head-on, but attempt to evade and detour around to battle."

The power of the immortal killer move, flood glacier, made Fang Yuan aware of some
of Pi Shui Han's strength and also made him aware of the gap between him and Pi Shui
Han.

Immediately, Fang Yuan felt a slight sense of urgency.

The cultivation of Gu Immortals was a major factor in influencing battle strength. A

part of Pi Shui Han's power was because he had used rank seven red date immortal
essence. Fang Yuan already had made extremely superior progress in this life, but the
thing hindering him was his immortal zombie body. His true cultivation was only at
the bottom of rank six with not even one tribulation passed.

"Cultivation is the base, the foundation. My immortal zombie body might be strong,
but there is no room to greatly improve. I still have to search for the method to regain
my living body."

"Brother Pi really is mighty! Let me also test my hand." At this moment, Unfettered
Scholar laughed brightly and flew towards Pi Shui Han.

Pi Shui Han coldly snorted, with a ugly expression on his face. He had made such an
effort in front of everyone, but had still not been able to break the blood veil. Seeing
Unfettered Scholar coming over, he slowly gave way for the central position.

Under everyone's gazes, Unfettered Scholar flew right above the ruin bat's corpse.

He had already been preparing earlier, he suddenly opened his eyes, his pupils were
completely white and shot out two thin rays of faint white light.

This move looked very inconspicuous, purely based on how imposing it appeared, it
could never be compared to the glacier earlier.

The Gu Immortals who were unaware were rather baffled at this.

However, Pi Shui Han's complexion changed.

When the two faint white light rays shined down, the glacier instantly melted and the
blood veil intensely shook, unexpectedly displaying immense power.

"Hmm? This is Unfettered Scholar? What an amazing move, thousand

disintegrations!" In the hall, Old Lord Can Yang, however, recognized this move.

Central Continent's ten great ancient sects had infiltrated into Northern Plains for
many years over Eighty-Eight True Yang Building. Since Old Lord Can Yang took the
risk to come, he naturally had a lot of information on Northern Plains.

Unfettered Scholar originated from Central Continent's Chen clan.

Central Continent's Chen clan specialized in rule path, but Central Continent was ruled
by a sect system and did not leave room for clans to prosper. After being pushed aside,
Chen clan moved to Northern Plains.

Unfortunately, Northern Plains' righteous path was ruled by the Huang Jin bloodline.
Chen clan might be a super force with Gu Immortal level strength, but under secret
repulsion from Huang Jin bloodline forces, it finally weakened.

By Unfettered Scholar's time, he was the only outstanding talent remaining and the
clan already did not exist anymore. He was left to fight alone and fend for himself.

"Chen clan specialized in rule path and among its Gu Immortals, rank six could use the
killer move hundred disintegrations, rank seven could use thousand disintegrations,
and rank eight could use myriad disintegrations. This killer move is extremely
powerful and can attack as well as defend, disintegrating almost any mysterious
elements. In Central Continent's past, many Gu Immortals from sects suffered
crushing defeats under the might of myriad disintegrations!" Old Lord Can Yang
sighed as he recalled.

"You have spoken so much nonsense, are you still not going to strike? The blood veil
is being consumed greatly because of Unfettered Scholar, these are all precious
immortal aperture origin cores that are being used up!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star
will urged.

"Haha." Old Lord Can Yang stood with his hands clasped behind his back and did not
seem like he was going to fight, "Unfettered Scholar is only one person while you have
the collaboration of eight people. He also doesn't know the situation here, watch me
use my method."

He then let out his rank seven aura.

The aura immediately shocked the demonic path Gu Immortals in the sky.

"They actually have a rank seven Gu Immortal?"

"Aren't all the Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe rank six? Could it be that someone
advanced to rank seven but kept it a secret all along?"

"Or maybe Dong Fang tribe invited reinforcements? Don't forget they are of Huang Jin
bloodline, a super force of the righteous path!"

The Gu Immortals were startled and puzzled.

Unfettered Scholar looked indifferent, but he was inwardly shaken.

His killer move was powerful and had a huge origin, but its consumption of red date
immortal essence was extremely intense.

The other side had a rank seven Gu Immortal, thus they could clearly fight toe-to-toe
with him. His side has numerous people, but everyone had their own intentions.
Unfettered Scholar could not help but consider: He could not brainlessly charge ahead
and waste his immortal essence. Otherwise, during the time when they fought for real,
he would lack the necessary immortal essence to continue, and all of his efforts would
have gone to waste and to the advantage of others.
Unfettered Scholar stopped his killer move when he thought of this.

"See, didn't it stop?" Old Lord Can Yang laughed heartily, a pleased expression on his
face.

He only leaked his aura, and was able to make Unfettered Scholar stop. Just based on
scheming and deceiving, Old Lord Can Yang might not be a match to Dong Fang Chang
Fan, but his plentiful life experiences were enough for him to know people's mindsets
and use the situation to make schemes.

"The longer the time prolongs, the more favorable it is to that Dong Fang Yu Liang.
This blood veil is extremely thick, we need to use our trump cards to attack it if we
want to break it." Unfettered Scholar spoke, his gaze cast towards Fang Yuan.

Traveling Three Elites lost Han Dong, Lu Qing Ming and Su Guang were only at rank
six. Besides Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, there was only Fang Yuan who had
shown rank seven battle strength.

Pi Shui Han also looked at Fang Yuan.

These demonic path Gu Immortal experts naturally would not let Fang Yuan take easy
benefits.

"Fairies, please guard me while I exert all my strength." Fang Yuan secretly transmitted
his voice and after obtaining affirmation, he sat cross-legged in the air.

Eight strength path giant hands flew towards the blood veil.

The periphery of the blood veil was covered with a layer of glacier, looking like a
stuffed large iceberg.

Fang Yuan paid no attention to it, moving his eight strength path giant hands in eight
directions. The giant hands opened up and the palms tightly stuck to the surface of the
iceberg. The five fingers then started to dig into the iceberg.

"Rise!" Fang Yuan called out, immediately, a rumbling noise resounded in everyone's
ears.

At first, this noise was only slight.

But soon, the sound got louder and louder, until the rumbling resounded like bursts
of endless thunder.

Earth shook and giant cracks started to appear on the ground surrounding the iceberg.

In everyone's astonished gazes, the iceberg that covered the blood veil was actually
slowly rising, like it was going to leave the ground!

The hall was trembling and swaying. Old Lord Can Yang blurted out: "This is?"

The star will also changed expression: "Not good. I have already remodeled this
immemorial ruin bat's corpse, and to make it stable, I connected it to the ground to
form a mountain based on the corpse. The other party seems to have the ability to pull
mountain roots, which happens to counter my arrangements! Can Yang, you need to
make a move!"

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will was so anxious that his figure almost collapsed.

His main body could indeed make great calculations, but human minds had their
limits. The arrangements were set long ago, and even the most extensive calculations
could have mishaps.

Fang Yuan's pulling mountain Immortal Gu was one such mishap.

Pulling mountain Immortal Gu could target any mountainous body, when Dong Fang
Chang Fan was alive, he had linked the immemorial ruin bat's corpse to the
surrounding landscape, forming what could truly be called a corpse mountain.

This arrangement instead became a flaw which happened to be used by pulling

mountain Immortal Gu!

"This mountain with roots connected to the ground can be pulled up?" Pi Shui Han
stared with wide open eyes, his gaze constantly flickering.

"Who could this person be?!" Unfettered Scholar was startled and puzzled, while he
used his killer move, thousand disintegrations, at the blood veil again.

Being attacked from two ends, the situation did not seem to bode well for Dong Fang
Chang Fan's side.
Old Lord Can Yang laughed before finally making his move: "Look at my life chasing
fire."
Immortal killer move — Life Chasing Fire!

Old Lord Can Yang looked solemn as he slowly opened up his hand, revealing a weak
flame.

The faint yellow flame swayed, appearing dim and weak, as if it would extinguish at
any moment.

Old Lord Can Yang's pupils, however, let out a sharp and bright radiance, and as he
gazed at this flame in his hand, a proud expression appeared on his face.

This was the supreme technique which he had used to make his name and shake
Central Continent!

"Life chasing fire, go." Old Lord Can Yang lightly shook his palm; the life chasing fire
made a whooshing sound as it shot out rapidly.

The star will quickly opened up a path.

The unremarkable-looking life chasing fire moved out of the blood veil and pierced
into the cold iceberg.

Boom!

Almost at the same instant, there was a large yellow flame that blazed to the sky and
burned the whole iceberg.

Almost all the demonic path Gu Immortals in the air were taken aback at this change.

Soon, they revealed odd expressions.

The reason was, although the fire was fierce, it had no heat; the iceberg covered in the
fire was completely undamaged with no signs of melting down.
Some demonic path Gu Immortals were just about to ridicule it, when the rank seven
demonic path Gu Immortal, Pi Shui Han, suddenly let out a miserable scream.

Everyone followed the voice and saw a sight that gave them a great shock.

Pi Shui Han was covered in fire, of such intensity that his whole face twisted in pain.
Great amounts of cold air were being let off from his body and a river of water started
flowing around him, like a dragon coiling around his body. The faint yellow fire,
however, did not weaken, instead looking like it was growing even fiercer.

"What move is this?"

"How did Pi Shui Han get attacked, why didn't I see it?"

"Such a strange fire, everyone evade it!"

The demonic path Gu Immortals retreated one after the other, while looking with
lingering fear at Pi Shui Han exerting all his efforts to extinguish the fire.

"This fire, could it be… life chasing fire? Not good!" Fang Yuan's mind was shaken as
he realized something amiss, and quickly withdrew the eight strength path giant
hands.

But it was already too late.

The fire burned the iceberg and quickly had spread to the eight strength path giant
hands.

The strength path giant hands were completely unharmed, but a faint flame had
emerged out of thin air in Fang Yuan's immortal aperture, quietly burning his one
hundred and sixty thousand strength path phantoms!

These strength path phantoms had their arms raised, they had been providing the
strength to form the eight strength path giant hands in the outside world.

They were bathed in the fire, but were completely safe.

Fang Yuan's heart shivered at this sight.

"This is truly that killer move, life chasing fire!" Fang Yuan was aware of the terrifying
power of this move, he quickly made a decision and willed, the one hundred and sixty
thousand strength path phantoms collapsed.

Without these strength path phantoms, the eight strength path giant hands pulling the
iceberg also crumbled apart.

Boom, the ruin bat's corpse mountain heavily fell down, producing a huge tremor, the
surrounding ground cracked and countless stones were splattered, leaving dust
swirling everywhere.

Fang Yuan suffered an intense backlash from forcibly halting use of Pulling Mountain!
He felt intense dizziness and nausea, his body shook and he almost fell down from the
air.

Hei Lou Lan saw this and quickly moved to support him.

Fang Yuan, however, evaded and shouted: "Don't approach me!"

He quickly retreated backwards, a faint yellow flame started to burn his body like Pi
Shui Han.

At the same time, Unfettered Scholar turned pale. He was also struck by this move and
his body was similarly burning in fire.

"This fire path immortal killer move can actually detect auras and follow our attacks
back to the source, directly reaching our immortal apertures!" Unfettered Scholar was
greatly shocked.

Unfettered Scholar realized at this moment why Pi Shui Han was in a panic.

Not only were their bodies burning, the fire was spreading in their immortal apertures
as well. The former was okay, but the latter was a Gu Immortal's headquarters, their
foundation that had been managed meticulously for countless years, and also where
innumerable cultivation resources had been stored inside.

Now that this foundation was being burned, it was like the fire was burning directly
at the Gu Immortal's heart, make them bleed from the heartache.

Pi Shui Han not only was extinguishing the fire on his body, he was even more
importantly putting out the fire in his immortal aperture. But the strange thing was,
this fire could not be extinguished by water or ice.

The surrounding demonic path Gu Immortals started to move away from Fang Yuan,
Unfettered Scholar and Pi Shui Han, fearing this strange fire would spread to them as
well.

"Why are the flames on Fang Yuan weaker than the other two?" Hei Lou Lan was
bewildered.

The remaining Gu Immortals soon discovered this difference. Immediately, Fang Yuan
looked even more unfathomable to everyone.

Unfettered Scholar's gaze also paused on Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan's situation was much better than the other two. There was only a thin layer
of flames on him, as if they were the fires of an oil lamp, while the flames on Pi Shui
Han and Unfettered Scholar were blazing like a torch.

In just a few breaths of time, Unfettered Scholar's body was already mostly burnt and
started to emit the smell of burning meat.

Unfettered Scholar himself was calm and not particularly panicked, the reason was
that he still had a trump card!

Immortal killer move — Thousand Disintegrations!

He wildly activated the killer move, the light in his white pupils turned even more
vigorous.

But this time, the light did not shine on the iceberg and the blood veil, instead it shined
on himself, on his immortal aperture.

The faint yellow flame started to disintegrate continuously under the white light,
weakening rapidly.

Soon, the flames on his body completely dispersed and the fire in his immortal
aperture was also suppressed.

Thousand disintegrations was very useful, it could not only be used to attack enemies,
but could also be used for defense. Offense and defense in one move, and its power
was also extraordinary.

In a short while, Fang Yuan also stood up, the fire on his body completely dissipated.

Only Pi Shui Han was still trying out all sorts of methods, but the flames on him were
instead burning even more. His whole body was darkened from burns, the intense
odor of burnt meat was spreading everywhere. He had no choice but to activate
healing Gu to heal his injuries and also endure the burning of the fire.

He shouted furiously, he felt pain not only physically, but also heartache mentally.

The fire was spreading in his immortal aperture, large amounts of resources were
being burnt to nothingness, but he still had no way to put out this fire.

"What to do? What to do!" Pi Shui Han thought rapidly in extreme anxiety.

Fang Yuan and Unfettered Scholar just watched on coldly and silently. The remaining
demonic path Gu Immortals stood further away, some gazes were flickering, eager to
make some trouble.

If Pi Shui Han were to be seriously injured and weakened, these demonic path Gu
Immortals would absolutely be moved and interested in attacking Pi Shui Han, adding
on to his misfortune.

Suddenly, Pi Shui Han gave a loud shout before soaring high, and with his whole body
in flames, he shot far away like a meteor.

This fire was giving him enormous trouble, and there were many demonic path Gu
Immortals present, he could not stick around. Pi Shui Han's retreat was a wise choice.

Seeing him rapidly disappear into the horizon, several demonic path Gu Immortals at
the periphery also stealthily left, following the trail of Pi Shui Han.

In the hall, Old Lord Can Yang laughed heartily, saying to Dong Fang Chang Fan's star
will: "How was that?"

"Truly worthy of being called life chasing fire." The star will nodded, "This fire has the
ability to trace auras back to their source. Gu Immortals normally place Gu worms in
their immortal apertures, thus this fire would burn their immortal apertures. This fire
also uses life as the fuel, as long as life has not been extinguished, it will keep on
burning. Thus, special methods must be used to extinguish this fire, like the technique
of thousand disintegrations. If one doesn't have such methods, then they have to be
resolute in cutting off the burning part, restraining it from burning sources of life force
within their body as much as possible. As long as the life force is used up, this fire will
disperse. Unfortunately, this Pi Shui Han did not think of this point and continuously
healed himself which increased his life force, increasing the intensity of the fire."

The star will chuckled as it said this, and praised: "Old Lord Can Yang, your move is a
truly unique and innovative method. As long as this fire strikes the enemy, they will
fall into chaos. If it is allowed to keep on burning, even the wealthier Gu Immortals
will have their foundations greatly damaged and have no battle intent."

Listening to the star will praise his method so much, Old Lord Can Yang's pleased
expression instead disappeared and was replaced by a gloomy look.

The reason for Old Lord Can Yang's fame was the killer move life chasing fire.

Once this fire burned, even if it was eliminated, the enemy would be low in spirits. If
they attacked, the fire could follow the attack and burn their immortal aperture.

Immortal apertures were the foundations of Gu Immortals, and it would be greatly

damaged if it was burned a few times. Even if the fire did not burn the enemy to death,
it could ruin them.

Thus, Old Lord Can Yang had already been able to roam unhindered around Central
Continent in his early years, and was very well known. Gu Immortals fighting him
would have a headache.

After becoming rank seven, Old Lord Can Yang did not wander around much, but just
based on his battle strength, he was in the top five of Immortal Crane Sect! The matter
of Eighty-Eight True Yang Building's collapse was simply too important, so Immortal
Crane Sect had sent him to Northern Plains to investigate the culprit.

Once life chasing fire was used, it restrained Fang Yuan and Unfettered Scholar, and
caused Pi Shui Han to retreat in a miserable state. Old Lord Can Yang was repelling the
enemies on the surface, but was covertly also trying to intimidate Dong Fang Chang
Fan.

However, Dong Fang Chang Fan was aware of the details of life chasing fire, his words
were appreciative, but in truth were a counterattack against Old Lord Can Yang.
If Old Lord Can Yang could still show a good expression, that would be strange.

"Life chasing fire… Old Lord Can Yang… why is he here?" Fang Yuan hovered in the air,
looking at the blood veil below in uncertainty and doubt.

He might have his previous life's memories, but there was an extremely large
difference between having them and being all-knowing and omnipotent, Dong Fang
Chang Fan's possession scheme was kept in extreme secrecy and Fang Yuan was not
aware of it.

Now that he saw a Central Continent Gu Immortal mixed up with Dong Fang Chang
Fan's inheritance, he naturally felt surprised and bewildered.

When Old Lord Can Yang repelled him, he had done so evasively, and had not revealed
his identity at all.

Old Lord Can Yang had methods to conceal his aura and with them being used, his aura
was the same as a Northern Plains Gu Immortal's. The other demonic path Gu
Immortals did not discover anything wrong, which showed how ingenious Old Lord
Can Yang's methods were.

'Not good.' Fang Yuan inwardly shouted, thoughts of retreating rose up inside him…

He knew Central Continent's forces had secretly infiltrated into Northern Plains to
search for him, the culprit. He also knew someone had gone to Northern Plains Zombie
Alliance with suspicions about his Sha Huang identity.

"The reason I could resolve life chasing fire was because I knew the details of this move
and made the decision quickly. And as an immortal zombie, I am among the living
dead, my immortal aperture is a dead land with sparse life force, thus it could not be
burned. Old Lord Can Yang has plenty of experience, he might have already discerned
that I am an immortal zombie. Hiding myself like this, perhaps he might become
suspicious!" The more Fang Yuan thought, the heavier his state of mind.
As far as Fang Yuan was concerned, a wisdom path inheritance was indeed precious
and rare. But even if he gained a complete inheritance, risking his true identity and
the pursuit of Northern Plains' Gu Immortals was absolutely not worth it!

Old Lord Can Yang had restrained the group of demons with one burst of fire, and even
sent Pi Shui Han retreating far away.

Fang Yuan had realized the bad situation and also was considering retreating, thus he
naturally stopped his attacks.

The rank seven Unfettered Scholar also did not risk attacking. He thought higher of
Fang Yuan from the way he dealt with the life chasing fire. He himself had to rely on
thousand disintegrations to get through that danger, which made him feel Fang Yuan
was even more mysterious.

And besides Fang Yuan, there was still the two black robed Gu Immortals, Hei Lou Lan
and Fairy Li Shan, thus Unfettered Scholar restrained his desire to make a move and
only observed Fang Yuan's side.

His thoughts were obvious - he was waiting for Fang Yuan's side to make a move.

For a while, the surroundings above the ruin bat's corpse became silent, while inside
the ruined hall, curses were still being endlessly hurled out.

Dong Fang tribe's eight Gu Immortals could not budge even a bit but had retained the
ability to speak.

Since the moment Dong Fang Chang Fan's possession had begun, they had been
throwing curses and shouting at Dong Fang Chang Fan.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will turned a deaf ear to this.
He saw the situation outside had quietened down, the group of demons would be
restrained for a while. He smiled: "Finally, the time is ripe, my possession and rebirth
will start at this moment. Old Lord Can Yang, I have explained the previous main steps
to you. The crucial time has arrived, I will have to trouble you to guard me."

Being indecisive when a decision was needed would instead worsen the situation; the
star will made the decision and did not hesitate any longer!

A change occurred, a large vortex suddenly formed on the surface of the blood veil.

Blood energy started fermenting in the vortex. It condensed into form before suddenly
bursting out, it turned into a giant blood pillar that directly shot straight down to the
center of the phantom formation, covering Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.

Old Lord Can Yang's eyes opened wide, and he shouted: "Damn it!"

Old Lord Can Yang understood after seeing this change: This blood veil was not used
just to defend, but was also involved in a purification process. The extracted eight
immortal aperture origin cores were like eight metals melting together. It then used
the demonic path Gu Immortals' attacks to temper the melted origin cores, eliminating
the wills and auras of the eight Gu Immortals, before pouring the fused product into
the possession target.

Dong Fang Chang Fan had arranged the situation exquisitely, calculating the demonic
path Gu Immortals within his plan. Even Fang Yuan was in the dark, used by Dong Fang
Chang Fan into unknowingly becoming a blacksmith.

Now, the blood energy flowed backwards, filling Dong Fang Yu Liang's body, naturally,
the blood veil would weaken. With the weakening of the blood veil, the defense
immediately fell. Old Lord Can Yang had a heavy duty from the sect and with enormous
benefits in front of him, how could he stay still and not share the burden?

Seeing the blood veil weakening, the demonic path Gu Immortals indeed were moved.

"It seems the previous attacks were effective!"

"There is hope in breaking the blood veil, everyone attack together!"

The Gu Immortals attacked one after the other, countless attacks rained down like a
violent storm.
The blood veil was sending the blood energy inside, while also having to endure the
attacks, immediately, it was strained and started to sway unstably.

Old Lord Can Yang had no choice but to take action, using an immortal killer move —
Final Afterglow!

A light barrier emerged outside of the blood veil, it looked to be condensed from the
afterglow of the setting sun, and was so thin and faint that it was almost like there was
nothing. Countless attacks passed through this light barrier and landed on the blood
veil, however, their power was reduced to less than half the original.

This was the use of 'final afterglow', it was not a complete defense, instead it weakened
the power of most attacks.

Even immortal killer moves on the level of 'flood glacier' would be weakened by thirty
percent. And what the demonic path Gu Immortals were using right now were mostly
all mortal killer moves, after being weakened by final afterglow, they only appeared
strong but had little threat.

Dong Fang Chang Fan showed a joyous expression.

The situation was extremely beneficial to him in this way.

The phantom formation was constantly extracting the eight immortal aperture origin
cores and fusing them to create the blood veil.

When the blood veil suffered the attacks, the foreign wills and auras hidden inside the
origin cores were gradually being removed. Afterwards, the purified blood energy
would then pour into Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was a Gu Master with a rank five peak stage aperture. Right now,
his soul was already eliminated by Dong Fang Chang Fan, leaving him in control of his
young body. Dong Fang Chang Fan's attention was fully focused on the aperture.

The aperture burst with a loud sound as it was filled with blood energy.

Dong Fang Yu Liang's aura rose higher instead of shrinking.

An astonishing transformation was occurring — surpassing mortal, charging to Gu

Immortal!
Crack!

In the clear sky outside, a lightning bolt flashed.

Within several breaths later, dark clouds surged and spread over the entire
surroundings in the clear sky.

Earth tremored and rumbled, and vast amounts of dusts surged, as if countless bulls
were running on the ground.

Heaven and earth qi were stirred, a heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity were
forming!

"Someone is actually ascending to immortal inside?!"

"What is going on?"

The Gu Immortals quickly stopped their attacks, feeling baffled.

Crack crack crack!

Rays of lightning struck down together from above. The power they contained
shocked the demonic path Gu Immortals into hurriedly retreating.

"Amazing! This is the heavenly star lightning tribulation."

"How unlucky is the mortal to not receive the favor of heaven and earth. He is just
ascending to immortal, and is met with such a powerful heavenly tribulation!"

"What earthly calamity is this?"

The Gu Immortals retreated to the edges and observed.

Countless round craters appeared in the surroundings of the ruin bat's corpse. The
craters were pitch-black and unfathomably deep.

Bang bang bang!

Balls of pitch black lightning shot out from the craters and impacted on the ruin bat's
corpse mountain, creating loud explosions.
The lightning strikes flashed and in just a few breaths of time, the iceberg was struck
by countless lightning balls, the iceberg was smashed into pieces and spattered
everywhere.

Even Unfettered Scholar was moved at this, inwardly exclaiming: 'The heavenly
tribulation is heavenly star lightning, tyrannical and sharp. The earthly calamity is the
earth ghost lightning, underhanded and explosive. These two great lightning
tribulations are called the twin lightnings of heaven and earth, their power is
increased further when they combine. Even I have to worry if I face them!"

The twin lightning of heaven and earth combined, one fell from above while the other
exploded from below. The lightning was dazzling, forming a purgatory filled with the
sound of thunder.

Countless bolts of lightning, densely packed together, combined into a huge lightning
forest!

The shattered ice pieces were completely destroyed, even the remaining traces of frost
energy were extinguished.

The scene, as if part of the world was ending, caused the observing demonic path Gu
Immortals to hold their breaths in and feel stifled.

Inside the ruin bat's corpse mountain, Old Lord Can Yang looked serious as he put all
his effort in maintaining the immortal killer move, final afterglow.

This ingenious defensive killer move was being used to its utmost to weaken the
strength of the twin lightnings of heaven and earth.

However, all of Old Lord Can Yang's effort only weakened the lightning by fifteen
percent.

His red date immortal essence was being consumed extremely quickly, and soon, his
forehead was covered in a thin layer of sweat.

"How could there be such a strong lightning tribulation!" Dong Fang Chang Fan's star
will muttered with a worried expression. This was almost the worst case scenario in
his plan.

He had not thought he would be faced with them at this moment.

His luck really was extremely bad.

The blood veil was being badly destroyed by the lightning strikes and explosions of
thunder, the losses caused Dong Fang Chang Fan to feel extreme heartache.

These losses would greatly influence the foundation of Dong Fang Yu Liang's immortal
aperture.

Fifteen minutes, thirty minutes, one hour, two hours… time continued to pass, but the
lightning tribulations from heaven and earth did not show any signs of weakening,
instead they were constantly increasing in strength.

The immemorial ruin bat's corpse was wrecked until it was beyond recognition.

There were previously countless numbers of densely packed space path dao marks
covering the surroundings of the ruin bat, but now they were almost completely
cleared up by the lightning tribulations.

Old Lord Can Yang was already unable to support the situation, and the severe loss of
immortal essence caused him to feel heavy.

"Right! The power of the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity is beyond normal,
it is all because of you, Dong Fang Chang Fan." Old Lord Can Yang suddenly spoke, "You
are already dead, and according to the arrangement of fate, your soul should be
returning to the door of life and death, how could you still remain here alive and
kicking? Right now, you are not only trying to revive, you are even thinking of
ascending to immortal, this is truly an act in defiance of heaven! No wonder heaven
and earth are so enraged!!"

When Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will heard this, his grave expression changed, he
raised his eyebrows and laughed: "Ever since Red Lotus Demon Venerable broke fate,
the destiny of all living beings in this world has been in their own hands. So what if it
is in defiance to heaven? My fate is in my own hands, I have planned for so long, I made
so many preparations, I will definitely succeed!"

He had just spoken when they heard a rumbling sound.

The lightning strikes were already as dense as rain and the thunder was already
resounding non-stop.
The thunder at this moment was beyond that of the previous ones, its sound
resounded through the skies and caused everyone's ears to buzz.

Dong Fang Chang Fan's star will shook and dispersed at once!

A dazzling white light filled the world! Fang Yuan, Unfettered Scholar and the
remaining demonic path Gu Immortals all retreated in alarm, and even Old Lord Can
Yang had to tightly close his eyes.

From the white light, a ray of divine lightning struck down.

This divine lightning was incomparably fierce, sweeping past all obstacles, in an
instant, it blew up final afterglow, broke the blood veil and directly struck at Dong
Fang Yu Liang.

The divine lightning was extremely fast, in almost the blink of an eye, it had broken
through all the barriers like they were rotten wood and appeared in front of Dong Fang
Yu Liang.

Dong Fang Yu Liang only had a mortal body and would definitely be shattered to pieces
if he really was struck by this lightning, Dong Fang Chang Fan's possession plan would
come to an end, resulting in complete failure!

At the moment between life and death, 'Dong Fang Yu Liang', whose eyes were tightly
closed the whole time, suddenly opened his eyes!

In the dazzling white light, he barely managed to see that ray of thunder and lightning.

Intense startled anger rose up inside him: 'Fluctuating light! Falling star lightning!
Tribulations hidden inside my original tribulation, accursed heaven, you want me to
die so badly?! Then I refuse to die!'

Dong Fang Chang Fan roared in his mind.

The phantom formation started to give off bright radiance.

Boom!!!

A piercing explosion resounded. Endless rays of white light shot out from the ruin
bat's corpse.
The light rays swept through some unlucky demonic path Gu Immortals, immediately,
their minds and souls shook, and some even directly crashed down from the sky.

The terrifying explosion created a huge shock wave that lifted all the vegetation in the
surroundings.

The sky seemed to be collapsing while the earth quaked.

The demonic path Gu Immortals retreated in panic.

They retreated several kilometers, before the while light rays gradually dispersed,
only then did the Gu Immortals calm down, returning.

There was nothing left of the enormous, lofty ruin bat's corpse mountain.

In the air above, a young figure appeared, standing proudly as he looked at Fang Yuan
and the others.

Dong Fang Yu Liang!

"Dong Fang Yu Liang? Am I seeing wrongly?"

"How did he become a Gu Immortal? It seems that this heavenly tribulation and
earthly calamity was caused by him."

"Becoming an immortal on the spot, was that Dong Fang Chang Fan's inheritance?
Sigh, a mortal actually snatched it!"

The demonic path Gu Immortals saw Dong Fang Chang Fan and were very shocked,
they felt some dejection and sadness.

'Dong Fang Yu Liang' was expressionless, there was no pupils or whites in his eyes,
they were completely shining with many different colored crystalline lights, flickering
continuously.

He had this gaze while observing the demonic path Gu Immortals around him, saying
softly: "You are the people who want to snatch my master's inheritance? What gives
you the guts to attack a righteous path super force?"

After Dong Fang Chang Fan succeeded in his possession, but he did not expose the
truth, he still spoke as if he was Dong Fang Yu Liang, with his voice.

The demonic path Gu Immortals were in a dejected state, filled with great grievance,
now that they heard Dong Fang Yu Liang's arrogant words, their faces turned ugly,
some scoffed while others shouted: "You mere junior, you have just become an
immortal, after ascending in one step, you are arrogant! Here, take my hammer!"

As he said so, a figure flew out from among the crowd.

This demonic path Gu Immortal had broad shoulders and a thick waist, there was a
flying heavenly boar underneath him, its fat legs were running quickly, as it carried its
owner towards Dong Fang Yu Liang in an imposing manner.

It was Zhuo Zhan.

The immortals jolted, reacting to what had happened.

"This Zhuo Zhan is so crafty, he is trying to pick up a bargain!"

"We were almost deterred by the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity, but even
if Dong Fang Yu Liang became an immortal, he is a newbie. What is there to be afraid
of?"

"Capture Dong Fang Yu Liang alive, and interrogate the wisdom path inheritance from
him!!"

The demonic path Gu Immortals moved quickly, charging towards 'Dong Fang Yu
Liang', fearing that they would be left behind.

Unfettered Scholar was among them.

Only Fang Yuan and a few other people did not move, they remained in their places.

He did not know that Dong Fang Yu Liang's body was already possessed by Dong Fang
Chang Fan, but he was wary of Old Lord Can Yang.

"Dong Fang Yu Liang appeared, but where is Old Lord Can Yang?"

Old Lord Can Yang was actually standing behind 'Dong Fang Yu Liang', but he used an
immortal technique and concealed himself. His method was superb, none of the
demonic path immortals sensed him.

But he was quite injured, seeing the immortals charging over, he transmitted to 'Dong
Fang Yu Liang': "Do you need my help?"

'Dong Fang Yu Liang' quickly rejected him: "You do not need to do anything, let me
deal with them!"

Once Old Lord Can Yang attacked, if he was exposed, Northern Plains' Gu Immortals
would realize that 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' was colluding with Central Continent's forces.
By then, not only would 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' get ostracized by the righteous path,
even the demonic path would not welcome him.

In addition, 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' wanted to single-handedly showcase a heavy

crippling of his enemies. That was the only way he could rise up after the death of
eight Dong Fang tribe Gu Immortals, to allow Dong Fang tribe to once again become a
force to be reckoned with!

Zhuo Zhan led the way, he was getting closer, Dong Fang Yu Liang could see the sinister
smile on his face.

Behind him, more than ten demonic path Gu Immortals were charging with killing
intent.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was all alone, his cultivation level was only at the bottom of rank
six, but he was neither flustered nor scared.

His lips curled up, he showed a mild smile as if he was in complete control of the
situation.

Old Lord Can Yang who was behind him looked on with much curiosity, he wanted to
see how he could repel his foes with his current cultivation level.

Only to see that Dong Fang Yu Liang raised his right arm, his white sleeves were pulled
back as his right index finger pointed at the sky, he spoke loudly and leisurely, word
by word: "Myriad. Star. Fireflies."

The immortals heard this and their advancement halted, their expressions changed.

Myriad star fireflies was well known in the world of Northern Plains Gu Immortals, it
was Dong Fang Chang Fan's strongest killer move.

Dong Fang Chang Fan was known as the number one wisdom path Gu Immortal in
Northern Plains, that was not just because of his deductions alone, there was also his
battle strength!

Without stunning battle strength, how could he stand firm in the turbulent Northern
Plains? Without immense power, how could he lead Dong Fang tribe on the road to
success?

Thus, in terms of battle strength, Dong Fang Chang Fan easily surpassed Pi Shui Han
and Unfettered Scholar during his life. After all, he was the first supreme elder of a
righteous path super force!

The wisdom path killer move, myriad star fireflies, was the greatest display of Dong
Fang Chang Fan's battle strength. This move was extremely famous, it was ingrained
into the hearts of Northern Plains Gu Immortals.

"Don't listen to his bluff! Myriad star fireflies involves tens of thousands of Gu worms,
can it be activated so easily?" Zhuo Zhan shouted.

"He is just a newbie Gu Immortal, he has just ascended and gone beyond the mortal
stage, how can he manipulate so many Gu worms immediately?" Lu Qing Ming
snickered.

"Wishful thinking!" Divine Lord Tian Du held his Immortal Gu as he prepared to strike.

"Hmph, myriad star fireflies, I lost to that move back then. I wonder how much of its
power you can use?" Unfettered Scholar's expression flashed with rage.

"Are we really doing nothing?" Hei Lou Lan's heart was pounding in excitement, but
Fang Yuan was a great strength amongst them, after Hei Lou Lan lost self strength
Immortal Gu, her battle strength was weaker than before.

"Wait a while longer, the situation is not right." Fang Yuan wanted to speak of what he
had found out earlier, but the sky suddenly changed.

Earlier, the clouds had dispersed, the surroundings were entirely clear skies. But now,
darkness descended as the world turned dim.

Darkness surrounded the surroundings, countless firefly-like spots of light appeared

in the sky, dancing as they moved around.

Starlight burst out, it was a brilliant and dazzling sight!

"Myriad star fireflies!!" The demonic path Gu Immortals' expressions changed, they
shouted as they were fell into the midst of the star fireflies.

Starlight was glowing and reflected on their faces.

Unfettered Scholar's expression was pale, this was truly myriad star fireflies, it
seemed even stronger than in his memories!

But how could this be possible?

Dong Fang Yu Liang had just became an immortal, right? Even if he had Dong Fang
Chang Fan's star will, and could use rank seven red date immortal essence left behind
by Dong Fang Chang Fan, this was the first time he was activating myriad star fireflies,
how could he be so familiar with it, like he had practiced it a thousand times?

Unfettered Scholar could not understand it.

The Gu Immortals around him were in a more pathetic state.

The surrounding specks of starlight were attacking them from all directions.

One starlight speck was not powerful, but with tens of thousands of starlight specks?
Hundreds of thousands, millions, tens of millions of starlight spots?

Especially when each of the starlight specks had a star thought in them.

Even if the Gu Immortals destroyed the starlight specks, the star thoughts would come
out and force their way into the Gu Immortals' minds.

Even if the Gu Immortals had defensive methods, the starlight specks were endless
and nearly unlimited in numbers, they were bound to fail eventually. Once star
thoughts find an opportunity and enter their minds, that would be dangerous.

The least they could do was to disrupt one's thoughts, the worst they could do was to
destroy the person's thoughts, causing them to become slow-witted, or if all the
thoughts in their mind were star thoughts, they would be subdued completely. The
star thoughts would replace their cognition, and the Gu Immortal would become Dong
Fang Yu Liang's puppet, manipulated at will!

"What are you doing?!" Beside Zhuo Zhan, a demonic path Gu Immortal shouted
angrily.

Zhuo Zhan's face was turning purplish-red: "Sorry, my attack changed directions all of
a sudden!"

"Hmph! With your ability, you want to snatch the wisdom path inheritance? In such a
short time, you already got invaded by the star thoughts. You are really more of a
trouble than help!" The demonic path Gu Immortal was nearly hit, he was extremely
angry.

"What did you say? Do you dare to say it again?!" Zhuo Zhan was furious too, he
shouted at the demonic path Gu Immortal.

"Enough, are you still fighting amongst yourselves? The important thing now is to
escape. This is myriad star fireflies, the longer we stay here, the more dangerous it is."
A Gu Immortal said anxiously.

Another Gu Immortal immediately rebuked: "Escape? What are you afraid of? He is
only a bottom tier rank six Gu Immortal, we have so many people, and Lord Unfettered
Scholar, why are you afraid to this extent? In my opinion, we should just attack!"

Everyone was hesitant on whether to retreat or advance, they subconsciously looked

towards Unfettered Scholar.

Pi Shui Han had already escaped, Fang Yuan was far away, Unfettered Scholar was the
only rank seven battle strength here, he was their shepherd.

It was not that everyone acknowledged Unfettered Scholar as the leader, but in times
of difficulty, the strong would handle the greater dangers.

Unfettered Scholar was their 'strong' person, by moving alongside an expert, they
would have a greater chance of surviving.

Unfettered Scholar himself was hesitant.

He and Dong Fang Chang Fan had fought before, back then, he lost to this move, myriad
star fireflies.

After losing in battle, he learned from his painful lesson, focusing more attention on
information regarding Dong Fang Chang Fan, thus his understanding of myriad star
fireflies was much deeper than that of other people.

He knew that myriad star fireflies was a wisdom path killer move, it had immense
power, and was created by Dong Fang Chang Fan singlehandedly.

The weakness of this move was hard to discover.

At the moment, Unfettered Scholar only knew this: Once a person enters the range of
this move, they would be plotted against. Each of the Gu Immortal's thoughts could
produce star thoughts.

These star thoughts were formed by myriad star fireflies to turn into starlight specks,
attacking the Gu Immortal.

During an intense battle, Gu Immortals would have to consider many things, as their
minds worked rapidly, they would create more star thoughts.

The more star thoughts produced, the stronger the killer move becomes, especially
when there are more Gu Immortals in the range, the star thoughts produced would be
even greater. When the star thoughts completely took over the Gu Immortals' minds,
they would turn into Dong Fang Yu Liang's puppets, fighting for him.

Even if it could not reach that stage, being influenced by the star thoughts, mistakes
would occur. Like earlier, when Zhuo Zhan almost injured an ally.

Thus, myriad star fireflies was a move well suited to deal with multiple enemies, it was
weaker when fighting one enemy. Against more people, they would be used to restrain
each other, the battle might instead be easier to win.

The reason Dong Fang Chang Fan created this move was because he had tried to
develop Dong Fang tribe singlehandedly. Without many Gu Immortals in his tribe to
help him, he often had to fight many enemies alone.

But after Dong Fang Chang Fan created this move, he no longer feared group fights.

"The current scenario is what Dong Fang Yu Liang most wants to see. We have many
people and are not united, everyone is wary of each other, and we have barely any
elites, I am the only rank seven. In a fight, we will become hindrances to each other.
Not only that, from the battle earlier, there also seems to be a fire path Gu Immortal
hiding here."

Unfettered Scholar thought rapidly in his mind, starlight specks appeared around him,
he had much more of them compared to other people.

Given such concerns, Unfettered Scholar did not feel like retreating, instead, his battle
intent was roused!
"I lost to Dong Fang Chang Fan, that was the greatest humiliation in my life. Now that
I am facing his successor, if I retreat, how will I face myself afterwards? Even if they
have a hidden Gu Immortal, we also have many people. If I retreat instead of fighting,
which Gu Immortal in Northern Plains would look up to me in the future?"
After making his decision, Unfettered Scholar's vigor rose, and he shouted: "Fight! The
enemy is merely one person, anyone who is afraid can leave."

"Alright, we will follow lord!"

"Truly worthy of Lord Unfettered Scholar, with you here, who would fear Dong Fang
Yu Liang?"

The group of demons shouted.

Unfettered Scholar flicked his sleeve and used his killer move, clearing up the lingering
starlight around him as he charged towards Dong Fang Yu Liang.

"Come." Dong Fang Yu Liang was not in the least afraid of Unfettered Scholar's rank
seven power, he did not retreat but advanced, submerged in starlight.

For a while, the starlight churned as if it were a sea of stars, surging and rolling
unendingly.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was like the master of stars as he maneuvered the endless
starlight, raising majestic waves of stars to fight against a group by himself!

Stars swayed and light fragments flew everywhere.

Dong Fang Yu Liang was hopelessly outnumbered at first and the situation was
dangerous. But as time passed, the starlight continued to increase rapidly, almost
filling the whole space.

The starlight obscured vision and made cooperation difficult, while the star thoughts
invaded minds causing the demonic path Gu Immortals to make repeated mistakes.
As the situation turned more chaotic, Dong Fang Yu Liang's advantage was getting
bigger.

Many Gu Immortals were accidentally injured several times, gradually, they did not
dare to team up, choosing to fight alone, which further reduced the pressure on Dong
Fang Yu Liang.

Only Unfettered Scholar was able to maneuver skilfully around the obstacles, and was
the strongest opponent of Dong Fang Yu Liang. Dong Fang Yu Liang had been evading
him since the start, not daring to fight head-on with Unfettered Scholar.

Unfettered Scholar's fury surged as he got repeatedly obstructed by other demonic

path Gu Immortals: "This Dong Fang Yu Liang is too slippery, he is so young but he is
as cunning as Dong Fang Chang Fan back then! He is showing no flaws, as if he has
been manipulating this killer move since birth! Is Dong Fang Chang Fan's inheritance
so magical?"

Not far away, Old Lord Can Yang was also inwardly shocked by the might of myriad
star fireflies. He remained hidden the whole time, quietly healing himself.
Occasionally, he would gaze eerily at Fang Yuan and the group at the edge of the
battlefield.

He had vague speculations about Fang Yuan's identity and had been waiting for Fang
Yuan to jump into the battlefield.

He did not excel in pursuing enemies, but with the help of myriad star fireflies, he
would have a greatly increased chance of capturing Fang Yuan.

However, since the beginning, Fang Yuan only stood by, looking on without lifting a
finger, which caused Old Lord Can Yang to feel anxious and forced him to endure
waiting patiently.

Immortal killer move — Thousand Disintegrations!

Unfettered Scholar could not fight a prolonged battle, finally using his trump card
killer move.

Dong Fang Yu Liang chuckled, already on guard against this move, his body swayed
nimbly like a butterfly, dodging the rays coming from the gaze.

But right at this moment, Dong Fang Yu Liang suddenly stopped, Dong Fang Wan Xiu's
furious roar resounded within him: 'Old scoundrel, I will take you down with me!'

'Dong Fang Yu Liang' suddenly changed directions and charged straight towards the
killer move thousand disintegrations.

This change was beyond anyone's expectations.

The power of thousand disintegrations was deeply imprinted in everyone's minds,

'Dong Fang Yu Liang' charging straight at it was simply suicidal!

For a while, everyone was startled and could not react.

Even Unfettered Scholar was stupefied as he looked at 'Dong Fang Yu Liang' charging
at his killer move.

The light of thousand disintegrations shined on Dong Fang Yu Liang's head, in an

instant, Dong Fang Yu Liang's hair was destroyed, then his skull was melting, with the
rays about to hit his brain.

On this boundary between life and death, Old Lord Can Yang shouted and with no time
to continue healing, he showed himself to save Dong Fang Yu Liang.

He attacked while also defending.

Flame surged, a blazing inferno rose and charged towards Unfettered Scholar.
Confronted with a rank seven expert, Unfettered Scholar had no choice but to divide
his attention.

As this happened, Old Lord Can Yang was able to pull back Dong Fang Yu Liang.

Dong Fang Yu Liang's skull was penetrated through and his brain almost suffered
extremely severe damage. At this moment, countless star thoughts surged like a
fountain towards the outside through the hole in the skull.

After being saved by Old Lord Can Yang, Dong Fang Yu Liang's expression turned calm,
representing that Dong Fang Chang Fan's soul had regained control of the body.

Lingering fear unavoidably showed up on his face.

If there had been just a slight delay, Dong Fang Yu Liang's brain would have been
entirely disintegrated.

Dong Fang Chang Fan could be said to have walked around the gates of hell, barely
holding onto life. And without Old Lord Can Yang, he might have died again.

"What happened?!" Old Lord Can Yang retreated while pulling Dong Fang Chang Fan
and shouted at the latter, his heart still palpitating.

Dong Fang Chang Fan had explained most of the possession technique to him, but a
few crucial final steps were still kept undisclosed by Dong Fang Chang Fan.

Thus, Old Lord Can Yang was absolutely not willing to see Dong Fang Chang Fan's
death.

Dong Fang Chang Fan intentionally held these back as a failsafe against Old Lord Can
Yang, the effects were shown now.

However, he might have had his life preserved, but Dong Fang Chang Fan looked pale
and had an unsightly expression.

This series of events was because he had hurriedly ascended to immortal and were
the side effects of the struggle against the lightning tribulation.

Originally, Dong Fang Chang Fan had deceived Dong Fang tribe's eight Gu Immortals
and used the phantom formation to extract their immortal aperture origin cores.

But these cores contained the wills and auras of the eight Gu Immortals, and could not
be directly transferred to Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.

Thus, Dong Fang Chang Fan used menses blood Immortal Gu to turn these origin cores
into a blood veil. Then he used the attacks from the demonic path Gu Immortals to
temper and remove the impurities that were the wills and auras of the eight Gu
Immortals.

Dong Fang Chang Fan then would transfer the purified immortal aperture origin cores
into Dong Fang Yu Liang's body, which should have resulted in no side effects.

However, the heavenly tribulation and earthly calamity had been too terrifying, far
surpassing Dong Fang Chang Fan's estimation. It resulted in a dangerous situation and
at the crucial moment between life and death, Dong Fang Chang Fan had no choice but
to skip some of the blood veil's tempering steps and directly transfer the extracted
origin cores into Dong Fang Yu Liang's body.

He passed the tribulation and advanced to Gu Immortal. But the new immortal
aperture had the eight Gu Immortals' wills and was filled with their auras.

These eight Gu Immortals' bodies and souls were already turned to nothingness prior
to the heaven-shaking tribulation. But they were betrayed, creating hatred towards
Dong Fang Chang Fan which was retained in their wills and auras.

Dong Fang Chang Fan had to pay full attention to the battle when fighting Unfettered
Scholar. A moment of negligence caused the internal danger to erupt, resulting in a
strong backlash.

Dong Fang Chang Fan had expected it but during the backlash, he discovered his
previous estimations had been too optimistic. The power of the accumulated wills in
his immortal aperture was beyond his expectations.

Thus, the backlash had almost sent him to his own death under thousand
disintegrations.

Dong Fang Chang Fan heaved a sigh and was just about to explain matters to Old Lord
Can Yang, when suddenly his face twisted into a ferocious expression.

Old Lord Can Yang's mind rang with warning sirens and he quickly released his grip
as he retreated.

The next moment, Dong Fang Yu Liang used a powerful killer move against his
benefactor, Old Lord Can Yang.

Fortunately, Old Lord Can Yang had been vigilant, Dong Fang Yu Liang's attack struck
empty air.

"Old bastard Chang Fan, you shameless scoundrel, scheming against your own tribe's
Gu Immortals for your rebirth!" Dong Fang Yu Liang furiously shouted, but it was not
with his previous voice, rather, it was the voice of Dong Fang Yi Kong.

Such a strange change confused everyone.

Unfettered Scholar's eyes shined with a bright light, and moved in for the kill again.
He reacted promptly and used the killer move thousand disintegrations, again
directed at Dong Fang Yu Liang.

However, Dong Fang Chang Fan regained control again and narrowly evaded thousand
disintegrations.

The good scenario did not last for long as soon, the will of another of Dong Fang tribe's
Gu Immortals forcibly took control of the body, shouting and seeking death of their
own accord.

Old Lord Can Yang had no choice but to save Dong Fang Chang Fan from danger again.

The battle situation had changed.

The orderly myriad star fireflies which attacked and defended in turn were now flying
around chaotically. The pressure on the demonic path Gu Immortals had greatly
decreased, and they charged towards Dong Fang Yu Liang one after the other.

Among them, the threat from Unfettered Scholar was the largest, as he moved
unhindered around the sea of starlight, his thousand disintegrations breaking through
all obstacles.

Dong Fang Chang Fan, however, had the help of Old Lord Can Yang. Old Lord Can Yang
was an expert of Central Continent's ancient sects and had deep foundations. His
immortal killer move, life chasing fire, was also rather troublesome, obstructing
Unfettered Scholar.

Dong Fang Yu Liang would occasionally suffer the backlash from a certain Dong Fang
tribe Gu Immortal, at times causing him to attack Old Lord Can Yang or even seek
death, but at other times Dong Fang Chang Fan was able to regain control and fight the
demonic path Gu Immortals, attempting to remedy the situation.

However, all things considered, such a battle situation could not avoid being chaotic.

The source of the chaos was Dong Fang Yu Liang.

"What is going on?" Fairy Li Shan and the others were standing at the edge of the
battlefield, not knowing what to think about this chaotic fight.

The strange and confusing situation was beyond their expectations.

"It seems Dong Fang Chang Fan sacrificed his tribe's Gu Immortals and possessed
Dong Fang Yu Liang, but his plan did not completely succeed. This old bastard really
can scheme!" Hei Lou Lan sneered.

"No matter who Dong Fang Yu Liang is, that fire path Gu Immortal beside him is not of
Northern Plains, but an expert of Central Continent's Immortal Crane Sect, named Old
Lord Can Yang. After the battle earlier, he is probably suspicious of me." Fang Yuan
secretly transmitted his voice, exposing the identity of Old Lord Can Yang.

"What? This is troublesome." Hei Lou Lan frowned. She and Fang Yuan were tied to
the same boat, their gains and losses were linked together. If Fang Yuan was exposed,
she would also be in jeopardy.

"What should we do now? Perhaps we could kill him?" Fairy Li Shan was ready to
attack.

"No! He only has some doubts, as long as I don't expose myself, he won't be able to
guess my identity in Central Continent. The battle is extremely chaotic now, it will be
hard for us to withdraw if we meddle in. Moreover, Dong Fang Chang Fan is a deep
schemer, myriad star fireflies is also powerful, while we will have to restrain our full
power to hide our identities. What's more, Old Lord Can Yang is an expert among rank
sevens and won't be easily defeated." Fang Yuan's gaze flickered, as he sent this
message to the two women.

He already had the intention to retreat. The situation might be in disorder now, but
their circumstances did not allow them to do as they pleased. Even if they could use
their full strengths, the combined strength of the three was not enough to dominate
the whole battlefield and control the lives and deaths of everyone present.

"You mean that we should retreat?" Hei Lou Lan, however, was reluctant. As far as she
was concerned, the chaotic situation in front of them was still an opportunity.

She had sworn to get revenge, but Hei Cheng was powerful and her battle strength had
decreased after she had also lost self strength Immortal Gu. If she did not use these
opportunities to quickly progress ahead, when would she be able to take her revenge?

Fang Yuan smiled: "I mean that we should retreat as well as advance. Haven't the two
of you discovered that Dong Fang Yu Liang has already lost control over a dozen times
in just this short period of time, all in all, it should be due to the wills of the eight Gu
Immortals causing trouble."

"You mean?" Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan's gazes shined brightly as they understood
the meaning behind these words.

"Right. How many Gu Immortals does Dong Fang tribe has? Even if there is some
hidden force left behind, Dong Fang tribe's headquarters would still be at its weakest
state in all time. Just think about it, the accumulations of a region's super force…” Fang
Yuan spoke leisurely, however his words ignited the fires in the hearts of Hei Lou Lan
and Fairy Li Shan.

"Then what are we waiting for, let's go! Let's rob Dong Fang Chang Fan's base!" Hei
Lou Lan did not hesitate as she flew straight towards Dong Fang tribe's headquarters
with excitement.
Jade Pool blessed land, Dong Fang tribe's main headquarters, Dong Fang Chang Fan's
home. It had a long history of thousands of years.

This type of blessed land was different from ordinary blessed lands.

Ordinary blessed lands were a Gu Immortal's immortal aperture, they belonged to one
person. Once their cultivation level reaches rank eight, the immortal aperture would
become a grotto-heaven.

Meanwhile, Jade Pool blessed land did not belong to one Gu Immortal. It was formed
from a group of Gu Immortals cutting off a part of their own blessed lands, and was
pieced together after that.

Blessed lands could swallow each other. Earlier, on Tian Ti mountain, Fang Yuan was
undergoing the earthly calamity of the desolate beast swamp crab, he had to discard
a portion of his blessed land. In the end, this part was taken away by the demonic path
Gu Immortals on Tian Ti mountain, fusing it into their own blessed lands.

The swallowing of blessed lands had very strict requirements. But the requirements
of piecing blessed lands together were much lower.

Most of the super forces in the five regions had a main camp that was formed by
piecing together the contributions of various Gu Immortals.

Dong Fang tribe's Jade Pool blessed land, Murong tribe's Yin-Yang blessed land, Guan
tribe's Shi Huang blessed land, and Hei tribe's Iron Eagle blessed land all were like
this.

Even Northern Plains' number one demonic path force, Snowy Mountain blessed land,
was the same.

The demonic path Gu Immortals contributed a portion of their blessed lands, creating
Snowy Mountain blessed land. They then lived in it, the mountain peaks that they each
occupied was the region that they took out from their own immortal apertures.

The owner of the first peak, Old Ancestor Xue Hu, had his own rank eight grotto-
heaven. Fairy Li Shan, who was the owner of the third peak, also had her own immortal
aperture.

The Gu Immortal's personal immortal aperture was extremely important, there were
countless treasures placed in them, it was a private area. In most situations, outsiders
would not be allowed in. If there was any damage done, the losses were severe.

Regarding this, there was also a rather peculiar example, it was Zombie Alliance. The
members of Zombie Alliance were immortal zombies.

Since the immortal zombies' immortal apertures were dead, a portion of the aperture
would break apart once in a while, and they furthermore could not be fused together.
Therefore, in each of the five regions, the headquarters of Zombie Alliance did not
form from immortal apertures, for example, Northern Plains Zombie Alliance's
headquarters was Dark Flow Giant City.

Such a headquarters was naturally inferior to a blessed land. This was another reason
why Zombie Alliance's branches were weaker than super forces.

Thus, to Fang Yuan and the others, Jade Pool blessed land was not hard to find.

Blessed lands that were pieced together like this were usually placed on the ground,
taking in earth qi to stabilize the space inside. At the same time, they could slow time
flow and postpone the arrival of heavenly tribulations and earthly calamities.

"I know the location of this Jade Pool blessed land clearly. If it was not moved away, it
should be to the northeast. Let's fly over there, at this speed, it would only take an
hour." Fairy Li Shan led the way.

"It should still be at the original place. The main camp of such a super force is very
important, it is the central point used between super forces when splitting up their
respective territories. It would not be moved under normal circumstances." Hei Lou
Lan was excited: "Dong Fang Chang Fan miscalculated this time, he actually removed
his own manpower, sacrificing Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals to revive himself!"

Fang Yuan followed behind the two women without speaking.

As they flew rapidly, huge winds were blowing, causing buzzing noises around the
ears.

Fang Yuan's memories of his previous life began to surface in his mind.

In his previous life, he knew very little about Dong Fang Chang Fan. He had no idea
whether Dong Fang Chang Fan succeeded in possessing Dong Fang Yu Liang's body in
his previous life.

But he knew at least that Dong Fang Yu Liang was only a rank five Gu Master for a long
time. At that time, Imperial Court blessed land was not destroyed, after Hei Lou Lan
won and came out from Imperial Court blessed land, she tried to overturn and change
the current rules, dying suddenly one day.

Eventually, Ma Hong Yun stepped up on the stage. After that, he led his army and
became the Lord of the Imperial Court for many rounds. During the third Imperial
Court contest, he was suppressed by three hearts combination soul and was captured
by Dong Fang tribe alive. In the end, Ma Hong Yun's luck was overwhelming, he
actually got Dong Fang Yu Liang's sister, Dong Fang Qing Yu, on his side, not only did
she free him, she also gave him the secret of three hearts combination soul, allowing
Ma Hong Yun to emerge victorious, and Dong Fang tribe lost terribly.

Fang Yuan thought about this and he inwardly came to a realization, he had a different
view now: "If, in my previous life, Dong Fang Chang Fan managed to possess Dong
Fang Yu Liang, then Dong Fang Qing Yu was doing this not because of Ma Hong Yun,
but because she found out something and wanted to avenge her brother."

After all, Dong Fang Yu Liang and Dong Fang Qing Yu were siblings that had mutually
supported and stuck close by each other since they were young. No matter how Dong
Fang Chang Fan acted, after a long time, he would definitely mess up in front of such a
close relation.

"Or maybe Dong Fang Chang Fan failed in his possession. Or maybe he succeeded, but
the effect was not great, Dong Fang Yu Liang was still a mortal Gu Master." Fang Yuan
guessed.

Ever since he destroyed Eighty-Eight True Yang Building, along with Imperial Court
blessed land, the events in Northern Plains had changed hugely.

Just at minimum, in his previous life, Dong Fang tribe's Gu Immortals like Dong Fang
Yi Kong and Dong Fang Wan Xiu were still alive, but now they were sacrificed.

Such huge changes had also affected Central Continent's events, they were changing
rapidly.

Central Continent was the center of the five regions, one could predict that in future
developments, the other three regions would also be affected to an extent.

"The advantage of my rebirth is becoming smaller." Fang Yuan sighed inwardly.

As he got stronger, the influence that he was creating also increased. It was called the
butterfly effect, but Fang Yuan was already no longer a butterfly, he was an eagle.

An hour later, they arrived at Jade Pool blessed land.

The situation in front of them was slightly out of their expectations.

Jade Pool blessed land was an independent small world, when its entrance was closed,
it could not be seen with the naked eye.

But now, there was a huge hole in it, one could see the situation inside the blessed land
from outside.

At the same time, there were loud explosions, sounds of fighting could be heard.

"There was someone who got here first?" Hei Lou Lan's gaze focused.

"Judging by this, they have just created a hole and entered. I had made an agreement
with Dong Fang Chang Fan, I cannot attack Dong Fang tribe." Fairy Li Shan said.

Fang Yuan would thus be the core battle strength amongst the three, he walked in
front and shouted: "Let's go in and see!"

The three entered the hole and got into Jade Pool blessed land.

Only to see that there was a huge battle in the blessed land, several demonic path Gu
Immortals were fighting with the desolate beasts and ancient desolate beasts that
were guarding the blessed land, it was an intense fight.

"It seems that our timing is just right." Hei Lou Lan's mood relaxed, but her tone sank
immediately after: "It is Pi Shui Han!"

As it turned out, after Pi Shui Han was hit by Old Lord Can Yang's life chasing fire, he
could not dispel it. Afraid that others would attack him, he had no choice but to escape.

As he escaped, he gradually calmed down. He found out in surprise that his clothes
were still intact even with the fire burning.

Pi Shui Han had an idea, after thinking about it, he realized: This life chasing fire could
only burn something with life force, his clothes were not alive, thus they were not
harmed. Meanwhile, he had been using healing killer moves, they made his life force
even greater, causing the fire to burn more intensely.

After finding this out, Pi Shui Han changed his tactics. He restrained most of the life
force in his body, finally extinguishing the life chasing fire.

After getting rid of this threat, he turned around and wanted to go back to Tai Qiu
battlefield.

On the way back, he met a few rank six demonic path Gu Immortals who had left
stealthily and were trying to take advantage of his situation.

Pi Shui Han was an astute person, seeing that these few people were tailing him
secretly, he understood their intentions, anger surged in him as he taught them a
lesson.

The demonic path Gu Immortals worked together, but they were not the rank seven Pi
Shui Han's match.

When Pi Shui Han had been venting, the sound of the battle drew in two rank six peak
Gu Immortals. They were Qie Shi Min of the enslavement path and Half Moon
Brutemaster of the moon path.

These two had pretty good relationships with a certain demonic path Gu Immortal,
they intervened and mediated the situation. They also convinced Pi Shui Han to not go
back to Tai Qiu, that he should instead go to Dong Fang tribe's main camp.

Pi Shui Han was wary of the life chasing fire already, next, he heard that Half Moon
Brutemaster had an Immortal Gu that could easily pierce space and could enter Jade
Pool blessed land.
Pi Shui Han thought about Unfettered Scholar, and Fang Yuan's group with their
mysterious depths, he also thought about the wisdom path inheritance, even if he got
it, it would be incomplete and have low value, it would be of little use to him. Thus, he
decided to change his plans, to attack Jade Pool blessed land with the other demonic
path Gu Immortals.

At Jade Pool blessed land, Half Moon Brutemaster used his method and truly formed
a pathway to enter.

Everyone charged in, thinking of simply reaping some profits before leaving. But they
found out that there were no Gu Immortals obstructing them, and just as they were
fighting with the desolate beasts protecting the blessed land, Fang Yuan and the others
appeared.

Seeing that the three black robed Gu Immortals were also here to loot the place, the
nearby enslavement path Gu Immortal Qie Shi Min made a move.

He willed and three huge desolate beast birds flew out from his immortal aperture,
encircling them.

"Who are you? I spent so much effort in creating this hole, are you here to simply take
advantage of this?!" Half Moon Brutemaster shouted, he waved his arm and his killer
move was unleashed.

Pi Shui Han saw Fang Yuan and his pupils shrunk, he felt a faint headache, it's the three
of them, why did they come here too?"

He knew Fang Yuan's strength, but he still found some time to attack him.

These people had made an agreement earlier before entering, if anyone else enters
after them, they would attack together and defend their interests.

But Pi Shui Han's attacks were slightly slower, even though his attacks looked
powerful, he had reserved most of his strength, if the situation turned bad, he could
retreat at any time.

As for the other demonic path Gu Immortals, the moment they saw Fang Yuan, they
sucked in breaths of cold air. Pi Shui Han had confidence from his cultivation level, but
why would these people dare to attack and implicate themselves? Thus, they
disregarded the earlier agreement, they acted like they were obstructed by the
desolate beasts and could not find time or energy to attack.

"Hehe, come." Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly, five strength path giant hands flew out.

Three strength path giant hands suddenly grabbed the desolate beast birds, the birds
cried out in pain from their force.

As for the other two, they destroyed Half Moon Brutemaster and Pi Shui Han's attacks
effortlessly.

Qie Shi Min and Half Moon Brutemaster did not know about him, they saw this and
were extremely shocked.

"Rank seven battle strength!"

"Where is this expert from?"

Fang Yuan forced them back, he laughed even more wildly, two more giant hands flew
out, along with two others formed earlier, a total of four hands flew towards Pi Shui
Han.

At the same time, he shouted: "Pi Shui Han, to think that you came here as well. It
seems that the lesson earlier was not enough for you!"

Saying this, he demonstrated an extremely arrogant and proud attitude, like he had
already fought with Pi Shui Han and taught him a lesson.

Qie Shi Min and Half Moon Brutemaster heard this and their hearts shook, their
fighting spirit immediately fell.
Pi Shui Han snorted coldly, he was inwardly extremely angered.

He was a famous expert, Fang Yuan's loud taunting was something that had not
happened to him for a very long time.

Pi Shui Han did not want to show a weak demeanor, just as he was about to attack and
fight back against Fang Yuan, Fairy Li Shan flew out and exposed her rank seven aura,
meanwhile at another side, Hei Lou Lan did not conceal her activation of multiple
Immortal Gu.

This was obviously a situation of the three of them fighting him at once.

Pi Shui Han's eyes twitched, he gritted his teeth and stopped his attack.

He had no choice but to stop.

Because right now, there was no one with the strength of Unfettered Scholar around
him.

He was alone against many strong foes.

Pi Shui Han could not regain the face he lost, as he fought with the desolate beast, he
snorted, saying to Fang Yuan: "Didn't you guys run here too? Don't be too arrogant, do
you really think I am a pushover? I am thinking about the big picture, I have greater
objectives, I do not want to waste time with a brute like you over small matters. With
such huge benefits in front of us, if I waste time in being pestered by you, it would be
a huge regret to miss this opportunity."

Although the desolate beast was fierce, Pi Shui Han was much stronger, he could speak
as he fought, interacting with Fang Yuan and the others.
In comparison, Qie Shi Min and Half Moon Brutemaster appeared much inferior.

"Hehe." Fairy Li Shan laughed, she stood in the air as she said in a hoarse voice: "He is
right, now is indeed not the time to fight among ourselves."

"Why don't we force them back and take Jade Pool blessed land for ourselves?" Fang
Yuan growled unhappily on purpose.

Hei Lou Lan coordinated with him, she immediately rebuked: "There is not enough
time, do you think we haven't considered this? Since we can come here, others are not
fools, there will be others coming here soon. Moreover, Dong Fang Chang Fan is a
scheming old fox, why would he not set up defenses around his base camp?"

Fairy Li Shan also said: "We'll handle it like that, how many times have I told you,
number seven, you need to control your quick temper."

Fairy Li Shan purposely spoke like she was scolding Fang Yuan, he snorted and acted
as if he was obeying orders from her.

These three had already cooperated many times, they had chemistry in coordinating
between themselves, with their current performance, there was no flaw.

Pi Shui Han felt even more wary now.

Qie Shi Min and Half Moon Brutemaster looked at each other, thinking that this
situation was troublesome.

At the same time, they felt some suspicion and uncertainty: "Where did this
mysterious force come from?"

"Such a person is only number seven, and not the leader?"

"Brother Pi, Jade Pool blessed land is so big, it is not something we can take for
ourselves alone, why don't we work together for now, time is limited, the longer we
drag on, the more unexpected problems could occur." Fairy Li Shan said solemnly.

Pi Shui Han did not want to fight them, he saw a way out that could save some face for
him, on the outside he showed a reluctant expression as he spoke: "Fine, you can join
in too. But we had an agreement earlier, we cannot fight among ourselves, there are
certainly many valuable things so whoever finds them will get to own them. If there is
a dispute, you can undergo transactions privately. If that is insufficient, strength will
decide the rest!"

Fang Yuan and Hei Lou Lan looked at each other, seeing the smile in each other's eyes.

What rules were these?

This was no different from saying there were no rules!

Among demonic path Gu Masters, they often lacked trust. Such rules were compatible
with the style of the demonic path, there were no restraints at all.

"Of course, earlier, Pi Shui Han, Qie Shi Min and the others probably had more rules
than this. There was probably a part about using cultivation level to decide who gets
more resources." Fang Yuan muttered in his thoughts.

Pi Shui Han was a rank seven Gu Immortal, he had the greatest battle strength, he
naturally had to protect his own interests.

But the situation was different now, Fang Yuan's side was even stronger, Pi Shui Han
was at a disadvantage, he would not blindly list out such a condition.

Qie Shi Min and Half Moon Brutemaster were extremely regretful.

Why did they attack so quickly? They did not observe the situation clearly!

The enslavement path Gu Immortal Qie Shi Min saw that they were negotiating, he had
to take a risk and say: "Would sir return my three desolate birds?"

Fang Yuan laughed loudly, saying arrogantly: "These birds may look impressive but
are worthless, you can have them back."

Saying this, he tossed these three desolate beast birds without a second thought, like
they were worth nothing.

Qie Shi Min felt anger inwardly, he was extremely stifled.

These three desolate beast birds were indeed low in battle strength, but they were
easy to raise and control.
There was only one beast enslavement Immortal Gu in the world, but there were many
ways other than that to control desolate beasts. Wisdom path, water path, fire path,
and others, they all could do so.

There were other techniques that Qie Shi Min did not use, once he did, he could raise
the desolate beast birds' battle strength by fifty percent.

But Fang Yuan and the others were too ruthless, if they had fought, he might have done
that. However, they went directly to Pi Shui Han to find trouble, they did not even give
him a second glance.

These two demonic path Gu Immortals did not know the background of Fang Yuan
and the others, but they knew Pi Shui Han's power.

Even Pi Shui Han was suppressed, having the disadvantage, why would they dare to
attack?

Thus, Qie Shi Min was deterred, he had cowered before even fighting, he did not dare
to use his real offensive techniques.

He did not reply to Fang Yuan's taunting, he kept quiet as he endured it, not daring to
say a word.

In truth, Fairy Li Shan was a rank seven information path Gu Immortal with ordinary
battle strength. After Hei Lou Lan lost Self Strength, she did not have a true immortal
killer move, her battle strength fell and was around rank six middle tier.

If Fang Yuan and Pi Shui Han fought, as time passed, he would inevitably fall into a
disadvantage.

Comparing their collective strengths, Fang Yuan's side was weaker.

But in war, destroying the enemy's plan was the best tactic. The second best way was
to destroy their connections, then the best after that was attacking their troops, and
finally, attacking their cities. Fang Yuan and the others used the best tactic, they won
before even fighting.

Although the power levels in different worlds were somewhat different, or they could
even be very different, but regarding such philosophy, it could be applied everywhere.
Whichever world it was, the logic of ruining the enemy's plans was an astute move.

Only an imbecile would want to fight and kill all day.

Anyone who had slight knowledge of politics would know that war was only a method,
it was an extension of political strife. And the core of politics was the economy.

Economy meant profits, in other words, all fighting was done for the sake of profits.

To Fang Yuan, coldness, arrogance, humility, conceit, all of these were masks, they
were tools for him to obtain profits.

The two sides came to an agreement and decided to collaborate. The desolate beasts
in Jade Pool blessed land were originally at a disadvantage, with no commander. Now
that there were new members to the group of demonic path Gu Immortals, the beasts
quickly lost. Some died, some got injured, and some escaped.

"Hahaha, let's charge in." Fang Yuan purposely laughed wildly, taking the lead as he
flew into a deep part of Jade Pool blessed land.

From a bird's eye view in the air, the blessed land's huge landmass had pools of all
sizes that could be seen all over the place.

There were deep pools and small lakes connected with each other, in untold numbers.
They were like the stars in the night sky, indescribably beautiful.

The terrain of the blessed land was somewhat chaotically ordered, it was organized in
accordance to being centered upon each jade pool, spreading out in a circular fashion.
There were some grasslands, some green trees that formed shade for the pools. There
were some pools in mountains, and there were some in swamps.

"This is a good blessed land!" Fang Yuan could not help but praise.

Soon after, Hei Lou Lan arrived behind him, she did not speak but her eyes were
shining.

Fairy Li Shan also arrived soon afterwards, she smiled as she introduced: "Each of the
jade pools here are unique, they have different types of waters and nurture countless
species of creatures, or Gu worm groups. Some were used to create a specific
environment, to store all their resources. Dong Fang Chang Fan had his own unique
concept of management, when he was around, he brought in resources from Eastern
Sea, growing them in Jade Pool blessed land until they bore fruit, which he then sold
to Northern Plains Gu Immortals. Be it righteous path or demonic path, they were all
popular goods. Even in treasure yellow heaven, Dong Fang tribe's fish groups and
aquatic plants were famous. Even though they could not match Eastern Sea's super
forces in this aspect, it was quite a unique specialty."

Hearing this, Hei Lou Lan understood, she was ready to move: "This means that in
each of these pools, there is a stockpile of resources."

"Hahaha, there are so many crystal marrow aquatic plants, it is suitable for my blessed
land, I can save a huge amount of expenses now!" Not far away, a demonic path Gu
Immortal had already taken over a pool as he laughed loudly.

"We have to split up, if we stay together, others might be suspicious." Fang Yuan
transmitted.

"Alright, let's act separately, we can gain more that way. But keep in touch and take
care of each other, not only are we dealing with Pi Shui Han and the others, there might
also be Dong Fang Chang Fan's traps. I will go first!" Hei Lou Lan changed her direction
and flew away from Fang Yuan and Fairy Li Shan, she flew towards a deep pool below.

"This child…” Fairy Li Shan looked at Hei Lou Lan's figure as she sighed, saying to Fang
Yuan: "I had previously agreed to not attack Dong Fang tribe. I cannot touch these
resources, but I can skirt around the restrictions. I will investigate this place, if I find
a precious resource, I will inform you two."

"Alright." Fang Yuan replied curtly.

He suddenly looked towards a deep pool, it was shining brightly, like there was a layer
of oil on top. The surface area of the pool's top layer was also larger than the other
pools.

"I am going too!" Fang Yuan moved and flew down at lightning speed.

Fairy Li Shan flew towards the sky, hiding into the clouds.

Far away, Pi Shui Han saw that the three of them had split up, a dark light flashed in
his eyes as he snorted coldly, turning towards a jade pool.
Fairy Li Shan flew into the clouds so that she could use hole earth Gu, she transmitted
only to Hei Lou Lan secretly: "Quick! There are two great treasures in Jade Pool blessed
land, one is Thatched Hut, the other is Miniscule Mountain. The former is a rank six
Immortal Gu House, it can both attack and defend, specializing in storage. The latter
is a legendary place recorded <>, one of the variant humans, the miniman race lives in
it. No matter which one we obtain, it will be of huge help to our cultivation in the
future."

Hei Lou Lan immediately responded: "I have also heard of these two treasures. But
little aunt, how did you confirm that these two are in Jade Pool blessed land?"

Fairy Li Shan smiled as she replied: "I have cooperated with Dong Fang tribe so many
times, I know some matters about their internal affairs. Thatched Hut stores most of
Dong Fang tribe's public wealth, even Dong Fang Chang Fan cannot take them for his
personal use inappropriately. As for Miniscule Mountain, despite being small, it is a
real mountain, it needs to take in earth qi to stabilize its form, it cannot be brought out
easily. Furthermore, Dong Fang Chang Fan had the agreement with the righteous path
forces created using it, with Miniscule Mountain guarding this place, that would form
the greatest restraints on the alliance!"

"Of course, these two treasures could have been moved away secretly, but the
possibility of that is small. Regardless, we have to give it a try. There are countless jade
pools, Thatched Hut might still be at its former location, follow my instructions and go
there stealthily."
Hei Lou Lan was even more excited, quickly replying: "Little aunt, rest assured, I am
already deep into the pool and am drilling a hole underground!"

In the air, Fairy Li Shan suddenly spat out a mouthful of blood, this was the backlash
from the alliance agreement, but she could endure this much.

She casually wiped away the blood and continued to transmit information to Hei Lou
Lan secretly: "Alright, I will scout for you from up here, move stealthily and make sure
other Gu Immortals don't discover you. Especially Fang Yuan, he is extremely shrewd
and calculating, even Pi Shui Han is dancing to his tune. We are in the Snowy Mountain
Alliance with him, but its time limit is approaching, you need to make sure to be on
guard against him."

"That goes without saying!" Hei Lou Lan quickly replied.

Fang Yuan moved rapidly to above a jade pool, causing gusts of wind that raised waves
on the surface of the pool.

Fang Yuan had his previous life's memories and although he did not have investigative
Immortal Gu, his mortal investigative methods were ahead by a generation in
comparison to the surrounding Gu Immortals. He looked around for a while before
immediately ascertaining that there was nothing in this pool apart from water.

"So it is oil water." He frowned slightly as he examined.

Oil water was naturally not regular water, but a resource found in the depths of deep
seas. It was a Gu refinement material and was extremely common in Eastern Sea. In
Northern Plains and Western Desert, however, it was rather rare.

There were almost no transactions of small amounts of oil water in treasure yellow
heaven. It was because the profits were too low and the fee of treasure yellow heaven
was too high, making the loss more than the gains.

When oil water transactions appeared in treasure yellow heaven, they were
essentially in very large amounts, but even then it was hard to earn significant profits.
Also, because the oil water Eastern Sea produced was basically used by their own
cultivators, the frequency of such large transactions was extremely low.

Dong Fang tribe was not only storing oil water, but also had an ingenious use for it,
this pool's water was extremely deep, connecting to deep underground and extracting
traces of earth qi.

Oil water was basically a resource that was produced in deep water and large trenches.

"Dong Fang tribe set up this pool to use oil water to produce more oil water. Once in a
while, they will put in clear water and with the continuous mixing of earth qi and oil
water, the oil water in the pool would gradually restore to its original concentration."
Fang Yuan was very experienced and with just a moment of thinking, he was aware of
the operation method of Dong Fang tribe.

Oil water was not easy to extract and required specific Gu worms.

Fang Yuan's slight frown was because of this.

He knew there was a small, specially designated group of Gu Masters who went to the
depths of seas to extract oil water. Gu worm recipes that were handed down from
generation to generation were arranged in a set to draw and extract this oil water.

These people made a living from this, and their Gu worm set were meant to extract oil
water. They did not have high battle strength, but their social status were high and
they were welcomed by all the forces of Eastern Sea.

Fang Yuan had been to Eastern Sea in his previous life and had come across an old oil
water extraction specialist.

This Gu Master was rather old, and he only had a granddaughter, to whom he wanted
Fang Yuan to wed and also adopt her surname. Unfortunately, Fang Yuan refused in
the end.

Fang Yuan's eyebrows soon relaxed.

He pointed his index finger at the surface of the pool and lightly bent it; immediately,
the pool water rose like a dragon, obediently moving into Fang Yuan's immortal
aperture.

There would have been nothing Fang Yuan could do if this was before the auction, but
after the auction, he had the strength path Immortal Gu, Pulling Water, its effect was
specialized for dealing with water, wasn't this a trivial matter?

"It is just that oil water is precious, but it is not immortal material. Using Immortal Gu
Pulling Water to collect it is simply overkill, but I plan to attend Central Continent's
Refinement Path Convention and oil water is suitable to be used at earlier stages.
Otherwise, I would not have gathered it."

Using Immortal Gu meant spending green grape immortal essence. And the value of
green grape immortal essence was much higher than oil water.

If it were not for the Refinement Path Convention, Fang Yuan might have simply
ignored it and left.

Right now, Fang Yuan was standing in the air with his hands clasped behind his back,
the oil water constantly moving towards his immortal aperture.

He slightly leaned to the side and looked in Hei Lou Lan's direction.

There was no news from Hei Lou Lan's end, as if she had gone to another pool.

A dark gaze flashed past Fang Yuan's eyes; he had some guesses about Fairy Li Shan
and Hei Lou Lan's secret plans, but was not worried.

With the advantage of rebirth, how could he not know of Thatched Hut and Miniscule
Mountain? In truth, he probably knew of them even more clearly than Fairy Li Shan.

In the five regions chaotic war during Fang Yuan's previous life, all sorts of Immortal
Gu Houses were brought into fights, creating many large scale battles.

Immortal killer moves could be easily targeted and subdued, but Immortal Gu Houses
combined defense and offense, even if they had different specialties, they
fundamentally did not have shortcomings on other aspects.

In particular, the more Gu Immortals an Immortal Gu House stored, the stronger their
might. It was almost like an unstoppable fortress in the battlefield.

"Thatched Hut would not be Thatched Hut if it could be easily found." Fang Yuan stored
all of the oil water before flying towards another pool.

After storing several resources like oil water, Fang Yuan finally came across a pool
where a beast group, that made his eyes brighten, was dwelling.

Sensing Fang Yuan's mighty presence encroaching upon their territory, wolf howls
resounded, several tens of thousands of shark fin wolves rushed out. The wolves
formed a large wave, glaring fiercely at Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had used shark fin wolves when he had disguised himself as Wolf King
Chang Shan Yin.

They were extremely useful.

They had the size of an elephant and could live in both land and water, and were one
of the few wolf species that could fight underwater.

They had powerful defense, their bodies were covered with smooth crocodile-like
armor, while there were sharp, deep blue fins on the sides. On their backs, there was
a row of shark-like fins, which formed a line extending from the wolf's head to its tail.

They were not fast and were often used by Fang Yuan as shields in his wolf formations.

Naturally, these mortal beasts were not of much interest to Fang Yuan currently.

Fang Yuan's burning gaze was on the leader of the wolf group.

This was an enormous shark fin wolf that was over ten meters tall. With a smooth and
graceful build, its physique was a perfect combination of strength and beauty.

This shark fin wolf was crouched low, with its dense sharp canines exposed. Its lantern
sized eyes were fixed upon Fang Yuan, as if it was going to pounce at him the very next
moment.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily, having an intention to subdue it.

He did not have beast enslavement Immortal Gu, but he could somewhat control this
level of desolate beast with other methods.

There was only one beast enslavement Immortal Gu, which was in Lang Ya blessed
land. This Gu showed instantaneous effect when enslaving a desolate beast. The
desolate beast could be controlled in accordance with one's thoughts; this allowed a
supreme showcase of enslavement path.

Fang Yuan did not have beast enslavement Immortal Gu, and naturally other
enslavement path Gu Immortals also did not have it. However, the use of Gu depended
on the Gu Immortal's creativity, there were all sorts of methods and killer moves that
could substitute for beast enslavement Immortal Gu.

For instance, flying bear phantom Gu was a unique method of phantom path in
enslaving a desolate beast. Water path, fire path, light path and other paths also had
their own respective methods. Otherwise, how could Dong Fang Chang Fan control so
many phantom beasts in the battle at Tai Qiu?

Every path was independent of each other, but yet interlinked with each other. Taking
references, interacting and competing with other paths created the current Gu Master
structure that had all sorts of styles.

Even without the enslavement methods, a desolate beast could be raised from youth
to nurture emotional connection and intimacy, and could be made to protect oneself
or attack enemies. Immortal Crane Sect's He Feng Yang and the nine palace crane,
Little Nine, were a classic example of man and beast developing a close relationship.

Naturally, these methods absolutely could not compare to the effect of beast
enslavement Immortal Gu.

Enslavement path was able to be classified as a path, so its enslavement methods were
definitely superior to that of other paths.

Fang Yuan and the wolf were locked in a stand-off for a while, the desolate beast shark
fin wolf was still restraining itself, not daring to recklessly move because it could sense
a threat from the aura Fang Yuan gave off.

Since that was the case, Fang Yuan took the initiative to attack. Two strength path giant
hands pressed down upon the shark fin wolf from the left and right.

The desolate beast shark fin wolf howled before taking a slight step back, a layer of
glass-like watery armor immediately appeared on its body.

The next moment, it fiercely jumped above Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan could detect a foul odor assailing his nostrils from the wolf's opened mouth.

Following the odor were countless water bullets that were rapidly being shot out of
the shark fin wolf's mouth.

Fang Yuan did not dodge or evade, as he sent out another two strength path giant
hands at the shark fin wolf.

The storm of water bullets smashed at the strength path giant hands, but only served
to slightly slow them. These water bullets could not even be considered mortal killer
moves, naturally they would not be able to compare to an immortal killer move.

At the same time, the previous two strength path giant hands rose up and grabbed the
two rear legs of the shark fin wolf before dragging it down.

The pitiful shark fin wolf had just jumped to the air but was dragged down before it
could reach Fang Yuan.

Boom. The desolate beast shark fin wolf crashed hard at the ground, and some unlucky
ordinary shark fin wolves that could not dodge in time were turned to meat paste by
their leader.

The desolate beast shark fin wolf roared in anger and struggled to get up, to pounce
at Fang Yuan again, but the next moment, it saw a strength path giant hand getting
closer.

The strength path giant hand was powerful, and before it even reached the shark fin
wolf, the latter felt difficulty breathing as its heart trembled.

The shark fin wolf wanted to dodge, but its rear legs were firmly grasped by two
strength path giant hands. It twisted and turned its body but still could not evade, the
strength path giant hand fiercely slammed at its face.

The shark fin wolf howled miserably, its head was slammed to the ground so forcefully
that it formed a large crater.
Only after a few long moments, it was able to barely raise its head from the crater.

However, the attack had caused its sight to become blurry, tears and snot flowing
down its face.

It shook its head, still not giving up on resisting, but the second strength path giant
hand slammed it at this moment.

The shark fin wolf howled miserably again as another large crater formed on the
ground. It felt extreme grief and indignation, the enemy was powerful and also
shameless, not giving it any time to react.

Fang Yuan sent out another strength path giant hand, a total of five flew around,
pressing and beating the desolate beast shark fin wolf to the ground, a cloud of dust
rose and the ground cracked.

The wolf group beside the desolate beast shark fin wolf darted around everywhere,
howling miserably and shooting out water bullets, but the quantity was so large that
the bullets collided against each other partway and destroyed each other. Fang Yuan's
build was not big and the number of water bullets that landed on him were very few,
they were like light drizzle that could be neglected.

"What sound is this?" Not far away, Half Moon Brutemaster gazed over at the
commotion.

His pupils shrunk when he saw how Fang Yuan was mauling the desolate beast shark
fin wolf.

He already knew Fang Yuan had rank seven battle strength, but when he personally
saw Fang Yuan leisurely beating up a desolate beast, his heart could not help but
tremble intensely.

There was simply no suspense, as the desolate beast shark fin wolf did not even have
the energy to retaliate.

If Fang Yuan only had rank six battle strength, maybe it could struggle for some time.
But with battle strength of a realm higher, the desolate beast shark fin wolf could only
take the beating passively.

Especially given that the desolate beasts raised in this blessed land carried no
Immortal Gu.

Any Immortal Gu would be taken away by Gu Immortals. Immortal Gu were so

precious, how could they let a desolate beast have it?

However, even though the shark fin wolf was beaten until it could not even raise its
head, its attitude was still stubborn.

Fang Yuan snorted, deciding to increase the force.

With a shift of his mind, four strength path giant hands separately grabbed the shark
fin wolf's front legs and hind legs, then lifted it into the air.

The desolate beast shark fin wolf had been beaten into a horrid sight, its whole body
was spread out in an ungainly way, while its four limbs were constantly emitting
sounds of fractures from the ruthless grasps of the four strength path giant hands.

The remaining strength path giant hand started to rain slaps on the shark fin wolf's
cheeks.

Crack crack crack!

The wolf's large head swung to the left and right from the repeated slaps of the hand.

The wolf group below howled more miserably and loudly. Most of the wolf group had
already collapsed while some at the periphery were already starting to flee.

"This is truly hanging it up and beating to a pulp!" Cold sweat was already seeping out
of Half Moon Brutemaster's shiny forehead at this sight.

Fang Yuan's viciousness and strength terrified him.

The desolate beast shark fin wolf was almost pounded into a slurry, even the sounds
of its wails changed. However, it still opened its eyes with difficulty, and its gaze still
carried extreme stubbornness and bone-deep hatred.

Wolves were beasts that deeply bore grudges.

"Still not submitting?" Fang Yuan also felt somewhat of a headache, submitting to the
strong was a wild beast's survival instinct. According to conventional reasoning, the
desolate beast shark fin wolf should have already submitted in front of such a massive
difference in strength.

Fang Yuan carefully observed and made a discovery.

"So this shark fin wolf has gone into heat and this time period is when its alpha male
characteristics are at its strongest, no wonder it is stubborn."

He suddenly had an eccentric idea.

Under Fang Yuan's control, the strength path giant hand changed again.

The middle finger of the giant hand bent and touched the thumb.

From afar, Half Moon Brutemaster looked on as this strength path giant hand slowly
moved down to between the shark fin wolf's two rear legs.

Suddenly, the thumb slightly relaxed and the middle finger flicked.

It very accurately struck this male wolf's penis!

"Awoooo—!" The desolate beast shark fin wolf shook fiercely, like it had been
electrocuted. Its eyes seemed to be opened until almost falling out, as it howled to the
sky, its voice filled with boundless pain.

Flick flick flick!

"Wooo, woooo, awoooo——!" The shark fin wolf howled in an increasingly loud voice.

Half Moon Brutemaster watched this with his mouth and eyes wide open.

"Thi… thi… this…” He stammered, unable to say a word.

He understood Fang Yuan was trying to force the desolate beast shark fin wolf to
submit, but this method was simply unheard of!

In that instant, Fang Yuan's image underwent a huge change in Half Moon
Brutemaster's mind.

Fang Yuan's entire body was clothed in a black robe, with his appearance hidden. But
outsiders could naturally try to make guesses on his appearance.

Half Moon Brutemaster had imagined Fang Yuan to have a fierce and cruel appearance,
with a burly and thickly built body, his protruding eyes shooting out a fierce gaze that
seemed to want to find people to devour.

Now, however, this figure underwent a transformation.

The image of a robust warrior was no more, the burly build had turned into one with
broad shoulders and a thin waist, the gaze was sinister, the teeth were dense and
sharp, and there was a trace of perversion.

The desolate beast shark fin wolf's mental defenses were finally broken, and it fully
submitted.

The strength path giant hands loosened their grasp, and it collapsed to the ground,
motionless. Its enormous, aesthetically beautiful body was now bent like a large
shrimp, its two front claws were grabbing between its two rear legs as it whimpered
weakly, like a weak little flower that could be in dire straits from slight wind and rain.

Fang Yuan mumbled while chuckling: "This is a good method."

He then turned to look at the distant Half Moon Brutemaster.

He had naturally already discovered the latter's stealthy glances.

Half Moon Brutemaster could not see Fang Yuan's true appearance, but he felt Fang
Yuan's gaze was firm, like a giant snake that was coiling around his body. The dark,
cold and slippery snake scales tightly held on to his warm body.

Half Moon Brutemaster shivered as he felt an ominous chill emerging from the depths
of his heart. In particular, the region between his legs seemed to feel a bit more cold.

"This person is exceedingly savage and absolutely not someone I can deal with. I have
to avoid him when I see him in the future! Sigh, the world is difficult, life is not easy."
Half Moon Brutemaster swallowed his saliva and rapidly flew away, going as far as to
resemble someone fleeing.
After Fang Yuan subdued the desolate beast shark fin wolf, he placed it in his immortal
aperture.

This shark fin wolf's mental defenses had already collapsed and it had fallen
unconscious soon afterwards, unable to keep its shark fin wolf subordinates under
control anymore.

Fang Yuan could do nothing other than to let these ordinary shark fin wolves flee in
all directions.

He did not feel it was much of a pity, capturing a desolate beast shark fin wolf alive
was already a plentiful harvest.

He continued to search pools but he only found common resources and although the
quantities were huge, there was nothing noteworthy.

Dong Fang tribe's base camp was sure to have many good things. But there were
innumerable pools while Fang Yuan's scouting range was not very far, add in the other
competing demonic path Gu Immortals, the amount of resources he could plunder
would depend on luck.

Not long later, good luck arrived once again for him.

He was looking at a deep pool.

What this very deep pool accumulated was not water, but fire.

The fire was raging wildly inside. This was a special fire pool.

Fang Yuan used several investigative methods in succession and discovered a group of
python beasts living in this pool.

Fang Yuan found out their identities and discovered they were eerie fire dragon
pythons.

A mature eerie fire dragon python was enormous, reaching close to a hundred meters
long and with a body as thick as a tower.

The eerie fire dragon python had scarlet scales, a sharp horn on its head and a pair of
blood-red eyes. Its tongue was a strange purple, and when it flicked its tongue, one
could see an eerie blue fire coiling around its tongue.

This was a snake nest.

Although there was no desolate beast level eerie fire dragon python inside, the
quantity of the normal eerie fire dragon pythons was extremely high. The pythons
were piled up on top of each other, squirming and moving around, creating a
horrifying spectacle.

Fang Yuan, however, felt excitement, all parts of the eerie fire dragon python had value.
For instance, its blood was the best food for some blood path Gu worms, its skin,
tendons and other parts were top-class materials for refining a lot of Gu worms. In
particular, the eerie fire dragon python's gallbladder was extremely precious, and
there was a market for it in treasure yellow heaven.

"Eerie fire dragon pythons normally live in the form of small families. I wonder what
method Dong Fang tribe used to make so many eerie fire dragon pythons live together.
This method might not be too complicated, but is quite effective and gives an extreme
increase to the reproductive rate of eerie fire dragon pythons."

Fang Yuan was able to discern some details of the method.

Speaking of which, he had obtained a few eerie fire dragon python eggs back at
Imperial Court blessed land. Now, the eggs had already successfully hatched, the
young eerie fire dragon pythons were living in Hu Immortal blessed land, but Fang
Yuan had been neglecting them as their quantity was extremely few.

If he could obtain this large group of eerie fire dragon pythons and raise them in Hu
Immortal blessed land, he would have a continuous supply of eerie fire dragon python
gallbladders in the future, which could be sold in treasure yellow heaven and be a
small source of income.

Though Fang Yuan was involved in the large business of guts Gu, but a quick
calculation told him the profits from selling eerie fire dragon python gallbladders was
also somewhat lucrative.

Taking action was better than thinking, Fang Yuan immediately grabbed with his
strength path giant hands.

He could not control his strength properly, squeezing many eerie fire dragon pythons
to death. After all, changes in this move's form specialized in forceful grabbing, and
were rather lacking in the aspect of fine control.

He grabbed dozens, but there were still many eerie fire dragon python in the pool. He
gradually started to become impatient.

He lacked effective methods to gather the pythons, thus could only act rashly. However,
he had limited time now. Fang Yuan grabbed a large portion in the end, reaching up to
a number of ten thousand before he resolutely stopped and left this fire pool.

He continued to plunder resources as he traveled, and occasionally saw many mortal

Gu Masters.

Some of these Gu Masters were fleeing in panic along the areas between the pools,
while some concealed themselves, hiding under the ground, under boulders and so
on.

As Fang Yuan grandly soared away, these Gu Masters regained their senses from the
horror.

Some hiding Gu Masters were still thinking they were able to hide, but were actually
already discovered by Fang Yuan, it was just that he had no intention to attack them.

When Pi Shui Han and the others attacked the blessed land, they had created a huge
commotion which had already startled the Dong Fang tribe members in Jade Pool
blessed land.

In the five regions, the vast majority of mortals would not have a chance to come
across Gu Immortals in their entire lives.

In comparison to this enormous population, the number of Gu Immortals was

extremely few, only a fraction of a fraction.
At the same time, Gu Immortals also were concerned with their own survival
pressures, busy handling such matters day in and day out, generally without the time
to be make themselves carefree and at leisure.

In regards to most people, Gu Immortals were simply vague figures of legend. But the
mortals in Jade Pool blessed land were Dong Fang tribe's core, they knew many inside
details.

Thus, they were even more aware of the difference between immortal and mortals,
the gap that was like a chasm between heaven and earth.

They did not think of putting up any meaningless resistance and ran for their lives,
while urgently contacting the Gu Immortals of Dong Fang tribe.

This was undoubtedly a wise move.

Fang Yuan and these demonic path Gu Immortals were people who heavily prioritized
benefits, and were disinclined to attack these mortals. Thus, these mortals were
actually more fortunate than the desolate beasts, they were able to survive during this
disaster.

Fang Yuan flew past pools after pools.

As time passed, he started to feel increasing urgency, and started abandoning some
common resources.

These resources were not precious and were readily available.

At the same time, Fang Yuan maintained his vigilance, in accordance with Dong Fang
Chang Fan's farsighted nature, it was impossible for him to not make some
arrangements in Jade Pool blessed land.

As he gradually flew into the distance, Fang Yuan suddenly saw deep pools without
any water.

These pools were completely dried up. There were a lot of them, about fifty to sixty,
closely connected, and covering a range in tens of li.

Fang Yuan was inwardly moved as he took a sharp turn, rapidly approaching these
pools.
"I discovered these pools first, the regretful spiders inside are mine!"

"Aren't you a bit too greedy? You have already gathered so many regretful spiders, and
the regretful spiders here have bred over such a huge range, and you want to take it
all for yourself?!"

As Fang Yuan flew closer, he discovered two demonic path Gu Immortals, at the edge
of a pool, arguing about who the pools should belong to. The atmosphere was tense
and serious.

When they saw Fang Yuan fly over, the two Gu Immortals paled and quickly stopped
their argument, instead standing side by side.

"Senior, please excuse us but the regretful spiders here were discovered by us
brothers. According to the rules, hehe…” One Gu Immortal started speaking with a
nervous and vigilant expression.

"I've heard some news saying there was a pool to the northwest where many large
groups of air bubble fish are living inside. Several Gu Immortals were fighting to get
it." The other Gu Immortal attempted to redirect this disaster.

Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly: "Do you mean that I should leave?"

The moment he finished speaking, two strength path giant hands flew out and
hovered on either side of him.

A stance that showed he was eager to make some trouble.

The two demonic path Gu Immortals paled upon seeing this, while inwardly
complaining incessantly at their misfortune.

They had personally seen Fang Yuan's might not long ago, even Pi Shui Han was not
able to gain the upper hand.

Moreover, these two were only at the bottom tier of rank six, the consequences would
be extremely bad if a conflict occurred with a powerful expert like Fang Yuan.

But the resources around them were truly at a large scale.

As the saying goes, 'humans die for wealth and birds die for food!'
One demonic path Gu Immortal finally summoned up courage: "Senior, we discovered
these resources first, this is an indisputable fact. When you set the rules with Lord Pi
Shui Han, we were also present."

"Hmph, our demonic path has always been about running and rampaging freely, what
rules?! Talking about rules for everything, why don't you just join the righteous path?
What's more, what status do you have? Only Pi Shui Han has the qualifications to speak
about some rules with me." Fang Yuan had a fierce demeanor, the two strength path
giant hands continued to slowly advance as he openly flaunted his prowess.

The two demonic path Gu Immortals no longer dared to speak, but were still reluctant
to leave.

The other demonic path Gu Immortal seemed to have firmed his resolve, as he
suddenly spoke: "Senior, these regretful spiders have great use to me and I had been
searching for them painstakingly. How about I use information of equal value in
exchange for them?"

"Hmm? What information?" Fang Yuan stopped moving the strength path giant hands.

"This information concerns Miniscule Mountain." The demonic path Gu Immortal

spoke directly.

"Miniscule Mountain, hahaha!" Fang Yuan raised his head and laughed heartily before
speaking in a threatening tone, "Good, I will exchange it with you, but I really hope
your information is true, otherwise…”

"True, it is definitely true. I came from that direction but with my cultivation, I am
unable to break through, thus I retreated. But to senior, it would be like it was simply
meant for you." As he said this, the demonic path Gu Immortal secretly transmitted
information containing the precise details to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan's eyes squinted to a crack as he heard the information, and said leisurely:
"Good, I will keep this information in mind for now, but whether it is true still needs
to be checked. Hand over the regretful spiders you've just gathered."

"Senior, you!" The demonic path Gu Immortal's eyes widened, his face flushed red with
anger.

Fang Yuan smiled malevolently, speaking as if this was how things should be: "How do
I know whether your information is true or false, what if it is false? These regretful
spiders are a guarantee. Don't worry, I only want this much, you can take the rest."

"Senior, you are asking for twenty percent of the total regretful spiders!" The demonic
path Gu Immortal gritted his teeth in anger, but did not dare to fight.

The other demonic path Gu Immortal was standing at the side, laughing inwardly.

He would definitely work together with the extorted demonic path Gu Immortal and
resist Fang Yuan if Fang Yuan asked for the regretful spiders in the pool. But what Fang
Yuan wanted was the portion that had already been gathered, which was a different
matter.

The group of regretful spiders stored in the immortal aperture were like crops that
had been harvested, it was difficult to return them and they belonged to the Gu
Immortal themselves.

The spectating demonic path Gu Immortal's benefits were not encroached by Fang
Yuan, and was thus feeling pleasure at the other Gu Immortal's misfortune.

The extorted demonic path Gu Immortal felt his heart sinking and turning cold when
the Gu Immortal beside him showed no signs of moving.

How painful was it to hand over the crops that had already been harvested.

"Alright, hand them over quickly. I still need to hurry along, time is pressing." Fang
Yuan impatiently urged.

"Senior, if you renege on your promise, then wouldn't I be…” The extorted demonic
path Gu Immortal squeezed out words from clenched teeth.

"What?! Do you actually think I am such a shameless person? I am your senior, why
would I cheat you juniors?!" Fang Yuan replied with an extremely displeased tone, and
at the same time, sent out another two strength path giant hands.
A total of four strength path giant hands hovered in the air.

The two demonic path Gu Immortals involuntarily stepped back, the mental pressure
Fang Yuan gave them was too huge.

They were the weaker party, what else could they do?

The extorted demonic path Gu Immortal's expression kept fluctuating before finally
turning into one of subservience, as he handed over the regretful spiders he gathered
to Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan did not linger around after he received them, and quickly left.

The two demonic path Gu Immortals immediately let out breaths of relief.

The extorted Gu Immortal showed an indignant look as he cursed while gazing at the
gradually receding figure of Fang Yuan: "Old demon, I hope you die there!"

"Stop shouting, how can you be sure he doesn't have methods to hear us? Be careful
of him coming back to find trouble with us." The other demonic path Gu Immortal
quickly attempted to stop the extorted Gu Immortal.

The two glanced at each other, both were stupefied for a moment before they suddenly
reacted, creating some distance between each other.

The next moment, an intense competition started, the two used all their strength and
silently plundered the regretful spiders in the pool.

"Miniscule Mountain, captivating sea…?" Fang Yuan rapidly approached the location
in the information.
He had originally not planned to gather regretful spiders, because he lacked methods
to gather them.

Regretful spiders were not of great value to him and he had already planned to let
them go. Who would have thought that with some extortion, he could not only save
time in obtaining a large batch of regretful spiders immediately, but also obtain
important information.

Fang Yuan pondered and felt this information was rather reliable.

Miniman was a type of variant human.

Miniscule Mountain was the paradise of minimen, it was their foundation. This was
recorded in <>.

Minimen usually were the size of a finger, and had thin and transparent wings behind
them. They survived on nectar from flowers or sap from vegetation.

Every variant human had a special ability that was stronger than humans. For
instance, hairy men were proficient in Gu refinement, rockmen lived underground,
skilled in mining, and all sorts of ores grew on their body. snowmen were cold-
resistant, inkmen had rich knowledge…

Minimen were proficient in growing plants and trees, in the areas they lived in,
vegetation was extremely lush, and flowers bloomed throughout the year.

"More importantly, Miniscule Mountain might be small but it is a genuine mountain

and needs large amounts of earth qi to stabilize its mountainous form. It is an
extremely huge burden to put such a legendary mountain within one's immortal
aperture. Gu Immortals cannot casually take them, moreover this Miniscule Mountain
is not the private possession of any Gu Immortal of Dong Fang tribe."

A Gu Immortal's immortal aperture, hidden in their body, had limited amounts of

heaven and earth qi. If Miniscule Mountain was placed for a long time in such an
immortal aperture, a lot of earth qi would be absorbed to maintain this legendary
mountain, causing an imbalance in heaven and earth qi within the immortal aperture.

Thus, Miniscule Mountain was placed in Jade Pool blessed land most of the time.

The reason?
It was because Jade Pool blessed land was placed on the ground outside in Northern
Plains. It would constantly absorb the endless heaven and earth qi of the outside
world, so there was no need to fear the burden of Miniscule Mountain.

Fang Yuan's Dang Hun mountain was also in a similar situation.

Dang Hun mountain needed to absorb earth qi, otherwise it would collapse.
Fortunately, Hu Immortal blessed land was placed on Tian Ti mountain from where it
constantly absorbed heaven and earth qi, thus there was no need to fear the
consumption of Dang Hun mountain.

If it was placed in Fairy Li Shan or Hei Lou Lan's immortal apertures, if they moved
around for a long time, they would not be able to bear the consumption even if they
were rank eight Gu Immortals, and would need to place their immortal apertures in
the outside world to absorb heaven and earth qi, and stabilize their immortal aperture
world.

Next to a seemingly ordinary deep pool.

"Fang Yuan?"

"Why is he here?"

Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan, who were concealed, detected Fang Yuan's presence.

Both of them had secretly agreed to look for Thatched Hut. Thatched Hut was no
longer at its original position, but the two still had a great harvest — at that location,
they found a group of underworld eels!

Afterwards, they looked around everywhere and finally found traces of Miniscule
Mountain.

However, when they arrived at this place, they were obstructed and thereby in a
dilemma. The two were discussing what to do when Fang Yuan appeared in their
detection range.

Fairy Li Shan still had some hope as she said to Hei Lou Lan: "Fang Yuan does not have
strong investigative methods, our concealment methods are immortal killer moves, as
long as we don't show ourselves, he certainly won't be able to detect us. Maybe he is
only passing by."
Hei Lou Lan had suffered great losses from Fang Yuan, frowning as she had a bad
premonition: "Sigh, we absolutely cannot underestimate this guy."

Sure enough, the next moment, Fang Yuan slowly landed from the air and quickly
neared them, his target was the pool they were in.

Fairy Li Shan's expression sank as her wishful thinking did not materialize.

Fang Yuan had arrived at the place provided in the information.

This deep pool in front of him looked extremely ordinary and unremarkable.

But Fang Yuan still had some expectations.

According to that demonic path Gu Immortal's words, this was an illusory land. Inside
were illusory peach trees which could add up to be of similar strength to desolate
beasts, and could create illusions to protect themselves.

A Gu Immortal could only infer some clues when they walked inside.

Fang Yuan raised his defenses, and was just about to step in when two figures
suddenly appeared not far away.

"Fang Yuan, wait a moment." Fairy Li Shan transmitted her voice.

Hei Lou Lan stood silently at the side.

"Oh, it's you two!" Fang Yuan's eyes flashed, as he spoke with a slight smile.

His tone carried a touch of ridicule; as an ally, they had not informed him of such a
huge clue, clearly they had thought of hogging the benefits for themselves.

In the end, he came across them unintentionally.

Hei Lou Lan was a formidable person and spoke with no awkwardness or
embarrassment: "Fang Yuan, you came at the right time, we were just worrying over
how to break into this place."

Fairy Li Shan was a veteran Gu Immortal and was also unabashed, continuing: "Right.
This place is called captivating sea and is a restricted region of Jade Pool blessed land.
It mainly consists of a forest of illusory peach trees, there are many peach trees, and
the illusion is extremely powerful. Under the trees are a sea of grasses and flowers.
The large patches of groundmat grass are like endless green carpets. The sea of
colorful flowers gives off a deep fragrance, and tens of thousands of poisonous purple
heart flowers are close to blooming."

"Hmm?" Fang Yuan's gaze slightly focused.

That demonic path Gu Immortal had malicious intentions, he had only said that there
were illusory peach trees but did not mention their numbers. As for groundmat grass,
and purple poisonous heart flowers, he did not even bring them up.

Groundmat grass was ordinary, but with such numbers, there was bound to be
groundmat grass Gu. This wood path Gu only had one effect which was to instantly
send living beings into sleep.

Poisonous purple heart flowers often created a poison heart Gu. This Gu was formless
and colorless, and gave a wisp of fragrance that could make one feel drunk, but
corroded their heart.

However, these were only minor inconveniences as far as Fang Yuan was concerned.

Fang Yuan did not cultivate poison path and also did not have strength path methods
that could defend against poison, but he had an immortal zombie body, which was
extremely resistant to poison. He also had a poison path Immortal Gu, Woman's Heart.

Fairy Li Shan saw Fang Yuan was listening carefully but completely indifferent, and
continued: "The things I have mentioned might be in high numbers, but they are only
small problems to us Gu Immortals. In fact, a group of peach wolves dwell in the
illusory peach tree forest, with numbers close to thirty. Moreover, this captivating sea
is actually a Gu formation and in the depths of it lies Miniscule Mountain. Miniscule
Mountain has Gu Immortals guarding it, their auras are uncertain and the numbers
are also not clear."

Fang Yuan's expression changed.

Peach wolves were a desolate beast, comparable to rank six Gu Immortals. A group of
peach wolves was like a group of Gu Immortals in strength.

Miniscule Mountain was the home of minimen, the Gu Immortals in it were probably
miniman Gu Immortals, and regardless of how many there were, even one would be
troublesome to deal with.

Desolate beasts had low wisdom, but variant human Gu Immortals had wisdom that
could reach a similar level to human Gu Immortals.

Having wisdom and lacking it were two completely different levels of threats.

Fang Yuan suddenly realized why these two were hiding at the periphery.

He sized the two up again, and with his experience, he immediately discovered signs
of bitter fights on Fairy Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan's bodies, although they had tried to
treat them as much as possible.

"Fairy Li Shan is a wood path Gu Immortal, there is no doubt that Miniscule Mountain
and minimen are extremely attractive to her. In an environment like captivating sea,
Fairy Li Shan's battle strength should surpass her normal state. They broke through
to the depths of the sea of flowers, but were still forced back. Captivating sea's defense
greatly surpasses what were my most hopeful estimations."

Fang Yuan did not speak but his shrewd mind was thinking rapidly and inferring many
facts from their behaviors.

"Fang Yuan, if you move alone, your gains will be extremely low. We took advantage of
the other party's carelessness and quietly sneaked in through the gaps in the peach
wolf group. Now that Miniscule Mountain has been alerted, the defenses are sure to
be tight. As long as we cooperate sincerely, we might be able to swallow this juicy
meat." Hei Lou Lan persuaded.

Fairy Li Shan also added: "Fang Yuan, I know you have the strength path Immortal Gu,
Pulling Mountain. We can cooperate, but I must have Miniscule Mountain, you don't
need to worry, though, I will be sure to give you a satisfying reward."

Fang Yuan did not immediately reply, instead lowering his head to think it over.

Several breaths of time later, he slowly shook his head and broke the silence, smiling
bitterly: "Under this juicy meat is a very hard bone. Miniscule Mountain is excellent,
but time is limited, I don't want to spend it all here. I advise you two to dispel
unrealistic thoughts, there are still many resources outside which are much easier to
take, why make an unnecessary risk?"
"What? Fang Yuan, you are actually thinking of backing out?" Fairy Li Shan could not
believe her ears.

Hei Lou Lan frowned, persuading: "Fang Yuan, we have discovered Miniscule
Mountain, it could be said to be a rare chance. If you miss this opportunity, you might
regret it later on."

Fang Yuan's stance was firm: "The defense is tight, the key thing is that there are Gu
Immortals guarding it, as well as a group of peach wolves. Even if all the demonic path
Gu Immortals in this blessed land gather together, it would take time to break through
this place. Would Dong Fang Chang Fan give us this time? Even if Dong Fang Chang Fan
is hindered, what about the other demonic path Gu Immortals?"

Fairy Li Shan took a step forward: "Fang Yuan, I admit that what you say is reasonable,
but this is Miniscule Mountain we are talking of, its value might even be higher than
the rest of Jade Pool blessed land!"

"Hahaha, fairy, you don't need to persuade me. I will take my leave!" Fang Yuan
laughed loudly before flying away directly.

The two fairies still did not dare to believe what they were seeing and were even
hesitating: "Fang Yuan should not be messing around and deceiving us in order to wait
for an opportune moment to meddle in and get benefits cheaply, right?"

"That's not possible. We have formed the Snowy Mountain Alliance, he has to either
remain silent or speak the truth."

For a moment, as they gazed at Fang Yuan's figure receding into the horizon, the two
women had strange expressions.
Plop!

The desolate beast dragonfish crashed into the water, creating a huge wave that was
several meters tall.

Fang Yuan was cloaked in a black robe, he had his face hidden as he stood in the air,
there were six strength path giant hands circling around his body.

The desolate beast dragonfish screamed, entering the water, and did not want to fight
Fang Yuan anymore, it swam into the deeper parts of the water.

Fang Yuan laughed heartily: "Do you think that by hiding underwater, I can do nothing
to you? Immortal Gu Pulling Water!"

Fang Yuan's body shuddered, he stretched out his left and right hands as he slowly
grabbed at the deep pool, that was as wide as a lake, from afar.

A formless power held up the lake water, it was as if a thick cloth under the water was
being pulled up.

Thick columns of flowing water had countless ordinary dragonfish in them, as they
poured into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture.

After Fang Yuan said goodbye to Hei Lou Lan and Fairy Li Shan, he did not spend much
time before he found this deep pool.

This deep pool was the one with the most water that he had seen so far, it was like a
large lake. Dong Fang tribe had specially created it and raised nine hundred thousand
dragonfish inside it, among them was a desolate beast dragonfish.

Fang Yuan was in an eager mood, he went ahead and took them for himself. The
desolate beast dragonfish went ahead and fought him, in the end, Fang Yuan used
several strength path giant hands and easily defeated it.
Even though the dragonfish had 'dragon' in its name, it was very mediocre in fighting.
Moreover, this dragonfish may have been a desolate beast, but it had no Immortal Gu,
it was almost at the bottom tier of desolate beasts.

But the meat of the dragonfish was a food ingredient with a wide range of applications.
Not only could wild beasts and variant humans eat them, they could also be used as
supplementary ingredients and fed to Gu worms.

In treasure yellow heaven, the business of dragonfish meat had long since been
flourishing, each transaction was a huge sum of profits.

"So many dragonfish, this pool of dragonfish was probably accumulated over a
hundred years by Dong Fang tribe. But now, this is all mine, hahaha." Fang Yuan felt
joyful, he continued to activate pulling water Immortal Gu without pausing.

Thankfully, he had pulling water Immortal Gu, otherwise, he would have no way to
collect such a valuable and huge amount of resources.

Boom boom boom…

Far away, the fighting of Gu Immortals could be heard.

Fang Yuan collected the dragonfish as he looked around, his gaze was deep as he
thought: "It seems that over at Hei Lou Lan's side, they are starting to attack
captivating sea already."

He did not regret the decision to give up on Miniscule Mountain.

In this world, things were easier said than done. Theories were easy to understand,
but when it came to execution, how many people could succeed?

Thus, in front of huge profits, it was hard to decide what to give up and what to pursue.

Especially when Miniscule Mountain had huge value to Fairy Li Shan personally!

Although Fairy Li Shan's vital Gu was mountain pledge Gu and she was an information
path Gu Immortal, when she fought, most of her methods were wood path techniques.
Since she also cultivated wood path, her immortal aperture probably mostly involved
growing flowers and plants as her revenue.
<> had recorded the details, it made Miniscule Mountain even more attractive.

But how could it be so easy to take away Miniscule Mountain? It was simply too
difficult, there was little hope.

Since that demonic path Gu Immortal gave this information to Fang Yuan so easily, he
was likely to also tell others. Or perhaps, there were already Gu Immortals who knew
long ago.

Attacking the restricted area, captivating sea, would create a huge commotion, how
could they hide it from people like Pi Shui Han?

Even though more people meant a greater force to strike with, the demonic path Gu
Immortals handled matters individually, Fang Yuan was well aware of their natures.
Earlier, during the battle at Tai Qiu, if not for the demonic path Gu Immortals fighting
among themselves, how could Dong Fang Chang Fan have succeeded in his possession
so easily?

Thus, there was essentially very little hope in obtaining Miniscule Mountain. Did Fairy
Li Shan and Hei Lou Lan not know that the chances were slim?

It was because this profit was too huge, the Gu Immortals were extremely moved, even
if there was just a trace of hope, they would desperately latch onto it!

A loud dragon roar interrupted Fang Yuan's thoughts.

The huge dragonfish jumped out of the water, its eyes were blood-red as it charged
towards Fang Yuan.

Fang Yuan had expected this, he slammed down with four strength path giant hands.

The method in which he was extracting the deep pool water was extremely efficient,
he just needed a small amount of time to drain the pool dry. Thus, the dragonfish was
already a cornered animal, if it did not attack now, it would be too late.

But facing Fang Yuan, who had rank seven battle strength, the dragonfish's final
struggle quickly met with a huge setback, it ended up heavily injured.

More than ten breaths of time later, the heavily injured desolate beast dragonfish was
sent into Fang Yuan's immortal aperture using the strength path giant hands.
After spending some more effort, this huge and deep pool was nearly dried out, all of
the dragonfish inside were collected into his aperture.

In order to take these dragonfish, he spent a total of four green grape immortal
essences beads, but Fang Yuan had great joy in his eyes.

Ever since he entered Jade Pool blessed land, he obtained the oil water, desolate beast
shark fin wolf, eerie fire dragon python, some ordinary resources, and a batch of
regretful spiders.

In terms of value, this newly obtained dragonfish group was at the top, it was more
valuable than the desolate beast shark fin wolf, which was second place by a small
margin.

This batch of dragonfish was too large, there was almost a million of them.

With such a deep foundation, as long as he spent some effort in nurturing them, it
would be a source of endless revenue.

Over on Hei Lou Lan's end, intense battles were still ongoing, Fang Yuan did not turn
around, he flew towards an area even further away.

Not long after, he stopped in his tracks and was overjoyed to see the dense forest below
him.

The forest spanned an enormous range, at the center of the forest, there was a pool of
water that covered an area of the size of a house.

The entire forest was planted for the sake of this pool.

Or more accurately speaking, it was because this pool was raising a group of peculiar
fish — literature carps.

"Literature carps and true martial carps are known as the literature and martial twin
carps, to think that in Dong Fang tribe, they had over ten literature carps!" Fang Yuan
quickly went down with great excitement.

Literature carps were very hard to catch, they were low in numbers, even in Eastern
Sea, they were very uncommon.
Literature carps usually remained still in water, moving along with the flow of water.
Once they moved their tails, and swam slowly, their entire bodies would turn into text
qi, even Gu Immortals, without specific methods, could not capture them, they could
only watch in vain.

When Fang Yuan came here, the literature carps were alarmed, they turned into text
qi as they moved around, pervading the water.

Fang Yuan's lips curled into a confident smile, his pulling water Immortal Gu could
control the flow of water. As long as the literature carps did not leave the pool, to him,
they were as good as caught.

But when he was about to make his move, a demonic path Gu Immortal appeared,
rising into the air.

"Senior, please wait, this resource point has already been occupied by me." This
demonic path Gu Immortal was thin, he smiled as he said that, he was only rank six,
but he had no fear when facing Fang Yuan.

"Who are you?" Fang Yuan's expression did not change.

"This junior is Zhou Ping." The demonic path Gu Immortal cupped his fists.

Fang Yuan laughed sinisterly, threatening: "Junior Zhou Ping, you have guts, daring to
get in my way. With your cultivation level, you are not fit to talk about rules with me."

The demonic path Gu Immortal, Zhou Ping, instead smiled: "No, no, I am naturally
unable to defeat senior. But I have some insights in flying, I have two immortal killer
moves. Even Unfettered Scholar, Hei Cheng, and Fairy Le Yao cannot catch me. If senior
wants the literature carps, you can trade with me. Otherwise, even though I cannot
defeat senior, I can destroy this pool in an instant."

Fang Yuan was silent, his eyes shined with a ruthless light as he observed Zhou Ping.

Zhou Ping was unmoved, he was calm and composed due to his trump card.

This was the advantage of a Gu Immortal skilled in movement, they are often in a
situation where they cannot lose, they can talk to opponents with higher cultivation
level or battle strength with ease.
Even though Fang Yuan had the killer move myriad self, he was lacking in the aspect
of movement. Even with iron crown eagle strength Immortal Gu, together with true
solid bat wings, that was not an immortal killer move, it was inferior to Zhou Ping's
methods.

"Very good, Zhou Ping, I will remember you. I wish you well in constantly guarding
this place, and to not fall into my hands from now on." Fang Yuan left behind a threat
as he left.

Zhou Ping heard this and his smile disappeared, he changed his tone: "Senior, is this
necessary? This junior only wants a transaction. My request is not much either…”

But Fang Yuan did not listen to Zhou Ping, his body was like lightning as he quickly
traveled elsewhere.

Zhou Ping frowned, he felt a little distraught, pointlessly offending a strong and
mysterious Gu Immortal, he felt very uneasy.

Most importantly, Fang Yuan's words were attacking Zhou Ping's weakness —

He could not stay here forever to look after the literature carps.

"Damn it, I do not have a method to collect this group of literature carps!" Zhou Ping
looked at the deep pool as he stamped his foot, extremely downcast.

Fang Yuan left Zhou Ping behind and flew rapidly towards his next destination.

After flying a huge distance, he landed, looking at the deep pool below him, he had a
joyous expression.

This deep pool was neither large nor small, there was a fish group inside.

This type of fish was similar to goldfish, it had a round belly, a small pointed head, and
a tail. However, it was not brightly colored like goldfish and was mostly milky white.
It also did not have a wavy tail and fins, its tail was small and exquisite.

When the fish moved, they did not go left, right, forwards or backwards, they only
floated upwards and downwards, they resembled balloons moving in the water.

This type of fish was something Fang Yuan had raised before, it was air bubble fish.
But because Fang Yuan ran into difficulties, and was lacking in funds, he had to sell the
air bubble fish group that he was raising for a while, to get the funds he desperately
needed.

Air bubble fish could eat ordinary worms, insects, grubs and so on, digesting a portion
of them while storing the rest as reserves in their stomach.

These life forms in the stomach were nourished and had an increased chance to
become a Gu.

Thus, air bubble fish could increase the production of Gu worms. During the five
regions chaotic war, it was a heavily sought after good among Gu Immortals.

"This air bubble fish group has quite a large size, in terms of the price in treasure
yellow heaven, it is half of the desolate beast shark fin wolf!" Fang Yuan inspected,
when he saw that there was no Gu Immortal like Zhou Ping appearing, he immediately
made his move and used pulling water Immortal Gu to take all of the air bubble fish.

This air bubble fish group was the third in value among Fang Yuan's profits.

"You band of thieves! Brazenly robbing my Dong Fang tribe's headquarters!!" At this
time, Dong Fang Chang Fan's furious screams could be heard over the entirety of Jade
Pool blessed land.

Unfettered Scholar burst out and shouted, immediately screaming: "Old thief Dong
Fang, get ready to lose your dog life!!"